Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-03-14
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.

FRIDAY, Jnere Oelns teachers eAamln-
atom ut Port Huron.
The Physiology class was examined
over the sympathetic system last week.
Martin Menerey is again at school,
after an absence of few days.
The History class was examined over
the administrations last week.
Bertha Beecher, of Mary Browns
room, is absent from school OH account
of sickness.
Twelve pupils OF Mr.. Laws room at
tended the teachers examination at
Port Huron last Friday and Saturday.
The pupils of seventh grade having
passed successful examination in the
elementary grammar will now study
Bodworth's grammar.
y boy of six years, whose sister had
just completed her course in the High
School in Pittsburg, related the fact to
some young friends, informing them
that his sister had "granulated" just
the day before.
The pupils of the sixth grade have
been having a final examination in
History the past week.
Mary Chamberlin is again at school,
after a short absence.
As TO BREATHING.-A boy II years
old, recently imported from Kentucky,
handed the following in as compost
ton on breathing" The instruction
was: Tell all you can about breath
ing" lie said: Breath is made of air.
We breathe with our lungs. our lights,
our liver and kidneys. If it wasn't for
our breath we would die when we
slept. Our breath keeps the life a-going
through the nose when we are asleep.
Boys that stay in room all day should
not breathe. They should wait until
they get out doors. Boys in room
make bad, unwholesome air. They
make carbonicide. Carbonicide is poi
soner than mad dogs. \ heap of sol
diers was in black hole in India, and
a carbonicide got in that there hole. and
killed nearly every one afore morning.
Girls Kill the breath with corosits that
squeeze the diagram. Girls can't holler
or run like boys because their diagram
is squeezed to much. If was a girl
l had ruther be boy, so can run and
have great big diagram.-[Washing-
ton Star.
Queen Victoria is in possession of a
curious needle. 1t was made at the
celebrated needle factory at Redditch,
and represents the columns of Trajan
in miniture. This well-known Roman
column is adorned With numerous
scenes in sculpture, which immortalize
Trajan's heroic action in war. On this
diminutive needle scenes i'm the life of
Queen Victoria are represented in re-
lief, but so firmly cut and small that
it requires magnifying glass to see
them. The Victoria needle can, more
over, be opened; il contains number
of needles of smaller size. which are
equally adorned with scenes IN relief.
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duration of flash of lightning does
not exceed the one-millionth part of
a second.
The noise of a cannon has been heard
a distance of more than $50 miles by
applying the ear to the solid eGrth.
One hundred and ninety-foar cubic
miles of water are daily raised by the
sun from the surface of the seq.
The new Senators sworn IL March
4th, were: Barbour of Virginia, IIig-
gins of Delaware, Mcmillan of Michi-
gan, Marston of New Hampshire and
Wilcott of Colorado.
1t is rumored that n conflict has
taken place in Samoan waters between
an American man-of-war and the Ger
man ship Olga. 1t is alleged that the
American vessel fired the first shot.
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