Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-03-09
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Miss Kittie c. wilkins, OF Owyhce county,
Idaho, owns between 100 aud so horses, aud
finds the ranching business very profitable.
The coming orange crop Of Southern CALI
fornia is expected 10 be much greater than
last year. One estimate is 300 TO 1900 car
loads, against Loo car loads the past season.
Colonel Bennett II. Young, OF Louisville, re-
Gently sent to a Philadelphia friend a pair OF
Kentucky turkeys that weighed sixty-eight
pounds-the gobblcr forty-four anu the hen
twenty four.
The highest price, $40, 935, paid last year
for a picture at auction was Boucher's portrait
of Nine. de %Pompadour. Gainsborough's
"Ssters' brought 80, 1865, and Turner's ivan
Gozen" GG. 325.
1t lie the fashion now in Washington for cab
met ladies to keep their private secretaries
like Their husbands. Mrs. Whitney was the
first to employ u secretary TO look after her So
cial correspondence and keep her tablet Of en-
gagemcnts.
Oysters are very abundant In Australia aud
Of very good quality. The government controls
them, and the laws forbid their being taken
from tue water TN they reach a certain size.
A license is required for the fishermen, aud
holders are required 10 pay 80 cents for very
three bushels of oysters. The annual license
fee is $50.
They are talking about establishing a
Maple Sugar Exchange in Vermont 10 guard
against sdultcrstion. II is said that the wide
spread aduiteration Of genuine maple sugar
aud syrup is resulting seriously 10 the sugar
industry OF the state. The annual product IS
about l2,OJO,O0O pounds, aud it il thought the
organization Of an exchange would Increase Il
- per cent.
A passenger and ticket agent OF a Florida
railroad, at jacksonville, Fla, has a novel
way Of Advertising his line. lie has a rack
made Of wire, filled with the choicest oranges,
and on each orange is stamped an advert Sc
ment. When all one comes into his ticket
Office seeking Information about his line,
especially II he is from the North, he IS in
ylted TO take an oranle or two.
A tenderfoot who had beer hired 10 "herd
geese" on General Montgomcry's ranch, near
Chico, Cal, became tired Of ordiuarc methods
Of killing the Wild birds, and, saturating a
quantity OF wheat with strychninc, scattered
it about the fields. In the morning there
were . 400 dead geese lying about and their
c~arcasses completely damned up Pine Creek,
so that it overlooked is banks.
A well-kuovu artist in New York tells a
little story that will interest the mental
scientists. lie vas sitting 10 his sleeping
chamber late ut u ght read NJ a French novel,
when his wife, who had ret rcd some hours
before, suddenly awoke ana related a dream
which She had just had. The dream was All
exact couuterpart-cyru 10 dc.aIis-oi the
plot Of the novel, wu ch the lady ual never
read
An ONO girl. who tired Of hear NJ the farm
crs Iu her section .rpWl shout wheat growing
moi paving. decided she'd see about It. She
rented 3 acres OF latI kept strict account
Of every dollar expended u RAISING the crop,
got an average yield OF th Ity-lyc bushels TO
the acre, and sold 10 for Sl41lO Ihr cost Of
production was S,S.l2, incIud ~ 81 81 for
fertilizers. and the gain on the Investment
was 81 per cent.
Wines of noted years still maintain their high
prices in The European market At a sale Of
a well-known private cellar IN Edinburgh late
ly, LatOurs * Pcrrier Joucts OF the great year
OF 1850, realized $50 the case, and Latttes,
S33.1j. Eighteen hundred and seventy was
represented by Margaux at $3.50 tie ca
aud Haul Br.ou at 81. Dagonet u 1874
brought $50 the case. Owing TO our hiEh du-
ties on wines, these prices would have been
considerably exceeded here.
One firm Of fruit shippers in Fresno, Cal,
has sent East this season POO, COZ boxes Of
r%eisins, each box weighing twenty pounds. AS
it takes from three 10 four pounds Of green
grapes to make one pound Of dried, some
thing like 900, 600 pounds OF green grapes
were handled. There were also shipped t.
10000 pounds of peaches, as many apricots,
n~ectariu es, and pears, aud 20 end of smaller
fruits. This one firm Las pad out for fruit
and wages this season 5000 10.
A paper made b., Herr Lalewigc, Germany,
will resist the action Of both fire and water.
The manufacture is accomplished bv using
twenty five larts of asbestos fibre with from
twenty i've 20 thirty parts Of aluminium sui
phate, moI-teniug the mixture with chlor-
ide Of zinc and thoroughly washing itin water.
II is then treated with a solution OF one part
Of rosiu soap in eight to ten prrts Of a solu-
tlon of pure aluminium s|ulphate, after which
it is manufactured INTO paper like ordinary
pulp
Probably the most re markable railroad In
the world is that running from Gloggintz to
Lounering, near Vienna. II is only twenty
five miles in length, aud cost over S7,C0l.O J0.
1t begins at the little station Of Glo-gintz, at
an elevation Of 400 feet, and from there the
A"Ahf "N'' ~ w fN'NAA"' FNNN'h'NAfNHf
winds round and round over some fifteen dou-
Die yiaducts aud through as many tunnels. IL
creeps along precipices anordiuE ~glimpses Of
some Of the widest scenery in Europe. Its
terminus, Lounering, is at an elevation OF 81
800 feet.
The rabbit war In New Zealand and Austria.
liza is becoming more serious than ever. The
climate Of Australia suits tic rabbits adinlra-
bly,, aud SO does the sparseness OK the poDula-
ton. The result is that the rabbits hold the
field, aud they occupy and possess nearly 49,
900, O01 acres Of land in Victoria. They have
crossed the Murray aud are continuing their
devastating march n~orthwards. South Austria
liza, Tasmania aud New Zealand have all suf-
ferel to an extent that it is almos, impos-.b bic
20 estimate.
The terrible blizzard in Dakota was proceed.
ed by remarkably clear, beautiful weather.
The air was so clear hat cities aud towns,
lakes and timber forty miles distant was clear
" visible. The south wind melted the snow
.nt tI.. 81 l,ut fpIaI. f.rf harm g., ..fI. ,I,,t,