Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10
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There are seven millionaire editors N
New York.
Nine water companies supply London
with water.
Over TO- 900 Irish people settlein England
every year.
There 100 deer forests in the Highlands
/, Of Scotland.
Whisky was first made in Ireland by an
English monk.
There arc IA, 465 women commercial trav-
elers in the United States.
There are seventeen registered sects Of
Wesleyans and Methodists.
Tho Chinese endure change of climate
better than any other race
People eat 20 per cent more bread when
the weather is cold than when it is mild.
A shoe firm in Macon, Ga, has been con-
Quoting business at one stand for sixty
years.
Turin is the first Italian city which can
boast of library intended exclusively for
women.
It is estimated in England that one man in
800 gets college education, and in America
one in every 200.
Old Battersea bridge, the solitary sSr-
viving pile bridge on the lower Thames, is
TO be pulled down.
A mountain side makes the best pasture
for young COWS, because climbing tends to
strengthen the calves.
The number of diamonds known of the
weight of thirty-six carats and upward
does not exceed twenty.
| A Chelsea man put his patent incubator
over a ducks egg and Matched a duckling
with four eyes and two bills.
A Georgia woman who is engaged in tho
chicken business has sold $50 dozen eggs
from twenty-seven hens this year.
A Benton Harbor man has a muskot
which used to kill Frenchmen POD years
ago, and a powder flask older by century.
BY the agency of the London children's
county holidays fund 10000 children last
year enjoyed short holiday in the coun-
try.
In the year 1919 sugar is said to have been
sold at Is 91fd pound, and was considered
very luxurious article till tho eighteenth
century.
1t Is known that the Chinese, as early as
I p69 A. D., fastened rockets to their arrows,
that the latter might be thrown to greater
distance.
An English geologist predicts that with
| in fifty years a convulsion of nature will
sink the whole of New Zealand fifty feet
below the surface of the sea.
Between one hundred and fifty and two
hundred hogsheads of beer are given away
every week to the employees at Burton-on-
Trent in the way of allowances"
A Polander woman living at Salamanca
one day last week picked and marketed
over twenty quarts OF blaclSoerries, and in
the afternoon gave birth to triplets.
The use of India ruth for crasing pen
Gil marks was first suggested in or just
prior to 1882 by an academician named
Magellan, descendant of the great navi-
CATER.
The mortality of the globe is said to be
sixty-seven every minute, 97,76o every day,
or $500, S35 every yelr. The births
amount to 100000 every day, 86,792, 900 ev-
cry year.
Tho Mcxicans arc more original than
those countries which celebrate their vic
tories. They have just been celebrating
their defeat at the battle of Churubusco on
the 22d of August, lS47.
A woman in Salem, N. J., thirty-four
years ago lost two silver coins in slit in
the floor. Last week, the floor being taken
up for repairs, she instituted search for
the long lost money and found it.
Tho vatican library at Rome contains So
OO) printed books and $500 manuscripts
The manuscripts form one Of tae most
valuable collections in the world, being
mostly Greek, Latin and Oriental.