Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-13
CURRENT EVENTS.

Texas has 8, GOO, 900 acres in cotton, yield
Ing /, SOC, 900 bales.
Montreal people are vigorously protesting
against pauper immigration.
The new style "woman OF politics" is
youthful, beautiful and artful
1t is reported that a gigantic lumber
trust is In process Of organization In tho
Northwest.
Californi.s production OF dried fruit has
increased from 100000 pounds In 1888 10
26 Cos, 900 pounds In 1887
Experience proves tina, cows which have a
due allowance OF salt give richer milk than
those which ara not supplied with salt
1t is easy to bclieve that the Choctaw Ma
ton Is the most civilized OF all Indisns The
ChoctRws owe lawyers fee OF s1S7, 700.
Germany has ls4 vessels In her navy and
$4,000 men. at an actual cost of Gil, $780, SS.
David Fsher sged es, 10 the oldest regis
tered voter In Cincinnati He cast his hrst
vote for Henry Clay for President in 1882
A Miss Leg, OF Montana has just married
a man named Hand She thought she would
rather be a right hand than left Leg.
SIgnor Sou Zoaue, an italian Newspaper
owner, has begun the plan Of publishing .
chapter OF the Bible with every Issues Of hIs
paper.
In 1887 Great Britain collected 800, sT9,.
275 from tariff duties on Imports. These
duties are levied on wine, tea, coffee, liquors
and tobacco.
It is stated that one-fourth OF the deaths
In London are from consumption, aud one.
oht NJ ha HaaNha ariaa from drlnkfnn
sptituous liquors.
Sunday Schools are increasing rapidly In
this country Last year the American Sun
day School Union organized 500 with 1926
teachers and 81, 1919 scholars
Anna Dickinson will take the stump in
the pending campaign, aud will make several
speeches for the Republican candidates In
New York, New Jersey and Indiana.
The Rev. w. F. Davis, who is In jail for
preaching on the Boston Common. will re-
main there for some time, the petition to ad-
nit him to bail having been denied by the
State Supreme court.
The dressy thing for the fashionable bride
is to wear shoes OF undressed kid In place OF
the ordinary yellow leather 1t Is stylish
and makes a swell pair of shoes, but It costs
money.
Benjamin Hafner has been an engineer on
the Erie railroad in continuous service for
forty seven years, running many Of the fast
trains, and no fatal accident ever occurred to
any OF his trains
The scarcity OF ha!lbut In the Atlantic fish
ing grounds has directed the attention Of
fishermen to the North Pacific Ocean, along
the shores OF which this kind of fish is under
stood to be very plentiful.
A couple who were divorced by a Texas
court three years ago have been remarked In
San Francisco. The same wedding ring which
did service at the first ceremony was used for
the second tying OF the nuptlsl knot
Galen Wilson says that q speedier and
cleaner way to remove the skin Of new po-
tatocs, than the common practice of. scrap
ing with o knife, Is to ''use a scrubbing
brush"
According to Farm Life green corn Is rem
dered hard BY overlooking. Keep in the
pot or steamer only I'LL the milk sets TO be
nice aud tender boil small ears one minute,
and large ones twice as long.
Texas has about 5000, 900 sheep, or nearly
three times as many as Michigan. The
focks there average less than 1000 each. In
the past five years Texas has lost about thirty
per cent. In the number OF sheep in the state.
MIRA II. v. Bronson, of Peninsula, O., has
in her possession and has raised for the pres
ent campaign the largest Tag used IN that
section during the Gen. Harrison campaign
forty-eight years ago II still nys with the
name OF Harrison upon Il
The st. Johnsbury (Yt) paturalists are
puzzled over q 6sh caught in the Passumpsic
River q few days ago. II has the beautiful
spots Of q trout IS covered with scales, and
10 believed TO be q cross between the trout
and land-locked salmon
Carrier pigeons are being introduced into
Wyoming They are used IA sending mes
ssges between Laramie and the big ranches.
Homing pigeons are likely soon 10 be put In
The same use everywhere on the azeat cattle
ranges OF Idaho and Montana
The United States Circuit Court in New
York city has decided that Trinity Church
must pay 5000 for violating the contract la
Dor law by importing an English preacher
under contract. The ease WIN probably be