Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-06-04
Personal Paragraphs.


Judge on the Supreme Bench of Massa-
chusetts, was an officer in the Federal
army, and was once left for dead upon
Southern battlefield.
Judge Thomas nj. Cooley, for twenty
years on the Supreme bench of Michi-
gan, and well-known writer on legal
topics, will retire from the bench at The
close OF the present year, when his
term expires. There is very general
disposition among the legal fraternity
and leading men of parties to secure
Judge Cooley's denomination by both
parties, but he now positively declines
to serve longer.
Superintendent Bennett of Piqua, o. 4,
has been investing the extent to
which tobacco is used by boys in city
schools. He finds that in two grades
of 70 boys from II to Is years old,
81 habitully smoked cigarettes. and
only 7 could say they never had smoked.
OF 96 boys from 10 is II there were 60
smokers, and in the A Il g class many
had begun the practice
The late Edmond About was writing
Germaine, one of his best novels,
which was being published as feuille-
ton in one of the daily papers. The
story, relating to yonng consumptive
girl who was in love, was approaching
the fatal end, when the Empress
Eugene wrote to the author II conjure
you, do not make the heroine die"
About complied with the request, and
Germaine was made 10 live in the novel.
-Galignani.
The ex-Empress Eugene was taking
u carriage drive at Marlborough recent
ly, when one of the horses took
fright. The animal was killed by being
impaled upon the shaft of the cart.
The ex empress and other occupants
of the carriage were thrown out, but
escaped unhurt. Another account says
the ex-empress was riding with the
Due de Bassano in his carriage, and
both were thrown violently to the
ground and severely bruised and cut.
The duke is eighty-two years of age,
and there are fears that his injuries will
prove fatal. The empress was less Sc.
riously hurt.
Rev. Charles G.. Ames, of Philadel-
phia, speaking at Springfield, Mass,
recently, said that a native OF Connect
icut town once told him that on return
ing there after thirteen years absence
he found that all the young men of the
place he had known in his youth as the
sons of wealthy parents had become
either sots, paupers or criminals. And
yet Connecticut is sometimes called the
land of steady habits.
The latest biography of George Eliot
which is now being extensively reviewed
in the newspapers, says that before her
identity was made public Thrckeray
thought that her books were not writ
ten by woman. Mrs. Olipbant was
sure they were not written by woman.
Mrs. Carlyle conceived the writer to be
"man of middle age, with wife, from
whom he got those beautiful feminine
touches in his book, a good many chill
dren, and dog that he has as much
fondness for as 1 have for my little
Nero" But Dickens said: "f they
originated with no woman, | believe
that no man ever before had the art Of
making himself mentally so like woman
since the world began"
Some years before Abraham Lincoln
became President a New York firm ap-
piled to- him regarding the financial
standing of one of his neighbors. Mr..
Lincoln sent the following suggestive
reply: "Yours of the 10th inst. re-
ceived. / am well acquainted with Mr..
and know his circumstances. First
of all, he has wife and baby; together
they ought TO be worth $4,000 to any
man. Secondly, he has an Office in
which there is table worth $1.50, and
three chairs worth, say, 81. Last of
all, there is in one corner large rat
hole, which will bear looking into. Re-
spectfully yours.--A. LINCOLN"
Washington E. Conner, who is re-
ported as about to marry Jay Gould's
daughter, is almost twenty-five years
her senior, and has withstood the ten
der and fascinating endearments of sew
eral of New York's most famous bellies.
Young George Gould is his chum, and
between them the sincerest affection ex-
lists. Many have had the erroneous i'm
preston that Mr.. Connor's success and
his present wealth are due to his close
intimacy with Mr.. Gould. This is a
great mistake. Mr.. Corners present
position has been secured by indomit-
able nerve, financial honor, and a
shrewd and vigilant determination to
| gras ID all opportunities offered him.