Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-04-03
WINGED MISSILES.

best shoe oil is plain vaseline.
Ladies can defend the wearing of corsets
on economic grounds-There is less waist.
The new Senator from North Dakota
lives at DEVILS Lake. He will feel at home
in Washington.
The toilers of Paris are many. Its work.
ing population includes 267, 900 men and
332, 900 women.
No Heligolander under 16 years of age
Is allowed to go 10 public house, dancing
saloon or theater.
Oranges are in great demand in certain
cities where the women have a notion that
oranges freshen the complexion.
You may be sure that a man has very
angelic disposition if he never gets mad
when he has failed TO guess a riddle.
Honeyed Words, She: am sorry you
must be going. He: 1t doesn't matter,
When one meets you he is already gone.
W. Lewis Fraser, art manager OF the
Century, says that the artist engraver
represents the coming form of American
art
The largest reservoir or artificial lake in
the world is the great tank of Dhebar
which covers an area of twenty-one square
miles.
London affords for the use of its ), 000,-
500 of inhabitants nineteen free public and
| twenty-five commercial bathing establish
ments
II you expect to make things different
you must ask: Can l make them betterl
But never bother other people too much
with the question.
Bod fortunes and death are the two
things that dispense fortunes and libraries.
Last year there were fifty-one private
Libraries in London sold.
A curious advertisement in an English
paper says "This concert takes place to-
light fEriday), and not yesterday, as was
erp usly announced"
T..e Atchison Globe says: A man in At
Gibson is about to commit the folly of mar
rying the woman who stood sponsor for
him when he was baptized.
The real investigator in any department
of science or thought simply investigates
for the truth, no matter if it overthrows
all his preconceived opinions.
Vienna has taken in all the surrounding
suburbs and formed what it calls the
metropolitan area. This gives tho fine old
! city population Of /, 1920, 900.
Missouri annually eXpends over $1,000
for tobacco for the convicts in the peniten-
tiary. 1t is not much wonder that some
men don't mind to be sent to prison.
A prize fight in Portugal is something
like a siege. Two pugilists there recently
engaged in prize fight for l, 129 rounds.
They fought six hours a day, stopping at
noon to eat and smoke.
3. Z. Stearne of Lynchburg, Va, has in
J his possession a curiously carved violin,
/ said to have once been the property of
Thomas Jefferson. The relic hunters are
ready to pay big sums for it,
"What do you know about TIA dissolution
of parliament" the managing editor asked
of the new man at the foreign desk.
Nothing" he said innocently: Il didn't
know it was dissolute at all
There is danger in the current Henry
Kramer, ineman, recently received an
electric shock at Louisville, Ky, and has
become hopeleSsly insane, believing that he
| is pursued by an electric ghost
The king seems disposed to remember
some Of his fathers friends. Prof. Bra
mann, one of the physicians who attended
/ the Emperor Frederick in his last illness,
has been ennobled by the present emperor.
I - luchltul lStlh an lIuSllSn DtiC-
| teriologist, who is notable as the discoverer
of taxalbumens and who is now studying
the Koch method at the Hygienic institute,
| Berlin, announces that he has discovered O
remedy for anthrax.
The New York Herald has enough pene-
tration and honesty left ID say: Tho
simple and awful fact is that the white
man wants the Indians land and proposes
30 exterminate him in order TO get it.'
That is about the size Of it.
| People worship the old The candles at
Mrs. Roger A. Pryor's receptions, in New
York city, stand in candlesticks 200 years
old. These antiques are not very hand.
some, but they are admired because they
''come down from a former generation"
In speaking of the minute parasites which
are found in fhe hairy part of tigers foot,
a scientist says: "They constitute one OF
the most wonderful curiosities / know OF
in the animal world. The parasites are so
small as to be almost invisible to the naked
| eye, and yet each is perfect counterpart
of the tiger.
An effort is being made in Brooklyn to
induce women to become clpbable. The
New Union league there has made radical
| departure from club traditions in setting
apart certain rooms, accessible by a private
entrance, for the use of the wives and
daughters Of members and in placing at
| their disposal, at certain hours and under
certain conditions, the bowling alleys,
library, and other privileges of the club
| house.
One who has tried 1t says panes of glass
can be cut under water in almost any shape
with pair of scissors. Two things are
necessary for success; first, the glass must
be quite level in the water while the scis-
sors are applied, and secondly, TO avoid
risk, it is better TO perform the cutting by
cutting off small pieces thus reducing the
form gradually to that required. The softer
glasses cut best, and the scissors need not
/ be very sharp.
In these days novelists have to hustle
for fresh contents and pastures new"
People want new backgrounds TO their
stories Rider Haggard has Zulu ro-
nance now in the hands of his publishers
and is collecting material on his present
trip for an Aztec novel. He is going from
Mexico TO Peru TO gather material for SUI
another novel, to be called THE Incas' -
Next year the famous novelist will visit
the Rocky mountain region Of the United
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