Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-05-17
WINGED MISSILES.


rhore il a man in Hartford who has
,,orl,ed n forty-six different trades.
There are 693 newspapers ana periodicals
published IN foreign languages III This 70
public.
New York has prodigy in the form Old
! FIVE yearold boy who speaks Greek and
| Latin.
4 Providence newsboy, wac returned
50 gold piece given him in mistake Tor
cent. was rev Irded with nickel
/ More than twenty million acres Of land in
/ Washington Territory, or nearly oDe-hat
/ the whole area, remain unsuryeycd
Russian statesmen, from Count Tolstol
down. are aiding in the organization Of So ,
cieties for the prevention and suppression OF
inebriety.
Some popular entertainments IN the west
are RAINBOW Teas" Bachelors Meets"
"Toast and Cheese, - and the ECLIPSE Sur
/ prise Party"
The principal instructor in Baltimore
commercial school has committed suicide
because his gently published book was
not "a success.
A one-thousand mile submarine cable is
10 be laid from Banjoewangie to Western
Australia 10 AVOID interruption from Sos
canic upheaval.
The regulation step in European armies
/ is longest i'm the German army and shortest
/ in the Russian The Belgian march is tho
slowcst 10 steps 10 the minute
In the German city of Frankfort there is
an old bakers shop in which successive
generations Of dough workers have carr -
on their trade since the year 1867. f>FS'
II is said that a Georgia man committed
forgery because starvation stared him
in the face, and then starved himself
because the forgery stared him in tho
face.
The man who was going 20 put up 500
O0J hotel at Benton Harder, Mich, dldn
DO it, because, as a local paper explains, ID
didn't have money enough to pay Tor b
board bills. ~
The average length of life of the pra
dents and professors at Yale, vino have III
in Office or who have ended their active
reers with their retirement from Office,
, siXty-four years.
Australia has Just made TO proiec
railroad a grant of 100000 acres, or
900 acres mile. The grant 10 the Pac
railroads in this country amounted to abe
600 acres mile.
In speaking Of the cider clause in
state law "a Boston man says that an
chard in Massachusetts is good deal ii
self-righteousness, the more you have of
the worse you are off.
\ brass band of twenty eight stout-lunge
players from Eng and is marching througa
/ Maine, with view TO reviving interest II
the Salvation army, and will next swoopv
down on Massachusetts.
A large tank containing sulphurie acid
/ burst in Columbus, Ga. while being uTl
| loaded from drav, and the acid was thro,
over the street for quite distance. A hors
was slightly burned, but nobody else wa
hurt.
There are several counties in Texas
which, without special taxation, will TO
ceive next year from S25 TO 80 Of school
money for each pupil. Nowhere else in the
world can such ample provision for educa-
ton be found.
A young woman, Of Ridgeway, Canada
has had the bands of matIimony between
herself and two of her lovers read in the
parish church, the clergyman having de-
cided that she is free TO choose between
| them az the altar. \
The school banking system was introduce
ed in the pablo schools OF Long Island
City, l.. l.. about three years ago, and al
ready the pupils in the nine schools have
$40, 19l. % 10 their credit. Last weeks del
posts amounted 10 S!30.sl
The famous Jones county calf suit,
which is now on foc the sixth time at Water
loo, Iowa, has been in the courts since 1877
The value of the calves out of which the
suit grew was SIS. The court costs thus
far are $500, and $4,000 has been expend
ed in lawyers fees
The magnificent building which the Wo
mans Christian Temperance Union pro-
pos IS to erect in Chicago will cost $4,000.
1t viii be eleven stories in height, and
it is estimated that its rental will be about
81 900 a year. 1t win be known as the
Temple Of Temperance.
Many Of the larLe stove foundries ut AL
bauy and Troy, n Y, are reported 20 bel
wholly or partly CLOSED. Iron is so much
cheaper at the west and south that. thel
stove industry Of Albany ana Troy appears
to be thing of the past Hundreds Of
skilled workmen are idle.
The presents given by the imperial house
hold Of China TO the emperor on the occa2,
sion of his marriage comprised 200 ounc ,s
OF gold, 1000 ounces OF silver an one gold
tea set, two silver tea Sc : one silver basin.
loo pieces Of cloth an q ponies, with sad
dies and brides complete.
A python over twenty feet long crawled
upon the deck of the Norwegian shiD Blrma
at Singapore a short time ago, anu routed
every bOiV that attached il until tho ,ybole
crew combined, and by attacking Il on all
sides succeeded in pinning il to the deck
with a harpoou. The snake weighed over
eighty pounds.
Paris courts have decided that the police
have no right to forbid newsboys CRYING in
the streets the news that is in the papers
that they are selling. The polcie issued an
edict against such cries at tic time of tho
Wilson affair. The cabinet will propose "A
law authorizing such Interference by tho
police, and Absolutely prohibiting seditious
cries by ncwsboys.