Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-24
WINGED MIS- Sill ES

Growing palms in ornamental pots and
Jars are new wedding gifts.
Los Angeles county, Gala, has cucum-
Der that measures seven feet
The fashionable London woman now
dyes her hair a mahogany color
The astronomers on MI Wilson, Cal,
report snowstorm on the planet Mars.
The coins of Siam are made of porcelain;
those of Japan are made principally of iron.
-Four millions of money are spent in Lon
don in three months in search Of pleasure.
Tho assessment valuation of Spokane
Falls, Wash, is Slo,oO),Oo0 above that of
last year.
a wild sweet potato, found growing near
Paulsboro, n. j., measured twenty inches
in circumference.
An exchange has noticed that it is easier
to be a Napoleon of finance than to pay 100
cents on the dollar.
lac Italian clergy, unlike those OF
France, and for the most part of England,
also, have never made any objection to
cremation.
In ireland not long since young woman
while bathing was attacked by large jelly
fish and so severely stung that her life was
endangered
George w. Kettoman, of Penmar, Pa,
has invented an ear piece for the phono-
graph The contracting of disease by con-
tract is impossible,
The English fruit crop is failure as
well as ours. There are no native apples
to be obtained that are worth tho eating
ard plums are very scarce.
A young girl rode her horse in through q
store doorway at Lynchburg. Va, the other
afternoon, made her purchases, said good
by and backed gracefully out.
California prunes have become so pop
ular in this country that it is said the
French are beginning to put up their
prunes in the California style.
Philadelphia is an economical city, and
goes upon the principle that nothing is or
should be wasted. 1t has machine for
making shoestrings out Of paper.
Bacon says. "He that hath wife and
children hath given hostages TO fortune,
for they are impediments to great enter
prises, either of virtue or mischief"
A citizen Of Bridgcton, Pa, whose de-
rangement is said by his physicians to be
due to the excessive use of tobacco, has
Just been taken to a lunatic asylum.
A "Ioosier" man says married mon
should remember that, in order to retain
the affections of their wives, they must
continue to do most Of the counting.
A st. Louis young man is said to be ablc
TO stop the music of band by sucking a
he fnia m
sight of tho lemon makes their mouths
water.
There has been an enormous increase in
the value Of land in Berlin. For piece Of
property in the suburbs, which was sold
for e4SO thirty years age, el5O,0oo is now
demanded.
They now have umbrellas that can be
made either large or small But they have
never yet found an umbrella that knows
its own owner. 1t is an impersonal piece
of property.
A Brooklyn woman, Mrs. Augusta Elk
blom, who is seeking divorce from her
husband, has been married thrco times
within year Two Of her husbands died
soon after marriage.
William A. Hall, convict in the New
Jersey state prison, with six years OF his
seven years sentence for forgery, thinks
he was convicted illegally, and is now at
tempting to prove it.
CARDINAL Newman had good idea OF the
true gentleman, and his definition of such
a being was Zone who never inflicts pain"
! Could a society woman ever have such an
expression applied to heri
1.-THE Twelve Apostles" is the name OF a
strange variety Of bird in Queensland
Australia. They invariably fly in fiocks OF
twelve. They resemble black5irds in ap.
pearance, but are of rustier color.
Nearly thirteen million shad have been
planted in the open waters of Georgia
during the last two years. The rivers Of
! Georgia ere said to be the best in thC
country for the propagation Of fish.
Lovers of cats will appreciate tho com
pliment given TO these animals by the late
Canon Liddon He said that the finer at
tributes of cats were many, but they were
hidden by coat of shyness and pride.
II is estimated that If the tobacco used
in France during single year were twist
cd into q cord two inches in thickness II
would be long enough to cncircle the earth
thirty times, following the line of th'
equator.
A case OF catalcpsy occurred in st. Leon
ards last week.
There are no fewer than 17,'Do public.
houses In Ireland.