Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-27
WINGED MISSILES.

The table glass ware manufacturers arc
preparing TO form trust.
Farmers Unions, with l,5oJ,ooo mem-
bers, talk Of amalgamating.
Heavy rains in the city OF Mexico have
caused considerable damage.
The tobacco crop OF York county, Pa,
promises 10 be very large ana fine.
DIR. Nansen. the explorer, says that the
ice in Greenland is 5000 feet thick.
The Spanish government will adopt sub
marine torpedo vessels for the navy.
Crop reports from Austro Hungary in
dictate about three-fourths OF an average
yield.
A canal scheme to irrgats 5000, 90 acres
Of arsi land in North Dakota has been pro-
iected.
The work of rebuilding the burned
city of Spokane Falls, W. T., has com
menced.
4 runaway train on the Dul1th and Iron
Range railroad attained sp,ed' OF ITO
miles an hour
The wheat crop Of Minnesota and the
Dakotas will be. between sj,OOO,O)O and 90
coo, 00) bushels.
An experimental electric motor at Balti-
more Md has successfully made miles
minute on circular track OF miles
A scheme to import negroes from the
United States into Mexico is receiving no
encouragement from the AieNl can people.
In 1866 five elghths of the people owned
their homes, and only three eignths were
the prey OF Lndlordism. In 1851 only
three eighths owned their own homes and
five eighths were reduced 10 the rank Of
tenants.
Almost the hardness OF the diamond is
said to be given by German workmen TO
steel engraving tools. The tools are made
white hot, plunged repeatedly into sealing
wax until cold, and then Just touched with
oil Of turpcntine
The big four-masted schooner John PAUL,
lately launched at Bath, Me, is a marine
wonder in her way. She went from Bath
to Norfolk, Va, loaded there with 2,4jJ
tons or coal, and reached Providence all in
eleven days. which is steamer time. The
PAUL is 2l0 feet long, forty four feet wide
and twentyone feet depth Of hold. All
hosting is done by steam, even 70 the
Chewing up of the big topsails. She is
wire-rigged, and spreads 1909 yards Of
canvas.
and whose shell is lined with the brilliantly
tinted mother of-pearl used in so many
ways, is found chiefly about the southern
coasts of Asia. An uncomfortably sharp
substance entering the shell is covered by
the inmate, thus forming pearl. This
habit has been utilized TO force the oyster
10 produce pearls, sometimes the form of a
cross being placed in tle smell 70 be convert
ed into a beautiful ornament. They are
taken from the bed of the sea by divers.
An amusing marriage took place in Fiber
ton, Ga, the other day. y couple came
into the court house TO be married. y new
justice was called in. He had no FORM and
improvsed a ceremony. He first ordered
the couple 10 join hands, and then, after
hesitating while, he asked the gro om
these questions: "Win you stick to this
woman through thick and thin, up and
down, right and left, hot or cold, wet or
dry, and have no other wife but her! If
you will you can have her for q wife,
Similar questions having been propounded
to the woman, and Affirmative answers
having been given, he pronounced them
husband and wife.
a beautiful live white owl is on exhibit
ton at "a music store in Louisville. II was
sent by l.. j. Smi Ia, of Niagara Falls and
belongs 10 very rare species. IL was cap
tured by a young hunter in the woods near
Quebec. II was ionDd in u no low tree, and
was secured with net The habitation Of
the bird Is in the extreme north, so Mr..
Smith wrote tCeln when he sent the owl,
and only extremely cold weather drives it
as far south as Quebec. So lar as known
only seven OF the birds have been captured
or killed in Canada during the last three
years. The enc on exhibition is "a perfect
specimen. 1t is snow white, and about the
size and shape Of the common large owl
The weight and bulk of the gold and silver
coin now held by the United States treas
ury forms the subject of inquiry by a corre-
spondent OF mathematical turn of mind
and he finds that the weight Of the gold is
COL tons of 2,0JJ pounds, aud the silver 5000
tons. Packing it along the highway, as
cord wood is packed the gold would make
barricade four feet high, four feet thick,
for distance OF 335 feet, and the silver, if
similarly packed, would extend 4,24S feet
or five-sixths of mile. If packed in carts.
one ton TO each cart, the procession would
be nearly thirty-three miles long of which
distance the gold bearing carts woald cover
two and half miles and the silver frac-
tion over thirty ana quarter miles.
Very few consumers of wheaton products
are aware of the fact that crackers are the
Oldest form of broad Fragments OF infer
mented cakes were discovered In the Swiss
lake dwellings, which belong to the neolithic
age of the world. Although this rude form
of bread was early discarded for the fer
mented variety, yet in this as in many
other matters, it was found convenient to
return TO Il discarded and apparently value
less process. Thin, unfermented cakes
were found to possess merits for special
purposes. They would keep good for a
great length of time, aud thus afforded
wholesome and nutritious food in portable
and convenient form. The simplicity OF
their making and baking was also point in
their favor
Along the shore Of tho Oneida Lake there
il an Indians grave, where at times a
weird and supernatural Light makes IT'S APP
pearance. 1t is described as bali OF fire
about the size of large orange. and sways
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