Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-07-03
GLEANINGS.

lne names OF New ork DeneVOlent
societies fill volume of 300 pages.
A Massachusetts woman is suing her
mother-in-law for $25, 900 for alleged
SANDER.
Emigrants from Canada continue to
pour into the United States in large
numbers.
DE- Willis says the American Bible
Society is turning out seven complete
Bibles minute.
81. Petersburg has 4 population Of
92S, DIG, only quarter of whom were
born in that city.
A New York cook ends up her adver-
tisement for situation: ''None but
first-class families need apply.
On the Marposa road, near Tuolum-
ne, CAL, there are two snow drifts each
mile long and $50 feet high.
The population of Ireland is 3,000,-
600 less than it was forty years ago.
The United States has got 'em.
A business dispatch from Philadel-
phia went to London and brought back
an answer in thirty-live minutes.
Last year there were 1,5l7 murders
in the United States. 90 legal execu-
tons, and ilS men were lynchcd.
The Dakota newspapers say that Da-
kota will raise about 10000 900 bushels
wheat this year, against $4,000, 900 last
year
New York has Society for the Re-
lief of Ruptured Persons, and is char
tered to hold 81, $50, 900 worth of prop
erty.
In six years Henry NJ. Stanley has
succeeded in establishing chain of in
ternational stations across the African
continent.
A Spanish coin, bearing date of 1908,
was picked up by +. F.. Vaught, of
Ohio, on the north beach of st. Angus
tine. Fla, recently.
The Emperor of China recently au-
thorized the destruction of $4,000, 600
worth of opium, and absolutely re-
fuses to accept revenue from its sale.
Emperor Don Pedro of Brazil has
reigncd iifty-three years. or longer than
any living sovereign. He was six
years old when he assembled the throne.
A Philadelphia bride-elect refused to
GO To the altar because her intended
had said he would only have two
spare rooms for her relatives in his new
house.
1t is claimed that the Missouri Botan-
zeal Gardens near ST. Louis have a
complete collection of living speci-
mems of all the plants mentioned in
the Bible.
1t costs dollar in Milwaukee TO say
that man is personally very fine
fellow, but politically a scoundrel."
The rate was fixed by n justice in a
SANDER suit.
House servants in Mexico receive
from SO to $3.50 per month. They do
not board in the family they serve, but
buy their meals aud eat them in their
own quarters.
In the course of II trial NJ New York
il came out That the custom OF burying
forty-tive infants in single grave was
in vogue at Evergreen Cemetery in East
New York.
The Lew imperial palace at Stras-
burg is to be completed in three years,
at cost of Sl,2j0,0JO. Ii seems a
preposterous piece of extravaganza,
as the Emperor has dozen palaces al
ready.
George MAYO. the champion orator
of Lawrence University, Kansas. stole
half his piece from Colonel. A. X. Nc
Cures Grafton at Dickinson College,
Pennsylvania, in 1873. Mayo was ex-
PEELED.
John Hogan who could not read or
write, died near Columbia. S. c., on a
pile OF straw He had $1,000 in green
backs in his belt and owned $4,000
worth of real estate-all earned by
hard work.
A Monongahela City underta ker says
he once laid the lid OF coffin on bed,
at funeral, and that several women
broke into Mysteries, saying that the
first person who slept in that bed would
die in it.
The estate of Daniel Webster in
Marshfield, Mass. is advertised for sale.
His house was burned few years ago.
and has been replaced by another, but
his law office remains rs II was when
he used it.
In illustration of the Scotchman's
love of country the Duke of Buccleuch
said: II would rather die in snow
wreath on the braes of Yarrow than
on the softest bed on the shores of the
Mediterranean"
The Hindoo beggars pursue their
calling on horseback. A writer says
they will stand all day before house
unless given aims. and are quite capa-
bic of pursuing anybody who tries to
run away from them.
Danbury, Conn.,, has hermit, who,
unhermitlike, does day labor and
dresses well. His name is Warren, and
for couple of years he has lived in
the ruins of an old limekiln almost hid
den by bushes and trees.
A down East jury had to be provided
with dozen copies of David Copper
field" recently, in order to estimate in q
libel suit, the amount of damages the
plaintiff had sustained in being conf
pared to ''Uriah Heep."
President NJ. 4. Fernald, OF the
Maine State College, finds, from obser-
vations of the weather. extending over
eighteen years, that Saturday is the
day on which most storms occur. and
that, contrary to the general idea, Fri
day is the day on which fewer storms
occur.
The Empress Eugcnic is negotiating
for the purchase of n large and pictur-
esque estate ut Chiselhurst, known as
"Coopers," and at present in the &C.
cupation of Mr.. Samuel Morley's son.
"Coopers" is a larger place than Cam
den, where she used to reside and is