Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-08-08
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.


Beef loses 95 per &c 1t of its weigh. when
baked.
There are forty-nipe jewish synagogucs
in New York.
The word 'its" only occurs once In the
whole Of the Bible.
London consumes over one hundred mill
ion pounds OF butter year.
Ono hundred and fifty million corlzscrews
are made yearly in New Jersey.
A halter at Wilkesbarre, Pa, has made a
straw hat with the brim fourteen feet in
circumference.
A cargo OF alligator hides arrived at
Galveston, Texas, few days ago en- route
from Mexico to New York.
Mrs. Henry Mullen, OF Middleton Cor.
ners, Ohio, has given birth TO the second
pair OF twins within year.
The barge OH o in New York City is now
kept open on Sundays for the reception Of
the incom ne throng of Immigrants
A tea trust mas been formed in Toxic,
Japan, 'for the purpose of restoring the
declining tea trade in that country"
Tu kish engineers say that the river
Euphrates might be male navgable the
year round by an expenditure CT 100000
Mrs. Anna Roush. of Letart Ohio, has
fully two thousand living descendants. She
was born in MorgAntown, Pa. June 4, 1887.
A colored woman OF Adairsvills dropped
dead from heart disease no the effects Of
applying SNUFF to her gums with tooth
brush.
In selecting the names OF jury to try a
for mnrHar 1Otvn In (.aOreri /. tho N M
OF the murdered man was drawn out OF the
box along tn the others.
Speaking OF brief names, there is family
in France named b, one in Belgium namel
o, a river in Holland called the Y and a
village in Sweden named A.
The explanation Of the peculiar density
Of thunier clouds is sail to lie in the fact
that the Yapor is partially condensed into
drops by the electrical action.
A colored thief at Bridgeport, Conn,
Jumped into the canal, and the policeman
who was chasing him followed suit and
arrested the fellow in the water.
One hundred boys and girls OF Wood
LAM, Cal, whose ages range from twelve
to nineteen years, have formed a Co-opera.
tive Fruit Cannln; and Drying Union.
Shade is such rare thing in Pasco, Ore
CON, that tho Pilot remarks: The shade oil
the rddish and lettuce leaves is notireab @,
and has a cooling effect upon all passers-b by,
1t is said that from the summit OF Mount
Blanc one can see the Tyro, portions Of
France, Germany and Aus ria, the Nett.
terranean and Italy as far as the Apen.
mines
A Georgia youth who answered Gnclos-
ing qulrtey) an advertisement Of how o
make money without work got in reply II
pic of paper inscribed: "Catch suckers,
as we do"
At Chisamba, Africa, tho young people
have asked the missionary to raise fla
Saturday even ngs that they may know
that the next day is Sunday and come tC
the NEE ingS.
Out in Nevada telegraph poles in low
places, where water stands in winter, arc
said TO have taken root and are covered
with foliage The poles are cottonwood
and were planted with the bark on them.
A diver who was working at the fouuda
tion OF n railroad bridge near Boise City
Idaho, gave signal to be hoisted quickly
" hen he got to the surface he held fast
sixty-fve pound salmon that he had caugh
by the gils.
1t is stated that German artillery officer
has succeeded in m king a new explosive
from carbolic acid and that a shell file
with this material possesses power hith
erto unobt lined. Experiments made with
these shells, thrown from mor;ar', have
all, it is stated, proved highly success ul.
There are only FIVE states in the union in
which a schoolmaster can now legally flo
pupil In all other states pupil men
aced with corporal punishment can arm
himself with any secret weapon and uss i
as best no can. Massachu,ett teacher!
fog an average OF two boys per day pei
capita
A curious fashion has come into vogue in
Paris In all the cemeteries metal boxe.
with slit in the lid are placed on thu
tombstones TO receive the cards OF visitors
The relatives of the deceased are thus en-
abled to see who among the living still
cherish the memory of their departed
friends
During a dispute over CALI at Cama
Prairie, Oregon, recently Ed Rinehard
hit Helm Mcconnell on the head with
heavy plug OF tobacco. In order to proven
suit charging him with assault with
deadly weapon, Rnehardt paid $40, be
sides giving over the calf and the plug o
tobacco.