Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-06-27

An investigation OF the rumors OF bribery
during the present session OF the Minnesota
legislature has been begun 1t is stated
that warrants have been issued for thirteen
persons, some Of them members of the leg
islature, for bribery and corruption.
A three story brick building caved in in
Boston tho other day without dong any
more damage than TO llill dog and slightly
injurc boy who ought TO have been fitting
himself for the presidency in 1929. That's.
the right sort Of bu lding to put up.
A suit Is about TO be begun in the name Of
the, state OF Illinois against Miss Frances
f.. willard. Mrs. Caroline Buell.. and Miss
Esther Pugh in which the legality OF their
seizure OF the National Temperance Hos
pital last January will be inquired into.
Miss Franklin Biornson, a Swedish heir
ass, one of the passengers on the Inflated
Danmark. came to this country from home
to meet her lover, Hans p. Nelson, a pros
porous physician at st. Paul MINI. Mr..
Nelson will PROBABLY be- afraid to let her
cross even a creek after this.
Mr.. Munroc an ex-cUnvict from the Man.
itoba penitentary, recently died in Eng
land. In his VIII he makes some curious
requests, including Sl0),0JJ to Bedson, war
den of the Manitoba penitentiary, and $50
900 10 q Winnipeg lawyer named Vivian
and like amount u Rev. Canon Mathc-
son.
The father of Emma RatA, who died
March %, at Syracus, ". Y, became pos.
scssel OF an idea that she had been buried
alive. He dug W tae body April %, and
found to his horror that it had turned in the
coflin, that the hair was torn, am that there
were finger marks on her face, as il she had
endured fearful agony.
Belief in vooiooism has not yet died out
from among the colored people of the south.
In Macon, Ga, there is an educated negro
who, when no grow i'll, consulted a woman
with some reputation FOR cures. She gave
him medicine and cufred him, ana then
drew from his side live frogs and worms,
and bugs. lie therefore began to make a
mental survey of his friends TO see if he
possessed al enemy, and, finding that he
did, knew then and there that it was he and
no other who had PIT powdered frogs and
snakes heads into his whisky. The en-.
chantress keeps herself in seclusion, and
mono OF her patients are willing TO betray
hcr whereabouts.
One great cause of badness. in the opin-
ion Of a western knight OF the razor, is the
habit many people have OF changing the
style of hair-cuttiny half q dozea times a
year, or nearly as often. He says: "They
insist on a short pompldour in the hottest
months, a less pronounced crop in the fall,
and then wear the hair longer as the wealth
err gets colder. gradually approaching a
shave again By the time the thermometer
gets up into the ninetics. Now, all this
may be very co nfortable. but it is very
bad for the hair AMI scalp. II il best TO
wear the hair short all tn, year round,
brush it freely, ami trust to nature for tho
only effective substitute for ponadc."
A registering savings bank is the latest
novelty. II is SHAPED like Saratoga
trunk. Three styles are made, one for
cents, another for half-dimes and q third
for dimes Each, after the first coin is de-
posted, is locked until the Tooth coin is
pushed through tho slot, and as each coin
enters it registers upon dial Il man who
buys a dime bank must pat 100 dimes into
it if he wants to open it, and a nickel bank
can be opened only when it contains So.
! The banks are strongly made OF nickel.
plated cast-iron, and the locking devices is
unpickable because after it is locked the
keyhole is taken indoors. Nothing but the
right amount of coins will open it, and
when the hundredth coin enters the door
ovens automatically.