Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-07-23
An effort is TO be made in Los Angelo.

An effort is TO be made in Los Angeles
To grow bamboo on an extensive scale.
School property in the south is valued
at $4,000, 900, against So, 900 900 in the north.
Hereafter English soldiers will not be
allowed TO smoke in the streets in the day
time.
A gentleman at Aliendale, s. c., who is
81 years of age, has begun cutting set of
teeth.
Two lads, aged and 10 years respective
ly, have been arrested in Boston for house
robbing
No fewer than 10000 shade trees now
make Washington glorious iii fresh green
and fragrant blossoms.
Three hundred observers have enlisted
in Massachusetts, to take thunderstorm
observations this summer.
There is said to he but one confederate
Flagstaff standing, and that is at Blakely,
! Ga. IL is 100 feet in height.
An old mans prayer that his house
should burn was answered after his death
at Carthage, Tenn, last week
A Russian, at Iankton, ID. T., cOntem-
plates making trip TO Moscow in an
ark OF his own manufacture.
a sturgeon eight feet long and weighing
2s1 pounds was caught in the river near
North Cromwell, Conn. recently.
Very warm, light blankets and feather
tloln are now nlduc from the waste IeuIl-
ers OF domestic fowl and game birds.
The first temperance agitation in the
United states of which there Is any record,
1t IS stated, occurred III 1901, at Orient,
l.. |.
The area shown in wheat in Manitoba
this year Is 10000 acres, which. IL is esti-
mated, will produce ll.250OOO bushels of
grain.
The imports OF olive oil for the eight
H.. 4 4
70 492.4i3 gallons, valued for duty at
S4lS, 230
10 10 is the center Of the new fields on
the Allegheny mountains When last
heard from every shanty in the town was
a saloon.
Eggs of Dorkns weigh ) pounds Il
ounces per score, Leghorn eggs "a little
over pounds, and Spanish eggs , pounds
II ounces.
A bed of snowballs, with loose mound
OF long stemmed rOscs rising from their
midst, was pretty center piece at Wash
ingtOu dinner
Colorado offers a premium of - per hun
dred for every line of trees maintained
along bitches, fences and highways and
properly cared for.
Frequent acts Of 'ncendiarism in Sche-
nectaday, y. y, have led to the arrest of
three prominent young men as profession
ais in that line of crime.
a mass Of lead in an elevated furnace in
Paris was completely disSipated by n
stroke OF lightning, no trace of the metal
being found afterwards.
The general theological seminary OF New
York, an Episcopal institution, holds a
mortgage on Wa!iacks new theater as
security ior a loan Of $4,000.
II is said that the new Washington sewer
is the largest in the world. Il is large
enough for team of horses and load OF
hay 10 he drawn through the entrance.
Mrs. Jennie Wright If indianapolis. la,
| brought suit 10 recover the value OF her
sewing machine. which her worthless nus
band carried TO liquor saloon and rallied
off.
\ costume adopted by the Fat Men :
base ball club, of Orlando, Fla, consists of a
Mother Hubbard dress, and it is said to be
cool and comfortable, if not an aid TO fast
running
\ convict who had his hand crushed in
a shoemaking machine has heen awarded
5000 damages 10y the Brooklyn supreme
court against the contractors who used
his labor.