Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-05-02
WINGED MISSILES.

holding the breath Il. found to control tho
sensibility to tickling
The rabbit pest Is again making healway
In Australia The means taken TO eradicate
1t have proved insufficient.
According 10 a statistical document lately
published in Paris, there are in Europe
100000 blind people, 5000 Of whom are in.
France.
MISREPRESENTATION is the.
classical name OF a locomotive owned by
the LackaWanna Iron 81 Coal company at.
Scranton.
An Irishman named Casey died recently
in Albu luerGue very wealthy. BY his will
he left - Gee. j. A. Williamson, of Iowa,
nearly $4,000 for favor TO Casey long ago
forgotten.
Under the new constitution in Japan nc
men aal vote unless he is 20 years old and
pays at least $25 taxes. There will be no an
arch,sts in that country and political corrup-
ton viii be unknown.
The New York retail crocers declare that
all adulterat.on OF provisions takes place be
fore the goods come into their hands They
don't even dampep the finecut tobacco they
sell nor sand their sugars.
Clark, the murdered druggist of Chicago,
left letters TO prove that he was in love with
over fifty women some OF whom doubtless
killed him. 1t was awful that his happiness
was 80 suddenly cut short.
A Russian prince who has been arrested
in York for stealing and pawning an over
coat is out in a card asking for a suspension
OF public Judgment. He probably wants
chance TO steal the rest of the suit
According to the annual register of our
naval forces, just published at Annapolis,
our navy is commanded by 1,5l4 officers.
AS they are all good dancers however, none
of them need be considered superauous.
A library is to be established in Paris in
which only books and writings OK women
are TO be admitted. Carmen SYLVIA" the
poetry writing Queen of Roumania, has ac-
cepted the presidency of the library.
A writer in an English journal says that
| he noticed recently while skaters were
Swimming over the frozen surface Of Round
| Pond, in kensingtou Gardens, that the ice
| gave forth a distinct musical note which he
found to be G sharp.
| The recipe for making the original eau dc
cologne was discovered 200 years ago, and
since that time it has been intrustod to only
ten persons. The written copy of the recipe
is kept in a crystal goblet, under triple locks,
/ in a room in which the essential oils are
| mixed.
-Four young men were fined s. apiece in
! Washington the other day for making some
remarks about white horse while Il red
headed girl was passing. The magistrate
did no. state whether his severity WAS due
70 the antiquity of the joke or to a desire TO
teach the offenders better manners.
West Point cadets always attract attcn-
! tion and favorable comment from the pub
! lie A number of them when in Washing
| ton were thus described; They were Gov
cred with buttons and so tightly la cel and
walked 50 straight that a ramrod looks
puffy and hump backed beside them"
Terra-cotta money jugs for saving up coin
are becoming very common. Many families
keep them handy, and drop into them their
spare dimes ana nickcls until the jug is full.
Then it is broken, and the contents applied
b the purchase of some article long desired.
but which it was thought could not be
afforded
There is no country of the world whore
the science OF long life, accompanied with
good health, unimpaired mental faculties,
! good digestion, and great activity is better
understood than IN France, and there, Of
/ 1000 persons born, 10 reach the age of 20,
and the percentage continues to be high UNI
ill s. is past.
! Among the names of the mstresses of
| the white house have been three Martins,
| two Marys, two Abigails, one Eliza, one
! Elijah 1th, ole Margaret, one Sarah, one
Jane one Harriet, one Dorothy, two Julias,
one Let.tia one Emily, one Angelica, one
! Louisa, one Lucy, one Frances, and now
there is u Caroline, though she calls it Car
= rio"
Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt deprecates tho
publicity that has followed her announced
! intention TO pay for a monument over
Marion's grave in South Carolina, from
whom she i descended. She had thought
to hon1r the hero's memory quietly and
without credit to herself, but the press has
frustrated her plans for secrecy in the
matter
Memory hoops" are the latest fad in Kan
sas City. A memory hoop is about ten inch
es in diameter and will hold thirty TO forty
bows or knots. And the thing for the male
friends of a young lady to do is TO give her
a handsome piece OF coioTei silk. vhich she
ties on the hoop. The girl WI. e'vers the
most hoops in this way is consideret the
re.gning belle.
There is cradle in New York that has
rocked over 1900 babies. 1t began to rock
nineteen years ago, when the Sisters OF
Charity started n little founding hospital
on Twelfth street, New York. with 50 in the
treasury. Sister Irene was at the head OF
it, as she is still, a wonderful, frail little
woman, whose genius aud devotion VIII al
ways be remembered by those who have
once beheld her among the babies whom shs
has saved and succored.
Concerning Holsters, experts say that
young crustaceans have to b. put in the sea
almost as soon as Matched, and they begin
to feed voraciousy. They are born with
sense enough to know thai Holsters make
delicious food, and they attack one another
savagely and hungr.ly. For few days
they swim on the surface, where they find
the food suited to their early requirements.
! Here their destruction is enormous. In a
, few days the Holsters walking or crawling
members are developed, and he sinks to the