Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-05-04

Miss Grace Arile, a white girl, Of Toledo.
had typhoid fever and when sho recovered
her skin was as black as that OF negro.
St. John, the Prohlbitlonist, has purchased
a tract OF land near Chico, Cal, with the In
tenton OF making 1t his permanent home
The first slave labor within the present
limits of the United States was that EN-
ployed at the founding OF st. Augustine In
1905
At the Queens first drawing room this
year "more high bodces we're worn by special
permission than had ever been observed be-
fore.' -s.R
A mushroom was recently cooked at
Santa Barbara, Cal, that measured eight
inches IN diameter. 1t was said to be deli
cious.
The total value OF glass products imported
into the United States in 1887 was $7,6S6,-
O51, against s6,757, los worth imported In
1886.
The swords in the possession OF Mrs
Shields, belonging to her late husband Gen.
James Shields, are TO be purchased by Con-
gress for $4,000
Mr.. Carlisle is now in his third term as
Speaker. and when he has completed it
Kentucky will have had the Speskershlp
twenty three years
The average time OF 5000 New York busi-
ness men at their downtown luncheon is
| eight minutes This Is matter OF record In q
leading restaurant
Senator Dawes OF Massachusetts. is past
seventy, and his health is breaking down. He
has spent more than thirty yea. 81 the two
Houses OF Congress-
ing that his body be not pat on Ice, "for,"
said he, ~ am always cold and would like
once 20 get warm"
| By the will OF Prof. Asa Gray, OF Cambridge,
all his copyrights OF books, his portraits Of
botanical subjects are presented to the Her.
bsrium Of Harvard College.
Mrs. John w. Mackay's gift to the Prince
and Princess OF Wales, on the occasion OF their
silver wedding, is q toilet mirror heavily
mounted and embossed In silver.
Louisa, the mother OF the dead Kaiser,
wrote in 1905: "Our son William will turn
out II / am not much mistaken, like his
father, simple, honest and intelligent"
Henry Wick, who recently took charge OF
the plant OF the Warren Rolling Mil Com
pany. at Warren, o., will eIpend about SEQ
600 In putting the works In shape to run.
Henry Clay is the only man who sat more
than eight years in the Speakers chair. He
presided over the House for twelve years, and
he Was elected Speaker at the age Of thirty
four.
check for g.. oOO, ooo drawn on a nationa
bank In Sheffield Ala. recently passed be-
tween two merchants OF that place. 1t was
probably the largest check ever drawn In the
State.
A notable event in the history OF the Uni
versity OF Michigan rs the election of DR..
Hattie Allen, OF Waterloo, Ia, to fill the POI
sition OF Assistant Professor OF Medicine in
that institution.
Oliver Lays portrait Of Edwin Booth upon
which he has been long engaged, is now on
exhibition at Richards Gallery, In New York.
1t shows the actor as Hamlet seated In the
soliloquy scene.
New York retail merchants find the dogs,
which are led by chains by fashionable wo-
men, such a nuisance in their stores that many
have put upa gilt sgn reading: Dogs are
not admitted here unless In arms"
A large sawfish, fourteen feet in length, was
caught in the bay at the mouth OF the N.Y.
alkka River, Florida, last week. DR.. King,
OF Boston, made the unusual catch while fish
ing for tarpon with a hook and line.
Rev. Mr.. Cheno-eth, OF Montpelier, Ind,
who has been suffering from serious gastric
affection, attributes his illness to silver
quarter which he swallowed six years ago and
which he believes Is still lodged In his
stomach.
John Farrell had courted an Illinois wo.
man IS years When he finally decided
tast the time had come for them to part she
flung swl pail after him and broke his hip,
and the jury who tried the case returned q
verdict OF mot guilty without leaving their
seats
George Webster, the historiographeT cele-
rated his eightieth birthday q few days ago
at Heidelberg Germany He is probably the
most popular OF all the German historians his
compendium. OF the history OF the world form.
ing part Of the library OF nearly every edu-
Gated German.
Albert Frazer, a convict in the Michigan
penitentiary, escaped and n reward was
offered for his capture. lie communicated
with his wife, who was having hard struggle
with poverty, and induced her TO deliver hi'
up and get the reward. SO she did and
Frazer is happier than he has been for years