Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-12-06
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United States.
New York expends 100000 month in
street cleaning.
George Bancroft is the Oldest living grad
uate Of Harvard.
The entire village OF Powelton, Pa, Is
advertised for sale.
A japanese has discovered a process OF
making artificial tortoise shell with the
white Of eggs
Kansas claims IN have the finest collec,
| ton Of North American birds on exhibition
in this country.
Vanderbilt keeps an establishment. 1t
takes twenty two servants To run the house
and five to run the stable.
| The fastest recorded time made by an
electric railway is about twenty miles an
hour on street car system.
Secretary Rusk has developed great
fondness for chrysanthemums. He always
wears one i'm his buttonhole.
Over 900 miles of telegraph wire are
! in operation ia the United States-enough
to encircle the globe forty times.
A curly walnut log was sold by Burch
Logan county, w. Va, man for 5000, ID.
Williamson. indianapolis, being the pur-
chaser.
Prince George Of Wales is the only men,
Der of the English royal family who speaks
the language Of his country with foreign
accent.
Some time ago large aerolite fell near
Jenny Creek, Wayne county, Ohio, part OF
which contained very large percentage
OF iron.
The fish are getting so numerous around
the docks at Port Tampa, Fla, that they
Jump out of the water and land on the
wharves.
Edgar Saltus will go to Egypt to study
the mysticism OF the east Perhaps his
'art OF realism" will be less prominent when
he returns
Prince Louis Napoleon, who was lately
an officer in the Italian reserves, has OBJ
tain ed commission as major in the Rus
sian army.
Five hundred volts of an electrical cur
rent ia considered dangerous TO human life,
but death depends largely upon physical
conditions.
The mo u widely separated points between
which it is possible to send telegram are
British Columbia and New Zealand, via
America and Europe
cuff into the stove Her husband will have
to pay $50 to repair Damage to the kitchen
and 10 get new stove
Mile. Rosa Bonhour has given to buffalo
Bill IA fine pair Of mustags, which she had
been unable to break His COW BOYS quick
ly brought them to time.
a Byron, Mich, woman wanted 10 put
$50 where burglars wouldn't find il so she
put il into the stove. Not even the ashes
remain TO tell the sad story.
The smallest size solitaire diamond ring
was pro luced in New York The ornament
could not be passed over an ordinary pencil
and was male for museum freak
Prince Bismarck has taken up with that
'good old gentlemanly vice." avarice. He
is abnormally anxious to increase his
wealth, which is already enormous
A Belfast, Me, merchant recently hired
a new clerk, who Immediately distinguish
ed himself by trying to get those queer
chimneys OF the incandescent electric
lamps so as to light them with a match.
Will Hensels wife, OF Punxutawnev,
Pa, decorated favorite cat named Jona-
than with ribbon and bell. Jonathan
then climbed a tree and hanged himself.
Congressman Reed of Maine is the big
gest man physically in the house. He is an
omnivorous reader and devours French
novels He is also well up in the classics.
Inventor Edison's 6-year old daughter Is
said TO be almost narvelously bright She
is described as fair musician, good
draugh .sman and she speaks four Ian
guages.
Adelina Patti wearied o. being a brunette
for ha hao I'D h,s
to a straw color, AMI now it doesn't match
her dark face. To powder deeply is the
remedy. She knows it,
Lady Forester, OF London, is practical
philanthropist. Each week she sends To the
factory girls OF London upwards of two
thousands punches Of flowers gathered by
the servants of her estate.
Salem county, n. Y. farmer John
Robson, caught strange bird recently.
1t Is said TO have lace like monkey, is
about the size of a grown fowl and has
plumagc of wonderously varied hue.
There is in the Paris hospital called the
Hotel Dieu a woman who can see two diff
ferent sets Of objects at one and the same
time While one eye is gazing at given
point the other remains perfectly still and
vice versa.
The oldest union soldier in Indiana ia
William Lee who resides on Indian Creek,
near Columbus. Ind. He is ninety-two
years OF age ani is still hale and harty.
He was recently granted a pension with
Sl,5DO back pay.
The new jury law in New York City has
already nctted nearly 5000 o for the treas
ury. There are no allowances made now
a1ays; II the iuryman does not present him
self he is fined $40, and it is remorselessly
collected at once.
1t is not known now that the Hartford
Courant in its first Issue announced that it
had "come TO stay," but that seems to be
the case. II has passed the anniversary Of
it, ETH birthday. A good newspaper new
err ages. 1t is new born every day
The bronze doors for the Cathedral of
Cologne are nearly re ,dy. They represent
the four ages Of man, the four seasons. and
The wise and foolish virgins with exaui-
sitely designed ornaments. consisting of