Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-11-28

plfu WAS VlCtOT.
A Springfield (Mo) ordinance prohiblta
girls, women and females from lettering
! about the saloons"
Plants In liquor saloon windows have TO
be frequently replaced. They wither in the
atmosphere Of alcohol.
The King of Bavaria receives an income
Of S1,OI0DJ0 year from the profits OF the
HofbTaahaus brewery.
The Trans. Aurlan Railroad, forming "a
other railroad line from the Atlantic To tac
Pacific, will be finished in 1897
Still westward the star Of empire. takes
its flight. The Sandwich islands want 10
be annexed to the United Stat s.
Johnson Mundy, Tarvytown (Pa)
sculptor, who is nearly blind is modelling "a
statue of u union soldier by the sense OF
touch
Ten cents was the reward given Potts.
town. Pa, man who found u stray $1,000
team and spenC an hour in finding tho
| owner.
Chauncey NJ. Depow does not intend to
leave his family dependent on inhospitable
! circrmsta He has his life insured for
S50O,00l.
A man in the birmingham tAla.) Jail
charged with murder weighed only 81
/ pounds two months ago. His weight is
now l61
The town council Of Morgantow:g Pa.
has passed an ordinance prohibiting citi-
zens from putting single roofs on their
residences.
The interrogative "what" has been elimi-
aated from the fashionable vocabulary.
Say how, pardon, please, anything but vul-
gar "what."
The Lake Shore railroad casts aside TWO
worn-out cars DAY 1t requires about 80
aew cars a year to maintain the equipment
Of 5000 cars.
Mon are not old now as soon as they used
/ to be. The French nation has moved up
the army service liability from forty-Bve
years to ffty.
| Twenty women have applied for admis-
sion to Barnard College, Tn, newly insti-
tuted female department Of Columbia,CoL
lege, New York.
Frederick Douglass will write uo7eA
"Uncle Tons Cabin" comes up TO apprase
him of the fact that the black race novel
has been written.
A woman who wanted an Office ffou
Secretary Noble receltly sent him a pin
cushion and two perfume bottles. They
wOre returned TO her.
Queen Olga, OF Greece is particularly
fond Of American literature. She is con
slant reader OF the principal American mag.
azines and newspapers.
on can buy a Dig velvet sponge norg
about which hangs a most delicious and
durable perfume, that will hold "a buckles
full of water. one squeeze is bath.
Mary Batterslee a maid aged eighty-fiToI
years was sent TO Longview a YUM, in.
C.ncipatnl. Her delusons are about men,
and. she imagines one is following her all
the time.
A tin peddler who IL travelling through
Canada has the not altogether envi bic
reputation OF possessing forty one scars on
his body-mementoes left BY sundry farm
ersl dogs
Blanch Willis Howard has been a sue
cessful author, but she expects TO make
more as an inventor The author OF Ono
Summer has patented a music rack and u.
hath shoe.
There ia no accounting for tastes nor for
beliefs Thomas a. Edison, the ele ;triciau,.
Rud, William CroolSes, the London chemist
ard diseoverer Of radiant matter are botn
Theosophsts.
G. p. Dull, Of McVeytown, Pa, has made
fortune out of sand bank He is the
owner OF the sand deposit from which tho
plata glass manufacturers Of PiLtSburg
draw their supplies.
IA young lady OF Columbus, Ga, has made
ncrazy quilt out OF Louisiana state lottery
tickets that failed TO Connect" with the
priza wheel The numbers are worked in.
silk Of beautiful colors.
This is important IL true: "Queen Vic
toriais pet dog is YORKSHIRE terrier that
weighs two and three-quarter pounds and
cost s15" Every dog has his day, and now
the Yorkshire terrier has the call.
One of the visitors to the Eiffel tower
hnG expressed his sense OF its height. II
would throw myself down from ths top"
Ee writes, but that 1 am afraid OF dying
from hunger before reach the bottom"
The Car offended his host at the Inn
nerial banquet in Berlin BY making. "a
speech in French. IN this case FreHch
was not the polite tongue Tho Autocnat
of all the Russias was trying TO be Car
anstc.
Charles =. Houpt OF Germantown. ra-
gently sold an old Bible for 1925. It.was
a Bradbury edition, published in Phlladbi-
phia, and one of the first printed ina this
country. Very few copies OF this edition
are now in existence.
A huge lamp. visible as far as ,the.Nar-
rows, has been placed on top OF the Ecpita-
BILE building in New York city. Itlis 235
feet above the sea level and seventylfive
feet above the buildings roof 1t is ex-
pected 60 be Of great use in giving Storm
signals at night
The shipyards of the great lakes will be
busy the coming winter. Thirty-fivo' boats
OF an aggregate tonnage of 67,S0 and cost
Of 3, 1858 500 are now under contract to be
built and the list will probably be iRereas
ed The great change from sail TO, steam
and wood TO steel is especially marlsed this
season.
The Russian government IS makiog
active preparations TO construct. d railroad
from Askabad to Meshed, the Holy city OF
Persia. Meshed is IA, the direct ro7te
along the Atrek valley betweenl Herat ano
Tehcran, and the opening of military
railroad through the district Indicates The
growth OF Russian power in. Persia.