Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-08-22

marks fashion paper.
Oficial and estimated returns from every
county in tho state of Pennsylvania show
that the prohibition amendment was de-
feated by 1885, 49 majority.
1t is reported that very stringent orders.
have been issued to the Canadian fishery
protection feet, and violations of the law
by American vessels will subject them to
prompt seizure.
Information received by the Canadian.
government states that mackerel have
struck into North Bay In large numbers.
The rlackerel are said TO be large, and
are fetching good prices in the local mark
cts.
For the first time in twelve years dark
hair is said TO prevail in Vassar's gradual
Ing class. Every day seems to bring some
new trial to the "favor-losing blondes as
q southern periodical pathetically charac-
terizes them.
Reports from all but twelve counties in
Pennsylvania show a majority of TAG, 994
against the amendment providing for the
repeal Of the fifty-cent poll tax qualifica-
ton. The majority against it will be still
further increased.
n reSlucnb Oh oedJJle oHerS TO give 80,
900 towards a new town hall If they will re-
name the place He suggests Edinburg,
but is not particular If they call it Smith
City. Anything but Seattle, which is the
Indian name for dry bones.
A Connecticut woman is suing her neigh
Dor for damages for putting up fly screens.
She claims that the flies which cannot get
into the neighbours house on this account
will come to hers, and she will thereby
have double the usual number.
A case, which is believed to be yellow
fever, is reported at Brooklyn, N. Y. The
sick man is DR. Duncan, surgeon Of the
Pacific Mail steamship Colon, who was
stricken with illness when five days out
from Aspinwall on the last voyage.
Three hundred delegates to the World
Sunday School Convention, which will be
held in London on July 2, 3, and 5, have
sailed from New York on the Bothnia. The
delegates are from every state in the Union,
and many of them came from different
parts of Canada.
The bill classifying the clerks In first
and second class postofices has placed
the officials of the department in
a dilemma. It's enforcemsnt will reduce
some salaries in the New York office from
1900 to $l4,0o. and threatens to demoralize
the service in that and other large Offices.
1t is reported that Frank J. Kastner's
brewery atNewark, N. J.,with an output Of
seventy thousand barrels a year, has been
sold TO a syndicate for 100000 II. Bsllan-
tine & Sons have published card denying
that they have sold, or have any idea Of
selling, their large brewery interest in
Newark.
Upon the recommendation OF the civil
service commission the president has
amended rule 10 Of tho civil service rules,
so as TO do away with the limitation of one
year within which reinstatement may
legally be made to officers within the CLASH
fed service, so far as IL affects ex-Union
soldiers and sailors
Between 200 and 900 persons were stand
ing on a frame structure, forty feet high,
In Philadelphia the other evening, obtain
ing q free view OF the Fall of Babylon"
when the roof collapsed, hurting nearly
half Of them TO the ground. A large num-
Der were injured. Three received broken
bones and were otherwise seriously hurt.
Governor Hill Of New York has vetoed
the compulsory education bill, because it is
unnecessarily offensive in its invasions OF
the liberty OF the citizen and in its inter
ference with the control of parents over
their children" and because it exempts no
emergency OF sickness from the compulsory
requirement. He claims that the bill is
loosely drawn and that the proposed
truants' home would be a costly expert
ment.
The barrel boat in which Professor G. D.
Graham, the whirlpool rapids navigator,
intends to go over Niagara Falls early in
July, is buoy-shaped, IL feet long, 81 feet
across the center and two feet across the
ends. 1t has "a iron hoops encircling it and
five running lengthwise. The boat is div
ided into three compartments and in the
ends are air chambers. The foolhardy nav
igator intends 10 place himself in the GEN.
ire. There is a manhole on top which the
occupant closes after he gets into the boat
Among the most interesting fetes during
tho French exhibition will be the inter
national gymnastic feast at Vincennes. 1t
will be a monster athletic demonstration,
no fewer than $4,000 gymnasJs, French
and foreign, taking part in it. They will
be lodged in tents extending from the cha
teau to the Polygone. France will be rep
resented by 450 societies, Belgium by fifty
two, and Switzerland by forty, while Italy,
Denmark, Holland, Sweden and Norway,
Gutenberg, end other nations will send
their crack bands.