Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-09-17
PASSING EVENTS.


mated at Is, 900, 900 gallons.
The old Cincinnati postoflice Is TO DO
rebuilt at Eden park for an art school.
A Danbury, Conn, man swallowed
live frog several days ago for two
bottles of beer.
A proposition has been made TO erect
monument to Gen. Grant in Buffalo,
N. Y, by popular subscription.
The last blow to the roller-skating
rink has been given by Philadelphia
physician, who says that roller-skating
enlarges the feet.
The Japanese have adopted the BIZ
but the Chinese seem wholly incapable
of comprehending it.
1t is now claimed that birds as near
ly as possible initiate the nests in which
they were reared. and bring to the
work a sort of rudimentary education.
Prof. l.. L Richards, the Yale pedes-
trian, has walked nineteen hundred
miles thus far this year for pleasure
Last year he made iwenty-onc hun
drcd
The PENNSYLVANIA Railroad company
is soon to open ut Allegheny, for the
use of its employees, a library, reading
room, bathrooms, and an assembly
hall.
In Ii recent issue of we'll known
French journal appeared the follow
ing advertisement: WANTED, dis
tinguished and healthy looking man to
be cured patient in doctors wait
ing-rOom. Address, etc"
As two men were fishing in mill
pond at Valatie, Columbia county,
New York, the other day, they saw
crocodile about six feet long crawl
into the water. 1t was put into the
pond six years ago, when small.
The Jews of Austria complain that
IL is great hardship that they should
be forbidden to work on Sundays, since
their religion Obliges them to rest on
Saturday. The Jewish population in
Vienna alone amounts TO 10000.
The tribal government of the Chero-
KEGS is democratic in form, with an
elective chief magistrate and an up
per and lower house of representa-
tives. The judiciary is also elective,
and criminals are punished after the
manner of the whites.
The dry weather in Texas affects
The Laiiaq Wasp in this manner:
'The foam.covered coursers OF the
air are constantly in sight, but the
sound of their tramping comes not,
nor do we feel the welcome spray from
the raingod's fountain"
A horse was thrown down in New
York few days sgo by the iron shoe
If one foot coming in contact with
the cover of manhole for the cleo
trio wires, which was affected by leak
age, while the other foot touched the
iron rail of the Blocker street horse
railroad.
In II communication to the Acaden,-
ie deS Sciences. NJ. Duclaux states the
presence of heterogeneous in the
earth is essential to the termination
of seed. HIS experiments were made
with plants whose seeds grow on the
surface as we'll as those which devel-
OPP in the ground.
In Tenejapa, Oaxaca, Mexico, the
Indian residents are moro sanguinary
than the Chinese in the administra-
ton of Justice. They surrounded tho
houses OF seven well-known robbers,
and burned them alive in their houses.
When the militia arrived they only
found heap of ashes.
The largest diamond in the world is
shortly to be cut at Amsterdam, where
special workshop is being construct
ed. This gem is south African, and
weighs 475 carats. thus being 1875
carats heavier than the Grand Mogul,
belonging to the shah of Persia and
hitherto The biggest diamond known.
Tracing paper may be made by i'm
mersing best tissue paper in bath
composed of turpentine and bleached
beeswax. A piece of beeswax an inch
in diameter dissolved in half pint of
turpentine is said to give good results.
The paper should be allowed to dry
for two or three days before using it.
A very aggravated case of vitriol-
throwing occurred recently in the
Bots de Boulogne. A woman named
Josephine Pei, having in vain solicited
aims OF a gentleman who was passing
by with his little daughter, flung a
bottle full OF viiriol at his head. He
escaped injury but the child was badly
burned about the neck and back.
With n few days $50 omnibuses
haye been sold at auction IN New York.
The hundred sold at the Madison
square stables went as low as an aver
age of $50, and one brought only $15.
At later sale eighty Fifth avenue
stages brought an average OF $50
each. At these prices they were
cheap for the use OF camping-o out par
ties or travelling photographers.
Taxa IN alip of nanar and p1aca
thereon, in figures, your age in years,
dropping months, weeks, and days.
Multiply the sum by two; then add to
the result obtained the figures 3.76S;
add two, and then devide by two.
Subtract from the result obtained the
the number of your years on earth,
and see If you do not obtain figures
you will not be likely to forget.
For its private work the Bank of
DEVILS Lake, Dakota, has adopted a
rather peculiar but very suggestive
vignette. The base Is n sheaf of wheat,
on which rests u silver dollar, over
the back of which Satan is climbing,
holding in one hand the scales of JUS
tice and In the other lance At his
left is a map of the lake, which forms
the place for writing the amount of
draft or check. on which arc the
words. "Giva the devil his due"
A few days ago Vatervliet, N. Y,
farmer was induced by stranger to
act as agent for a wire fence, signing
what he was told was an agents Ger.
tiicate. Soon after two men visited
him and showed him paper, the ono
he had signed 1t was contract to