Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-01-03
CURRENT EVENTS.


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One Of the leading Anarchists in st. Louis
Is named Griefgrabber
Nearly 10000 men have been naturalized In
New York city this year.
A Rochester paper speaks OF tramp look
Ing as seedy as watermelon.
A grandmother only twenty-five years OF
age is the chief curlo in Hancock, Ind.
A German officer cannot marry an Ameri-
can woman without Bsmarck's consent.
An old bachelor says that he rather likes a
comlcal baby, but he objects when 1t becomes
n screaming farce.
Under the law no political parade can be
held In Philadelphia during the week pre-
eedng an election.
The ranches and largo farms OF southern
California are slowly but steadily being cut
mp into small farms.
Upward OF 1000 children are reported to
have died from measles in Santiago, Chill, in
less than two months.
Important success has been obtained in
beet cultivation in Siberia, In the elevated
portions Of the country.
More than 800 old coins and medals have
been stolen from the French museum at
Carthage, North Africa.
The total decrease in the public debt Of the
United States since the opening OF the cur
rent year is S2S. 294, go.
A total OF 8, 100 miles OF new road has been
added to the railroad system OF the United
States this year thus far.
The corn crop is so poor In Langdon, n. H.,
and vicinity that farmers are already buying
grain to feed their cattle.
An interesting ancient canoe, followed
out by means Of red-hot stones, has been
found In south central Norway.
Vermont citizen who started out to pur-
chase wedding suit got drunk instead, and
on returning home committed suicide.
A South Windham, Me-, man attributes the
cure Of Il cancer on his nose TO the applica-
ton OF tue plant known as ''wood sorre."
The Oldest aud largest tree in the world is
a chestnut near the foot OF Mt Etna The
circumference Of the main trunk is'2l2 feet
A waterfall has been discovered In the Rifle
Creek, Colorado, which Is said to exceed Nj
agara in beauty, though not equal to 1t 10
volume.
The advance in the price OF wheat Will en-
able the growers in Minnesota and Dakota tc
realize from SS,0OO,OOO TO $15,010,0oO more
than last year.
An eastern sportsman lost his gun in an
odd manner. A wounded bird, In falling,
struck the weapon as the owner was taking
aim and knocked 1t into the water.
Employees OF the Central railroad at Macon,
Ga. are good deal disturbed over the ghost
OF an immense Newfoundland dog that roams
around In the rear of the Union depot
According 10 Johann Faber. the famous
manufactures of Nuremberg, the people Of
the United Stated use, Ia round numbers
about 100, CO., 900 lead pencils every year.
A letter was mailed at Pittsburg recently
addressed to '"The Secretary OF the Knavy
Department." and the intelligent clerk sent
1t to the warden of the state penitentiary.
In central Dakota sections the wheat Is
we'll marketed. The thresning was done
under the most favorable conditions Of wealth
er, placing the crop early in shape to sell.
A new couble. pointed nail Is the invention
OF az Ingenious woman. The points turn In
opposite directions, and the nails are es-
pec:slly useful for invisible mailing in wood
work.
The name OF the White House Is derived
from the fact OF the Virginia free-stone, or
which 1t s built, being painted white to con.
ceal the dlscoloration caused by smoke aud
weather
1t Is estimated that crows have cost the
farmers of Maine SlOO,00 the past year. The
next legislature will be asked 10 give boun.
~ OF ten cents a head for the destruction OF
these sable ( vorites-
A sparrow with white wings leads flock OF
100 Of the brown species at Rondout n. 7.
It is treated with great Difference by Its COM
pan ions, who follow all its movements at
q respectful distance.
1t has been found that a goose can stand
the weather until the thermometer goes TO ca
degrees below zero. Then her feathers won't
save her Wild ducks can go 1s degrees low
er and come out on top.
The Alaska salmon pack is now all in. The
Alaska Commercial company alone caught
1000, 900 salmon, most of them in karluk
river, which is only ~ mileslong. The quail
ity Of the fish is fine
An ingenious farmer of Shiloh, Ca, has re.
sorted to the use OF half-inch pine boards as
a substitute for bagging. bale OF cotton
in the novel covering reached Columbus Ca,
and attracted much attention.
Four thousand boxes OF California raisins
sent this fall to London brought better prices
than the famous layers from Malaga, and
orders have come to California from Am
sterdam. Vienna and Australia
The American trade with Caba is an Inn
portant aud growing one. Out of total OF
seventy. five vessels arriving at Havana last
month, thirty seven OF them were American.
British vessels numbered only five.
The Nawab OF Rampur recently paid
sergt. Maj. Freyer, surgeon In the British
army, the princcly fee Of $4,000 for having
brought him safely through three months
illness from msllgant rheumatic fever.
A California widow had plans made for a
S5o, 600 monument for her late departed, but
when the lawyers got through lighting over
the estate the widow was doing homework at
81 a week for the man who designed the
monument.
Amos Marsh, a colored man OF Orange, N.
j., drew SIS, 900 In lottery, and his first step
was TO abandon his old wife and give white
woman $1,000 to marry him. He said IT was
no use to have money unless he could get
into society.
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