Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-10-26
HERE AND THERE

More than 200 steam and hand lanndries
with an invested capital Of about &a,O0O.OOOs
are required TO keep the Yankees In clean
shirts and collars
A South Carolina baby wandered out
among the cucumber mes and fell asleep,
and while lie was bel pless the vines grew
around him and smothered him TO death.
1t 10 fgu, ed that II not another whale were
killed for the next hfty years the increase
would hardly make good whaling at the end
OF that time. The whale as q monster must
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| A Connecticut couple couldn't agree on
physician to attend one OF their children, and
a squabble which followed now has it's out
come Ia a suit for divorce Instituted by the
wife.
There is only one way to eat corn of cob,
and that Is to take the ear 10 your hand.
Holding the ear down with your foot and
gnawing the corn of is tabooed In mannerly
society.
About 6,00), 600 letters went to the dead let.
ter Office las, year, aud II you haven't heard
from your girl since January this statement
may relieve your mind. She forgot to put on
n stamp
| A New York subm arine diver has covere6
himself with rIdicule by expressing his beliaT
that there are no mermaids. il there are ne
mermaids what can we bring up our childreS
to believe In.
| The handsome daughter OF an Iowa farmGe
was prevented from marrying a negro fsrIS
hand, and she did just what she ought to have
done before she fell In love with hlm-cou,
mitted suicide.
An enterprising manufacturer has produc
a new kind OF cloth which is an excellent imi.
tatOn OF chamois skin. In fact, SO com.
plete is the dece ption that every one who sees
1t pronounces 1t a skin.
Pace q wooden pail ten feet away and give
q woman q dozen peach stones and she can
pitch an average OF two in the pail man
can land ten or eleven. Mother reason why
man is the superior animal.
The age at which most suicides take place
In this country is 81 1t would seem that In
early middle life the dsa ppolnted hopes are
most keen and the effects OF an ill-spent
youth most disastrous At IS many Ameri-
cans feel the wearisomeness Of old age.
Fishermen seeking s,a bass of the coast
Of Monterey, Cal, came upon gigantic sun
fish and succeeded in capturing 1t after
envelopIng it IN about roo fathoms OF net 1t
f,OJo pOuuus, duu Were mdue
TO preserve AMI send 1t to San Francisco, but
they failed.
1T is alleged that fisherman caught
bass weighing ten pounds" says Troy paper.
We never could see why the man who fishes
should be suspected OF lying. AS a matter
Of fact not one man in one hundred ever lies
about his fish.
Charles Dyer OF Indiana, bet 50 cents that
he could cross a highway before railroad
train could hit him. Charles lost by a few
seconds, but there is no need to read him a
sermon about it, They haven't found but
half Of him yet
One Banks, a young man from New York
city, recently fell headlong over one OF the
Kaaterskill falls, In the Catskll mountains a
Il stance Of 50 feet He landed In pool Of
water and was thus saved from instant death.
He was badly injured, though, and 1t is
thought will die. r'
In consequence OF a municipal decree In
Paris lowering the price OF bread the bakers
Of St Denis closed their shops. The work
ing people becoming incensed plundered
some Of the shops and a few have been re-
opened. MANY arrests were made and great
excitement prevails.
woman in Dynver was so sensitive that
when her husband called her a slouch she
took poison and died. An average eastern
woman would have simply replied: YOU'RE
another" and in ten minutes the storm
would have been over.
London preacher placarded the city with
notices that lie would preach In Spurgeon's
Tabernacle on the subject: '.-;-:-l-l."
There was a large congregation, to whom he
announced the text: stand thou still
awhile" and then said that hts subjec, was
'The Pauses of Life'
Anxiety concerning the fate Of Stanley IL
greatly increased by the tidings of the muir
Of his chief lieutenant, Major BarIelot, by
his Manyema carriers. IT is seriously feared
that Stanley has also fallen victim to the
treachery Of T.ppoo lib, who organ zed the
native portion OF tie expedition
Dynamiters are not vet altogether extinct
In Chicago. The police last week discovered
and captured another Anarchist Charles L.
Bodendieck, who, in rear room In q small
west side clearinghouse, manufactured
dynamite bombs Several detectives are try
Ing TO ascertain whether the man had ac~
completes
The comet supply had for some time been
rather limited. II is interesting, however, to
hear from Professor Brooks of Geneva N.
Y, and Professor Barnard OF Lick Observe
tory, that new comet Is approaching the
earth rapidly at the rate OF about 1900, 600
miles day. At that rate It would arrive
here about the middle OF November.
Martin Wiles. bathing master Of the Mo,
hican house Lake George. while digging the
other daS under the roots OF a big cedar not
far from the beach, fonrl quantity OF In
dian weapons, evidently OF great antiquity
and portions OF q human skeleton, which
crumbled into dust as soon as exposed to the
ar The weapons were arrowheads and
stone hatchets Of curious design.
1t is suggested that American women who
ride should no longer follow the English fash
lon OF sitting on the left side OF the horse
There the custom of turning to the left on
the road places the lady away from the wheels
OF any vehicle she may meet But her COM
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