Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24
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pally of iron.
Mr.. Henry Ibsen makes his wife
copy all his prosy and unsavory man
uscripts for him.
DIR. Mary Walker is helpless Grip
pie for life, without money aud almost
without friends.
A failure of the potato crop is
threatened in Ireland, and famine will
follow if it happens.
A hunter of Chepallis, Wash, re-
Gently killed Il cougar which measured
8 feet inches in length.
! Mrs. Gladstone always attends meet
lngs OF Parliament when either her
husband or her son Herbert is to speak.
The famous Physick Garden in Chel-
sea, England, whose preservation il
now matter of discussion, has 20, 900
different herbs and plants.
Charles Nordhoff, Washington CORE
| spondent of the Herald, has been placed
by Mr.. Bennett on the retired list OF
that newspaper on half pay for life.
A negro baby, three months old,
down in HOpkinsvillo, KY, can talk.
1t somewhat lessons ones wonder,
! however, when we add that it is girl
baby.
William Angus. who recently died in
London, was mt one time publisher of
! the London Times. He kept the posi-.
ton until 1889, when he retired on o
pension.
The fashion for young New Workers
Is TO go to London TO have the wedding
/ -
| for dukes and countesses to run in and
! honor them.
Browning had marvellous memory.
| He always could tell the exact place of
any quotation or fragment of quotation
referred to him, and was vexed greatly
whenever he heard his own lines mis-
quoted.
Domestic servants are so scarce in
! Montreal that women in want Of help
! are said to visit the jail with a view to
| engaging young women to work for
them at the close of their terms of
| Imprisonment.
1t is said that on the Mexican Gulf
| Railroad in Mexico the ties are made
OF the finest mahogany and the bridges
/ built of marble. These materials were
the cheapest to he had, since they were
found along the track.
A Detroit man who drank n quart of
embalming fluid in mistake for liquor
became rs rigid and rs white as mar
/ BILE half an hour before his death. and
when death came finally he looked
more like mummy than corpse.
The effect of gum-chewing has been
D I'll 6 1f.. L.
gum-chcwing the masscter muscles
which move the jaw are abnormally
! developed, and the fatty substance
which produces fair, plump checks is
! deteriorated.
A writer upon birds SAYS that in the
! fields and groves there are many old
maids and bachelors who apparently
never had any inducement to marry.
There is no doubt that the rivalry in
/ bird courtship is extremely keen, and
the choice is a deliberate one.
The largest apple tree in Ohio is in
! Washington county. and was planted
in 1871 or 1892 The trunk, where it
! is smallest, girths II feet 2 inchess and
the largest branch girths feet. 1t is
a Seeding which bears large yellow
apple of excellent quality for cooking.
The largest saw mill in the world is
at Christiana, in Norway. and is owned
| by one man. 1t runs thirty-six gang
saws. From forty to fifty sh,i,ps load
at one time Mt its docks. The same
man owns two large flour mills The
lumber yard of this mill extends more
than mile.
The newspapers are now trying to
find the man who spent the most days
in rebel prisons during the late war.
So far as heard from yet. +. w. Ware,
of Bangor, is ahead, he having suffered
COO days in Charleston, Columbia,
Charlotte, Raleigh, Goldsboro and
Greensboro prisons.
An Auburn, Me-, business man was
surprised the other day to see an old
customer come into his store and pay
him bill, with interest, which was
contracted forty Years ago, when he
was doing business in another town.
1t was small bill, and the one to
whom it was due had forgotten all
about it.
The Baroness Klara Won der Decker
of Tifls has issued n circular to the
"beautful women of the world" ask.
ing Tor their photographs In order 10
place them before II committee of artists
which shall choose those to be placed in
an album entitled Types of Female
Beauty in the Latter Half of the Nine
teenth Century"
The Hudson's Bay Company is SELL
ing off its lands and dividing the pro-
ceeds among the stockholders. Mild
winters and changes in fashion havo
deprecated the value of the furs in its
domain and dealers have large quanti-
ties on hand. The company's lands.
however. are increasing in value, be-
ing in demand for settlement.
Women's heads. says London writer
on fashion. have been growing very
rapidly of late. Il have seen several
enormous heads within the past week.
The great lunches of curls and French
rolls now worn Mt the back of the head
are anything but attractive. 1t is to
be hoped that they will disappear be-
fore they develop into anything more
serious"