Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-07-15
AN effort Is 70 bo made IN Los Aneeles

to grow bamboo on an extensive scale.
School property in the south Is valued
at 81, 100000 against sss, 600 900 in the north.
Hereafter English soldiers will not lie
allowed to smoke in the streets In the day
time.
A gentleman at Aliendale, 8. c., who is
81 years OF age, has begun cutting set OF
teeth.
Two lads, aged and 10 years respective
ly. have been arrested in Boston for house
robbing.
No fewer than 10000 shade trees now
make Washington glorious In fresh green
and fragrant blossoms.
Three hundred observers have enlisted
In Massachusetts, to take thunderstorm
observations this summer
There is said TO be but one confederate
Flagstaff standing, and that is at Blakely,
Ga. IL is 100 feet in height.
An old mans prayer that his house
should burn was answered after his death
at Carthage, Tenn, last week.
A Russian, at Yankton, d. T., contem-
plates making trip TO Moscow in an
lark" OF his own manufacture.
A sturgeon eight feet long and weighing
PSI pounds was caught In the river near
North Cromwell, Conn, recently.
Very warm, light blankets and feather
cloth are now made from the waste feath-
ers of domestic fowl and game birds.
The first temperance agitation in the
United States OF which there is any reco q
1t is stated, occurred in 1851, at Orie.c,
l.. l.
The area shown in wheat In Manitoba
this year Is 45O.OOO acres, which, IL Is estl-
mated, will produce ll.250,0O0 bushels OF
grain.
The imports of olive oil for the eight
months ending Feb. %, 1886, amounted
70 AZ, 443 gallons, valued for duty at
$4lS,230
10 10 is the center of the new fields on
the Allegheny mountains. When last
heard from every shanty In tho town was
u saloon.
Eggs Of Dorkins weigh pounds Il
ounces per score, Leghorn eggs a little
over pounds, and Spanish eggs 2 pounds
IA ounces.
A bed of snowballs, with loose mound
of long-stemmed roses rising from their
midst, was pretty center piece at w ash
ington dinner.
Colorado offers a premium of SO per hun.
dred for every line of trees maintained
along bitches, fences and highways and
properly cared for.
Frequent acts of incendiarism in Sche-
nectaday, n. Y, have led to the arrest of
three prominent young men as profession
ais in that line OF crime.
A mass of lead in an elevated furnace In
Paris was completely dissipated by a
stroke of lightning, no trace of the metal
being found afterwards.
The general theological seminary of New
York, an Episcopal Institution, holds a
mortgage on Wallack's new theater as
security for loan of $4,000.
1t is said that the new Washington sewer
is the largest in the world. IL is large
enough for team of horses and load of
hay TO be drawn through the entrance.
Mrs. Jennie Wright of indianapolis, has
brought suit to recover the value of her
sewing machine, which her worthless hut
band carried TO liquor saloon and raffitd
on.
A costume adopted by the Fat Mems
base ball club, of Orlando, Fla, consists OF a
Mother Hubbard dress, and il is said to be
cool and comfortable, il not an aid TO fast
running.
A convict who had his hand crushed in
n shoemaking machine has Leen awarded
500 damages by the Brooklyn supren Q
court against tie contractors who USED
his labor.
A Hebrew in Pereslavi died lately at the
given age of III years. The Krevianen
reports that he had been arranging to
marry for the ninth time shortly before
his death.
Since the Springfield, Mass, public lib.
rary became free the number of books
taken out has been multiplied by three,
although the yearly charge was previous
ly only 81.
They are over 80 criminals In Jail in the
various parts of the state CT North Caro-
lima under sentence of death. Over half
OF them are likely to be hanged ere the
year ends.
IA study Of ESQ Italian thunderstorms has
shown SIgnor Ferria that every thunder
storm Is behind depression of barometer
and hygrometer, and before one of the
thermometer.
The proportions of the different colors
Of eyes among the people of Italy is thus
eyes, % per cent; chestnut, "a blue, IL and
gray, per cent.
The Great Eastern has gone round from
Milford Haven to the Mersey, where she
will remain long enough to prove one Of
the attractions during the shipping ex-
hibition at Liverpool.
A Buffalo father, to encourage early ris-
ing, offered prize of money to that child
who should rise earliest next moroing. AT
very early hour bright little girl made
her appearance, claimed and got the prize,
and then went back to led.
The largest authenticated snake ever seen
was an anaconda, W hiC h had swallowed q
horse. His length was 40 feet, and after
his feast Of lunCh taking he was indisposed
and was captured by a naturalist who
was hunting specimens in the Amazon val
ley.
Enterprise and push have been rarely
developed by syndicate of German mer-
chants who have, in order to advertise
their wares, fitted up a vessel for voyage
around the world which will carry a com
plete assortment Of the products of Ger
many.
The morning after the flood in Tippeca-
noe county, Indiana, a hen turkey was
found dead sitting on q nest of eggs she
was attempting to hatch, having been lit.
orally drowned by the rainfall. She could
have saved herself by hopping upon the
limbs Of tree over her head.
A year ago one Of pair of canaries own
ed by young woman of Waynesboro,
Ca, died and its mate, and excellent sing
er, refused to wristle a note. u maintain
ed broken silence for ~ months, and then
the other day began singing, and now Is
u really remarkable songster.
The Moors make extensive use of spirit
prepared from the water in which comb Is
boiled in treating beeswax. The water,
being impregnated with honey, Is allowed
to ferment, and is then distilled; the spirit
Is called maharga. 1t is favored with
anise seed or with naffa-that is, fennel
acid.
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