Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-03-15
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The annual taxes OF the world aggre-
gate the enormous sum OF St3jO OOO,-
600.
Germany pays slo.ooo0o0 a year
take, on salt aud $4,000 600 year ON
sugar
Greek sculptors often used eyes of
gla~, or crystal i'm the faces of their
statues.
4 sufferer from asthma at Glendale.
Pa. has not slept in "A bed for twenty
years.
The first caricaturist is said to have
been Antiphirus an Egyptian. about B.
&. 332.
California lemon growers now ship
the juice of the fruit east instead OF the
fruit Itself.
Branding live stock as well as dressed
meats by electricity has come largely
into Use.
In proportion to the weight of the
body woman's hair is much longer than
that of mans.
The queen regent of Spain is very
short-sighted and makes free use OF her
double glasses.
In London, according TO HALEY there
was 40 total eclipse OF the sun between
/ 40 and l7l5.
Not until the close of the last century
was torture of criminals generally abol-
ished in Europe
The statement is made that during
the last 100 years France has lost 5000
600 soldiers in war.
The quiet and timid hare when she
cries in fear, can be heard farther oil
! than either dog or cat.
The tongue RECEIVERS from an injury
much more quickly than any other part
| OF the human system.
A shortage OF billions of feet of pine
lumber is predicted from the great
northwestern territory.
The first strike on record was among
flute players in the Temple of Jupiter
! i'm Rome. 800 b. {.
The French war department has re-
ported in favor of new buckler made
Of aluminium and copper.
The foot travel across London bridge
each year reduces to powder twenty
five cubic yards OF granite.
Every pint of port, sherry or Madeira
! has four ounces of alcohol every pint
of champagne has three ounces.
Sirius. the fixed star, now in the as
cendant, is computed to be 100000, OOO,
900 miles distant from the sun.
The first oil well in America was dis
covered on small mountain farm in
Wayne county, Kentucky, in the year
1879.
\ well in Salisbury y. c., which un-
til recently supplied cold water, is now
reputed to be giving forth hot kind
exclusively.
Bostons loating hospital has already
given several hundred sick babies and
their worn-out mothers breath of sea
air this season.
An old, illiterate man who can quote
scripture 10y the hour Is creating a sem
sation in Kentucky by claiming to be
John the Baptist.
During the most peaceful years the
world mas 3 zoo. 900 men who are with
drawn from productive occupations TO
pose rs soldiers.
The West Indian migratory crab is
the only creature that is born in the
sea, natures in fresh water, and passes
It's adult lie on land.
Indian corn, or maize, never has an
uneven number of rows OF grain, be-
cause it has opposite radicals OF growth
from the cob center.
In Persia the women OF fashion paint
black circles around each eye and orna-
ment the cheeks with figures Of various
small animals, bugs etc.
In l702 "a salt tax wa, levied in Great
Britain, and during the French wars
was raised to ESQ per ton. over sixteen
times the value OF the article.
Mexico, new pictorial stamps will
represent the growth of mail transport
iation in that country from man and
mule to stage and railway.
The experiment of using compressed
air for street car propulsion has been
tried in Massachusetts. The results
were considered satisfactory.
Stoncma,on, will probably get a bet
ter idea of the immense size of the
great pyramid when they learn that il
consists, OF -. OPS 900 cubic feet.
! According to NJ Fammarion. the
great astronomer, the mean tempera-
ture of Paris for the past six years has
been degrees below the normal.
Only few year, ago the shah of Per-
sia had peculating governor guilty
of stealing the royal taxes, boiled TO
death in "A closed caldron of water.
Aluminium drums are proving salts
factory i'm the hands of the Prussan
militia They are not only lighter, but
give out fuller and richer sound.
Prof. G.. a. F Van Rhyn is authority
for the statement that there are 900 Ian
guageS and loo different dialects
spoken by the people of the world.
: Bald-headcd men i'm the house of
! commons are many OF GOO members
voting in recent division 100 were
wholly or partially bald at the crown
of the head.
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