Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-05-13

a party of emigrants arrived in Port
and, Oregon, recently from Missouri,
who had made the trip overland in the
good old style.
1t was recently decided in Cincin-
natl debating society that man is not
necessarily an Irishman because he
wears cork leg.
What is known as a Greenland rein
1eer," a very rare animal, was killed
near Helena, Montana, recently. 1t is
The only one of the kind ever seen in
hat section.
William Moss broke his arm at Vir-
ginia City while putting the heavy
stone" When the stone left his hand
sharp report was heard, and the arm
dropped to his side.
Divorces are so easy in San Francisco
that in recent case it was thought
necessary to plead only that the hus-
band "dyed his hair with offensive and
bad-odored compounds"
An ex-convict who appeared recently
IN Shasta county, California, is reported
10 have dug up and carried away ST.
300, the proceeds of a stage-robbery
committed eight years ago.
Dredg!ng-boats are now taking away
;wo thousand tons per week of the
debris of Flood rock. Dynamite sur
lace blasts are used to break up the
powders left by the submarine mine.
Visitor lin penitentiary): what
brought you to this place, my friendP"
Convict: "Sneezing." Visitor: "Sneez-
ngp" Convict: "Yis, sorr. 1t woke
The gintleman up, and he nabbed me-"
A correspondent of Grass Valley,
CAL, paper complains that certain
ladies'" are in the habit of visiting the
cemetery to carry away the fresh flow
srs that have been placed on the graves.
A man in California was arrested for
stealing house. He had, by mistaket
built it on another mans land, and,
discovering this fact, he went and yank-
I'd it off in the night. Hence the ar
rest
There is housewife in Fresno, Cal,
who does not believe in the boycott.
She discharged her Chinaman and en-
gagged rosy-cheeked Caucasian girl,
and that was where the trouble COM
menced.
A horse-trainer who died recently in
California, requested just before his
death that his favorite trick-horses
might be present at his burial. They
we're conspicuous objects in the funeral
procession.
A citizen of Arkansas, now under
arrest, who is horse-thief by occupa.
ton and who has assumed the matri-
monial yoke with eleven different fe'
males, expects to be convicted as a
horse-thief, but not as bigamist.
A visitor to the Cannibal islands saved
his life by taking out his false teeth.
Such yell of establishment greeted the
disappearance of the teeth as was never
heard, and the old chief, who was
calmer than his tribesmen, said: 81
am an old man; bat thank God that
have lived to see this day!'
A Modesto, Cal, paper congratulates
It's readers that its columns are filled by
its correspondents, adding with rare
modesty: 1--WE presume our readers
are tired of the 'bosh' we publish in the
way of editorials and locals"
Fifty years ago David L. Davis was
appointed roadmaster on the Boston
and Providence railroad. To-day, hale
and hearty, though IS years old. Mr.
Davis performs we'll the duties that hall
century have familiarized him with
The first train to be moved in Texas
Tor two weeks contained five hundred
Kegs of beer. This gives a faint idea O
the suffering which the strike must have
caused in Texas during that period.