Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-03-08
MINOR MENTION.

New York city receives ten mlllIcn eggs per
veek.
Geu. Hermann Konzlcr, formerly head CT
the pontiical army, is dead.
Prof. VirchOw. in a new work published a
London, declares that cancer is durable.
A l7-year-old girl in Winfield, Kan, has
been twice married aud twice divorced, aud
will soon wed third husband.
The old world is supposed to be overpopu-
lated and yet France has lately been obliged
to increase the bounty on wolves.
Steel rails sell at the English mills for SoG
per ton; at the American mills they are selling
at S32 and have sold as low as $27.
A torpedo which had been soaking In the
James river ever since 1868 exploded the other
day just too late to lift Il steamer sky.hgh.
New York balls are NOR. extravagant than
for many years. At one ball there were ten
thousand newly-cut roses, besides flowers OF
other sorts in profuson.
The most western point of the United States
Is AttOu island, in the Behring sea, about
$3.50 miles from the most easterly point,
which is Quoddy head ON the east coast Of
Maine
The police of New York arrested a man
simply because his greenbscks were all new.
They thought the money was spurious, but
experts soon proved that the ambitious cop
pers had made n mistake.
Premier Crispi, Of Italy, In consequence, It
is supposed, Of the attacks made by the
French press has refused to dismiss the mag
istrate, who ordered the police to search the
FreRch consulate at Florence.
Eight Nlhilists, including the CossacK
TscherBOff, condemned to death for making
an attempt upon the life of the Car while Wis
itIng the Don Cossack country, were hanged
at st. Petersburg January 2.
The Austrian state railway authorities have
contracted with q syndicate Of Austrian iron
masters for 100 900 tons of rail aud other ma
terlal, the delivery TO extend over five years,
aud the minimum pice to be 96 forms ton.
Many of the farmers and lumbermen In
northern Michigan are making use OF dogs
this winter TO draw their seds. 1t Is said
that the dogs become very expert at the work
after tile training, aud IN many ways equal
the Esq imau dogs.
One Pennsylvania schoomistress Is having
an easy time. Her school at Nilkesbarre Is
boycOtted because she takes the place Of
former popular teacher. She keeps the school
open, draws her salary, has nobody 70 teach,
aud puts in her time working slippers.
At Lafayette, Ind, John Cunningham,
aged 90, attempted suicide with a shot gun,
endeavoring to pull the trigger with his toe.
His wife took the weapon frsm him, where
upon Cunningham climbed to the roof, and
then sprang of. His neck was broken by the
fall.
Oae of the incidents OF recent perform
ance In the RoumanIa Opera House, New
York, was the descent Of an egg Of great age
upon the bald pate OF one of the players OF
the orchestra The hen fruit was intended
for the stage, which VAS occupied By actors
who had taken the place OF histrlonic strikers;
but this fact did not molly the baldheaded
musician or abate the yigSr Of the fractured
egg
The supreme court OF Tennessee has lately
rendered a decision which "a likely to be help
full ia suppressing the bucket shops. 1t is In
effect chat a woman may recover from the
proprietor OF such q concern any money her
husband has lost In speculations conducted
through the establishment, with the proviso
however, that the proprietor may claim rs
set of against such losses all winnings paid TO
the husband.