Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-04-03

lives AT Devil's Lake. he VIII feel at home
in Washington.
! The toilers of Paris are many. Its work.
ing population includes 267 900 men and
! 332, 900 women.
No Heligolander under 1G years of age
/ Is allowed TO go to public house, dancing
saloon or theater.
Oranges are in great demand in certain
cities where the women have notion that
oranges freshen the complexion.
You may be sure that n man has a very
angelic disposition If he never gets mad
when he has failed To guess riddle.
Honeyed Words. She; / am sorry you
must be going. He: IL doesn't matter
When one meets you he is already gone
w Lewis Fraser, art manager of tho
Century, says that the artist engraver
represents the coming form Of American
art.
The largest reservoir or artificial lake in
the world is tie great tank of Dhebar
which covers an area of twenty-one square
miles
London affords for the use Of its 5,000,-
900 of Inhabitants nineteen free public and
twenty-five commercial bathing establish
ments.
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you must ask: Can l make them betterl
But never bother other people too much
with the question
Bad fortunes and death are the two
things that dsperse fortunes and libraries
Last year there were ffty-one private
Libraries in London sold.
A curious advertisement in an English
paper says: This concert takes place to-
oigh' 1Eriday) and not yesterday, as was
err, usly announced"
TIE Atchison Globe says: A man in At.
ctison is about to commit the folly of mar
rying the woman who stood sponsor for
him when he was baptized.
The real investigator in any department
of science or thought simply investigates
for the truth, no matter if it overthrows
ell his preconceived opinions.
Vienna has taken in all the surrounding
suburbs and formed what it calls the
metropolitan area. This gives the fine old
city population of 1920, 900.
Missouri annually expends over s. 600
for tobacco for the convicts in the peniten-
tiary. 1t is not much wonder that some
men don't mind 70 be sent TO prison.
prize fight in Portugal is something
like a siege. Two pugilists there recently
engaged in prize fight for 1929 rounds
They fought six hours day, stopping at
noon to eae and smoke.
b. f. Stearne of Lynchburg, Va, has in
his possession a curiously carved violin.
said to have once been the property of
Thomas jefferson. The relic hunters are
ready to pay big sums for it.
''What do you know about Zoe dissolution
Of parhamentm the managing editor asked
of the new man at the foreign desk.
Nothing" he said innocently: Il didn't
know it was dissolute at all
There is danger in the current. Henry
Kramer, lineman, recently received an
electric shock at Louisville, Ky, and has
become hopelessly insane, believing that he
is pursued by an electric ghost.
The king seems disposed to remember
some of his fathers friends Prof Bra
mann, one of the physicians who attended
the Emperor Frederick in his last illness,
has been ennobled by the present emperor.
medical item says An English bac-
teriologist, who is notable as the discoverer
of taxalbumens and who is now studying
the Koch method at the Hygienic institute,
Berlin, announces that he has discovered a
remedy for anthrax.
The New York Herald has enough pene-
tration and honesty left 60 say The
simple and awful fact is that the white
man wants the Indians land and proposes
TO eXterminate him in order to get it"
That is about the size of it.
People worship the old The candles a,
Mrs Roger a. Pryor's receptions, in New
York city, stand in candlesticks POO years
old. These antiques are not very hand
some, but they are admired because they
''come down from former generation"
In speaking Of the minute parasites which
are found in the hairy part of tigers foot,
a scientist says: They constitute one oil
the most wonderful curiosities / know oil
in the animal world The parasites are Sc
small as TO be almost invisible 10 the naked
eye. and yet each is u perfect counterpart
of the tiger.
An effort is being made in Brooklyn Il
induce women to become clubable. The
New Union league there has made radica
departure from club traditions in setting
apart certain rooms, accessible by a private
entrance, for the use of the wives anC
daughters of members, and in placing al
their disposal, at certain hours and under
certain conditions, the bowling alleys
library, and other privileges OF the clul
house
One who has tried it says panes Of glas
can be cut under water in almost any shap,
with a pair of scissors Two things ar,
necessary for success; first, the glass mus
be quite level in the water while the scis
sors are applied and secondly, TO avoiC
risk, it is better to perform the cutting 10y
cutting Off small pieces, thus reducing TIL
form gradually To that required The softe
glasses cut best, and the scissors need no
be very sharp.
In these days novelists have TO hustle
for fresh contents and pastures new
; People want new backgrounds to thei
stories. Rider Haggard has a Zulu TO
nance now in the hands OF his publisher
and is collecting material on his presen
: trip for an Aztec novel. He is going from
Mexico TO Peru TO gather material for sil
, another novel; TO be called "The Incas.
, Next year the famous novelist will visi
the Rocky mountain region of the Unite'
States TO gather material for furthe
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