Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-11-19


and proposed to make the same offer,
$4,000 and 40 acre site, which they
offered for the Presbyterian college.
The north coast Of Lake Superior
has never been surveyed. There are
no charts or bouys to Indicate dan
gerous places, and but four light
houses on a coast line of 500 miles.
Grade stakes for the proposed rail
road from Saginaw via Ashley, Car
son City and Greenville to Muske-
gon have been set from Ashley to
several miles west of Greenville.
Engineers are pushing the work.
"Why don't you trade with me-"
said a close-fsted tradesman TO n
farmer the other day. because"
was the characteristic reply, you
have never asked me, sir. | have
looked all through the papers for an
invitation in the shape of an adver-
tisemcnt, bat in vain. | never go
where / am not invited" Elk.
"Can You tell me what kind of
weather we are going to have next
month"; wrote farmer to the editor
of his local paper The editor re-
piled: at is my belief that weather
next month will be very much like
your subscription bill" The farmer
wondered for an hour what the editor
was driving at, when he happened to
think of the word "unsettled.' He
sent a postal note.
1t may be interesting to know that
South Carolina, alone of all the
States, prohibits divorce, permitting
it on no ground ; that 1t prohibits
the sale of liquor everywhere in the
rural districts. allowing it only in in
corporated towns and giving these
places local option, of which about
half the towns avail themselves.
South Carolina forbids the running
Of all freight trains on the Sabbath,
and all passenger trains except such
as carry the United States mail. 1t
also classes dueling with murder, and
DISTINGUISHES lottery dealers. These
are laws which other States should
be able, in part at least, to boast of.
An exchange thus tells about it:
"Wantsd, 175 young men of all
shapes and sizes. from the tall grace
full dandy with enough hair on his
upper lip to stuff BARRIERS cushion,
down to the little upstart. The OBJ
ject is to form a gaping corps on
each Sabbath before the commence
ment of divine service, to stare at
the ladies as they enter and make |
delicate and gentlemanly remarks
on their person and dress. All who
wish TO enlist in the above corps will /
please appear in the various church
doors next Sabbath morning and |
evening, when they will be duly in
spected and their names, personal .
appearance quality of brains register
cd in a book kept for that purpose.
To prevent a general rush it will be
we'll to state that none will be enlist
ed who possess intellectual capacities
above that of a well bred donkey.
The Secretary State Nov. -, pub.
lished the Nov. crop report The
area Of seeded wheat this fall in the
southern four tiers of counties is 3
per cent less, and northern counties
2 per cent more than seeded in 1855,
indicating that the wheat average in
the State is not quite equal to that
in 1885. The condition of wheat
November | was l02, comparison
being with the vitality and growth
Of average years. In the southern
counties the condition is q full aver
age, and in the northern counties )
per cent. above an average. In 1885
the condition November ! in the
State was 90; ISS4, 106; 1888, IS;
and 1882, % per cent. of an average.
Damage 10y the Hessian fly is report
ed from 20 Of the 2S counties in the
southern four tiers. The number of
bushels of wheat reported marketed
by farmers at 225 elevators and mills
during October, was l,l36,5ss. The
number of bushels reported market
ed during the three months of
August, September and October,
4,47o,1sl.
The corn yield in the State is about
30 bushels per acre. This perhaps
is below the average in seasons of
less drouth, but the quality is excel
lent, and the proportion of soft corn
less than usual.
The area of clover seed harvested
is SO per cent. of the area harvested
in 1885, but the yield per acre is
nearly equal to the yield of that year.
The yield per acre of potatoes is, in
the southern counties, 75 per cent,
and in the northern counties 20 per
cent. of the full average crop. The
acreage in the State is seven per
cent. below the acreage of 1875.
Horses, cattle, cattle, sheep and