Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-14
WINGED MISSILES.

fire to her house to "drive the witches
out"
Chicken thieves OF Cora, RoclSdale
county, Georgia, stole 800 chickens in one
night.
Vermont has had run OF sleighing last
ing ~ days, and she asks some other state
10 match il.
English army authorities are considering
project for enlistng young boys and let
ting them grow up into soldiers.
The present system OF fat buildings,
which has become so popular of late, was
known in ancient Tyre many centuries be.
fore our present era.
Charles Sampsals pet bear at Williams
port swallowed silver box full OF finecut
the other day, and has been splitting tobacco
juice, with saddened visage, ever since.
Oklahoma may now be new Jerusa-
lem. So was Dakota The people who now
want balloons 10 get into the reservation
may want wings 10 fly out with before they
are three years older.
MYSTERIOUS footballs and door slams at
night have driven freshly welded pair
from house at Cedar Hill, Berks county,
PENNSYLVANIA, and even the dogs quit the
premises at shutdown.
The British divorce returns for thirty
years, ended in 1881 show that there were
10, 56l petitions for divorce or dissolution of
marriage, of which 1921 were successful.
The increase since 1891 is gradual.
William II. Harrison, Haddonfield, n.
j., grocer, dreamed night or two ago that
money was concealed in an ancient house
near his store He investigated and found
Sl.J0 in continental currency back of an old
mantelpiece.
Superintendent Ireland says that while
some Of the vicious dogs in the Philadel-
phia Kennel Club shows were ugly when
men attempted TO pat them, the touch Of
woman's hand was welcomed by the most
savage brute.
Such thing az brin ging libel suit
against a newspaper has not been known in
Italy for fifty years. The belief is that
newspaper seeks to tell the truth. II it is
mistaken frank statement 10 that effect
satisfies the Italian.
In the town OF Bessbrook, Irelond. where
John G. Richardson employs 3,0)) people in
the manufacture Of Irish linen, no liquor
has been sold for forty years, and as a re
suit there is neither policeman, prison,
pawnshop nor pauper in the town.
A ifteen-inch trout took two falls out Of
DIR. F.. X. Baker, Nilliamsport angler,
who was standing on messy and rather
slippery stone. The first fall snapped his
suspenders and the second laid him fiat
upon his back. But he got the trout
Some $50 residents OF the town Of Somer-
vile, Mass, are petitioning the railroad
commissioners to have the blowing of loco
motive whistles at various crossings stop
ped The railroad is willing, but under the
law has no authority to take the initiative
In late election at Albany tho police
commissioners favored one c. nddate, the
superintendent another, and the patrolmen
turned out and electioneered and knocked
down and got as drunk as anybody. 1t
worked the complete decentralization of the
force
The old Ambigu Theatre in Paris, an his :,
torical home of the melodrama, is about to
be pulled down. II was first sort OF vari-
ETY. theatre in 1863, and was afterward Civ
en- up to the performance of children. 1t
has been devoted to the melodrama for
century.
What is called "the very giddiest lamp
is reported TO have been observed in the
boudoir Of a young woman of unquestion-
able station. The supports are the ''grotes
quely elongated legs Of pink stockinged
ballet girl the outspreading skirts form
ing the shade.
The ups and downs of mining life are
well illustrated by the career of Jean Du-
vol. well known character Of Sonora.
Cal In 1884 he made over million dollars
by lucky speculation Duvoll then went
20 San Francisco an invested in stocks
To-day he is penniless.
Port Huron barber has found great
profit in the pigs in clover puzzle, as it helps
him hold customers who claim they can't
await their turn "Just try that" he says.
soothingly, thrusting the puzzle into their
hands, and when he gets ready to shave 'em
they're in the shop yet you bet.
Twelve married women Of Buffalo, y. ",
have hired the Music Hail bowling alleys
for practice every Tuesday afternoon. The
two that make the highest score are en-
titled to choose sides for the next meeting,
and there is always keen rivalry for the
honor The beaten side "5o:5 Up" the
supper.
4 few days ago George Saxton. 4 messcn-
ger boy OF one Of the Western Union tele-
graph Oh es in philadelphia, made wager
that he could walk from Broad and Chest
nut streets to Bristol, Pa, and back in one
day. He accomplished the feat in ten
hours and forty minutes. The distance
travelled was forty miles.
A Midland court has been called upon To
decide how long an impulse can last. A
well-lSnown la ly was charged with shooting
game witho At a license She pleaded in de-
Tense that she acted under impulse, having
been asked to take gun by one OF the
gentlemen a. "A shooting parry; but her inn
pulse continued for two hours So she was
fined 60.
In 1856 Mr. Hertz put his name down as
Il subscriber for an etching Of Munkacsy's
Christ on Calvary" 1t was not ready
Until lSSS, and he ~efused payment on the
ground that il had taken too long and was
sued. The experts caliei in the case testi-
tied that considering the size and delcacy
OF the work, three wears. was not an excess
i've time for its production. Mr. Hertz had
TO pay.
John Caller an Tllene burg " II farm