Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-08-06
PASSING EVENTS

into what proves very fair flour for
making pie crust and other light past
ries.
Hood River, Oregon, claims to pro-
duce the most lucious peaches in the
west, and Will have an Abundant crop
of them this ear.
Paper from cottonwood is being sue
cessfully manufactured at La Camas,
Washington territory.
Patience has limit. A French tailor
recently committed suicide after pay
ing forty-six Gnccessful dunning visits
to single creditor
.. A small specked trout haveing been
found in the milk of Philapelphia
milkman, he has raised the price of
his milk to 40 cents pound.
A rose bus. in Chico, CAL, is be-
tween thirty and forty feet high. and
fifteen or twenty feet in diameter, and
the top is now n mass of white roses.
Cincinnati stands fourth among the
publishing G. nters of the country, her
annual product of books and papers
amounting in value to more than So
600, 900
1t is a singular fact that many of the
most popular hymns were written by
persons who were not religious ut all,
or who's claims to religion were based
on very slight foundations.
There is II bill before the Massachu-
sets leg stature to punish person
who makes II noise in public library
and disturbs other people. Now for a
bill TO punish persons who talk at the
opera and the thcater to the annoy
ance of others.
The latest novelty in '.ginger ice
cream" in VIII ch the heat of the gin
ger counteracts Tho chill of the cream,
and the frigidity of the cream nulliiies
the fire of the ginger, producing, it is
said, a happy medium most gratifying
to the eplcurean palate.
The schools established for boys and
young men and young women by
Evangelist Moody, ut Mortified and
Gill, Mass, cost 100000, and two
more buildings will soon be completed
at cost of $1,000 The money was
obtained from rich friends of the dis
tinguished evangelist.
Leaf-cutting bees cut cylindrical
and spherical patches out of rose
leaves and seal up their nests to pro-
their houses from small grains of sand
and clay attaching them SO solidly to
walls that a hammer and chisel must
be used to break them off.
The use of the railway on the Brook
lyn bridge is steadily increasing About
four-fifths OF the people who crossed
it last month were carried in cars. AS
compared with March, 1891, the num-
Der OF railway passengers increased
"a per cent. while the number of foot
passengers fell OF per cent.
The president of Costa RIGA lives in
the finest house in the capital city,
and his residence and the Palacio Fed
eral, which is near it, are about the
only two-story structures in the place.
He receives house-rent free, the use
of two horses and q carriage, a salary
of $40, 200 year, and uses soldiers
for his servants.
Chickens, two minutes after they
have left the eggs, will follow with
their eyes the movements of crawling
insects, and peck at them, Judging
distance and direction with almost in
fallible accuracy. They will instinc-
lively appreciate sounds, readily run
ming toward an invisible hen Hidden
in box when they hear her "call."
An immense ledge of white metal
has been discovered i'm Antelope val
ley, Mono county, Cal. the nature of
which puzzles all mining experts to
whom specimens have been submitted.
The metal is fusble at first, but after
the first time it yields to nothing OK.
cept a mixture of acids. A pound of
rock yields half u pound of the metal,
and there are millions of tons in the
plant. 1t contains platinum.
Statistics have been published de-
signed to show the increase in the
number of deaths in Massachusetts,
from pneumonia. In 1857 there were
1,075 deaths reported, and in 1888
there were 3,045. But in estimating
the significance of these figures two
things must be kept in mind-first,
the great increase in population, and
second, the Improvement during that
period in the methods of collecting
such statistics.
An adjustable mirror has been pat
ented by an inhabiant of Charles
town, Mass. This invention covers
the use of II specially contrived frame
for holding the mirror, and in which
the mirror can be readily adjusted and
held in any desired position, for use of
either tall or short people, or for chill
dren sitting on the floor, SO that mir
rors Of medium size may be made
more useful than large mirrors as Or
dinarily hung.
The information may not be con-
tanned in works on natural history,
but it is asserted that the giraffe can
SO closely immitate nature that the
most practiced eye has failed to dis
tinguish the animal from one of the
dead and blasted trees which abound
| in its haunts. Lions have been known
to gaze long and earnestly at a mo-
tionless giraffe, and, being unable to
| decide that il was not tree, to turn
and skulk away.
Last fall small boy at White Plains,
N. Y, had his ears filed with oats by
some boys with whom he was skylark-
ing in a barn. He scratched and clear
ed out, as he thought, all of the horse
feed, and went home. About six weeks
| ago he was taken with severe pain
in his ear. His head swelled up and
he was in great agony. All remedies
failed and his mother took him to q
New York doctor, who removed two
kernels of oates that had sprouted and
taken root in his ear. The boy is now
well.
A correspondent of The New York
| journal of Commerce says the idea that
| fortunes are to be made in Florida