Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-07-01
FACT AND FANCY.
There is one public-house for every


ture proposes TO fine voters 30 or more
for not voting.
1t is daily occurrence now for Cali
fornia thermometers to register from
100 to l05 degrees.
On Tuesday of last week the loyalsts
of st. John, N. b.. celebrated the l03d
anniversary of their landing at that
place.
A Coney Island museum proprietor
offers $500 week to Herr Most if he
will go and sit in an iron cage in his
museum.
The Kamloop Indians in Idaho are re-
ported on the war-path. They are
averse to the encroachments of white
EN- grafton.
Farmers in the vicinity of Lima, o.,
are on the warpath in search of a horse
poisoner He has succeeded in killing a
number of very valuable animals.
The Stockton (Cal.) Mail says that
the craze there now is for big roses,
and one has been grown in that town
this spring eighteen inches in diameter.
Bloodwashed Rube, of the Science
tady, N. Y, Salvation army, has been
arrested for stealing four carcasses of
mutton, two of veal, and four sheep
pclts,
you will see, dear, that my grave is
kept greene" Wife-"O yes, John.
The sexton has 10-year old boy who
will be only too glad to earn little
something every week"
Millions of little swallows visited
Baltimore last Wednesday. 1t was an
unusual sight, as since the advent OF
the English sparrow in that city the
swallow has not been seen there.
All New York policemen not so pro-
vided have been ordered by Supt. Muir
ray to procure revolvers of thirty-eight
ealiber (any make), so that cartridges
can be exchanged in case of emergency.
Capt. John Miller, of Jimtown.
Chickasaw nation, is now defendant in
a murder trial at Fort Smith, Ark. The
typical hero of the cowboy kind is now
20 years old and is said to have killed
thirty men in his long and glorious ca
reer
The owner of patent medicine, liv-
ing in New York, has recently contract
ed with a printer in an eastern city for
supplying him with 40.000,000 PAM
phlets of 80 pages, and 400, 5000 Cir
culars of pages each. The price to be
paid is SS00,0O
1t is related that hungry rats devour-
ed five-pound package of yeast cakes
in the freight-house in Middletown,
Conn. and a few hours later, when the
yeast worked. the noise of popping rats
was heard, and their fragments strewed
the neighborhood.
That ever-popular resort OF things
curious and remarkable, La Grange,
Ga. has come to the front with an ac-
count of we'll developed frog which
was found recently imbedded in the
heart of an old oak tree, which was
fully four feet III diameter.
A race between two horses, a trotter
and n runner, came off recently at
Rockford, N. Y. The trotter distanced
the runner every time. The owner OF
the running horse now threatens
trouble, as he thinks the trotting horse
was professional in disguise.
A grotesque drawing on an envelope
sent by young Clarence Rigby. of
Youngstown, o., to friend on New
York newspaper, was seen by the edi-
tor and led TO an order for several IL
Illustrations. and probably to perma-
nent and lucrative place on the paper.
when / hear stories of odd pray
ers." said certain colonel, Il always
think of one | heard offered by an old
darkey down on Ship Island during the
war. He prayed: 20 Lord, ranshack
the worr all ober on white horse and
glib us all charity like bounding brass
and simple tingle!'
Hostess Sunday morning in WASH
ington)-Is there any particular min
lister you would like to hear preach.
Penelope? Penelope Visiting from
Boston)-Well, if you don't mind,
aunte, / would like to hear one of the
foreign ministers. am quiet proficient
in languages, you know.
There is in the possession Of the rail-
road company at Chambersburg, Pa.
one of the original stones used to mark
the Mason and Dixon line between
Pennsylvania and Maryland. The stone
had been taken from its position and
for awhile used as doorstep. The
present owners will place it on the his
torical line at the station of the road at
State Line.
The Boston Traveller says that at
recent wedding near Boston the bride
entered at her uncle's arm, and was
met at the church by the groom. The
uncle then retired in good order, took
his seat in the body of the church, and
when the clergyman asked, "Who
giveth this woman" etc., arose in his
place, and loudly and emphatically
said Me"
The occupation of Jaehne, the con-
victed ex-alderman of New York, is
described thus: "He stands in front of
a table on which rests vessel contain
ing starch water, and from basketful
of shirts which have been washed and
wrung out, he picks out one and dips
its bosom and wristbands in the starch.
Then he lays his shirt aside and repeats