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

Mayor Weston, now of Grand Rapids,
before lie became wealthy, was a news
paper man in Denver, and used TO stop
at the old Planters Hotel. He had a
mining deal to write up for the paper,
and connected with the deal was a
Georgetown superintendent whom we
will address as Julius Ii. Cavvyo. Mr..
Cavvyo was to furnish the particulars
TO Mr.. Weston, but early in the day he
began to meet old acquaintances and
to cement their friendship by means Of
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-04-04

The vote in the Massachusetts house
on municipal female suffrage was, in
Guiding pairs, 139 against it and 90 for
it. This is much greater proportion
favorable to the bill than was shown
in the vote last year, which was Gin
GLIDING pairs) 80 yeas to 12l nays. In
1887, the vote, still including pairs,
was So to 122-a larger proportion
than this year; but the aggregate OF
the vote this year is at least an en-
enlargement to the advocates of the
bill.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-04-04

When the United States bought
Alaska, and paid $7,2OO,OO0 for it,
many said, lit was an enormous
price" Governor Swineford reports,
however, that "the annual revenues
from the territory now aggregate 3d.
O00,000." 1t was not such bad bar
gain after oil.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-04-04

The pictures of the Russian artist, Verest-
chagin, are on exhibition Ia Chicago.
Eiss s...ary Davis, a telegraph operator at
Jacksonville, Fla, stayed u her post all
through the yellow fevT endemic.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-04-04
RYE Relates A FEW INCIDENTS.
Brief Description of a Salvation Army
Thrilling Experience.

S l pen these
lines the plaintiff
wall of a brass
band comes steal
ing through my
easement. l trust
that the intelli-
gent compositor
will not strive to
set me right on
that word. / re-
fer to the wall of
n plaintiff when
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-04-04

Recent statistics show, says the Lon
don Times, that while crime is salts
factorily diminishing in England, it is
rapidly increasing in the United States.
During the past few years American
crime has increased not less than one
third, and the growth of the prison
population has, unfortunately, been
steadily progressive since the year
1880. At the close of the first half of
this century the proportion of prison
ers to the million in the United States
was 29O, being one to every 2,44S per-
sons; but by 1880 the proportion had
risen to l, 100 to the million, or to
S55 of the population. This did not
include Juvenile delinquents, who
would have raised the proportion to
! in 7l5. In 1858, when the popua-
lation OF England and Wales was
19,250,000, the average number OF
penal-servitude sentences in this coun-
try was 1859; but by the end OF 1887,
when the population had risen to over
27,750,000, the average number Of
such sentences had fallen to 962. On
the last day of 1869 there were II, 500
persons undergoing sentences of penal
servitude in England and Wales, the
population then being p, 6S1 900. But
in July, 1888, when the population had
advanced to nearly 2S,000,000, the
penal-servitude subjects had fallen to
6,921. The conviction Of soldiers and
sailors has gone down greatly; while
with regard to women, although 1856
were sentenced to terms of penal SER
vitude in 1888, in 1887 only 50 were
thus convicted.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-04-04

A problem, the solution of which
interests the whole country, confronts
the people of New York state. Since
the abolition OF the contract labor sys-
tenn in that state, the convicts in the
prisons have been entirely idle, and
the warden of Sing Sing reports sever
al cases of insanity in that institution,
directly traceable to lack of occupa-
ton. The warden further states that
unless some employment is provided
for the convicts lac will be kept busy
sending men to the asylum for the
criminal insane. Insanity is increas-
ing fast enough without making the
prisons of the country breeding places
OF mental disorders. While the com
petition OF convicts with free labor is
undoubtedly detrimental to many
trades, the wiping out of existing sys-
TENS without supplying a substitute
is to be condemned. Honest laborers
should be protected from suffering
from the crimes of others, but occupa-
ton of some kind must be furnished
prisoners, for the sake of the communi-
ty, as wellas for their own. a few years.
confinement in idleness will certainly
send men out into the world worse
than when they entered upon their
49,, Il l,1
number become insane as Il result of
idleness the evil is much worse, as the
faint of insanity will pass into the
blood of other generations and crime,
which always breeds crime, will breed
lunacy as we'll Other states than
New York are interested in this ques-
tion, and are watching with great in
terest, the outcome.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-04-04

When the legislatures Of the two Dal,o-
tas get TO cnacting laws for those states
they are likely 10 make IL penal offense
for any person to own thermometer.
The American base ball experts wero
much impressed by the Roman Coliseum.
They will find the polo grounds in New
York city quite an interesting ruin upon
their return.
The ballet girls Of New York are going
10 form protective association. What this
Is. we do not exactly know. but imagine il
is 10 protect themselves against the cold
blasts of winter.
To avoid trouble i'm money matters a hus
band should always make his wife an al
lowance. Probably she will have TO keep
making allowances for him, aud that win
sort Of even matters up.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-02-20
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES.
How Father Taylor and Henry Ward
Beecher Made Use of Them.

How Father Taylor and Henry Ward
Beecher Made Use of Them.
The true preacher, the lone who loves his
fellow men, never fails to seize an oppor-
tunity of ministering to their needs. Any
occurrence of the present moment furnishes
text. Hugh McCulloch says IN "Men and
Measures of Half Century that one day,
as Father Taylor entered his chapel, a note
was handed him, containing a text from
which he was desired to preach.
1t was signed "An Aged Seaman and
instead of preaching from the verse, Fa-
ther Taylor made this signature his text.
'An aged seamanp' he repeated, sadly
ian aged seaman! and why are there so
few aged seamenl Why is it, that among
the hundreds before me there is not a
single old man, scarcely one who is past
middle age!"
Then, in trumpet tones, he went on to
enumerate the vices which cut men off in
their prime, and spoke of each mans &C
countabllity for putting to noble uses the
talents he had received: Finally, he dwelt
upon the dangers to which all mariners are
exposed, and concluded in tones which
brought tears to every eye: s'God save the
mariners when no human hand can save, in
the raging of the great deepi God be mer.
ciful to those who are sunk in vices deeper
and more dreadful than the sear'
As he knelt to pray his hearers knelt al
so, tears streaming down their cheeks.
Henry Ward Beecher was once called
upon unexpectedly to attend, at the
wretched place where he died, the funeral
of a man who had long been drunkard.
The man had no family, but large number
of his associates, blear-eyed and hard-faced
men, had assembled to show their regard
for him. The preacher did not shrink from
the cross of addressing them personally,
and, with the terrible example of the dead
man before their eyes, warning them that
their own future might be as grievous as
his. The men wept like children, and two
of them were afterwards absolutely tenn
perate.
81 never felt,'' said Mr.. Beecher, after
ward, Il never felt Gods helping hand as ]
did when addressed score of drunkards
at drunkard's funeral
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-02-20
SCRAPS OF SCIENCE.

PROP. JULIUS PoHLMAN, Of Buffalo, has
just finished his calculations on Niagara. and
ne says the brink of the falls has moved
back one mile IN 1900 years.
CARBON was shown to be a distinct Gle
ment by Layoisier in 17SS, who proved the
diamond to be its purest form. and con-
verted 1T into carbonic acid gas by combus-
tion.
EXPERIMENTS made for the French Minis
ter OF Agriculture indicate that sugar il a
DETER preservatiye of meat than salt II is
more expensive, but the powdered sugar
forms coating retaining the juices of the
meat without loss, while the nutritive ouali-
ties OF the meat are considerably lessenel
by the salt.
EDISON promises to put his latest inveu-
uon, the monograph, TO a curious and prac-
ucai use 1t is his intention to furnish to
subscribers talking daily newspaper. The
little instrument viii be charged with a con-
densatlon OF tie news Of the day, and each
suDAcrloer can listen TO 1t while at break
fast
IT is said that very few persons are able to
ldentlfy their own voices when repeated by
the phonograph, although generally recog-
nizing the voices OF friends. Many young
speakers, when trying to give utterance to
their thoughts for the first time in public,
are aware Of the same difficulty in Identify
ing their own voices.
LEAD IN the form Of filings, under press
ure of 10000 atmospheres or 13 tons to the
square inch. becomes compressed into q
solid block, in which it is impossible 10 de-
tect the slightest vestige Of the original
gratna Under a pressure Of 5000 atmos-
Dhercs it Iiquifies. Tin, when compressed
in powder, becomes solid under pressure
Of 10 tons on the square inch; zinc at 33
tons, antimony at IS tons, aluminium at 38
tops, bismuth at 3S tons and copper at q.
tons
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-02-20
ODD ORGANIZATIONS.

AT Roseburg. Ore, is Ladies' Ham,
mer Brigade" which makes a point of
keeping down the nails in the wooden side
walks.
THERE are twenty-eight hundred men,
bers OF the Michigan Anti-Horse-T Thief So
clety, and during the past year they have
not had cents worth of property stolen.
FIFTY-FIvE ladies of Utica have signed an
agreement not to let man crowd past
them when in the theater unless he is going
out on some other business than to guzzle
lager.
SOME Wilkesbarre Pa) young men who
have been dubbed the "Pious Ten have
organized an anti-profanity club AssI.5O
in fines were collected within ten minutes
after the adoption of the bylaws it is ex-
pected that the club will live high, for a
time at least.
THE "Lady Guide Association is a new
enterprise which proposes to organize a
staff of qualified lady guides to conduct
parties of visitors to London, thereby OPEN
ing new employment for intelligent
women and rendering substantial and
needed form of public service.
An anti-feeing society has been founded
In Chemnitz, Saxony. There are no men,
bership dues, all that is required of men,
bers being written declaration that they
will abstain from feeling. Each member IS
to be provided with metal ticket, which ha
can display to the expectant waiter as a
sign that there is TO be no fee.
A VERY odd dining organization in Phila-
delphia Is known as the Ishmaelites Tho
apartment in which the feast is held is al
ways decorated In the Oriental fashion,
some OF the features introduced being very
luxurious and striking. During each season
there is Muezzin who presides and rules
the feast and who also delivers a mock
prayer and has peculiar song. All wear
turbans or fez caps with long robes and or
naments around their necks.
MASSACHUSETTS has O characteristic So
ciety, whose headquarters are, of course,
in Boston, and its name is aThe Massachu
sets Society for Promoting Good Citizen
ship" II proposes course of lectures this
winter. Edward Everett Hale, the presf-
dent of the society, will begin with an ad-
dress on Possible Boston, Other emf
nent men will talk about "The Rise of
American Cities,'' "Boston Under the
Town Meetings." "The Duties of the Mod
ern Mayor" "City Government in En-
gland, "City Government in GERMANY
Josiah Quincy, the Great Mayor,n and
" The True School Board'
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-02-20
HIS DAUGHTER.

Ny daughter paint? Well. should smilei
She's at it mostly all the while.
You'd ought TO see her plaques and jars.
With roses, dragons, nymphs and stars
An hoatin efcu1d, 1d,-Dromiscuous like,
AS if they's "Unions'' on a strike.
They say she'sgot the ''artist touch;'
what she can't paint up isn't much.
"PIay," did you say? Well, now, see here:
1 spend cool hundreds every year
For lessons on the violin
OF course you know that thGt's come in
And that piano playin's outl
My daughters arm is middIin' stout,
With taper wrist, and that, you know,
Looks mighty pretty at the bow.
Driver believe you. At the beach
Not one her style can ever reach.
The way she gathers up line
Above her tandem team is fine.
Dancer You just watch a german through
There's never any "favors" new
That she doesn't get; she dances prime,
And gets took out, sir, every time
Cook" do you says Why, bless you, man,
Tho dainty hand that waves that fan
Amt never held rollin' pin.
don't want my child to begin
Where me and ma did years ago
Twas way down, pretty middlin' low.
Why, what's my money good for, sir,
II not to spread around for herr
You thought you'd like a wife that knew
Bookkeeping house thing or twof
Well. Msudie'd like the house first rate,
And had kind o. hoped you'd mate;
For have always liked your style,
Though KNOWN you longish while.
But I'm afraid 'twont be a "go"-
Why, man, you're fifty years too slow.
-Aristine Anderson, in Detroit Free Press.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-02-20
FROM DISTANT DOMAINS.

SYDNEY, Australia, will soon have the
largest organ in the world. 1t win cost
$4,000
WIEN the last Indian census was taken
there were 13l, 900 lepers in British India,
100000 of them being males.
THE Empress Frederick has given to
Queen Victoria the small writing-desk
used by her husband IN the last days of his
life.
A LONDON paper says there are still
twenty-three islands in the Pacific Ocean
which no nation has set up claim to, and
1t advises John Bull to lose no time in TAX
ing them and filing his claim.
Miss DAVENPORT, the Irish lady who has
been appointed governess to the infant
King of Spain, will be entitled to the whole
OF her salary of e500 year as a perpetual
pension at the end of five years.
THERE is no theatrical bill posting in
Mexico, and the newspapers print theatrical
advertisements free. The newspapers do
not, as a rule, accept tickets, but subscribe
for the number desired for the staff
1T is stated that the Emperor William is
writing narrative of the events of his re-
cent visit to the northern capitals, which
will be published together with the wood
cuts OF sketches made by himself and the
artist Salzmann.
BOTANICAL exploring party from Ger
many recently discovered in one of the
Philippine islands q number of plants whose
flowers were almost yard in diameter,
the petals, five in number, being oval and
Of creamy white shade.
IN Nagaski, China, lives q fireworks
maker who manufactures pyrotechnic birds
OF great size that, when exploded sail life
like through the air and perform many
movements exactly like living birds The
secret OF making these wonderful things
has been IN the possession of the Oldest
male child of the family of each generation
for over 400 years.
A RETURNED missionary from India saws
that stranger approaching one of the mis-
sion schools would imagine from the racket
that the pupils were very disorderly. But
this is not the case. 1t is due to the fact
that girl in India when studying screams
at the top Of her voice and rocks back and
forth; and the more interested she be-
comes in her lesson the louder she screams
and the harder she rocks
THERE is human hair market at Morains,
In the Lower Pyrenees. 1t is held every
other Friday. Hundreds of hair -dressers
resort to the place to buy up the tresses Of
the young peasant girls. The dealers
wander up and down the long, narrow
street of the town, each with a huge pair
of bright shears hanging from strap
around his waist, while the young girls who
wish to part with their hair stand about in
the doOrwayS, usually in couples
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-02-20
ABOUT HOTEL "CHIPS."
That Is the Name Given to Food That Ia
Left Over.

That Is the Name Given to Food That Is
Left Over.
The steward of a big uptown hotel was
chatting with reporter a few days ago.
says the New York Times, when the latter
innocently inquired: ''What do you do with
the stuff you do not eat?"
That" was the reply, SIS something of a
professional secret, but know of no reason
why it should remain So The truth is. the
CHIPS as we term them, constitute a very
considerable part of the hotels income.
There Is not one of these big places in town
where the proprietors manage to figure so
closely that there are not several hundreds
OF pounds OF perfectly good food left over.
inc result Is that every hotel has crowd
OF persons who may be called camp-foIloy-
ers, for they answer quite the same descrin-
ton as the great originals Three times a
week they come to meas a rule on Tues.
days, Thursdays and Saturdays-ana buv
up the cooked meats that we have left over
and which wall not answer for pastrr.
stews, hashes, soups and the like. These
tney purchase for a quarter of the original
price.
Inen, some Of the second-rate restaur-
ants and some of the various eatinp-ulaees
along the Bowery stock-up and sell the food
purchased In this way, and which is, by the
way, perfectly wholesome, for prices within
the reach OF almost every one. Then. the
walters are allowed to carry home their
shppers,s which, by the way, often serve
them for breakfast as well. The result Of
thus trade In the chips is that the hotel
rarely throws any thing away save when it
Is absolutely worthless, and the saving in
expense IS greatn
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-02-20
A TAPE-WORM TRAP.
The Peculiar Instrument Invented by an
Ingenious Kentucky Doctor.

The Peculiar Instrument Invented by an
Ingenious Kentucky Doctor.
A prominent physician was conversng
with New York Times reporter few
nights ago concerning the curious instru-
ments invented to aid surgical and medical
science Scores were considered as re-
markable and the list was pretty nearly
exhausted when the physician remarked
"In tell you of one now that I'll wager
you never heard of. 1t was invented by a
Kentucky physician, was patented, and the
model is now in the Patent Office at Wash
ington. 1t was invented as a means for re-
moving tape-worms. It's description is as
follows The affair is made OF platinum,
and is about the size of small hazel-nut
1t is spherical and hollow. In one side of it
is cut an opening about the diameter of an
ordinary lead-pencil, and within this is a
set OF springs somewhat after the fashion
of a mouse-trap. Behind the loop which
springs up to catch the prospective victim
is a tiny hook.
" The patient is supposed to fast for two
days. This accomplished, the tape-worm
becomes thin and wants some thing to eat
Then is the time for the operation. A little
piece OF cheese is hung upon the hook with
in the trap, the springs are set, and after a
silk thread has been tied TO a little hole in
the end of the trap, the latter is swallowed
The worm is supposed to be ready to take
almost any thing. He encounters the tran
and the cheese becomes rare opportunity
to him. He sticks his head in through the
little hole and fuses with the cheese.
when snap goes the trap, and master worm
is caught about the head.
when two hours have elapsed the trap
and its victim are slowly pulled up by
means of the silk cord, and the monster of
the abdominal cavity is removed. l am
not aware that many OF these traps have
been used, inasmuch as the tape-worm
lives not on solids, but simply upon ab-
sorption. But the affair was novel one for
physician to invent, and actually to get a
Datent unOn
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-02-20
A Princess, Menagerie.

Princess Maria Theresa, of Bavaria, COM
bines an uncommon taste for travelling with
a passion for domestic pets, and as she in
sists on taking quite menagerie of them
about with her, the two things do not
go very well together. She is unmarried
and is attended in all her wanderings by
a maid of honor and a chamberlain. The
care of the Princess cherished animals de-
wolves on the latter functionary, whose po-
sition is no sinecure, as he has no fewer
than fourteen of them to look after, includ-
ing several dogs. two magpies, an enormous
rat and diminutive bear
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-02-20

SOME remarkably fast time was reeenry
made ON the Illinois lines of the Wabash
railway. several times attaining a speed OF
seventy-fve and even eighty miles an hour
Tor short runs of from ten to twelve miles.
The greatest steamboat disaster ever
known in this country was the loss OF the
Central America, sailing from Aspinwan
TO New York. on September S, 1851, with
49i passengers and loi members of the crew.
There were so lives los.
LIE Island oI fcuia unt. tao aSlsDs4s.a...s,
Is for sale. 1t is three miles long by two
broad. and it is fuued for its rocky coasts
and abundant Wild fowl and one Of the few
spots IN Great Britain ia which the great
skua, very rare bird. still lives.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-02-20
Danger in Toilet Spans.

Every body does not know, says health
journal, that soaps, especially IN hotels, be.
come, not infrequently, a source of disease.
About every man in fifty has some sort of
contagious skin disease. Soaps and towels
IN hotels and public institutions are often a
means OF communicating maladies not by
any means easy TO eradicate. Better 90
with dirty hands and face than to run tbe
risk of contracting distressing or offen-
siye malady.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-02-20

THE latest fad of the writing desk Is
square, satin-hnished note paper, family
tinted and striped down with the finest of
faint lines, across which, at intervals, come
others more distinct, producing blurred
rather than barred effect. The envelope
that goes with it is lcng and narrow, and
the sheet is folded once lengthwise and
thrust within.
THE odors and bouquets made at present
to be the proper thing must be so light and
delicate as to just suggest the presence of a
perfume Musk and patchouly are no
longer appreciated They have had their
day, but it is past Manufacturers of per-
fumes say that ladies will not use the
sharper perfumes, and that they are only
made to fill orders coming from distant
parts OF the country.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-02-20

Ak unpolishable diamond Is owned by
Tiffany & Co., of New York This diamond
was kept for one hundred days On q polish-
ing wheel running at $50 revolutions per
minute Ii Is estimated that the distance
rubbed over by the diamond was about I5s-
900 miles, or more than three times around
the world. The wheel was destroyed. but
without giving commercial polish to the
diamond
1HR greatest national ccbt among the ma
tons % the gIobo IS borne by France. 1t is
about .G.253.oe 051 Russia comes next,
with s3600.c00,000; then England, with
$500, ,0O00o0; Austro-H Hungary, with 2.4S5,-
100000; Italy. with s. ,225 G09, coo: SpaIn,
with Sl,207. 100000; Prussia, with q, Co.,
ffnn0
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-02-20

In some parts of Africa mans weaItl,
is judged by the number OF his wives. a
man with sixty wives is looked upon as q
sort of bonanza king. His wives probably
go out washiiH st fifty cents day, or make
shirts at forty cents dozen. In this conn
try . mans wealth is judged by the number
Of dogs he owns. The possessor of eight
dogs is generally too poor TO pay school tax.
and his wife takes in washing.