Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-01-12
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Edward Willis asked Julia Williams,
near Augusta, Ga to help him catch
chicken. She tainted him with be-
ing too lazy To catch it himself, and
he shot and killed her.
Mrs T. NJ. Denny Of Ashland, Ore,
who labored zealously for the Jewish
relief fund, received from Jerusalem
the other day living rose tree, which
travelled IL 900 miles in a condensed
milk can.
In Holland women and persons of
either sex under the age of sixteen
are now forbidden to begin work
earlier than a. m, or to continue at
work after p m, nor can their werk
exceed eleven hours a day in all.
A silk handkerchief was the means
of saving the life of Chinaman Charlie
Sing at New Haven, Conn. Sing was
shot at by a fellow countryman, the
bullet striking a handkerchief in his
pocket, and glanced off to one side.
The old wooden ships are rapidly
being removed from the United States
navy. The Lancaster and Alliance
are the two latest to be called in.
The Marion, Mohican, Adams and
Yantic are, however, still in service.
Miss Sarah Freeman Clark has do
mated to the town of Marietta, ia.
library building, in addition to 1000
volumes. The building is miniature
reproduction of the great circulating
library building of the British mu-
scum.
The booty promised the British sol
diers in their war against Lobengula
was, for each soldier, farm of 5000
acres and twenty gold claims in Mata-
! beleland. The gold claims entitle the
holders to prospect a strip 5000 feet
in length and $50 in breadth.
In India there are more married wo-
men, in proportion to the population,
! than in any other country OF women
between fifteen and forty years of age
| eighty-four per cent are married. In
Europe, with the exception of Hun
gary, the percentage is only forty.
ID. f. Bestwlck's clothes were caught
in a shaft at the New Brighton, Pa,
hollow ware works He was whirled
around so rapidly that the eye could
scarcely follow him for minute, and
then flung to the floor, stripped OF
/ every stitch of clothing. One arm was
broken and one shoulder dislocated.
A broomsticl1 and a bucket bail
were the implements used by An
drew Johnson, n criminal in the jail
at Grantsburg, Wis, in hanging him
self He placed the broomsticl5 across
the ventilator of his cell, tied one end
of pillow case to it, made the other
end fast to the bucket bail that he
had fastened about his neck, and then
dropped and slowly strangled to death.
1t may not be known to the general
reader, says medical journal, that
rifle ball DETECTED from its course inn
mediately resumes it's line of fight
after trimming the object it is unable
to pass directly through. That is to
say, ball turned from its course by
a rib, passes under the skin until it
reaches point automatically oppo-
site to the point where it entered the
soldiers body, and then passes out,
resuming its exact line of fight, i
enough of its initial velocity remains
King Oscar of Sweden once passed
through little town, which was fes-
lively decorated for the occasion.
Among the rest, huge transparency,
affixed to gloomy looking edifice, at
tracted his attention. 1t bore the in
scription; "Welcome to Your Males
tyr in gigantic characters. What
building is that?" the king inquired.
THAT is the country prison, voar ma
jesty," replied one of the aldermen.
The king laughed, and was heard to
observe: THAT is carrying matters
little too farl'
Buckingham Palace Uninhabitabic.
So serious have been the discoveries
in connection with the sanitary condi-
ton of Buckingham palace that the
question is now being discussed as to
whether IL can ever again be used as
royal residence. Not only is the
| drainage in a shocking ndition,
which will necessitate the expenditure
! of a fabulous sum to set Alright, but IL
has also been found that one of the.
largest of the main sewers of the.
metropolis passes Immediately under
the palace, and that the gases arising
therefrom permeate the foundations
of the royal abode. The proposal to
alter the course of the sewer in ques-
ton is declared impracticable. 49,