Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-11
HERE AND THERE.

The school for scandal has many pupils.
Garess is tho new rival town to KIssimmee.
A railway ticket man is the modern road
agent
"The whisky truss"--eetting drink put on
the slate.
There are not more than 10000 Quakcrs
In America
1t is said that there are IL, 900 Smiths in
Philadelphia.
This 10 the Yankee Doodle country, but
Canada Is the Yankee Doodle country.
lover differs from q photographer. The
more negatives the latter gets the better lie
likes It.
There are 1900 theaters in the Omitted
States and a million dollars q day Is spent
for amusementA
A Buffalo statlstIcan has fgur ed out that
the women of this country pay 100000 per
year for busiles.
According to Boston statistican 'the
cost of the fences In the United States Ia
more than the national debt"
There are about 1000 900 hog raIsers ia the
country and the 46, 600, 900 hogs raised are es-
tlmated to be worth Sl9j O0O, 100
Jay Gould says his Insomnia wouldn't
bother him II be could get a good nights
sleep. That's what troubles him.
1t is said that the telephone sharpcns the
hearing. A man has got to sharpen up his
hearing, or he will find little use for a tele-
phone.
Edison's electric locomotives are attracting
great attention In England. Six OF them have
been running on a short line, and favorable
comments are being made
A type-writlng girl worked off 40 words in
| Eve minutes without a single mistake. 1t is
more creditablo TO her than II she could play
the most difficult sonata on the piano
AT Bergen, Norway a church edlece is b.
ing constructed OF paper, in pspler-mrche
form. 1t is Intended to accommodate one
thousand persons and will be a handsome
structure when completed.
Two thousand SEQ ch crofters have com.
menced the determination Of the deer on the
| Isle of Lowes They claim TO be starving
while the ground, on which they could pro-
cure living, is given up TO the deer.
| The cultivation Of the cinchona tree from
which qulnne is made is being extensively
carried on In India Wood from which the
bark is produced is taken every six or seven
years, the new growth starting from the
stump
Not long since a new petroleum spring
burst forth in the region OF Baker, Russia,
rlsing tn the air to the height OF 45O feet and
| flooding tie country round about. People
were deferred from Lighting fires by fears OK
burning up the town
Among the new companies lately formed
in London is one entitled the American Den-
tai Institute. Capital, 81, 900, in shares OF FL
ca CHI. Object, to promote the adoption Of
advanced American and other scientific
methods OF dental surgery.
Last years. output OF books fell short %
that OF 1856, which was the largest In the
annals OF literature. The number for 1855
was 4,676: for 1887. 445T. of which 1,0-2
were works OF fiction, 4SI juvsnile books. 43S
on law, aud 363 on theology.
Newfoundland has taken to agriculture.
1t has produced this year hay and potatoes
to the value OF SoSS. O1J, and butter to the
value of SD, oos. The hing industry Is very
ErecarIsus, and the resort TO agriculture
seems to DO the only hope for the colony.
King Ja-Ja, OF opobo, the deposed West
African sovereign whom England exled to
the West Indies Is being somewhat feted at
at ST. Vincent. He Is invited to lawn tennis
parties and various social functions where
he struts about In an admlraps uniform and
kid gloves, bearing himself with kingy d.gn-