Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-06-18
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There are in Philadelphia eight female
physicians who have an annual practice
of about S20,0 each.
Mr.. Charles Asbury, the postmaster ut
Lulu, Ga, has four little daughters,
named Pearl, Diamond, Ruby, and Gar
net.
There is an eX-Confederate soldier in
Athens, Ga, who belonged to nine diff
fcrent regiments during the war and
Was never in fight.
A lady in Queen Victora's service,
who made the mistake of wearing a
cherry ribbon during n recent term of
court mourning, has been deprived OF
her position for two months.
1t seems that the State Organizer
of the anti-Chinesc party in California
is or was Baptist minister. and that
he receives 500 Il month and expenses
tor organizing opposition TO the Chi
ncSe.
DR., Sims, missionary on the Congo,
says that the natives are very severe in
their treatment of thieves, often tying
them to trees and allowing them 10
perish from hunger and exposure. In
the West horse thieves are often tied to
trees, but they do not suffer for more
than few minutes.
A Boston drummer ordered plate of
his native fodder in Brandon, VI, the
other day, and was charged % cents,
He objected to paying Ia cents more
than the Boston price, but without
avail. The next day the bean seller
received telegram saying: Don't you
think that was too much for those
beans?' The restaurant man paid 20
cents for the message and swore
just before the outbreak of the war
Stonewall Jackson, then 4 professor in
the Virginia Military Institute at Lex
ington, organized Sunday school for
colored children, which is still sustained
by leading citizens there. The Sunday
school has now set on foot Il subscription
for monument TO jackson, which is
meeting with n lively response among
the people, black and white, of the
South.
Aleck Culbcrson was on trial at La
fayettc, Ca. for assault with intent to
murder. When he got up to make his
statement to the jnry he determined to
use an argument that in these hard
times would fall with telling effect. He
said: "Gcmmen, | don't want to 90 TO
the chain-gang. | owe Mr. George
Clements lots of money, and | want YOU
to let me stay here SO ! can work and
pay him what | owe him" lie got
clear
Herring, says Il correspondent of Ma
tire. Jump Out of the water when fright
ened. lie says that he has observed
whole shoals of this fish. in their anxiety
TO escape when pursued by whales,
piled up above the surface of the sea TO
Il height of from three to six feet. On
one occasion the fish formed Il mass even
with the top of a mast of fishing boat,
viz. about fifteen feet, and had part of
this mass fallen into the boat il would
doubtless have sunk.
"Wondcrful man for 80. bar few
days, rs the Emperor William IS, and
obstnately rs hc persists in doug every
thing rs he used To do il twenty years
ago, save 90 riding. | hear says the
London World. that he j. i'm an extreme
" precarious condition, and that any
day the candle may 90 out The once
broad. full chest has quite fallen in; his
voice has become so weak. and comes
from 50 far back in the throat, that i is
very difficult to catch up his uttcrances;
and Inc is very. very lottery on the legs.
In the distribution of slang American
phrases "Do tell and Il want to know
are confined TO New England. is that
SO. n heightened indeed is to the
unreGned American what $50" is to the
German 1t is capable OF conveying Il
dozen different meanings. 1t was also
in New England that "budge' WAS Sc
duced from its good old Saxon meaning
and conveyed into a synonym of "intl-
mate bulge was never pretty
word. and when it appeared in such a
sentence rs "She and your sister are
quite bulge" it sounded more unwield'
" than ever. 1t has still another slang
meaning-when a gentleman is intoXi.
Gated it is delicately said of him that he
is full of bulge"
A remarkable feat in book renovation
has Just been completed by French
man named Lahonton, He had SEN
him Il copy of Coverdale'S Bible thai
was completely saturated with fat, ant
had been badly eaten by mice. His pro
cess was TO treat each leaf TO iudiciOu'
course of chlorine in solution and am
monia, while the dirt was removed by
some process only known to himself
He then supplied the defective portions
by carefully grating on selected piece
of paper of the requisite texture anC
shade. The missing letter press was fac
SMILED. The whole was then sized ant
afterward appropriately bound by on
of the best Partisan binders, the who'll
cost of this treatment being $500.
The extensive scale on which th
Western cattle companies conduct bust
ness is illustrated by a project of tn
Standard Cattle Company at Amos, Ncb
About 1900 acres of land, includin.
thirteen improved farms, has been pun
chased. on which the company vii
erect feeding barns, elevator cribs, meal
houses, offices ETC. The main building
or feeding barn, will be 6S2X204 feet
and will contain 5000 stalls, where eac
steer will stand alone and united. TIL
elevator will be of 10000 bushels capaC
ity. with cribs attached to hold 5000
bushels of corn i'm the ear The work