Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-02
WINGED MISSILES.

TIE coal syndicate has advanced the price
OF coal.
Unlicensed peddlers in Delaware are fined
$500 each.
Krupp, the German gun maker, employs
21,0J0 men.
The public debt was decreased s,702,s77
during May.
Bristol II. l., rubber factory employs
5000 workers.
There are 1900 women doctors in the
United States.
The tunnel under the Hudson river is 70
be $500 feet long.
At Pittston, Pa, 5000 miners lost an
eight months strike
The rumor that Secretary Blaine will re.
sign is denied by him.
Peace prevails in Samoa and the native
troops have disbanded.
Quitman, Ga. with $500 people leads tho
world in fruit shipping.
English fakirs paint sparrows yellow,
and sell them for canaries.
Two officials of Newport, KY, have been
arrested for embezzement.
Some OF the Panama Canal laborers have
lately starved to death at Colon.
On 20 cents per week men and women
marry and raise families in India
Immense damage was caused at Hong
Kong, China, recently, by storms.
Up TO this date 400 monuments have been
erected on the Gettysburg battle field
Fully one third Of the United States is
deficient in moisture for the ordinary ce-
real crops.
The spring of 1889 has had the largest
rainfall OF any year since the signal Office
was established.
The difference between Bolivia and the
Argentine Republic over the boundary
line has been adjusted.
! Reports to the general land office show
that 20 applications for town sites have
been made in Oklahoma
! Investigation by tho Rhoie island legis-
! nature reveals wholesale election bribery
in one of the legislative districts
An East Sagin1w family that is support
/ ell by public charity scraped together
enough TO pay the tax on a 50 dog.
over ZOO houses were destro ed by fire
in a japanese town lately, and about TO-
| 00) people were rendered homeless.
! II is reported that Secretary Blaine has
opened negotiations with Great Britain for
! the settlement Of the Canadian fisheries
and Behring Sea questions
Janan has an honorary order callel THE
| Rising Sun" and Corea. in her jealousy,
! has created one called "The Setting Moon"
! Those fellows WIN fool with the heavens
until we shall have bad weather the whole
! year through.
~ have seen great deal Of what they
! call faith cure" said a New York dentist,
| ''but have vet 10 hear Of person who
succeeded in curing the jumping tooth ache
in any such fashion" Few people can get
up enough faith for that
"Men drink from habit" says DR. Nc
| Gosh. 'If could get twenty liquor drink
ers to stop and turn TO butter milk or gin
ger ale for a month, they would form
new habit. Not one whisky drinker in
! fifty likes the taste of the stuff"
A broom facory man in Duluth laid or
his thirteen single men and informed each
one that he could not return 10 work until
he was married. Eleven of them married
within fortnight and inside OF six weeks
there was five applications for divorce.
nineteen people out OF twenty" saws a
Chicago doctor "spea5 about this or that
|
healthy. Various things NAV he unwhole-
some. but no food can give health The
idea is to know what won't injure the sys-
tenn"
The genius who had an invention 70 send
packages from New York IN Boston in six
minutes has disappeared, owing his board
ing house sl4. of course. ANY one can AZ
ford TO get up an idea for three or four
weeks board. ard it is a wonder that more
are not heard of.
The crew of Baltimore vessel charged
with mutinv exhibited black ewes, broken
noses. broken fnyers, body bruises and
other injuries excuses and stated that
not man rcbelled until each one hal been
knocked down from fifteen 10 twenty
times while the food was not fit for dogs.
Under the present police rules in Russia
an officer can enter any house at any hour
! on the excuse that she suspects a suspici-
Gus person NAV have entered there 10 talk
sediton." He can arrest the whole family,
keep them in prison wear, and then
turn them loose without the slightest
apology.
They tell Of Judge in bennington, Vt,
who, having spoken OF buying q safe was
interviewed by two rival agents. each Of
whom had so much TO say in favor of his
own particular safe that the Judge was
quite at loss TO decide which 10 buy. In
a happy moment he thought OF Burglar
Price whom he had himself sentenced. and
going TO the Jail he obtained this expert safe
breakers opinion. and then gave the order
The commercial travellers OF this country
now number over $50 900 and reach in their
iourneyings every town and hamlet in this
country; they are the greatest distributors
of goods, shipping about 200 0DoO00 tons out
OF 4oN,Wo,ooo tons now carried yearly BY the
railroads, and they spend over -. 100, 600 per
day. or about S's2, o0O, 600 per travelling year
of nine months, which is Distributed among
the carriers, hotels, shopkeepers and pro-
| ducers
Eligible women are at premium in
Dutch India. They are so scarce in that
country that young men who wish % get
married write 10 friends in Holland TO find
them wives. The friend selects a willing
lady and forwards hor pho.orraoh II ALI