Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-11-05
HERE AND THERE.
Nov. 1s has boon appointed THANK

Nov IL has been appointed Thanks
giving day for Canada.
The pawpuw WELD in Kentucky this
year is larger than ever before.
One blackberry patch in California
covers an area of twenty acres.
1t will require Sl.5GO, 600 to finish
4 state capital at Albany, n. Y.
Corn-fclds in Harrison county. Ken
IN Ky, are being devastated by large
co ones Of squirrels
Jew Florida oranges are making
th"r appearance in northern markets.
Tie crop Is very large.
In the cities Of New York, Jersey
Cijy. Newark. and Paterson there are
siAtcen thousand saloons.
a chicken hawk recently captured at
Harrisburg, Pa, measured five feet
from tip to tip of wings.
Edward Clark, of Milford. Conn,
who is "a years old, worked regularly
in the bayfield, this summer.
PhilIis Pattoo. sad to have been tho
oldest person in Alabama, died Monday
in Hale county, aged lOl years.
Harvard VIII play football again
thi, fall with the other colleges. the
faculty having withdrawn its veto.
Charles Jenkins. of Dorchester.
Mass. aged 10 years, died last week Of
overcNcrtion while playing lacrosse.
Nearly 100 900 barrels OF oysters
were exported from this country to
European points during the year 1880.
The sale OF mustang ponies in Ala
bama this year is unprecedented. No
farm is considered complete without
one.
A Lee, Mass, firm has received m
order for c ght thousand hcad-stones
for the national cemetery nj $2.75 per
stone.
At the Oregon state fair races on tho
18th Mamie Comet trottcd mile IN
2:23l, the best time ever made in Ore.
gon.
One steamer of Lake Winncpisaukea.
New Hampshire, has been in use for
thirty-seyen years. and has never met
with an accident.
A horse owned by b. W. Braun. Of
Seneca, y Y, is % years old. Mr..
Braun's present groom has worked
for him thirty years
a l0-year-old lad in Henry county.
Alabama, got hold of quart-bo;tl of
whisky one day last week and drank
al Of it. The next day he died.
Two Louisville gamblers have been
sent to the pentcntiary under the
operation of the gambling laws passed
b, the last Kentucky leg Stature
1t j. int mated in tm.d undegtonc
in New York that somebody ought to
start = boom for tie sadiy-ncgicctcd
Grant monument fund in that city.
! Sierra Valley, Ney.. young man
recently let his horses luu away while
he WAS hugging n $ girl ine wagon
was smasDe, 20 pieces. bat he still held
OH to tie Girl.
a Syracuse. y. Y. citizen recently
applied patent corn med C ne TO one OF
his toes, and now gangrcue has set lu.
and the foot must be amputated If the
victim wishes to 1--we.
Although the farmers Of Santa Bar
bara county. Cal iornia. are ol,r ~
800 pay for help they are unable -
get enough hands to care for the COM
mon needs OF a farm.
y company with n capital stock Of
$500 600 has been formed at Pittsburgh.
Pa. for the purpose OF conveying pass
snngyrs and frc ght TO and fro on HE
rivers " thin the city limits.
Israel :. Spencer who was consider
I'd one Of the most upright and honest
lawyers in Syracuse. y. Y, it has been
81 scOyercd was debtor IN the sum oil
"A 4, II.
EN-Mayor Greene Kendrick. Of
Waterbury, Conn. WAS granted an ab-
soiutc divorce from his wife ut New
Haven last Saturday. Outrageous
charges were made on both SIDES dur
ing the hearing.
y mountain up N Bethlehem. y. H..
has been chr stoned Mount Cleveland
by q vote Of the selectmcu OF the town
Il piece of courtesy which they doubt
less hope viii WOO the president from
the Adiroudacks TO New Hampshire
next season.
In Manatce county. Florida they have
an original way OF locat NJ the county
seat. The county safe weighing seven
thousand pounds, is at Wauchula, and.
- il is impossible to move the safe to
the court-h house, t is thought best to
move the courthouse to the safe.
Lightning played queer pranks at
West Concord. Conn. the other night.
where q man named Hull had two toe.
mails taken OFF by current that went
down his arm. side. and leg. and then
vanished through the front door. and
tore up things generally in its escape.
With regard to meat, says Chambers
JourHdi. a JOINT may be preserved for
many days by wrapping it loosely in a
fine cloth wrung on: OF vinegar, and
hanging it in draught of air. If the
weather be very warm the cloth must
be mostcned twice or even thrice u
day.
a citizen of Norfolk. Conn. cut of
the index finger of his left hand while
chopp nc wood one day recently. AS
the wound began to heal he noticed
that the stump was growing longer,
until at last new finger. with JOINTS
and nail complete, had replaced the
one he chopped oil.
Christian Peter. of Pittsburgh, Pa,
has brolChf Suif aUa psf hiS pmplovor