Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-03-16
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BIN Nye's name is Edgar Wills Nye, says
the Omaha Heoub lem.
Alaska, to Offset The Billiards, yielded 81
so, 90 in furs last year.
February 26 Is centennial day for the Pres
byterlan Sunday schools.
John Scott was killed near Mexico, Mo-, by
a corn crib falling on him.
stephen Heller, the pianist and musical
composer, is dead, aged -
There is n man In Audubon county, Iowa,
who bears the sulphuric title Of John He'll.
Observation-Disclosures phyraeol Is said by the
Hospital Gazette to be good for rheumatism.
A Pennsylvania young man recently mar
ried a girl who had refused him eighteen
times.
The great Northern Pacific Railroad tunnel
through the Cascade Mountains viii be haish-
ed in May.
California is daily harvesting crops Of
green peas, string beans, salad, radishes aud
new potatoes.
The average Mexican laborer supports his
family on ten cents per diem, Invested in
eoru and beans.
st. Paul has a curloslty-an OK with three
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one on the right.
Senator ingalls, will rewrlte his novel, the
manuscript OF which was recently burned with
his house at Atchlson.
Santa Cruz, CAL. has witnessed the novel
sight OF a man standing In the snow and pick.
ing grapes in a vineyard.
A woman has been expelled from the Sal.
walton Army in New York because she re.
fused to stop wearing a hustle.
The Russians are preparing to celebrate at
Kiey the 9J0th anniversary Of the Introduction
OF Christianity into their country.
The Episcopal Church is trying to raise a
million dollars FOR m ssions, with the culmin-
sting effort at the Easter Offering.
Nearly S35l,0l0 has been sp mt In the City
OF Mexico this season IN htting up the six
rings in which bull fights are held.
A recent telegram passed from New York to
Hong Kong with a reply TO the sender in
thirty-two minutes from the time Of sending
it.
Electricity Is reported TO have demonstrated
its abiiity at Richmond, Va, not only to light
and run street ralwai cars. but also to heal.
them.
a merchant at St John, New Brunswick,
adyertiscs to supply all his customers with
his autosrapA-at the bottom Of their ac-
counts.
Thomas Bean, supposed to be hcirless, died
at Bonham, Tex. last July, ami four different
sets Of claimants have been heard from. Es-
tate, s3,OJ0,OJ).
Dr.. Lyman Abbott is to receive 81, 500 a
year as the temporary pastor Of Plymouth
Church. He viii retain editorial supervision
Of the Christian Union
An enterprislng cit zen Of Michigan has or
ganized a stock company to procure the ex-
elusive public lighting franchise OF the ten |
largest cities In Mex CO for a periol OF fifty
years.
Transcontinenta traffic has outgrown rail-
way facilities. More than 1000 carloads Of
freight are living at Ogden because the Cen
trsl Pacific hasn't enough engines to haul
them.
Sam Jones has found a woman who never
had a corn. She rose in meeting in Kansas
City when Mr.. Jones said he didn't believe
there was a woman living who didn't have
corns.
The Ohio Legislature is buried under pc.
tition. from the Buckeye beauties who want to
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tltions asking for woman suffrage at municipal
elections.
Nine cents a bucket Is th- price charged for
coal in Philadelphia now, and the buckets arc
not very large, either. At that rate the poor
who can buy only by the bucAetful pay nearly
SIS a ton for their fuel.
A Young negro boy in the household Of a
New Orleans family was overheard by his
mistress, whtl. recit.ng his evening prayer, to
say, ~"orgiye US our precipices and lead US
not onter a plantation
The New York NHp says that Of all the
c|lergymen Of that town Or. Charles +. Deems,
OF the Church of thc S,rauger-,is the ~Wittiest,
AMI in an impromptl speech the most elo.
quent and entertaining.
The land devoted to wine grapes in France
would, if given over To- the cultivation Of
wheat and corn, supply that country With
grain FOR which she now gives 20 other coun-
tries about S2l,0JJ,OJJ each year.
A gentlem II living near Wnterville, Ga.
broke the knob of one Of his doors, and for
the want OF something better, put on a coffin
handle in its place. There is not a negro in the
county who viii open the door.
In 1850 a train on he Northern Pacific was
thirty la s in getting from Fargo to B smarck,
D.. +. The wires were tappei aud a news
paper written every day. Aud a child was
born on the tram while snow-bound.
British makers OF steel rails are jubilant
over the results Of experiments made by the
Japan Railway company on rails OF English
and OF German make. The German rails
proved in every way weaker than tue English.
People who have been sinking wells near
Madrid, Iowa, have folnl at a depth Of about
forty sect below the surface OF the earth the
remains of large primcvil forests. The trunks
of some Of the trees dug up are Of great size.
The average salary Of the ministers OF the
Southern Presbyterian Church last year was
only 81 ,. aud the average contribution per
member Tor min ST .ril support only S40S.
In West Virginia the average salary was
SAL
James G, Blaine and Senator Window about
three years ago bought 2D acres Of Denver 4
SUBURBAN property Tor So per acre. Their
agents have Just sold the land for 500 per