Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-01-23
WINGED MISSILES.

At Greenwich the moon has been ob-
served with scarcely an intermission for
$50 years.
tioch, Fla, is A. b. Hendry, lad OF four
teen years.
Little Philip Sheridan Is now 10 years
old. He is a warrior In embryo and if
said to be the perfect counterpart OF his
father.
Fire has been worshiped as q divinity.
The Platonists confounded Il with tho
heavens and considered it as the divine
intelligence.
An illuminated vellum fan will last for
centuries. Illuminated paints are body
water colors that preceded the discovery
of oil paints.
1t is fortunate that not much artificial
heat is needed in Mexico AN over that
country the price Of coal ranges from $40
to SIS per ton.
Sir Edwin Arnold is man Of unbound
ed hospitality and gives a hearty welcome
to any fellow countryman in his beautiful
japanese home
New machinery Is to invade the brick
invented that will turn out 10000 bricks in
every ten hours.
Don't be old fogy about your time Tho
modern "improvement' is to drop the "m''
IN the abbreviation a. m. and p IN, as for
example, 9 a., 4:30 p.
Wild animals still roam through tho
woods Of the East A wld cat we Ching
thirty-four pounds has Just been killed in
the state Of New York
Biddeford Pool, Me-. has been invaded
by troop Of snowy owls from the Arctic
wilds. Thirty were captured last week
and sold in Boston for s. each.
1t took ten men and boys to handle o
drove Of 200 turkeys that Butcher Amos
Mace drove through the town of Ohalfont,
Bucks county, Pa, fcw days ago.
Senator Squire, from the state Of Wash
ington, is quito wealthy man. He has an
income of over $1,000 He is one of the
largest real estate owners in Seattle.
DR.. Talmage's citation of nautical orders
In lacking ship, for simile in one Of his
recent sermons, is criticised by the Boston
Journal as incomplete, in not inaccurate.
Most Of the province of Ulralsk, In
southeastern Russia, having an area OF
l4l, ia square miles and q population Of
over five hundred thousand, Is below sea
| level.
The music room in Chief Justice Fuller's
Washington home is to be decorated by
Mrs. Ada j. Bergen, who it is said, is tho
first American woman employed on mural
adornment.
A few, only a few clubs are prosperous
According to the new lubbock Of tho
Union League of New York the income Of
that club for the last fiscal year was near
, ly 100000.
Some man who has noticed such things
says: Few eggs are strictly symmetrical,
however nearly they may seem so, one
side bullying out, though very slightly,
more than the other.
It is reported in Zanzibar that the sultan
of With and his followers have destroyed
an English mission station ON the Tana
river. Several native christians were
| killed by the sultanis people.
Great preparations are being made for
the removal of the eighty-eight cofffns
from the Berlin cathedral. In this vault
the rulers and princes OF Prussia have
been buried for centuries past.
A wet silk handkerchief tied, without
folding, over the face is a complete security
against suffocation from smoke; 1t permits
free breathing and, at the same time, ex-
Guides the smoke from the lungs.
The bark of the birch is impermeable to
water. From the bark in Russia kind Of
footwear, or bark shoe, is made 1t is
estimated that % million pairs are annual
ly worn by the Russian peasautry.
The number of species Of humming-
birds now known to exist considerably
exceeds 400. The largest among them
measures no more than eight and one-half
inches, and the least two and three eighths
! inches.
In Chill weddings are not exactly gay
affairs. According to decree of the arch
bishop Of Santiago all trademarks in Chilli
must dress in black. White gloves and
wells are permitted them but no colors arc
allowed.