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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11

w. B. Strong, president of the great
Santa Fe railroad $ stem, was a brakeman
on a freight train u few ye RS ago.
One woman out of three all over Utah
drink whskey and get drunk quite of en-.
They claim they do it to keep off malaria
Brigham Young, ir., has three wives and
families in Salt Lake City, while some of
the back counties are still! to be heard from.
Nine Etelka Gerster, since the loss of
her voice, has retired with her children to
a secluded home near the city of Bologna.
Sir Julian Pauncefote will return to Eng
land in July, for the purpose of bringing
Lady Pauncefote and daughters to Wash
inptuu
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11
Dr Talmage nlavs the banjo.

Ut. Ialmage plays tie banjo.
Valentine. Neb., has an Indian mail car
rier.
Queen Victoria makes her own tea when
travelling.
There are 1900 women doctors in the
United States.
The United States has a doctor for every
GOO inhabitants.
Ex-senator Riddleberger wants TO be
governor Of Virginia.
Mrs. Mary j. Holmes is in Italy gather
Ing material for new story.
President Carnot OF France served an APP
premiership as a carpenter.
Secretary Blaine has entirely recovered
from his recent attack Of lumbago.
Florida has $l2, 600, 900 invested in the
orange business. The sales this year were
S3,0O0,0O0.
The Empress Eugenia is renewing her
youth by course OF baths at an English
watering place.
At some eastern colleges students paper
their ceilings with envelopes Of letters
from their best girls.
Amelie Riv s.Chanler had a strange
caller in Paris few days ago-nO less {
parsonage than Louise Michel
Prof. Bell, tho telephone man, calculates
that mother in talking TO her infan
speaks3O,O 900 words day.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland has &C
cepted position in a young woman
Loarding school in London
| Honolulu has the cheapest and best sys
tenn of telephones in, the. world. There ar
! 1000 telephones in use.
The newest rival 10 the electric light i
zircCnia, the oxide OF chromium, u meta
! found in North Carolina
Mayor Stewart of Griffin. Ga, IS only
years old, and is probably the younges
city executive in the country.
A feet of small twin screw boats, pre-
PEELED by electricity, will run on tn
Thames river, Eng, this summer.
Ex-Governor Foster of Ohio, recent.
appoiAted Sioux commissioner, is rapid
acquiring the Indian language.
Miss Helen blanchard has made for
tune drought the inve ntion of "a simple al
talhment for sewing machine.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11
4 Michigan Central Railroad En-
plOyee Wins His Case, Alter q
Seven Years Contest.
ALBION, Mich, December 90, 1Ss'

ALBION, MICH., December 20, 1851
While employed as agent of the Michigan
Central Railroad Company at Augusta,
Mich, about seven years ago, my kidneys
became diseased, and | have been a great
sufferer ever since. Have consulted the
leading physicians of this city and Ann Ar
Dor, and all pronounced my case Bright
disease. After taking every highly recon-
mended remedy that | had knowledge OF
to no purpose and while suffering under a
very severe ATTACK in October last, beg an
taking Hibbard S Rheumatic Syrup, and am
to-day well man. 1t will afford me pleas
ure TO render you and suffering hum anity
any good that can, and in speaking OF your
remedy allow me TO say that think IL the
greatest medicine in the word.
h. LARZILERE, Agent M.C.R.R.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11
The "Cashn Railroads.

There is a big fortune in those cash
railroads we see in all the ladies' shop
ping stores. One company has COB
bled up all the best devices OF the sort
and is reaplng a great harvest, because
no enterprising storekeeper pretends
TO get along without them. The own
ers will not sell the apparatus. They
put il in store under lease at SIS a
year for station, u station being each
one OF those stopping places over the
clerks heads whence the baskets are
sent TO the cash desk. Some New York
stores have as many rs $50 stations,
and consequently pay $4,000 or more a
year for the use OF the deyice. New
York sun.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11
WHY They Lead.

DIR. Pierce's medicines ortsell all others,
because of their possessing such
superior curative properties as 10
warrant their manufacturers in sup
plying them TO the people (as they are
doing through all druggists) on such con-
ditions as no other medicines are sold un-
der, viz: that they shall either benefit or
cure the patent, or money paid for them
will be refunded. The Golden Medical
Discovery is specific for catarrh in the
head aud all bronchial, throat and lung
diseases. if taken in time aud given fair
trial. Money will be refunded if it does not
benefit or cure
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11
FORCED 10 ,.en,e Nome.

Over GO people were forced to leave their
homes yesterday t. cal for free trial
package of Lanes Family Medicine. II
your blood is bad, your li;er and kidneys
out of order, if YOU are constipatei and
have headache ard an unsigh ~ complex
ion, don't fail TO C Ill on any druggist 20
day for a free sample Cf t3is great remeIy.
The ladies praise 1t. Every one HkGs it.
Large size package 20 c"nt".
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11

"Tve found an Irish name in the
bible, said Higgins TO Virgins the
other day.
sin the biblep"
"Ycs, in the Apocrypha, at least"
"What is itp" asked Virgins.
"Mac Cabes," was the reply.-New
Haven Palladium.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11

For "a years Dobbns' Electric Soap has
been initiated by unscrupulous soap makers.
Why Because il is best of all and has an
immense sale. BE sure and get Dobbins' and
take no other. Your grocer has 1t, or will
get il.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11

Prof. Virgins says there is no heat in
the sun. 1t is only a great electric light.
He also insists that the earth has second
satellite.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11

An engine on the Bound Brook railroad
in New Jersey recently covered mile IN
30 seconds.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11

!. 9. Simpson, Marquess, W. Va, says:
"Halrs Catarrh Cure cured me Of very
bad case Of catarrh." Druggists sell II, T5c
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11
Oregon, Che Paradise or Fnrmcr..

Mild, equoLle clmqte eel tin and abundant crops.
Best fruit and stock country in the world.
Fun informant free I'd lress the oregon immg ra-
ton Board, Portland oregon.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11

A young Englishman has taught the
shah of Persia TO wear patent leather
shoes.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11

DIR. Howard says that water for drink
ing purL oses should never be below 90
degrees,
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11

II afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell 1t. 25e.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11
GherIT,s gaIe.

Smoke the Sheriff Sale Segar straight
10c Havana cigar for &c.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11

DIR. Pinel of Paris has succeeded in hyp-
nothing by means Of the photograph.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11

The thimble has only been used in the
kingdom of Siam within few years.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11

A Ioc Smoke for lc-"ransiil's Punch"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children, size gave them Castorla
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11

DR. Pierce's Pellets-gently laxative or
actively cathIrtic according TO DOSE 70
cents.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11
Irish in Holv Writ

TO BE CONTINUED.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05

to them, it requires no outlay of rent or
heat. For some time there have been
women in large cities who go about by
the day to make the chiutz or linen Gov
erings for nice furniture, taking the
measurements, fitting and cutting the
stuff to the sofa or chair as a dressmaker
fits and cuts, taking it off and furnishing
it, the whole thing done as deity and
looking as neat as if done at fashion
able establishment st several times the
cost.
In the same way women could, if they
would, go about from house to house, as
desired, being paid by the day, and in
some spare room of the house or one
cleared for the purpose, or in warm
weather on some black piazza or screened
7erands, where dust will not iniure the
article to be renewed, Resulted, respring-
ed or recovered, take the article apart at
tend TO it and put it together again, the
whole performance requiring no other
skill or knowledge than the requisite to
the putting in few new screws, the driv-
ing of few tacks and seldom any more
strength than the women undertaking the
task would be likely TO possess, than all
of our housemaid's accustomed to
the moving of furniture on
sweeping days, or to the taking
down and putting up of bedsteads, are
we'll known to possess. And meanwhile
on the score of economy to the employer
and of income to workwomen, the ad-
vantages are beyond dispute.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
An Awful Pm.

It was long ago decided that pun had
only TO be bad enough and it thereby be-
comes very good, says the Boston Courier,
and in point is an instance which is told
by Boston artist resident abroad.
He came home one night after his wife
had retired, and in his endeavor to light
the gas pulled off match after match as
he supposed from a card of Iucifers.
scratching them without effect other than
the loss of his temper. At length he
gave it up and found a fresh lot of
matches, with Which he succeeded in get
ting light.
In the morning his slumber was rudely
broken by the voice OF mis- better half who
had risen and was making her toilet.
"What in the world" she exclaimed,
shave You been doing to my combf You
have broken more than half the teeth cut
of it,"
"Yes, my DEAR" he answered, unabashed
"and that was because tooth was might.el
than friction"
1t must be evident that there was
| nothing more to be SAID after that.
Frederick l.. Ames is the richest mar
| IN Boston He is the son of Oliver anG
| the nephew of Cakes Ames, and is worth
| $30,000,0O0. Part he inherited and par
| he made.
| The song and dance man doesn't MIND
being clogged in his movements.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
Bill Nye interviewed,

London letter to Paris Galigman's
Messenger: Edgar William Nye, the
American humorist, has arrived here from
Paris. When asked yesterday about his
Impression of the Old World, ne said:
81 shall never forget the first time 1
walked in the Rue di Rvoli and my eye
caught a glimpse of ali those photo
graphs. paintings, and eDgravings, they
were the first things to convince me that
was in France.
II agree with Max O'Rell, however,
that che Frenchman is only ipperfcially
wicked. He brags about his shortcom-
ings, whereas the Engl1shman quietly
beats him two to one, and says nothing.
The American is inquisitivs and shrewd-
ly combines the two, am afraid. That
may be difficult to do, but he does it. He
naturally selects what he likes best among
all nationalties, and that is where the
liberal cosmopolitan has the best of the
old stay-at-home people,"
"And what do you thing of PARISH"
"Paris is remarkable to me for its
noiseless style of doing so much. There
seems to be so little jar and worry; and
yet what ponderons amount of business
is dore! The beautiful and smooth streets
help very much, AMI the care generally
taken to do everything exactly and
decently helps also. The architecture is
good and very restful TO the eye. It is
not 80 striking as John l.. Sullivan, but
rich in artistic details, as IN practical
features"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
a Little Girls Commitment.

The accuracy with which children
judge character is we'll illustrated in the
following anecdote from the Christian:
One wet, foggy, muddy day little girl
was standing on one side of the street in
London, waiting for an opportunity TO
cross over. Those who have seen Lon
don streets on such day, with their wet
and mud, and have watched rush
of cabs, hansoms, omnibuses and car
riages will not wonder that 6 little girl
should be afraid to try to make her way
through such babel as that. So she
walked up and down, and looked into the
faces CT those who passed by. Some
looked careless, some harsh, some were in
haste; and she did not find the one she
sought until at length an aged man rather
tall and spare, and of grave yet
kindly aspect, came walking down the
street. Looking in his face she seemed
to see in him the one for whom she had
been waiting, and she went up to him
and whispered timidIy "please, sir, will
you help me over?"
The old man saw the little girl safely
across the street; and when be sfteraard
told the story, he said: THAT little girls
trust is the greatest com pliment ever
had in my life." The man was Lord
SALISBURY. He received honors at the
hands of 8 mighty nation; he was COM
plimented with the freedom of the great
est city on the globe; he received the
honors conferred by royalty; but the
greatest com pliment he ever had in his
life was when that little unknown girl
singled him out in the iostling crowd OF
a London street, and dared to trust hi N
stranger, to protect and assist her.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
A Venerable Poet.

Richard Henry Stoddard, poet and critic,
is painfully broken since he submitted to
An operation for the removed of cataract
from his eyes. He has long been, to al
appearances, a very old man, though those
who knew him best always saw beneath
the snowy hair and beard and behind the
olouded eyes the defiant, youthful spirit
that kept him in sympathy with the living
world. His verses, now published from
time to time, are strongly tinctured with
the spirit of old age, but have also many
touches that indicate sympathy with
youth. His critical work is still vigorous
and learned. Perhaps no man in America
is better acquainted with English poetry,
old and new, than is Mr.. Stoddard. 1t Is
the pride of the old gentleman to tell how
he began active life as a moulder in an
iron foundry. Hesoon took to the pen for
living, and he has been part of American
literature for fifty years. He has known
every considerable figure in the American
literary world since the days of Poe. His
favorite haunts are the Century Club and
the Authors. He is one of the few that
dare speak above whisper at the former
Institution. Although reputed to be
critic, the eulogist of times past, Mr..
Stoddard is extremely fond of young men.
His home is in the old-time fashionable
district east Of Fourth avenue. Here he
has many literary relics, among them an
autograph portrait of Thackeray.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
The Farm and Home.
THE SETTLING UP is CERTAIN.
CHICAGO .INTER-oCEAN.

You NAV take the world as ii comes and goes,
And you will be sure to find
That fate will square the account she owes,
Whoever comes out behind.
And all things bad that a man has done,
By whatsoever induced,
Return as last TO him, one by one,
As the chickens come home to roost.
You may scrape and toll and pluch and save
While your boarded wealth expands,
Till the cold dark shadows of the grave
Is nearing your iife's last sands:
You will have your balances struck some night
And you'll find your hoard reduced,
You'll view your life in Snother light
When the chickens come home to roost.
You can stint your soul and starve your heart
With the huSks of a barren greed,
But Christ will know if you play part,
viii know in your hour OF need;
And then, as you wait for death to come
What hope can there be deduced
From a creed? You will lie there dumb
While your chickens come home to roost.
Sow as you will there's time to reap,
For the good and the bad as well,
And conscience, whether we wake or sleep,
Is either heather or hell.
And every wrong will find its place,
And every passion loosed,
Drift back and meet you face to face,
When the chickens come home to rooSt
Whether your over or under the sod,
The result will be the same;
You cannot escape the hands OF God;
You must bear your sin or shame,
No matter what's carved on the marble slab,
When the items are produced,
You'll find that St Peter was keeping tab,
And that chickens come home to roOSt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
A Religions Fraud,

An extraordinary religious fraud is re-
ported from Carotia. The whole po ula-
tion was wrought up to great pitch of
excitement by the announcement that the
Virgin had appeared in a forest. A
shrine was built at once of boughs and
branches and in its center hole was dug
into the ground, looking into which the
Virgin was said to be visible TO all true
believers, who forthwith laid down their
offerings around the sacred spot. Some
upbelieving Thomases, who maintained
that they saw absolutely nothing in the
black hole, were maltreated by the fanat-
ic multitude of evil-doers; one man was
killed, another had his leg broken, and
mary went home with bleeding faces and
sore backs. On some days a crowd of
10000 human beings knelt in the forest
and left it's offerings, which promptly
disappeared. But the day of reckoning
came. Five peasants and peasant
woman, the latter in the act of sending
up the 'holy spirit" in tie form of
turtle dove, were arrested for putting the
play on the scene and have already con-
fessed that for two years past they have
been making preparations for this swim
die
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
An OId-Time Duel.

In the duel between De Witt Clinton
and John SEartEout back of Weehawken,
in 1892, Clinton hit Swartwout five times,
and each time Swartwout demanded an
other shot. Once he was hit in the arm
then in the leg, then IN the finger, and
finally somewhere else; but while strug-
Cling on the ground in great pain he in
sisted that he should have another chance,
though his antagonist was as yet IN
injured. In view of such Ridiculous per-
sistency Mr.. Clinton finally cast his pis
toll on the ground and walked off, with
the remark that be had no patience with
a man who did not know when either his
wounded honor or his wounded body was
satisfied.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
Women at Work.

II the general assumption of occupa-
tions by women now going on, although
they become doctors, and lawyers, and
shopkeeDers, and accountants, and occu-
py various trades, HOt much has been
said of the possibility of their becoming
upholsterers. But it strikes Us that few
better fields are open to the woman who
works with her hands, and who has lit
tie strength and good deal of knack,
than this affords. We do not intend by
this the original manufacture of the fur
niture, although with the different parts
of the articles completed by machinery
as they are now, We hardly know why
women may not put them together as
easily as men; but we mean the stufing,
coxering, tafting and edging of chairs,
sofas, lounges, tetes-a-tetes and the like
There is nothing SURPRISING the strength
or possible skill and dexterity of women
that is concerned in the fixing of the
springs in their places, or in distributing
the hair or moss which is to soften the
springs, and to which they are to lend
buoyancy; the long upholstery needle
and Irvine can be used just as easily by a
woman's fuger's as a mans in the tuft-
ing and huttoning; while it wants only
practice and dizziness TO dispose of the
edges of the coverings and to hide the
disposition according to the upholster's
fashion, either under the over
hanging puff, the cord, or the gimp.
If it is not very choice work, it is
not to be classed, either, as dirty work;
it is not the least disagreeable as
work goes; and if one must work, and
is n of beyond the handicrafts, it is one
of the most rational and simple to under
take. 1t is not moreover, necessary that
this work should be done in shops and
establishments, AMI unless one already
has rooms, and prefers it to be brought
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-05
Saved by a SAne.

It is the custom for the Marine Band 10
give concert on the lawn in the rear of
the White House every Saturday after
noon. This was one of the most pleasant
days of the summer, and long before Pro-
lessor Souss, the director, began to WELD
the baton hundreds of Tusic-lovers were
waiting for the first strains. One of them
had copy of an evening paper in his
hand, and exclaimed, as he glanced at the
sheet, Spy George, Jim Laird is dead"
His neighbor expressed surprise and sOr
row at the news, and remarked: cit is
strange that l should have learned OF
Laird's death on the spot. The last time
that l came to one of these concerts I was
In company with Laird. We sat here on
this seat. The band had just finished the
'Marsellaise Hymn when Laird said: 1T
is wonderful what power of inspiration
that hymn has for a man. | think it
would force 60 ward to fight like tiger.
We have no really inspiring airs which
may be called purely national, but I re-
member that on one occasion an air that
was very popular during the war had a
wonderful effect on the men. During
the war l served with Michigan cavalry
regiment and our chaplain was a man of
wonderful physique and powerful mold.
A the battle of Gaines Mills we had re
ceived a very severe setback. We were
all utterly demoralized, and q stampede
seemed imminent. The chaplain, whose
six feet four lowered above the best horse
in the regiment, saw the situation at a
glance, and realized that something must
be done and done quickly. His spurs
fairly made the blood fly out of the TANKS
of bis horse as ae rode over toward the
bugler. In another moment the notes of
John Bro body, were floating in the
air. The other buglers took up the strain,
and the effect was instantaneous. The
men halted from their retreat, while they
listened for moment TO the well known
air. The chaplain saw his chance, and in
an instant he had started the words of
the melody. As though there had been d
previous understanding every map Joined
in, and pretty soon q thousand voices
were yelling His soal goes marching on.
That song saved the day for our regi
ment. 1t was one of the most thrilling
scenes ever witnessed on a battlefield
and if [ ever have to lead cavalry charge
l shall certainly have the buglers masse6
somewhere near where their musio shall
give inspiration and nerve to the men,