Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-09-18
INTERESTING ITEMS.

Two-thirds of the applicants for admis'
sion TO West Point and Annapolis accord
ing TO Dr. Cheeseman, OF Chicago, are re-
jected because Of the cigarette habit ana
its results.
One person in every 262 in the United
States is insane. The proportion of insane
to sane persons is smallest in the rural dis
tricts of England, where the average Is
one in about 500.
The history of the world in Arabic is be-
ing written by Mahmond Fehmy Pasha, II
companion of Arab in exile in Ceylon. he
hopes to finish il in year. IL Will be In
five large volumes.
The most extensive camphor raiser IN
Formosa, the beautiful island where that
precious gum is grown in large quantities.
is named Butler and is generally called IN
the East the "Camphor Count. "
At the plant Of the Pittsburg Reduction
company, whore this output of aluminium
is about five hundred pounds day of
twenty -four hours the electrical machinery
was recently run continuously for four
months.
The injections of bromide of gold which
moneyed women take hypodelmically for
nervous prostration are very fashionable
and said to be etrectual Each dose con
tains ten cents worth of pure gold and
costs the patient 81
DR.. George II. Cramer, who has been
exploring the Mexican State of Tobasco,
reports the discoTery of "a district in which
Intoxicating beverages can be made III SIX
hours, at a cost of about ten cents a gal
lon, from palm juice.
The story told years ago OF the discov-
cry of an ancient ship in the sands of the
Great American desert is now revived
with the addition that it is ahoat on the
waters of the new inland sea forming there
from an Eruption of the Colorado river.
The latest invention to attract the at
tention and approval of railroad men is
the cushion car wheel. 1t is composed OF
two parasitic center and the tire-while
between the two is thick rubber band
which acts as "A cushion to absorb all the
vibrations.
1t is fact not generally known that
there are more high peaks in the Rocky
Mountains and in the Sierra Nevada range
by proportion OF twenty to one than
there are in the Alps. There are Mt least
fifty peaks in this country that are within
800 feet of an altitude Of a. 600 feet.
A curious memorial stone has recently
been placed in an old cemetery at Kings
ton, Mass. 1t is u rough block of granite,
five feet high, into which is sunken IA large
slate tablet bearing genealogical inscrip-
ton of the Drew family, the founder OF
which it is said, was knighted by Queen
Elizabeth in 1889.
The first bridge that was ever built, the
arches of which were made of iron, was
called "Ironbridge, and it was erected in
! l779. 1t spans little river in the coun-
| ty of Salop on the railroad line from
| Shrewsbury 10 Worcester, in England
At the present day the structure is sur
rounded by thriving little village, which
took its name from the bridge.
\ big leopard seal came up in the midst
| OF n lot of bathers at Santa Barbara, Cal.
causing good deal of alarm az first a.
some thought the creature a shark or seq
serpent. Some of the boys barked like O
seal, and the visitor seemed for time &c
think it was among friends of It's own
kind. and kept coming closer until finally
! taking in the situation, it turned tail and
fed out to sea again.