Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-05-17
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A man generally looks sheepish after
the wool has been pulled over his eyes.
a cow-mllking machine has been in
vented and patented by a Nebraska
man.
No man ever knew as much about
anything as woman knows about
dress.
n man whose property is being sold
for taxes may be said to be losing
ground.
IN. b." OH an invitation to dine with
a Boston family is supposed to mean
"new BEANS"
what I'd like to know" said school
boy, lis how the mouths of rivers can
be so much bigger than their head.
Gogebic is an Indian word that
means "come again." That fellow who
always wants TO borrow a dollar need
not gogebic any more.
The man who took his ilannels off Z?
o, he took on hacking cough, which
in few days took him off. And it is
written in the annals: lies gone
where there is no need of hannels."
y physician recommends that all the
wood used in the interior construction
of houses. and all the plain surface of
plaster. should be thoroughly oiled or
vanished, so that the power of absorp-
ton of foul air and gases should be de-
stroyed.
Crows are commonly said to live for
100 years, and turtles are said to have
even longer life; but if Professor Bird
be right, the greatest animal longevity
is possessed by fishes. Professor Bird
says that as fish has 10 maturity.
there is nothing to prevent it from
living indefinitely and growing contin-
ually. He cites in proof pike living
in Russia, whose age dates back to the
fifteenth century. In the Royal
Aquarium at st. Petersburg there are
fish that have been there 40 years.
1t is said that years with three SIS in
them are lucky years. They come only
once in a thousand. but it is lucky
| person who lives to see one of them.
There is an old Chaldean superstition
that a year with three SIS is one of UNI
limited blessing. None but lucky stars
are in the ascendancy, fields blossom
with abundant harvest. the cattle are
lowing on a thousand hills, shepherds
herd their locks through green pas
lures and by still waters, all business
enterprises prosper, everything you
touch turns to gold, want and famine
skulk into their hiding places until
those days of universal prosperity are
over, pestilence seals his lips and nc
foul breath poisons the atmosphere
mirth holds high carnival and for twelve
months sorrow and signing fly away
And such is the year we are living in.
Dr. Delaunay, French scientist. as
serts that centrifugal movements of the
hands that is, from left to right-are
characteristic of intelligence and high
er development: centripetal or the
reverse, are indicative Of incomplete
evolution. He suggested this as a
scientific test in employing servants
and others. To ascertain the qualities
of an applicant cook give her plate to
clean or sauce to make and watch how
she moves her hand in' either act. If
she moves it from left to right. or in
the direction of the hands Of watch
you may trust her; if the other way. she
is certain to be stupid and incapable
The intelligence of people may also be
gagged by asking them to draw circle
on paper with pencil, and noting in
which direction the hand is moved.
The good students in mathematical
class drew circles from left to right.
down East" a similar test of faculty
has existed from the earliest day. No
Yankee farmer would "hire hand" OF
'store-keeper" employ clerk who
should white TO instead of from him.
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