Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-10-26
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Bohan, the eye gouger. got twenty six years
hard labor.
The Michigan gold field has yielded e2o.o
within month.
A Frankfort Qnd well emita yellow gas,
aud It burns yellow.
There are thirty-seven Revolutionary pen
sioners still on the list.
MahonIng co. man was arrested for
beating an OK TO death with wire.
The Harbor Springs (Niich wooden tooth
pick factory makes !, 500, 900, 90 picks year.
An English and German syndicate Is ne
gotating for all the brewerles in PhDadel-
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prize bull at che Mason City Uowa) fair
grounds.
Ephraim Moore will walk no more on the
railroad track ut Plymouth, Ind, or any
other place.
Miss Eva Pemberthy, nurse, was made
insane by watching an operation in a Pitts
burg hospital
The cattle fever Is spreading In Knox
county, o. II Knox out the calculations OF
many OF the breeders.
Mrs. Angie Fessenlen, OF Youngstown, o.,
has sued he Erie Road for $4,000 damages
for the killing of her hush nd.
A burglar blew up sale at Windsor, VT,
with such vehemeucc as to wake up the
whole village but he got away with 500.
1t is called a significant fact that the ex.
pensive watering place hotels were the ones
lnat made the least money the past season.
One result OF the yellow fever plague in the
pouth will doubtless be an increased travel to
touthern California during the coming fall
and winter.
The 7e1H Lie stock Journal SAYS that the
wool clip there prom SEES to be very good this
fall but owing to the prospective low prices
many fockmasters will not shear till next
spring
piece OF ink tin ore was picked up in
Georgia the other dac, aud now the discover
ir is giving rs Whole mind To discovering
the ven IL came from. but so far without
success.
While trying TO avoid being kissed by a
woman George NlnGl, Of Baltimore fe /
down stairway aud was instantly killed.
This is probably the first instance OF the kind
ON record.
As coffin was being lowered into grave
in a cemetery near Vienna 1t fell In such a
manner as to cause the LII 10 come of and
the corpse to fall out head foremost Three
Of the mourners tainted.
They tell at hamilton, Ga, of the wonder
ful jump of a horse in the sixties. 1t was
across twelve feet of bridge that was down.
Tie driver waited moment, sank the siurs.
AMI the horse cleared the opening
TO the mar Ne met on the highway the other
nght Hand over them casbi" he might
have escaped arrest, but he yelled OUT:
Gimmy yer shugar!" and was Identified by
his voice.
Any book OF poems which has the word
"tyrant' in 1t cannot pass the Russian front
Orr The Gar thinks 1t a direct hit at him.
An English book was lately tabooei because
Vt had the sentence, "God's free air." All
the air in Russia belongs to royalty.
People who are always looking for the
treasure buried by pirates never stop to won
der where they had a chance to rake in big
hauls. In the days OF pirates dozen cap
tured pirate ships wouldn't pan out enough
cash to set up good corner grocery.
PENNSYLVANIA wildcats uurt be lacking In
some OF the traits of character usually as
signed to puss. They let IL year old boys
Kill them with corn-s'alKs. A Michigan
hunter is just now in bed with l4s wild cat
scratches and bites distributed over his an
atomy.
II is proposed to hold a Worlds SUNDAY
School CONVENTION in London next June. II
this convention is held it will be made up OF
delegates from all parts OF the world, and a
ship will be chartered which VII take three
hundred delegates TO London from this coun-
try alone
For starting rumor that ghost had
taken upits quarters in an Arkansas way side
hotel John Elvey was sued for damages
aud had TO fork over s3D in cash and Law the
ghost There can be nothing supernatural
about hos~A the coff,e Is too poor and the
butter too bad
'Chinchin" is the Indian word for The
young man who sets out TO take the scalp OF
an enemy is met by bear and told to turn,
and comes back empty-ha to tell big
story" Why can't we get some such short
word to express our feelings towards the
chap who says he will pay 1t back by Satur-
day.
Miss Lolse NJ Roger, the teacher who
suffered amnutation OF her feet I'm conse-
pupils during the great blizzard 10 Nebr asks
last winter hiss rece we'd a pair OF artifc al
feet provided by The teachers in Boston, and
writes that ''they Dit adm rably," aud she can
walk very well With them.
While the height OF the fruit season Is on,
Gays the Nal and Express, 1t is ''healthiest,
w:scst aud besp' to substitute It for desserts
of pies, pudding and the like Pes aud
ill.,. Al
ways" but fresh fruit visits are peculiar to
the 1.-TWO luscious months OF a preceding
year." and should be made the most of by
one aud all ,
Won Bulow doesn't allow greedy hosts and
hosiesses to use his services gratis to en-
terrain their guests. He always makes 1t q
proviso before entering a strange house that
he shall not be asked to play. II IL related
on the celebrated vbolinist Ernest that, upon
being asked to dinner and invited 10 bring
his violin with him, he replied: Thanks