Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-03-09
ALMA.

ALMA, MICH
Washington go,siIs, who are always
looking for a new sensation, have been
saying of late that General Grants widow
had Teen snubbed by President and Mrs.
Cleveland. They as ert that Mrs. Grant
called on Mrs. Cleveland and that the lat
ter did not return the visit nor even send
a card TO the former mistress of the white
house. There is not the slightest founda-
tion for these allegations.
The following ''ad" of a grocer
firm II Huntsville, Mo-, Is a very
good Temperance rmo ''Any man who
drink, two drachms af wh,skey per day
and pays tn cent, a drink for it, can have
at,our store 30 sack, OF flour, go pounds
Of granulated sugar and - pounds of good
green coffee for the same money and ct
$500 premium for making the change in
his expenditures.
Thomas Nas', the carica'urist, is in san
Francisco, and is uncertain whether he is
still connected with Harper's Weekly.
He says he is getting too old or llarper's
Weekly is getting too young, or he is get
ting too young and the ral er too old, for
somehow there isa lack of harmony. The
paper is becoming too conservative To-
Mr.. Mast. and his cartoons are rarely found
in 5 pages now.
President Charles Kendall Adams of
Cornell university, in reply to a ~ eStion
about co-educati,n 1, says; The expert
ment, W. think, is a success. Ihe girls
haye been sedatc, studious and circum-
spect in their conduct. There has been
no scandal in the college and nothing has
occurred to make any of us regret co-eiu-
cat on or make a change I'm our views re
gar ing it."
The following was recently turned in as
j bona fde composition by an Indiana
schooIhoy: TIE human body is made mp
of the lie d, the thoraX and the abdomen.
The head contains tie brains when there
is any. The TN raN contains the heart,
lung, and diafram. The abdomen con-
tains the bowels, OF which there are five,
~, f., l., O, L.. and sometime, w and y"
"
\ clever coiner of words may find a
clan G or his skill i'm manufacturing a
suita lie name for the product Of the type
WI. cr. The difficulty lie, in deciding
wheth he result should be termed manu-
script or ty'e matter. The presen. adjec-
tive, 'tyre written. 90 +, Of advantage. IN
a,much MS it meets both conditions. Still,
Americans are nothing if not inventive.
The ioston Transcript rencws the Old
warning about soda water containing free
sui hIic acid which eats holes in the
stomach, Of those who drink large quaint
ties # it. Let Us see; it is prove [ that
whi,key, beer. soda water and ordinary
water are d Letter Gus to the human system.
Won't some one p'ease inform the world
what Ii uid can be drunk with safety.
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Tie Hon. Iolert C.. Winthropha has given
to the Connecticut state library the com
mission Of his ancestor. John Winthrop,
TO be a magi, "a e at Mamecoke, New
London. / is dated Get. p, 1647, and is
in tn, handwriting Of Edward Hopkins.
the second governor OF Connecticut.
Governor Martin f Kan as, sent a
strawberry blonde doll tothe Graul Army
fair IN Washington, and a note expla mig
that Che la, caught in the mcshes of her
hair the light of the Kansas sun, and in
her eye, the violet shadows that girt the
Kansas sky at evening.
The late Mrs. Erminuic A.. smith. who
was deeply read in the language, ethnolo-
gy and customs Of the Indian tribes and
had been adopted by the Tusearoras, i, to
have her memory rerpetuated by a prize
fund and a portrait at Na,sar College.
st. Paul expects to be tie metropolis of
An erica when the through line railroad
to Pekin, China, ly way Of Behring Strait,
is built. The distance is >, 169 miles, and
it is expected that trains will run to Pekin
in ten d Us.
James Russell | Dwell was 90 years OF
age on the = d, Washington's birthday.
In a recent letter he SAYS: Il had the
misfortune to be born on the pod, and
thus TO be brought into competition once a
year with the most august figure i'm our
histo y.
Hon. Wyndham Robertson, ex-governor
Of Virginia and one of the sages of the old
wing party, is just decease in the eighty
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