Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-09-05
AyYrMINo AND E-ERYrnINa.


There are 900 languages and 5000 dias
lects.
New York city IL flooded with 50 coun-
terfeis bills.
There are 500 John Johnsons in Chi
cagos now directory.
Portland, Ore, will spend a million
dollars improving her streets this year.
The Empress Frederick has collected
S125, 900 for tho new Children's Hospital
ut Berlin.
Chicago philanthropists propose to
pension school teachers after 25 years Of
service.
Upward of 81, 500 volumes were added
to the library of the British Museum
last year.
The remains Of JEFF. Davis lie in the
receiving vault of the Army Of North
crn Virginia in New Orleans.
The photograph has made it physic-
Slly possible for a man to stand by his
remarks of the previous day.
A fund Of 5000 has been raised IN
Atlanta, Ga, for the purpose of buying
In elephant for the public park.
Donald G. Mitchell, the "Ik Marvel"
Of literature, is SO years old. He has q
beautiful little home near New Haven.
Captain Crawford of Macon, Ga, ma,
purchased Andersanville prison, and it
will he used as club house by Grand
Army post
Alaska cost only 100000, and the
revenue to the national treasury is ex-
pected to amount to So, 600, 900 year for
tina next 20 years.
10000 population, $4,000 square miles
of land. bat less than 5000, COO acres are
adapted to agriculture.
Messrs Lewis and Mccormack, own
crs of the newly discovered g Id mine
at lineup, Col, are reported " be taking
$4,000 c day thcrefrom.
There is a striking similarity between
the sign language used 10y deaf mutes
ard that in vogue among the Indians of
North and Sou.h America.
Sam Jones says: "lf l don't get to
heaven / will be one of the worst disap-
psinted men on earth. There are many
disappointment5 for Samuel.
The possibility OF harne sing the pho
nograph to the telephone, SO as to make
a permanent record of conversation
passing over the wire, is being discussed.
The Gar according to q recent stats.
tician's calculation, is the largest private
owner Of land in the word; tine total is
about $4,000, 0)o acres, about the size OF
the whole of France
In 1860 the consumption Of spirits in
this country was nearly l00,000,0Oj 81.
Ions. while in 1889 the quantity used wai
5000, e0o gallons, thougI the population
Lad more than doubled
Zola has male half million from his
&c ion. His vilest book had the larg,'s.
sale. Facts like these seem to be q CO...
iicate from the public to say it does no.
wish for the hes. in literature.
B!r Ria Ki.tridge, said to be the
champion microscope postal card writer
in the world, has succeeded in writing
tae Presidents last message, consisting
81 0,090 words, on q postal card.
A traveller in Japan writes that tire
Japanese pay moro attention 10 personal
cleanliness than any other people in the
world. High and low battle at least
once day and sometimes oftener.
The governor of Hong Kong reports
that the Chinese bel.eve in vaccination
and submit without complaint to the o.
deal. 1t is also thought that they believe
IL wards Off evil spirits and the like.
TIE r;ost densely populated square
mile in the world is in the CITY of No Y
York; it is inhabited by 270,0o people.
the larger part of whom are Italians,
who speak only their native language.
If there is any woman, young or old,
In t il country or any other, who has
not at some time rejected Stanley. let
her nrise and say SO and take an engage.
ment in museum New York World.
Professor Huxley, the eminent scien
fist, was once stock speculation. This was
in his early youth. The exchange has
lost en- ind ifferensspeculator, and science
Gained both Spectator and practical
investigator.
The largest boat oar factory in the
United States, if not in tho world. is To-
Gated in Arkansas The oars from this
factory are shipped all over the world,
supplying the navies of England and
France a. we'll as the United States.