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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-15

UNFORTUNATELY when the law shall
have done oil that il can in restrain
ing the use OF dynamite the danger
will still be great SO far as the muir
derous crank is concerned. He can
always make his dynamite for him
sell. 1t requires very small knowl-
edge OF chemistry. while tho materials
necessary may DO bought separately
for tribe at any drug store. But SO
far as the law can go it ought TO go
without delay. For tho rest the MUIR
derous impulse OF the crank is less
likely to persist while he buys
materials and manufactures his explo-
sives than while he simply purchases
a cartridge already loaded. Legal re-
straint upon the sale OF dynamite will
go far TO prevent its criminal use A
system which shall follow every ounce
OF it from the hour OF its manufacture
20 the moment OF its use holding each
possessor responsible for his disposal
OF 1T is not impossible to devise. and
such system would very greatly re-
duco danger against which we have
row no security at all
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-15

A new ferry-boat in the Straits of
Mackinac has an enormous capacity for
carrying cars. Its peculiarities are
strength, shape, and the number of
engines, twenty-four being required.
The bow rises from the water as If it
were hammer. She is an ice breaker
for keeping the channel open during
the winter. She advances toward the
ice, and showing her nose over it's edge,
lifts herself upon it. A propeller under
the overhanging bow sucks the water
from under the ice and the weight Of
the boat brushes it.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-15

The three great lumber states are
now eating up their forests at a rate
which will soon kill the goose that
lays the golden eggs The value OF
their lumber products last year was
S167. 237, SIC, and at the present rate
of consumption their forests will last
about five years longer. When the
numbering industry has eaten up the
forests OF the South in the Same way the
country will either have to wait for
new trees to grow or find substitute
for lumber
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-15

Our OF the supreme miracle by
which the outcasts of the earth had
the truth proclaimed to them are COM
ing other miracles too great for any
mans comprehension. Whenever an
advance is made this spirit Of intel
iectual democracy brings at once to
bear for further advance. the focused
strength OF the minds OF thousands
whom the intellectual aristocracy Of
the worlds yesterday would have left
in ignorance, inert impotent; power
less to help themselves or the world.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-15
The NEW YORK

though, considering the high maneu-
vering qualities of the new vessel and
her ability to choose the range of the
firing if in fight with any Of these
ships, would prove Of any marked adj
vantage. The Aurora, Galatea, I'm
perieuse, Narcissus. Orlando, Undaunted
and Warsprite carry, as their heaviest
guns, 9.2-inch breech-loading pieces,
and in addition a complement of 6-inch
guns. The s-inch guns of the New York
should do fully the execution of the
9.2-inch gun inside of $500 yards range.
Furthermore, the fact that the 4-inch
guns OF the latter will all be rapid fire
pieces should make their fire equal to
the 6-inch guns of the British vessels.
The New York looks not unlike some
big ocean liner. The allusion, how
ever, is rudely broken when one OBJ
serves the ram bow, the torpedo port.
and the gun Sponsors. The fact that
the war craft possesses, along her
under hull, the graceful sharp lines of
the transatlantic liner is only an evil
dence of her having appropriated, to
promote her own enchantment, some
of the speed efficiency of peaceful
sister.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-15

WHAT becomes OF all the pennies?
1t seems to be with them very much
as it is with pins-nobody knows
where or how they disappear Yet
they vanish in some fashion. Last
year the mint at Philadelphia coined
"a. 000 600 pennies. 1t would take a
good sized building to hold so many.
but they did not begin to supply the
never satisfied demand for more.
just now the establishment referred
TO Is hard at work manufacturing sup
plies, and so it will continue
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-15
NAPOLEON'S CHAIR.
A Belle OF tho Meeting Bstwee. the
Emperor and Bismarck.

Belle OF tho Meeting Bstweea tn,
Emperor and Bismarck.
Among the many curious and histori.
cal mementoes with which tho Bismarck
Museum of Schoenhausen is replete,
none attracts more attention than the
chair OF Donchery, occupied by Napoleon
III, during the negotiations between
Prince Bismarck and himself after the
famous battle of Sedan, the Fortress oil
the Ardenncs, and the center point OF
the most disastrous conflict OF the
Franco German war. 1t was here that
the Emperor, surrounded by 80 gen.
erals, ESQ staff officers, $500 officers
and an army o; $4,000 men, was forced
to capitulate on the Cd of September,
1870.
Having been called TO the throne OF
France by the same people who forced
him to abdicate and established the re-
public Immediately after his capitula-
ton, the step from one OF the proudest
thrones of Europe to the exceedingly
plain and commonplace chair of straw
seems scarcely less pathetic than his
great ancestors isolation at st. Helena,
after reveling in the gaieties of the
merriest city Of the universe.
AS seen from the cut the chair is an
ordinary straw-covercd affair, rather
worse for wear and of an old-fashioned
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-15
Good Queen Chnrlntta.

Wurtemberg is not wholly without
consolation over the death of the late
King William /. That erratic monarch's
Olga, may have had the sympathy OF
his subjects for the treatment she re-
ceived at his hands, but she certainly
never inspired their love. The new
Queen, wife of King William H., is
more likely to win and retain the af-
lection of the Wurtembergers, for she
is young, amiable and beautiful. She
is the second wife of the King, whose
first spouse died six years before he
married the present Queen. The latter
is the eldest daughter of Prince William
of Schaumburg-L ippe, and was born in
1864 Her youth was spent at Ratibo-
ritz and Nachod castles, In Bohemia,
where her parents reside. She received
under the eyes of her mother, Princes,
Bathildis of Anhalt, most careful ed.
ucation, eight tutors being engaged to
teach the seven children-four sons and
three daughters-of the family. Thus
Queen Charlotte became well read in
German and foreign history and liter
AZURE, an accomplished linguist,
musician and amateur artist, but was
also taught how to handle horse and
how to drive a pair of fiery bohemian
ponies. not to mention her great per-
sonal attractions and the winning ways
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-15

day she desires to perfect herself in ali
queenly graces and accomplishments.
The young lady is Princess Kainlani OF
Hawaii, and she recently celebrated the
siXteeth anniversary of her birthday.
She is the daughter of a Scotchman
named Cleghorn and sister of the pre-
sent Queen Liliuokalani. She is attend.
ing school at Great Harrowdcn hall,
Northampton, England, and is enjoy.
ing good health. She is an unaffected
girl of good manners and quiet DISPOSE
ton, and her latest portrait indicates
and delicate sensibilities.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-15
Annth.r frnm Maine.

The most surprised man in Maine the
other day was Mr.. Robert Shaw of
Shaw's Falls. He lay down to sleep in
a field, and when he awolee the appall-
ing discovery was made that he had
lost his trousers. Field mice had
gnawed the garment into shire, a, and
carried most Of them away.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-15
USES OF THE GIRAFFE.
It's Hide Makes Excellent Whip
Lashes.

Lashes.
The flesh of young CRATES, and of fat
cows especially. is excellent; there is
the least musky flavor, perhaps, but il
is not unpleasant. The tongue and
marrow bones are great delicacies, the
latter particularly furnishing the rarest
and most delicious banquet of the Afri-
can hunter. Few beasts OF the chase
are more poorly endowed with means
of defense, but even the mild giraffe,
when wounded and brought to stand,
will, ifthe hunter approaches from the
front, chop at him with its fore feet.
and blow from such limb is an ex-
ceedingly dangerous one. At the pres
ent time the giraffe is mainly sought
after for the value OF its hide, which,
even so far up country as Khama's Town
(Palachwe), now commands value of
from pounds los. to 4 pounds los. a
skin, varying according TO age and sex.
The hide of a tough, thicl<-slSinned old
bull, from an inch to an inch and
quarter in thickness, is of course the
most sought after. When one o. these
great creatures lies prone upon the
veldt, 1t seems as ifenveloped in a man
tie of brass, and the fingers can make
no impression whatever upon the car
cass. Not many years since the hides
OF the rhinoceros and hippopotamus
furnished OK whips and riding whips
colonially known as sjambolSs---all over
South Africa. But the rhinoccros is all
but exterminated south Of the Zambesi;
the hippopotamus becomes scarcer year
by year, and the hide Of the giraffe is
consequently in greatly increased de-
mand, A few years back there hap
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-15
Quickest Railroad Time.

The quickest railroad speed isexcelled
on log chute in Clifton, Orc. Il
is three-quarters Of mile in length,
and the bottom is constructed Of rail-
road iron. A log started at the top
scoots through the shute in just twenty
seconds-at a speed of two and quar-
ter miles in minute.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-15

II lie said that four ifths OF the stean
engines OF the world have been con.
structcd within the last twenty-five
years. The total horse power is esti.
mated at ~. 000 600. OF which the
United States has z. 500. o0o Great
Britain 1000. 600. Germany 4. 500. o0e.
France 3. 900. ooo and Austria 1909.
900.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-15

He is, just about TO see the dream of
his greatest ambition realized by the
working of the restricting labor law
which he got through the Senate. The
law restricts the hours of labor for
women and girls in factories and mines.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-15
INDIANA'S NEW GOVERNOR.
A Minister OF the Gospel and nm EK-
Soldier as Well

Ira j. Chase, Governor of Indiana, IL
minister of the gospel as well.
He began preaching in the Christian
church twenty-one years ago. and has
followed that profession ever since
Five years ago he moved to Danville,
Ind, and took charge Of the Christian
church there. In Februery, 1886 he was
unanimously chosen by his Grand Army
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-15
MICH

SOCIETY, my friend, is wall OF very
strong masonry as 1t now stands; it
may be Slapped in the course OF
thousand years but stormed Ia a day
no! You dash your head against it
you scatter your brains, and you dis
lodge stone; society smiles in scorn.
effaces the stain. and replaces the
stone
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-15
PRINCESS KAINLANI.
sho May Some Day Grace the Hawaiian
Throne.

The classic halls of Wellesley will
soon be visited by Princess of the
blood royal who only has one life be-
tween her and the throne. She will
not come to patronize the young ladies
there and view the intellectual dress
parade, but will be a pupil herself. AS
she is very likely to be Queen some
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-15

type. It's encased in wooden box
and accompanied by documentary
tablet stating that Baldouin Schwarz
OF Cologne bought the chair and do
mated it stterwa ards to the Bismarck
museum
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-15

Chinese women do not work. The
men work early and late, and women
do nothing There may be respectable
Chinese women in China but was
told there are but few if any. in San
Francisco. A Chinese women looks
as though she had been drawn out of
tub of fat all slick and Shiny ard
greasy.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-11-03
Caste In India,

A story just published in the India
newspapers gives some idea of what
caste means in that country. 1t ap.
pears that some time ago, In the
neighborhood of Fyzabad, man OF
the Ahir or cowherd caste was carry
ing young calf home on his broad
shoulders, when by some accident it
slipped down and broke its neck. The
Brahmans declared him to be outcast
and sentenced him TO the severcst
form of Hindu excommunication for
six months. They further told him
that he could not have committed a
greater sin than causing the'death OF
COW, but taking into consideration
that he was an uneducated man, they
would deal very leniently with him.
During the period of excommunica-
tion he was ordered to lead a life OF
mendicancy, and with rope around
his neck, and piece OF the calf's tail
on his shoulders, he was to perform
pilgrimage TO different Hindu shrlnes.
The members OF his family were for
hidden to supply him with either
shelter or food, under penalty of un-
dergoing similar excommunication
The Ahir recently returned TO his viii
lage, but until after the publication
ceremonies he must live in a tempo
rary grass -thatched house which had
been erected for him.
A man of one of the lowest and
most degraded castles has been Sc
lected to purify him. A barber, after
- n n
the nails of his hands and toes, will
make over the hair and nails to the
low caste attendant, who will burn
them and also set fire to the hut.
Then the Ahir is to be covered with
cowdung, after which he will take a
plunge in the river Sarju, and come
out purified. Even then he will not
be re-admitLed into caste fellowship
until he has feasted fifty Brahmas
and 100 Of his brethren.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-11-03

Mrs. Harrison's Remains Laid to Rest II
Indianapolis. :


President Harrison and the grief.
stricken members OF his personal and
official family arrived In Indianapolis
Friday morning for the sad purpose OF
placing the remains OF Mrs. Harrison at
eternal rest In the place she lovingly
called her home. The elegantly equipped
special conveying the party arrived
promptly on schedule time, and was
greeted by thousands of sympathetic
friends and admirers.
IL was a quiet, good-natured thrqng
and manifested its appreciation OF the
sadness OF the occasion by gravean
respectful demeanor. The PRESIDENTS
grief was generally respected and near
ly all the men in attendance removed
their hats and lowed their heads when
he passed through the station leading
his sorrowing family to the carriages
provided for them. A delay f half an
hour was caused In transferring from
the funeral car the wealth II floral en-
blems that typlfied the love and devo-
ton of hundreds of friends
Everything being in yead ness the
basket was lifted and slowly and rever-
emily the cortege moved out through the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-11-03
The woman and the Lawn Mower.

A Belfast woman got indignant the
other day at the shabby appearance
OF the lawn about her house, says the
Lewiston (Mo Journal. After NOV.
ing down her husband with wrath,
she was soon on the lawn herself with
the lawn mower Back and forth she
pushed the machine, while the sun
beamed soft and melting on the
down-trodden woman and everything
else.
From shady nook her husband
timidly watched her determined dis
play For an hour, in which she
must have travelled dozen miles, she
worked, but, sad to relate, not =
blade of grass bowed her indignant
cndeavOrs.
Finally her husband picked up cour.
age enough to addres herl
"Hadn't you better turn the ma.
chine over, my dear?"
She did turn the machine over. -
iuto the gutter-and swept into tn,
house with look that kept her huS
band at distance for several days.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-11-03
A Russian Custom.

In compliance with an ancient
Russian custom, all the young men
and women OF the mercantile class OF
Saint Petersburg assemble on Whit
Monday, the former to stare and the
latter to be stared at
The young girls. dressed as richly
as their means will allow, are arranged
in long rows by the sides OF the flower
beds in che summer garden, with
their mammas standing behind them.
The wardrobes OF their mothers and
grandmothers are laid under contri-
button, and everything bright and
gaudy is carefully brought forward to
enrich the drapery, the headdress or
the girdle.
Some of the young ladies are so COW
cred with gold and jewelry on this
occasion that their natural charms
are altogether concealed; indeed, the
ludicrous excess to which this sort of
decoration is sometimes carried goes
beyond what has ever been attempted
elsewhere.
Thus bedizened, the blushing dam.
sells are drawn up in mute rows, while
the papas, in flowing caftans and
curling boards, parade their sons VI
and down.
Here and there the papas and mann
mas try to lead the young folks into
conversation with one another, in the
course of which certain little looks
and emotions may arise, pregnant
with future circumstances Eight
days or so after this bridal exhibition
private family meetings take place,
at which those whose hearts are cap
tivated at the grand show are more
formally afiianced to one another by
their parents and relatives
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-11-03

amples. Like the Empress OF Germany,
the granddaughter of Queen Victoria,
she was reared and educated in the old
fashioned way.
The housekeeping In the White House
was not a promotion 10 Mrs. Harrison in
practical sense, as she never before
had "a house with SO few bed chambers
in It as has the Executive NJ heassies..
The Empress of Germany has the min
utest details of her imperial housekeep-
ing at her royal fingers ends; so had
Mrs. Harrison all the domestic affairs
of the Presidents house within her
knowing. She was the head OF the
housekeeping and she managed it with
all the care and discretion that she ever
exercised in her own house. House.
maids, housekeeper, and steward were
all under Mrs. Harrison's supervising
direction, whose first care was for the
comfort of her husband.
Mrs. Harrison was a model hostess,
with long experience In entertaining,
both In Indianapolis and in Washing
ton, in both of which places her name
Is synonym socially for all that is
graceful and agreeable. When In Wash
ington during the Senatorial terms OF
her husband she never assumed the
cares of a house of her own, but her
quiet receptions once or twice each
week, held in her parlors, were fire.
quented by the best people of the city.
Artistically she had what was almost
hobby for painting on china, in which
she long indulged. and was very pro-
fcient. Delicate, fragile bits of china,
plaques, and vases painted by her bear
traces of an aln ost professional touch.
This work, the result OF an original
taste. coupled with constant practice,
is really charming.
In making her designs Mrs. Harrison
was accustomed to gather buds aud
blossoms fresh from the flower beds,
and make her studies directly from
nature. Mrs. Harrison was also fond
of artistic needlework and embroidery.
As a needlewoman she marked with
her monogram each piece OF linen in
the house at indianapolis from bed
clothing to napkins.
Among the social graces for which
Mrs. Harrison was known, and one
fully tested in the White House, was
her practice of seeing each visitor who
called. She was never known TO show
irritation or annoyance, and 1t must be
fragrant case indeed when she refused
to receive a caller.
She was probably one OF the most in
dustrious mistresses the White House
has ever had. Her own method of life
was so simple that 1t gave her more
time than ordinarily comes to persons
in high places to devote to things she
liked best. She was constant reader
of the best literature and devoted to
her brush. She had been a diligent pu-
pill for several years in the study OF
china painting, and her talent was often
displayed in the gifts she made her
friends at the holiday period.
In carrying out the hospitality Of the
White House she has never been ex-
celled. She presided with easy dignity
and grace upon all occasions, and
omitted no detail that would add to the
pleasure OF those attending them. She
carried out TO the letter the written and
unwritten laws of the house. and did as
much more as 1t was possible to do
within the limits Of each season.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-11-03
Curious Legend.

A curious Indian legend was told
to some people out in Omaha by a
full-blooded Sioux, who lives at Pine
Ridge Agency. He said the belief
was that every time "a new moon ap-
peared it was signal for all the mice
in the country to gather themselves
together In one spot. When they as
sembied they then separated into four
great armies. One army went TO the
North, another to the South, third
to the East, and a fourth to the West.
These armies of mice Travelled unUil
they reached the point where, from
the place of starting, the heavens
seemed TO touch the earth. Then
they climbed up the sky until they
came to the moon, which by this time
was what we call full. All OF the
four armies then commenced nibbling
at Luna, and when they had eaten
her all up the mice would scamper
back down the heavens to the earth
and wait for her to show herself
again, when the journey and the nib.
bling would be repeated by the mice;
and this is what the Indians OF early
days believed was the cause OF the
moon growing old and finally dsap.
pearing.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-11-03
The Best Physical Exercise for women

Inc DeHI InySICdh
A celebrated physician on being
asked, What is the exercise most
conducive to physical beauty in wo-
men?" replied, very decidedly, "Walk-
ing" Tennis he declared to be too
violent and too much OF it is likely
to lengthen the arms and make the
height of the shoulders uneven.
Cycling renders women awkward in
their walk; they gradually come to
move with plunging kind of motion
the reverse Of graceful, and frequently
cultivate weakness of back which
makes them hold themselves badly.
Riding is one sided and women who
have hahitually ridden for years
usually have one hip higher than the
other. Croquet really does not give
exercise, and after survey of all the
ways he knew in which women take
physical exercise, he considered none
70 conducive to hea tn and beauty Of
sorm as walking. IL ought to be per-
severed in, and done in all but the
worst weather. and particularly in
winter 1t is cheapest and safest,
too A woman may be hurt with a
ball at tennis, injured off a horse or
tricycle., or receive blow on The head
from club at golf which is now be-
ing INDUCED in by females. Another
physician considers that nothing is
more conducive to the improvement
OF race yet unborn than the practice
Of rowing; but many mothers forbid
their daughters to row much for fear
of their hands becoming unduly large.
Small hands certainly give an effect
: OF refinement to the appearance, but
the health and enjoyment TO be had
out of an almost daily row are well
worth the sacrifice. Next TO walking
rowing is one of the best exercises for
strengthening the chest and invigor-
ating the frame.