Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-05-31
WINGED MISSILES.


There are twenty five more holidays in
Mexico than there are days in the year.
'Crockery was never 40 cheap" saws q
housekeeper of forty years experience.
The tin mines OF Dakota are to give en-
poyment to 800 men the coming season.
The fashion Of carrying a muff dates 300
years back. Courties wore them in the
time Of George /.
The Mexican consul at Los Angeles
turned q aice little penny by charging from
- to 81 fer passports TO cross the Mexican
line and scooped in many tenderfeet No
pos sport Is needed
Pennsylvania has Just discovered that
she has no law to punish man for stealing
railroad engine; aud IL the men in that
state are sharp every one will provide him
self with q locomotive as soon as possible.
John Powell says that there is a walnut
tree on his place at Gibson. Ga, that has
been stone dead for seven years, but that it
has some to life again, and Is bearing sweet,
delicious walnuts, as 1t did previous to its
death
English public opinion is scaDdalized by
the proposal to build dead house" 10 re-
ceive the overflow from Westminster Alb
hey. 1t is urged that there is still room
enough in the abbey for monuments to all
the really great great men that are likely TO
die for some time.
When a Turk dies, the legs are tied tSgeth-
err and the arms stretched by the sides. The
burial takes place as soon as possible after
the death. The corpse is handled very tender
ly, as the Turks believe any lack OF tender
ness would bring the curse OF the dead
mans sole upon them.
In paper recently read before the Bos
ton Horticultural society Mrs f. II. Rich
ards said that the dust in rooms is large
ly composed of living bacteria, and that
the ordinary busting Of furniture with IA
feather duster only transfers these bacte-
ria TO the throats of the inmates.
The highest price on record for a postage
stamp was realized last week waen an I'M
used Accent British Guiana OF 1856 was
knocked down at auction To Mr. Bull, the
dealer, for $50 The same gentleman also
bought similar stamp, which had, howev-
err, been through the post, for sl9).
A Portland (Ore.) man refused a China
man 10 cents due for washing re Mon
golian closed the door and gave his deiin-
quent customer a severe drubb NJ, la
Kirain When the police ar'iyel all the
satisfaction they I'VE the white man was
to advise him TO pay his wash oil hereaf-
ter.
There are said TO be moro than l0o, 900 va.
rieties of buttera es One Of the finest coll
lection OF butterflies in the world is owned
by Rerthold NeumOgen, OF New York Only
two others in the world can compare with
it. One of them is in the British museum
and the other belongs to public institution
in Paris.
1t is stated on good authority that the
widow Of General jackson recently de-
clined the Office of postmaster at Lexing-
ton, Va, to which S g had been assured
President Harrison was p eplrel to APP
point her. The offer WAS btlined through
the good officers of a prominent Virginia
Republican.
Captain George Il. Viii c, nominated to
succeed Admiral Harmony as lief of the
Bureln of Yard AMI Docks, Navy Depart
ment is nephew OF Repre- sentative VIII
liam ID. Kelley OF Pennsylvania. Entering
the Naval Academy in l>5i, lie graduated
in 1859. He was in numerous engagements
dur NJ the civil war.
The women of Texas are max 'ng huge
map, drawn on canvas, with al the 264
COUNT Is Oh TIC Stdlc IL q Oh. OHe
Tom Green, is larger than the entire states
of Massachusetts aud Connecticut COM
bined. The name of each county will be
worked with some beautiful pro luct made
in tn county. The map vii b, exhibited
in the Texas Spring palace, 10 be built at
Fort Worth.
Ellis II. Roberts of New Yor'1 named as
ass SAINT treasurer ut New 70 k is sixty
two years He was train d as "A printer,
and was graduated fro II Yae College. Ho
became elitor and proprie or II the Utica
Morning Hera IN 1Sjl, ali mas been con-
ne ted with Ia 1t paper since tn It ime. He
was member Of the lie sisllt lro of 1861,
and served in the forty soconl and forty
third congresses.
A novel branch sf learning has been in
trod ace1 into the hi cher grad 3 Of he public
schools Of New Haven. IL consis of q
bulletin board, upon which are p s ed each
day clippings OF important no ne an foreign
news tax II from the newspapers. Special
attention is gwen to mat er5 bro ight up in
connection with study of history or geog-
raph.y. The pupils IL 20 GO t interest in
the bulletin and vie with ono an jther in
bringing the greatest number " toms which
are suitable - be pasted.
The cliff -dweller relics lately discovered
in New Mexico comprise human skulls the
skeleton OF "a ca Id, mum n,ll)l leet and
hands, human hal &c. ncro are eighty
five pieces OF pottery, fro n gigantic coiled
vases to tiny fragments of pain ed carthen-
ware. Among the relics arc number OF
turkey bones, and TIE discovcror relates
that in one OF the cliff IA Jus,s ho foln the
roost OF these fowls. al 80 ne3ts w tn cgg-
shells in them. A loom was foanl n one OF
the houses. The collection la, boon taken
TO Durango, Col
The estimated cost of the projected ship
canal between Bordeaux, on tho At antic,
and Narbonne, on the Mediterranean,
/ ran o, IS SlS0,0O,0O. The vass unde tax
ing-conpris NJ as it does u In ,th OF 80
IN les 10 save voyag 90 ar ,unl > pain OF 700
IN .es wosld ha G depth OF twelty seven
feet in order to all wv OF tho passage of
he wy iron -clads, aud wo Id GU re thirty
eli hit locks The pan also contemplates a
railway track Il ong side so Ia 81 : IN ans of