Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-04-09

When we consider how artfully and
efiectually most actresses employ their
arms, wonder that the bellies OF So
clety do not acquire the same accom-
plishment. We are too apt to let our
arms remain rs useless as our lower
limbs, so far as gesticulation is con-
cerned, and l recall only one girl in all
my acquaintance who displays her
arms for all they are worth. AS seen
at an opera or ball they are not the in
sensate things commonly seen, but are
animate, helpful appendages, taking
their active and graceful part in her
movements and conversation. Let
somebody open a school of arms for
girls. Clara Belle, IN Cincinnati En-
quirer.
On certain street in Denver is a
stone mansion of surprising elegance,
which, with its grounds, cost nearly
81, 100000 Directly opposite, on q
vacant lot, is a tent, boarded up
inside as far as the angle of the roof
The back end of it is pierced with a
stove-pipe and in the front end are a
door and window. In the window
hangs a curtain of costly lace and in
the tent is piano of exquisite tone. The
tent itself did not cost over $50. The
piano, upholstery, and furniture inside
are said to have cost over $4,000. The
owner planted his tent here over
twenty-five years ago, and is one of the
moderately successful Colorado min
ers, being worth about $4,000. He
prefers his tent to any dwelling-house,
and says he would not exchange it for
Windsor Castle.
The passion for gambling, says the
London Spectat0r-that is, for obtain
ing money without tolls rooted in
human nature; but we confess to GER
tain surprise at the hold which the
Stock Exchange form of it takes upon
intelligent men. They never seem to
comprehend that they are not only bet
ting, but betting against adversaries,
those adversaries being some of the
shrewdest men in the world, who do
as a business what outsiders do as a
pastime, who pass their lives in study
ing the turns of the market, and who,
whether individually more or less
foolish than the outside speculator,
know collectively more than he in most
cases possibly can. They may be beat
en- on this or that occasion by a man of
special information, or special acumen,
or by an accident; but in the long run
they must win, or they would not keep
the system up.
An effective way to raise the temper
Azure in cellar that is dangerously
near the freezing-point, says an ex-
change, is TO set one or more common
kerosene lamps on the cellar bottom
during the daytime, when not wanted
for lighting the rooms above. We have
all noticed how much warmer living
room is in the evening when the lamps
are burning than in the daytime, with
the same amount of fire in the stoves
or furnaces. All the heat from burn
ing lamp is retained in the apartment.
Twenty-Five cents worth of kerosene
oil will throw out surprising amount
of heat, and in many cases it would be
the cheapest means for keeping the
cellar from freezing during the passage
of an extra cold wave. Cold waves
seldom last more than two or three
days, and they are often followed by
south winds and a storm, but while
they last they may spoil winters
store of vegetables if not attended to.
Kerosene is cheap, and we have scarce
ly begun to appreciate its worth.