Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-08-07
GLEANINGS.


caught two-headed mouse in trap
The receipts OF the Brooklyn bridge
have gradually risen to 500 600 ;
month.
Not less than forty-four deaths from
starvation occurred in the city of Lon
don in 1888.
At the latest accounts the debts o.
IL. X. IL. Albert Edward footed up ST.
O00,0 900.
Oscar Wilde has written poem be.
ginning Beautiful star with the Grim.
son mouth.
A party of Pacific coast Indians ate
fifty sackfuls of grasshoppers at one OF
their recent banquets.
Miss Emma Kaiser, Nevada girl,
has written u song entitled Love
Among the Sagebush.
There is German evening paper in
New York City whose inside is Repub-
lican and outside is Democrat.
Signor Salvini says he can make
more money in America in one season
than he can in Europe in six.
The practice of cutting coins in piec-
es to facilitate tho making of change is
again becoming common in Mexico.
General Joseph L. Johnson and Gen.
Bradley L. johnson are presidents of
rival telephone companies in Balti-
more.
The razor which was presented 10
President Lincoln by his father when a
boy was recently sold for 800. 1t is
now owned BY Professor Worth, of
Paris, III.
Although there is population esti-
mated nj ZOO to 10, 600 souls in Altu-
ras county, Idaho, there is not mer-
chant tailor doing business within its
boundaries.
Mrs. Almira Lincoln Phelps, known
in Boston rs writer and teacher, still
keeps up a diary that she began sew
enty-fiyc years ago. Her age is ninety
one years and the daily record since
her sixteenth year is unbroken.
Mr.. Gladstone's followers are TO
wear on his next birthday bunch of
lilies. with oak and ivy leaves, sap
posed to represent purity, strength
and tenacity, which are considered by
them the three most prominent char
acteristics of their leader.
George W. ChilGs, of the Philadel-
phia Ledger, i, beset daily with person.
al and written requests for his auto
graph. He is very kind about it and
seldom refuses. He has habit of
writing notices with his name, and his
favorite one is: do the best, leave
the rest.
Although the Mormons frantically
believe that the sword of Gideon is
welded by their church, they are
nevertheless subject to the plague of
caterpillars in the orchards and grass
hoppers in their fields, like the gentiles
who are not defended with so mighty a
weapon.
Captain j. Goldborough Bruff, an
old West Pointer, now nearly eighty,
still works without spectaclcs as n
draughtsman in the Treasury Depart
ment. He is in the best of health and
has been all his lie an enthusiastic en-
joyer OF doubecan rum, and the
strongest and best Virginia tobacco.
Congressman Ochiltree is n man of
Asiatic exuberancc. Here is cross
section of one of his speeches the other
day; "Nine-tenths of my constituents
for the past twelve years have been en-
tertained with tropical fertility of
promise. and n Sahara sterility of per-
Torrance by the government en-
gineers.
In Morocco, when thief is caught
in the most trivial offense they politely
request him to hold up both hands.
Then they ask him what hand he
would prefer to have in his possession,
and when he has made his choice they
cut off the other. When thief has
thus lost both hands, and also his feet,
me loses his head, and quits stealing.
\ medical paper warns young doc
tors against prescribing shotgun
mixtures" too freely curing tue sum-
mer months. rs certain combinations
of drugs are apt TO decompose each
other in hot weather. A shotgun pre-
scription is made up of many different
drugs, in the expectation that one Of
them NAV hit the mark and cure the
patient.
Lovers of salad need have no fear
that the supply of olive oil will dimin-
ish 10 any alarming extent. Accord
ing 10 the DratgmdR there are now IS
mills in operation in the South for the
manufacture of cotiou-seed oil, and
during the past season about 100000
tons of the seed were crushed, giving
product of over 100000 barrels of
that convenient adulterant.
Bricks made of cork now constitute
one of the new German industries.
The usual size is ten by four and three
iourths and two and half inches.
They are prepared from small corks,
refuse, and cement, and have not only
been used for certain building purpos-
es, on account of their lightness and
insulating properties, but are also en-
ployed rs 4 covering for boilers, in
preventing the radiation of heat
When Kaiser Wilhelm attends the
races at Charlottenburg he generally
leaves for home II little before the end
of the sports to avoid the crowd. On a
recent occasion, however, he insisted
on remaining through ri. But, sir, "
urged his attendants, there will then
be great throng of vehicles, and the
road will be blocked. Tut, tut,
cried he; II know better than that.
The Berlincse will make way for their
King" And they did.
George Wilson, of Cleveland, Ohio,
has sued firm of white lead manu-
facturers, his late employers, for $10,-
900 damages. alleging that he and two
others were directed TO clean ont whaI
was called the cog-wheel room, beneath
the main floor of the factory, and that
he did not know the dangerous char
acter of the work. and was made i'll for
year by the poisonous fumes of the
lead, and eventually totally blind. His
| two fellow-workmen he saws. are