Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-06-01
CURRENT EVENTS.


dies about twice a year, aud II nobody seems
TO care anything about IL be has only himself
TO blame.
This time It is an Indiana woman who uses
Rough on Rats instead Of baking powder.
The mistake always reduces the number in
the family
German saloons keep as many as thirty va
rIetes of beer to select from, while In this
country the brewers combine about fifty varl-
elics in one.
1t is against the law IN royal countries 10
put the names Of royal persons In city di-
rcclory. where they would be given away 70
bill collectors
The double-headed girl takes issue with the
old saving that two heads are better thaf
one. She says the extra head Is always quar-
reling with her
UNDERGRADUATES o-nothi ng-sll-day
was the name Kentucky father gave his
son, which the Legislature consented 10
change for HIM.
The summer hotel which advert lses the larg-
est number of mosquito. bars will secure the
largest number of guests The table is Of
second consequence.
When the good looking girl comes around
/ II
ton statue to France have 1t all ready aud
don't chin her too long.
The United States has fourteen railroads
accidents to every one Germany. In that
country mans carelessness is punished with
sentence to State prison.
Kelley the motor man, has been ordered by
the courts no less than six times TO explain
his alleged invent on to the stockholders but
h, has thus far defed all orders.
! There are only eight professional pugilsis
m this country who have never been bested
but they are only waiting for the right man 10
| come along and put 'em to sleep.
! stone deaf girl at Urbana, d. was mar
rIed the other day after q courtshIp lasting
seven years. Had her bearing been all right
1t would not have taken over six months.
An ssh.cart man in Chicago killed his horse
While trying to move piano. The woman
who owned the instrument said she felt ii In
her bones that something would happen.
! A subscriber wants to know why Mi waukee
is called the Cream City. Authorities differ,
but the ma jority say that II is because a cream
colored horse died on the site of the town.
1t is charged tina, orange dealers US IA
small syringe and some colored syrup TO make
a blood orange out OF ordinary fruit n they
don't It Is singular that no one has yet tried
/ It.
! A Duluth reporter has found that almost
every mortgage given by resident Of that
! city natures in the winter, so as to come In on
/ top OF blizzard and make a double dose Of
! 1t
All OF US are ready 70 laugh at the old far
mer who blow. out the gas in his room at the
hotel, but what sort OF work would We make
putting new bows into the ox.yoke or hanging
scythei
There Is a British officer In the Indian army
who has killed sixty-four tigers in the last four
years and received no particular credit for It
as he has disposed OF the skins for an average
OF $50 each. a
! Although Robert Bonner has owned the
fastest horse. in the country aud is ever on
the alert for new acquisitions, 1t is said that
he rarely goes to witness a horse-race and
never bets on one. He never drives horse
on Sunday and never permits one Of his horses
10 be driven on that day.
Raising money for public works in China 4.
no joke 10 celestial officials. The late terrific
| foods in the empire having been caused by a
breach in the Yellow river 20, 00O tses
/ (about s32, 5On OO0) must be spent on repair
/ ing the damage, 80 to provide the necessary
funds all provincial officials salaries Will be
stopped for a year.
The subscription for the brave Nebraska
school teacher, who stood by three little ones,
wrapping them in her own clothes, till they
! froze to death about her, and then was un-
able TO save herself, as she might have done
| By leaving them before, and has now had
both feet amputatcd, ought to run up into
the four figure numbers Il is already over
two hundred dollars.
A business man Of South Florida adopts
this novel plan to keep drummers out Of his
his place, and he says 10 works admirably.
Every morning he places a plug hat and
sachel on ais counter. As soon as a drummer
comes to the door and looks In he the
plug hat and saehel and be goes of believing
that another one of the craft has that ground
already covered.
II. Ernest Renan utterly disbelieves the
story that Alexander the Greats tomb has
been found at Sidon OF the Phpnlcans He
secs no reason to doubt what the historians
tell us-namely: that Alexanier's sarcopha-
gus was carried to Alexandria. VI. Remains
incredulty is supported by S. Chrysostom,
Wbo luah ooth IAic l'aNc oi hit&HuhVi
tomb and the day OF his death are unknown.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland once held the post
Of editor. 1t WAS on Ter return voyage 20
this country from Europe. A periodical was
started for the entertainment Of the ships
passengers, not In print, but in manuscript,
and the editorial chair was filed by Mrs.
Cleveland, to whom all articles were sent.
The paper was born in mid ocean, and was
buried before touching shore.
DR.. Renk OF Munich has been experiment.
ing on the utility OF the electric light, from a
sanitary stand point t, In the National theater Of
Munich. lie found that The electric light had
hardly any influence on the deterioration Of
the air, whereas the gaslight raised the tenn
perature Of the room, deprived the air Of its
oxogen and rendered IL Injurious by incress-
ing esrbonc acid, especially in the higher
regions
Quite a new branch Of industry has has
been created In Germany by the sale Of San
Reno brooches, which in the Shape OF small
shells In dull silver, on which the villa ZIrio