Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-06-14
FACT AND FANCY.

Lady Dixie makes $1,000 a year BY her
drawings.
Mrs. Aver, widow Of the pill man, is worth
s2J, 900, 900.
Dusts of Bismarck and Won Moltke adorn
Boulanger's office
Miss Jenny Flood personally manages her
fortune OF $780, 900.
daughter of Wade Hampton is q protcs
slonal nurse In New York.
Senator Morrill, started In life behind the
counter OF a country store.
Senator Payne has not varied a pound In
weight for twenty-five years.
Bishop Wilson is the oldest preacher IN the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Hamilton Douglas, of Atlanta, is the
only woman lawyer in Georgia.
Sir Charles Dixie confidently expects to re-
turn to his former high position.
Salisbury of Delaware, is the only bach
elor In the United States Senate.
Congressman Kelly, of Pennsylvania, start
ed on his career as n proof-reader.
The street cars OF Rio Janeiro are not COM
PEELED TO turn out for royal carriages
Queen Christina OF Spain has n mania for
being photographed with her children.
Dan Rice, the old Snowman, owns $50, 900
acres of land in Texas and New Mexico.
The Emperor Francis Joseph has worn the
crown during 40 years of the IS he has lived
Rev Robert Collyer at the age OF q, came
to this country with his bride in the Storage.
In, HuY Ia III
lug on horseback through the parks OF
Rome.
Sullivan lost none of his brag, It seems
After another defeat he'll want to fight in a
barrel
MIR. Bonner will not put a monument at the
head of Dexter's grave. He stops at poor
relations.
United States Senator Spooner, OF Wiscon-
sin, is millionaire-made so by saw mills
aud lumber
Mrs Hicks Lord VIII sail for Europe soon
to fash her diamonds in the courts OF the
efTete monarches.
Jenny June Mrs. Croly) is 81 years old.
The first ten years she spent In England; the
rest In this country.
Gen. 8. c. Armstrong says that to make a
Christian out Of an Indian is much easier
than to make him work.
The wife OF President Dlaz, OF Mexico, has
given $500 for a public clock In her native
city Of Tula, Jamaupihs.
The Chinese Minister. accompanied by bis
suite, will soon leave Washington for thre,
months' tour through Peru
George VI. Pullman has a high opinion Of
womcns executive ability and pays them
mems wages for mems work.
Ex-senator Conkling was known by none
OF his friends Of the years OF manhood well
enough to be called Roscoe"
1t is charged that Rhode Island has moro
ghosts than any other Stale IN the Union.
Ghosts and clans go hand In hand
Taken all together, seven feet of snow fell
In Minneapolis last winter. and most OF u
was worn of the sldewa lks by strangers
II have been prescription clerk for TWEEN.
ty.six years and this is my hrst mistake" II
was In New Orleans, and he killed his man.
There is an old law on the statute books OF
Connecticut making 1t misdemeanos, pun.
ishable by fine of 500, to fish ON Sunday.
Oscar Wilde declares that no married man
can become a dude, and he might add, that
no one OF common sense would be II he had
the chance.
French flats have had their day in Now
York. 1t Is about the same thing as hotol
life, and one bowling baby can disturb
dozen families
1t takes Chicago belle thirty-live minutes
to work pair OF gloves on her hands aud
then she must keep every finger straight
until they come off
II the sympathy which Is wasted on crlml.
nails was bestowed upon the rich they might
be brought to look upon the world as not al
together heartless.
The New York NeUs offers 500 reward for
any well authenticated case OF faith-cure. 10
is a perfectly safe offer There never has been
one-except In somebody's eye.
One branch of the New York Legislature
favors electricity as means of executing
while the other doesn't seem to care how,
where or when they are got rid OF.
''The year 1888 will be year OF war" "a
the prediction OF a seventh son n New York.
Show us a year in the last twenty in which
there has not been war somewhere.
Lady Colin Campbell will not deliver two
lectures In America for IS, 600. She doesn't
exactly want the earth, but she wants $40
600, and she will want for good while.
A railroad passenger from New York to
Chicago is expected TO give the sleeping chr
porter at least 81 aud TO spend three moro
for fruits, candles and reading matter.
Itmay do you some good to learn that there
lie no country on the face Of the earth with
out horse-fies and mosquitoes Thcy arc
worse in Iceland In summer than In winter.
King Humbert, Of Italy, goes out o'nights
in disguise to hear what the people say Of
him. and he often hears criticisms that lead
to reforms. He is. In the main, bully boy.
Pinkerton counts up 1873 American bood-
lers; large and small, in Canada, and he adds
that LIS Of them would make almost any sort
Of sacrifice TO be restored to home and coun-
| try.