Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-06-15

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The planet Mars is now brighter than IL
will be again Tor two years
f. Strecker, OF Reading, Pa, has collected
over 500 boxes Of butterflies.
Chicago has an association Of relglonists
called The Conditional Immortality Asso-
cation."
The Tweed fountain OF City Hall, New
York, costing originally s., 900, has been sold
for $50
A farmer near Flint. Mich, is mournll&
the death of two geese that be had kept FOR
fifty wears.
r. ". jenkins, Of Pittsburg, tainted In the
bath tub the other day, anu Was drowned
before help came.
"OlI Probabilities" has got in such way
OF ia ssng 1t that lie can hardly hit bad
weather any more
The Mayor OF Ty-Ty, Ga, having got job
as trainman in a neghboring city, has
thrown up his office
A Philadelphia belle who crowded her feet
into shoes one size too small was buried in
line style the other day.
Plaster Of paris is being driven out OF Paris
by wood pulp, which Is made TO serve the
same purpose cheaper.
Since the evacuation OF Boston b. the
Br.tlsh there has never been but one British
ma n-uf- war in the harbOr.
Last year !, 300 miles Of railroad were laid 10
Kansas. Nebraska aud Texas, and this year
$500 miles are being projected.
Thirteen new banGs went into operation
last month. Canada need have no fears OF
any shortay.. I'm tine CrOD of Cashiers
The American who went to Honduras 70
RAISE treasure of S.j,0O0OO0 would now like
10 raise money enough for weeks board
Western cos boys name about three new
towns per week but the government refuses
to acknowledge any Of them as postoiiices.
The consump t.cn OF clean wool in Europe
and North America is estimated at about two
aud one half pounds per head oil population
There are said to be fully 200 women EN-.
pluycd IN editorial capacities on the various
newspapers and journals published in New
York.
May day was ushered in by heavy fall Of
snow aud good sic CHING ia Dakota, but the
residents predict that 1t Will be the last until
Scpiembcr.
Emperor Frederick will be able to leave
s?JO, OuJ a year, with the use Of a residence Ia
Berlin and a country seat
\ Cincinnati man has been on the jury
twenty eight times, and he SAYS II is just aw-
ia. how the other eleven men hung out
against him IN every verdict
George Lane returned to his home In OHIO
the other day after AZ absence Of twenty five
Years and cat down 10 dinner aud grow.ed
about The grub a. naturally as ever.
Al the first glance no one thinks Miss Jen
ME Flood even common good looking. WheS,
it is VII spered that she IS worth 300, 0Sy
ever, body eau see how beautiful she is.
The Anarchist organ in Chicago 90! down
to thirteen subscribers before 1t let 90. One
more legal hanging would make the law
pretty generally respected in that city,
Prince Henry of Germany has had 7o) DIFF.
ierent photographs OF himself taken, and in
every Instance he parts his hai' in the middle
aud looks as handsome as a pkn pie.
I'VE must have man OF the people for
Governor OF Missouri" says a ST. Louis pa.
per, ana then It proceeds to suggest the
rames OF two men worth 81 OJJ,0O each.
Floods, earthquakes, epidemics aud acct
dents have caused a million deaths in China
during the last six months, and perhaps the
immigration problem Is TO be solved that
way
Every circus In the country has 10 renew
its stock OF serpents every year. snake
which Is iolted around is deprived OF rest
and sleep and its annoyance soon results Ia
death
The old saving ''that auy religion is all
right unless ii interiors with a mans poll
tics,n is about % be exempted on grand
scale, and 1t will be test as 10 which Is the
strongest
The Chicago Alarm, the Anarchist organ,
bankrupted tn rteen men before 1t went up the
spout Thirteen awful bowls against the
oppression Of labor sounded Gear across Lake
Michigan
The output OF converts to Christianity In
Africa grows less and less every year, while
the in-put of whisky increases by twenty per
cent. The failure Of one is always the growth
OF the other.
A gold watch which a Missouri farmer lost
last fall, and for the theft Of which h. sough,
TO send his hired man to prison, was found In
the stomach OF one OF his cows which died
the other day.
When Long John Wentworth was asked to
join a church he shouted: ASK for a check
and you can have 1t, but any church that 10
willing TO take me as a member is not fit for
me to belong to-"
Seven Buckets OF Blood, or the Orphan
Hack Drivers revenge" is the latest thing
out for good bows TO buy for nickel and take
TO the hay.mow TO read. And they were
large buckets, too.
1t Is said that popular vote I'm Cuba would
annex that Island to the United States quick
erin scatl But they have no popular vote IN
Cuba. Assassinations aud bull-d arc the
only popular things.
At social parties In Pennsylvania one OF
the games Is kissing through knot hole In
an inch plank. chap with an extra large
mouth can sometimes hit the tip end OF
long-nosed girls nose.
Matthew Arnold drew pension from the
British Civil List The pension lapsed at his
death, but ii is understood that Queen
Victoria will be asked TO continue the pension