Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-01-05
FACT AND FANCY.

The streets III olympia, wyoming are Iuli
of Indians returning from the mop fields, and
the MERCHANTS are reaping rich harvest.
Oregon hunters report ducks, geese, and
swans coming in In large numbers which Is
considered sign Of approaching stormy
weather
Says The Pilot Point CIex.) Mirror: "rhc
editor put OH his hard-bo shirt aud scissor
tail coat and split the wind for Dallas last
Tuesday"
Mrs. NJ. l.. Parker, of Horne, La, proposes
to solve the Chinese question by replacing the
Chinese servants with ''needy gentlewomeu"
from England.
A retiring editor Of Nevada paper wrote:
Thanking an overindulgcnt public for not
having me bbed me long since, am sincerely
theirs TO serve" etc.
A brass key, used as Il sinker b. Var
mouth, N. s., citizen, was carried away by
fish, and several day slater was found IN a
lobster pot one mile away.
Bears are killing great lumber of sheep in
Franklin county, Maine, Notwithstanding the
repeated efforts on the part of the farmers 10
rid the country of ursine maraudcrs.
The checks Of gas-bOwcrs become thin and
lose their elasticity by the continual blowing.
1t Is said cases have been reported where
workers have blown holes through their
cheeks.
An American phlanthvopist Of Wealth is
said to have subscribed 100000 recently for
the founding OF q university IL China. The
matter Of its location Is now being considered
in that country.
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the left, but the cody bearers can't be taught
to mind it, and there are frequent collisions,
which the women or others in the iinrchshas
or sedan chairs are badly hurt.
There is movement in the commercial and
business circles Of San Francisco to FORM
'pubicdcfense committee" Ia aid in sup
pressing crimes which are now corruptIug
public officers and defeating justice.
The lovers promenade around CIarksyille
Tenn, has been deserted lately; owing to the
presence Of a pet deer which had been in the
habit of making vicious attacks upon the
young people who frequentcd the resort
In London short time ago two ragpickers
were sent 10 Jail for spending for necessary
articles q sovereign which they found In u
cast away coat. The justice said the poor
devils should have reported the find to the
police
| A New York World reporter figures out that
| Jay Gould's trip across in the Umbria VIII
cost him about $1,000 The captains cabin is
$500, the six choice staterooms 500, and then
the party are to have private dining room aud
other extras
There Is secret agent OF the Mormon church
/ In-s sn1 fAy
his cause without detection. II Is said that
hs has made a number OF converts IN Maine
and Massachusetts, and has shown his faith by
his works, having taken seven wives.
Corea recently broke down her ancient bar
rers so far as to send an envoy TO Japan, but
! the government was so poor that 1t could not
support him, and soon coming 10 the end OF
his resources, he had to ask aid Of the Japa
nese government to avoid being pnt in deSpcr
ate straits.
The military marches accomplished by the
ancients were fully equal to those of the
modern soldiers. In the second Punc war
Ulaudus Nero performed the most wonderful
feat of the kind on record by marching pick
ed body OF l,0o) horse and 5000 foot 2?5 miles
/ In six days.
Once everybody used to send silver plate 70,
wedding presents, but now cut glass and brio
a.brac are the rage. A Philadelphia bride re-
ce.yed SO many Of the latter that she can
hardly lind housero for them Out Of two
hundred presents she received not one was il
the silver line.
The final extinction Of the seal otter nj the
Aleutian islands, on the Pacific coast, seems
certain. The Russians made such havoc
among them that at the time Alaska was sold
TO the United States only four or five hundred
year were taken, and they are growing scar
Ger and scarcer.
A committee Of citizens from Jacksonville,
Fla, has recommended that the resignation o!
Il telegraph operator In that city he accepted,
aud that any pay due for services be withheld,
because he told the female operator at Talla'
hasse that there were $50 cases Of yellow
fever in Jacksonville
The death Is announced OF Granny" the
sea anemone which was one of the features Of
interest to scientific men Mt the Botanic gar
dens, Edinburgh. Granny" was taken frou
n pool in north Berwick in 1928, and there is q
continuous record OF its existence since. 1t Is
known to have lived at least sixty-scvcp
years
James Carrigan, aged IS years, who la,
Travelled all over the country, was impressed
In the rebel army, and went to Texas to live
with u married daughter few months aye
only to find that the whole family had beer
killed by Indians, was an applicant for rclici
at the overseer Of the poor's office In Albany,
N. Y, the other day.
small boy of Smlthville Ga, who had
often expressed a desire TO catch buZzard,
was missed, and after he had been away al
day, was found in field, lying on the ground
and 'playing dead" lie said that lie wa.
trying to- make the buzzards think that he wal
really dead, SD that they would come ncai
enough for him to catch them.
When asked recently what he thought OF
the Keely motor Edison replied: 81 have
never seen It so have no opinion about it.. But
all the results he Is said to have obtained can
be got from compressed air. All the air ir
this room can be condensed into II liquid that
could be carried In n ilbcrt shell, and It's ex.
plosive force would be tremendous.
Five men OF Waterbury, Conn, went gun
ming on Saturday. Their dogs pointed u quail
aud when the bird was flushed all five of til,
men fired. The dog fell AT once. but the bird