Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1885-10-23
MISCELLANEOUS.


II gilt frames. when new, are covered
with coat of white varnish, all specks
can be washed of with water without
harm.
Canon Farrnr. In his lecture on Dante
declares the Divine Comedy superior to
all the epics of Virgil or Milton. not
excepting Paradise Lost
The Grand Rapids Herald will be turn
ed into a daily after this month. Lloyd
Breeze will keep his hand on the throttle
valve AID will he backed by $4,000.
Lansing Republican: While wheat buy
ers of this section discriminate against
white wheat. Michigan white wheat now
commands two cents more per bushel in
London, Eng, than any other American
wheat.
Even barbed wire has it's sting. The tan
ners and leather dealers convention in
Chicago claims that more hides are ruined
by barbed wire fences than 10y grubs or
any other causes. Sheet iron overcoats for
the cattle appear to be in order.
An exchange says: 1t is worth remem
bering that no paper is printed especially
for one person any more than hotel Is
built especially to please one guest Peo-
pie who pecome greatly displeased with
something they find in newspaper should
remember that the very thing that dis
pleases them is exactly the thing that will
please somebody who has just as much in
terest in the paper as they have.
1t is said that eggs buried in ashes
small end down, will keep several months
The ashes should be sifted and be perfectly
fresh when put in and not allowed TO touch
each other The package must be kept in
dry place. The best dozen of preserved
eggs at an English poultry show were sim
ply packed in common salt. They had been
in the salt two months and on being tested
NV boiling could not be distinguished from
fresh laid eggs.
The Lapeer Democrat unfods 10 the I'M.
suspectiug world "A new tangled fraud that
is being praciced in that locality: "A
farmer calling at the Democrat Office on
Saturday tells of n rascal victimizing his
neighbors BY going from house to house
claiming to he lamp inspector, He
lights the lamps, pretends to examine
them and then blows them out, after
which he collects ten cents and departs
II he calls don't pay the ten cents, but un
chain the dog
Bro Wyslland. Of the Grand Ledge In
dependent. has the following sensible lie
..arks 10 oler on poker: Draw poker is
correctly named. Besides drawing mans
money from him. it draws him from his
family, draws him from respectable aud
clcya,ins.ociety, draws him into evil and
vicious associations, and too often results
n his being drawn home dead drunk
Young man, isn't draw poker and its inya
rable surroundings, a pretty good game
TO draw away from permanently
Reed City Clarion Everyone, nearly,
is complaining about their potatoes rotting
1t seems to he universal thing. however,
as nearly all of our exchanges say that
farmers in their locality are complaining
ofthe same thing. Farmers in this local.
tv seem 10 be at loss 10 know how TO ac-
count for this, a. tie potatoes when FIRST
dug seem TO be smooth and free from rot,
but after LAYING in the air 4 few hours the
rot appears and in short time the potato
is useless One thing certain, potatoes
will not he as cheap next spring as they
were last, judging from present indica-
tions.
Grand Ledge Independent Farmers.
be careful what you sign. When a smooth
tongued fellow whom you have never seen
before comes along. gives you warm
HAND shake, enquiries how all your folks
are. and tries 10 have YOU take the agency
for the sale Of tie universal, double spiral,
back action. combined clothes line potato
masher and coal sitter. which lac can fur
nish YOU at a. 80 and which sells at sight
for So. in ninety-uine cases out OF nine y
nine and one-g inth you may set him down
asa fraud and cut his story short by tell
ing him to beware OF the dog-a great big
cross animal at that.
Ionia Standard: How badly are you az
hlcted with Dakota fevcr' You have
probably read mucl about the heavy wheat
yields in that phenomenal wheat growing
country. now read a revised version. 1t
5 an extract from private letter written
10 this Office by w. i Kidd. and runs as
follows: "Wheat is turning out from to
30 bushels per acre. One has 20 20 behind
the returns to find the hushel fellows,
hut they are here just the same. | don't
know whether mine is the 5 or 80 kind but
| shall call it the 3O-till after thrcsh.
The liehtest yields come from the heaviest
straw and farmers who figure on so and
ret 8 or 10 can hardly believe their eyes
when the returns come in
Grand Rapids Herald: OF all the men
in the world who ought TO Jet tobacco
alone while engaged about their work,
those who handle food take the lead. 1t is
most Disgusting to one who objects TO to-
lncro smoke and there arc few women