Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1884-04-02
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

--"Starve Out" is the unwelcome
name of II town that meets the eyes of
tramps in Wyoming Territory. .-Chica-
90 Times.
Fasting from four to eight days,
with water and lemonade at intervals,
is the latest ''sure' cure for rheuma-
tism. Chicago Journal.
"A correspondent of the Buffalo IN.
" Express informs it that its published
list of pensioners in Erie County con-
tains the names of some who have been
dead for years.
1t has been demonstrated that any
Maid of the Mist can pass the Niagara
whirlpool, but that's poor satisfaction
for swimmers not built on the steamboat
plan.-DetroH Free Press.
The life of society belle is said TO
be one of excessive hard work, and yet
the supply of women willing to immo-
late themselves in that way continues
ineXhaustible. Indianapolis Journal.
There is family living in Nash
vile, Tenn, whose members in the last
three years committed four murders,
but have always escaped punishment
through some technicality of the law
Chicago Times.
The home of natural curiosities
seems to be Robson County, North Car
alma. There was born "Nlillie Chris.
tine" the two-headcd nightingale, and
few days ago another phenomenon in
tho shape of negro woman with three
eyes was discovered in Lumberton.-
ErchdRqe.
"A woman of Brownsville, N. Y,
had narrow escape from death re.
Gently. She was seated at the dinner
table, when bullet from gun in the
hands of n lunatic passed through the
window in front of the lady, so close
that it broke hairpin fastened on her
left temple.
The Cleveland Herald keeps this
legend standing at the head of its edi.
torial columns: population of Cleve.
land two hundred and ten thousand. v
Buffalo has been claiming two hundred
thousand for year past, but she must
peg up ten thousand more at once
Buffalo Commercial AdUertiScr.
When George Strykcr was at work
in the bottom of the well at Fort Haml.
ton, in New York harbor, bucket fell
and killed him. Before going to work
in the morning young Stryker told his
friends that he dreamed in the night that
large stone fell on him in the well and
killed him and his uncle cautioned him
TO take care in the work.--N Y. Mail.
Emma Clark, handsome girl OF
twenty, was arraigned in the Common
Pleas Court at Cleveland, recently, for
stealing n pocket-book with S26l i'm it,
from John Flanagan's coat. He had nc
evidence againt the girl except that he
dreamed she had taken the money.
Emma, who had been telegraph oper.
ator in Detroit, was acquitted. .-DetrOiI
Post.
"A Philadelphia bride received
among her wedding presents n few days
ago dinner service of hand-painted
china, two hundred and odd pieces in
all, that cost, so the gossips say, one
thousand five hundred dollars. 1t took
three "hand-paintcrs" six months to dc
the "decorative-art business Ii is tc
be hoped that the bride is fully appre-
ciative. Rilddelphio Press.
"A Traveller of Selma, Ala, who re-
Gently visited the Mammoth Cave in
kentucky, returned to his home, taking
with him us a curiosity couple of eve.
less fish that are found in the subtcrra-
mean river there. The little linnics
are as lively in their glass river as if in
their native waters. They arc perfectly
white, have only the merest,scars where
eyes ought TO be, belong to the catfish
family, and are only two inches long.
-Soh Kwanf Pom, Secretary of the
Corean Embassy mt Washington, has
made the following observations in this
country: "The women of America are
all far more beautiful than any others
we have seen. | notice most women
wear black clothes; many wear blue,
and when the weather is warm white is
very commonly worn. Some women
wear their hats and bonnets tilted back,
showing the front hair, while others
wear them squarely on the head. OF
the two the former style is the nicer to
see.
There is an awful warning in the
following case, which recently happened
in Danbury, N. G., to persons who use
Gods name in vain. Mr.. Smith, n to-
bacco farmer, who lives in Danbury,
some days ago was in an almost insane
rage over the damage to his fine crop
by the rains and winds, and he walked
over his plantation swearing and ours
ing the Almighty. His language was
so terrible that several laborers who
were with him left, when, as he was
about TO utter u frightful imprecation,
he fell voiceless and as if dead. His
case is puzzle to the physicians, who
can do nothing whatever to relieve him
from his difliculty.-St. Louis Post.
Bishop Warren, of the Methodist
Church, is enthusiastic over American
progress. He proudly declares that our
country is one that in hundred years
has taken respectable rank in litera-
ture; that has made fourteen inventions
which have gone wherever civilization
has gone, while all the rest of the world
has not made half that number of equal
Importance; that has revolutionized land
warfare once and naval warfare twice;
that has solved social problems which
the world has blundcrcd over for ages;
that has abolished feudalism and serf-
dom; that, taking the Bible declaration
that God has made of one blood all the
nations, has made one family out of
representatives of every kindred and
tongue and people and nation; that has
founded its institutions on the rights of
man and the laws of God, and that has
already driven wedge of republican
ism nearly to the heart of Europe.
Y. Tribune.