Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-09-03
FACT AND FANCY.

tugese word.
The snow is SO deep among the
mountains in eastern Oregon that teams
can not travel with safety.
Mapleton. Pa. is in state of great
excitement over the alleged discovery
of gold and silver on Jacks mountain.
near that place.
A water famine Is in progress Mt
Guaymas, Mexico. Water is imported
from Hermosilo to use for drinking
and cooking purposes.
A young man who was recently ar
rested at Cambridge. Mass. for swnd-
ling, spen; S207, 900 left him by his ia
Their in the last seven years.
A horse belonging TO Croton
Conn man nearly starved TO death be-
fore close examination revealed \
needle two and onc-quarter inches in
length in it.
A Milton On. y man has invented n
wheelbarrow that can be used for saw
buck, a woodbock, "A step-ladder, and
q tool-rack, besides doing double duty
as wheelbarrow.
A single block in the vicinity of Cas-
tie Garden. New York, and which is
about l2jxs00 feet, contains no less
than thirty-iiye saloons, or places where
liquors can be obtained.
The Piute children in the vicinity Of
Wadsworth. New, are having terri
bic time with diphtheria. A large
number have died and there are many
who are in precarious condition.
Probably the youngest state superin
tendent of public instruction is Oscar
II. Cooper. OF Texas. He is 90 years
old, and graduate of Yale. He will
have partial control Of an immense
school fund.
A BROOKLYN boiler Inspector on one
OF his recent rounds discovered IL
yearold boy who was left in charge o.
the boiler and engine room in an estab-
lShment in which one hundred hands
were employed.
Old Uncle Jake" of Corning, Kan. -,
Is man of considerable religious senti-
ment and practical faith. Every
night he says, II get down on my
knees and say my prayer. and l don
care - who sees me. "
During n storm on the Pacific ocean
q vessel was once wrecked, and a
Quaker, tossing to and fro on plank,
exclaimed, over the crest of wave. to
another who was drifting on barrel;
Friend, dos. thou call this Paciiic?'
Mrs. Catherine Marx, who died at
Reading recently. at the age of SO, was
the mother If twelve children Her
surviving descendants are children,
SO grandchildren, 1lS great grandchil-
dren, and great-great- grandchildren
total of PIG.
The most extraordinary incident OF
Observation-Disclosures is told of n clergy
man who forgot what he was about in
the middle of a prayer and sat down.
In moment he arose and, pointing t.
the amazed congregation, said; "Oh!
by the way, amen"
a small Louisville boy. after being
naughty and suffering justly at the
maternal hand, or rather slipper, stop
ped sobbing long enough to look earn.
cstly at his mother and say, with en-
phasis Mamma. I'm sorry you ever
married my papa"
A young society girl in Washington
says that if there j. one thing more
necessary than another it is that all
boys should be taught at school how &c
WELD a lady fan to a lady's satsfac-
ton. Not one male person in a hun
dred she says. knows the first thing
about tanning lady as it ought to be
done.
The ruling passion strong in death
was enthusiastically illustrated on
the occasion of clergyman PRAYER
for dying toll-keeker. The poor man
had not many hours to live, and the
clergyman was in the middle of hi'
prayer. stop moment, y interrupt
ed the toll-man, II think | hear q
wagon
A Marlborough man, who, having &C
cumulated fortune of 100000 by
selling liquor. and who had frequently
! boasted that he never DRAM "A drol
himself, on watching the funeral of one
of his victims pass his door. said in &
heartlcss way: That's the first time
he ever passed my place without com
| ing in to take a drink.
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