Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17
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The wheat crop in England is above av-
erage.
London imports 100000 eggs annually
from Russia.
The wheat crop Of France is estimated at
about 300, 100000 bushels. This will leave
considerable surplus for export.
The war in Hayti has come 10 close by
the abdication of Legitime who took refuge
on board French gunboat. Hyppolite
entered Port Au Prince the same day.
A professor in the California State Uni
versity is said TO hnvo discovered a method
of tanning leather that makes itimpervious
TO water and so pliable as to be almost in
desEuctible.
Mormon elders are being driven out OF
Marion county, Ala, where they have made
many converts. Two Of the elders were
iogged by White Caps recently, and were
then ordered to leave under penalty of
death.
sin making bread boxes" it is said,
'three workers can do the WORK of thirteen
boxmakers by old methods" IT'S well; but
isn't there danger of foo ling the marketi
The ten workers thrown out of work can
hardly have much use for bread boxes
A jaw bone has been unearthed recently
at the Wauchula, Fla, phosphate beds 1t
measures IS, inches in length and about
seven in width II is supposed that it be-
longed to one Of the prehistoric politicians,
which it is fair to presume once inhabited
this country.
The postofilce department is considering
the question Of increasing the standing re-
ward OF 800 for each capture of highway
men who rob mails. That sum is deemed
utterly inadequate to induce men 20 under
take such dangerous service as The captors
must bear all incidental EXPENSE.
A combination of eastern capitalists has
been formed TO purchase all the coal prop.
erty along the Monongahela River ami con-
troll the river coal business. 1t has been
decided that it will require $1,000, 900 to
settle the deal, including the aggregate Of
stock the sellers are willing TO take
According to the Shen Pao, the grateful
rains which have at last fallen at Picking
were the result of the bringing thither of
famous iron tablet Certain higl ministers
of state were appointed to offer incense and
prayers to it night and day, and after
while the long hoped for rain began.
There is nov In forbidden circulation on
OF the Crown Prince Rudolph and Marie
Vetsera, the cause and companion Of his
death. From these it is seen that Rudolph
was so much in love with the girl that he
offered to renounce all his titles and digni-
ties for the sake Of marrying her.
Saratoga now has a beautiful Pompeiian
house. an exact reproduction OF the resi-
dence of a wealthy Pompeiian at the epoch
af the eruption Of Vesuvius in the year 70.
Paris also has one in the Avenue Montaigne,
built by the Prince Napoleon, where he and
his friends used to gather in Pompeiian
dress, aud where translatons of ancient
plays were often produced by actors in the
antique costumes.
A few days ago two Arabs were found at
Castle garden, one of them named Ben Josef
and the other Mohammod Abdel Hirmir,
who had come here TO seek employment as
camel-drivers The penniless Arabs were
in despair when told that there was no such
industry as camel-driving in New York,
and that they were unwelcomed guests in
the land OF the star-spangled banner. The
collector gave orders that they should be
sent back
The report that a "two-ton man eating
shark had been caught at Santa Cruz Cal.
lSsAuS al Olu 10 WTlle 10 Il San
Francisco newspaper that the shark was
not man-eater, but basking or ground
shark The man-eater seldom weighs over
1900 pounds; but the ground shark often
weighs as much as fifteen tons, so the old
fisherman says, and sometimes its liver
weighs two tons. They arc the slowest fish
that swim the seas. "No one" writes the
fisherman, 'need have any fear of them or
! al hot h,t
weighs one-sixth of its body"
A man at Covington, Pa, who is fatten-
ing twenty pound swapping turtle, was
aroused early few mornings ago by
scuffle in his yard. Repairing there. he
found the turtle hanging to the nose of u
compound bear Bruin was near the fence,
endeavoring TO get over, but his efforts
were interfered with by the turtle. Event
ually the bear reached the next yard, but
the man followed and shot him dead. The
turtle all the time retained his hold, and re-
fused to let go until tho dead beasts nose
was cut of. Then it crawled away, Carry
ing the piece of flesh in its mouth.
The folk lore of Southern Russia can be
partly imagined from q case which came
before judge of Odessa. man applied
for a writ TO compel his daughter to leave
OuO hOuSo DtCduSc Wueu but SdluVcu neT
parents she did not bow to them He would
withdraw his application IL she would ask
pardon and make the regular obeisance.
The girl agreed. She asked pardon, but
when she bowed the father cried: Lower.
Down with your head; down below the
girdle!" She replied: II won't bend as
low as that, not il have to leave the house."
The Judge thereupon ordered her to leave.
but she gave in finally and bowed her head
to the girdle.
Professor Il. II. Galloway, chief of the
section of vegetable pathology, Depart
ment of Agriculture, has recently succeed
ed, as the result of practical experiments,
in producing remedy for the disease call
ed pear leaf blight and apple mildew,
which annually causes great destruction to
those trees. AS result of practical ex-
periments he feels justified in recommend
ing it 10 the farmers and fruit growers as
both efficacious and economical. The
remedy consists of the application of
fungicide, with an appliance by which 3d.