Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-07-27
HERE AND THERE.
George Gould shaves himself.

Mrs. j. II. Riddle, the novelist, is native
of Ireland.
Cardinal Gibbons resembles Henry Clay In
appearance.
The income Of oxford University for 1887
was 1926, 0OO
Fingeress kid gloves are the latest within
IN fem nine society.
The British Order OF Odd Fellows shows
membership Of SO, 600.
Gen. Sheridan fought seventy-iye battles
and was never defeated.
A deep sea eel OF twenty pounds is exhibt
ed in New York market.
Shoe soles OF wire net, outlasting leather
are a new idea in Germany.
The Queen OF Denmark is very deaf, but
pa. !onatey fond Of music.
Porto Rico pineapples, nine pounds each,
are 81 apiece IN Eastern markets
Grave d Gay have made a failure In the
retail grocery business In Chicago
There are said 70 be several churches in
Illinois without a single male member
A Florida railroad prosp ectus has rediscov-
cred Ponce dc Leon's fountain OF youth.
This year is the bi.centenary Of Alexander
Pope's birth. lie WAS born on May %, loss.
\ bust Of the late Matthew Arnold is to be
placed in Poets Corner. Westminster Abbey.
The official report on Russia for 1885 shows
that the population Of the empire is 100, O0O,-
600.
1t is estimated that tho girl who dances
eighteen waltZes travels about fourteen
miles
Gen. Lew Wallace took his mother as the
model for the notle mother OF the hero OF
"Bcn Hur."
Miss Bertha Won HIllern Is at her studio
at Fishers Hi, Va, where she will remain
all summer
Philadelphia will have twenty seven thea
tiers when the TAO now In process of erection
are completed
Epes Sargent wrote the song "A Life on
the Ocean Wave" but Henry Russell com
posed the muse
Gen. Lew. Wallace is an expert angler and
TOOK part in the recent h,-casting tournament
0; The fishermen OF lnd.aua.
Robert Browning won't write FOR magazines.
a Boston periodical offered him ST. 900 for
short poem, but he declined.
Lewis G.. Clark, the George Harris OF
'Uncle Toms Cabin" is to be on exhibition
at MnnespoH museum.
DR., John Hall, Of New York has been APP
pointed a member OF the Board OF Visitors to
the Anopois Naval Academy
The price Of diamonds has fallen. 1t was
over - sli l!ngs per carat in October, 1857,
and IL IS row cs, than j. shluIs
Messr,. Muuhall aud Towncr after a
mou N, VT. IN -. Paul., Nina, saw 1000
persons publicly confess conversion.
Laurence OF phant has published a new
book dealing V III scientific religion" 1t is
prououn ed very daring md Original. 1900
Louis Hu,l,r has bought SO al, ..Oj acre. Of
Mexican land on which he proposes 10 SETTLE
German families fresh from Europe.
Society papers are coming To use the terms
woman and women in lieu OF lady aud ladies'
IA improvement all the way round.
DR.. Richard Garnett Of the British Muse
urn, is the author OF biography of Emerson,
which is soon TO appear in the Great Writers
Series"
Miss Julia Bryant, a daughter OF William
Cullen Bryant, who has been living in Paris
since the death OF her father, has returned to
New York.
A monster frog swallowed chicken ct
Oconee, Ga, the other day, aud seemed TO be
relshing the bite immensely when the owner
killed him.
Ruskn dislikes foreign transators and not
long ago wrote letter telling a man who
asked permission to translate his works TO let
them alone.
The smallest baby in Chicago was born
few DAYS ago TO Mrs. Dauske the wife of
teamster. The dminutive infant weighs six.
teen ounces.
Miss Leollne Daniel, OF Athens, La, while
preparing for her wedding, became suddenly
III, and died about the hour sue was to have
been married.
Russell Sage is the Director of three
banks, and IL is very seldom that he ever
misses meeting. For each meeting that lie
attends he receives $40.
Heroic treatment saved the Emperor
Of Brazil from death. Oxygen gas and hypo-
dermc injections Of caffeine were used TO
preserve the patient from syncope.
The other day steamer made fast TO q
dock at Duluth adjusted six receiving spouts,
took on 80, 600 bushels OF wheat, and was of
with her load in forty nine minutes.
Baby, two years old, has heard pearl
spoken Of as mother Of pearl" One day
she ran In with a piece in her hand, cry.
Ing; Here's the mamma Where's the
baby"
A queer flower, which grows in Yucstan, is
the manito Qittle hand OF the guarumo. 1t
is I'm the exact shape OF the human hand,
with fingers, thumb, nails and knuckles all
complete.
The Chicago Times says that his swee,
hearts skull serves as a paper weight for Q
doctor In that CITY. 1t was her diving request
that he (then student) be given the skull
as a remembrance OF her
DR.. Theodore GAY, who attended ex-Vice
Pres ldent Wheeler during his last illness, has
presented bill foe about sl4, 500. Mr. Wheel
ers executor has refused to pay the bill and
the matter will go 20 the courts.
son OF Browning is said to have replied
some time ago to New York artist, who
asked him II be understood his fathers
poetry, "Some Of IT," and related that his
father observed after reading a massage in