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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
Miss Fisher Gets Her Money.

Detroit (Mich.) Sunday Sun, July IS;
Miss Amanda Fisher of POI Champlain
street has suddenly stepped from compare
tive poverty TO afiiuence She is the fore
lady in one Of the fats of Gray, Toynton &
Fox's candy factory in this city. On Sat
urday, the 9th Of July, Miss Fisher bought
one twentieth part Of ticket No. ~, 15S in
the July II drawing of the Louisiana State
Lottery. On Tuesday last she received a
telegram in which she was notified that
her ticket Melted her $4,000.
''Of course | am delighted at my good
fortune said Miss Fisher to a Sunday
Sun man.
did you experience any difficulty in get
ting the money"
mo; put my ticket in tie hands of one
of the banks here, and they got my money
for me-"
II suppose your friends are delighted at
your good fortune"
"Yes; | must say have received many
congratulations. OF course | am delighted
for | shall not have TO work so hard"
The money was paid to Miss Fisher at
the Commercial National bank, this city,
Wednesday.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
"Mamma's Gittin Better"

There is a gladuess in the household;
The shadow fades away
That darkened all the sunshine
OF many a summer day.
30. mammals getting BETTER
The happy children cry,
And the light OF hope shines bright again
In the loving husbands eye.
In thousands of homes women are "sick
unto death" with the terrible disease so
common to their sex, and it would seem as
if all the happiness had gone out of life and
the household in consequence. For when
the wife and mother suffers all the family
suffers with her. This ought not 10 be,
and il need not be, for a never-failing rem
edy for woman's ailments is at hand.
Many home has been made happy because
the shadow Of disease has been banished
from IL by the potent power of DIR. Pierce S
Favoritc Prescripticn-th unfailing RENE
dy for all weaknesses and diseases peculiar
10 women.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
Made Fat IN Five Minutes.

One Of the most amusing and as
tonishing of pantomime tricks ever or
riginated was that OF the fat man,
which was done by the Ravels. One
of the actors in the pantomime sits ut
table and ravenously eats dish after
dish OF food that servant brings to
him. Presently the man who, like most
ravenous eaters, was rather thin and
scrawny, begins to grow plump. His
clothes fit him snugly. His waistcoat
steadily swells ont under the very eyes
of the audience All the while he is
eating like sausage machine. In a
Few minutes he has grown to be agiant
eight or nine feet tall, and with the
portions of an inflated balloon.
The sight always brought forth
roars OF laughter. IL is comparatively
easy TO produce it after you know how.
The food eaten is all property food, "
made OF tissue paper, that the sctor
chews up into little balls and takes
out Of mis- mouth whenever occasion
offers.
His clothes are all OF rubber and
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
A Letter from Mrs. Garfield.

An interesting letter from Mrs. Garfield
TO her husband is being read and discussed
In northern Ohio just now. General Gar
field was In congress at the time IL was
written, and the letter, OF course, was not
intended for any eyes but his. However,
ex president Hinsdale of Hiram college,
when he came 10 write Garfields life,
found IT, and a few days since, in lecture
TO the students read il to them. Baking
Bread is the subject of the letter, which
is as follows:
81 am glad to tell you that out of all the
toll and disappointment OF the summer
Just ended / have risen up To u victory.
That silence of thought since you have
been away has won for my spirit triumph.
| heard said something Ike this the other
day There is no healthy thought with
out labor, and thought makes the laborer
happy Perhaps this is the way l have
been able TO climb up higher. IL came to
income morning when j was making bread.
l said to myself: Here l am compelled
by inevitable necessity TO make my own
bread this summer. Why not consider IL
pleasant occupation, aud make II so by
trying TO see what perfect bread / can
maker II seemed like an inspiration, and
the whole of my life grew brighter. The
very sunshine seemed flowing down
through my spirit into the white loaves.
and now | believe my table is furnished
with better bread than ever before, and
the truth, old as creation, seems just now
TO have become fully mine-that need not
be the shrinking slave OF toll but its regal
master, making whatever do yield me its
best fruits You have been king OF your
work so long that maybe you will laugh at
me for having lived so long without my
crown; but | am too glad To have found II
at all 10 be entirely discouraged even by
your merriment."
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
A Widows Tr0usseau.

The trousseau OF widow who Is
about TO be married second time is
the talk OF New York just now. 1t
contains no colors that are not white,
gray. or some shade of lilac. and wher-
ever it is possible to put n reminis-
cence of the violet, her favorite flower,
there it Is. The silk Undertaking,
either OF cream. gray, or lilac, is all
embroidered with wreathes OF violets
white violets on purple ground, and
purple ones on gray and white. Little
silken bags. containing very thin lay
ers OF cotton wool thickly spri nkled
with orris root, are sewn into the
bosoms OF the gowns. The odor OF the
ground orris root Is more like the
faint perfume OF a violet than any
thing else which can be found.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
A Great Worker.

Among the interchangeable workers Of the
day there are few 10 compare with the Rev.
Edward Everett Hale. Besides tho du Ties
incident TO the care of large and wealthy
church engaged in manifold charitable un-
dertakings, DIR. Hale is the organizer and
chief promoter of numerous young people 3
clubs is identified closely with Chautau-
qua, where every year he renders active
assistance, has at least half a dozen re-
forms always under way, is the editor OF
three successful periodicals and has the
charge of an editorial department in at
least one other, finds time now aud then TO
deliver a lecture on some historical topic,
takes practical interest in education and
is promoter Of Industrial schools, does not
refuse when some important political topic
is uppermost, 10 let his voice be heard at
conventions and rallies, writes several
stories every year and turns out book OF
travels as occasion may offer; and now 10
fill in his intervals OF leisure, he is TO un-
dertake TO write the biography of the late
James Freeman Clarke, task 10 which he
will devote, it is said, two years Of consec-
utive labor.--Boston Beacon.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
BURLINGTON ROUTE.
Through Sleeper Daily to Texas
Points,

On and after August IL, 1889, the c., b.
& q. r. *. Will run in connection with the
Missouri Kansas X Texas Ry. from Han.
nibal, n sleeping car from Chicago 10
Galveston, Texas, without change,
thus making new short daily
line between Chicago and Sedaiia. TT.
Scott, Parsons, Denison, TT. Worth, Waco,
Austin, Houston. Galveston, and other
points in Missouri Kansas, Indian Terri
tory and Texas. The sleeper will leave
Chicago on the Burlington's fast train
ELI" at , :45 p m. daily. connect with c. b.
& .. train leaving Peoria at 5 20 pm daily
except Sunday, and reach Texas points
many hours quicker than any other route.
Through tickets can be obtained Of ticket
agents of the Burlington Route and con
Meeting lines. Il. >. Eustis, Gen'l Pass. &
Tiki. Agt., c., Il. * O. X. r., Chicago.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
Good 70 Have In the Family.

the Japan Choya Shimbun has this
item, suggestive OF the antiquarian
mine in that country: There is, at
the residence OF Marquis Kuroda, who
was chief of the Fukuoka clan, a large
quantity Of old gold money, which was
deposited as war fund at the time OF
Lord Kuroda Joshui, the founder Of
the family who lived 300 years.
The money has only been inspected
when the representative OF the family
changed. After this had been done it
was sealed up in packages, once more
placed in the goodwin, and it remains
there to-day. The family have now
decided TO realize, with the exception
of that portion OF the money presented
to the founder OF the family by Toyoto
mi Taiko and that seized by the inva
sion of Corea, which will be reta ined.
The face value of the coins to be sold
amounts TO $780, 900 and includes large
and small kobans and other ancient
gold pieces" Just think OF that for a
family treasure stored in the godown
for three cent uries!
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
RATS POSSESSION.
The Rodents are Nightly Custom
ers Of a Broadway Restaurant.


A restaurant on Broadway. not
half mile from Canal Street. is the
theater of performances every night
that are not down on the bills OF fare.
The play begins after dark and lasts
until early morning. Usually il is still
in action when the last spectator tires
of watching through the unshuttered
plate glass door and windows. The
actors are rats.
Four traps are placed around large
hole in the floor in such manner that
a rat crawling out would have TO step
on the spring of one OF them and set IL
off; but the long headed little rodents
are too sharp to be caught They
spring up through the hole, clearing
the trap in safety. A little fellow
about twelve inches long after making
his appearance through the hole sat
down and looked at the traps for n
minute or two in IA most sarcastic man
ner. Then with IA whisk OF his tail he
sprang over the traps and dived down
the hole, only to reappear, followed by
half a dozen OF his companions. The
traps are like ordinary fox traps, and
do very little damage to the rats.
When caught it is generally by the
legs, in which case the rat will gnaw
off the limb or limbs and retire through
another exit. Such casualties are rare.
Several rats which appeared of and on
| drought the evening had but three
! legs apiece, but We're nevertheless, as
! lively as the others.
The rats ran across the floor and
around the base OF a cigar Indian in
| true Indian file, four or five in string.
A street urchin remarked that he would
not spend the night inside in COM
pany with the rats for all the money
the restaurant made. "D'eir teeth nd
90 though shoe leather every time" he
| said.
Two rats will meet and rub noses and
run away again. or, If not friends, will
| have regular Sullivan and Mitchell
set-to. They gather in family parties
of three or four at the tables for supper.
One rat has lost its tail, evidently
through being caught by "A clam. The
clans open their shells, and a rat in
looking around the oyster counter for a
toothpick, carelessly lets his tail slip
into the mouth OF clam. He will
drag away the clam until he gets
10 the mouth of his hole, and then
either he hangs there or his tail comes
off
The rats are thick. There will be
twenty-five or thirty in one night, and
one man said he had seen as many as fifty.
a man passing called ont What :
there?' and one Of the urchin's replied,
rats The man was mad at first but
quieted down in an awc-stricken man
ner when he looked in at the window.
Another man. after looking at the
rats, said: Say, young man. are
those rats?' The young man said
Yes and slowly remarked: 81
thought so, but | wanted to be sure.
Another man asked why ferrets were
not used to exterminate the rats. Hi:
friend said that they had tried ferret,
and after getting all the blood he want
ed, he played with the rats as though
he vas one of them. York Sun
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30

made to fit air tight around the rists
and neck. In sitting down he puts the
heel of one foot over IA little trap in
the stage. An assistant below cou-
Piles tube running from "a bellows TO
hole in the boot heel. Then he
blows him up. Ii must be rather UNI
pleasant sensation to the actor TO feel
that he is nothing more than IA wind
bag; but actors are made to suffer. by
tho time that the suit has grown so big
that the inhabitant has TO have Ian
tern to move around in It, the wind
is cut off and the boot heal plugged up.
Then by an ingenious arrangement OF
springs under the actors feet tho
height is acquired
There Is beautiful chance in this
trick for some practical joke-loving
property-man to blow in gas that
would lift the unfortunate actor of
his feet and send him sailing about
over the heads of the audience.
1.-The smashed clown" is another
well-known trick OF former years that
has never been explained. A big mill
stone falls on clown. and when IL Is
lifted up the clown is picked up flatten-
ed out rs fiat as n pancake. lie is in
sensible and is placed on table; an
other actor places the nozzel OF bel
lows in his mouth ana gradually in
tlates him to his normal size, when the
clown jumps of the table and is him
self again.
The trick requires deft work and
considerable machinery. The mill
stone is hollow, OF course, and has a
strong trap in the bottom, so that when
it falls it takes the clown into it. AT
the same time trap in the stage opens
and lets him down. The dummy clown.
all ilattened out, is placed on the trap
and it is sprung back to its place under
the milestone. The actor meanwhile
| lays himself out at full length on an
other trap that rises up above the
stage to the top OF the table where the
dummy is placed. Only the outline of
the clowns body is exposed above the
table The dummy drops down on an
other trap behind it, and, as it goes,
the body of the real clown is slowly
raised above the table TO give the effect
of being filled out by the bellows.
Another trick is that of a big man
standing up in q nonchalant sort OF
way, while another man dives head
first through his stomach. This tritiing
with the calm repose of his dinner SO
annoys the big man that he promptly
turns into a steamboat and putfs out
his disgust in clouds OF smoke.
1t would be almost impossible TO
make any one but a stage mechanic
understand the complicated workings
Of the trick. A trick back net is used,
so that when the little man dive
through him the big man can be lifted
up horizontally to the rear, so that his
clothes and his head remain in the
same position, and to the audience he
seems not to have moved
As soon as he begins TO be u steam.
boat he is jerked out of sight through
the back scene, and the steamboat
comes up in sections inside his clothes,
falls over them and pulls out like n
telescope until it becomes a river
steamer with its decks full Of people
who are shot mp 70 their places by
spring traps. The smoke is easily
brought up by ID pipe under the stage
1t requires thirty-five stage hands tC
work the trick. and they don't have
much time for loaiing, either. New
! York World
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
The 1fillpr's Wooing,

"Love me little, love me long,"
Sang the dusty miller
To his wheat art, and his song
Did a maize and thrill her.
IBID me barley hope; oh, give
Me one grain Of comfort:
would oat on thee and live,
Holding Oh TO some fort.
"In your ryes now love looks shine,
There lies cereal pleasure.
oh hominy joys are mine,
Filling up my measure.
Came the maiden's corn-ful laugh
At the miller's fawnIng;
"You can't winnow girl with chaff-
Sir! 10 you, good morning"
London Sporting Times.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
Storing Water In Montana.

II is problem in Montana how and
where to procure and stow away for
summer use sufficient water for mining
and irrigation purposes and the ma.
tional government has undertaken TO
solve it. A corps OF engineers has
been sent to survey and examine the
facilities for building reservoirs and
estimate the water supply, The rain
fall this season has been very small
and placer mining has been almost
abandoned.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
a Fairy Tale.

A famous woodsman once boosted that he
could find his way through a wilderness
and return by the same path. Being test
ed, he carried with him a slender thread,
which should serve as q guide for the re-
turn trip. Reaching the end OF MS journey,
he lay down TO rest. While he rested came
the genius OF industry and breathed upon
his thread and changed it into two shining
ribbons of steel. IL was a railroad
Throngs OF people whired past him in lux
urious cars, and he read upon the train the
mystic legend: Wisconsin Central
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
Religion, jealousy In India.

Religious jealousy in India between
Hindoos and Mohammedans is said 70
be fit TO involve the entire country in
war the moment the British authority
should be withdrawn. Lately a Mussul-
man procession to celebrate q convert
was attacked with great fury and some
fatalities were the result.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
Pound IIerOut.

Dick-"That girl loves you and not
your rivaln'
Jack-"Come. now. don't create any
false hopes"
"Oh. you're right there. my boy. A
few moments ago your rival happen
ed TO mention your name, and she did
mt begin praising you. New York
Weekly.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
Cut Rates the West.

Cheap tickets to all points in Kansas,
Colorado, Indian Territory Oklahoma E,
Texas, and other States and Territories in
the West, will be sold by the Santa Fe
Route from Chicago and other points
along the line, on August d and 20; Sept.
10 and - and October 5.
For particulars ask your Ticket Agent
or write TO John j. Byrne, Assistant Gen
eral Passenger Agent, Santa Fe Route,
Chicapo
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
A Long Wait.

Mr.. hayseed (after long, long,
weary wait in a New York restauran)
Seems to me that Drilled Philadelphia
spring chicken we ordered Is long
while coming"
Mrs. Hayseed (resignedly)-"I s'pose
the train is off the track. New York
Weekly
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
Excelsior Strings. No.

Unequalled as a health and pleasure resort.
Finest Watering Place hotel in the west.
The waters will positively cure all kidney
and liver diseases, dyspepsia, diabetes, fe-
male complaints, skin and blood diseases,
etc.
For handsomely illustrated descriptive
pamphlet, apply to +. Chandler, G.. p. Il T.
A. "Wabash Line, y St. Louis, Mo.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
Hibbard's Rheumatic and Liver
pills

These Pills are scientifically compounded,
uniform in action. No gripping pain so
commonly following the use OF pills. They
are adapted 10 both adults and children
with perfect safely. We guarantee they
have no equal in the cure of Sick Headache,
Constipation, Dyspepsia, Biliousness; and,
as an appetizer, they excel any other pre-
paration
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
A Iiitle loo Ear.

Mrs. Weary (rcading)-"The body
OF a book agent was found on Blank
street this morning. lie had evidently
been murdered"
Mr.. Weary (mcditativcly)-"Um-
er-really. now, think that was going
most too far Now York Weekly.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
The rxc,t.mrntNe tOx.r.

The rush on the druggists still continues
and daily scores Of people call for bottle
of Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and
Lungs, for the cure Of Coughs Colds,
Asthma, Bronchitis and Consumption.
Kemps Balsam, the standard family
remedy, is sold on q guarantee and never
fails TO give entire satisfaction. Price, soc
and 81 .00. Trial size free.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was Child, she cried for Castoris,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children. sic gave them Castc<ia,
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30

Dobbins Electric Soap is cheaper for
you to use, if you follow directions, than
any other soaps would be if given TO you,
for by its use clothes are saved. Clothes
cost more than soap. Ask your grocer for
Dobbins'. Take no other.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
Grand Harvest Excursions

VIII run via the Wabash line TO points in
Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Dakota,
Colorado. and all parts of the west, on
August 90, September 10 and - and DC
tober 8, 1880 Rate one fare for round
trip. For particulars apply 10 nearest
Wabash ticket agent.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30

A store In Atlanta, so we are told, has
been built entirely of paper Men have
tried to run stores entirely on paper for
many years, with no very good results.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30

T. A. Rood Toledo, Ohio, says: "Hall's
Catarrh Cure cured my wife of catarrh
fifteen years ago and she has had no return
OF IL. It's a sure cure Sold by Drug
o,ists Tic
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30

A crisp production. Smiley-"Your
latest story IS exceedingly well done" De
Scribbler Eyes, indeed roasted to a crisy
by the critic j."--Omaha World
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30

$500 reward offered for an incurable case
of Catarrh by the proprietors Of DIR. Sage S
Remedy. zoe, by druggists.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30

Mrs. Cleveland has been acting as post
mistress at church fair in Marion, Mass
Thus far no charges Of offensive PARTISAN
ship have been brought against her.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30

The numerous failures Of the leather
firms in Boston indicate that the iuhabi-
tants Of New England are gamboling bare
foot Oh the sands of the scashorc.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30

Nine tenths of all troubles which re
quire the aid of plasters are rheumatic in
their nature. a change of weather or a
sudden draught causes cold which devel-
opes into muscular and that into milan
matory rheumatism. And yet, there has
never yet been such thing as distinctly
rheumatic and strengthening plaster, and
hundreds have died suddenly where
rheumatism has attacked the heart, whose
lives might have been saved had this plas-
ter been applied in season. They are con.
structed on purely scientific principles and
are purely vegetable.
Prepared by Rheumatic Syrup Co.,
jackson, Mich.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30

DR. Brown -Sequard rejuvenates people
with extract of guinea pig; DR. w. A
Hammond with extract Of lamb. There is
a grave suspicion that DR.. William Null
doom prcscribes extract of mule
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30

The annual convention OF the United
States HayF association at Bethle-
hem, n. H., was very diguified assembly,
and by no means TO be sueezed at.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30

II afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac
"hompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell IT, Dc
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30

The Johnstown sufferer is the latest
variety OF tramp in Kansas. He bears a
close resemblance TO ali the rest in the par
ticular thathe looks as though he had never
SnRn WatHr-
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30

smoke the best-"Tansnl's Punch" c gar.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
Illinois Central Railroad
Excursions south.

For free copy of southern Home-Seekers'
Guide" Farmers and Fruit Growers Guide
to McComb City, Mississippi" address the
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30
Hibbard's Strengthening and Rheu-
matte Plasters

ARE REVELATION TO THE WORLD, AND
ARE THE ONLY GENUINE RHEU-
MATIC PLASTFRs,
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30

A. VI. HANSON, j. r. MERRY,
Gen'lPass. Agent, Asst. Genl Pass. Agt.,
chicago. Manchester, Iowa.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30

A thorough commercial course Is also 2 feature or
the Institution. Special advantages viii DO placei
within the reach OF those de-iring 10 study
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-30

ATTORNEY, Washington, DC,
WILL GET YOUR PENSION
without delay.