Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-10-11
WINGED MISSILES.

! An AUSTRALIAN landlor0 owns 4,WU,OOu
acros.
Ths wheat crop in England is above av-
erage.
London imports 100000 eggs annually
from Russia.
The wheat crop OF France is estimated at
about 10000, 900 bushels. This will leave a
considerable surplus for export.
The war in Hayti has come to a close by
the abdication of Legitime who took refuge
on board French gunboat Hyppolite
entered Port Au Prince the same day.
professor in the California State Uni
versity is said TO have discovered method
Of tanning leather that makes it impervious
to water and so pliable as to be almost in
destructible.
Mormon elders are being driven out of
Marion county, Ala, where they have mad
many converts. Two OF the elders were
! fiogged by White Caps recently, aud were
then ordered TO leave under penalty Of
death.
''ln making bread boxes" it is said,
'three workers can do the work of thirteen
boxmakers by old methods" IT'S well, but
isn't there danger OF flooding the MARKET
The ten workers thrown out OF work can
hardly have much use for bread boxes
A jaw bone has been unearthed recently
ut the Wauchula, Fla, phosphate beds. 1t
measures IS inches in length and about
seven in width. 1t is supposed that it be-
longed to one Of the prehistoric politicians,
which it is fair to presume once inhabited
this country.
The postoffice department is considering
the question OF increasing the standing re-
ward OF goo for each capture OF highway
men who rob mails. That sum is deemed
utterly inadequate to induce men to under.
take such dangerous service, as the captors
must bear all incidental expenses
combination OF eastern capitalists has
been formed to purchase all the coal prop
erty along the Monongahela River and con-
troll the river coal business. 1t has been
decided that it will require Sl3,0oo, 900 to
settle the deal, including the aggregate of
stock the sellers are willing to take.
According to the Shen Pao, the grateful
rains which have at last fallen at Picking
were the result of the bringing thither Of a
famous iron tablet Certain high ministers
Of state were appoin ted TO offer incense and
prayers to it night and day, and after a
while the long hoped for rain began.
There is nov in forbidden circulation on
the continent book containing the letters
OF the Crown Prince Rudolph and Marie
Netsera, the cause and companion of his
death. From these il is seen that Rudolph
was so much in love with the girl that ne
offered to renounce all his titles and digni-
ties for the sake Of marrying her.
Saratoga now has a beautiful Pompeiian
house, an exact reproduction OF the resi-
dence OF wealthy Pompeiian at the epoch
,f the Eruption of Vesuvius in the year 30
Paris also has one in the Avenue Montaigne
built by the Prince Napoleon, where he and
his friends used TO gather in Pompeiian
dress, and where TRANSACTIONS of ancient
plays were often produced by actors in the
antique costumes.
A few days ago two Arabs were found at
Castle garden, one of them named Ben Josef
and the other Mohammed Abdel Hirmr,
who had come here TO seek employment as
mel-drivers. The penniless Arabs were
in despair when told that there was no such
industry as camel-driving in New York,
and that they were unwelcomed guests in
the land OF the star spangled banner. Tho
collector gave orders that they should be
sent back.
shark had been caught at Santa Cruz, Cal.
leads an old fisherman TO write TO a San
Francisco newspaper that the shark was
not "a man eater, but a basking or ground
shark. The man-eater seldom weighs over
! 1900 pounds; but the ground shark often
weighs as much as fifteen tons, so the old
fisherman says, and sometimes its liver
weighs two tons. They are the slowest fish
u a.. ~
fisherman, "need have any fear of them or
anything else that carries liver that
weighs one sixth of its body
! a man at Covington, Pa, who is fatten-
| ing a twenty pound swapping turtle, was
aroused early few mornings ago by "a
scufile in his yard. Repairing there. he
found the turtle hanging 10 the nose Of u
300 pound bear Bruin was near the fence,
endeavoring 10 get over but his efforts
were nterfered with by the turtle. Event
uslly the bear reached the next yard but
the man followed and shot him dead. The
turtle all the time retained his hold, and re-
fused to let go until the dead beasts nose
was cut off Then it crawled away, carry
ing the piece of flesh in its mouth.
The folk lore of Southern Russia can be
partly imagined from case which came
before Judge of Odessa. A man applied
for writ TO compel his daughter 70 leave
the house because when she saluted her
parents she did not bow TO them. He would
withdraw his application il she would ask
pardon and make the regular obeisance.
The girl agreed. She asked pardon, but
when she bowed the father cried: "Lower.
Down with your head; down below the
girdle!" She replied: II won't bend as
low as that, not il I have to leave the house."
The judge thereupon ordered her 10 leave,
but she gave in finally and bowed her head
to the girdle.
Professor b. T. Galloway chief Of the
section of vegetable pathology, Depart
ment Of Agriculture, has recently succee ed
ed, as the result of practical experiments,
in producing remedy for the disease call.
ed pear leaf blight and apple mildew,
which annually causes great destruction TO
those trees. AS result Of practical ex-
periments he Feels justified in recommend
ing il TO the farmers and fruit growers as
both encacious and economical. The
remedy consists of the application Of q
fungicide, with an appliance by which So
900 plants were sprayed in day and a half