Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-10-26
HERE AND THERE.

Bv the constitution OF Kentucky the Dor
rowing power OF the state is limited at $500,
600
At Los Angeles the mercury has registered
90 In the shade, aud at Baltimore, % this sea-
sou.
Beautiful works in wood, ivory, and shells
are being made In Mexico for the Paris expo
slton.
The new high license law has closed 800
saloons in Pittsburgh out OF a total of 721 In
operation year ago
Hats should be cheap this year All the
markets are oyerstocked add 1000 hatters at
Danbury, Conn, are idle on account Of dull
trade.
The excise board of New York city issued
9,6OS licenses OF all grades during the fiscal
year just closed receiving the sum Of 81, 372,-
GAO from the liQuor-dealers.
An oil distributing device has been invent
es and recently patented for sea-going YES
sells, whereby the waves may De quieted
with the pouring OF oil on the troubled waters.
By the constitution of Pennsylvania the
debt OF the large cities Is limited to per cent.
of their assessments. BY special act OF tho
legislature this limit may be raised to 10 per
cent
Works Will be commenced In FL Paso, Texas,
in short time for federal building for a
postofllce and custom house, for which an ap.
propration OF $50 900 has been made by con.
gress.
There yet remain to be fed 1000 OF the
$500 square Cset OF space allotted West Vr-
ginia in the Centennial Exposition of the
Ohio Valley and Central States, TO be held at
Cincinnati.
According to The Amsr'cm RsVelO, 1t IS
little known fact that hard friction can de-
veop sufficient heat to in1ame benz ne vapor,
especially II the surface rubbed be vanished
with shellac.
Boston is criticised because OF sign which
reads, "Lawn Mowers Niended in the Rear"
Since the death Of Emerson, 1t must be adj
nj ted. the Boston ians have become tr &c
clreless with their English.
Four states Of the Mexican republic have
abolished bul-hghtlng and some action was
looked for from the federal congress, but no
member has been found who has sufficient
nerve to propose the Innovation,
II gelatine be suspended in ordinary alco-
hol II will absorb the water; but as it is in
soluble in alcohol that substance viii remain
behind, aud thus nearly absolute alcohol may
De obtained Without dlstlllatlOn.
Railroad earnings in April made better
showing than they did in March O seven
ty-nne roads there was an increase in the
third week OF April, as compared with the
corresponding week last year, On lOJ5 per
cent.
The English government can get horses
sui able Tor cavalry service in Canada for ESQ,
and has to pay ga for the same animals
raised In England An attempt IS being
made TO turn the mind Of English farmers
toward horse-raising
The judgment OF the United States In ex-
clu ling Chinese immigration Is approved and
minated elsewhere. Australia aud New
South Wales adm tied over a m lion 81 them,
and they would soon have overrun those
countries but for prohibitory laws recently
enacted.
The 1ower-growers and perlul ne distillers OF
southern France have no fear OF competition.
Thsl think that because they inherited this
industry from their ancestors aNi because no
other country has taken it up su ccesstuily no
other people ever can or Will.
The New York legislature has p ssed a bin
providing for the appointment OF malrons for
ever, police stat on in the cities of the state.
The petition was carried throui ID by he Wo-
mans Prison association and tn Wonan's
CHRISTIAN Temperance Union.
The Reading railroad has ranged new
plan Tor fixing the wages of co, d TIA in conduc
tors. Those only one year in the service are
to receive s. 40 per trip; two years $3.50, and
three years SEQ per trip. Overt M will be
allowed ii delays be cous .dcred unavoidable.
The high license law whic went INTO opera
in Nm Iocf l. fora
license fee of SlOO in all towns which lave
not more than 1900 Inhabitants, $3.50 n
towns which have popuat on of from 800
to l0,oOO aud $3.50 in towns with popuia ton
of IN, re than 10000.
y. Blunzer, prominent sockm Of Nueces
county, Texas, is the owner of a 5-year-old
Durham COW that has eigb teen horus iour on
each loot and two on tie head. The horus
are fully developed, and are about fourteen
nc IS long. The COW has a oue-year old
heifer that has the same number OF horns.
The people of the cInited States have not
be un 10 appreciate the maguifceuce OF this
boon "f nature, says lie LoarV.ie Courier
ouHdt, which every year reapprars ia a
supply of the worlds best cotton f1T Z! 900.
WOpeopls, equal to double The supply allotted
the l.6lO,OJOOOJ of people OF other atious
he firm of ,rbour Brothers, IL read aud
twine manufacturers, Of Paterson N j.
employ 40 workers in that city, and .. &C
IN Bel fast Ireland the work perform d he NJ
the same in both cities. The mon hly pay
roll Tor the l,400 in Paterson am,ouuts to
within $500 as much as the payroll fox the
$3.50 in Belfast.
EiectrlclaDs are just now focking % Spain,
for the government has decreed that al the
theaters IN the kingdom shall adopt the Cd
tric light within SIX months Ex p.rts say
that danger Is in this wholesale edict, fer
there are not men and material in tile countr,
to do the work in the required time, and 4
there should be general influx Of electrl-
clans, the work is likely to be too hastily done
TO be- safe.
The pineapple season has began in New
York. Merchants there are receiving $500
brrcls a week, and by the middle OF May,