Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-31
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The white rose IS the taVorlte mower
In France this summer.
A San Bernardino (Cal.) paper is
printed with blue ink.
Until 1776 cotton spinning was per-
formed by the handspinning-wheel.
Germany manufactures over e2. 0O0,-
900 worth of children's toys every year.
To salute with the left hand is a
deadly insult to Mohammedans in the
East.
The natives pronounce Newfound-
land "Nuffonlon" - with the accent
hard on the last syllable.
The veteran Dan Rice is going into
the show business again with an old
fashioned one-ring circus.
Constantinople is believed to have
founded the first hospital in the world,
as we now understand hospital.
A machine has been invented for
drilling square, oblong or heXagonal
holes. heretofore found impossible.
The average width of the path of de-
strUction with tornadoes is said to be
little more than one thousand feet.
About A. 500 species of wild bees are
known, of wasps LOO, Of which 17O
and lG respectively live in Britain.
According to the Wilmington EUery
EUeRt1lg a nail was found in the heart
of a COW that died near there recently.
An Owosso (Mich.) firm advertises
iob-lot of tombstcneS and advises peo-
pie to hurry up because there are only
few of them left.
Mrs. Eva b. Hart, who died near
Syracuse. N. Y. recently at the reputed
nge of l13. smoked as far back rs her
children can remember.
Seattle, the Indian chief after whom
the Washington city was named. is to
have n monument erected 10 him by
the whites. He died in 1866.
The Portuguese nation is said 10 be
one of the least instructed in Europe,
the illiterate inhabitants being official
ly stated at 81 per cent. of the total
population.
Few ladies consider that they carry
some forty or fifty miles of hair on
their head; the fairhaired may even
have TO dress seventy miles OF threads
OF gold every morning.
1t is said that a woman in Missouri
had her husbands name put down on
the census enumerator's report as a
lunatic because he had sold out two
years ago and left Kansas.
Professor Daniel Willard Fiske. who
won the 81, 800. 900 lawsuit brought by
Cornell University, is abroad at pres
ent. He is noted for his Icelandic
scholarship and his big lawsuit.
Justice Stephen j. Field is the poor
est MANN dollars and cents-on the
Supreme Bench, and yet he is several
removes from being hard up. His re-
sidence is one of the finest in Washing
ton.
1t costs the English Government 81
$4,000 annually to support Queen
Victoria and her immediate family.
Whenever the Queen visits Balmoral
Castle it takes $1,000 to defray the
railroad expenses of the journey.
AS soon rs the horse cars from Cairo
to the pyramids are completed. and
the work is nearly done. AN elevator
will be made to the tops Of the vener-
able piles so that ascent may be made
quickly and comfortably to the modern
traveller.
Samuel Dcy, of Wesley, Me-. is one
of the greatest bear hunters of bis
time. During his life he has killed
220 bears and cubs. receiving over 81
900 in bountieS therefor. He must
have gone around pretty well loaded
all the time.
Ralph Woodman, n workman, Of
Auburn, Me-, snatched n 3-year-old
child from in front of railroad train
ana nad sucn narl ow escape himself
that the cow-catcher of the locomotive
knocked off his hat, and it was carried
under the wheels.
The French mint will soon replace
the copper sous with nickels. Singular
" enough the 5 and 10 centime pieces
will be perforated in the center after
the manner of Chinese coin. This
enables them to be strung and counted,
or handled with great ease.
David Dudley Field says that he re.
members hearing Mrs. Fannie Kemble
say some years ago, of the 1900 600
people then inhabiting Massachusetts,
that, taking them all in all. she thought
they were the foremost 100000 peo-
pie living together in the world.
John Rose Ward, the British Admiral
whose death was recorded recently,
organized the working department OF
the National Life-Boat Institution, and
during his thirty-one years of service
as General Inspector of Life-Boats
that institution saved more than 20, 600
lives.
A German of Detroit tried to figure
the height of 100 100000 silver dollars
if placed one on top of the other, and
because he couldn't get it within foot
or two he jumped off n wharf with
suicidal intent. Although he has never
had pile foot high he wanted to be
exact about other peoples money.
American naval officers who have
adopted the cholera belt in the tropics
find it so beneficial that they often re-
tain it in all ATTITUDES. 1t is simply a
broad band of flannel worn night and
day the year around tight about the
waist. so rs to protect the stomach
from sudden changes of temperature.
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