Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-09-03
PASSING EVENTS.

I'm tho Maric-GarrlSOn sui IN NOW
York over $500, 900 was pad TO mo
lawyers as fees.
More than 200 square miles OF
coal and iron territory have already
been located within the bounds Oh
Texas.
A Solano county, California, man
has four wives living, has been divorc'
ed six times, three times from one
woman, and has been married seven
times.
The redwood posts Of n fence erect
ed in Napa, Cal, thirty-two years ago
were recently removed, and found in
as good condition as when first put in
to the ground.
A granite slab, with an impression
of a moccasined human foot clearly
defined on it, has been discovered ON
one OF the islands of the northwest
coast of California.
Oregon has its antiquities rs well as
the older states. About "a hundred
years ago an old tree blew down. Re-
Gently an eccentric genius followed
out the stump. cut door and window
in it, and made of it Il cOsey room In
which he lives. He estimates that his
house is nearly 500 years old.
Morris King, hotel porter ut Watch
Hill, Conn.,, stopped run away team
nine years ago at imminent peril to
himself, and refused the reward offer
ed him by the father OF the 6-year old
boy who had been left in the vehicle.
Last week he received a legacy of
81, 900 under the fathers will.
There seems to be II great rivalry
among southern cities in regard TO the
erection of expensive buildings for
young mems Christian associations.
Atlanta leads off with hall costing
100000, Nashville and Chattanooga
are trying to raise $4,000 apiece for
this purpose, and Selma Ala, is barely
content with S2j,0D0.
''Indian fans are coming more into
favor every season. said little old
man who keeps an Indian store.
"They make very curious fans OF
feathers and braided straw. These
fans of fine braided straw will be used
at all the resorts This summer. The
tops are run with ribbon of any color;
they are light. useful and pretty"
Il. II. Porter, Il years OF age. living
alone near Reno, Nevada mutilated
his left hand by the accidental dis
charge of his gun recently He de-
cided that the hand required amputat-
ing, and with a pair of shears he per-
formed the operation neatly and eX-
peditiously. Medical attendance was
rendered him, but lie refused 1t, and
the wound is healing all right.
The ten finest buildings in this
country. according to the majority
vote in The -Imerican .lrchi.ect, are:
Trinity church, Boston; The capitol at
Washington; w. X. Vanderbilt
house, Trinity church, and the Jelfer-
son Market court house. New York;
The city hall. Hartiord city hall and
state capitol, Albany; Sever hall, Cam
bridge, and town hall, North Easton.
Panama hats are made in Guayaquil,
Ecuador, and reccivnd their name
from the fact that Panama merchants
formerly controlled the trade. They
are made of the pita fibre, a species Of
palm, and are braided under water by
women. A single strand used in
making hat is often fifteen feet long.
It sometimes takes three weeks
to braid single hat which sells for
S25.
A colored woman living on aplanta-
ton near Bayou Teche in Louisiana,
recently gave birth to large, we'll
developed still-born child, with two
perfectly formed heads. 1t had a
double backbone as far as the hip
JOINT, and a wedges shaped bone be-
tween them just below where the
necks unite; also n double heart, and
two stOmachs that united or communi-
Gated at the lower part.
A college professor. recently APP
pointed United States minister TO
one of the South American states.
while talking with some friends in one
of the rooms of a government depart
ment, was asked by what route he was
going to his destination. He STAN
mered awhile, and then said, IL don't
know" He made u further confession
by saying: Il am blessed il I know
how to get there ut ali. never
thoughr of that. It's funny, isn't it?"
While Mr.. Lyman was chief clerk OF
the treasury department he once found
800, 900 in an envelope that had only
twO-3-ccnt stamps on it stuck up in
one corner One New York banking
firm never registered their letters.
They would seal so, 600 or $40, 900 IN
large envelope, put two-3-cent
stamps on it, and throw 1t in the let
ter-box at the postofGcc. "They told
me-" said Mr.. Lyman. ''they found
their losses averaged less than the ex-
press charges would be. They sent
away S50,O00 a week, and said it did
not pay to register or express money!"
A large hawk sw ooped down on a
poultry yard near Youngsville, Sulli-
van county, N. Y, few days ago,
and, seizing a hen, flew with it to a
neighboiing tree. The hen made a
great cutlery, and before the hawk
could kill 1t "a swallow made dash at
the hawk and pecked and worried it
SO that it released the hen and attempt
ed to fly away. The hen fluttored to
the ground and ran back to the poul-
try yard. The swallow kept up its
attack on the hawk, and it was soon
joined by other swallows. The cour-
ageous little birds surrounded the
hawk and assailed it fiercely, until the
big bird dropped to the ground. The
farmer on whose ground the conflict
took place hurried to the SPOT. The
Swallous had tho ha,,l, 80. al =. - !,