Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-05-18
CURRENT EVENTS.

Donncly's great cTyptosram VIII NC puo
lished May |.
This week 700 Hebrew families will leave
Jassy Russia, for America.
Claus spreckles will erect a s. 1000, 900 sugar
refinery Ia the Quaker City.
Mrs Cleveland employs a secretary now TO
write all her autograph letters.
Snow has Just fallen in Formosa, China, for
the first time within the memory of man.
Besscmer, Alabama, is just one year old
and has between three aud four thousand In
habitsnts.
One hundred thousand butterflies OF all sizes,
shapes and colors are TO be put on exhibition
In New York.
A Battle Creek Mich, man recently natur-
allied, who couldn't get TO the polls sent In
his ballot by mail.
few years ago cotton seed was thrown
away as worthless, but to-day the seed Is as
valuable as the lint.
Mr. John b. Frs, who was once private
secretary of Henry Clay is living at Sidney.
y. ", nearly 20 wears old.
Mrs. Cleveland always confines herself to
Apollinaris water at dinner and wears no BUS
tie when she goes 10 church.
Included in the exports from New York city
during the past week were !, ga live cattle,
G,2s5 quarters OF beef and l35 live sheep.
Professor a. J. Devoe, the New Jersey
weather prophet, says that August 2, 3, and 4
will be the warmest DAYS OF the summer.
Miss Olive Green and Mr.. Ivory White
were welded In an Iowa town recently, the
Rev Mr.. Black performing the ceremony.
More than $500, CO., 0) Of capital is said 10
have been invested within the last twelve
months in southern enterprises aud lands
The heirs are stl contesting the will OF
the late Vice President Wheeler. lie leaves
about s35 600 to charity and $4,000 to rela-
tives
Murat Hastead is now spoken OF as the
very worst writer in the country. His chirog-
| raphy is worse than was that Of Horace
Greeley.
al guess we have go many things to learn
at our schools that We don't have any room
to understand them In, said a little girl pa
theticAlly.
Mrs Senator Hawey takes her full share
OF her husbands large correspondence and Is
acquiring familiarity with American political
platforms.
The observsnt Mrs. Grundy remarks that
"the typewriter as all invention for catching
husbands becomes more and more successful
everyv here"
A Philadelphia firm OF soap manufacturers
have kettle that holds $1,000 pounds of
liquids and six kettles that hold 10000
pounds each.
A bill providing for monument over the
body of John GRAY, the last Revolutionary
soldier, who died some years ago, has been
introduced into Congress.
Roswell p Flower was one OF nine children
born 10 a poor country tailor lie started
In life on n salary OF s. per month, aud kept
HE expenses " thin his income -
Gov. Hill spends nearly every Sunday IN
New York, and ii is limited that just now he
IS more concerned about bis matrimonial
prospects than bis presidential boom.
PattIson Jolly, the oldest printer IN the
world, died recently at Dublin, Ireland. He
was lO4 years old, and printed the first sheet
OF the Ednburg Journal more than ~ years
ago
A young lady OF Fort Valley, Ga, recently
presented her lover with an elabOrately con-
structed pen wiper, and was astonshed the
following Sunday to see him come TO church
wearing 10 as crayat
Pope Leo has ordered that the walls around
the Vatican palace be heightened. High
buildings have been erected In the nelghbor-
hood which overlook the garden in VIII ich the
Pope takes his daily walk.
Mr.. p. NJ Osterhaut, Of Tunkhsnnock, Pa.
aged so, has been sued by Caroline NJ Coon
for $40, 0O0 damages for breach OF promise
This is a case 10 which the Coon seeks TO
make the hunter 'come down"
The richest child in America is said TO be
Nav Sharpless, little miss OF years, who
is worth 80, co... 100 in her own right ET-Gov-
ernor Leon Albeit of New Jersey, is her
guardian, her father being dead.
One OF the oldest religious ed fces in the
country is the Old Swede's church at VIII
m.ngton. Del, which was built in 1893. In
the church yard rest the remains Of the wife
and daughter OF Secretary Bayard
Bald Mountain, in North Garcia, IL
showing signs OF a commotion in its interior
People living he ,r II think that It is really
slunberlng volcano, and expect some day to
see 1t burst out with food OF lava.
A Chinaman named Confuclus has
reached England on a visit from his native
|
the seventy-second generation Of the famous
Confuclus who gave Chana a religion.
Queen Victoria has showed no desire to
receive Queen Natalie OF Servia, who is also
staying at Florence and In the vicinity OF her
English Majcsty's villa, The Servlan Queen
is considered to be of color by her royal sis
ters
1t Is proposed to erect monument TO the
memory OF John Elliot the Apostle TO the
| Indians" In Elliot square, Roxbury, Mass,
and unveIl IT at the two hundredth snnver-
sary OF his death, which occurs In about two
years.
SAYS Mrs. Frank Z. Blair apropos Of her
two thousand-dollar a year pension When
my husband died his estate, which had once
been valuable. was estimated at 500, he hav
ing spent his private means to equip his regl-
ment"
Charles T. Caldwell, prominent West Vir-
gina attorney, known heretofore from his in
fidelity as the "Ingersoll OF the West Vir-
GINA bar" has been appointed aud licensed
as minister OF the Methodist Episcopal