Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-12-14
HERE AND THERE

Toxic, Japan, last year.
A late japanese invention IL said to be
process Of making from setweed sort OF
paper almost as transparent as glass and as
tough as parchment.
A London woman, Bridget Mcmillan, aged
45 years, has been brought to the police dock
2J2 times and has been committed liI times,
charged with being drunk and rotous
A clerk at Hong Kong on a salary OF 500
month engaged ia share speculatlons to the
extent OF about a million OF dollars, and
speedily collapsing was sent to prison for six
months
Many hundreds OF British authors have re-
Gently appended their names TO IN address 10
be presented to Mrs Hodgson Burnett ex.
press ug appreciation OF her spirited action In
contesting the right assumed by dramatists OF
adapting novels for the stage without the au-
| thors consent.
There is an old lady by the name OF Nancy
/ Brown, living close b Birmingham, Ala, who
has never been Ia that town, and who has
| never ridden on a train in her life. She has
/ lived there for forty-seven years, and is 80
years old. She is well of, bu. dresses with
the greatest simplicity.
A doctor 10 an Ohio town, who lives on
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bic sign. Usually the sign presents his name
and Office hours; but when funeral passes
he turns il over. aud then the following lie.
gend is displayed: mot my patient; l cure
all who follow my directions"
Writing was pulling TO sayages. In Soutt
America, on one occasion, a native was SO.
! by missionary TO a freud with note q
four loaves of bread. The native ate one
ba w Oh n find that thA
note discovered his theft. Ga the next
occasion that he was sent with four losves 10
sat OH the note while eating one OF them. In
North America writing was considered
charm.
! The "tract form Of book has invaded Pdrts
Thousands OF copies Of little brochure en-
titled "Es az on the Incompat bity OF
heater going with profession Of Christi
anity'' have poured through the postoffce.
1t bears The uvme Of Josiah w. Leeds of
Philadelphia "a author, who II is stated, has
kindly consented to lhe Translation Of bis
III into F,euch. Mr.. Leeds is Philadelphia
Cumstock
The Pa lalelphia Times says queer claim
was presented ana setted BY the Pennsylva-
MIA railroad recently. summer tourist
came in contact with the projecting screw in
the seat OF one OF the company's cars, and
wien he arose to leave he left the seat OF his
trousers. The demand for damages made the
round of every department before II reached
the proper official, when 1t was Endorsed for
settlement.
Emperor Williams bedroom In Rome Is o
beautiful chamber. Tue walls are covered
with rich silk hanging especially woven for
the occasional white ground, with masses Of
flowers in dark red. The bed is OF ebony, In.
laid with gilt metal and surmountel with
canopy magn tcently carved and lired with
light colored silk. And yet William is just
as liable to have the nightmare If he slept on
an ordinary cot bedstead. Il
An endless railway train, consisting OF 40c
pla form cars, is 10 be one of the attractions
at the Paris exhibit ion. The line will be sunk
so that the latforms will be on a level wi q
the surface, aud the train viii run Slowly
enough to permit most people to step on and
of while it is in motion, but for The iccom
mediation of elderly people stop Of fifteen
seconds in every minute VIII be made. TIE
motive pow er is electricity.
In Russia eating aud drinking take up nc
small part Of mans ex stence Fish is as
common dish as with Americans, and is
prepared IN Il novel manner In the dining.
ROOMS Of some OF tie large cafes there is q
pool OF fresh water in VIII ch fish Of various
kinds and sizes swim about. Any patron OF
the restaurant who IN wish course Of fish
for dinner, goes to tbs pool, picks out The
particular Que be may desire, aud in a jlfr,
the waiter has captured II with dip net and
sent ii 10 the chef
During midsummer in northern Alaska, &C.
cording TO recent traveller, the sun shines
twenty-five hours out Of the twenty.four, aud
on the high mountain peaks for period Of
several days in June IL is not entirely out OF
sight during the twenty.fou hours. In july
and August the weather becomes very warm.
ter this time he days gradually shorten
! until The sun shines but four hours out OF the
twenty four but al TINS period the aurora is
exceedingly intense, aud helps very material.
ly In dispeliing the darkness.
! According TO recent caicu alton the high.
est waterfalls In The world are the three
krimbs Falls in the Upper Prinzgan; these
tails have total height of ll4S feet. The
three falls the next i'm height are found In
| Scandinavia, the Verne Foss in ROmsdal, 9S4
feet; tue Vettis Foss on the Sogne Fjord, $50
! feet; the Rjuken Foss, IN Tbelemarken, S04
feet With a decrease IN height of 2l3 feet
the three Veino Fails, 59i feet, near Zern
/ (he birthplace OF Tacitus), follow next 10
order, and they are succeeded bv the three
Tessa Fills, in the Val Formazza, SAL feet
! The Gastein Falls, in the Gastein Valley, 46e
feet, rank between the Skjsggedal Foss, 10
| Hardanger Ford. "A feet, aud the Boring
Foss in the same ford II the width OF tn,
falls is taken into consideration the most i'm
! posing are those OF the V ctoria FAILS OF tn,
mhesi, which are 39i feet high, with
width of 500 feet A long way behind these
falls come the Niagara Falls, la feet high
and 1865 feet wide.
Norwich. CT, has the only horse In The
world that has been mp tree. lie is an ola
blind horse, and has passed 10 the stage
when 1t is not of much consequence TO him
where he is or what he does. In hauling ice
for the Norwich Town Woollen Company ice.
house, which is on the steep side OF tho
Yantic river, he backed oil the 25-foot EN-.
bankment, and lodg d in the upper bougbs