Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-06-20
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Chicken thieves of Cora, Roclkdale
county, Georgia, stole 500 chickens in ono
night.
Vermont has had run of sleighing last
ing l2T days, and she asks some other state
to match it.
English army authorities are considering
project for enlisting young boys and let
ting them grow up into soldiers.
The present system of fiat buildings,
which has become so popular of late, was
known in ancient Tyre many centuries be-
fore our present era
Charles Sampsers pet bear at Williams
port swallowed a SILVER box full of iinecut
the other day, and has been splitting tobacco
Juice, with a saddened visage, ever since.
Oklahoma may now be new Jerusa-
lem. So was Dakota The people who now
want balloons to get into the reservation
may want wings to fly out with before they
are three years older
Mysterious footballs and door. slams at
night have driven a freshly welded pair
from house at Cedar Hill, Berks county,
Pennsylvania, and even the dogs quit tho
premises at shutdown.
The British divorce returns for thirty
years. ended in 1884, show that there were
1851 petitions for divorce or dissolution Of
marriage, of which 1921 were successful.
The increase since 1881 is gradual.
William II. Harrison, Haddonheld, N.
j., grocer, dreamed a night or two ago that
money was concealed in an ancient house
near his store. He investigated and found
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mantelpiece.
Superintendent Ireland says that while
some of the vicious dogs in the Philadel-
phia Kennel Club shows were ugly when
men attempted to pat them, the touch of a
woman's hand was welcomed by the most
savage brute.
Such a thing IA bringing a libel suit
against newspaper has not been known in
Italy for fifty years. The belief is that
newspaper seeks TO tell the truth. If it is
mistaken frank statement 70 that effect
satisfies the Italian.
In the town OF Bessbrook, Irelond, where
John G. Richardson employs 5000 people in
the manufacture Of Irish linen, no liquor
has been sold for forty years, and as a re-
suit there is neither policeman, prison,
a fifteen-inch trout took two falls out OF
DR.. f. X. Baker, a Williamsport angler,
who was standing on messy and rather
slippery stone. The first fall snapped his
suspenders and the second laid him fiat
upon his back. But he got the trout.
Some $50 residents OF the town OF Somer-
vile, Mass, are petitioning the railroad
commiss oners to have the blowing of loco
motive whistles at various crossings stop.
ped. The railroad is willing, but under tho
law has no authority to take the initiative,
In late election at Albany tho police
commissioners favored one candidate, the
superintendent another, and the patrolmen
turned out and electionecred and knocked
down and got as drunk as anybody. 1t
worked the complete Generalization Of tho
force.
The old Ambigu Theatre in Paris, an his
torical home of the melodrama, is about to
be pulled down. II was first a sort of vari-
ETY. theatre in 1863, and was afterward Civ
en- up TO the performance of children. It
has been devoted TO tho meodrama for o
century.
What is called 'the very giddiest lamp"
is reported to have been observed in the
boudoir Of a young woman of unquestion-
able station. The supports are the ''grotes-
quely elongated logs Of pinS-stockinged
ballet girl" the outspreading skirts form
ing the shade.
The ups and downs of mining life are
well illustrated by the career of Jean Du-
vol, a well known character Of Sonora.
Cal In 1854 he made over million dollars
by lucky speculation. Duvoll then went
to San Francisco an invested in stocks.
To-day he is penniless.
a Port Huron barber has found great
profit in the pigs in clover puzzle, as it helps
him hold customers who claim they can't
await their turn. 'Just try that" he says,
soothingy, thrusting the puzzle into their
hands, and when he gets ready 10 shave 'em
! they're in the shop yet you bet
Twelve married women Of Buffalo, n. Y,
have hired the Music Hall bowling alleys
! for practice every Tuesday afternoon. The
two that make the highest score are en-
titled to choose sides for the next meeting,
and there is always keen rivalry for the
honor The beaten side "sets up" the
supper.
a few days ago George Saxton, a messen-
ger boy of one of the Western Union tele-
graph Offices in Philadelphia, made a wager
that he could walk from Broad and Ghost
nut streets TO Bristol, Pa, and back in one
day. He accomplished the feat in ten
hours and forty minutes. The distance
travelled was forty miles.
A Midland court has been called upon to
decide how long an impulse can last A
well-known LAZY was charged with shootin :
game without license. She pleaded in de-
Tense that she acted under impulse having
been asked TO take a gun b. one of the
gentlemen at a shooting party; but her i'm
pulse continued for two hours. So she was
finel GO.
In 1855 Mr.. Hertz put his name down as
a subscriber for an etching of Munkacsy's
"Christ on Calvary" 1t was not ready
until 1888, and he refused payment on the
ground that it had taken too long and was
sued. The experts called in the case testi-
fed that, considering the size and delicacy
Of the work, three years was not an excess
i've time for its production. Mr.. Hertz had
TO pay.
John Caller, an Ellensburg, w. t., farm.
| ar has inst lost n fne mach orchard ond