Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-15
GLEANINGS.


! there is less sunshine than there FORM
erly was.
John McGready, Il cousin Of the
"Ayenger" O'Donnell, lives in Iona
coming, Md.
Scooba, Miss, boasts of an OK seen
on her streets with two perfectly form
ed tails.
would have written book long ago
had not his papers been seized at the
close of the war and lost beyond recov-
cry.
A giantcss named Ann Dunn died in
London few days ago, aged thirty
nine. She weighed nearly 500 pounds,
was nearly 9 feet high and measured
round the shoulders over 3 feet.
Dr. Fletcher of the insane asylum at
indianapolis. celebrated Christmas by
burning all the mechanical restraints
and Instruments of punishment in that
institution. and institutng season of
moral suasion.
The Rochester Dem0crd, would bet
ter pocket its theory OF sun-spots and
decayed sunsets, and steal silently
away, for the London Times of the 9Th
prints IN article, covering three and u
half columns and containing upwards
of $500 words, every bit of which ia
vors the theory of burnt Java.
The AtheHdeunl of Boston, complains
Of the intellectual and literary deca-
dcnce of that city, and prophesies n
day, which will not be far of. when
Boston will 'look back with wonder,
half regretful, but half contemptuous,
on the time when she was known as
the Athens of America.
Proctor Knott is beginning TO UNDER
stand that being Governor is not alto
gether funny. He has at his disposal
the appointment OF State Librarian,
and forty handsome widows are tum-
bling over each other to get the place.
lie ought 10 have made the selection a
month ago, but he hcsitates.
A remark made some time since by
Mr. Spurgeon, that he considered tie
Scotch people owed much of their
strength of character to the regard paid
TO the book of Proverbs, has led
French Christian TO print and circulate
widely n copy of the Proverbs of Solo
mon. rs IN antidotc TO the lax morality
which now obtains in France.
A young woman in Holyoke, Mass,
called on The City Clerk, and, after
examining the marriage license regis
ter, told him 20 erase her name, as the
Young man who had taken out certi-
licate did it withOu, her leave, and she
did not propose 10 marry him. She
was accommodated.
Henry Stanwood. of Philadelphia,
facetiousiy gave cents to a colored
minister who was collecting money to
build u church, and two minutes after
ward discovered that he had given one
penny and two So gold pieces. He
jumped 10 overhaul the 90. cctor, but
the good Old laborer in the vineyard
had disappeared.
Apropos of the recent arrest of pri-
vate detectives, the New York World
remarks: The detective population
needs thinning out About three prl-
vate detectives TO every married man and
woman in the country would be Il safe
proportion, and il should not be allow
ed to run over that. for the simpe rea-
son that when thrce-fourths OF the pop
ulation undertake 20 detect each other
confusion ensues.
An Alabama paper claims that many
Of the persons who left that state for
Texas have quicily repanted and are
on their way back. AMI North Carroll
ma journal records With delight the re-
turn of many North Carolinians who
had tried pastures new in the South
west without realizing expectations.
Their report is that with similar effort
the old Southern States will yield rs
good a living rs those west of the Mis-
Sissippi.
During her sojourn at Il hotel lady
broke an article belonging to china
toilet-set On leaving the house she
was charged with the entire set. As
remonstrance was unavaling she paid
the bill. and, pleading the excuse OF
having forgotten something, returned
10 the room and broke each and every
article of the set for which she had
paid. And some people say, women
are not clever.
A French meteorologist has, in the
exposed court of his house, two BAGS OF
iron planted in the earth. to each OF
which is planted conductor of coated
wire, terminating in telephone re-
ceiver His practice is TO consult the
apparatus twice or thrice every day,
and it never fails, through its indica-
tons of earth currents, to give notice
of the approach of storm twelve to
fifteen hours ahead.
Here is description of n Russian
prison, written by Professor Thun, OF
Leipsic: 1.-The prison nj Kara, near
Irkutsk, is said to be one OF the worst.
Ii is an ordinary farm house, surround
ed by high fence. There are no Ia
bles or chairs, only platforms, on which
the prisoners lie packed like sardines.
The food consists merely of bread and
soup, with very little grit. There is
no hospital or other care for the sick.
All those condemned TO hard labor are
compelled TO wear chains, whether ut
work or in prison, and all correspond
encc is forbidden.
A letter from G. Adams to the Keene
On. H. Sentinel says Vermont has q
peculiar way of arranging its property
for taxation. 1t makes up what is
called ''grand list" which Is III on
every hundred of its actual valuations:
SO that n town that has a grand list of
$4,000 has valuation of S1,000,0O0.
And on this basis of n grand list
taxes are laid. Most of the towns
vote n tax of from 80 TO 80 cents
on dollar of the grand list, while oc-
casionally towns more expensive or
more in debt lay tax larger than the
grand list itself.
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