Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-07-05


who. at the age OF twenty-three years,
has been placed at the head of the
Minnehaha National Bank of Sioux
CITY.
A DEED for piece of land IN Wind.
sor. Conn. has recently come to light,
which is made valuable and interesting
by the fact that it bears the name of
Matthew Grant. the first American an
cestor of Gen. Grant. Its date is
april 9, 1861.
The length to which some men will
60 to avoid labor is almost beyond COM
prehenson. Thomas Cosgrove. a
prisoner is Santa Clara, Cal, rather
than work. has lived on bread and
water and in solitary contineme mt for
two weeks. mo sweat-of-the brow
racket for me-" he says.
GEORGE MULLER, cele brated through
out the world rs II worker for the good
of his fellow men, is now eighty-two
years old and as full of zeal and activ-
ity as over. He has just returned to
England. after preaching tour of ST.
300 miles through Australia, China,
Japan and other countries. Two thou
sand children greeted him at Bristol
upon his return. the little ones being
inmates of his orphanage in that city.
TIM or ~ tl,n A hht.x,illo (C n \
Medium has challenged either Presi-
dent Mcbride, Prof Davis or Prof Pat
ton of the South Carolina College of
Agriculture, to meet him in plough
ing match. TO come off in November
next on the fair grounds at Columbia
IL is understood that one of the three
college men will pick up the gauntlet
The contest is to be a public one and
vast multitude is expected to represent
to see the contestants turn somersaults
over the hidden roots and hear them
swear at the mules.
CUBBAGE WILLIAMS and severa
others cut a bee tree near Troupville,
Ga. The hollow, which was tolerably
large, was found to be filled with honey
and comb for the distance of fifteen
feet, After securing the honey one of
the boys cut into the tree above the
portion used by tho bees and found q
rattlesnake three feet long. AS there
was no hole n the tree except the one
which contained the honey the sup
position is that tho snake crawled up
the hollow before the bees began to
hive. and Lie honey comb had effect
ually blocked his exit.
FAIR ;gAvEN, Conn, is In quecl
predicament. if story on the rounds
is true. 1t recits tina. there is los of
land there for which no one has over
been taxed and to which the city has
no title. The assessors and officials
have spent much time and money in
efforts to find the owner, and now have
begun TO unwind a ball of red tape to
gain possession. The city has ordered
sidewalk built opposite the land, and
will then advertise for the owner to
come on and pay for it A lien can
then be placed on the property. which
in due course of time will como into
the city's possession.
IN Australia and the neighboring
islands are seen many large mounds
of earth which were formerly supposed
to be the tombs of departed natives.
These remarkable tumuli, reaching
as much as fifteen feet in perpend cular
height and sixty feet in circumference
at the base, are not the work of man.
however, but are now known TO be the
incubators built by the jungle fowl
and other species of the small family
of megapodid@, or great-footed birds.
Each of these great piles consists of
fallen leaves, grasses, &C., which the
birds deposit in place by throwing
backward with one foot. Though the
mounds are usually in dense shade.
the decaying vegetable matter has
been found 10 raise the temperature
at the center rs high as 95o. The
eggs are carefully placed with the
larger end up. about twelve inches
apart and are all covered to depth
Of At least two or three feet.
HE recent marriage in Philadelphia
of MIR. George r. Foulke to Miss Jean
Kane gives occasion for the mention
of many prominent people. Miss Kane.
says the Ledger. is II daughter of the
late DIR. John Kane, whose father,
Judge Kane. was long leading citizen
of this State, an active politician in
the best sense. and at the time of his
death United States Judge here. pre-
ceding Judge Cadwalader. One of his
sons, DIR. Elisha Kent Kane, was
famous for his Arctic discoveries, and
his books had sale that was quite
unprecedented in their day. His
brother. Gen. Thomas L Kane, was
gallant officer in the Union volunteer
service in the war of the rebellion