Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-03-23

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mint.
Prof. Patton was elected successor to DIR.
McCosh.
There are several cases OF trichInosls near
Toledo O.
John Rec fell $50 feet down a mine shaft
at Negannee, Mich.
Hon Will Cumback is lecturIng In Indiana
on ''lhe Model Husband"
A balloon corps has arrived at saaii, Abys'
slnia to join the Italian force there's.
At a depth of 40 feet in a well being sunk
at S%tratton, Neb., human bones were ound.
Samuel Myers, of Avon, ILL.,, has raised a
fine watermelon this winter on a vine In his
cellar. ~s>D" .,~
Carl schurz is said to be permanently Grip
pied by the result Of his fall on the lee last
winter.
John Armstrong was ground to pieces by
the shafting In the %glassworks at Martins
Ferry, O.
Edlnson says he Will have five hundred
practical Photographs ready for market in a
few DAYS.
Kansas City has raised $500 toward a fun
for a monument to the late Vice President
Hendricks.
Prof Tyndall has reported a white rainbow,
and Lord Monteagle follows with the same
observation.
Real estate in South America ranges from
five cents an acre In Paraguay 10 $3.50 in
Buenos Ayres.
There is a nourishlng grove Of 81, 200 cocoa.
nut trees at Cape Sable, the southernmost
point of Florida.
Prof. Lewis Swift, the Rochester q. Y as
tronomer is lecturiug through the West on
the wonders of the telescope.
The young wife Of old Charles Brookman,
OF Youngstown, O., deserted her husband,
taking $500 OF his money.
John Weisser, n farmer near Pittsburg, be-
came crazy because he was getting rich so
fast, and hanged himself He left 500, 600.
The Yaukton CDak.) Board of Trade pub
fishes a statement that the number Of lives
lost in the recent blizzard will not exceed 200.
Forty thousand ponds sterling have been
granted by The Irish Board OF Works for
'reaGorestlng" a part Of the west Of Ireland.
John Williams, while c%hoDping wood near
Delaware, O., let the AZ fly out OF his hands.
1t hit his little son in the head, instantly kill
Ing him.
Gen. Bragg's peculiar acidlty OF temper is
accounted for by a friend, who SAYS that in
his infancy the General was bottle-fed on
chow chow.
The treaty between Italy and Germany slip
ulates that If France attacks either country
the other shall send an army Of Boo, 900 men to
the French frontier.
Burglars IN San Francisco have capped the
climax Of their doings by entering the house
Of the Chief Of Police and stealing ST, 500
from under his nose.
New Haven, Conn, is greatly pleased over
the assurance that Gen. Terry Will take up
his residence in that city after his retirement
from the arlne next year.
Buffalo merchant has in his possession the
great iron paddock which was used in locking
the great gates OF Fort George during the
war Of 1912. 1t weighs about five pounds.
Gen. Bidwel's offer Of a ffty-acre tract
near Chico, In Butte County, Cal. FOR a tree
planting station has been accepted under
the charge Of the California State Board Of
Forestry.
a hundred years ago julien Dubuque set
foot in Iowa, at the place where now is the
city bearing his name The Old Settlers
Association is preparing for a centennial
celebration.
The STATE OF Sonora, Mexico, levles a tax Of
s. on every baby born within its limits, and
charges the farmer five cents for
every chicken he raises and fifty cents FOR
every sheep.
A man who was arrested in Omaha the
other night for begging wore five pairs OF
trousers, three vests, three coats, three
shirts, and had three hats, two Of them being
in his pockets.
The gavel used by The presiding officers Of
the United States senate has been in use over
fifty six years. 1t is made out Of an ele-
plants tooth and has no handle nor did il
ever have one.
y piano, which IS used for tuning practice
n a musical institution In Boston, has sp.
parently wonderful recuperative power, as Il
is said that it has had over 1000 tuniugs aud
it seems equal to as many more.
A grande dsme Of Paris was asked the
other day by a friend why she had dressed
for a soiree in a less decollete fashion than
usual. "My dear friend" was the reply. al
have resolved to throw a veil over the past"
A London firm has received an order for a
number Of war balloons from the Russian
Government. Each balloon will be provided
with a car TO accommodate six men, and will
cost g, 800. They viii be made Of fire proof
material.
A brewer Of Beaver Falls, Pa, awoke early
the other morning from a vivid dream that
Dol, brewery was on fire. lie was so impressed
that he made Immediate Investigation, and
found iu the boiler room a fire just starting
which he was able to extinguish.
Mime. Christine Nilsson says in a letter to a
Philadelphia friend that she IS a constant
rheum4tic sufferer and she fears that she will
DE obliged 90 close he- professional career at
once. Size adds that she has not even con-
tcmp.atei another American tour.
a Boston man has just had Dickens bound
In sixteen different colors, among them red,
brown, orange, light and dark blue, lemon.
fawn, maroon aud black. Each novel was
bound in an individual hue, the only duplica-
ton occurring when a story came in two
volumes.
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