Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-05-30
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p. T. Barnum has given Jumbo's skeleton
to the New York Museum of Natural His
tory
1t is stated that canning factory, 10 en-
ploy 800 hands, is To be started at Haw-
thorne, Fla.
A Mississippi company has received an
order for 100000 wooden butter dishes
from ST. Louis house.
Keely Of motor notoriety, thinks he has
discovered the missing link to make his
mysterious machine operative.
A papal rescript will be issued giving tho
new Catholic university at Washington IL
monopoly Of the superior education OF the
clergy in America.
The collectors of customs in Nova Scotia
have received orders 10 isste licenses to
American fishermen under the moduS vi0esdi
up TO the en- / of this year.
A shortage of $4,000 has been found in the
accounts OF Martin r. Goldswortny, manag-
er OF the Standard Oil company for the Lake
! Superior region. He is now at Toronto,
Ont
The New York Knights OF Labor nave
asked Secretary Window TO prevent the
landing of silk weavers alleged to be on
their way, under contract, from Switzer-
land.
! The Kentucky court of appeals has just
decided that the property which woman
has bought and paid for with money earned
by herself is liable for the debts Of her
husband.
The American Sugar Refinery Of San
Francisco has raised the prices of all grades
of their sugars one-quarter of cent per
pound, and the California refinery made O
raise of one-eighths cent per pound.
Residents of Hyde Park, a part Of Scran-
ton, Pa, are greatly alarmed; the mine un-'
derneath the town having sulk for the
second time. The cave-in is ov5r the CEN
trail and business portion of the town.
The acquittal of engineer Major Of
Wlkesbarre, Pa, ends the Mud Run disas-
ter trials, the three persons accused having
all boon acquitted, and the record standing
that nobody was to blame for the loss Of
siXty-one lives.
The tall female hat now so az tates
the minds of the male frequenters OF the
London pits that it is proposed that the pit
should be divided like a Quaker meeting
house, the men sitting on one side and the
women on the other.
masculine beauty show is being arranR-
cd at Vienna Of which women will be the
judges, and prizes will be awarded to the
handsomest man. the man with the finest
mustache, the maa with the biggest nose,
and the man with the largest bald head.
The employees in the machine shops of
the Pennsylvania railroad company at Al
toopa Pa, have been notified that nine
hours would be considered q days work
hereafter, with a half holiday on Satur-
days. This will affect about four thousand
men.
II is reported that a sensation has been
caused at Ottawa, Ont, by the issue Of
President Harrison's proclamation declaring
Behring's Sea a closed sea. The action of
the United States government proved
complete surprise to the members Of the
Dominion government.
Two Scotch tramps, man and wife, make
a good living Off of the baby. 1--WE just
gets i'm christened," explains the man, Gin
all the towns we passes, and then, you see,
parson makes us all comfortable wi sum-
mat to eat and money for beds. On days
orful bad we has TO do IN twice.
The bagging trust or pool, which caused
q good deal Of excitement and excited much
opposition on the part of cotton planters,
and others last year, and which expired by
limitation last December, it is announced
has practically been organized, and will be
run or managed by the same parties as be-
fore. 1t is not believed that prices will be
pushed up so high as before.
-Four years ago boy and girl of York,
Pa, each 6 years old, asked gentleman to
marry them. To humor them he read
something out of an almanac aud told them
they were united. The boys family moved
to Baltimore but he still writes TO his 'dear
wife, In his last letter he says II don't
know whether you would know me now or
not, because l am wearing long pants"
Postmaster General Wanamaker has is
sued an order directing all clerks in the Of
fee of the first assistant postmaster gener-
al and such as may be required in the other
bureaus Of the department, until otherwise
directed, to begin work at 80 a. m, instead
of a. m, as heretofore, and remain at
their desks until p. M, instead of four
o'clock. The clerks in the dead letter Of
fee are also required TO work now in
arrears if that division is brought up.
Since the 4th of March the pre- ,ident's
mail has been very heavy, aggregating from
six to seven hundred letters daily and on
SOUlS udyS running HlSh 40 tAOOoeHNs
President Clevelands letters rarely exceed
ed threa hundred day. Many of the COM
munications sent to President Harrison
are intended for other persons, several OF
whom are utterly unknown to him, the
! correspondents probably thinking that
letters addressed to the care of the presi-
dent will undoubtedly reach their destina-
ton.
The secretary of war has prescribed
regulations governing the issue OF arms
for military instruction at colleges, under
which each college or university where an
army officer is stationed, will be allowed
two 3inch r1ed guns Of wrought iron,
valued at $3.50 each, two cartridges and
limbers and appurtenances, $50 Springfield
cadet rides and corresponding number Of
bayonet scabbards and arpendages. The
colleges are required to give bonds equal
to double the value Of the arms furnished.
Ammunition will be supplied as follows:
One hundred blank cartridges and 800
nrinnars for 3-inch gun. and ffty rlfe.ball