Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-08-20
FACT AND FANCY.

SUNDAY again until 1897.
There are 1873 papers publ he'd in tho
German language in this country.
Every man on the Pennsylvania rc-
publican state ticket was union sol.
dicr.
Shades of Death" is the romantic
name of a place in Parke county, Ia
diana.
Sam Jones says anarchists and COM
munists can not be made without poor
whisky.
At John picnic in Pennsylvania
every son of man named John was
given plate Of cake and a dish of ice
crcun.
Two BARRIERS in Boston, who refused
TO close their shops on Sunday, havo
been indicted They propose to test
the law.
Information from number of the
mountain counties of Virginia is to the
effect that the nut crop this fall will be
unusually large.
The temperatures of Norfolk.
Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, New
Orleans. and Galveston bear striking
similarity this summer.
The town or city that doesn't get
letter from the sunken Oregon nova
nays is only fit for treason, stratagem
and spoils, says IN exchange.
A young man at Lubbock, Tenn, re-
Gently slid off ha' stack and was kill
cd by the prongs of 4 pi;ckfork enter
inc his stomache and semhowelinG
him.
a Buffalo, n. Y, saloon has floor
which is studded with silver dollars.
In the center is placed q $50 gold
piece The value of the floor is said to
be $500.
A religious contemporary suggests
this scriptural motto as good one for
strikers: "In ali labor there is profit;
but the talk OF the lips tendeth only to
poverty.
The total fund in the hands of tho
treasurer Of the Great Monument asso-
citation of New York is 1921. OOO-little
more than onc-tcuth OF the sum origin
ally proposed to be raised.
The NEST wonderful mineral formal
ton yet discovered is said to have been
found near Colyille, New. The ledge
bears the same material from which
Damascus steel is manufactured
1t i stated that if Young hooking
birds b. SO much As handled in the nest
the parent birds usually administer
poison to them, and infallibly do 50
when they have access to them after
confinement.
a colorcd gentleman who is engaged
in the moucy-lendmg business, at QUIT
man, Ga, always refuses to lct out
money to any OF his own race, no mat
ter how good or how numerous the
securities are.
a mule, it is asserted, is never tanned
thoroughly except g., lhc front. A
bovine can be tanned all over except in
front. The man who habiWally stands
beh nd bull and in front of a mule
will never die with his boots on.
A couple of strangers recently drove
up to the house OF an old gentleman at
parkcrsburg. W. Va. and told him
they had drawn $1,000 in a lottery,
and if he would advance $3.50 commits
sion due on the ticket they would di-
vide with him. He thought this neat
proposition. so he drew up his note for
$3.50, had it endorsed by n neighbor.
and the bunco men rode Off satisfied.
Ina b. McLane has secured the con-
tract for carrying the United States
mail between Eureka and Palisadc,
New. on days when the train, which
leaves tri-weekly, is laid off. She 10
having a tricycle. constructed at San
Francisco to run over the Eureka and
Palisade track between those points.
The distance is ninety miles, and the
fair Ina expects to make the run in six
hours
Bob Rowan, of Rockland county,
Georgia, felt something bite his hand
rs he was feeling in hollow log for
rabbit. He jerkcd his hand out in a
hurry, and with it came a highland
moccasn snake. whose fangs were i'm
bedded in his hand. Before he killed
the snake he was bitten in the other
hand. lie drank gallon of whisky,
suffered terribly. was just on the point
OF death. but is now recovering
\ mother bad impressed upon her
little boy the necessity of ejecung the
skins Of grapes, and few days after
ward she told him the story of Jonah
and the whale. The whale is very
large monster. said the mother, land
he swallowed Jonah. y Did he swal-
low other men too?' asked the little
bog. well. l suppose he did, con-
tinucd the mother who was somewhat
in doubt; and while she was hesitating
about the continuation of the story the
boy interrupted: And, mamma, did
he spit the skins out, too?'
At n recent meeting of the Baptist
assoc alton of Lancashire and Chesire