Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-30
WINGED MissILss.

Dull whackers was mllllonalre TABOR OF
Colorado.
Buffalo Bill SO ems to have taken Rome
by storms, his audiences average 10000
people and the enth usiasm being unprece.
dented in that city.
Ex-Secretary Bayard has written letter
consenting to deliver an Grafton before the
HuguenoL society OF South Carolina in
Charleston on April IA next.
Opium is the inspissated dried juice OF
the unripe pods OF the papaUer somnifer~ns
or poppy. Morphine is an alkaloid Of
opium, obtained by chemical treatment
David Bushnell, of Connecticut was the
first TO call attention to torDedoes and
topedo boats, and he made the first torpedo
boat in the latter part OF the eighteenth
century.
prospector in the San Bernardino
Mountains killed a mountain sheep a few
days ago that weighed dressed 400 pounds.
Its horns measured 1917 inches around al
the base.
The Duke OF Portland has been dis
appointed again. 1t is girl, and the pre-
cedent of a century, during which no direct
heir has been born to the house, remains
unbroken.
Virginia, owns a saw and grist mill on
Camp Creek, Boone county, which she
conducts herself, and she is laying the
foundation Of fortune.
Four comets will be seen this year.
French grape growers regard this as
favorable omen, portending big crop.
Superstition still holds its sway, oven in
the most civilized lands.
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propriety OF licensing gamblers the same
as they do saloons. The gamblers are very
much hurt by the proposit on. They oo-
ject TO being put on the same grade with
saloon men.
An Adelaide, Australia, daily paper has
in its employ three men named Day. One
OF them is called Sun Day because he is a
clergy man; another, being cashier, is
coned Pay Day, while the third, being u
law reporter, goes by the name Of Judg-
ment Day.
The life of the late Albert r. Gallatln
had extended over several generations. He
had dined with the duke of Wellington,
and one Of his favorite anecdotes told of
seeing an American frigate, in the war of
1912, bring up TO the foot of Wall street
British frigate taken as prize on the
high seas.
An Alabama negro recently brought TO
birmingham some chips cut from cork
tree growing in his neighborhood He says
the tree was imported from the old country
and planted many years ago, when a mere
! twIg 1t has grown to be several feet in
circumference, and the caips show it 10 be
q genuins cork tree.
Cornelius Vanderbilt and his mother,
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to build mission house on Forty second
street, New York, that will surpass in cost,
size and appointments any institution OF
the kind in tho world. 1t is intended as an
auxiliary TO the work of st. Bartholomew
Protestant Episcopal parish.
An English electrician has beon direct
ing his attention to the purif ;ation OF sea
water AMI other fluids by electricity. lie
has made careful application of this prin-
ciplo also to wines and brandies. He finds
that il has the effect OF so;tonin the asper-
tiles of some wines by removing she pre-.
dominant bltArtrate OF potash.
Kaiidasa, the greatest dramatic poet OF
India, has bean called the Shakespeare OF
India. His drama LA kuntala" produced
u sensation in Europe. 1t was Translated
by Sir William Jones. He is noted for the
Variety VI his CECdllOuSt Ills lubouAOuS COu-
ceptions, beauty OF narrative, delicacy Of
sentiment and fertility Of Imagination.
The foster-mo. her OF the little king Of
Spain is Maximina Pedraja, handsome
brunei from the province OF Santander.
W hen chosen from among tho thousands
who competed for the post she was poor
that the neighbors at Heras, Ter native
place, had To subscribe $40 for her journey
TO Madrid. She is now worth a fortune,
presented to her by the royal family.
Dom Pedro lately went TO Cannes to in
poet its military Notifications, and en-
trance was at first refused by the sentinel
ut the gate; but when the soldier learned
who he was the bayonet was lifted and he
was allowed to pass IN. Afterward the
sentinel was severely punished by the COM
handing officer on the ground that the
French republic did not recognize ex-
emperors and cared to have NO moaarchs
proving about its forts.
AT recent banquet at San Francisco OF
| the UnIertakers' Association Of California
the menus We're printed ON cardboard cut
in tue snap5 OF a coffin, and among tue
dishes were crab salad u la flotaire, chicken
! dressed la shroude, smelts served ON
"a stretcher and stewed tomatoes la
| grippe. Inc nan was appropriately deco
rated for the occasion, and among the other
artistic displays were an enshrouded
casket containing the romans OF McGinty.
The champion hne handwritsr of tho
world is believed to be Ria kitteridge,
VINO resides in Belfast. lie is seventy
eight years old, but has written the Lords
Prayer six times repeatedly on the space
covered by silver hve-cent piece which
Is ut the rate of 800 WORKS on "a postal
card He wrote the Lords Prayer once
on a space of thrse.sixtesntus OF an inch,
aud says he will cone under a contract TO
put 81, OoJ words on IA postal card Mr.. Kit
teridge does not use micros>ops in writ
ing, but one is nesdcd 10 real what ho
| Whites.
French millionaire named Ramouding
spending the winter at Nice, few weeks
ago ordered u colin OF special pattern,
aud purchased ground in cemetery upon
which he had vault built under his
person IL supervision with room Tor three
collins. II want room enough to be quite