Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-06-13
WINGED MISSILES.

Canastota, N. Y.
Out in Doland, Dakota, they have law
yer whose name is Korus.
A baboon in circus at Albany. Ella.
knocked a boy sense!ess with a brick.
A 1000 pound manltce (sea cow was
captured near Jupiter, Fla, last week.
-Four "marblcl polecats" are recorded
among tho latest additions to the London
Zoo.
A check made payable on resurrection
day figured in law case held in New York
last week.
There are 3, 500watches manufactured in
the United States daily at a cost of from So
TO 900 each.
The pastor of the Congreg itional church
at Dorcester, Mass, is reported as livery
seriously missing
II is announced that $1,000 has been sub
scribed for the Yale gymnasium ana $1,000
more pledged by graduates.
Mrs. Belle Jacobs, OF Toledo, has sued for
divorce on the ground that her husband is
confirmed base ball crank.
Mexican greasers object to American
grease. and have forbidden the importation
of lard from the United States.
Philadelphia is now the only city in tho
country which gives profitable patronage to
permanent company OF minstrels.
Breach OF promise suits tried in the
school houses are the latest thing in the way
of entertainments in Cass county, Mo.
The London Lancet vigorously condemns
the use Of heavy overcoats, and advocates
instead the wearing of heavier undercloth-
ing
French soldier at Gran, Algeria,
has just been condemned to death for strik-
ing superior officer with a quid of to-
bAcco
Cast iron pillars with fiat ends
uniformly bear about three times as much
as those of the same dimentions with round
ed ends.
A Norwegian skater named Godager, on
February "a, at Stockholm, did the great
feat of covering 10 miles in 33 minutes 81
Is seconds.
Protracted experiments in France havo
been made with the potato, with view to.
ward more abundant yield Of starch pro
ducing roots.
Some one CONNIE nding Philip of Macedon
for drinking freely, "That" said Demos
]
not in a king"
A burglar, arrested in Boston, had on his
breast an India ink picture of grayestone,
on which Yves marked: "In memory of
my father and mother"
A small leasehod property in Worcester
shire, England, is announced for sale by
auction, held ''for the residue OF a term OF
1900 years created in the year 1900"
Seventy per cent of the emigration from
the British isles seek homes in this country
in spite of the encouragcments and induce
ments togo 10 Canada and Australia.
At a recent beggars' ball in Vienna there
were 5000 persons present, all in beggars'
costume. The more beggarly the costume
the greater the applause that greeted it.
The largest ruby in the world is said to
be stone weighing twenty four carats and
measuring an inch in length and three
quarters of an inch in width. 1t is owned
in London.
The girls department Of the Indiana Re
fcrmatory Institution for Women and Girls
during the seventeen years of its existence
has received 727 girls, of whom IS per cent
ere permanently reformed.
A Kentucky woman had been twenty two
years saving up $50 for her burial in old
age, when, a day or two ago, a thief walked
off with the cash and left her son, who is
worth $4,000 to pat up for her funeral ex-
penscs.
New York claims boy years Old who
can speak Greek and Latin as well as tho
professors. 1t might just as well have
claimed a horse which could play the piano
and sing like an angel, but the liar didn't
have time.
One hundred and twenty five tons OF pow
der which the French government stored
away in magazines five years ago has been
found to have lost 80 per cent of its eXplo-
sive force, and now is the time for Germany
to pitch in.
Some Of the "cures" at European resort
are mineral water cure, grape cure, whey
cure, cod water cure, massage cure. pino
needle baths, Russian, Roman, Irish, mud,
steam and electric baths. All ills are mot
by ''cures"
Since the charge of the 600 at BalalS-
lava over 500 men have claimed TO be sur
vivors of that memorable event, and the
claims are still coming in. AS a matter Of
fact not over twenty five OF the number are
alive TO day
One Of the most restful things of the past
winter was the railroad snow pillow, and
the money saved to western lines by the
spen winter would make a big dividend for
stockholders, if not needed for a new carpet
in the presidents office
Jumbo, Barnam's great elephant, will go
down to the future, as two Jumbos; Tufts
college will have tho stuffed hide and tusSs
as one Of its treasurers, anx lthe bones, in
skeleton form, will be one Ca the wonders
of tho New York Museum Of Natural His
tory.
A bolt of lightning in Texas killed seventy
eight wild geese which were flying high,
but they fell into a swamp and were not
discovered until their usefulness was
passed Some men never have any luck,
even when assisted by thunder and light
ming.
A wasp lays her eggN and an average of a
dozen yolng wasps are Matched. They find
a store of food at hand to keep them until
three weeks old at which time they have
etrauo,f N onouph IN 90 forth and lift Farm