Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-03-01
HERE AND THERE.

result Of snalIe-bites
j. c. Whitaker, the colorcd cadet, who had
his ear slit at West Point, Is practlclng law at
SUMTER s C., and was orator Of the day at
the emancipation celebration there recently.
A white deer, one OF the rares. animals,
was killed recently in Clinton County, Pa, by
Parliamentary Mann, of sunbury. But three
white deer have ever been killed in that part
Of the state.
The largest block of coal ever taken from
mine in the United States was exhibited at the
Texas State Fair. II weighs @ 35l pounds. II
Texas keeps on she will have a coal miners
strike one Of these days
NJ CoquelIn, the celebrated French actor,
who returned to Paris from ConstantinOpe
the other day, gave while there performance
ON board OF W. X. Vanderbilts steam yacht
Alva, Tor which he received $1,000.
Three months ago there was no such town
as Milton, d. l. Its site was open, uncult-
waited prairie. Now there is lively village,
two large elevators, three stores, a bank, and
all the minor industries Of Western town.
There arc 900 private railroad cars IN the
United States, representing value OF nearly
So 10000. They are worth anywhere from
$1,000 to $4,000 each, the most luxurious,
probably, being that owned By George NJ Pull
man.
1t is said that the biggest quill tOothpIcll
factory in the world Is near Paris 1t was
originally quill pen factory, but when these
went out Of general use the factory turned to
the toothpick business, and now makes ~, 00O,-
00) annually
| Gopher farming is new industry begun at
/ Auburndale, Fla Two men have devoted a
/ tract of 200 acres to the purpose. 1t is said
that the most fastidiOus epicure cannot tell
/ the flesh of the Florida gopher from the IA
nous Maryland terrapin.
A little girl, while playing with a cat, at
Easton, Pa, put her tongue through the folds
Of II curtain "to make pussy believe that it
was a piece OF meat" The cat seized the
I chld's tongue aud tore It so badly that it was
cured only after much difficulty aud suffering
George Bancroft, the aged historian, &C
counts for his long life by the fact that he was
/ the middle clHld In his fathers family, that
| he has always been in bed 10y 10 o'clock ut
! night and that lie spends four hours in the
open air every day unless prevented by stormy
weather.
Probably the Oldest practlcing attorney in
! the United States Is Sidney Bartlett, Of Bos.
ton. lie was born I'm Plymouth, Mass, in
/ 1899 and still has n lucrative practice. His
speciality is corporation law, and he is attorney
for two Of the greatest Of the railway systems
in New England.
Mrs. Henry Clews, wife Of the New Yor,
banker, s said to be the only American lady
who owns a chariot. l is very large, aud has
"A high seat for the coachmau aud at the rear
Il step for footmen to stand on Around the
top of the chariot on all four sides, Is row
OF comets In raised brass.
The reports Of the various departments OF
the New York postoilice show that 50I as, l4J
pieces OF mall matter were handled during
the year. The aggregate business of the
money order department amounted TO SS2,-
57O,s1 The receipts OF the office for the year
were 81, S32 996, and the expenses 81, 755 99t
1t is said that the big cattle ranches of the
far West and Southwest are breaking up. A
year ago tue Niobrara Land and Cattle Com
pany. which has become bankrupt, refused
Sl,O00,0l0 for its property. Instead OF the big
companies swallowing the little ones, 1t is
thought that the tendency is toward the
breaking up Of the big ranches into smaller
ones.
II is rare that q man dies laughing, but
William II. Brown, New Haven SALOON
keeper, is said 10 have met his death in that
manner. lie was sitting in his place the other
day In conversation with a friend, aud, just
finishing funny story at which both laughed
heartily, was noticed to grow pale and then
fall from his chair corpse. The doctors said
it was heart disease.
At Xcnia, Ohio, the other day man traded
a calf to another for an old buggy and 81.
Then he traded the buggy for several mIscel-
laneous articles, which he snapped for other
things that took his fancy. During the day
he made thirteen different trades with various
parties and in the evening he found himself
still the owner OF the calf and also OF S24 the
profit Of the several transactions.
Many OF the valentines which arc a comb
nation OF laced and silvered paper, sprlgs,
notices, punches of cOlorcd flowers, little
mirrors, and the like, are made in London, in
IA factory where the work goes on the year
around. Much of the work Is done By hand,
and women are the most expert at It. They
use good deal of mucilsge in constructing
these affairs, and invariably use the third fin
ger of the right hand instead OF mucllage
| brush
The latest lad" among wealthy families Is
to burn "drft.wood" in open CRATE fires This
wood Is gathered along the seacoast by East.
ern parties, packed in barrels and shipped
through the country. II Is mostly wreckage
great part OF 1t has once been the material
OF ships bottoms and was sheathed with cop
per plates. The copper salts have impreGna-
ted the WOOD and when burned It gives out
most beautiful green and peacock blue
flames.
! 1t is estimated that the amount of petro-
lcum produced in Pennsylvania since brakes
we'll was drilled IN 1859 to the year 1887 was
$50 600, 900 barrels Of forty-two gallons each.
This amount of oil would be sufficient TO
make a good-sized river orl lake II collected I'm
one body. IL would make stream 10 feet
deep, 100 feet wide and about $50 miles long,
or lake or rectangular pond about three
miles long, two miles wide and ten feet deep
Still the supply is not exhausted.
David Day, the hermit OF Green Pond
Mountain, in New Jersey, was found dead the
,ther day in his dug-out cave In the side of
the mountain. where he had lived wears I'm