Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-05-31

j. A. MENzIEs, Editor and Prop
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BRoCKWAY CENTRE, MICH.
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AJERsEY decision gives bicycles
much highway right as q wagon.
IT is estimated that the late Chief
Justice Waite left an estate worth $780,,
600.
JACOB SHARP. in the opinion of DIR.
LOOMS. his physician, died from wor-
riment
THERE is in Wilmin gton. Del, n
man Mapped American independence
McCintock.
A THREE-YEAR-o girl in Omaha
has sued a railroad company for ST.
500 damages.
THERE are only 10000 900 Spiritual
lists in this country. The number of
mediums is about 1000.
NOhNELlCS NANDEhBlLI has pLOlh-
Ised to give $50, 600 to tho New York
Museum of Natural History.
GEN BooTH, of the Salvation Army,
intends to assail the wickedness of Chi
cago with a brass band of eighteen
pieces.
The name of the most noted writer
of novels picturing the life of Norwe'
gian sailors is, very appropriately.
Jonas LIE.
EX-SENATOR BRUCE has tried lectur-
ing and likes it, and says he means to
follow it for business the rest of his
natural life,
NOTWITHSTANDING her Widows
weeds, Mrs John A. Logan preserves
her power to retain old friends and
gather new ones about her.
ASTRONOMERS have determined late
ly that Alpha Centaur is the nearest
fixed star, its triflng distance from the
earth being 20 400. 600 900 miles.
A POTENT remedy for seaslckness
has been discovered in a coal-tar pro-
duct known as antipyrine. 1t is givcn
in doses of one and half grammes.
A Swiss watch manufacturer has just
invented IL watch for the blind, on the
dial of which the hours are indicated by
twelve projecting pegs, one of which
sinks every hour.
AFARMER near Chebanse. III. hav-
ing an OK that did not obey orders.
concluded that the animal was deaf and
bought nm ear trumpet which worked
with great success.
A DAKOTA correspondent seems rath-
ed mixed, as he says that man who
was caught in one of the recent bliz-
yards had to have his two feet and four
of his toes amputated.
STEPHEN b. ELKINs is planning to
build new country house at Franklin,
West Virginia, just over the mountains
AlOAh DOOA Rh "hOAN hS A"o ihefNS
his home for many years.
The Riverside Iron Works at Wheel
ing, are turning out ther fullest capac-
ity, running their tube works double
turn. They made during the last four
weeks So 600 kegs of nails
Tue first recorded photograph OF II
rainbow has been exhibited to the
Photographic Association of London,
The arch has the appearance of so me-
thing solid-like an ar ch of wood.
The great Hung arian patriot Louis
Kossuth, believes that his life is nearly
ended. He has been residing for the
last twenty. five years at Turin. Italy,
engaged in completing his biography.
GEN. BRIsBIN. commandant at Fort
Mckinney. w. T.. says that the cattle
in the Northwest have wintered adj
mirably. and that the herds are nearly
as large as they were before the disas-
trous winter two years ago.
AN English chemist has shown that
the brittleness of the bones of the aged
is not due, as is generally supposed, to
an increase OF the proportion of miner
al salts with advancing years. From
section of the femur of fifty subjects
of different ages, no difference in the
proportion of ash could be determined.
NAPTHALINE is now largely used in
Scotland as a preservative of wood,
its action being to destroy all albumi-
mold compounds in the wood, leaving
dry and clean 10 handle, and with
only faint aromatic smell. The nap
thoIino 10 ,,oItad in, a yaSSal oonohla Of