Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-05-24
WINGED MISSILES.

] Five OF the seven members OF the YER
mont Supreme court were born in 1895.
PIT Barnum has given Jumbos skeleton
10 the New York Museum OF Natural His
tory.
1t is stated that canning factory, TO en-
plov 300 hands, is To be started at Haw-
thorne, Fla.
A Mississippi company has received an
order for 4O,O0o,0O0 wooden butter dishes
from ST. Louis house.
Keely, of motor notoriety, thinks he has
discovered the missing link to make his
mysterious machine operative
A papal rcscript will be issued giving the
new Catholic university at Washington a
monopoly of the superior education OF the
clergy in America
The coec ors OF customs in Nova Scotia
have received orders 10 issue licenses to
American fishermen under the m0duS viVeadi
up TO the enl Of this year.
A shortage of $4,000 has been found in the
accounts of Martin K Goldswortny, m nag
er of the Standard Oil company for the Lake
Superior region. He is now at Toronto
Ont.
The New York knights OF Labor nave
asked Secretary Window TO prevent the
landing of silk wcavers alleged to be on
their way, under contract from Swtzer
land.
The Kentucky court OF appeals has just
decided that the property which woman
has bought and paid for with money earned
by herself is liable for the debts Of her
husband.
The American Sugar Refinery of San
.,,l tI.,, q
of their sugars one-quarter Of a cent per
pound, and the California refinery made a
raise of one eighths cent per pound.
Residents Of Hyde Park, part Of Scran-
ton. Pa, are greatly alarmed; the mine I'M
derneath the town having sunk for the
second time The cave-in is over the CEN
trail and business portion Of the town.
The acquittal of engineer Major of
Wilkesbarre, Pa, ends the Mud Run disas-
ter trials, the three persons accused hav !ng
all boen acquitted, and the record standing
that nobody was TO blame for the loss of
sixty-one lives.
The tall female hat now so agitates
the minds of the male frequenters OF the
London pits that it is proposed that the pit
should be divided like Quaker meeting
house, the men sitting on one side and the
women on the other.
A masculine beauty show is being arrang-
I ed at Vienna, of which women VIII be the
judges, and prizes will be awarded to the
handsomest man, the man with the finest
/ mustache, the man with the biggest nose,
/ and the man with the largest bald head.
The employees in the machine shops of
the Pennsylvania railroad company at Al
toopa, Pa, have been notified that nine
hours would be considered a days work
hereafter, with a half holiday on Satur-
/ days. This will affect about four thousand
men.
1t is reported that sensation has been
caused at Ottawa, Ont, by the issue of
President Harrsons proclamation declaring
Behring's Sea closed sea. The action of
the United States government proved a
complete surprise to the members of the
Dominion government.
Two Scotch tramps, man and wife, make
a good living off of the baby. 1--WE just
gets i'm christened,' explains the man, "in
all the towns we passes. aud then, you see,
parson makes us all comfortable wi sum
mat to eat ana money for beds On days
orful bad we has 10 do m twice.
The bagging trust or pool, which caused
good deal OF excitement and excited much
opposition on the part of cotton planters,
and others last year, and which expired by
Limitation last December, it is announced
has practically been organized, and will be
run or managed by the same parties as be-
fore 1t is not believed that prices will be
pushed up so high as before.
-Four years ago boy and a girl OF York,
Pa each years old, asked gentleman to
marry them. To humor them he read
something out Of an almanac and told them
they were united. The boy 5 family moved
TO Baltimore, but he still writes u his dear
wife" In his last letter he says ~ don
| know whether you would know me now or
not, because l am wearing long pants"
Postmaster General Wanamaker has is.
! sued an order dire citing all clerks in the Of
! fee OF the first assistant postmaster gener-
I al and such as may be reluired in the other
| bureaus of the department, until otherwise
1 directed, to begin work at 3 30 a. m, instead
! of a. m. as heretofore, and remain at
/ their esks until p. M, instead OF four
/ o'clock The clerks in the dead letter Of
| flee are also required TO work now in
arrears if that division is brought up.
! Since the 4th of March the presidents
! mail has been very heavy, aggre eating from
/ six 10 seven hundred letters daily aud on
some days running as high as thousand.
! President Cleveland's letters rarely exceed
ed three hundred day. Many of the com
munications sent To President Harr son
are intended for other persons, several of
whom are utterly unknown to him, the
correspondents probably thinking that
letters addressed 10 the care of the presi-
dent win undoubtedly roach their des,ina-
| ton.
The secretary of war has prescribed
regulations governing the Issue of arms
/ for military instruction at co leges, under
which each college or university where an
army officer is stationed, will be allowed
two inch rled guns of wrought iron,
valued at $50 each, two cartridges and
limbers and appurtenances, $50 Springfield
! cadet rides and corresponding number OF
bayoDet scabbards aud appendages. The
colleges are required To give bonds equal
to double the value OF the arms furnished.
Ammunition will be supplied as follows:
One hundred blank cartridges and 30