Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-01-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
70 live that when the summons comes.
To lay aside your breath,

To lay aside your breath,
You'll do II like n little man,
And not be scared To death.
The Allegan Journal and Tribune
booms Gen. Alger for president TO the
extent of more than q column.
Don't Judge mans character by the
difference shown him, you never see
a chimney sweep crowded off the side
walk.
All advice about how to spend
money and how to keep it is thrown
away on the man who don't know how
to get il o.. Sc,
"Come now, Master Tommy! when
mamma gives you real nice piece of
cake, what do You say "Please man.
ma give me some more.
The widow of the late David Preston
wants ST. 900 month allowance from
her husbands large estate pending the
settlement of the same.
Family physician am afraid you
have been eating too much cake and
candy. Let me see your tongue. Little
girl-Oh, you can look at it but it won't
tell!
Union City has a man who boasts
that he ate three dozen of raw eggs
and two cans of oysters at one sitting
recently. 1t is not reported whether
he is a Chester White or Berkshire.
Some unknown but conscious
stricken wretch has sent 800 to Vas
sar firm and with it letter stating that
he wronged them out of So and wished
to make it good four fold. TIewas evil
IDENTITY hard hit.
a Windsor lady made her hubby a
Christmas present of hand-painted
moustache cup. lie looked at it a
moment and exclaimed, "That thing
amt worth shucks to me; alters drink
out of the sosser."
\ Buchanan man who wanted to
know if it paid to keep chic kens in
town, sta rted with 81 well-bred fowls,
and keeping his accounts carefully for
a year found that he had made exactly
81. % on each fowl.
Gov. Alger gave 500 newsbOys new
suits of clothes and sent 1000 Detroit
poor families barrel of flour and n ton
of coal each. on Christmas, besides nu-
merous donations to charitable insti-
tutions III different parts of the state
Some will say it was done for effect
and it was. 1t had mighty good eff
sect on the parties bel efitted-Grand
Haven Herald.
The school census just completed
shows there are &C, 963 children of school
age in Detroit Of which only 1900 a re
attending the public schools, 1926 the
sectarian schools. 30.306 not attending
any school and the remainder tempo.
rarily out Of school. There are about
5000 children earning their own living
wholly or in part and these, OF course
are out of school.
Talking about short courtships re-
minds us that the counting Of the alb.
original of Australia consists simply in
knocking the woman of his preference
down with club and carrying her off
This form Of wooing is as efficacious
as brief. and is certainly commendable
OH the score OF economy. 1t is also
quite as delicate way of arranging
matters as the methods sometimes EN-.
ployed in this country. where the par.
ents of the bride knock her down-to
the highest bidder.
A woman with a child in her arms
entered a church one evening when q
somewhat prosy but loud-voiced preach.
er was holding forth. During the dis
course the child began to cry, and the
woman, not wishing to disturb the
congregation rose up and was march
ing down the aisle when the minister
stopped in his discourse and said: MY
good woman there is no necessity fol
leaving, as the child does not disturb
me in the least; pray keep your seat.
Imagine the minister's feelings when
the woman turned about and said
"Mebbe no, sir, but ye're disturbing the
wean," and she marched OH.
Notwithstanding the heavy, stormy
weather that has prevailed for the last
fortnight in the upper peninsula the ice
has not yet formed solidly throughout
the straits of Mackinac. On Thursday
forenoon, Thomas Wilson, farmer
started out from st. Ignace for the
Cheneau islands with team of three
horses and large sleigh full of camp
supplies. For several miles from shore
he found the ice all right. but suddenly
it split open with crash, and the three
horses were plunged into the depths.
Wilson leaped from the sleigh and had
just succeeded in getting to solid ice
when the sleigh disappeared also, will
all its contents. He had to make the
best of his way to the mainland, but
was thankful that he had made the
providential escape he did.