Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-01-12
MINOR MENTION.

The emigration from Capada TO California
this year exceeds that Of the previous hye
years combined.
Parisians will soon have an opportunity OF
seeing the best troupe of female dancers In
Persia, the company now being en- ronte for
Paris
The chief justice Of the United States re-
selves a salary Of $4,000, while the clerk OF
his court receives $4,000 per annum in ices
and perquisites.
1t is a weknown fact among artists that
maiden of 81 summers and $500, 900 is more
beautiful being than one of Is winters and no
cash 10 speak Of
The Quebec government has taken out over
hundred actions in the superior court against
Insurance and other companies for emitting 10
pay the commercial tax.
Frenchmen were the first to discover that
Hebrew novels were worth TRANSMITTING. The
first translation into English Of Hebrew
novel will shortly appear.
The maladminstration of justice is said TO
TO have become such an evil at Montreal thai
the lawyers are considering the advsabhty or
repeating their action some years ago by re-
fuslng to plead.
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teacher. edo you know what cleanliness next
TO godliness meansi" Yes" responded
John, 'it mean Mclean man putee on clean
shit evly day."
"Grandpa," inquired JOHNNY Bliss, '"must
everybody dlel" ''Yes, my child. Everyone
in this world must die when his time eomes.p
| "Well''-long pouse-''what I'd like to know
is, who'll bury the last man."
suit brought In Montreal by the provincial
government is said to have shown that most Of
missing sum of $4,000 was spent in buying
French decorations, the sale of which has al
fected revolution in the French government
Thomas BOothby, farmer near Perry, H.,
on whose farm balloon recently landed, re-
fuses To give up the balloon TO the aerOnaut,
claiming $40 damages for the delay Of eight
teen men who left their threshing To look at
the air SHIP.
Large hats OF felt or velvet are universally
adopted small bonnets being almost ex-
cusively reserved for the theater. For hats
long plumes are indispensable, and the OnE
study In trimming is becoming disposition
of the same.
Residents in the vicinity Of Pasadena and
santa Monica, Cal, have offered TO the state
board of forestry two tracts of land, one of 80
acres and one of l2O acres, on condition that
the board will use them as experimental sta
lions and plant them with "fresh trees
A year ago Miss Clara Moore Of Cincinnati
went to visit friends in Los Angeles Cal. She
had few hundred dollars with her which she
Invested in southern California lands, and in
~ boom that followed she sold out her prop
crty at net gain of Sl25, 600.
Maine clergyman told friend that lie had
great difficulty in putting his youngest child
to sleep at night. The friend waggIshy asked.
"Did you ever try the effect Of reading one OF
your sermons to him, doctorl" "Wby ro'
replied the good man I'm all seriousness; 81
never thought of that"
Newport is becoming more and more a
place for the very wealthy. People with IN
comes Of SD 900 to $4,000 a year can no
longer make show there AMI participate in
fashionable gayety An income of $4,000
even does not enable one to meet the exact
ing demands of the Amer can Vanity Fair.
"Do YOU remember the text this morning.
Bobbyln inquired the minister, who was DIN
ing with the family. Eyes, sir. The last shall
be first, and the first shall be last" And do
YOU know what that meansP' | don't believe
II means much. Pm never first, or even sec
ond; Pm always last" said hungry Bobby.
A small Hartford child just home from Sun
day school informed his father that he could
name the first five books of the New Tesla
ment They were. he said Matthew. Mark,
Luxe, John aud Hatchet" and then, think
ing people looked queer, he hesitatcd, and
added: "Wcll, Ratchet or AK, it's about the
same thing"
% NH had
often expressed n desire To catch a buzzard,
was missed, aud, after he had been away all
day, was found ia a field, lying on the ground
and playing dead" He said that he was
trying to make the buzzards think that he was
really dead, so that they would come near
enough for him TO catch them.
The other day Jones hurry drove into Con
nelsville. Pa, in dilpdated wagon drawn
by two bony horses. He had driven from
Tom Green county, Texas, and been since
April in making the 2, 400 miles, and during
the Journey his wife had died. hurry had TO
Quit Texas because of the drought of 1886, in
which he lost his entire herd Of cattle.
An s-year-old youngscr, whose father /:
connected with the Methodist church, was
overheard early the other morning wishing
that he had $4,000. 'What would you do
with it," asked his elder brother After plan
ming to use some of IL in gifts for his mann
INA and papa, and having in mind some ear
tnest efforts made to get rid OF the church
debt, this young lad said: 'Pd pay the debt,
for Pm Just sick of hearing this church
debt business talked aboutl" =
Il is not generally known that the worlds
supply of pencil wood is drawn from the gulf
coast swamps on both sides of Cedar Keys,
and that the product OF the mills there is
shipped not only to the New York and New
Jersey factories, but also to Germany and per-
haps other countries of Europe The industry
gives employment to hundreds of operatives
white and black, aud disburses large sums of
money. That nothing may be lost the saw
dust is distilled in large retorts and the oil OK.
extracted, every ounce of which finds ready
sale.
A man met with peculiar ana painful ac-
cident while hunting near Cadillac, Mich,
few days ago The party Of which he was
member shot porcupine or two, among 9th
er game; one Of the quilts became buried IN a
niece of yenlsou. and by q natural process