Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-27
MINOR MENTION.

cIgaretts fractured with roses, carnations or
heliotrope.
Judge Kelley, 'the father of the house."
was ieweler before he turned his attention
TO politics.
II. Rider Haggard, in spite Of his success
as a novel writer considers the practice oil
law his chief occupation.
The late Chief Justice Waite had four mes
sengers during his fifteen years on the SUI
preme bench. Three of them went mad.
Parisiaus are talking Of erecting a monu'
ment TO Jaques Daviel, the first oculist to
practice excisIon OF cataracts He described
his method In 1752
Mr.. Ruskin is figuring in a new direction.
The most popular drink In London at present
is milk and soda WATERFALL and half The
great art critic is the inventor Of tn is bever.
age.
The King OF Abysslnia hates smoking and
chewing so intensely that he cuts off the
noses and lips OF those who indulge IN the
habit. Some day lie will be assassinated by
a cigarette.
Gen. Lew Wallace is passlonately fond OF
the gentle sport which Izaak Walton made
immortal He was especially active in the
recent fly casting tournament OF the fisher
men OF the state Of Indiana.
An investigation OF the list OF persons IN
France who have the decoration OF the lie.
gion OF Honor has revealed that more than
two hundred obtained 1t by bribery or I'm
proper means. Their names win be stricken
, off
Paul Desgranges, OF Philadelphia, has col
iected ]. 000.000 Cancelled postage stamps. He
has put them up In packages OF 50, 900 stamps
.ach the packages weighing over five pounds
each. 1t has taken him six years to make
.Ais useless collection.
A lady Of Texsrkana, Texas, the other night
placed five hundred dollars in bank notes in
the oven for safety while she attended the
theatre. She forgot to take II out and the
servant girl burned 1t up while getting break
fast the next morning.
Various valuabes which we're presented to
the Pope as jubilee offerings, and which were
on exhibition, have been stolen from the
Vatican. Among the stolen articles are a
chalice valued at O. OO1. some gold snuff box.
es and several pairs OF slippers.
The Vatican is the most polite court in Eu-
rope. Replies to all communications are ad.
dressed with the titles assumed BY the orig.
inal correspondents, be they counts, dukes or
pr icces. The Pope never stops to ask wheth-
er they are genuine noblemen or not
Marriages are not allowed in Russia before
the male is eighteen and tue female sixteen,
nor are men over eighty or women over sixty
permitted to enter wediock. A fourth mar.
rage is Illegal. Priests mas marry only once.
Marriages In secret without witnesses are not
| valid.
People are dying from hunger in some parts
of Turkey. A correspondent explains that
the famine in central Turkey resulting from
drought, and IN eastern Turkey from devas.
taton Of ten thousand square miles by 10.
Gusts, is now eliminating in utter restitution
aud death.
The cross-eyed man has found his province
at last. 1t is lovemaking on the sly, An
indiana farmer whose daughter ran away
with a crosseyed farm hand, declared that he
never couli tell when his hired man was
/ looking at his lighter, and therefore he
didn't suspect him.
! Baron de Hirsch has not yet made his al
legged magnificent endowment Of Jewish
, schools in Russia, but has Invited suggestions
/ from several sources as to the best means of
| giving effect to some benevolent intentions,
and has entered into negotiations with the
Russian government on the subject
An unhappy season in France is during
the time Of conscriptlon, when every young
man OF proper age is obliged TO walk W
and draw from an urn q ball. If he takes a
! black one, it means three years service in the
! army; If white one, he is exempt. The on.
" son Of a widow is exempt. Substitutes
can be furnished
Sir Edward Baines Is said to be the Oldest
active journals. in Europe. He is 50 years
old, and his paper is The Leeds .uercarv. He
began his career as a journalist three years
after the battle OF Waterloo, but was present
as reporter for The Mercury at the battle
of Waterloo in 1919 aud has been contin-
uously In newspaper life ever since.
Street-car tickets are glut in the market
in Galveston, Tex. There was a dear tn oil
small change, II was proposed to utalIze the
car tickets for that purpose; so the car COM
! panies increased the issue to accommodate
| this new use, and now the merchants find
themselves with enough car tickets on hand
to give the entire population a ride for sever
al years,
Travellers through the Hoosac Tunnel rs-
Gently experienced a curious change In the
weather. On entering the eastern end of the
tunnel, the travellers left country on which
'ai3 was pouring and which was devoid Of
every vestage OF snow. On leaving the tu:-
Eel, the travellers saw with establishment q
driving snow storm and snow-covered
ground.
In wildwood, ID. T.. the other day, Q
Ianchman got bowling drunk and was arrest.
ed. The authorities, for lack OF better place,
locked him up in an empty box car. Some
time in the night train picked up the car,
and when the ranchman woke up In the morn
ing he found himself fifty miles from homo
and without cent He intends to bring suit
for damages.
Senator Voohees recently visited the PEN
sion Office, at Washington, and was astonished
to recognize in a man hauling a truck filed
with documents an ex-judge once prominent
in Indiana. Stopping him the senator ex-
claimed: Thunder and lightning A Judge
| in Indiana-a horse In Washingtonl' The
next day the horse" was promoted to q
place more BETTING his former dignity.