Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-07-11
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.


A mulat:o girl bss charge Of the Nashua,
N. H., telegraph onico.
A mailing clerk 10 the Orlando, Fla,
postoflce found 1.-Two 'possum in the waste
basket
Mrs. Grundy: The ambitious society wo-
man and the book agent ara always indif'
ferent 10 snubs.
Mrs. Grundy: Considering the experiences
OF divorced women, it is strange they want
TO marry aga n.
An ambitious young Englishmau announc-
es that he is about 10 produce a key TO
Browning's works.
The talk about agricultural depression"
does not seem TO be as current IN Kansas as
IL was few weeks ago.
A Baltimore boy is In a delicate state Of
health in consequence OF having swallowed
his fathers Grand Army button
The greatest deposit Of manganese ever
found in the United States has been opeaed
up at Tredegar, Calhoun county, 5. G.
A lady in Apolsa, Fla, has used the Same
needle for seven years. She says she
would sooner lose dress than the needle.
A New England magazine NOUNS be.
longer the standard dishes in Boston FAM
lilies.
The Oldest book in the worlt is IN the
Bibliotheque Nationals at Paris. It was
written on papyrus long before tho Chris
tian era.
Two old gentlemen, one eighty two, and
the other seventy eight years old, had
standup fight In Portland, Oregon, over a
young widow.
II is suggested that cellars may DO ven
tilated by connecting them by pipe with
the kitchen chimney which will carry or
the foul gases.
A Jewish synagogue to be erected in
Baltimore will, II is said, be the only speci-
men of pure byzantine architecture In tho
United States.
An Astoria man is seventP-three years OF
age and a capitalist, and is Willing TO run
mile race with any man, Of his age for o
purse OF $1,000
Quill toothp;cks, as a. rule, are imported
from France. The largest factory in the
world is near Paris. where 2O,0O), 900 ara
annually produced.
The new observatory near Tananarivo,.
Madagascar, WILL be one OF the highest in
the world, as the site chosen Is about.
4, 400 feet above the sea level
A reliable man, prompt and industrious,
generally holds his Job. J. T. PittmaD,
prompter at the Boston museum, has held
tie place for thir " five years
Scotchmen banqueting in London ara
now entertained with music OF real no tn
ern bagpipes, plap'd into q monograph
and sent to London by eXDress.
The emperor Williams reported to be
thrifty Individual He is in the money
loaning business and is exceedingly careful
as TO tbs char lcter OF his,securities.
Italy lcses annually one seaman in every
46); France one in every $780,; Germany,
one in every 225; Norway and Sweden, ono
in every go, and England, one in every "a.
A goat in Goshen, o.. had to be killed
the other day because it had brokea the
legs of several horses and COWS ana wound
up by nearly breaking the town constaole's
neck.
The wind no longer blows through tho
side whiskers of Jules Ferry. He has
shaved them of, and now the caricatur-
lists have lost q land mark and two good
points.
Several young men on Macknac Island
have formed society with capital stock
Of So 200. which will be spent on visit to
the worlds fair and q trip around the earth
in 1893
The typewriter has invaded the British
war Office. and with such success that it is
proposed TO transfer some OF the work at
present done by clerks to women with their
machines.