Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-11-28
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rolled with her dress maker
Chicago has newspaper called the Liar.
IL has large constituency ut home.
Crackers and sweet goods made outside
OF Syracuse are boycotted by the Syracuse
bakers.
A western newspaper says that "the
Car was not accompanied 10 Berlin by tho
Czardine"
A report from New York fashionable cir
Giles says hats will be large and bonnets
very small
The Bennington (vt) battle monument
is now a tribe higher than Bunker Hill
monument
Some Pittsburg engineers strucl. 10 have
n man prepare the engine ready Tor use
each morning.
Mrs. Curtis, nee Louisa NJ. Knapp, Is
said to receive $4,000 year for editiHg the
Ladies' Home Journal
There is undes gncd humor in the romark
Of Berlin correspondent that "the Car OF
| REssia is rather bumbastc"
"a vocal singing club" has too much
noise in it and is companion 20 the expires.
sions, orally by the word Of mouth"
A Providence, r. l., concern will soon be-
able to turn oct machinery for steam
purposes representing $50 h N per day.
The antiquity OF the watermelon is thor
oughly established. Seeds found Ia Egypt
ian tombs were estimated TO. be 1000 years
old.
Some one who processes to- have taken
the population of the diamond field says
there are 3 U, 900 ball players in this coun
try.
Shoes among the Jews were. made OF
leather. linen, rush, or wood; soldiers
s;soes were sometimes made of brass or
iron.
Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain says that she
wants to visit this country before she dies.
The American tiger is quite an animal,
Bella.
The empress OF Japan has just taken pos.
session of her palace which has cost $780,
OO0 She proposes 10 visit America next
spring
The Shah found his harem in a state of
disorder on his return to Persia. lie now
wishes he had remained in Europe perma--
nently.
"EIow do you fellows dissolve barbed
wire" asked Texas delegate of g Topeka
druggist, after taking drink OF Kansas
whisky.
An enormous eagle recently alighted on'a
house in \ onongalia county, W. Va, but
flew away before the owner could hunt up
his shotgun.
Buffalo Bill has been invited 10 Russia
and accepted. Dynamite has no terrors for
a man who was brought up on the frontier
with buffalocs.
! Speaking of the "Great City Snobs,"
Thackeray says: Intimacy is impossible,
in most cases, with these grave, pompous
ana awful beings"
! Mime. Patti Nicolini sails for New York,
Nov %. Meantime she is To sing in eight
concerts in England, for which she will re-
teiye nearly $4,000
Mr.. Tyron of Ballston, Ore, celebrated
recently his one hundredth birthday He
settled in Oregon in 1852 and has seventy,
eight direct descendants.
Jules Verne is going to write n drama.
His imagination will have TO be tied down
10 the requirements of the stage If he sue
ceeds. But Jules is versatile.
In Paris the dramshops have increased
! from q, 900 in 1850 to 29,Jj) at the present
time. The consumption of alcohol has
trebled in the last thirty years.
The Prince of Wales will make tour of
Egypt Perhaps he will be engaged to
write Bible story for the syndicate
founded on the Songs OF Solomon"
The largest steam hammer in the United
StaSes is now in operation at the Latrobe
Steel works II weighs twenty tons, and
is arranged to strike a blow with the force
OF eighty IONS.
In the reign OF William Rufus OF England
in the eleventh century, a great beau,
Robert, the Horned" used shoes with
sharp points stuffed with tow, and twisted
like rams horns.
lingo Zieman the disgruntled chef OF the
White House. has long list of grievances,
but the most important of them lies in the
fact that President Harrison insists upon.
eating pie at every meal.
Near Silverton, Ore, is quarry OF what
is called Are place stone," it is soft when
mined, and can be sawed or chopped in any
desired shape, and when subjected to intense
heat does not seem to be affected.
At Blountsville, Ala, George Smith, aged
seventy-two was tried before jury OF
| twelve in the circuit court, and found guilty
OF an assault and fined $50 for kissing, his,
eighteen-year old niece, Annie Slaughter.
Henry Apple owns q small mining claim
in Sierra county, New Mexico, that has
paid him SIS, coo in five months. He employs
one man, and the ore is crushed in a hand
mortar Apple is pleased with the fruit Of
his labor.
Even an unprogressive Journal in China
leads checkercd career. The, Pekin
Gazette asserts that 800 its editars hare
been beheaded. The journal in question
claims to have boon in existence, for a
! thousand years.
! Senator Sherman is a cautious MAN even
| in his literary habits. He has adopted EN-
erson's rule and will not read book until
it is year old. This system strictly ad-
hered to would save much uselass ''wear
and tear" OF the ayes.
Birmingham, Eng, employs 1000 UNI
brella makers. One OF them claims TO have
invented transparent umbrella that will
allow the bearer 10 see what ~ or she is
about TO run into, as well as what is about
to run into him or her.
Meissionier recently said to lady, who
remarked upon visiting his new house that