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

her skin was black as that OF a negro.
St. John, the Prohlbltionist, has purchased
a tract OF land near Chico, Cal with the In
tcnton OF making 1t his permanent home.
The first slave labor within the present
limits of the United States was that EN-
ployed at the founding OF St Augustine In
1866.
At the Queens first drawlng.room this
year "more high bodces were worn by special
permission than had ever been observed be-
| fore"
A mushroom was recently cooked at
Santa Barbara, Cal, that measured eight
| inches in diameter. 1t was said to be deli
| cious
The total value of glass products imported
into the United States In 1887 was 81, ESQ.,.
051 against 6,757, los worth imported in
1885.
The swords in the possession OF Mrs.
Shields, belonging to her late husband, ten.
James Shields, are to be purchased By Con-
gross for $4,000.
Mr.. Carlisle is now In his third term rs
Speaker, and when he has completed it
Kentucky will have had the Speakership
! twenty-three years.
ness men al their downtown luncheon is
! eight minutes. This is a matter OF record in a
leading restaurant
Senator Dawes, of Massachusetts, is past
seventy, and his health is breaking down. He
has spent more than thirty yes. ~ the two
| Houses OF Congress.
A San Francisco suicide left a note request
ing that his body be not pu: on ice, "for,"
said he, al sm always cold and would like
'nce 10 get warm"
By the will of Prof Asa Gray, Of Cambridge,
all his copyrights of books, his portraits OF
botanical subjects are presented to the Her.
oarum Of Harvard College
Mrs. John w. Mackays gift to the Prince
and Princess OF Wales on the occasion of their
silver wedding, is a toilet mirror heavily
mounted and embossed in silver.
Louisa, the mother OF the dead Kaiser,
Erote in 1908: 'Our son William will turn
out if l anu not much mistaken, like his
father, simple, honest and intelligentr
Henry Wick who recently took charge OF
the plant OF the Warren Rollin! Mill Com
pany, AZ Warren, o., will expcnd about S20-
900 in putting the works in shape to run.
Henry Clay is the only man who sat more
than eight years in the Speakers chair. He
presided over the House for twelve years. and
he was elected Speaker at the age OF thirty
four.
A check for 81, 90 0OO drawn on national
bank in Sheffield, Ala, recently passed be-
tween two merchants Of that place. II was
probably the largest check ever drawn in the
State.
A notable event in the history OF the Uni
verslty OF Michigan is the election OF DIR.
Hattie Allen, OF Waterloo, Ia, to I'LL the po-
slton OF Assistant Professor of Medicine in
that institution.
Oliver Lays portrait Of Edwin Booth upon
which he has been long engaged, Is now on
exhibition at Richards Gallery, in New York
1t shows the actor as Hamlet" seated in the
soliloquy scene.
New York retail merchants find the dogs,
which are led by chsins by fashionable wo-
men, such nuisance In their stores that many
have put upa gilt sign resding: Dogs are
not admitted here unless in arms"
A large saw fish, fourteen feet In length, was
caught In the bay at the mouth OF the N.Y.
alkka River, Florida, last week. Dr. King,
OF Boston, made the unusual catch while fish,
ing for tarpon with hook and line.
Rev. Mr.. Cheno-eth, of Montpelier, Ind,
who has been suffering from serious gastric
affection, attributes his Illness to a silver
quarter which he swallowed six years ago and
which he believes is still lodged in his
stomach.
John Farrell had courted an Illinois wo.
man IS years When he finally decided
last the time had come for them to part she
flung swill pail after him and broke his hip,
and the jury who tried the case returned
verdict Of mot guilty" without leaving their
seats
George Webster, the historlographer ceie-
rated his eightleth birthday few days ago
at Heidelberg, Germany. He is probably the
most popular of all the German historians, his
compendium OF the history OF the world form
Ing part Of the library OF nearly every edu-
Gated German.
Albert Frazer, a convict in the Michigan
pensentlary, escaped and a reward was
offered for his capture. He communicated
with his wife, who was having hard struggle
with poverty, and induced her to deliver him
up and get the reward So she did, aud
Frazer Is happier than he has been for years.