Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-01-21
HERE AND THERE.


The only Chinese paper published in
New York has suspended publication.
Portland, Ore, imported "a, 900 dozen
eggs from Iowa in one week recently.
Dressed raccoon meat is regularly
kept on sale at Cloverdale, CAL, butchers
stalls.
A resident Of Mason Valley, Cal, lie
raising wild cat kittens and finds them
good ratters.
A package marked "Estloe" arrived
in due season at its destination, East
Lowell, Mass.
British Columbia proposes to boycott
the Chinese by Withholding miners
licenses from them.
Maine paid $53,950 of internal revenue
last year. There are LOLA retail liquor
dealers in the state.
A statistican AYERS that the average
man spends $40 year more for dress
than the average woman.
Fourteen hundred rabbits were round
ed up and killed in one drive by the In
dians in Carson Sink, New.
Two thousand women have register
ed for the municipal election in Boston
twice as many as last year.
The number forty rules in Halifax
The population numbers 10000 and
there are 40 policemen and 40 churches
A resident of San Diego, CAL, has
written a pamphlet to prove that the
earth is in imminent danger of second
| deluge in 1892.
The wharves which are built in
Charleston, S. c., to replace those de-
stroyed by last summers cyclone rest
upon uncovered piles.
1t is estimated that the farmers of
Tulare county, California, suffered n
loss of $4,000 during the past season
from the depredations of jack rabbits.
There are ten thousand workmen en-
ployed on the Croton dam and aqueduct,
New York. When completed the city
will receive per day 320,000,00 gallons
of water.
Miss Smith, wealthy old lady, who
died recently at Chapel Hill, N. c., be-
queathed one hundred acres of land and
Sl25 in cash to each of six of her old
slaves who are now living.
Thanksgiving, Alfred Taylor, of West
pond, Conn.,, celebrated the seventy
fourth anniversary of his wedding and
his Oath birthday. His wife is 92 years
OF age. and he has son of Il and a
daughter of 60years.
Martin b. Pope, of Fayette county,
Pennsylvania, is man thoroughly dis
gusted with himself. He was candi-
date for poor director ut the last election,
and was defeated by one vote, himself
casting the deciding ballot, out of court.
esy, for his opponent
TIL editor of q newspaper Of Ohio thus
appeals to his delinquent subscribers:
''To all those who are in arrears one
year or more who will come forward
and pay up arrearages, and for one year
in advance, we will give first-rate obit-
uary notice gratis in case it'kills them. "
The tramp law of Connecticut was de-
nounced in his sermon at Stratford on
Sunday, by Rev. Mr.. Hand, (Methodist)
as the only one of the state laws he could
not obey. He appealed for pity and
charity for the poor and the outcast
wherever found, and advised his people
to ignore the tramp law, and help the
needy under all circumstances.
The total cost of the liquor drunk is
1907, 500, 900 per year. and the average
| expense per head of our entire popula-
ton would be SO. Last year 1916, 000,-
600 worth of beer was consumed, and
there was more money sunk in spirits by
$346, 600, 900 than was paid for boots,
shoes and cotton goods. The amount
expended on drink yearly would sustain
six million people.
Prof. Rice, of Wesleyan university, In
a recent lecture, told OF freshet at one
time when the Connecticut river was fif-
teen miles wide at Hartford and two
hundred feet deep at Middletown. The
mountains between the latter city and
Meriden were islands in the river that
ran to the sound in two channels, the
new one running over the Wallingford
plains in New Haven.
David Potts, coal-miner, has COM
menced suit against the owners of the
Tresckow colliery, near HaZelton, Pa,
to compel them TO recover the body of
his father-in-law, who persisted by an
accident in the mine. Although the
body was known to be at the bottom of
pool of water in the mine, no effort
was made to recover it, and the pool
was afterward filled up with debris from
new breastwork.
The new England society may posi-
bly, be gratified to learn that a Boston
lawyer, newly arrived in New York, is
laboring to recruit its ranks. This gen.
tleman appears to have secured list of
New England people living in the city,
and is mailing them sentimental circu-
lar asking for law business. 1t winds
up with what seems q somewhat ELUSIVE
proposition when coming from an entire
stranger: II am a member" he says
''of the New England society in New
York, and shall be glad to propose your
name if you have not already joined"
From time immemorial picked cab
bage has been denounced by doctors as
outrageously indigestible. Oflate, how
ever, that dietetic preparation has grown
TO be quite respectable. 1t has risen to
the dignity of an alkaloid producer. M.
Tuyapogu has isolated the substance,
and finds that it suppresses the delirium
due to a prolonged use of alcohol. So
the whisky-seller, in placing picked
cabbage upon the Unbeatable, has been
for years unconsciously engaged in pro-
viding his guests with proper scientific
treatment.
The Tuskegee normal school at
Tuskegce, Ala, which was organized
four years ago, has been from the first
under the control of colored teachers
During these four years five hundred
acres of land have been secured; two
! large buildings have been put I'M besides