Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-05-16
ADDITIONAL EXPOSITIONs,

night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tolmie have moved to
this place and occupy the house south
of Palmer Chamberlain.
Remember Michaels' May ball Fri
day evening, May "a Charley is max
ing great preparations for good time.
Parties having any business to trans
act in the Probate court, will favor us
by instructing the Probate Judge to
send us the matter for publication.
The jury in the Latimer case deserve
well of their country. All the slush
and middle and sickly sentimentality
and idiotic doubts and surmises, they
brushed aside, and like sensible men,
with a duty to perform, they went
straight to the mark and performed it.
j. w. Hayes, our new cigar manu-
facturer, is getting out some fine
brands of cigars and is doing n good
business putting them ont to the trade
He is making a brand called Sweet
Lillian, the best five cent cigar in the
market, which is having great run.
Patronize our manufactures and build
up the town.
An exchange reminds us that in 1890
every farmer in the United States will
be visited by paid officer of the gov
eminent, and asked to give statistics
of his farm crops. stock, ETC., for the
present year. TO be prepared for the
census taker begin now to keep account
of all farm operations. and keep it up
through the year. In this way only
can the agricultural statistics of the
census report have any real value.
An exchange publishes the following:
"Wanted-An editor who can read,
write and argue politics, and at the
same time be religious, funny scienti-
iic and historical at Will; write TO please
everybody; know everything without
asking or being told. always have some-
thing good to say about somebody
else, live on wind and make no more
enemies. For such man a good
opening will be made-in the grave.
yard"
This is good news for the gardener is
it be true: An ingenious chicken raiser
near Pomona, Cal, has devised a way
of preventing chickens from scratch
ing up his garden. lie crosses the
long-leggsd Brahmas with the short
legged baatams, and the result will be
a new breed of fowls with,one long
leg and one short leg. Wherthey raise
either leg to scratch they lose their
balance and come to grief. After a.
few demoralizing attempts they desist
One of the marvels realized with the
close of our firss hundred years of con-
stitutional history is the remarkable
speed attained IN railroad travel. The
fastest train that ever plisd between
San Francisco and New York has been
put on the road This train will leave
the former city daily at 6p. m, will
arrive at Omaha in three days, in Chi
cago III three days and 10 hours, and in
New York in four days and 81 hours.
When one is whirled along over 1900
miles in less than five days, he hasn't
as much time to look at the country as
G.. w. had when he dove over from
Virginia to New York to be inaagur-
ated.
BY the following clipping froza the
Otter Lake Enterprise we judge that
Editor Halls wife has been cleaning
house: 1.-THE season of the year is at
hand when life, to the average family
man. has become burden. Instead of
the rest and comfort which he is wont
to find in the place called home, he
meets with stacks of furniture, heaps
of dust, the rooms and yard strewn
with carpets, bedding, etc. In short,
home is no more, but barren, desOlate
place. as destitute of comfort as an
Antartic iceberg. In general, the as
pect is one of destruction and desola-
ton: and the ravages of his cyclonic
majesty could scarcely present more
discouraging, notwithstanding, and life.
J wearying spectacle to the man who
has love for home, than that which
: meets his gaze as he comes to his mid
day meal and is offered seat on tn,
stove or in the wood-box and a"lunch'
Q that makes him wish he had been ere
ated without the necessity for food
But such Is life.