Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-31
WIN CEO MIS- Sill ES

Artificial musk is u recent chemical
achievement.
Athens, Ga, has cat that weighs six
teen pounds.
A machine for making shoestrings out of
paper Is recent Philadelphia invention.
1t is curious that there are no direct de-
scendants Of Napoleon, Wellington or Wal.
ter Scott.
Marriages Of convenience which have
been a social bano in France, are said to be
on the decline there.
Paris has bad touch OF Englishism. The
Anglomaniacs of that city send their linen
to London to be washed.
The present Sultan of Zanzibar is only 81
years old. He is thought TO be an ablo
young man. for that country.
Three Tampa, Fla, hunters in two days
hunting killed two deer, four turkeys and
100 each Of quail and squirrels.
A rattlesnake died in ten minutes after
biting colored man at Lumpkin, Ga. The
man suffered no serious results.
One police court in New York in three
hours disposed OF 800 cases-an average Of
q minute and half to each case.
Labor is cheap in Ceylon. The coolies
there can live on 81 a month, and are glad
to get 1914 cents day for their work.
A new mania for collecting has broken
out This time it is not SNUFF boxes or
canes, but shaving mugs. What nextl
Locks were used by the Egyptians,
Greeks, Romans and Chinese. Du Gauge
mentioned locks and padlocks as early US
1881.
At Montichiari batteries Of artillery using
smokeless powder kept up fire for half an
hour without their position being discov-
cred.
A "pecping Tom" at MARTINEZ, Cal, was
caught in tree the other night and was
played on with hose until he begged for
mercy.
1t is not generally known-in fact, popu-
lar prejudice points the other way-that
the last carriage in a railway train is tho
safest.
Henry Walker, of Waylonza, Fla, is the
owner of pig that has six feet and twenty
four toes, while neighbor has one with
only two feet.
The Atlanta, Ca, fair association offered
premiums for rat scalps and one farmer
brought 400, killed on his farm, and got
the first premium.
It is estimated that the 200, 900 bushels Of
cranberries which New Jersey wfll send TO
market will realize to the farmers q round
million Of dollars.
A wild sweet potato found growing near
Paulsboro. N. j., measured 20 inches in
circumference and weighed twelve and
one-half pounds, it is said.
Germany sent to tho United States last
year beet root sugar to the value Of SIG 000,-
900. Two years ago the amount was less
than million and half.
A colored man living in Worth county,
Georgia, is the owner Of little red steer
that recently trotted twenty-five miles in
four hours hitched to cart.
A man stood on a street corner in New
York recently and offered to bet $500 to a
cent that "behind the clouds the sun is still
shining" He had no takers.
The explanation Of the peculiar density
Of thunder clouds is said to lie in the fact
that the vapor is partially condensed into
drops by the electrical action.
This country is not the abiding place Of
the Chinese. Hosts Of them left New York
the other day for China, having achieved q
competency for their own land.
A method Of rendering tobacco smoke
harmless to the mouth, heart and nerves
without detriment to its aroma is claimed
to have been discovered at Vichy.
An expert says tho Florida phosphatcs
though immense in extent. are disappoint-
ing as to richness, and the proportion Of
high grades is exceedingly small