Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-11-15
HERE AND THERE.

Ssttle:s In some portions OF Indian Ter
rltory are said to be in a starving condition
owing to the depredatons OF Thieves, who
have driven OF their stock.
A strike, participated In by about $50 boys,
largest glass factories In Maryland and throw
Ing 900 men out Of employment.
A correspondent OF The Liverpool Mercury
says that he heard some cornet playing from
q phonoGraph which had been repeated more
than a thousand times, and all the notes were
rs clear and distinct as ever.
English physicians condemn cigarette
smoking because II produces throat diseases.
Even the best cigarettes are dangerous
They cause more consumption OF nicotine
than either the cigar or tho pipe.
San Antonio, out in California, boasts the
llttlest baby ever born. 1t is the son OF Alfred
Mcguire. q railroad brakeman, aud when
born 1t weighed only sixteen ounces A pint
cup covered it. The father aud mother are
both we'll proportional.
Some folks claim that advertising does no.
pay. A few nights ago a thief entered q
house in Chicago and rausacked drawer in
which he overlooked $50 The daily papers
published the item the next day aud the thief
returned that night and got the $50 and q
fuit OF clothes
The safety insured by interlocking signal
apparatus may be shown by the fact that
about 100000 trains have passed over the
Chatham square crossing OF the New York
elevated railway with but one collision, which
was owing to the engine driver passing the
danger signal
A man who has been In the habit Of lying
awake nights has discovered remedy for
lice plessness. lie throws aside the pillow
Ind adopts the practice OF sleepIng with the
head and body nearly on the same level.
Only men, among the animals, seem 10 re-
qulre pillow.
The cranberry pIckers arc out In full force
down on the Cape boys preparing to gather in
The harvest A great many families are
enabled to lay by from 500 TO $500 every
season as the reward OF their industry In the
cranberry fields which keeps the winter fires
going aud drives want from the door,
Como sseurs in the art OF slow torture say
there is nothing like the nocturnal tic-tac to
stir tho blood and madden the brain. The
tIc-tac Is bullet on a string, by means OF
which, and with the help OF Satan, small
boys mysterlously rap q melancholy mono-
tone on the window pane aud Danish sleep
from the Inmate Of the haunted chamber as
Cifectually as II he were on the rack.
According to careful calculations made by
n British clergyman OF note and just pub
llshed Professionals have increased during the
last hundred years from $4,000, 900 to 1884,
900, 900, or nearly fourfold. Roman Catho-
lies during the same period have increased
from O,OOo, 900 to 10000, 900, or twofold.
The Greek church during the century has In
creased from 10000 600 to $4,000. 900, also
twofold.
The fact that Emperor William Of Germany
refuses to permit bills OF fare to retain their
French nomenclature In his household is q
straw which shows that the wind Is blowing
In the direction OF European war. The road
to q mans heart is said to be through his
stomach, and when a sovereign ordsins that
the seat OF his affections shall not be ap-
preached by means OF a foreign language his
patriotism must be OF an explosive charac-
ter