Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-01-17
WINGED MISSILES.

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Jacksonville cigarmalsers make $lS to Si5
a week each
Cornell has liza students, l3a of whom are
young women.
Field hands in Mississippi receive $40 per
month and board.
The flower trade Of London is estimated
| to amount TO $4,000 a day.
Cedar loggers on the Florida gulf coast
usually command 81 day.
! The secret orders throughout the United
States are said TO number over 200
Mica miners and "trimmers" in North
Carolina average less than 81 day
Girls employed to strip tobacco in Key
West factories earn s. to 80 per week.
The Victory, Nelson's flagship at Trafal-
gar, has been renovated at cost of $4,000
Some girls employed in the cotton factor
les of Macon, Ca, earn as high as 50 per
week stt
The Federal census OF 1850 is Just finished,
at a cost Of nearly S6,0000oO. Much Of it is
useless.
seal was shot in Vancouver harbor
lately that weighed 1870 pounds. What
! sacque its coat would make!
Gov Swineford, of Alaska, thinks that
the territory is destined 10 become one OF
the great cattle raising regions of the world.
A diamond trust is the next and most
magnigcent combination to be formed by a
consolidation of the four great South Afri-
can diamond fields.
More than sixty per cent Of adult English
women, married and unmarried, are work.
ing for daily subsistence, and the number
muftiplies every year.
Every mansion in which "A family of girls
is growing up should have a courtyard
Young couples would spoon less on front
steps and in beau windows
a physician at the annual meeting Of the
American academy of medicine made tho
statement that the injection of morphine
in France to-day is, almost a matter Of
fashion.
The number of marriages 10 in the pro-
portion of seventy-two to every one thou
sand individuals. Marriages are more fire.
quent after equinoxes--that is, during the
months Of June and December.
The character of the annual awards OF
literary prizes by the French academy may
be inferred from the fact that the gold
mede' YVES given this year to Carmen
Out in Montana the 'sports," and minions
Of the moon generally, are excite Il over the
arrival in Butte of a man who has invented
a system to beat faro He has won $1,000
in Spokane Falls and 5000 in Missoula.
Bret Harte, the author, is in his flftieth
year He has been writing since early in
the sixties, when he printed a number CT
poems and war lyrics in the San Francisco
papers. Previous to this time he had been
a compositor.
Near LAGRANGE, Ga, the other day cotton
piclSers came near breaking the record. One
Ian picked 55S pounds, another 557, another
SAG, and an old negro woman picked 312
pounds, besides milking tre cows in the
morning and at night
Sir Richard Webster, the English attorl
ney general and leading counsel for the Lon
don Times in its fight with Mr.. Parnell,
was noted athlete ut Cambridge, and he
beat the Oxford men in one and two mile
races. He always knows his case.
General Harrison and his wife have writ
ter sorty-four letters to fond parents who
have named new born babies and prospective
voters Ben Harrison This or Benjamin That
and three TO mothers of little girl infants
who are named after the next lady Of the
White house.
Berlin and Paris papers simultaneously
announce that Victoria Claim Woodruff is
going to make her permanent home in those
cities and build up school for The educution
Of young girls. She gave the information
herself in a small German paper published
in London, aud sent copies to the editors of
Berlin and Paris.
The trees planted by Alexander Hamilton
in 1903 in remembrance of the original thir-
teen states of the union on Washington
heights, New York, are tobe destroyed by
contractors who are opening new streets. in
that section of the city There win be an
effort made to save the trees on account of
their historical interest.
School Commissioner William Wood has
resigned his position as member of the New
York board of education with which he has
been connected for twenty years. Mr..
Wood was born in Scotland and is 80 years
of age, and although he has lived in this
country the greater part Of his life. he still
speaks with strong Scotch "burr:'
Fred Mather, tho well known fish culturist,
has been making some very interesting ex-
periments with the microscope, which prove
that there are 100000 eggs in an eel How
anu WHICH JleSe egg are HatCueu has alWdyS
been, an still is, mystery. All that is
known definitely is that the old cells run
down to-salt water in October, and that in
the spring swarms OF young ones the size Of
darning needle and about two inches long,
ascend the rivers.
A young man in Waltham, Me-, broke his
right shoulder five weeks ago and has not
yet recovered the use of his right hand
He became tired the other day from stay.
ing so closely in the house and So with his
rife under his left arm, he started out into
the woods, not thinking of course that he
was in any way to distinguish himself But
he came across splendid deer, and by ~
ing down and resting his gun between his
knees he fred and brought down his game.
DR.. Variot of Paris is reported to have
discovered method by which to remove
tattoo marks from the human skin 1t has
been extensively tested, and with most en-
couraging results His modus operand is
to prick the marks or spots with needles
until the blood flows and then TO inject
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