Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-21
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.


began, but it never gets tired OF yawning.
Philadelphia takes more quinine than
any other city in the union. 1t also makes
more.
Manufacturing companies with immense
capital are being organized in all parts OF
the country.
The winter In ST Petersburg Is described
as 1.-THE mildest and unheathiest known for
many years."
u. T. Barnum has refused an offer OF
$50, 900 from an American Publisher for q
book on Europe
Three eggs OF different sizes. one inside
the other, were deposited by n hen in u
Lehigh county barn.
! A torpedo boat has just been launched
which can stay in deep water IN hour and a
half and then come up.
Gounod, the composer, is man OF frugal
habits. He smokes little, drinks less, and
does not eat great deal
Costello, the leader of the miners, expects
TO have ali the miners or the United States
! in one org anization at an early day.
1t required an act OF the Italian parlia-
ment 10 permit the burial OF the poet
Browning beside his wife at Florence.
Senator Stanford does not object to seq
ing the doctrine OF equal suffrage spread.
He has contributed 500 to the ''cause."
One OF the crack hotels at Pasadena,
Cal, has proved 30 poor an Investment
that the owner has turned it into storage
warehouse.
In the Cape de In Hoguc lighthouse in
France windmill is used To drive two
dynamos, the current bslug stored up in
accumulators.
New contracts for vessel building arc
heard OF In New England almost every
week. Large fourmAsted schooDers are
coming into favor.
The Massachusetts, supreme court has
ruled that man who is injured in rail-
10 ID accident while riding on pass Can
not recover damages.
An Akron, Ohio, man, after eating half q
rabbit on q wager, ate forty raw clans, u
dozen fried oysters and u pumpkin pie. lie
suffered no i'll effects.
Speaker Reed is not a groat smoker, but
in the seclusion of his home puffs pipe at
intervals. He hates tle odor of Gig IT.
cite and consids rs chewing bad form.
A great flight OF locusts, calculated TO
have covered about two thousand square
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from the African to the Arabian shore.
Engineers are trying TO see il they can
not build railroad down the Columbia
River. 1t is difficult and dangerous re.
gion for engineering work OF that kind.
A Texas congressman recommends
simple diet OF gan AMI onions as the best
safeguard against influenza Other forms
OF suicide, however, might answer quite a3
we'll
St. Louis consumes more patent
medicines than any other city in the
country. 1t is bilious place and tho
quantity OF pills swallowed there Is
enormous.
The mineral called turfa or brdzolina,
lately discovered in Bahia, furnishes an
oil akin 10 petroleum, a plfafnle suitable
for the manufacture OF candles, and gool
lubricating oil.
Rev. Robert Collyer has little grand
child that lately stumped him in mental
arithmetic, Tnis was her problem; "a boy
went five miles ahshins; now, how many
fish did he catchi"
Rabbi Stern of Washington is late
lecture referred to the faith OF the Indian
as bsing nearly identical with that of the
same fate had overtaken them in being
driven from their possessions.
Paul du Chaillu, the author and traveller,
is a small, round shouldereI man, about 50
years old. he is far from good looking,
but has ~ vivaciiy OF manner and bright
ness in his conversation which make tao
listener forget his want of good looAs.
This ia n negro brothers. explanation OF
race uolors: "Noah's sons war all bawn
white, but when liam saw his father lynn
drunk he was so mortyhej that be turned
black Sh SIN didat feel 30 bad an only
turned yaller, and Japhet hadn' no shame
at all"
Abbot claims ole OF tho best lady marks
men of Maine in the person Of Mrs. George
| Brown. Not long ago she saw fox
crossing the field short distance from the
house. Taking her husbands rifle and
raising the window she drew bead on
Master Reynard, planting the ball fairly in
the neck. The distance was twenty-five
rods.
Since the establishment of the Vienna
free kitchens the number of drunl1ards is
said to have greatly diminished. The medi-
cal profession testify to enormous improve
ment in the health of the lower classes.
arrangements of the stomach, formerly
the most frequent cases in Vienna hospitals,
have decreased to one-third of the number
OF ten years ago
Recent observations OF the waters OF
Great Salt Lake prove conclusively that
the statements made that no form of animal
or plant life exists in the lake are errone-
Gus. No fish or other large form OF animal
life has been discovered, but the presence
of vegetable organisms in the lake may be
considered fact from the abundance of
animal existences.
A Pennsylvania railroad man says young
men are selected as drivers OF the locomo-
tives on fast trains because old men do not
have the nerve TO stand tho strain of the
terrible speed of these trains, and even the
nerviest young man gets afraid OF them
after while. Then they get to letting up
q little in speed, the trains run behind time,
the engineers are given other runs and
new men are put on in thoir places.
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