Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-05-24
FACT AND FANCY.


Bismarck will be seventy-three years old
April l.
A man in Atlantic City makes good wine
from tomatoes.
Baltimore talks of erecting a monumental
statue of Johns Hopkins.
Green's "Short History of England" has
reached a sale of 13O, 600 copies.
A capitalist has offered to build Kiralfy
spectacular theater in New York.
Miss Booth, OF Harper's Bazaar, Is said to
earn $1,000 a year, including her salary OF
$1,000.
The bodies OF Schubert and Beethoven are
to be removed presently to the new cemetery
at Vienna.
Arthur Schleman, OF Sanford, Fla, killed
large rabbit
Mrs. Garrett Anderson, the leading woman
physician OF England, makes al income Of
$4,000 year.
1t is thought that the opening OF the Sioux
Reservation will inaugurate lively boom In
Southern Dakota.
Prof. Swing has said the brefest thing On
"Christlan Science: at is not Christian,
and 1t is not science"
Miss Fellows, the Dakota girl who has de-
termned to MARI an Indian, still adheres
immovably to that intention.
Rev. DR.. Fewsmith. OF Newark, n. j., may
be interested to know that there is man in
Montana named Manvsmith.
Senator Hoar has received the degree OF
IL d. from Harvard, Amherst, Yale, Will
Jams, and William and Mary's.
Andrew Carnegie denies that he Is to give
$l,0O0,0O0 to establish a polytechnic schoo!
at Pttsburg equal to the one at Boston.
The autobiography of Garibaldl will not APP
pear in book form until 1t has undergone
serial publication in Harper's Magazine.
Miss Grace Arlie, white girl, OF Toledo,
had typhoid fever and when she recovered
her skin was as black as that Of a negro.
st. John, the Prohbitionist, has purchased
q tract OF land near Chico, Cal, with the in
tention OF making 1t his permanent home.
The first slave labor within the present
limits OF the United States was that EN-.
ployed at the founding OF st. Augustine in
1868.
At the Queens first drawing room this
year "more high bodlces were worn by special
permission than had ever been observed be-
fore"
A mushroom was recently cooked at
Santa Barbara, Cal, that measured eight
inches in diameter. 1t was said to be deli
cious.
The total value of glass products imported
into the United States in 1887 was 1855.
O51, against s6,757, los worth imported in
1885,
The swords in the possession OF Mrs.
Shields, belonging to her late husband, Gen.
James Shields, are 10 be purchased By Con-
gress for $4,000
Mr.. Carlisle is now in his third term as
Speaker and when he has completed it
Kentucky will have had the speakership
twentv-thred years
The average time of 1900 New York bust
ness men at their downtown luncheon is
eight minutes. This is matter of record In a
leading restaurant
Senator Dawes, OF Massachusetts,, is past
seventy, and his health is breaking down. He
has spent more than thirty years In the two
Houses Of Congress.
A San Francisco suicide left note request
ing that his body be not put on ice "for,"
said he, ~ am always cold and would like
once to get warm"
By the will OF Prof Asa Gray, of Cambridge,
all his copyrights of books, his portraits OF
botanical subjects are presented to the Her.
barium Of Harvard College.
Mrs. John w. Maclay's gift to the Prince
and Princess Of Wales, on the occasion OF their
al Ia NaIl.
mounted and embossed in silver.
Louisa, the mother of the dead Kaiser,
wrote In 1908: ''Our son William will turn
out IL I am not much mistaken, like his
father, simple, honest and intelligent"
Henry Wick, who recently took charge OF
the plant OF the Warren Rolling Mill Com.
pany, ut Warren, o., will expend about 500
600 In putting the works in shape to run.
Henry Clay is the only man who sat more
than eight years in the Speakers chair. He
presided over the House for twelve years. and
he was elected Speaker at the age Of thirty
four.
A check for 81 900, 900, drawn on national
bank In Sheffield, Ala, recently passed be-
tween two merchants of that place. Il was
probably the largest check ever drawn in the
State
A notable event in the history OF the Uni
verslty OF Michigan lis the election Of Dr.
Hattie Allen, Of Waterloo, Ia, to fill the POI
sition OF Assistant Professor Of Medicine In
that institution.
Oliver Lays portrait Of Edwin Booth upon
which he has been long engaged, is now on
exhibition at Richards Gallery, in New York
1t shows the actor as "Hamlet" seated ia the
soliloquy scene.
New York retail merchants find the dogs,
which are led by chains by fashionable wo-
men, such nuisance In their stores that many
have put upa gilt sign reading; dogs are
not admitted here unless In arms"