Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1885-07-03
FACT AMI FANCY.

A project for starting a large pub.
lie library is on foot in Charleston
S. &.
Nevada has Isl postoflices of tn,
fourth class. 9 of the third class, and
of the second class.
A South Carolina planter raises Sea
island cotton for French spinnnei
and receives 81 per pound.
The Oneida community New York
papers published in the vicinity say has
virtually fallen TO pieces.
A Youkers bride received, among
her wedding gifts, II receipted bill Of
IS for gate hinges from her father.
As high as $50 head is offered to
officers of Victoria and Puget sound
steamers TO smuggle Chinese across
the line.
The PHILADELPHIA Times celebrated its
tenth anniversary as Il newspaper on
the l4th inst. by publishing twenty
eight pages.
In Death valley, Inyo county, Cali
fornia. week before last the thermom-
eter for several days marked 120 de-
grees in the shade.
marriages a speciality, acceptable
at all hours; strangers particularly
invited" is the unique advertisement
of clergyman at York, Me.
Mr.. w. ii. Harp, of Americas, Ga,
uses coffee mill which has been in
constant use in his family for nearly
sixty years and is efficient as ever.
A flying snake is ON exhibition at
Virginia City, New. The reptile is
four feet long and has two wings at
tached to its body about four inches
back of the head.
The juice of the curious ink-plant
of New Granada requires no prepare
ten before being used for writing
The color is reddish when iirst applied
TO the paper, but soon becomes deep
black which is very durable.
The story is going the rounds that
Tennessee woman, convicted OF steal
ing diamond ring, Is boarding at a
hotel under guard instead of occupy
ing small apartment in peniten-
tiary.
1t is SAID there is hardly telegraph
operator of any experience who has
not had touch of operators paraly-
SIS, and that many of the mistakes
made by operators can be traced to
this ailment.
A gentleman at Lake Jesup, Fla,
while experimenting with an orange
tree, placed some fertilizer on one side
and none on the other The side that
was fortified bore large, bright or
anges, and the other small, rusty ones.
Yale has, in the way of trophies,
sixty-nine base balls, won from her
various adversaries. Each ball is
painted the color of the stockings of
the vanquished nine, and is lettered to
indicate the time and place of win
ming.
There are twenty thousand tons of
wheat in the various warehouses along
Snake river, Washington territory,
waiting for the prices to rise. Farm
ers in that section claim to have about
half as much more in their home gran
aries.
According to Florida paper, the
pumpkin is perennial in that
state. 1t is said that there is a pump
kin vine growing near Rock Ledge
which has been bearing three years,
and shows every indication of holding
out for another.
A bill has been introduced in the
city council of New York to regulate
roller skating. The proposed ordi-
nance prohibits minors, unless accom-
panied by parents or guardians. from
attending roller-skating Kinks, and
also forbids roller skating in parks
and streets.
A new machine for bicycle practice
designed by DR.. Sargent. has been put
in the Harvard college gymnasium.
1t consists of a stationery wheel, over
which is Il seat hich can be raised or
lowered at pleasure to accommodate
any one. The pressure on the wheel
can be so regulated as to make the
work as hard or easy as is desired.
What strange creatures we are, to
be sure! A sailor soon forgets the ter
rors of the sea, and ships again ere he
has been ashore a month; the convict
is almost certain To return TO the
prison from which he was released but
a short time back, and the widow will
marry the second time if she gets the
chance, and she usually gets the
chance.