Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
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which insures you against burglary.
There are no fewer than y, 40 known
thieves over sixteen years OF age in Eng
land.
Mormon converts are more plentiful than
Tor five years past but the doublc-wife bus
tness III Utah is played out forever.
About 5000 people have received railroad
passes to leave Johnstown. Some OF them
have been sent as far as New Mexico.
The Greeks combined the dance with
their dramas; pantomimic dances were in
troduced upon the Roman stage - B. Z.
medal illustrative Of the 70Oth anniver-
sary of the mayoralty of the city OF London
is TO be struck in celebration of the event.
The parasols carried in the United States
cost sl4 CO., 900 annually. Think how many
cigars that money would buy for the men.
1t cost 81 ,932. 3l6 to maintain the fire dc
pariment OF New York city last year.
There were 3,2l7 fires and the losses were
s5,4s5,922.
a Boston man brags that he has lived on
thirteen cents per day, but that isn't so ex-
traordinary. They keep 'em 1t Sing Sing
for less than ten.
There are only three men in this country
and benefcent move on the part of Provi-
dence that this is So
Seven large whales were seen Oft the en-
trance to San Francisco Bay last week, but
owing to the high price Of real estate, none
Of them ventured in.
The girls at Vassar College are trying to
figure out what would happen if an eighty
foot whale should run fun speed into an
iceberg as big as a mountain.
The failure OF little Annie Davis, OF
Mansfield, o., TO take prizo in school for
the best composition so worried her that
she committed suicide by drowning.
a Baltimore woman dreamed of finding
a pot of gold in the cellar, and next day she
went down and nosed around and found
jug OF rum which her old man was keeping
shy.
a horse lying down on railroad track
is "a more dangerous obstruction than half
Il dozen cows while the engineer isn't bit
worried over a dozen hogs or q score Of
sheep
On dead pull, being put in harness, one
Of BarDum's elephants lately drew load
weighing over four tons. II coal dealer
had him he could be made TO draw SIX tons
of coal.
The railroads of India have almost done
away with caste. All sorts Of religions now
have to mix up, and it hasn't hurt EN- a bit.
On the contrary, fanaticism is fast disap
pearing.
Within the past year over 5000 Russians
liable TO military service have been rcibly
prevented from leaving that country for the
United States. The Car knows when he
has good thing.
They are going to make another effort
this summer to find that British treasure
ship sunk off Long Branch in 1915. The
reason they did't find it last year was be
cause IL wasn't there.
Old John Cole, stingy old farmer near
Burlington, VT, drew up valuable papers
and used ink OF his own manufacture to
save expense. 1t faded away in a few days
and he is about 81, 900 out
The thimble is claimed by the Dutch as
an invention of their country, but il is
known that it was in use among thc silk
embroiderers OF China hundreds Of years
before it was used elsewhere.
Massachusetts now has state law
against clipping horses or reducing the
length OF his tail until he can no longer use
il as a fly brush but horse owners will get
some other hobby just as foolish.
A prisoner in Kentucky JAN attempted
TO commit suicide by eating two dozen
blotting pads with fire insurance adver-
tisement printed thereon, but the doctors
saved his life at a cost OF five cents.
The first maps of Africa published gave
that continent seventeen rivers where not
one single stream existed Geographcrs
probably reasoned that the natives required
great deal of water to keep clean.
An eminent English surgeon saws that n
kiss on the lips ought to be felt for at least
twenty minuts afterwards and that kiss
ing produces sensation which the system
requires to keep it in healthy state
A Manchester, England, paper says that
the Salvationsts have converted over 90
900 persons in that city, land yet il is
doubted IL they have really added ten
earnest, honest Christians to the ranks"
A restaurant man says AS long as we
keep frogs in a dark place their color is "a
dark brown. But when we bring them
into the sunlight the color soon begins to
change, until finally it becomes light
green
An American was arrested on the Aus
TRAN frontier for having in his luggage I'M
mistakable dynamite bombs. On further
investigation they proved to be cocoanuts,
something that the Austrian authorities had
never seen.
According 10 Prof Thurston the engine
Of the future is that which ultimately can
be made to work up at once to high temporal
ture and To high pressures. and can be nhido
at the same time to deve!ope its power rs in
the smallest and lightest engine.
The bamboo tree does not blossom until
it attains its thirtieth year, when it pro-
duces seed profusely, ana then dies. 1t is
said that n famine was prevented in India
in 1872 by the sudden towering OF the bam-
boo trees, where $1,000 people resorted to
the jungles TO gather the seed for food.
The modern names of sizes Of BOOKS are
derived from the folding of paper. When
the sheet IA not folded it is called folio
and this size was very fashionable through.
out the sixtcenth aud seventeenth centuries
The folio sheet doubled becomes a guarto,
another double constitutes the octave Of
eight leaves or sixteen pages