Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-03
WINGED MISSILES.

Corn ana potatoes Will DC HBnJ crop III
South Jersey.
The table glass ware manufacturers are
preparing TO form trust.
Farmers Unions, with 100000 men,
bers, talk OF amalgamating.
Heavy rains in the city of Mexico have
caused considerable damage.
The tobacco crop of York county, Pa,
promises TO be very large and fine
DIR. Nansen, the explorer, says that the
ice in Greenland is 5000 feet thick.
The Spanish government will adopt sub
marine torpedo vessels for the navy,
Crop reports from Austro Hungary in
dictate about three-fourths of an average
yield.
A canal scheme to irrigate 5000, 90 acres
Of arid land in North Dakota has been pro-
iected.
Tho work Of rebuilding the burned
city of Spokane Falls, w. T., has COM
menced.
4 runaway train on the Duluth and Iron
Range railroad attained speed Of ITO
miles an hour.
The wheat crop of Minnesota and the
Dakotas will be.between IS, 600, 900 and co.
0O0, 900 bushels.
An experimental electric motor at Balti-
more, Md. has successfully made miles a
minute o. circular track of miles.
A scheme to import negroes from the
United States into Mexico is receiving no
encouragement from the Mexi can people.
In 1865 five eighths of the people owned
their homes, and only three-eighths were
tho prey of landlordism. In 1885 only
three eighths owned their own homes and
five.eighths were reduced to the rank of
tenants.
Almost the hardness of the diamond is
said to be given by German workmen TO
steel-engraving tools. The tools are made
white hot, plunged repeatedly into sealing
wax until cold, and then just touched with
oil Of turpentine.
The big four masted schooner John PAUL,
lately launched at Bath, Me-, is a marine
wonder in her way. She went from Bath
TO Norfolk, Va, loaded there with 2,459
tons OF coal, and reached Providence all in
eleven days, which is steamer time. The
PAUL is 2l0 feet long, forty-four feet wide
and twenty-one feet depth OF hold. All
hosting is done by steam, even TO the
Glowing up of the big topsails. She is
wire-rigged, and spreads 1000 yards Of
canvas.
The pearl oyster, containing the pearl,
and whose shell is lined with the brilliantly
tinted mother-ofpearl used in so many
ways, is found chiefly about the southern
coasts Of Asia. An uncomfortably sharp
substance entering the shell is covered by
the inmate, thus forming a pearl. This
habit has been utilized TO force the oyster
TO produce pearls, sometimes the form Of
cross being placed in the shell to be convert
ed into beautiful ornament They are
taken from the bed of the sea by divers.
An amusing marriage took place in Elber-
ton, Ca, the other day. A couple came
into the court house to be married A new
justice was called in. He had no form, and
improvised a ceremony. He first ordered
the couple TO join hands, and then, after
hesitating WHILE he asked the gro ON
these questions: Twill you stick to this
woman through thick and thin, up and
down, right and left, hot or cold, wet or
dry, and have no other wife but herl IL
you will you can have her for wife,"
Similar questions having been propounded
to the woman, and affirmative answers
having been given, he pronounced them
husband and wife.
A beautiful live white owl is on exhibit
ton at a music store in Louisville. II was
sent by l.. j. Smith, OF Niagara Falls, and
belongs to very rare species. 1t was cap
tured by young hunter in the woods near
Quebec. II was fonnd in hollow tree, and
was secured with net The habitation Of
the bird is in the extreme north so Mr..
Smith wrote them when he sent the owl,
and only extremely cold weather drives it
as far south as Quebec. So far as known
only seven OF the birds have been captured
or killed in Canada during the last three
years. The one on exhibition is q perfect
specimen. 1t is snow white, and about the
size and shape of the common large owl.
The weight and bulk of the gold and silver
coin now held by the United States treas
ury forms the subject of inquiry by corre-
spondent OF mathematical turn OF mind,
and he finds that the weight Of the gold is
col tons of 900 pounds, and the silver 5000
tons. Packing it along the highway, as
cord wood is packed, the gold would make
q barricade four feet high, four feet thick,
for q distance of 1886 feet, and the silver, il
similarly packed, would extend 4,24S feet,
or five-sixths of mile. If packed in carts.
one ton to each cart, the procession would
be nearly thirty three miles long, Of which
distance the gold-bearing carts would cover
two and half miles and the silver q frac-
ton over thirty ana a quarter miles.
Very few consumers of wheaton products
are aware OF the fact that crackers are the
oldest form of bread. Fragments of infer
mented cakes were discovered in the Swiss
lake dwellings, which belong to the neolithic
age of the world. Although this rude form
OF bread was early discarded for the fer
mented variety, yet in this, as in many
other matters, it was found convenient to
return to discarded and apparently value-
less process. Thin, unfermented cakes
were found to possess merits for special
purposes. They would keep good for a
great length of time, and thus afforded
wholesome and nutritious food in portable
end convenient form. The simplicity Of
their makingand baking was also point in
their favor.
Along the shore of the Oneida Lake there
is an Indians grave, where at times a
weird and supernatural light makes its APP
pearance IL is described as a ball Of fire