Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-28
GLEANINGS.

Triplets, named Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob Kile, aged ~ years, are living in
Bucks county, Pa.
Millais, the painter. is worth about
1000, 900. He Is said TO be anxious to
be made baronet.
Two OF Brigham Young's sons have
died drunkards, two of his daughters
are married to the same husband, and
another son writes poetry.
Mrs. Susan Garfield, of Nashua, N.
H., has a mania for collecting buttons
of odd patterns. She has 1,160 but
tons of different kinds on one string.
Cleveland's 1856 mills, with $21, 202,-
800 capital and III hands, turned
out $50, All, 600 worth of manufactured
iron this year.
Joe Howard says that William II.
Vanderbilt would give $40, 000,0 900 for
q new nose and $l0,000,000 more to
have the curl taken out of his fat lips.
The claim is made for Cleveland, o.,
that it shows lower proportional
death list for 1888 than any other city
in the union.
The official report of the committee
appointed to investigate the earthquake
on the Island of Ischia fixes the num-
Der of persons killed at 2,313 and of the
seriously wounded at 1872.
Six hundred and fifty bottles of wine,
bought in different parts of Paris, have
been Analysed at the municipal iabora-
tory, and the wine was pronounced
pure in only sixty cases
The Boston COngregationaliSt wishes
that ministers afflicted with drawing,
drowsy, clipped or other Objectionable
habits of utterance, could have business
talks through telephone half an hour
every day.
Mr.. Gladstone has been discussing
learnedly and volubly on jam as sub
stitute for butter, and has in conse-
quence further enhanced his claim,
in the estimation of his admirers, to
Immortality.
The daughter of an Orange Earl in
Ireland has eloped with her groom.
The wretched experience of daughter
of an ex-governor of Connecticut, in
the same moon-calf business, had no
deterrent lesson for her.
Mrs. Mcrkleham, Jefferson's favorite
and only surviving daughter, who lives
at Georgetown in utter restitution, was
seventy years old Thursday, and Con-
gresham Potter sent her $3.50 rs
present and said that if congress didn't
take care of her for life he would.
Robert Laird Collyer, writing from
London, says: Religion is not dead
in England. 1t is not dying in En-
gland. Nor has the Established Church
of England in the least lost it's hold
upon the reverence and affections of
the people of England.
The hairs of ones head are all num-
bered. but the rabbits of Australia have
got beyond that. Until they are killed
off farming will be almost impossible.
About three millions have been poison
ed without making the slightest inn
preston upon their swarming, teeming
proliticness.
The sale of secondhand food is an
industry conducted profitably by
German citizen of New York. He
gathers up that which is left over from
meals at the large hotels, and sells it
TO the poorer classes at nice though
modest profit.
In the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers there are now 237 divisions,
including the United States, Canada
and Mexico, with membership of
$4,000 10 $4,000 active members. The
object of the Brotherhood is the per-
sonal elevation, mutual relief and pro-
lection of its members, the rules being
especially rigid as to the moral char
acter and abstemious habits of the
men.
A Massachusetts, editor has the Bos-
ton Gazette of 1869; the Essex Journal
of 1884; the Independent Chronicle of
1885: Massachusetts Gazette, 1886; Es-
sex journal and Salem Mercury, 1888;
Ncw Hampshire Gazetteer, 1871; Salem
Gazette, 1894; Columbian Centinel, 1875;
Political Gazette, 1896; Columbian Cen
tincl, 1897; Newburyport Herald, 1898,
and one or more papers for nearly ev-
cry year from 1900 to 1884.
Somebody has been unearthing
lot of old dispositions in a Kentucky
clerks office, and taking notes of the
bad spelling of some of the great men
of the past. A deposition in the hand
writing of Andrew Jackson contains
such spelling as reference" ''dcpo-
nants. & "untill." "ballance. "val-
lue," and difficult" Old Hickory's
use of capitals was quite remarkable:
Such words as dollar" and money"
he capitalized, while he also wrote
almighty god"
Speaking of the new hotel to be
built in st. Louis, n gentleman from
that city says it will have accommoda-
tons for 5000 persons. 1t will be the
largest hotel in the world, but will not
design to do transient business, as
really its position will unfit it for that
kind. The hotel will be for the ac-
commodation of those families and per-
sons who wish the surroundings OF a
comfortable home nut do not find them
in the ordinary flats or boarding houses
of the city.
A group picture Of ten of the hand
soonest young ladies of Port Jervis, N.
Y, was offered recently rs prize to
the young man writing the best letter
to the postmistress of the fair of Car
roll Post, G. A. R., in that village.
The prize was awarded to Isidore CO.
hen; but Judge of his surprise and cha
grin when he received the picture to
find that every pretty face had been
carefully concealed behind veil, fan
or parasol before the photograph was
taken.
At intervals dating back over half a
century strange parties have made
searches in the bed of Wolf Creek, near
Comstock's Landing. N. Y, for a ira
ditional cannon filled with guineas that