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


The but,crnut crop along the Hudson
river is very large this year.
About forty thousand barrels of coal
oil arc consumed daily on the earth.
An English firm are filling a large
order for shoes made of papier-machc.
Starch factories have been declared
free from taxation in Hdalgo. Mexico.
Bar Harbor manners and customs
are giving variety to life in New York.
Anumber of Norfolk, Va. merchants
have established "a peanut combina-
ton"
4 pinch of snuff large enough 10 pro-
duce good sneeze will cure hiccough.
it is said.
At Gcnesec, N. Y, one day last week.
a mare gave birth to twin colts-a horse
and mule.
The city of Vienna. Austria. with a
population of $50. 600. has not single
free library.
A hunter near Buena Vista. Ga. the
other day. shot at one partridge and
killed eight.
An onion which weighed nearly three
pounds was exhibited in Highland, n.
Y, last week.
A Santa Rosa hunter is credited with
having killed twenty-six birds at one
shot recently.
During the past eight months 25,676,-
800 eggs were shipped from st. Adams,
VT. 10 Canadian ports.
A hawk was killed near Hartwcll.
Ga. few days ago. that measured five
feet from tip to tip of wings.
The leading bank in Birmingham.
Ala. has recently increased its capital
from $500, 600 TO Sj0O,000
An Arkansas man whitfield bullet
out of plug of tobacco and shot it
through the body of wildcat.
ireland means the westland. 1t
comes from the Celtic word lar and our
word land" lar meaning the west.
contain upward of forty-iive thousand
trees. and the number is constantly in
creasing.
Wild game is fast disappearing in
| the timber lands of York state. owing
to the wholesale bu,chery of the hide
! hunters.
Among lot Of coal recently mined
near Pottsvlle. Pa. was found n piece
of crystal rock in the shape of per-
fectly formed owl.
During the past three years eighteen
switch girls in "A telephone office in .
Connecticut town have been married TO
/ subscribers on the line.
A cotton-gn saw and grist mill. val
ued at Sl00 900 and belonging To- W. :.
Cooley. of Snider'S Cross. y. c., was
destroyed by fire Thursday.
From Oct /. 1885, to Sept. 30, this
year. SOS 425 - worth of stamps were
sold BY the postoilce at Atlanta, Ga,
and the net profit was $4,000.
An oyster Weighing three pounds
four ounces and measuring ten inches
in length WAS found in the harbor ut
Huntington. l.. l., one day last week.
Near Eufaula, Ala. recently, was
taken from "A river bank b. workmen 4
large white oak tree that WAS in an
almost perfect state Of petriiication.
A new express ON has become popu-
lar in the south When charges for
/ labor or merchandise seem cXtrayagant
people say they are earthquake
prices
Three million feet OF the finest
grades of lumber were sold by an Al
bany. y. y. firm Thursday to New
York parties. 1t was the largest sale
of the season.
\ tattooing studio is New York at
traction. Sailors are the best patrons.
One OF the visitors recently had the
cpitaph from his wife's tombstone re-
produced Oh his chest.
large band of Arabs have taken
up their winter quarters near Pits
burgh, Pa. and the citizens are seeking
to have them move on" because OF
their thicying propenstes.
G.. b. Thaycr. son of ex-senator
Thayer, of Connecticut travlcd 4,22f
miles this year on "A bicycle. He left
hi. home in Vernon. Conn, last April,
and has been on the road ever since.
Considerable trouble is experienced
by the authorities of New York in keep
ing tre,passers off the one million acres
of timber land owned by the state. Last
year thieves stole nearly $50, 600 worth
of timber from the lands
An evangelist III Clarion county. New
York. has hit upon an Ingenious scheme
of securing converts. He offers cheap
watch to anyone who will step forward
and join his church. The rush of new
recruits will last until the supply of
watches gives out
Recently New York girl of II. who
had taken lessons in First Aid To the
Injured" was in Fallsburgh. y. Y.
when boy was thrown from wagon
and his lee broken. She at once put
her knowledge into use, set the leg and,
he is recovering fast.
1t has been supposed that the name
"Columba' was first used in America
in 100 but Col Albert ii. Hoyt has
found it in a volume of poems com
posed in l76l. mostly by Harvard grad
yates. IN honor of George III. and the
commemoration of George III.
J A malicious New York city paper de.
clarcs. on the word of the Central park
policempn that most New En- ul "A nd