Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-17

Twenty million acres OF tho lanu OF tho
United States are held by foreigners.
A statistician has estimated that court
slips average three tons Of coal each.
Provo, Utah, has rcd-hot anarchist
lis wife supports him by taking in wash
Ing.
Connecticut is a land of huckleb.rries,
and girls there earn So to IS a week picking
them.
The whole worlds produce o. salt pcr
annum is Z, 300 OOO tons. England produces
the most.
A kentucky mountainecr who sold his
vote for 80 cents has been fined $40 and
.disfr3nchised.
Men keep young By continu Ing to work
When men retir, they have invited old ago
to como in and take possession.
Edward Mcdonald, of Allentown, Pa,
thinks he owns the smallest dog. 1t is five
mna:hs Old ana weighs four ounces.
The faiiior of family was seen lately
bearing eight ovorsbocs Of assorted sizo
"nested" lire Chinese puzzle boxes.
George Blast sworo so frightfully at Mrs.
Charles Graham, n ar New Albany, Ind,
thai she went into commissions and died.
4, a Bohemian living in Bridgeport, Conn,
had cut out of his leg recently a bullet
that he received in the Franco-G German
war.
Diplomats are trained to ''obscurc'' tho
meaning of language. The car Of Russia
says he cannot believe a word his diplomats
tell him
NJ DEnuery, author Of Two Orphans, IL
so years old, but he 80 still the busiest play
wright in France. At present no has seven
new Inelodramas under way.
: It has been calculated that there are
about 200, 900 families living in London on
about e1 a week, and they are in a largo
measure the people Of one room.
A bell, cast recently for tho Kharkow
Cathedral, contains GS per cent of pnro
silver. 1t weighs SAG English pounds and
its vibrations last several minutes
Mrs Davis, the wife of Senator Davis OF
Minnesota, has gone to black. All her
undcrsarments are black and she has dis
carded white bed clothing for black.
Virgins, the weather prophet, believes
in the Reconsideration Of souls 1t Is not
material, however, as to what Virgins
may believe or what he may prophecy.
Tho police courts OF Now York do not
exist for nothing. Last year they had
110,0r1 cases. This report Is not very
creditable to the city on Manhattan island.
1t appears that the great majority of per-
sons committing suicide in Japan are over
fifty years Of age. Next to the list comes
persons between twenty and thirty years
of age.
I A single orange tree in Florida has been
known to bear 5000 oranges in q year.
Such VI. al is excessive, as grove that
will yield 1900 to the tree is considered ex-
cellent.
Bisre arcl1's wife is very domestic She is
On expert with needle and is famous as q
cook. She regards these as accomplish
ments and is proud Of them aud so is the
prince.
= A Ney York money prince has recently
ordered set of brass aoor registers plated
with gold in an exceedingly ornate des' IN.
Tho registers VII be placed in the owners
palace.
Ninety years ago Mr.. Palmer, an actor,
fell dead on the Liverpool stage Tho
moment before his death he had exclaimed,
20 God, o God, there is another and a bot
ter word"
Gold Is found to be much moro malleablo
than silver. Recent tests show that it can
be beaten 1900 times thinner than printing
paper. Ono ounce of 1t can BIO made to
cover LAG square feet
In Florida sugar cane grows luxrriantly
without fertilizing, and the average cost OK
preparing and planting sugar crop there
is $40 per acre, as compared with SIS in
Cuba and $24 in louisiana.
At one time General Custer tanned tiny
fold mouse, and kept 1t in large empty
inkstand on his desk 1t grew very fond
OF him, and ran over his head and shoulders
and even through his hair.
A NeS Hampshire dentist has put up
sign, 'Teeth pulled while you wait" and
draws much extra patronage from people
VINO do not stop TO think that teeth cannot
be pulled in any other way.
The pumps in the Gold Hill mino at Grass
Valley, Cal, were uncovered recently af-
tor lying nine years under water. They
wcro put TO WORK and lifted water as well
"a the frst day they were down.