Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-05-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Foreign railway news shows that the
Englishman takes nineteen railway
trips a year. the Belgian eleven, the
Frenchman and German five and the
Italian one.
The harbor of Charleston, n. c., used
to abound with blackiish, but the earth
quake seems to have scared them away,
for since the great shake-up hardly one
has been caught.
A sportsman--a man who spends all
day away from his business, So for
powder and shot, and comes home at
night tired. hungry and ugly, with one
poor little marsh-hen hanging to q
string.
George" asked the teacher of Sum
day-school class, "whom, above all
others, shall you wish to see when you
get to Heaven With tace Frightening
up with anticipation the little fellow
shouted "Gerlah."
johnny, what business do you ex-
pect to engage in when you are man 2
ooh, I'll be a colonel, like pop, and
write articles about the late war "But
you won't be able to; you never saw
the late war" Neither did pop"
\ little child was trying to entertain
the clergyman who was visiting at her
fathers, when she rather startled the
"Man of God" by wanting to know
(which is it you ministers do before you
can preach, are you ordlncd or sar-
dined ?"
Mr.. b. Canhil (of Boston)-"Ah, Miss
Chandler, see you are an admirer of
AIiltonw Miss Chandler (of Cincinnat)
NO; can't say l am. Why, pas
young advertising-man, makes rhymes
with good deal pleasanter JINGLE"
Dear me-" said the little Boston boy,
after intellectual suasion had failed
aud they had spanked him for the first
time; ''if had had the slightest sus-
picion that the resultant sensation was
so poignant | should never have invit-
ed the experiment"
Woman Ito tramp)-"Now that
you've had a good dinner can't you do
something for it," Tramp We'll l
dunno. / want to do what's right. If
you've got any letters to mail I'll
drop'em into the lamp post for you.
I'm square man madam"
Miss Quaverly Ito dentist friend ~
have been reading book about those
brave martrys. How shocking to burn
that poor Latimer at the stake! His
suffering must have been excruciating."
Dentist (absently)-"Yes, but he might
have taken laughing gas"
Good Father c., pastor OF q
church in New York, forbade his flock
in indulgence in masquerade balls. TO
see if his warning was obeyed he him
self attended q recent ball and found
five men disguised at priests and five
women attired as nuns. The priest
was shocked
The scissorer for these columns claims
no originality for the various items
contained in the paper. Some of those
items are clipped from exchanges that
give the authors no credit; others are
CONVERSATIONS, and many of them are
filched from exchanges that filched
them from others. Nearly every paper
does the same thing. Whole articles
are sometimes taken verbatim from the
EXPOsIToR and no credit is given. We
don't grumble, simply because we con-
slider it of no Importance whatever.
The scissorer promises to clip nothing
from exchanges disposed to cavil at
small matters. provided he is aware of
such fact. If we say anything you
think will be of interest to your readers,
clip it; we don't care copper whether
you credit it or not.
If you have an AK to grind you should
cheerfully take your tnrn at the crank
of the grindstone. If you are deeply
interested in church work don't expect
those outside your society to rush to
the support of your pastor unless you
sometimes manifest an interest Ill their
various enterprises. On the other
hand if you happen to be rather luke
warm in christianity or even an atheist,
opposed entirely to the church, you
should bear in mind the reciprocity
necessary to the existence of society
and give as freely to the church for
which you don't care a cent as you do
for base ball or the band to which you
may be devoted. Every person should
give encouragement and money accord
ing to his means, to ever honorable
public enterprise, regardless of whether
or not it happens to suit his individual
tastes, naturally and properly giving
most to what is best liked but never
Withholding because you have no in-
terest in it.
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