Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-04-20
CURRENT EVENTS.

Bldntess, just hITiNti III ANtN iol",
stands seven feet three in her hosiery
A free application OF soft soap to a fresh
burn almost instantly removes the fire from
the flesh
A consignment OF 1900 tons OF potatoes
has arrived at Boston on board a steamer
from Glasgow.
A Berren Springs (Mich) family OF four
persons live on nineteen cents a week, exclu-
sve OF house rent.
A New York man AT his death left TO his
son-in-law receipts for all the bills he had
paid for him, and nothing more.
The substitution Of wood pulp for plas-
ter OF Paris in the manufacture OF all kinds
OF building ornaments is constantly increas-
ing.
museum illustrating the various forms Of
religion which have prevailed In the world is
10 be one OF the attractions Of Paris the COM
Ing summer.
More people enter Russia than come out OF
II. Between 1872 and 1881 the number OF en-
ierauts was s0)0,OOJ, aud the number Of i'm
migrants 9,45)OOO
There are III veterans OF the civil war in
the Nat onal House OF Representatives., OF
=
three Union soldiers
George Miller who died in Lancaster Coun-
~. Pa, the other day at the age of SEVENTY
five, had attended 3, 200 funerals and made
that number OF collins.
It is said that there are not more than one
hundred negroes in the entire city OF Paris,
AMI throughout France very few persons OF
African blood are TO be found.
There Is in Philadelphia blind newsdealer
whose sense of touch is so acute that he not
only makes change accurately AMI rapidly but
can detect a counterfeit note or coin.
A Reno Nevada paper sees great do
nestle outbreak ahead unless the indiscrim-
nate naming OF ha!f-breed Indian children
Whereabouts after prominent citizens be
stopped
The wife Of James McElmore, Of Tex,r-
kama, Texas, has just given birth 20 her
third set Of triplets within three years. Al
last accounts all the youngsters were living
and healthy.
Some Of the shepherds IN the mountains
Of Bulgaria live for ten and fifteen years at
tending their aocks, and never knowing
what it is 10 sleep in a house or TO enjoy any
OF the comforts OF civilization.
Med cine can now be administered TO man
by electricity, whether he wants to take it
or not The electrodes Of battery are sat.
uratel with the medicine aud applied locally
10 the skin, and the medicine Is absorbed
A new rolling mill has been built at Cato
City, five miles north OF Birmingham, Ala.
II has fifteen pudding furnaces one muck
bar mill, one guide mill and bar mill, aud
will make cotton ties one OF the specislties
A Nashville carpenter arose in hl. sleep
nj went into his shop and began filing
saw. The noise woke him up aud be was
nightly puzzled to find himself engaged at
such work at , O'Clock in the morning in
lark shop
The editor OF III, GrigD CJupy (Dak)
Courier calls attention 10 the fact that Griggs
County contains room enough 10 seat the en-
tire population Of the globe In armchairs with
in It's limits, allowing each person space Of
thirteen feet.
There is woman at Port Jeryis, ~ Y, who
goes into commissions everr time she hears
anyone sing the air Of Old Lang Svne." and
4 neighbor woman has just been mulcted In
The tune OF 500 for singing it with malice
aiore thought
Fostoris, O., Is TO have another glass works
There will be a sixteen-pot furnace and the
building will be Of corrugated steel. costing
about 5000 About 80 persons will be
employed and the works will turn out all
kinds Of tableware
Anna Zoloka Of Minneapolis, has just
brought suit for divorce from her husband,
John Zoolks, for the seventh time. Her
Efforts TO secure a legal separation extend
over period Of twelve wears and have
hitherto been successfully combated by her
husband.
There being a scarcity Of small change at
Galveston Tex, it was proposed to utiliz.
ear tickets for the purpose, so the street car
companies increased their issue and now the
merchants find themselves with enough car
ckets on hand TO give the entire population
a ride for several years.
Among the cores pondence OF Philslel-
phia professor OF dentistry there came recent
rather odd inquiry from Western IN .mber
Of the profession. lie is about to open an
Office, aud asked the price OF bushel OF old
teeth, VIII Oh he intends placing on exhibition
at his place 10 impress creduou5 public
with chs ability" at extracting.
A gentleman In Washington, GA, had an
iron safe, and the man from whom he got IL
through legal process, refused to give him
the combination. The man in possession Of
the safe wrote TO the makers for instructions
about getting into IL, when they wrote him to
break of the handle, take steel punch aud
knock in the revolving rod. He was not more
than five minutes ia getting into It.
According to statistics compiled By the Pha.
delphis Mint and published in the Inquirer
Of that city, the production OF gold has stead
ily increased since ISL while the production
Of silver shows decline. The total yield Of
gold the world over in 1857 Is given st *97,-
ls9 79j and OF silver SllG, 7G9, 81 Should the
present rates Of production continue-snd
there Is no apparent reason why they should
not-sver viii grow rclaiiyel more valuable
aud gold less so. which is exactly what the
financial condition Of the country demands.
Talk OF originality. says the San Francisco
Chronicle, II was original and pretty. and an
astonishing idea for an uuscnimental man TO
conceive o. a lady up town was showing to
her friends very handsome ring her hus-
band had given her. II was an oval OF dia-
monds, with three little Opaque blush white