Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-01-20
CURRENT EVENTS


Mercury is now one OF the low down morn
ing planets.
Astrakan Is tho only fur strictly proper In
deep mourning
A lobster trapped In Nova Scotia 10 guessed
10 be two centuries old.
The Uulted States contains, In round num-
bers nearly 10000 Indians.
Many OF the best dressed woven in New
York have discarded the hustle.
A consignment OF 500 algators was received
by New Brunswick q. j. doctor on Friday.
A King 10 Central Africa refers to whisky
and brandy as "those sweet and soothing med
icines."
good farmer is better than n poor doctor,
and good horseshoer is better than poor
bishop.
Interest speak, all sort. OF tongue. and
plays all sorts of parts, even the part of thu
disinterested.
Russian miser is noticed as having learned
to bark in order to avoid the expence OF keep
ing watchdog.
II IL reported that the Chicago TIM, IL to
be made q Blaine organ, with j. s. Clsrksos
OF Iowa as editor
The great Memphis pyramid originally com
priscd s902S 600 cubic feet aud had 4 vertical
height OF 40 feet
! When the country boys come to the city, Il
they can only hold on to the OLD, sweet ways
they can defy the world.
Hartford coin collector has cent piece OF
the United States coinage OF 1890, which Is
considered to DO worth nearly 500.
little boy being rcproved on Sunday
morning FOR having q dirty face retorted;
"Well, | wored dis face to Sun'ay cool, any-
| how"
When boy fills house with bugs he 10 al
right, provided he doesn't run after humbugs.
lie has the making in him Of very great nat
urslist-
Tubsc, q small town 10 PIN. county, Ar,
claims TO be the oldest settlement in the
United statea It's town record. extend back
to 1850
The Detroit Jouraa! says that there ara
men in Detroit so mean and dcspicable that
their souls would rattle around in a nss's
ear like pea in a bass drum"
The longest street railway in the country 10
now In operation between Elizabeth and New.
ark, \. j., the round trip being nearly thirty
miles for which the fare 10 twenty cents
All the territorial governors OF Wsconsln
are dead. Nelson Dewey, the first state gov.
ernor, Is still living, AS are also eI-Goyernors
Fsrwell, Solomon, Lewis, FAirchild, Tsylos
and Ludington.
Nearly $500 900 in deposits Is lying unclaim-
ed IN the saw ngs banks Of Boston. Il belongs
TO 367 unknown deposltors, not one OF whon
has put In an appearance at this ban. for more
than twenty years.
The young sons OF John Burdlck, OF Aledo
H., found thirty snake eggs and matched
them in the sun. They now have thirty littls
spotted adders, oil as tame rs Kittens, which
they feed on milk.
In business there are many who can na
rise, many who can not help descending
many who OF necessity fall, many Who earn
their bread, and many who only waste 1t whes
once In Their own hands.
An Elgin, H., man preserves clipping from
a Virginia newspaper OF only thirty years age
in which an account Is given OF the sentences
OF a woman to two YEAR, imprisonment fo
teaching slave to read.
Great merits or great failing. will make yos
respected or de.pised, but tribes, little atten
tions, mere nothings either done or neglected
Will make you either liked or disllked In thu
general run Of the world.
farmer OF Saline county, Illinois lost .
calf long time ago, and recently, In drain.
ing o piece Of swamp land on his farm, he dis
covered the animals body lying under water
and completely petrined.
1t seems to be pretty well understood fao
that average American women OF TO-DAY, u
least in cities, are much heavier and BELTS
built than those OF generation or two age
50 much FOR Athletic sports.
A Young lad living on the shores OF La~
Geneva, in Wisconsin, brought down with q
shotgun magnificent specimen OF tue Amerk
can eagle. The enormous bird measured nins
feet from tip to tip Of the wings.
centipcde and a tarsntula which we've
found in a bunch OF bananas at Sacramento
on being placed In glass jar together begas
fighting Immediately. After severe struggle
the centipede killed bis antagonist
Peter Gruler, Of oil City, /, the champlos
snake hunter OF Pennsylvania, aud he makes
good living at it. lie captures live raft.
lers, copperheads aud blscksnakes with hh
naked hands and handles them with impO
nifty
The tenement house commission OF Phila
delphia is building houses which are to h'
rented to people OF very small means. The
ment house evils OF poor light, foul air and
general flthness.
cannon used In 1876 for protection agalna
the India was excavated from a bed OF eight
feet OF gravel at Deadwood, Oak, Tuesday.
1t Ia said TO have disappeared during the DS
kota food, and this is the first that has bees
known OF IL since.
The origin OF = long lost letter written by
General Washington in An acknowledgment
OF an address by the citizens Of Newport has
Just been found. 1t 10 written on both sides
OF two-qusrto sheets OF letter paper and 3
still distinct and readable.
Mrs Johnson Newman, Of Jasper, Tex,
heard her dogs baylng the other evening, and
going out OF doors she found that they had
driven q handsome buck deer into 4 corner OF
the fence near the house. Procuring an AZ,
she dealt the animal two powerful blows on
the head aud killed IL.