Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-09

II requires the stings Of sixty healthy
honey bees To Kill "a man in fair health. TX
you can dodge a over fifty you Ere pretty
safe for a place in the next Fourth OF July
procession.
1t is predicted that a substitute will be
found for iron within the next twenty-five
years but IL this comes true IL IL ten TO one
that Yankee discovers it, But what need
Of a substitute!
Wiggings has come out OF his shell TO dc
clare that the earth is gradually recedlng
from the sun. IL would be easier for the
Gun TO do the crawiish act but he won't
have IL that way.
Rain, snow, gales, fresbets, confagra-
tons, disasters on lake and ocean ana ca
lamities on land marked the last week in
May. No human agency could have plan
ned worse week
III you want TO express yourself emphati-
.ally 10 your enemies hereafter tell them TO
go to Hayti. 1t is just as warm and uncom
Portable as the other place and there is no
doubt as to its existence
American tools, American lamps, Ameri-
can rocking chairs-all are superior 10 the
same articles manufactured In the Ola
World, and exhibited at the Paris EXPOSE
tion Our brooms, carriages and buggies
attract great attention and admiration.
Australia already furnishes US much
agricultural competition in European mar
kets, and her rapid growth will soon render
! her more able and active, but she is never
/ likely TO cause our wheat growers we'll
grounded alarm New Zealand, on the con-
trary as wheat growing country, has no
equal in the world, with the exception OF
Dakota.
1t is n little singular that the late conser-
vative ministry of Brazil should have OPP
posed the granting OF compensation TO
Shareholders for their emancipated
slaves while the liberals favored the plan.
In consequence the shareholders in parlia-
ment have gone over TO the liberals and
overthrown the conservative ministry.
Premier Alfredo of the latter party will
make no appeal to the people on the issue,
and the shareholders will probably secure a
large sum from the imperial treasury in ex-
change for their property" destroyed by
the state.
1t is estimated that Niagara Falls will
recede two miles and then remain station
airy, their height at that point being eighty
feet, instead of 1914, as at present The sup
position is supported by an argument which
appears reasonable. The present site Is a
limestone formation some eighty or ninety
feet thick, with a shay foundation AS
the shale is washed away, the Limestone
breaks of, and the falls take a step back
! ward. But the end of the shay deposit
will be reached two miles from the present
falls, and then the rushing water will have
more than it can do 10 wear away the solid
precipice over which it will be project d.
Old Cassius NJ, Clay of Kentucky prove:
his stanch Americanisln by advocating the
determination of the English sparrow. II
letter TO the Louisville Courier Journa
he SAYS: "The English sparrow IS graniv
orous, and, like ali granivorous birds eat!
insects only sparingly when pressed 10y
hunger Insectivorous and fosh-eatins
birds, as the crow, the blue-iay, the blacl
bird. owls, hawk. etc. are always lean il
the flesh while all the grain eaters are n
when well fed The English sparrow /.
generally fat the year round and is a deli
cious bird for the table. The restaurants o
the city should understand this and aid il
the destruction Of these pests"
The situation in the Conemaugh VALLEY
seems to have changed for the better
Fears Of an epidemic Of sickness at Johns
town and Of sickness resulting from thC
foul river water in the cities and towns be
low, have been dissipated The state ha
assumed the task Of clearing Johnstowr
and the neighboring towns from the debri!
Of the flood. Contributions Of money con
tinue TO be made from all sections Of the
country, now amounting 20 about 5000 900
: The Cambria Iron Works and other indus
tries are being started up. The loss of If,
in the valley is now pretty accurately EST
mated at between 5000 and 1000. In other
portions of the state and along the Po
tomac river, where immense damage wa:
done, measures Of relief are being system
atNally applied