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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20
Only Sixty Secnnds.

well well, don't fret; III be there in
a inmate.
But, my friend a minute means good
deal, now thstanding you a ect TO hold
It of no cOnse uence. Did you ever stop
to think what may happen in minute
O. N ell, while you are numbering a
minute FIR oIrsef and one for me. be-
fore we get ready 10 sit down to the bust
ness We ha G in hand, | will amuse you
by telling y some things that will hap
pen meantime.
In a minute the lowest sound your ear
can ca CD a been made by . vibra-
tionS, while the highest tone reached you
after ma ing 2,22S,00 vibrations.
In minute an express train goes a
mile aud "a Clevc and street car SO rods;
the fastest trotting horse IA 0-l3 rods
and an average pedestrian of the genus
homo has got over Il rods.
II each minute in the United States,
night and day, all the year round, "A bar
rels Of beer have to go own 200
Threats and (, y. 0 bushels of grain have
come to bin.
If there were a box kept at the city
hall In the city Of Gle Gland into which
every minute sum sufficient TO pay the
interest on the city debt had to be
dropped. the sum so dropped each min tie
of the whole ear would be : cents
How about national finances Well,
sir. in the same way. each minute, night
and day, by the kcial reports Tor the
year 1856, the United States co lie ted
IS and spent 81 /, S16S more than
nrce sary. Il interest on the public
debt was lust 5 6 q IN mute, or just eX-
actly ual to the amount of sill er mined
in that tine.
Now. in the re, idue of figures / give
you will remember that they represent so
much for every minute in the year. All
the preceding figures should be so consid-
cred. And remember, also, that we are
all the time, hereafter, talking about
ia connected with the whole United
States.
The telephone Is used 5e5 times, the
telegraph 13; times OF tobacco, g25
pounds are raised, a d part of it has teen
used in making o73 ciga $ and some
more of it ha, gone up in the smoke OF
2,292 cigarettes.
Every minute 600 pounds of wool grow
in this country, and we tave to dig 6
tons of anthracite coal and 200 tons of
bituminous coal, while of pig iron we
turn out II tons and of steel rails three
tons.
In this minute you have kept me wait
ing IL kegs of nails have been made, l2
bales of co ton should have come from the
fields and 3 bushels of grain gone INFO
149 gallons of spirits, while So in Id
should have been dug out of the earth, In
the same time the United States mint
turned out gold and silver coin to the
value of S121, and 40 acres of the public
domain have been sod or given away
Cleveland Press
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20

The land-hungry nations OF the earth
seem 10 have abandoned A latic con uests
In Russia and Great Britain, and 10 have
turned their attention to the izure Z
such parts OF Africa as may suit their
fancy and opportunity. France tia y,
Germany and treat Britan are all busy
Ing themselve with laying the founda-
tons OF African colon es. The subJuga-
ton Of Africa to the uses of the civil ed
races OF the world Is not SO much ues-
ton OF proves in a contest with the pres
ent population of that dart continent as a
questi of abi ty to contend with natural
obstacles. Africa is protec ed by its
desert wastes, its malarl 4 jungles and its
equatorial heats. 1t is doubtful whether
the conquering races of this day and gem
Grafton will be any better able to make a
per anent stand in Africa han were the
great nations of antiquity who successful
ly pusheu their victorious arms south ard
from the Mediterranean only to be pushed
back again by the repelling forces of ma
ture.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20

Alta late hour the president babe me
goodnight, and as he apollo lied for not
asking me to remain beca Sc the spare
room carpet had cen taken up Temporal
rily, he told ne to co again often, and
IL 1 would let him know when ! was COM
ing he would meet me at the depot.
| did not see Mrs. Cleveland. and by
some unfortunate combination of ci-cum-
stances she missed me.
As looked back at the president over
my shoulder, while he stood thoughtfully
and almost sadly. tancied, watching my
rapidly decreasing form L said to myself,
''Grover you have attained your life 3 am
bition and occupy the highest position OIL
cially of any human being known toastron-
omy. an yet how brief, how transitory
and how Getting is it all In few years
che physicians will consult over you and
prospect and say your system, and they
will repo OH it, and they will sign the
report AM they will continue to do so till
at last y our portrait wi make Its final APP
pearanca in the newspapers and you will
be at rest Then some smart American
will come along and state that lie thought
your thinks for you and ma you all you
seemed to be.
20, after all, fame is a doubtful ultima
tum especially in America. LOOK at the
immense amount of intere taken at one
time in ydia r.. Pinkham, and yet to day
sic is almost forgotten. Other younger
and more attractive ladies have arisen to
take her place, so that, like the buffalo
and the hustle, she is passing away.
Tomorrow | will take passage for New
\ ork, en- route for my feudal slosh on
staten sland, where may be found y
broad country seat witt preserves onto it.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20

Washington is beautiful city, but
malaria, assassination and bluff lurk here
on every hand. The flies of Washington
are pee liar to the capital, believe.
They are gross, phlegmatic insect, with
cold feet. Their circulation is DOR and
their lives seem almost destitute of praise
worthy motive. When Washington fly
alights on mes pers n one feels slight
congestive chill followed 10y a soft shell
crab sort of bite, and one naturally slaps
at the pla with ones hand, only TO md
that one has fooled away one time, for
the nawsty little insect simply meanders
er to one side and goes on witt his
business. He is q dignifed insect and
moves with gryar delberation, re hiding
one very much in that respect of the SUI
preme court
Most OF he oflice-seekers whom | met
last winter while here have gone
out of fhe city. Some have returned
to their homes in the south, while Othe 5
Ia, hired out as harvest hands between
here and Philadelphia.
| went over to see Mr.. Cleveland Tor a
few hours the other evening, and had a
good talk with him about our hopes and
ambitions. For awhile would talk about
myself and then he W uld talk about him
SelI, anu u US tdcll one ldlhcu dOoul w dU
he really felt the m st interest in.
fter we had done this for some me
we stroled on 20 the barn and at on the
d of bran box for long time cOnvers-
ing about d @ dear dead past and our
struggles to convince people that we we g
great and how many stacles we had
met with all ong. tod him how | did
chores for my board while was str wing
to master the Greek grammar. and how
had TO milk eleven cows every morning
even while in colleg', and that | wore q
bovine air about me even in the elias
room which earned for me the pseudonym
of 1.-THE Lowing Herd. " Then he told
me how he had struggled also as q boy,
and how the other DO used to tie his
shirt in very hard knot when he went
in swimm'n and therefore he was always
the last one dressed
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20
The Very Ton Notch.

A New York millionaire Is having bull
a suit OF rooms on the top of the 10 ty
Equitable building, over 30 feet alb We
the sea level. The apartments are reach
ed by fight OF gilded iron steps. The
suit consists OF three rooms 81 parlor,
dining-room and bath. Al are to he car
peted and crowded with costly bric-a -brac.
The little suit of rooms is provided wi h
oval windows four feet in diameter and
will be lighted by ele ,triclty and furnish
ed with steam heaters for the winter
months or any inopportunc cold wave that
may bread In upon the summers heat.
TIL superb apartment is the highest in
point of elevation from tho ground level
OF any simi ar suit of rooms in the world.
Philadelphia Times.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20
NOTES ON HYPNOTlSM.
Results OF n Detailed study OF tho
Memory In the Hypnotic state.

Results OF n Detailed study OF the
Memory I'm the Hypnotic state.
DR.. A. Dlchas, writing in the american
Journal IF Psycho.ogy, has made a detailed
study OF the memory in the hypnotic state,
and summarizes his main conclusions some.
what as follows: ~. During the hypnotic
sleep the subject remembers the experiences
Of his waking life as well as previous hypno-
ses. (2). In hypnodsm there Is often an ex.
altation OF the memory, and at times
change in lis content, leading TO the assump-
ton OF foreign personally ~. The mem
DRY OF suggested hauclnation may linger
on and influence the walking condition. a..
The operator can, at his WILL have any of
the acts OF hypnotic state remembered or
forgotten by making this part OF a sugges-
ton. (5). Suggestion seems To be largely
explicable as unconscious memory. DIR.
Cybulski has studied the power OF hypnotic
subjects TO hypnotize themselves. lie finds
that such subjects strongly imagine for a
minute or less that the operator commands
them 10 go TO sleep, and the desired result en-
sues. Furthermore, IL the subjcct, on going
to sleep, imagines himself controlled by a
certain person, then, even though another
sent him to sleep, he will be subject 10 the
former, and not to the operator. Thee OBJ
seTvations show the importance OF the sub
jective elements In the process OF hypno.ism,
and indicate the method BY which the sub
ject unconsciously takes suggestions and
acts upon them. Dr. Berkhan has applied
hypnotism to the amelioration OF the hearing
Of the deaf He tested the hearing Of nine
deaf boys, and, after bypuotizing them spoke
TO them and had various noises made before
them. The hearing OF four OF them was
found to be Improved, and the improvement
is reported as still persistIng after eighteen
mOntha
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20

Among the many things Algeria is doing
to make herself attractive t. tourists is he
exhuming of some of her ancient cities.
The marvels of Pompeil are said to be
nearly equalIed by he city that has lust
been exhumed at Timga, with its streets,
shops, TO um, trium hal arches and ag-
stones orn by cart wheels. At Cherchell,
on the coast west of he city of Alglers,
the luxurious baths Of the ancient city Of
O. sarea have recently been brought to
light Then Algiers has completed her
railroad to Bskra almos, on the edge of
Sahara and /, to extend it t the fl little
oases that have been created by irrigation
along the Wady Rir, where $4,000 palm
trees are now tourlshing in regi n that
few years ago was verdureless. The
trump ant progress of railroad building
Is everywhere opening new routes for
tourists.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20
the last one dressed

tONhhisT0lONAl Al HAIRY EST HANDS.
He said that when he was a little fat
boy, with large, greenish freckles OH the
back of his neck and warts on his feet he
felt 1t in his bones that some day he would
be President, though he says he did not
know that he would run for a second term.
He had not looked ahead so far as that, he
said. No boy can really figure out I'm his
own mind whether he will run for second
term or not, He may calculate TO do so
when the time comes, and then again he
may not.
Speaking of our common country, the
President said: al still remember with
much pleasure the good time had on my
trip west, and the cordiallty extended to
my wife and myself. | also cherish, and
ever shall, the deep and honest sentiments
of regard expressed by those whom | met
throughout the United States, who had
just been appointed to Office by me. did
not suppose that such hearty simple love
and admiration could spring up in the
hearts of comparative strangers as found
these people. | wish, IL you get chance
to work 1t into the papers, that you would
do so, Bill. IL Is something that l have
wanted TO express In some way for long
time, but / have not had the chance"
Speaking OF western cities, the President
said: There Is market difference be-
tween the people Of the west and those of
the east, even IL they have only moved to
the west short time before. The western
citizen has more local pride, for instance.
You can make fun of the follies of New
York or Boston and print IL In their own
papers receiving a large salary therefor,
but IL you make fun of n western city and
expect good pay for 1t you must live in
another town. Take ST. Paul and Mime
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20
WILLIAM IN WASHINGTON.
Tho Fragrant summer Time In the Great
National Capital.

Tho Fragrant summer Time In the Great
National Capital.
Bill Nye in New York World.
When l came here two days ago II was
In response TO call from several promi-
nent statesmen who desired I'd consul
me relative to the issues of the day, ret
CARELESS of party, and have been closeted
with from two to of them ever since.
We have been sitting with closed doors
an q trusted messenger has executed our
behests, meantime charging same to our
ROOM
Washington at tn season of the year
Is hot, with traces of humidity, and the
exaggerated co nty seat Is MOI desirable
place especially In which to dwell. Para
disc is full Of people who sought to spend
the summer in Washington, ID. G.. In
winter ali is gayety here. In summer
bromide and remorse are the leading
characteristics. How man eminent men,
civil and military, have here received
their first sGbpuna from the Great Court
of last resort and lied away to the m UNI
tains or to the sea to die in peace. How
many great men have gone to Washing
ton robust and resolute only to die in the
mid { of their success, and in the meridi-
an of their lives, followed down to the
cool and quiet portals OF the tomb by
long line of bulletins and temperature and
pu Sc records.
And this suggests to our minds the
pleasure, of dying in America at the end
of q glorious career, surrounded by an
able corps of correspondence and telegraph
op rators who herald to he nation, not
be ause they want to do so, but because the
nation wants them to, the "details of death
clear down to the embalmer's solemn but
highly remunerative job. Any American
boy who reads these lines may, II he will,
hecome so great nd so widely known tn It
when he dies amateur photographers will
get snapshot views OF his tongue when
he exposes it for the editicaton of his
physician and the papers will publish in
terror views of him, showing condition
of affairs terrible TO C ntemplate.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20
Finished His Course.

Whether at Winchester up and down the
Shenandoah, IN command OF the southwest,
at Washington or at NonquItt, Gen. Sheridan
was always gallant always hard fighter and
his last fight was the longest and the hard.
est fought Of all. lie Was never known to
show the white feather. He had repeatedly
faced death on the great plains OF the west;
he had met him when the eight was raging
hot around Richmond, and had never falter'
ed He always rode like man serenely con.
fident OF his fate. He was ne confident when
smItten down In Washington and BY that
self-same confidence had made the hope firm
among his millions OF admirers that he would
recover. From Nonquitt they expected him
to emerge and again ride, superb, at the
head OF the armies. The cad announcement
OF to day, therefore, carries with 10 the keen.
est disappointment. Characteristic OF his
whole life be never surrendered; not even
when the end came, for onlv few hours be-
fore he was reading proof OF his Forthcoming
memoirs with no thought OF final dissolution.
Soon after he lasped into an unconscious
state, and IN this condition death claimed
blm But for his iron will his tired body
would hare weeks ago succumbed. II
succumbed at last but not until she iron viii
had gone TO sleep.
Gen Sheridan takes his place to-day In
history along with the worlds greatest
warriors along with PyrrhuA with MARI
borough and Ncy. With Grant and Sherman
be will forever be remembered as one OF the
American triumvirs --COsc0ndh Times.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20
Critics of the Press.

Newspaper reporter-'W Would you
be willing to let rue have the full text
of your graduating essay on American
journalism "
Sweet girl graduate-T will give it
to you gladly. want you to be sur o
and print all l say about pettiness.
weakness and absolute ldiocy Of the
press in devoting so much valuable
space TO mere social events and weari-
some, silly. long drawn out descriptions
of ladies' toilets
Il will print it all. BY the way. /
wish you would write mo out a descrip-
ton of your graduation dress. as 1 want
to print II"
'Oh. with pleasure; and please don't
forget to send me fifty copies OF your
paper. - DIANA World.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20

apolis, for instance. never felt so much
restraint as | did there. You We heard, no
doubt of the MINI apolis preacher who
took his text from st. aul and half the
congregation arose and left"
'N es, Mr.. President" said /, 81 have
heard 1t great many times, but go on.
"Well, it goes to show the intense ri al
nv there Is between the two cities, and the
only way could get along was to always
speak of them together. The growth of
these cities Is a sub ect of VIII oh the peo-
pie never tire. One man tol me that he
had star ed In to farming lhree times in
the vicinity of Minneapolis and been riv-
en- out two or three mil each time by
men who desired to build an opera house
in the middle OF the field.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20

ChristianiIed Chinaman of Brooklyn,
proposes to marry Miss Annie futile of
the same city. She is about 2S and he
a out tie same age. First laundryman,
he afterward became a city missionary.
He is going into the ministry, and will
return to China, where, in Canton, there
is Presbyterian college. The young
man was to have been married on the I'd
inst, nut friends nterfered, and he must
return alone to China for two years.
absence
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20

A conference of the executive commit
tees Of the union labor and united labor
parties was held at Chicago recently with
a view Of adjusting their differences. All
propositions, h viewer looking to this end
wer re ected. Robert COwdrey, the unit
ed labor candidate, has challenged A. j.
Streeter, the union labor candidate, to al
low the public to Judge which party has
the remedy feg existing evils.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20

The only Indian in Dakota who has nat
uralizatiOn papers regularly issued is the
Rev. Luke p. Walker, full blooded In
dian and graduate o. the Indian school
at Carlisle, Pa. On making application
at the clerk s Office he was told that 4he
papers were not necessary, but he insisted
that he wanted something to show that he
had severed his tribal relations, and was
ful-dedged citizen. His request was
granted.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20
Following Instructions.

Remember, Bridget" said Miss
Clara, "that 1 am out to every body
but Mr.. Sampson.
A little later Bridget answered q
ring at the door.
''Who was 1t, Bridget" asked Miss
Clara.
Young Mister Beauneoamp. num-"
"And did you say that / was outp"
Yes; | sed yez were out to livery
BODY but Misther Sampson. "-Neso
iork San.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20

Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton says: 81
regard the religion of to-day as the chief
obstacle to woman suffrage The women
ha, emit self-respect, and it is because their
religion teaches that they are inferior to
men. The members of the woman s
christian temperance union, she said, are
suffragists, because they see 1t is the only
way TO obtain prohibition.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20

The eight presidential tickets in the
Geld this year show that for the presi ency
Illinois has two candidates, New York
two Indiana one, New Jersey one, Cali
fornia one and the District of Columb a
one. or the vice-presidency, Kansas has
two, and Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Mis-
eouri, New York and Ohio one each.
There has not been candidate name for
vi ce-president yet on the American part
ticket, and the greenback ticket is yet to
be nomina ed. Mr.. Cleveland is counted as
q New Yorker and will pro ably vote as
such at this elect II.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20

King Oscar ii. of Sweden has appointed
the Emperor William ii. of Germany an
admiral in the Swedish navy. The En-
peror William has retaliated by making
King Oscar III. an admiral In the German
navy. 1t has not been decided when these
august personages will a: sumo the duties
of their positions
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20

Sarah e. Toucey of New York Is the in
ventor of a grapc-seed extractor.
a novelty In underwear is the skirt of
striped lawn woven to initiate drawn work.
Loretta II. Weld of Massachusetts, is the
inventor Of three different preparations Of
quinia.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20

The two most noted temperance orators,
Miss Frances K. Willard and Mrs. J. Ellen
Foster, are divided in their presidential
preferences The former will give the
influence OF her voice to Fisk and Brooks,
while the latter will take the stump for
Harrison and Morton.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20

Some curious student of philology, who
has been delving into the origin of the
names Of the democratic and republican
nominees for the presidency and the vice
presidency, says tnat Cleveland is a cor
ruption OF eli and, so called from its sit
nation in steep, rock locality. Thur
man is from Thor, the Saxon god, and
man. Its curative meaning is one having
the strength and wisdom Of Thor. Harri.
son means Henry's son or Harry's son. 1t
is Identical in meaning with Harris or
Horries. Morton local name, from the
parish o Morton in NTH dale, Dunn rie-
shire, Scotland. Nor, in the Gallo, sgni-
ties big, great, and ton is from dun, ILL.
Morton, the big or great hill.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20

same as you can tell dude when you meet
him on the street-by his loud pants.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-06-21
Five Ways to Cure a Cold.

/. Battle the feet in hot water, and
drink pint of hot lemonade Then
sponge with salt water and remain in
warm room.
q Battle the face in very hot water
every five minutes for an hour.
8. Snuff up the nostrils hot salt water
every three hours.
4. Inhale ammonia or menthol.
5. Take four hours active exercise in
the open air.
Summer colds are the worst of ali
colds oftentimes, as it is then very diff
cult to protect ones self properly. A
ten grain dose Of quinine will usually
break up cold in the beginning. Any
thing that will set the blood actively in
circulation will do ii, whether it be
drugs or the use of a bucksaw.-Ncdi-
cal Neps.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-06-21
System in Housekeeping.

More depends upon system in house,
keeping than many people know. In
order to have well-kept house the
mistress must be orderly aud methodi-
cal. These qualities do not come nat
urally to all. but watchfulness and CEN
slant effort will make them possible
even where they are foreign to ones
nature. know woman who, being
well aware of her deficiencies in this
respect, wrote out list of daily work
for herself, with the order in which
certain daily tasks should be per.
formed. OF course there was the La
bility to interruptions, but She was sat
isfied that her plan saved time, labor
and worry. - Good Cheer