Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-28

ONci o,NO uiucrS lnVOlvcu III u stTlke
IN the Pittsburg district.
In Germany Bookkeeping is taught in
many OF the public schools
Vegetation in Iowa has been greatly re-
tarded by frosts and drought.
The French general elections will be
postponed until the spring of 1890.
Considerable damage has been aone in
northern Wisconsin by forest fires
he emperor of Germany has prohibited
Sunday horse racing IN that country.
A woman in Grimsville, Pa, pulled
small snake out Of her throat last week.
Italy produced the largest quantity Of
wine last year, with France close second.
The big armored coast defense vessel, TO
cost 81 62S, 900. will DO built at San Fran.
CISCO
Internal revenue officers at Cincinnati
have been detected Matchmaking whisky
dstillers.
-Four Irish members of parliament have
been sent 20 prison for violation OF the
Crimes act.
Since the war Of 20 France has spent
7,7l0,00o00O francs besides the Ordinary
estimates"
The source of the Mississippi river has
been discovered in two lakes 10 feet above
Lake Itasca.
"Will the educated woman marry" Asks
the Baltimore American. Just ask her
and see if she will
The production from the machinery of the
United States is more than equal to the
labor of SOC, 900 men.
The king Of Holland, having been re-
stored TO health, has been restored to power
by the Dutch parliament
The ruins of Pompeii, at the foot OF
MouLt Vesuvius, were not discovered
until the middle of the eighteenth century.
A southern railroad talks of putting in
operation model farm to illustrate the
advantages of the county through which it
passes.
Commissioner Tanner has refused to
sign any more pension certificates for s!
per month, on the ground that they are not
large enough.
II is estimated that 10000, 0)0, 600 feet of
lumber are annually taken from American
forests, an amount equivalent to about half
the annual growth.
A Buffalo bachelor has a memorandum
book in which he keeps the name of every
girl he has ever kissed. He had 9,3 names
ON the list the last time he counted up.
Queen Victoria, who travelled TO France
as Countess Of Balmoral, took her own bed
and bedding with her, custom which her
rlaiastv never breaks, even il invited to
stay in a royal palace.
II is estimated that IS per cent Of anthra-
c;t on1 10 lot haf - 10 IN, rlrat
Fifty five per cent has to be left in the
mines for pillars, and II per cent is lost
after it gets above ground.
In Lenoir, n. c., child, Hattie Rainey.
saved a small railroad bridge from destruc-
ton. She discovered 1t ablaze and carried
water in her felt hat from the stream below,
making several trips before the flames were
eXtinguished.
Jacob Houser OF Housewife. Pa, has in
his possession a watch which has been in
the Houser family for 900 years, it having
been brought over from Germany by an
ancestor who migrated TO this country. IL
is in constant use and is good timekeeper
What puIports to be the skull OF Darnley,
the husband whose violent death history
charges upon Mary, Queen of Scots, has
recently been found in an English museum.
1t indicates that Darnley was coarse
libertinc, and afflicted with loathsomc
disease.
The greatest of the new English iron
clads, the Nile, had TO be taken out OF dry
dock because of her structural inability to
support her armor The Nile rates as OF
1900 tons and the weight OF her protecting
armor, exclusive of glacis plates and steel
decks, is 1920 tons.
At one of the crossroads in Brazil, an
idol carved from the wood of an orange
tree was placed for the Indians TO worship.
On one occasion it was noticed that an old
red man omitted to perform his act of
obeisance. On being commanded to kneel
he stubbornly replied mo; | knew him
when he was an orange tree
Two postal cards sent from n German
town to the German consulate at Yoke
hama, one by Canada and the other by
Brinds and there remailed TO the sender,
each by the route opposite to that in which
it had come, have arrived in the German
town again. having been around the globe
in little less than three months.
The number OF queer and foreign names
in the list of the English navy is accounted
lOI INC tuStOHl III Olu Jliiles VI convert
ing every captured vessel TO the service OF
the captor with the old name retained. AS
the original vessel wore out, the one that
was built TO replace it received the same
name, 50 that all such names commemorate
some victory won in former times.
THE hottest day that / ever expert
enced," said Paul MERCER, "was during
the summer OF 1854. while aboard ship at
Key West, Fla. The sun beamed down
upon the deck Of the vessel, and seemed to
Toe so close that it would almost raise bills
ters The fires had gone out in the kitchen
and, as was hungry, l procured several
fresh eggs, and put them on the deck
The deck was covered with pitch, which
was boiling with the heat from the sun.
In less than five minutes my eggs were
cooked hard. This story may soon incred,
BILE, but il is trucr
Large pine trees six inches in diameter
at the base and twenty five feet high CAD
be moved If sufficient root be taken out
and to do this cut back the trees some both
af ton and ppds of branches op5 a,