Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-04-04
RRIEFLETS.

NdlCI-Budfu.
The Paris municipality reserves the right
of revising every five years the maximum
tariff Of the electric lighting companies and
Of lowering the same.
A feature of the late eclipse OF the moon
at Downieville, Cal, was gorgeous rain
bow ring that surrounded the moon. In
closed were seven brilliant stars of tho first
magnitude.
The force OF the geyscrs at the National
Park has been greatly exaggerated, as have
most of the other natural curiosties This
saves the hotels from having to advertise
in the usual way.
An elephant lately died at Bombay in tho
360th year of his age, and naturalists figure
from this that any elephant Of regular hab- =
its will have no trouble in pulling along for
at least go years.
The city corporation Of Long Branch is so
heavily in debt that the rate of taxation for
the next five years must be at least $50 on q
thousand. Sojouners there next summer
must expect TO shell out.
A Pennsylvania sch1ol-boy II years old,
has made an estimate Of the number Of
mice in the world, and the papers reward
him with lots of praise. His estimate comes
pretty near being ''rats."
A Key West fisherman rubs his body
with llerosene-on and swims among the
sharks in safety. They don't want 10 get
any nearer TO him than YOU do 10 man who
has been eating last years onions.
The cost Of the kilograms which pass be-
tween Bennett and the Herald during his
long absences is said to DO $4,000 per year.
If he would stay at home and attend to his
work it wouldn't cost him anything
Two witnesses in a case in Iowa who.
swore that they saw man forty rods off
draw a revolver were proved TO be so near
sighted that they could not tell a revolver
from poodle dog fifteen rods away.
! A Mississlppian boasts OF having had the
ague for twenty straight years with,
only one break of three weeks. He set out.
to beat the shakes at their own game, and
there are 80 pounds left Of him yet
At Springfield, Ohio, a policeman courteai
widow within two blocks of his own home,
and the marriage day was set before she
found out that he had a wife and six chill
dren He was certainly "hy cop"
A New Bedford man had his nose broken.
because he said he had seen whale ninety
feet long The man who broke il for him
] lilu mover even ID ttI 10 sea, bub lie lsiu ulS
idea of how long whale ought 10 be.
New Zealand also imported the English
sparrow, and now the native birds have
| been driven out and reward OF five cents
each is offered for the death of every SPAR
row. lie is a living chirping pestilence.
Living in Japan is very cheap. You can
rent a big house, keep three servants, have
a drive every day, and live on the fat of the
land for s. per week In addition to this all
the natives will take OF their hats TO you.
The peculiar favor Of a Havana cigar was
supposed 10 be influenced by the climate OF
the island, but il has lately been discovered
that il was always impaired by drugs The
real old Connecticut is the thing to tie to.
Over $1,000 monkeys were killed in Brazil
last year and their pelts shipped to London
TO be made into furs. If the fashion contin-
ues the MONKEY race will be thinned out
amazingly in the next two or three years.
At Brussels an elephant attached to a cir
Gus, becoming enraged at an attendant
seized him by the leg and dashed him
against the wall. Death was instantaneous.
The unfortunate man had been teasing the
animal
The court Of California have decided that
Chinaman's cue must not be cut off when
he is sent to prison; but they arc cut of Just
the same. NO Warden will allow that
heather pig-tail is more sacred than Aneri-
can unplaited hair
A burglar entered house in Des Moines
and being thirsty, he drank pint Of the
currant wine prepared last fall by the good
wife. When morning came he was found
lying dead drunk in the hall. He said it
beat any straight whisky in the country.
Frank Thornton, Of Elberton, has in his
possession couple of eggs which are Curl
osites. They have two shells; the yelk. is
Enclosed in the smaller enc and the white
around it IN the larger. Tho eggs ara as
large as goose egg, which they closely re-
semble.
Mrs. Folsom, mother Of Mrs Grover
Cleveland, has grown very tired OF public
life. She was pleased with social affairs in,
Washington at first but as time has gone
by she has become very weary of the duties
imposed upon her at the White House.
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, who has gone 10
an orange plantation in Florida for the Win
ter, was anxious to have Mrs. Folsom ac-
company her, but the latter was obliged to
remain in Washington for the final social
features Of the outgoing administration.
She was very DESTROYS of going with Miss
Cleveland and only the urgent appeals Of
her daughter kept her at the White House.
The recent decision of the United States.
supreme court in the great patent case Of
the Bate Refrigerator Company VS.. Ham
mond & Co has had a startling effect on the
electric lighting business. 1t is said that it
means a gain of many millions of dollars for
the Edison Company, owing TO the fact that
a great number of patents which had been
thought valueess are now found to be worth
large snms. One of these patents was on
the system of electrical distribution by
multiple arcs. 1t is said to cover every in
Candcsccnt electric light plant in the coun-
Ky. The patent was regarded as void, be-
cause of a recent Italian patent Under the
late decision it is good until 1895. Accord
ing to this the Edison Company has mo-
nopoly, and can force from its rivals the
payment of royalties sufficient to send many
to the wall.
It is doubtful If there is buster spot in
| the world of the same size than Manhattan