Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1885-07-17
PASSING EVENTS
Wildnowers are in blossom through
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Wndnowers are in blossom through
out California.
Arizona claims to produce the best
wheat and flour in the world.
They say there are only fifty demo-
Gratis after the Chico, Cal, postoiiice.
A fishing PARTY at San Diego, Cal,
caught $50 barracuda recently, weigh
ing in all 600 pounds.
1t may be the irony Of fate, but 1t is
true all the same, that whip lashes
are now almost invariably made OF
horse-hides.
A new locomotive turned cut the
other day at Albany on her trial trip
attained a speed of over seventy miles
an hour. Her wheels are seventy
inches in diameter.
There is a great difference between
the uncultured and the cultured OWL
The uncultured bird, you know, says;
"Tu whit tn whoo," but the cultured
one says STU whit tn whom"
1t is said that corundum, the new
metal, is found in every county In
North Carolina west of lredell to the
Tennessee line. In some localities 1t
is so abundant that it lies on the sur
face and may be picked up by the
basketful.
A newspaper which has twice re-
Gently erred in announcing the death
of people announces that hereafter
any young man bringing news of
death at an hour so late as to make
yerilication impracticable must be ac-
companlcd by the remains, not neces-
sarlly for publication, but as guar
tee of good faith.
The English university constituent
| cies include the whole mass OF gradu-
atcs who choose to keep their names
upon the books, the lawyers and the
physicians, the squires and the par
! sons, the bankers, merchants and
/ writers-men of every trade aud OF
every rank in educated England. Ok
! ford has 5, 400 such electors, and Cam
bridge about 1000 more.
Sarah Story, of Ludlow, Mass, who.
according to Ter own statement, was
| lO8 wears, months. and 81 days old,
! died recently. She was part Indian
! and part negro. She was in the habit
of saving that her mother told her
that she was ''bOrn in old Connecticut
the before independence was declared,
that her folks were going to move In
dependence day, but she came along,
so they could not"
A Baltimore FISHERMAN the other
day fished up bottle TO which large
bunch of bivalvcs had grown. Inside
the bottle was fish too large 10 60
ont of it, month. 1t is supposed that
the fish went into the bottle and either
liked its quarters so well that it tar
ried too long or before it could find
It's way out had grown so large as to
nearly fiji the bottle. The bottled fish
will be sent to the Smithsonian insti-
tuition as Il curiosity.
The report of the New York Society
for the Suppression of Vice for 1885
Classics the crimes of the youth oi
both sexes, under p, as follows: Muir
der. "A; attempted murder, l04; burg
larry, l79: highway robbery, 81; CRANE
larceny, y; larceny, 230; forgery, Is
arson, 4; manslaughter 2. counter
feiting, 3: train wreckers, 6; mail rob
berry, 4; picking pockets, 3 suicide
81: ATTEMPTED suicide, "a. 4 band o.
dozen boys is mentioned all under
10 years of agc-who had voted to kill
their mothers. Out Ol Alltul plOpOStt
to practice upon IA servant girl first
but she objected, and the plot was dis
covered.
For the last twelve years one of thu
most regular applicants for lette
at the Bath, Me, postoilice has beer
imam wearing blue army coat. VIII
is upward of 10 years of age. lie hai
hardly missed day during this time
He is expecting his papers giving him
pension. He enlisted in 1864, tn
last year of the war, and only went t
Augusta where he claims he contract
ed what is known rs the "straw rheu
matism." and Immediately at tn
close of the war applied for pension
He is diving in hope" as every da.
he has an idea that the papers will ar
rive. He makes scanty living by re
pairing umbrellas. and people assis
him in many ways.