Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-06-28
HERE N THERE.

At Los Angeles the mercury has registered
06 in the shade, and at Baltimore, % this sea-
son.
Beautiful works in wood, ivory, aud shells
are being made in Mexico for the Paris expo
sition.
The new high license law has closed 800
saloons in Pittsburgh out OF a total of 727 In
operation a year ago.
Hats should be cheap this year. All the
markets are overstocked and 1000 matters at
Danbury, Conn, are idle on account Of dull
trade.
The excise board of New York city issued
g,6Os licenses of all grades during the fiscal
year just closed. receiving the sum Of Sl,372,-
O40 from the liquor-dealers.
An oil distributing device has been invent
ed and recently patented for sea-going yes
sells, whereby the waves may be quieted
with the pouring of oil on the troubled waters.
BY the constitution OF Pennsylvania the
debt OF the large cities is limited to Z per cent
of their assessments. BY a special act OF the
legislature this limit may be raised to 10 per
cent.
Works will be commenced ia ii Paso, Texas,
In a short time for a federal building for a
postotilce aud custom house, for which an APP
preparation Of $3.50, 600 has been made by con-
gress.
There yet remain to be filled 1000 OF the
$500 square ieet Of space allotted West Vir-
ginia in the Centennial Exposition OF the
Ohio Valley and Central States, 10 be held at
Cincinnati.
According to The Amsr;caa ReV'sS, It Is a
little known fact that hard friction can de-
velop sufficient heat to inflame benzine vapor,
especially II the surface rubbed be vanished
with shellac.
Boston is criticised because Of a sign which
reads, "Lawn Mowers Mended In the Rear. -
Since the death Of Emerson, 1t must be adj
United. the Bostonians have become a trife
csreless with their English.
Four states of the Mexican republic have
abolished bull-fghting and some action was
looked for from the federal congress, but no
member has been found who has sufficient
nerve to propose the Innovation.
II gelatine be suspended in ordinary alco-
hol 1t will absorb the water; but as II is In
soluble In alcohol that substance will remain
behind, aud thus nearly absolute alcohol may
be obtained without distillation.
Railroad earnings in April made a better
showing than they did In March. On seven
ty-nine roads there was an increase in the
third week Of April, as compared with the
corresponding week last year, o. 1O6 per
cent.
The English government can get horses
suitable for cavalry service in Canada for ESQ,
and has to pay ga for the same animals
raised in England. An attempt Is being
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toward horse-raising
The judgment u: tue United States In ex-
GLIDING Chinese immigration is approved and
Initiated elsewhere. Australia aud New
South Wales adm tied over q million OF them,
and they would soon have overruu those
countries but for prohibitory laws recently
enacted.
The fower-growers and periume.distlller of
southern France have no fear OF competition.
They think that because they Inherited this
industry from their ancestors and because no
other country has taken 1t up successfully no
other people ever can or will.
The New York legislature has passed u bill
providing for the appointment OF Inatrons for
every police station In the cities of the state.
The petition was carried through by the Wo-
mans Prison association and tue Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.
The Reading railroad has arranged Il new
plan for fixing the wages of coal train conduc-
tors. Those only one year I'm the service are
to receive 81 40 per trip; two years $3.50, aud
three years $500 per trip. Overtime will be
allowed IL delays be considered unavoidable.
The high license law which went into opera
ton in New Jersey last week provides for a
license fee OF 500 in all towns which have
not more than 5000 Inhabitants, $50 in
towns which have a population of from 5000
to 10, GOO, and $3.50 IN towns with a population
of more than 10, 200.
~. Blunzer, a prominent stockman OF Nueces
county, Texas, is the owner of n 5year-old
Durham COW that has eighteen horns, four on
each foot and two on the head. TIL horns
are fully developed, and are about fourteen
inches long. The COW has u one-year old
heifer that has the same number OF horns.
The people OF the United States have not
begun to appreciate the magniicencc OF this
boon OF nature, says The LoHSUdle Courier
Journal, which every year reappears with q
supply OF the worlds best cotton for g., 000,-
600 people, equal to double the supply allotted
the l,6o0, OO0, 600 Of people of other nations.
The firm Of Barbour Brothers, thread and
Irvine manufacturers Of Paterson, n. j.,
smrloy 400 workers in that city, and 900
IN Belfast, Ireland, the work performed being
the same in both cities. The monthly pay
roll for the 1.40) in Paterson amounts TO
within $500 Ms much as the payroll for the
900 Ia Belfast.
Electricians are just now flocktng to Spain,
for the government has decreed that all the
theaters in the kingdom shall adopt the cleo
trio light within six months. Experts say
that danger Is in this wholesale edict, for
there are not men and material In the country
10 do the work In the required time, and II
there should be n general influx OF %electri-
clans, the work is likely TO be too hastily donG
to be- safe.
The pineapple season has begun In New
York. Merchants there are receiving $500
barrels II week, and by the middle OF May,
when the season Is at It's height, the quantity
will reach ten thousand barrels q week. The
barrels contain from twenty five to thirty ex-
ira large ''pines' or forty or sixty small
ones. The season lasts from April until Au-
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