Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-09-05
ODD CLIPPINGS.

In the new Chicago directory Just Is
sued there are 2,73s Smiths, 240 of them
being John Smiths.
Six thousand different species Of birds
are known, and of these Europe pos
sesses SOB, and North America All.
The national debt of Germany, which
is much smaller than that of any other
country in the world, is, in round fig
ures, Sl99, 100000.
A barber in one of the London suburbs
ndvertises that he cuts hair on physio-
Logical principles, and performs other
tonsorial operations Enthusiastically.
'"What concerns me more than the
making of Presidents, Corporal Tanner
tells reporter, ais the welfare OF the
Tanner family, from the old man down.
A Warwick farmer had a gang of
tramps i'll his yard few days ago who
refused to obey his orders to "move on. I"
He showed remarkable presence OF mind
when he overturned hive of bees. The
trampS disappeared, but not until many
had suffered.
Mrs. Ambrose Crouch, of South Jack
son, Mich, has been keeping tab on her
family and finds that during the past
year she has baked for them 2,3jS cook
les, 1.GSS doughnuts, 217 cakes, 2G7 pies,
81 buildings, and 793 loaves of bread.
Her family is not large, either, except
as to appetite.
The French post office department is
examining new and original system
for distributing newspapers through the
mails. Every publication is to provide
the central post Office with the list of its
subscribers, and every number is to be
sent to the subscribers without wrappers
on printed address.
The Hon Joseph Chamberlain, NJ p,
and Mrs. Chamberlain have decided TO
postpone until next year their projected
trip to this country. The critical condi-
ton of the Tory cabinet and the prob
abilities of q sudden dis. olution of par
lament are asserted TO be the causes for
this change in their plans.
Miss Mary F. Seymore. of New York
city, besides being notary public of New
York county, is president OF the Union
stenographic and type writing associa-
ton school, publisher OF the Business
Women's Journal" commissioner Of the
United States court of claims, and COM
missioner of deeds of New Jersey.
Itiis curious that one man will know
what thoughts are in the mind OF AN
other man, and the other man will know
that the first man knows that he knows
that heiknows what he is thinking about,
vet neither of the men will tell the other
man that he knows that he knows what
lac is thinking about.-lDallas News.
1t may be surprise to many to Learn
that statistics prove the sea to be safer
to live OH than the land. The death rate
OF sailors in the British merchant ma
rive is under twelve per thousand; the
loss Of life by shpwreclt is about a
quarter OF this: in fact, there are more
lives lost among miners from accident
than among sailors, and many more
among railway employees.
DR.. Cliafles w. Dulles, a prominent
physician of Philadelphia. holds to the
opinion that there is hope for consump-
tives AMI that medical science will soon
he able to control the disease. In a re-
cent paper on the subject he pointed out
that " lille Sn England half a century
ago there were $4,000 deaths annually
among 15,oo0,0o people. there are at
present in xns6sscel c. 40, 900, 900 but
14,0C0 deaths due TO phthsis.