Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1885-10-30
PASSING EVENTS.

oliver Is scarcer than gold IN the
Nevada mining camps.
One day recently the thermometer
inside circus tent at Modesto, Cal.
marked 1876 degrees.
Twenty-eight states have adopted
laws restricting tho practice Of medi-
cine to educated persons.
Louisiana Is fourth of the southern
states IN the amount of investments
OF northern capital during the last
year.
An ostrich farm has proved such q
successful venture in California that
another one is soon to be started
there.
A drove of $50 hogs. being driven
into Orovllle, Cal, from q neighbor-
ing ranch, suffered loss Of 100 from
the heat.
The Salvation army is threatened
with prosecution in Boston for pro-
ianity because it gives three cheers
Tor Jesus"
The wheat surplus Of Oregon and
Washington will he $50. 900 tons. Tho
Northern Pacific will carry it east at
SS per ton.
A Pittsburgh restaurant-keeper is
said to have discovered that salt
sprinkled over the refuse Of his ktch-
en- keeps flies away.
A l5-year-old boy in Mississippi has,
unaided. cultivated twelve acres of
land this season and expects to mako
twelve bales of cotton.
During the past twenty years the
shares of railroad built in the United
States have, rs a rule. gone as a bonus
to the subscribers for bonds.
The Yuma Indians, in Arizona. have
held grand council and resolved to
adopt pantaloons As an article of dress
in place of the hitherto worn sapeta.
1t is curious fact that The Buffalo
Telegraph, the first paper TO publish
the Maria Halpin scandal. has not only
ceased TO exist, but has been absorbed
by The Buffalo Erening Ne'0S, Cleve-
land home organ.
The cigarette nuisance has become
so general in New York that small
signs have been printed and are kept
tor sale, which read : mo cigarette
smoking allowed in this Office" The
greatest demand for them comes from
the banks.
To keep postage-stamps in the peck
ct or memorandum-book without
sticking, postotiice clerk advises
people to rub the sticky side over the
hair two or three times The oil OF
the hair coats the mucilage and pre-
vents it from sticking.
A firm at Georgetown, Del, has q
contract to furnish five million wood
EN- pie plates with crimped edges, cx.
actly like the plates. The advantages
claimed for the wooden article are
that it will not allow the pie to b1rn
nor the lower crust TO become soggy.
The deepest vertical shaft on the
American continent is that known as
the combination shaft in the Comstock
lode at Virginia City, New, which has
depth of 3, 100 feet. Only one shaft
excells 1t in depth, the Adalbert shaft,
near Przibram, Bohemia, which Is
3,2S0 feet.
There is man in Webster county,
Mississippi, who evidently believes
that it is not good TO live alone. Ac-
cordine TO The Duck MI Dispatch his
wife died on Monday and was buried
on Tuesday; Wednesday he procured
a marriage license. and Thursday he.
welded another wife.
The Arniy and Nary Journal advises
the New York regiments to discard
thor fancy uniforms. II also criti-
cises the marching of the 9TH regi-
ment, New YORK. on the day OF Gen.
Grants funeral. while it praises the
troops from Pennsylvania, New Jer-
sey and Massachusetts.
AT Meridian, Miss. during the re-
cent circuit court white woman
swore she was negro in order TO
keep her negro husband, whom she
married about year ago, from being
convicted of incest. Her daughter, IL
years of age, swore that she was white.
The husband" was found mot
guilty.