Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-07-19
CURRENT EVENTS.


900.
The steel required for the United States
ship of war Maine aggregates about 1000
tons.
A recent steamer from Dundee brought
1000 tons OF potatoes TO New York city as
her cargo.
1t is estimated that 1903 persons belonging
to the fishery feet lost their lives In the re-
cent gale off Ireland.
1t has been estimated that during growth
Indian corn draws thirty-six times its own
weight OF water from the soil.
Swine fever is raging in the south of Ire
land, and nine fresh outbreaks OF the disease
Is reported from as many different sections
AS preventive and cure OF pleuro-pneu.
monia, incubation has been found ineffectu
al In Holland, 1t being successfully stamped
cd out by slaughter.
At the present time the United States and
Canada export about 15O, 0OO 900 pounds of
apples per annum, which are sold In London
markets and streets.
The farmers OF Dakota are having fine
weather for planting, and there will be an ln
crease Of twenty-five to fifty per cent. In th~
acreage this season.
Immense numbers Of stoats and wessels al
being imported into New Zealand, In orda
that they NAV destroy the rabbits which are,
pest In that country.
The government Of New Zealand has pro.
claimed all Chinese ports infected In order to
put stop to the entrance into the colony Of
Chinese immigrants.
The Hessan fly has appeared in the whea
fields of New Zealand and instructions fo
coping with the invader have been transmit
ted from England by wire.
A sample of rye has recently been exhibited
in Chicago grown in Germany. 1t is clea'
and even, but thin, and weighs about flft-
four pounds TO the measured bushel.
A company has been organized with 800,
0Oc,0O Of capital to carry out the scheme Of
the late Lieut. Maury, U. s N. for openinr
the Amazon to the trade OF the world.
Canal freights in corn from Chicago to Ne,
York, via lake and canal, are quoted at AZ
cents per bushel, or sl.65 per ton OF GOOD
pounds, for transportation ], 800 miles.
Under the laws of Iowa passenger whit
sticks his head out of a car window and has
, It knocked off by a switch bar is guilty OF
misdemeanor, and can be sent to jail 70"
three months.
Look out for the man who Is advertising an
infallible cure for corn, price 81, and money
refunded IL the corn does not disappear. IL
you send him dollar you will receive by re-
turn mail the following recipe: "Cut of
your toe"
Mr.. KEENAN, gives one a good idea Of
the enormous size OF Siberia by stating that
ifs territory would contain the United States,
including Alaska, with all Of the States OF
Europe except Russia, and there would still
be 3JO,0 900 square miles to spare.
Algeria is undergoing great devastation
from a plague of crickets. This visitation
closely resembles the plague of locusts 50
well known in the East to which, indeed,
Algeria is sometimes liable. But In this case
it is neither a locust nor a grasshopper, but
cricket
Some Southern women are distinguishing
themselves as farmers and fruit growers. One
Georgia woman has sold this season 5000
quarts from about one-half an acre Of straw.
berries. She has set out $4,000 additional
| plants, doing all the works with her own
hands.
That beautiful and valuable breed OF fowls,
the Plymouth Rocks, originated about thirty
! years ago in New England. Two different
strains started about the same time, one in
Massachusetts, the other IN Connecticut
/ They were produced by crossing the Ameri-
can Dominique and Black Java
81 honestly think" saws T. D. English,
''that healthy and able-bodied toad, of In
dustrlous habits, will get away with and dl.
gest his own weight Of insects during twenty
| four hours. If you be OF an insecticidal turn
of mind, turn out by daylight, and watch tho
toads getting breakfast 1t is interesting"
The metric system is now the only lega
system OF weights and measures for about
! four hundred and ten millions OF people the
( only prominent exceptions to its general use
being in Russia, the United States aud Great
Britain, in the last two Of which Its use Is
authorized, although not generally adopted.
France is expected to have an average
wheat crop; Russia has good promise of a
good crop, and other Continental countries
prospects are favorable, though about ten
days late. Private dispatches from San
Francisco state that California is expected to
have an output OF wheat crop as large as
that 1887
The largest umbrella in the world has been
/
/ 1t can be opened and shut in the usual way,
and when opened 1t lie twenty-one feet in
diane ter; the staff is also twenty one feet
, long. 1t IL lined with cardinal red and white,
has a lot Of straw tassels, and a border Of
crimson satin. The canopy itself is made of
Italian straw, and the top terminates in q
glided cone.
In the last eight years, the following Aguret
inscate the Increase of population In the
several States mentioned: Louisiana, abouA
% per cent; Florida, about 40 per cent Ar,
kansas, about so per cent; Colorado, ABOUT
6s per cent. Texas, about 10 per cent. Min.
nesota, about so per cent Washington Ter.
rtory, about 90 per cent; Nebraska, about
100 per cent, Idaho, about 200 per cent;
Montana, about 232 per cent, Wyoming,
about 500 per cent, Dakota, about 844 per
cent.
In California some damage has been
done to the hay by rain, but the fruit with
the possible exception Of cherries, is not
hurt. Late-grown wheat is benefited, The
army worm has appeared in certain parts Of
Upper Napa and Sonoma Valleys and caused
severe damage. II not destroyed the worms
will leave nothing Of the vines but the stem