Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-01-10
WINGED MISSILES.

DAAil.
Fashionable Americans will avoid London
this season. BY the express command OF
the queen there will be little gayety in tho
court circles this winter.
A physician at the annual meeting Of the
American Academy of Medicine made the
statement that the injection Of morphine in
rance is to-day almost matter of fashion.
1t is rumored that Andrew Carnegie, the
Pittsburg millionaire, will build a conserva-
tory of music in New York and that he will
spend 81 100000 on it.
Roman Catholicism, the Christian World
says, is spreading in Scotland. New church
es are rising in all parts of the land and
those already in existence gather large con-
gregations.
The Matthew Arnold fund has now
reached $4,000. After paying for modest
memorial in Westminster abby the COM
mittee will invest the money for the benefit
of Mrs. Arnold.
A theatrical manager, lately deceased, left
the following memorandum in his note book:
''In all my forty years experience 1 never
Inew prima donna TO be sick or have a
cold on the day she was to get benefit.
JtSullS art dlWdyS III etIcbIluB' IdUS Hli
.isties credit them with 1917 missio larie.
IN all parts of the world. North and South
America appear favorite fields with them
since there are 1,130 on these two CONT
acnts.
The cooper trade threatens 10 be lost art
II modern science continues TO inroads upon
IT, A Philadelphia man has just invented
machine that with the help Of six men will
turn out as many barrels in day as sixty
men can make by hand.
In London, England, there has been insti-
tuted Methodist sisterhood. No vows are
imposed, the only request made of those wht
Join being that they give three months no
tice OF any intention to- withdraw, so that
the work may not suffer.
There were found last week in the heart
Of big red oak, cut down near Hickman,
Tenn, the three chops" wherewith the
original surveyors of the country blazed it,
and over which were the rings indicating
3eventy-tive years of growth.
Three Of the bcst-known American evan
gclists are now engaged in the special work
on the other side of the Ocean-Dr Pente-
cost in Dublin, after labor in some of the
hardest towns of Scotland, Mai. Whittle in
Belfast, and Mr. Neodham in Manchester,
England.
Prussian statistics of insanity show that
out of 100000 of the population Of each class
there were mentally diseased among the
married % men, % women; among the single
332 men, 293 women; among the widowed
32l men, 357 women; amoSg the divorced
I,071 men, 1000 women.
The oldest church building in the state of
Ohio is the house of the Congregational
church at Marietta. One of the oldest
churches in the southwestern part of the
state is the church at Paddy's Run, which
was organized in the year in which the state
was admitted to the union.
The New York Sun is authority for the
announcement that the next meeting of the
srperintendents of the different branches Of
tie Woman's Christian Temperance union
will be held at San Francisco, Sept. %, 1850,
on which occasion there will be festival in
honor Of Miss Francis L. Wizards fiftieth
b.rthday.
The fig harvest this year has been good.
The whole crop thct practically supplies
Europe and AmerlC. and great part OF
Asiais gathered from very limited acreage.
The average yield is about %, 900 pounds.
The fig gardens lie along the valley of the
Meander, especially round the ruins of
Ephesus.
The patent Office has issued list giving
the names Of al women inventors to whom
patents have cen granted. They number
over two thousand The first patent ever
issued TO a woman was for straw weaving
silk or thread to Mary Kies. This was in
/ 1909 The second was to Mary Brush in
/ 1915 for a corset
More than 1000 cords of wood have been
cut this season on the site of the former
I town of Sumner in Kansas, and it was all
grown after the inhabitants abandoned the
town. 1t was in this now deserted village
/ that John j. Ingalls, first flung out his
shinglc in Kansas as an attorney and
counselor at .aw.
There is in New York no more tireless
theater-gocr than Col. Bob Ingcrsoll. 1t is
said by one who ought to know that he has
! seen over one hundred performances this
year He is more fond of comedy and spec
| tacular pieces than of high tragedy, and he
/ laughs consumedly at the funny characters
or scenes or passages.
! a novel law point came up before British
| Justice Butt in the application of woman
! TO have her marriage with her deceased
| sisters husband declared void. Such Q
marriage is contrary to the law of England
but Justice Butt surprised the counsel with
the opinion that for one of the parties to ask
relief from it was inadmissible
The sultan of Turkey has become intense
ly interested in mindreading. With his
usual luxurious method of indulging new
fad he has advertised in European paper:
for mind-readers who are willing to reside
In Constantinople for some time and receive
large salaries for devoting their talents t.
his amusement. AS the sultan does not pay
his cooks the advertisement has not beer
especially effective.
A grand entertainment, comprising beer
bread and cheese and dancing, was lately
given at Friedrichsruhe by Prince Bis
marck to all his workmen and the admins
tration for cutting down trees on the estate
upon which there is vast amount of timber
cutting The occasion was the leveling o.
the 1O0,0OOth tree. 1t was over $50 feet il
height and will be erected in front of tn,
princes house as a momento. The wood /.
mostly turned into paper pulp.
Notwithste nding the enormous population
of India there are yet vast tracts of unin
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