Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-11-16
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and a speed OF twenty-five knots
Dr. Francis j. Gould. who died Of How
fever In jacksonville, Fa, was a native OF
lexington, Mass, and a graduate Of Harvard,
class OF 1850 lie was surgeon OF 4. NJ Nit
chell Post q. A. r., and was sixty years OF
age.
General Sherman's peculiar humor was i'll
ustrated the other day when, commenting up.
on the radipity with which the veterans are
passing away, he said he must hurry up and
die or else there would be nothing left to bury
him but militia
IL is said that the Bavarlan royal family
costs the people over son 900 marks, or
about 81, 400, 600 year. And having bad two
kings in succession, each non coDaDos, the
wonder is what the Bavsrians want with
royal family, anyhow.
According to Samuel Gompers, president OF
the Federation OF Labor, eighty per cent. Of
the IL, 600 cigar makers In New York city are
foreigners who do not understand the English
language. He estimates that one half OF the
foreigners are Poles aud Hungariaus
William Tell has been killed by the histori-
ans, Pocahontas never saved John Smiths
life, Bacon wrote Shakespeare, and now Mon
custom 10 India for people TO throw them
selves under the wheels of the Juggernaut.
Nextl
Queen Victoria recently received from
Glasgow gentleman a copy Of her speech at
Glasgow inscribed on q piece oil parchment
no larger than a three penny bit The writ
ing is so minute as to be illegibe except
through microscope, and was the work OF q
man over seventy years OF age.
Rev. Thomas Sunrise full blooded Indian,
and once medicine man Of the Oneida tribe
OF Indians In New York, has volunteered to
become the pastor Of a colored church that
has been recently formed at Putnam, Conn.
His creed is Methodist and he Is warmly
commended By the bishops of that sect
Mrs. Eliza Hartman, q member Of the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union, aud q
constant writer in that cause, died at Los
Angeles, Cal, recently Mrs. Hartman
lived In Ohio at the time Of the extraordinary
woman's praying crusade, In which she took
an active part; she terward moved TO Kan.
sas and a few years ago TO California.
The Viennese painter, Gustav Gaul who
died recently, In his ffty-th year, was es-
pccially noted as a portrait painter and
many celebrities of the Burgtheater and
members OF the university sat to him.
Among his most highly priz,i frescos are the
astrological pictures in the To iesco palace.
Gaul was very popular in the social circles of
the metropolis.
There has been admitted TO probate in
Pesth will In which the testator left q for
tune of a quarter OF million forms (about
$l25, 0O0) 10 accumulate until by the opera
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70 relieve restitution universally. According
to a calculation by tue testator his wishes
may be carried out when the capital shall
amount to the sum of 2J9, 600 900 of forms.
Any impression which NAV have got around
that the fools are all dead is sure TO be re-
moved by casual reading OF some of the
election bets. For instance, II Harrison shall
be elected, Captain H. II. Young of Bealls
vile, Pa, will wheel dead coon from Bealls.
vile TO Washington, and in case of Cleve-
lands reelection Charles Horton will act
similarly. A band will accompany the loser.
Rev. e. A. Johnson, as a result OF the al.
tention which he has been giving to scientific
subjects, announces that "in just thlrty-two
years from now the electricity stored in the
earth will come Ia contact with the heated
matter inside, and blow this whole world up"
But why not avoid this little explosion BY
tapping the store of electricity and using II
for lighting, telegraph service aud street
csrsi
The Russian physician, DR.. Gamslea OF
Odessa, who claims to have discovered pre-
ventive against Asiatic cholera in incubation,
and who has been put forward by Pasteur as
a candidate for the Prix Preaut OF 200, 0O0i,
finds his claim OF original discovery con teste d
by the Spanish physician, DR.. Ferran who, in
the recent epdem in Spain, practiced inocu-
lation Is essentially the same as that en-
,loyed by him. This will be case for the
Trench Academy OF Medicine TO decide.
Max O'Rell says that he has had an assist
ant in the pre- paration of his book on Amers-
ca in the person OF a Boston elevator boy.
Max o. Rel questioned the boy one day about
his experiences with the queer people he
came across, and the little fellow told one or
two very original anecdotes. He was prompt
ly taken into partnership. An agreement
was actually drawn up between Max O'Rell
and the elevator boy, BY which the lad be-
came a aborator in writing the book, and
will get one dollar on every thousand copies
sold. He wrote out his own anecdotes, and
his ''copy" will 60 to the printers. ''The
O'Rell, and thought II would be only fair
give him lift; 50 took him nto partner.
ship
Mrs. Fisk. wife OF General Clinton B. Fisk.
organized the first relief society in war times,
opened the first school for freedmen in the
Mississippi valley, aud taught IL herself In Ar
kansas dividing her time between hospital
and school. She worked and iourneyei, and
nursed the sick and wounded all through
the war. she was one OF the chief spirits In
organizing the Fisk School, at Nashville,
which grew into the Fisk University; she
gave the collecting funds for the furnishing
OF Jubilee Hall; she is among the foremost
In the woman's missionary work In her
church, and the handspring Of the McClin-
took association, which has assisted nearly
three hundred young Methodist ministers In
securing theological training, and has raised
the money for establishing and endowing the
best reference library for theological stu
dents In this CO.. y.
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