Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-03-11
IN FUN AND EARNEST.

In the dead letter Office at Washington
are more than AZ, 100 photographs which
found their way there last year.
At one crossing In Chicago 1886 loco.
motives pass every twenty -four hours.
The danger to travel is consequently very
great.
The fare of an English steamship com.
pany is at the rate of six miles for pen
ny. This is probably the cheapest trans
portation ever known.
Chimneys are scarce in the City of
Mexico. There are not ten dwelling
houses which have them. Charcoal is
the only fuel used for cooking and heat
ing.
The greatest cold on record was at
Jakontask, Siberia, January 25, 1920,
when tested spirit thermometers ran
down to 73 degrees below the zero point
of Fahrenheit.
A very generous act that of Col. Frank
lin Fairbanks in presenting the town of
Burlington, Vt with building involving
an expense of $3.50, 900 to be used as a
museum of natural science.
Rev. Asa Reed Diltz resigned the pas
torate of the Baptist church at Plainield,
N. j., because the congregation refused to
pay debt Of $500 which was overlooked
when the church was built
The Harvard students who have ade pted
the cap and gown are now negotiating for
a supply from the London firm that fur
nishes them to the Oxford students. 1t is
estimated that plain mohair gown with
a broadcloth cap will cost about Sl2.
A somewhat summary way of repri.
handing horseman for driving faster
than the regulations allow was taken in
Golden Gate park San Francisco. He
was shot and killed by mounted police
man.
There are over fifty law schools in tho
United States most of them connected
with colleges or universities. The num-
Der of students in them is increasing
every year, Harvard, the largest school,
having an attendance of 1868.
The oldest school of medicine in Amer
lea is that of tho University of Pennsyl-
vania in Philadelphia. 1t is almost as
old as tho university itself, having been
founded in 1865 by Drs John Morgan,
William Shipper and Benjamin Rush
The most beautiful crabs in the world
are procured in the neighborhood of the
Farallone islands, Of the Pacific coast
1ney are called rcd rock crabs and
specimens sometimes sell in the markets
of San Francisco for from S. to $40 each
merely for curiosities
The fish has one striking though obvious
peculiarity-its pupils are large, to alb.
sorb all the light they can; but the eyes
are provided with no lachrymal appara.
tus, father ocean himself being so assidu-
Gus in performing for them the washing
process that tears are not necessary.
A Chicago violin maker and dealer says
the demand for fine violins is growing
with great rapidity "The increase in
the violin trade is so phenomenal that it
has even surprised those in the trade.
Within the past two years there has been
an increase of fully 500 per cent and the
demand comes from the small villages as
well as the big cities"
Maxwell Sommervile whose collection
of engraved gems was exhibited at the
Metropolitan museum several years ago,
is responsible for the addition to the
museum of the University of Pennsyl.
vania OF what may well be called the
rarest and costliest cameo in the world
1t is seven by five inch chrysoprase on
which is carved head of Jupiter with
the oak leaves and agis. 1t belongs to
Mr.. Sommervilles collection, the largest
In existence.