Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-10
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California sent 100000 pounds OF honey
TO Europe last year.
Millions of small black rats infest the
corn fields Of Texas
Utah has colony composed of natives Of
the Hawaiian Islands.
Capitalists are investing large sums OF
money in West Virginia.
Bismarck has intimated to tho Pope that
he must not leave Rome
The oldest man in the world lives in Hun.
gary and is l2l years Old.
The Texas cotton crop this year is es.
timated to be worth sA,0O00O0
Southern California estimates her honey
crop at 2, 100000 pounds this season.
Kalamazoo, Mich, expects TO realize g..
0oO,0O0 from its celery crop this year.
The fires in Montana have swept over an
area Of from 900 10 10000 square miles.
The treasury surplus is over Si0,OOO,O 900,
larger than it has been since last Scptem-
Der.
The iron workers in South Wales have
demanded q ten per cent. increase in
wages.
A movement for higher wIges is going
on in nearly all the industries Of central
l. .rope.
Japan will hold a domestic industrial ex-
hibition at Toxic next year, the third IN its
history.
The Bermuda onion crop has been so
large this year that it has pro yed disastrous
to the farmers and brokers'.
A 1910 barrel oil well has been struck at
Morgantown, W. Va, opening up an i'm
rnanaalv valuable oil tarl.itorv
A riot between political factions at Rich
mond, Texas, recently resulted in several
persons being killed and wounded.
In the Farce Islands there is supersti-
tion that seals cast Off their skins every
ninth month and assume the human shape.
M. Chauvin concluded that Iceland spar
possesses magnetic rotary power, not only
in the direction of its axis, but also in the
neighboring direction.
cloud burst in Nevada the other day
dropped enough water on a region two
miles square to form u lake of ten acres in
extent and ten feet deep.
In one of two stone sarcophagi found at
Rome, i'll tho Pratt di CASTILLO, the skeleton
of a girl was found, along with a wooden
doll with iointed arms and legs.
II is estimated that 5000 or 10000 people
will be locked out by the failure of the
window glass manufacturers and their men
| TO agree on terms at the recent conference
Numerous trials OF the Brown Sequard
| elixir in different parts of the country re-
suited Substantially in failure. In some
instances the patients wero injured by the
| treatment.
Great BrltRin's 1850 cooperative unions
have 99l,42S members. In 1855, 7,072 035
profit was made on sales of 1875, DIS.
SIPS, 100 was devoted 10 education and $685.
200 TO charity.
There is a woman in q west of England
town who makes good living by killing
cats. She advertises that if people who are
about to go away for TIA, summer will send
their cats to her she will kill them with
chloroform.
It is not generally known that the Gus
tom of keeping birthdays is many thousand
years old. 1t is recorded in Genesis XII, 20;
And it came to pass the third day, which
was Pharaohs birthday that he made
feast unto all his servants"
Much complaint is made by the Johns
town sufferers at the non distribution OF
the relief funds in the hands of Governor
Beaver and his committee. The generous
|
into existence a most ungenerous set of
compittee men,
Three Negroes near Bcssemer, Ala, I'M
der religious halucination, rushed into an
! iron furnace which was at white heat aud
persisted. They supposed themselves to be
representatives of Shadrach, Meshach and
Abednego, being led by an old negro claim
ing to be the prophet Daniel.
BY new process, the rubber in the mi Tx
collected from Gndia-rubber trees is now
coaguiated instantaneously The operation
| is so simple that any native can carry it out
at the foot of the tree which no has been
bleeding; and thus, Instead of carrying
large cans of milk of great weight, and en-
failing great loss on the way, he simply
carries in the sack solid rubber, which, on
his arrival at camp, can at once be pre-
pared for the market and shipped.
The Florida sponge fishermen detect the
presence of sponge by means Of water
glass, which is a simple contrivance, being
circular piece Of glass inserted in the
bottom OF bucket. The bucket is thrust
into the water, and looking through the
glass the sponge hunter can clearly distin
guish any object on tho bottc.n Of the sea,
even II the water be rough. The sponges
are gathered with a pole from eighteen to
forty feet long, with a threa pronged iron
| claw at the end.
A firm of bootmakers have hit on novel
ty in the advertising line which must
possess irresistible attraction for every
genuine snob. They announce "best boots
and shoes at ready money prices, made on
selected lasts of the following gentlemen,
perfect feet only having been chosen for
the stock models" Then follows a list Of
the owners Of these perfect feet in assorted
sizes, including such distinguished col
lection OF eminence as the Duke Of Rox-
burghe, the Marquis of Hamilton, Earl
Cadogan, Prince Dolgourki and many
others. This arrangement has the double
advantage that any one going to this es-
tablishment has chance of being chosen
as stock model, and finding his name en-
shrined on this roll OF fame as owner OF a
perfect pair Of feet.
Fourth-fifths of the power machines at
| nroaent in activity in the world have been