Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-11-22
HERE AND THERE

the Blenhem She will be OF 0))0 tons, with
twin screws, engines OF 10000 horsepower
and a speed OF twenty. two knots
DR.. Francis J. Gould, who died OF Yellow
fever in Jacksonville Fla, was a native OF
Lexington, Mass, and graduate of Harvard,
class OF 1870 lie was surgeon of f. NJ. Nit
chell Post q. A. r., aud was sixty years OF
age.
General Sherman's peculiar humor was ILL
ustrated the other day when, commenting up
on the radiuty with which the veterans arc
passing away, he said he must hurry up and
die or else there would be nothing left to bury
him but militia
It is said that the Bavarian royal family
costs the people over 5,G)00)0 marks, or
about 81, 400, 900 year. And having la two
kings in succession, each non con.tOs, the
wonder is what the Bavarlans want with a
royal family, anyhow.
According to Samuel Gompers, president Of
the Federation OF Labor, eighty per cent. OF
the $4,000 cigar makers in New York city are
foreigners who do not understand the English
language. He estimates that one half OF the
foreigners are Poles and Hungarians
William Tell has been killed by the his,ori-
ans, Pocahontas never saved John Smiths
life, Bacon wrote Shakespeare, and nov Mon
cure d. Conway says It was never a religious
custom 10 India for people to throw them.
selves under the wheels of the Jugg ,rnaut.
Nextl
Queen Victoria recently received from
Glasgow gentleman a copy Of her speech at
Glasgow Inscribed on piece OF parchment
no larger than a three penny bit The writ
Ing is so minute as to be illegible except
through microscope, and was the work OF a
man over seventy years OF age
Rev. Thomas Sunrise, full blooded Indian,
and once medicine man of the Oneida tribe
Of Indians in New York. has volunteered to
become the pastor Of a colored church that
has been recently formed at Putnam, Conn.
His creed is Methodist, and he is warmly
commended by the bishops Of that sect
Mrs. Eliza Hartman, a member of the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union, aud
constant writer in that cause, dicl at Los
Angeles, Cal, recently. Mrs. Hartman
lived in Ohio at the time Of the extraordinary
woman's praying crusade in which she took
an active part; she aftcrward moved TO Kan.
'as aud few years ago to California
The Vlennese painter, Gustav Gaul, who
lied recently, in his fftY-thrl year. was es-
pecially noted as portrait painter, and
many celebrities of the Burytheater and
members OF the university sat to him.
Among his most highly priz1l frescos ar. the
NEUROLOGICAL pictures in the To lesco palace.
Gau was very popular in the social circles OF
the metropolis.
There has been admitted TO probate in
Pesth will I'm which the testator left for.
tune Of quarter OF a million forms (about
Sl25, 000) TO accumulate until by the opera
tion.of compound interest 1t shall be sufficient
TO relieve restitution universally. According
to a calculation by the testator his wishes
may be carried out when the capital shall
amount to the sum OF go, 600, 0JO OF FORMS
Any impression which may have got around
that the fools are all dead is sure to be re-
moved by n casual reading OF some Of the
election bets. For instance, If Harrison shall
be elected, Captain II. H. Young OF Bealls
vile, Pa, will wheel a dead coon from Bealls
vile to Washington, and in case OF Cleve-
lands reelection, Charles Horton will act
similarly. A band will accompany the loser.
Rev. G. A. Johnson as a result OF the at.
teutlon which he has been giving to scientific
subjects, announces that Gin just thIrty-two
years from now the electricity stored In the
earth will come in contact with the heated
matter inside, and blow this whole world up"
! But why not avoid this little explosion by
tapping the store Of electricity and using 1t
for lighting, telegraph service aud street
carsl
The Russian physician. Dr.. Gamalsla OF
Odessa who claims to have discovered pre-
yentve against Asiatic cholera in incubation,
and who has been ppt forward By Pssteur as
a candidate for the Prx Preaut OF 200,0))f,
finds his claim OF original discovery conteste
by the Spanish physician, DR.. Ferran, who In
the recent epidemic in Spain, practiced inocu-
lation Is essentially the same as that en-.
,loyed by him This will be case for the
french Academy OF Medicine to decide.
Max O'Rell says that he has had an assist
ant in the pre- paratlon Of his book on Amer
ca in the person Of Boston elevator boy.
Max O'Rell questioned the boy one day about
his experiences with the queer people he
came across, and the little fellow told one or
two very original anecdotes. He was prompt
ly taken into partnership. An agreement
was actually drawn up between Max ORell
ohN bhV ViCNaAbl IVY w NhlNu bhS ioh pS-
came a collaboration in writing the book, and
will get one dollar on every thousand copies
sold. He wrote out his own anecdotes, and
his "copy" will go to the printers 1.-THE
hoy has often given me llft," said Max
O'Rcll, 'and ! thought IT would be only fair
give him a lift; 50 / took him into partner
ship"
Mrs. Fisk, wife OF General Clinton B. Fisk.
organized the first relief society in war times
opened the first school for freedmen In the
Mississippi VALLEY, and taught it herself In Ar
kansas dividing her time between hospital
and school. She worked and journeYei, and
nursed the sick aud wounded all through
the war. she was one Of the chief spirits in
organizing the Fisk School, at Nashville,
which grew into the Fisk University; she
gave the collecting funds for the furnishing
of Jubilee Hall; she is among the foremost
ia the woman's missionary work In her
church, and the handspring Of the McClin.
took association, which has assisted nearly
three hundred young Methodist ministers IN
securing theological training, aud has raised
the money for establishing and endowing the
best reference library for theological stu
dents in this CO n ry.
u. p. Hutchinson, or "old Hutch" as he ID