Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-11-26
FACTS AND FANICES.

Mr.. Moody has been invited to hold
q series OF meetings at harvard during
the winter.
The fees OF the clerk of the supreme
court are double the salary of Justice
of the court.
/ Kossuth still wears hat like the
one he made so fashionable during his
visit to the United States.
Men make living in New York by
picking up cigar-sLubs thrown away
in the streets by smokers.
Liberty Enlightening the World"
wants $40, 900 more for chains and an
chors to keep her steadfast.
Two of the boys connected with the
immediate delivery" at Springfield,
Mass. post-ollice use bicycles.
A man has just been convicted of
murder in the first degree for the
fourth time in the California courts.
Delmonico. of New York, has got a
new lease OF his building by paying
$4,000 year, an advance of SO, 900.
Vessels now find twenty feet of
water in the Columbia ri yer channel,
VIII CHI has been deepened by sluicing.
The gentan in Colorado is called
the "burros' lily," because the burros
MUNICH around it wi thout touch NO Il
| leaf.
There are GA light houses along the
coast of the United STATES, and one
fifth of them were constructed last
year.
| In Portland, Ore, the dealers in
firearms report that the Chinese are
thoroughly arming themselves with
! pistols.
Ripe wild Strawberries may be found
at the present time in Sierra valley,
California. five thousand feet above
sea level.
There is only one theater open in
Montreal. and that is 10 cent show.
patrouized exclusively by French
Canad ans.
Springfield, Aass., possesses curl
Gus guide stone on State street, near
the head of Walnut, which was placed
there in 1868.
! A cordial wish is thus expressed in
Nevada: "May he live till every hair
on top of his head is rs long as Il
Mexican lasso.
For the G2. voters in Cincinnati
there were provided at the recent
election $500, 900 election tickets, or
81 for each eiector.
Jacob BuZzard, Il brother of the
famous Abe Buzzard, has been arrest
ed near Lancaster Pa, for stealing
twenty-siX chickens.
At Bic Horn City, Montana, they
spear three and.a-half pound trout
with pitchiorks in the ditch which
runs through the town.
Secretary Whitney will add a ball
room to the Frelinghuysen mansion,
which he will occupy during his resi-
dence at Washington.
There are now more than l03, 900
buildings IN New York city, and the
number is rap dly increasing, as is also
! the population of the city.
Every manager who has run the new
Grand Opera House at Paris has there
| by incurred financial failure, despite
| the government allowance.
1t is estimated that with full house
the democrats will have majority OF
iorty-three in the next congress.
whereas they had seventy-fve in the
last.
A crucifix of solid gold, said to con.
tain piece of the true cross, was sto-
len from tho res dence OF Mr.. Francis
Handoger, of Trenton, N. j., the other
night.
Workmen are still engaged in put
ting additional lightning rod tips upon
the Wash ngton monument. They are
gold.plated and will number two hun
dred.
There are sixty-seven prisoners
now in the Berks county, Pennsyl-
vania, jail, and the warden gets 16
cents a day for boarding each pris.
oner.
A new bird rs big as a robin, with
black body and brown head. now
keeps company with the English spar.
row in Aul Me-. and is "a puzzle to
naturalists.
1.-The Indian Uprising in the United
States was the startling headline with
VIII CHI Tue Edinburgh Coura1t intro.
duced IT'S account of the outbreak of
Caceres.
New York dudes now have the r
complexion touched up by cosmetic
artist, their eyebrows pencIled, their
eyes frightened. and their mustaches
dyed or BACKED.
Miss Belle Dunnaway. of Atlanta,
Ca, writes to The Constitution: 1T
has been reported that was dead, but
am not, as can be testified 10 by any
OF my neiehbors.
Chinese fishermen at Santa Barbara.
Cal, will not Use the wharf to land
lhslr cargoes, but got them ashore
with surf boat, thereby saving dray-
age and wharf fees.
A shower of fish fell at Palatka, Fla,
recently. Some of the fish have been
kept in water jars to show to the in
credulous, but the cloud from which
they tell has passed by.
Horse flesh is sold in large quantities
to the poorer inhabitants OF Manches.
ter, England under the name OF beef.
steak Many slaughtered horses are
believed to be diseased.
A humane burial society is to be or
ganized in Bridgeport, Conn, the OBJ.
iect being to take charge of the bodies
of those whose death may admit of
doubt. and thus prevent anyone from
being bur. ed alive.
Berlin had last year 9, 935 privileged
dogs that paid no taxes, among them
iilty-six connected W tn the embass es
of foreign states. The owners Of the
other $1,000 dogs registered in the
German capital paid $4,000 marks
into the city treasury as license fees.
Andrew Harper, who died recently