Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-03-29
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The Paris municipality reserves the rigtt
OF revising every five years tho mailman
tariff Of the electric lighting companies ssDa
Of lowering the same.
A feature of the late eclipse Of the moon
at Downieville, Cal, was a gorgeous rain
bow ring that surrounded the moon. In
closed were seven brilliant stars Of the first
magnitude.
The force of the geysers at the National
Park has been greatly exaggerated, as have
most of the other natural curioslties. This
saves the hotels from having 10 advertise
in the usual way.
An elephant lately died at Bombay in The
30Oth year of his age, and naturalists figure
from this that any elephant OF regular hab-
its will have no trouble in pulling along for
at least $50 years.
The city corporation Of Long Branch is b
! heavily in debt that the rate OF taxation for
the next five years must be at least $50 on a
thousand. Soiourners there next summer
! must expect 10 shell out.
| A Pennsylvania school hoy II years old.
] has made an estimate Of the number OF
mice in the world, and the papers reward
/ him with lots of praise. His estimate comes
pretty near being rats
A Key West fisherman rubs his body
with kerosene-oil and swims among tho
sharks in safety. They don't want To got
any nearer to him than you do TO a man who
has been eating last years onions.
The cost Of the kilograms which pass be-
! tween Bennett and the Herald during hts
long absences is said TO be $4,000 per year.
| If he would stay at homo and attend 10 his
work it wouldn't cost him anything.
Two witnesses in case in Iowa who
swore that they saw a IAN forty rods on
draw "a revolver were proved to be so meas
sighted that they could not tell revolver
from poodle dog fifteen rods away.
A Mississippian boasts Of having had ths
/ ague for twenty seven straight years with
/ only one break Of three weeks. lie set out
| TO beat the shakes at their own game, and
there are $50 pounds left Of him yet.
At Springfield, OHIO, a policeman courtsd
widow within two blocks Of his own home,
and the marriage day was set before sAs
! found out that he had a wife and six chill
| dren He was certainly a "fly cop"
! a New Bedford man had his nose broken
. because he said he had seen whale ninety
! feet long The man who broke it for him
had never even been to sea, bat he had has
/ idea of how long 4 whale ought To be.
New Zealand also imported the English
| sparrow, and now the native birds have
! been driven out and u reward Of five cents
each is offered for tee death OF every spar
row. He is living, chirping pestilenoe.
! Living in Japan is very cheap. You oan
rent a big house, keep three servants, have
/ drive every day, and live on the fat OF the
. 1,-,l In, "a To ia OH
the natives will take off their hats TO you
! The peculiar flavor of Havana cigar was
supposed 10 be influenced by the climate OF
the island, but il has lately been discovered
that it was always impaired by drugs. Tho
real old Connecticut is the thing to tie to-
over $4,000 monkeys were killed in Bralxn
| last year and their pets shipped TO London
/ to be made into furs. II the fashion contiA-
ues the monkey race will be thinned oat
amazingly in the next two or three years.
At Brussels an elephant attached TO a ciS-
! Gus, becoming enragel at an attendants d.
seized him by the leg and dashed him
against the wall. Death was instan taneous
! The unfortunate man had been teasing tho
animal.
! The court Of California have docided thnk
q Chinamans cue must not b. cut off whan
he is sent 10 prison; but they arc cut off Just
! the same. No Warden will allow that q
heather pig-tail is more sacred than Ameri-
can unplaited hair.
y burglar entered house in Des Moinss
aud, being thirsty he drank pint OF thu
currant wine prepared last fan by the good
wife. When morning came he was found
lying dead drunk in the hall. He said h
beat any straight whisky in the country.
Frank Thornton, Of Elberten, has in his
possession couple OF eggs which are curl
osities They have two shell s the yelk ~
inclosed in the smaller one and tho white
Around it in the larger. Tho eggs are ~
large as goose egg, which they closely re-
scmble.
Mrs. Folsom, mother of Mrs. Grover
Cleveland, has grown very tired Of public
lie. She was pleased with social affairs n
Washington at first, but as tim0 has gone
by she has become very weary Of the duties
imposed upon her at the White House.
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, who has gone 10
an orange plantation in Florida for the win
ter, was anxious 10 have y RS. Folsom ac-
company her, but tho latter was obliged 10
remain in Washington for tho final social
features OF the out going administration
She was very DESTROYS OF going with Miss
Cleveland ana only the urgent appeals OK
her daughter kept her at the " hite House.
The recent decision OF the United States
supreme court in tho great patent case OF
the Bate Refrigerator Company vs.. Ham
mond & Co. has had startling effect on the
electric lighting business. IL is said that il
means gain OF many millions OF dollars for
the Edison Company, owing TO the fact that
great number OF patents which had been
thought valueless are now 70 nd 10 be worth
large SIMS. One OF these patents was on
the system of electrical strbution by
multiple arcs. 1t is said 10 covor every In
Candescent electric light plant in the coun-
tfy. The patent was regarded as void, be-
cause Of a recent Italian patent Under the
late decision it Is good until 1895 Accord
ing to this the Edison Company has y mo-
nopoly, and can force from It's rivals Vie
payment OF royalties sufficient TO send many
TO the wall.