Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-03-28
BRIEFLETS.

Sixteen young ladies in Lowell have form
ed whist club that mests weekly for prae-
tice. II is said that the neighbors can hear
them play whist three blocks away.
Charles Holmes, an old hermit of Con-
necticut predicts that there won't be rail
road line left in this country twenty-five
years hence. Why not get him into the
weather bureau
Mark Twain denies the story that "he
cried like a child when his old cow recently
died" He says that he never owned an old
COW, but buys directly from milk can at
six cents per quart.
A lazy genius in Maryland has invented
an automatic fishing-pole which, by the aid
Of stout spiral springs, yanks out the UNI
wary denizens of the streams while the fish
erman smokes and reads in peace.
The thistle at the antipodes seems to at
tain most vigorous growth. It's root pene-
trates to depth of from twelve 10 twenty
feet and this root even when cut into small
pieces retains vitality, each piece producing
a new plant.
The European country which possesses
the largest number of public libraries Is
Austria. In Austria there are no fewer
than 81 public libraries, containing 5,415,-
600 volumes, without reckoning maps and
manuscripts.
A translation OF Dr. Geffcllen's "Pen
Sketches of the British Empire with an
English preface, will be Published in Lon
don soon. 1t contains essays on Prince AL
bert, Lord Palmerston, Lord Beaconsheld,
and Mr.. Gladstone.
A coroner's jury at New Rochelle, n. Y,
oft /, int 10 "a az n IN
infant, reached the conclusion that the
child came TO its death through the ignor-
ance of its mother and her husband, from
causes unknown to the jury"
A Buffalo man recently counted the mo-
tiOns made by barber hand during the
process of shaving one man aud found them
to be 6iS. Add 20 this the motions made by
the BARRIERS mouth the while ana the result
is marvellous sample of what may be got
for 10 or - cents.
The Pennsylvania House has passed bill
requiring a United States flag, costing not
less than $40, TO be hoistcd on every school
house in TIE state while the school is in ses-
sion. 1t is intended as an object lesson in
patriotism. There are about 5000 school
houses in the state.
The latest wrinkle among the young new
| ly-engaged ladies and their friends in Wash
ington is bit of china presented with the
note of congratulatoa. One belle has in
this way made fine beginning in the brio
a-brac line and already has complete
dozen of aftcr-dinner cotfees and number
of other very beautiful pieces.
! AS fact Of phenomenal character it is
stated that the Rev Bartholomew Edwards,
the parish clergyman of Ashhill, Norfolk,
now in his Tooth year, took part in two ser
vices held in his church the Christmas day
! Just passed and afterward called on certain
Of his parishoners 10 present his Christmas
salutations.
The will Of the late Joseph B. Hoyt Of
! Stamford, Conn, bequeaths $4,000 to the
American Home Missionary society, one
| half to be used in current work OF the so
ciety, and the other half as an endowment
fund. a like sum is given to the American
! Baptist Missionary society, TO be used un-
der similar conditions.
Tobacco should be credited as a part OF
the discovery Of Christopher Columbus
! When he first met the Indians they were
imbibing the fumes of tobacco in the shape
OF a cigar This cigar was not wholly OF
tobacco, though. 1t was a stalk or straw
tube filled with this weed. But the Indians
smoked pipes chiefly.
JAS Carroll a San Francisco milkman, is
the posscssor of a horse whose hide Is
covered with a thick mass OF curly white
hair, about three inches in length. When
seen from a short distance tho hide pre-
sents a woody appearance and the animal
looks as though nature had given him the
skin Of u sheep through mistake.
The immigration that has poured into
southern and western Florida has made it a
white mans land wealthy and prosperous.
While the 0,@OO negroes south OF ST Angus
tine had grown from 1870 TO lSS9t to 10000, the
1900 whites had grown to 5000, and are
nearly 10000 20 day. III that section OF the
state the races were nearly equal eighteen
years ago; the whites are four to one to-day,
and in number of the counties the negro
population has actually decreased
Cen. Harrison is reported, says the Ac-
vance, ITO have said that he never appre-
ciated the value Of the Sabbath as he has
during the last six or seven months. He
has had harbor at the end of each
six working days into which he could sail
behind an impossible breakwater, and 1t is
quite probable that this has saved his life
for il would require a constitution of iron
TO stand q continuous strain Of the kind.
Office seekers will find that there are two
walls to scale-an outer wall OF the civil
service rules and an inner wall of the Sab
bath and the seclusion Of the family"
McKeuna, the ''glass-eater," gave pri-
vate exhibition the other day, says Phila-
delphia dispatch. He ate large piece Of
fiintglass lamp-chimuey, several ounces Of
sharp pointed tacks, and then topped off his
repast by devouring live frog He is only
twenty-one years of age, and his case has
puzzled numerous physicians. McKenna
does not grind the glass into small particles,
but swallows it in large pieces. In addition TO
carpet tacks, he swallowed a lot of cigar. box
nails and then offered to masticate hugo
ten penny nail lie took big frog from an
aquarium, and, carefully adjusting it. gave
one gulp, and then allowed the spectators to
feel it kick inside of his stomach.
The proportion of Germans to Irish in
American cities is annually growing larger.
The New York Sun says there is no doubt
that the people OF Irish birth in that city
arc now outnumbered by those of German
birth but it will not get the statistics until