Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-16

Less goods than common Is used this year
in the manufacture of bathing suits re-
marks fashion paper.
Official and estimated returns from every
county in the state OF Pennsylvania show
that the prohibition amendment wes de-
feated by lss, 449 majority. :.
1t Is reported that very stringent orders
have been issued to the Canadian fishery
protection fleet, and violations of the law
by American vessels will subject them TO
prompt seizure.
Information received by the Canadian
government states that mackerel have
struck into North Bay in large numbers
The riackerel are said TO be large, and
are fetching good prices in the local mark
cts.
For the first time in twelve years dark
hair is said TO prevail in Vassar's gradual
Ing class Every day seems to bring some
new trial to the "favor-losing blondes" as
q southern periodical pathetically charac-
terizes them.
Reports from all but twelve counties in
Pennsylvania show a majority Of l4699i
against the amendment providing for the
repeal Of the fifty-cent poll tax qualifica-
further increased
A resident Of Seattle offers to give S2o,-
900 towards a new town hall il they will re-
name the place. He suggests Ednburg,
but is not particular if they call it Smith
City. Anything but Seattle, which is the
Indian name for dry bones.
A Connecticut woman is suing her neigh
Dor for damages for putting up fly screens.
She claims that the flies which cannot get
into the neighbours house on this account
will come to hers, and she will thereby
have double the usual number
A case, which is believed TO be yellow
fever, is reported at Brooklyn, n. Y. The
sick man is DR.. Duncan, surgeon Of the
Pacific Mail steamship Colon, who was
stricken with illness when five days out
from Aspinwall on the last voyage.
Three hundred delegates TO the World
Sunday School Convention, which will be
held in London on July ., 3, and 5, have
sailed from New York on the Bothnia. The
/ delegates are from every state in the Union.
and many OF them came from different
/ parts Of Canada
Tho bill classifying the clerks in first
and second class postolces has placed
/ the officials of the department in
dilemma. Its enforcement will reduce
some salaries in the New York Office from
/ s., 900 10 Sl4,0). and threatens 10 demoraliZe
the service in that and other large Offices.
1t is reported that Frank j. Kastner's
brewery atNewark, n. J.,with an output Of
seventy thousand barrels a year, has been
sold to a syndicate for $4,000. II. Ballan-
tine & Sons have published a card denying
that they have sold, or have any idea of
selling, their large brewery interest in
Newark.
Upon the recommendation Of the civil
service commission the president has
amended rule 10 OF the civil service rules,
so as to do away with the limitation Of one
year within which reinstatement may
legally be made TO officers within the CLASH
fed service so far as il affects exUrion
soldiers ard sailors.
Between 200 and 800 persons were stand
ing on frame structure, forty feet high,
in Philadelphia the other evening, obtain
ing free view OF the Fall of Babylon
when the roof collapsed, hurting nearly
half Of them to the ground. large mum
Der were injured. Three received broken
bones and were otherwise seriously hurt.
Governor Hill Of New York has vetoed
the compulsory education bill, because it is
unnecessarily offensive in its invasions OF
the liberty of the citizen and in its inter
ference with the control of parents over
their children" and because it exempts no
emergency of sickness from the compulsory
requirement. He claims that the bill is
loosely drawn and that the proposed
truants home would be a costly expert
men:.
Tho barrel. boat in which Professor c. D.
Graham, the whirlpool rapids navigator,
intends TO go over Niagara Falls early in
July, is buoy shaped, II feet long, 81 feet
across the center and two feet across the
ends. 1t has "a iron hoops encircling it and
five running lengthwise. The boat is div
ided into three compartments and in the
ends are air chambers. The foolhardy nav
igator intends 10 place himself in the cen
ire. There is manhole on top which the
occupant closes after he gets into the boat
Among the most interesting fetes during
the French exhibition will be the inter-
national gymnastic feast at Vincennes. 1t
will be a monster athletic demonstration,
no fewer than 1900 gymnasts, French
and foreign, taking part in it. They will
be lodged in tents extending from the cha
teau to the Polygone. France will be rep.
resented by 40 societies, Belgium by fifty
two, and Switzerland by forty, while Italy,
Denmark, Holland, Sweden and Norway,
Luxemberg. and other nations will send
their crack bands.