Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-07-20

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NJ. JULES FERRY of France. enjoys
being carcatured. No cartoonist has
ever been able to cross the Ferry.
TRINITY COLLEGE. Cambridge, Eng.
land recently bought an autograph
letter of Sir lssac Newton for 1915.
QUEEN VICTORIA is afflicted with in
somnia. She is sometimes put to
sleep by having her brows strok ed
gently with camels hair brush.
MAYOR SHAKESPEARE, of New Or.
leans. has appointed fifteen colored
men policemen for that city. This is
case of Shakespeare and Ham rather
than Bacon.
MARSHALL 7. WILDER. the humor
ist, now in England. recently enter
tanned Earl Dudley's guests at Whitley
Court 1t was a court for wit, indeed,
when the little American took the
chair.
WITHIN the last few months, three
of the leading Dukes of Scotland
Sutherland, Hamilton and Argyll
have been almost at death door and
have recovered. Scottish Peers are
tough.
HENRY BERGH. who succeeds his
uncle as president of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty TO Animals,
is thirty-eight years old and bach
elor. He has been connected with
the society since 1874 and. it is said,
has many of his uncle's characters
tics.
REPRESENTATIVE BIGGs, Of Calfor
MIA, has two sons who are rather lively
boys. At Gridiey, Cal, they ran foot
race of 100 yards recently for a purse
Of $50 and a case of champagne. The
winner took the money and the loser
the wine. Marion Biggs, jr., won the
race.
ADMIRAL DAVID ID. PORTER the
chief officer of the navy, is seventy
four years of age. SiXty-four years
of his lfe have been spent on the wa
ter, beginning with the time when, a
boy of nine. he sailed with his father
in the expedit on against the West
Indian pirates.
WM. L. GLADSTONE has been warm
~ prasing both in print and in speech
the novel Robert Elsmere," written
by well-known glish-woman.
Henry Labouchere says OF it: "A
more tiresome book | have seldom
come across, nor one more thoroughly
dull and dreary."
NANCY HANKS LINCOLN, the moth
er of Abraham Lincoln, is buried on
the outskirts of Lincoln City. Ind. A
plain slab of bic about four feet
high. almost covered with grass and
dogwood, marks her grave. On the
stone is the inscription: Erected by
friend OF her martyred sou, 1879"
Milne of Toxic frequently precede the
shock, are often heard during its prog
ress, and sometimes after the earth
quake proper has ceased. Their char
acter is very varied, from a barely
audible rumbling to a loud rafting
like cart on stony street or vollev
Of musketry. They are probably heard
better where the earth's structure is
hard and solid than where 1t is loose
and soft.
1T is announced that after settling
all outstan ding debts the estate of the
late Roscoe Conkling will amount to
between 500. 600 and $500. 900. This
sum was accumulated during about
seven years of close attention on the
part of Mr., Conkling TO his legal
practice. During that time he paid
off security indebtedness in Utica of
OF $780, 600. His will, which was made
about twenty years ago. leaves his en-
tire fortune to his WIFE Mr.. Conk-
ling of late years had re-
ceived some of the largest fees ever
paid lawyer in this or any other
country.
Tibet, most OF which is just be-
coming known to Europeans. is divid-
ed by Gen. S. I. Walker of the Roya al
Geographical society into a southern
zone, 10000 10 II 600 feet above the
sea, containing all the towns and viii
lagos of the settled populations q mid
die zone, -. 600 to 1850 feet high.
comprising the pasture lands of the
nomad Bodpas, or pure Thibetans; and
northern zone. $4,000 to IL 500 feet
above the sea, partly occupied at GER
tain seasons by Turkish and Mongolian
nomads, but mostly abandoned to wild
animals. The country is about l4oO
miles long by COO miles wide.