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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06
jones' Self-Restraipt.

She-Mr. Jones, look at that impu-
dent man on the other side of the
street He has been following us for
the last ten blocks.
Jones-Why didn't you tell me so
before. I'll teach the impudent puppy
a lesson.
Walking boldly across the street
Jones says TO the man: "Look here,
Snip. 1 am very sorry I've not got the
money to pay you for that last suit,
but you ought not TO follow me up and
dun me when I'm trying to capture
that girl. She has got lots OF money.
and IL succeed you will not only get
your money, but also an order for a
wedding suit"
Snip goes off satisfied.
Returning to the young lady Jone 8
says: II am glad you called my at
tention to that cowardly scoundrel. l
don't think he will ever stare Mt you
again. l had great difficulty in re-
straining myself. Siftings
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06

OF belladona and Is chiefly used In
treatment OF the eyes, and always in
minute Quantities 1t expands the
pupil OF the eye.
This substance is a striking illustra,
ton of the application OF chemistry TO
well-known medicines. The physician
does not deal so much with substances
in their crude form as with the quintes-
sences or active principles, says the
New York Sun. BY this means all
superilous matter is removed and only
that part which is needed to be used
in the healing art is given to the
patient Thus, not only have the
roots. herbs, flowers, seeds. banks,
juices, ores, and earths of ancient
medicine been forced to give up their
essential and active parts to the retort
or crucible OF the chemist and to reap
pear freed from dross or inert matter,
reduced in quantity. but vastly mag
nified in intensity Of action. but en-
tirely new combinations OF elements
have been devised by chemical science
and formed by chemical art, and
previously unthought-of modes OF
action in the human organism have
been achieved by some OF these new
formations. AS the healing art has
become specialized. and no one physi-
clan claims to be able to treat all all
ments. so the use OF special drugs for
special treatment has become neces-
sary. so that it is difficult to find even
a druggist who is familiar with every
one of the drugs now in the market.
The United States pharmacop9ia is n
huge book with the contents OF which
but few are thoroughly familiar. Yet
to get a list of drugs in &C tual use 1T
will be necessary to study also the
German pharmacopeia and the
British pharmacop9ia. In the exhi-
bition referred to one house showed
100 articles only out of 5000 produced
in the laboratories.
Among the expensive drugs is
aconitine a;xaloid, an anonymous pow
der from acenitum napellus, produced
from monkshood or wolfsbane. 1t is
used in febrile diseases and neuralgia.
a bottle OF this containing about three
pounds is valued at $489. so. A bottle
OF anemonia containing 81 ounces,
about the size o. pony of bee. is
valued at $l9l. As. There are thirteen
different preparations of caffeine in
small bottles at from $40 to $2S bot
tie. This medicine has lately been APP
piled successfully in Bright's disease.
There are various preparations from
the Calabar bean that are very costly.
They are used in diseases OF the eye
and lockjaw. One preparation is call
ed physostigmine alkaloid, and 4
ounces Of it cost 1887. 80. Physostig-
mine hydrochlorate crystals in "a bot
tie about the size OF Coney Island
glass OF beer, containing st ounces,
cost $503. Ia. A small bottle of
physostigmine salicylate crystals, con-
tanning 8 ounces. cost $1,810.05.
There is a preparation from the
leaves OF taborana pilocarpus pen
natifolius called pilocarpiue nitrate
crystal, used in consumption. A bot
tie of this containing l pound ounces
is valued at $67S.75. A preparation
from quassia of bitter wood (picena
excelsus) is used for dyspepsia A
small bottle of this containing 10
ounces is valued at S21S.75.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06
LOOKING FOR A WIFE.
The Mistake Man Makes Is That
He Usually Plucks Green Fruit.

He Usually Plucks Green Fruit.
Love has weakness for green
peaches, says San Francisco cores
pondent. i do not mean the real fruit;
speak metaphorically When you go
into the market you naturally pick
up the ripe peach and buy that. But
when a man goes looking for wife
it seems somehow to be human nature
to look for the green and unripe girl,
and leave the ripened spinster severely
alone.
| think myself-although l don't
know anything Mt all about it-that
girls should be left to ripen on the
parent tree and plucked in the proper
season. A plump, fair, mature spinster
Should most certainly be more easily
disposed of than the green girl. But
it is not so. Man. unthinking man,
takes the bloom on the cheek for a
fast color, and the naivete OF youth for
an everlasting charm.
Women as like nuts, not fruit They
are soft and tasteless when they are
unripe. and they harden with age.
Marriage is simply process of can
ming. and they keep their flavor for all
their life IL they are properly canned.
If this thing were distinctly under
stood parents would have less difficulty
with their children, and great deal
OF anxiety and labor would be spared.
In Europe the affectionate mother
only lets one of her daughters out at a
time, and conceals the others until
that one has been taken. 1t is an eX-
cellent plan, but it does not always
work we'll. 1t sometimes gives the
girl the hattering aspect of an only
child, and if the father is rich that is
q very effective deception.
In America they are so proud OF
them all that they put them all on
view as soon as possible. and say:
Let the best girl win" Tho result
is a percentage of old maids. although
no woman in America ever misses her
last chance. 1t is somehow knack
they have Of getting in in time.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06
How Would This Look Nouadaysi

One hundred years ago the leading
men in the United States read in their
Bibles that the body is more than raj
ment, but they dressed according to
the advice OF worldly-wise Polon-
ius:
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
When Gov. Bowdoin, n tall, dignifed
man, reviewed the troops assembled at
Cambridge, in 1886, he was dressed in
a gray wig, cooked hat, a white broad
cloth coat and waistcoat, red small
clothes, and black silk stockings.
Jonn Hancock's thin In person,6 feet in
stature. was very fond of an ornament
al dress. He wore wig when abroad
and a cap when at home. A gentleman
who visited Hancock one day at noon,
in June, 1882, describes him as dressed
in a red velvet cap lined with fine
white linen, which was turned up two
or three inches over the lower edge OF
the velvet He also wore Il blue dam
ask gown lined with silk; white stock.
white satin-embroidered waistcoat,
black satin small-clothes, white silk
stockings and red morocco slippera
Washington, at his receptions in Phil.
adelphia, was dressed in black velvet;
his hair was powdered and gathered
behind in large silk bag. His hands
were encased in yellow gloves; he held
a cooked hat with cockade on it. and
its edges adorned with black feather.
He wore knee and shoe buckles, and al
his left hip appeared a long sword in a
polished white leather scabbard, with
a polished steel hilL.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06
Western Journalism.

We have been in town only ten days,
and already our warm friend, Splog
Magin. the veteran mixer OF the whole
in-the-dark saloon, intimates that it is
time for us to whack up and give our
score on his books blight. We would
like to inquire If this is the usual prac-
tice in this community We have done
the whole-in-the-dark honor 10 imbibe
at its bar the greater portion OF the
elixir that we have absorbed since our
arrival. 1t requires inspiration TO fit
one TO illuminate and enlighten COM
munity; IL Splog Magin hesitates TO
supply the inspiration elixir we shall
either transfer the patronage and sat
urate our system elsewhere. or we
shall decline TO illuminate and en-
tighten the community. We certainly
will not submit TO being bulldozed by
Mr.. Splog Magin's duns, or even an
noyed by his hints We are destitute
OF wealth. but we are healed with gild-
edged dignity, and we will maintain
our dignity untarnished. Kent
wash Advertiser
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06
He Wanted Assistance aud Got It.

The trustees had just begun the
business of their monthly meeting. and
Deacon Smith had the floor. says the
New York Evening Sun. They were
legislating for one OF South Norwalk's
most prosperous churches. Two OF the
members had late business engage
me nts in the city, and Deacon Smiths
shop on the main street, near the sta
ton, had been chosen for the meeting
this month for the sake OF convenience.
The deacon was well under way when
the outer door was seen to open slightly,
and he paused TO note the cause of the
interruption.
Connecticut is famed for the extern
sive variety of its tramps. and one OF a
most interesting type now appeared.
His entrance into the room was made
in Thoroughly original manner. When
the door was sufficiently ajar 10 admit
of his head it popped in on the astonish-
ed deacons, surrnounted by a most di-
lapidated hat, and complimented by a
smiling face and full, ragged beard.
"Gentlemen," he began, your par
don for disturbing you, but l am very
sick"
He paused after this announcement
to note tho effect
Il went to the DOCTOR" he soon con-
tinued, land he gave me the pills
see, the pills" and he held up to view
"a small bottle which he held in the
palm OF his hand.
He said take the pills, three after
each meal, and would like very much
10 have some assistance"
"Weli, Shy in thunder don't you take
your pills, then. and not come bother
ing here" interposed deacon who
was becoming tired.
Gentlemen" replied the tramp,
with much JUNCTION, II can not take
the pills; have no me1L"
He got that neal.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06

The African slave trade could easi-
1y be wiped out if the Sultan OF Tur-
key, himself a slave owner, would
consent to it. But he is not likely TO
take such step for various reasons,
not the least of which is that his
brother, the former sultan, who was
deposed on account of i'll health, has
so far improved as to be serviceable
as figure-head to conspirators in the
event OF revolutionary movement,
which event is not improbable. The
harem and the slave block should
have no place in the European system,
and would not If the other powers
were not SO considerable in their ad-
herence to the rules of international
comfy, and treat Turkey with such
subserviency. The sultan's represent
ative sits at the board of the anti
slavery conference and discusses the
African slave trade with the others,
while at the same time his ruler is
more interested in the market value
of the natives than any other man. 1t
is an anomalous situation, and
will not be bettered until the
eastern question is settled, and the
Ottoman power is retired from
Europe.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06
FACTS ABOUT HORSES.

Tho Kind OF Animal TO Have and
the Kind to Steer Clear of.
A Fort Worth Gazette reporter was
in the stables of M. A. Maupiu, on the
South Side. recently, and while there
engaged that gentleman. who is one
of the best posted men on horses in
Texas, in general conversation about
the different kinds and characters OF
horses.
"a horse is an intelligent animal
generally" said he, "but like some
men, some horses have but little
brains; unless horse has brains you
can't teach him. Some horses, like
some men, are mean. and they won't
do to fool with. Now. look at that
horse there" pointing to tall bay, a
fine looking animal, fifteen hands
high, which was standing in n stall.
"You can't teach that horse any
ching"
why not?"
"Well, l will show you the difference
in heads. but have a care of his heels.
Now, look at the brute's head, that
rounding nose, that tapering forehead
and that broad, full place between the
eyes. You can't trust him.
Now look at that other animal in
the stall next to him. That's an awful
good marcus true as the sun. In her
you can see breadth and fullness be-
tween the eyes and ears. You couldn't
induce that mare TO act mean or hurt
anybody. Ina horse the eye should be
full, and in color hazle is good.
Nov as TO the ear. | like u small,
thin ear, and want horse to throw
his ear well forward. Look out for the
brute that wants to listen to all the
conversation going on behind him.
The horse that turns back his ears till
they almost meet at The points, take
my word for it, is sure TO do something
wrong. See that straight, elegant
face. A horse with a dishing face is
lcowardly, and cowardly brute is
unusually vicious. Then l like a
square muzzle with large nostrils to
let in plenty OF air to the lungs. For
the under side OF the head good
horse should be we'll cut under the
jowl. with jawboncs broad and wide
apart under the throttle.
1.-The next thing TO consider Is the
build of an animal. Never buy a
long-legged, stilty horse. Let him
have a short, straight back and a
straight rump, and you've got gen.
tleman's horse. The withers should
be high and the shoulders we'll set
back and broad. but don't get them too
deep in the chest. The fore leg should
be short Give me a pretty straight
hind leg with the hook low down. the
pastern joint OF good length, and n
medium broad foot. l don't like a
round mulish foot, for it is the case
often the case, that a horse having
them will stumble. There are all
kinds OF animals, but the one that has
the points have given you is almost
sure to be graceful, good natured and
serviceable."
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06
According to the report of a well

according TO the report OF q well
known commercial agency the SUM
mary of the failures in the United
States during the past year shows a
steady increase in the number of these
business contingencies. The tolal
for 1889 was 11,719, an increase OF
10f per cent over 1888, and tho total
of 10,5S7. for that year. was an in
crease OF Ok per cent of the total for
1887. These figures are not reassur-
ing. They indicate that something
is wrong in the conditions of the COM
mercial world. This increase of fail
ures may be legitimate result OF the
very close margins upon which busi-
ness has been done for several years
past. Very likely it is, and unless
this tendency Is changed during the
greater activity now prevailing, a
still greater increase of failures is in
evitable. The prediction to too close
competition in business is one of the
growing evils of the day, and causes
an unsound condition of business, and
awakens suspicion against all classes
of trade. These low prices so freely
advertised are detrimental TO the best
interests OF the merchant, and it is
hard to understand how the people
are benefited.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06
The Length OF the Day.

At London, England, and Bremen,
Prussia, the longest day has l6l hours
At Stockholm, Sweden, it is 1Sl hours
in length. At Hamburg in Germany
and Dantzic la Prussia the longest day
has IL hours. At St Petersburg,
Russia, aud Tobolsk, Siberia, the long
est is 10 hours and the shortest hours.
= AT Tornea. Finland. June II brings a
A"v nearly ~ hours long and Christ
IS one less than 3 hours in length.
II Wardbury. Norway, the longest
aNy lasts from May II to July %,
Without Interruption; and in Spitz-
bergen the longest day is three and Q
half months. At ST. Louis the longest
say Is somewhat less that 15 hours.
and at Montreal Canada. it is 16.--Sf
Louis Republic
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06

The Mormon lobby in Washington
is industriously circulating what must
appear to most people as a series OF
new revelations. The danger of
further Legislation inmicial to the In
terests OF the church, has brought
about professions OF extreme loyalty,
rejection .of blood atonement, rever-
ence for the constitution and bold
declaration that the saints. large and
small, enjoy perfect freedom IL ~xer.
cising theright OF suffrage.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06
Spent Two Fortunes.

In the Hoffman house last night,
SAYS a New York Star man, l met
James johnson, who has been ont in
Denver experimenting a mine. While
we were talking seedy-looking man
OF stalwart frnme came up to him and
begged the lone OF a dollar. He got
it and turned away, when johnson said
to me- There goes the wreck of two
fortunes. That man was at work for
us five years ago as Il miner, when he
got word that u relative had died and
left him n fortune of about 800, 1000
He quit the mine and came east. He
spent his money in less than eighteen
months and drifted back to Denver,
broken down in health and the most
most sorry, abject-loolxing specimen
of humanity you ever saw. He had
sown the seeds OF consumption, but in
sisted on going iuto the mine again
and we gave him place. Instead of
dying, as we expected. he recuperated.
became strong again. and In the course
OF year was quite new man. just
about year ago / was standing by the
mine Office when he came out to NEE
a lawyer, whom l knew and who had
sent for him. The lawyers mission
was to tell him that he was for a
second time an heir-this time to $751;
600. For heavens sake, he exclaim-
ed, have l got to go through that
again. II was queer speech but
prophetic. He's broke again. as you
see, and wants me tn take him back To
the mine. l guess I'll have to do 1t.
but was there ever before such a fool
ish spendthriftp"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06
A CurIonsi Calculation.

A London paper has been giving the
results OF some curious calculations,
which. IL correct will make fellow a
little cautious about guessing on the
size OF crowd and Offering TO bet his
last dollar that he is right. According
to the calculator on the staff of Justice,
all tho people in the world--about
|. 400. 600, 0O0--could stand in a field
ten miles square, and by the aid OF
telephones could be addressed by a
SINGLE speaker.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06
Have You Lost Your semoryi

II so you are in luck. The very lat
est fad is 10 affect absent mindedness.
For instance, young lady starts out
for the thester with young man. She
must forget gloves. rubbers, her fan,
or opera glasses. and they must arrive
in the middle OF the first act Then
she must forget the name OF the play,
forget to thank the man who gave up
his seat in the car, and enter the house
without saying good might to her beau.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06
VERY COSTLY DRUGS.
Expensive Medicines of the Mod
orn Pharmacop@ia.

orn PharmacopBia.
Some medicines are very expensive.
At recent exhibition OF the American
Health association in Brooklyn one
manufacturing chemist f Merck,
exhibited case OF bottles, about
enough TO fill an ordinary barrel, tho
total vaiue OF which was over $50, 000
The most costly drug in the case was
labeled Hon atropinc hydrobromate.
crystn It was MI In one bottle, con-
tanning six pounds, and was valued at
$12, coo, or Mt tho rate OF 81, 100 per
~nund. This drug is an alkaloid, ar
iria!ly prepared from atropine. Its
effects arc similar to those OF atrophine,
but DOT SO lasting. 1t is preparation
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06


An eastern paper says: "It costs
two thousand dollars year to send a
boy to Harvard. Verify the road to
knowledge is a highway" The fact
remains, however, that that is three
times, at least, as much as any boy
should be allowed to spend in college.
The boy who spends one-third or one
fourth of this amount in year, in
nine cases out OF ten comes from the
college better prepared for life's
duties, mentally, morally and physic-
ally. To offer boy in college I'M
limited spending money is an injury,
not only to the boy, but to the public
at large.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06
The Frcnch Way.

They executed a murderer in France,
the other day and Paris paper records
the fact that "he went TO his death
without word" Later on e observes
that .'certNinpeoplc had their sympa-
thies aroused because he was deaf and
dumb"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06

The Boston society for psychical
research has decided to disband as a
separate organization. and become a
branch OF the British society. What
Is the matter with the home market
for ghostsP Has America so degener-
ated that we can no longer find first
class ghost story on this side of the
Atlantic that will bear investigation?
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06
No Cause Of Action.

A young man in New Jersey who
sued his adopted mother for naming
him Moses Exodns Matthew Luke
Numbers Smith was beaten in the suit.
but the court took occasion to tell the
woman that fanatic asylnms always
ouartered such as she 10 the left wing
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06

Brazil, under its new government,
has taken an advance step in regard
to citizenship, which it may regret in
the future; and that is the decree de-
claring all foreigners residing in
Brazil ut the time OF the establishment
OF the republic to be citizens of that
republic, except on declaration to
the contrary made before the proper
authorities within six months after
the decree was published. When the
Brazilian republic becomes as popular
as that of the United States, it may
not care to have all foreigners recog-
nized as full-heged citizens the mo-
ment they land and begin to con-
coct schemes to run the government.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06

It cannot be without somewhat
malicious feeling that Americans learn
of the depredations committed in Eng
land by English sparrows. One Brit
ish farmer declares that out OF every
ten acres of grain sowed the sparrows
take one.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-13
BRIEFS.

The Ladies' Annex OF the chamber OF
commerce is endeavoring to establish a
reading room in connection with the
chamber.
The entire stock of the firm of Fisher
& Mcdonald, the Spring street shoe
dealers who recently failed SO disastrous
Iy, was yesterday sold by the sheriff to
an eastern firm for 500, 100, or about rs
per cent. of the value Of the goods.
Harry Frick appeared before Justice
Austin, yesterday, and entered his plea
of not guilty to the charge OF battery
preferred against him by w: Gregg. AS
lie demanded trial by jury, his case was
set for trial on the 9th inst, until
which time he was required to furnish
bail in the sum Of $50, to ensure his
appearance.
The trial of the case against 5. II.
Adams, the dentist, charged with bat
tering an italian named John Cottl,
was commenced before Justice Austin
Yesterday afternoon, but owing to the
absence Of several witnesses was contln-
ued for further hearing until this morn
ing.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-13
THE IRoQUoIs.
They Declare in Favor of Primaries
Under the State Law.

At the regular meeting Of the Iroquois
club, held last night at it's hall, No.
227 West First street, the following
resolutions were unanimously adopted: :
RESOLVED, That in the opinion of the Iroquois
club of Los Angeles it is in the interest of har-
mony and the purity of primary cleo
tions that the provisions of the State law
should hereafter prevail at such primaries; and
be it further
RESOLVED, That the chair appoint a COM
mittee of three members of this club to confer
with like committees for other Democratic or
ganizations on this subject
A committee of five was appointed to
confer with all democratic organizations
of this city or county with reference to
making thorough canvass of the city
and county and also to assist in having
the coming primaries for the election of
delegates to the county convention held
under the state law, and it was pro-
posed that all said committees urge
upon the county central committee the
necessity for the same.
Upon resolution the new democratic
weekly was endorsed by the club, which
pledged its hearty support.
The club then adjourned to meet
Tuesday, August 10, 1890.