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

Turkish women eat rose leaves with but
ter TO secure plumpness.
A piece Of redwood barr brought "
Visalia, Cal, q few days ago was three feet
thick.
a Philadelphia connoisseur In eating says
that musk rat meat tastes better tian any
sirloin.
The wife OF the Japanese min ster at
Washington learned the English language,
1 30 as TO speak it fiuently, in one veal
English as it is written in omaha:
"Owners Of dogs must register them before
the 10th Of May or they will be shot by the
police"
The fleece Of ten goats and the york Of
several men for half a year are required To
make cashmere shawl yard anda half
square.
Down in Texas they have superstition
that an egg laid on good Friday will lever
spoil The same belief is held in New
Orleans.
Il sparrow is making itself at home in
cage Of flying squirrels AZ the Fallon
House. Lock Haven, Pa, and no jars have
resulted so far.
A gentleman Of Americas, Ga, own a
jug which has carried liquor for his family
for over 100 years. This is perhaps the cd
est ''growler" in the country.
A Buffalo bachelor has a memorandum
book in which he keeps the name of ever!
girl he has ever kissed He had 9,3 name.
on the list the last time he counted up.
An ingenious Boston man has captured
100 crows and proposes to hatch with an in
!
whore their heads are worth 10 cents
apiece.
n colored runaway match recently oc-
Cured at Altoona Fla. The groom is 80
and the sweet bride 65. The brides daugh-
ter was the Directing party WHO necessita-
ted the elopement.
Philadelphia clothing store is advertis-
ing novel bait to catch customers Each
person buying suit is photographed in his
new clothes free Of charge, and the scheme
is proving paying one.
There being nothing to drink in high.
license Omaha on Centennial Day. the Bee
records that 1000 sturdy citizens OF high
licence Nebraska went over 10 prohibition
Iowa and got all they wanted.
Perkiomen Junction, Pa, claims TO have
the youngest telegr phi operator in the
world. He is boy of II years, who began
manipulating the keys when only 3 years
old. He is an expert operator.
A copy of the first edit on Of Charles
Levers works lately sold in England for
sl,375. The craze for first editions is now
at its hight and absurd prices are given for
many modern books which have little value
,.s literature.
The Uturbide, in the City of Mexico, is
probably the granaest hotel in the world.
1t was built by the governor for his palace
and cost IS, 900, 900. IL contains room used
by Governor Uturbide for a chapel that is
frescoed in solid gold.
Twenty Baltimore girls who have plenty
Of money and are cool German and
French scholars, propose TO travel through
Europe this summer ana to write book OF
their adventures There will DO twenty
chapters by each girl.
y Louisville man told a reporter recently
that after he took up the study of that
science last summer the mosquitoes
which had greatly plagued his children,
ceased 10 annoy them New Jersey is just
the field for Christian science.
A Kingston On. Y minister married a
couple one night recently, and when sigma
lures were asked to the certificate it was
found that neither the br de. groom, best
man nor bridesmaid could write their names.
They all signed BY making marks.
1t is stated that the following languages
are spoken on the main street in Deadwood:
English, German, Frencl, Italian, Chinese,
Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Scandina-
Wan, Irish, Spanish Hebrew, Sclayonian-
fourteen, with possibly u few overlooked.
Texas women are working on canvas a
huge map OF that huge state. The name OF
each of the 2j4 counties will be worked
with some beautiful prod ,ct made in the
county" One county-Tom GREEN'S
larger than Massachusetts and Connecticut
combined.
a Cincinnati divine told his congregation
the other Sunday that there were men with
in sound of his voice who rented houses TO
gamblers and bad women who did not pay
the debts-who were liars AMI cheats He
WILL of course receive a call to go elsewhere.
He is too blunt for that city
England gets most of it's Ice now from
Norway. Scandinavian competitors having
almost entirely destroyed the business of
shipping Ice from Boston to England,
which was once very profitable Ice is sold
III l-oHuon ior from nlty-GlSnt 10 eighty
one cents per hundred weight.
In the future every great iron-clad will
have It's suite, composed of small feet
This will consist of two frstclass torpedo
boats, fast gunboat ram, generally towed,
and a very fast 20) ton turn about torpedo
catcher" fitted with the latest improve
ments for destroying torpeioes.
While Jesse Noyes, of Storington, was
blowing one OF his fields, recently he turned
up AN ancient English pole-ax, the first OF
those weapons ever found in Connecticut
and ii is supposed that the weapon was
used in the massacre of the Pequots at the
Mystic forts by the early colonists.
The statement that the regular income OF
John Rockefeller is so, 0lO, 900 year moved
the Philadelphia Record to make the fol
lowing computations. Every night he goes
to bed he is So, 79i richer than he was the
night before, every hour adds r., 2S} 70 his
fortune, and at every tick OF the clock 81 Is
added to his pile
The height of pedantic affection seems to
have been observed in the names given q.
the painters Of pictures at the Nation Al
Gallery in London. BY this nomerclatur..