Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-07-09
PASSING EvEYTS
Wildaowers are in blossom through


Wilddowers are in blossom through
out California.
Arizona claims to produce the best
wheat AID flour In the world.
They say there are only fifty demo-
Gratis after the Chico, CAL, postoflice.
A fishing party at San Diego, Cal,
caught $50 barracuda recently, weigh
ing in all l,600 pounds.
1t may be the irony of fate, but 1t is
true all the same, that whip-lashes
are now almost invariably made of
horse-hides.
A new locomotive turned cut the
other day at Albany on her trial trip
attained speed of over seventy miles
an hour. Her wheels are seventy
inches in diameter.
There is a great difference between
the uncultured and the cultured owl.
The uncultured bird, you know, says:
"Tu whit tn whoo," but the cultured
one says "Tu whit tn whom"
1t is said that corundum, the new
metal, is found in every county in
North Carolina west of Iredell to the
Tennessee line. In some localities it
face and may be picked up by the
basketful.
A newspaper which has twice re-
Gently erred in announcing the death
of people announces that hereafter
any young man bringing news of a
death at an hour so late as to make
yeriication impracticable must be ac-
companied by the remains, not neces-
sarily for publication, but as a guar
tee of good faith.
The English university constituent
cies include the whole mass of gradu-
ates who choose to keep their names
upon the books. the lawyers and the
physicians, the squires and the par
sons, the bankers, merchants and
writers-men of every trade aud Of
every rank in educated England. Ok
ford has 5,400 such electors, and Cam
bridge about 1000 more.
Sarah Story, of Ludlow, Mass, who,
according to her own statement, was
108 years, 8 months, and 81 days old,
died recently. She was part Indian
and part negro. She was in the habit
of saying that her mother told her
that she was "born in old Connecticut
the before independence was declared,
that her folks were going to move In
dependence day, but she came along.
so they could not"
A Baltimore FISHERMAN the other
day fished up bottle to which large
bunch of bivalves had grown. Inside
the bottle was a fish too large to go
out of its mouth. 1t is supposed that
the fish went into the bottle and either
| liked its quarters SO well that it tar
ried too long or before it could find
its way out had grown so large as to
nearly fill the bottle. The bottled fish
will be sent to the Smithsonian insti-
tuition as a curiosity.
The report of the New York Society
for the Suppression of Vice for 1885,
classifies the crimes of the youth OF
both sexes, under 81, as follows: Muir.
der, "a; attempted murder, 104; burg.
larry, l79; highway robbery, 81; grand
larceny, ~; larceny, 230; forgery, Is
arson, A; manslaughter, 2. counter
feiting. 8; train-wreckers 6; mail rob-
berry, A picking pockets, 8. suicide,
81; attempted suicide, "a. A band OF
dozen boys is mentioned-all under
| III years OF age-WuO ndu VoIeu W Nil
their mothers. One of them proposed
to practice upon servant girl first,
but she objected, and the plot was dis
covered.
For the last twelve years one Of the
most regular applicants for letter
at the Bath, Me-, postoilice has beer
man wearing blue army coat, wh'
is upward of 70 years of age. He has
hardly missed day during this time
He is expecting his papers giving him
pension. He enlisted in 1864, thu
last year of the war, and only went tc
Augusta where he claims he contract
ed what is known as the 'straw rheu
matism," and Immediately at tn,
close of the war applied for pension
He is "living in hope" as every day
he has an idea that the papers will ar
rive. He makes a scanty living by re
pairing umbrellas, and people assis
him in many ways.