Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-12-17


left an estate valued at $50. 900.
THERE are only 10000 regular at
PENDANTS of the public schools in Maine.
JAY GOULD is mentioned i'm London
Truth as 1.-THE smartest of smart Amer
leans"
You've HARRY GARFIELD. it is said,
will shortly marry his cousin. Miss Ma
son, of Cleveland. o.
NEVADA farmers are shipping pota-
toes by the tran-load to the San Fran
Cisco and Sacramento markets.
The old turnpike still in use between
Lancaster and Harrisburg. Pa. was
laid out in 1884 about 152 years ago.
A FEW of the grape-pickers in
Sonoma county, California. gather as
high as two and Il half tons n day each.
JOIN BRIGHT's latest exploit was
the landing of IN eighteen pound sal
mon from the frothing waters of the
Tay.
AMONG the sophomores who were re-
Gently suspended for hazing 1t the col
lege in Brunswick. Me, were two young
ladies'
A sTREET-CAR driver in Pittsburgh,
Pa has travelled over 100000 miles
during the past fifteen years and taken
care of 1900, 900 passengers.
A GIFT of 500, 600 has been mate
by n New York lady to the Tulane uni
yersity, in New Orleans. to establish a
college for higher education OF white
women.
Tie ladies of Queens and Suffolk
counties, New York, are organizing a
society to furnish clothing for the use
of persons rescued by the crews OF the
Lone ISLAND life-saving stations.
WILLIAM ID. HowELLs is preparing
an autobiography of his boyhood for
The YOUTHS Companion At last. says
The Nco0 Yorb World. we will have at
least one work from his pen. the scene
of which is not In d in Boston.
will of Joseph Neal, OF Bait
mol Md. in whose estate President
Cleveland shares with other heirs was
written with a pencil on the fy-leaf OF
a book. And rs yet no relative has
disputed the testator's sanity.
CATTLE feed is alarm:ngly short out
in western Utah and Nevada, so that
cattle are beng sold in many places or
driven off in search of food. Many
Nevada cattle are being driven into the
Truckee meadows and Lovelock' 5. The
winter is looked forward to with dread.
Or of the most energetic and un-
tir.ng merchants of New York city is
+. ;. Jail'ray. aged 70years lie ranks
among the wealthest business men o..
the metropolis, yet is always at his Of
fee Us early as half-past : o clock and
never leaves it until late in the even
ing.
Nh. HOLMAN lIUNT's well-known
picture, The Light of the World,
which belongs to Kcblc college. has just
been sent back to Oxford. after care
full restoration by the painter. 1t had
been injured from having been injudi-
ciously hung close to some hot-water
pipes.
TIE pope gave a private audience
the other day to the chaplain of the
German church in Rome. who submit
ted to him the manuscript translation
of the first series of Leo NILS poems.
They have been rendered into German
verse by the Bavarian poet, Edmund
Behringcr
JouN J.. SULLIVAN, Boston's pet, is
said to have got rather niggerish
since he let UP hitting the flowing
bowl. He wears patent leather shoes,
high collars, and very loud neckties.
lie appeared recently with a collar
quite as high as any that are worn by
negro Ministries on the stage.
SPEAKING recently of the probabf,
completion of Trinity church. Boston,
Rev. Phillips Brooks said: 1T will
never be done. Mr.. Richardson left no
plans except some which had been
worked up by his students upon certain
suggestions made ~ him, but Will
none of which he was satisfied
The resemblance between the faces
of Senator Butler. of South Carolina
o,J Cor,,,,,t,ra Darr,- hos oftcn boon