Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-03-08

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the winter 10 the manufacture of clothes
Tor the poor.
The average depth of the ocean is
about three miles If the water were TO
evaporate layer OF salt 200 feet thick
would be left.
Glass furnaces in Hungary are built
i'm the forests which are used for fuel
When the nearby timber is gone a new
furnace j. butt.
W. :. Gilbert Sir Arthur Sulivan's
famou, collaboration, has 50 little ear for
music that he can not distinguish har-
mOny from disc0rd.
At Gettysburg 40, 900 men were OPP
posed and OF thi, number the total
federal loss was -, l9S: the total con-
federate loss was 81 600.
The Duchess de Ia Rochefoucauld
daughter OF senator Mitchell, OF Oregon.
i one OF The cleverest women in the
American colony OF Paris.
The great American tax dodger j.
Mr., Hetty Green, who though pos
,es,ed of many millions, escapes with an
assessment upon $40 900
Shoes are often made by families in
the Argentine Republic and sold to
dealers much rs people in this country
once made wearing apparel.
The Grand Opera House of Paris keep
It's own locksmilh, and he finds plenty
To do 10 keep in order the 9.4I2 locks
aud keys used in that vast building.
Mrs. Tom Leathers j. the Captain Of
the steamer Natchez that run, between
Nicksburg and New Orleans. The
other officers of the vessel are also wom-
sn.
Mrs. Morley. an eccentric Montreal
widow. has 100 cats in her house at
Tongue Ponte. She recently had
eighteen boys arrested ior stoning her
cats.
The late Robert Louis Stevenson re-
tanned his fondness for excessive iudul-
gence in cigarettes To- the last and
smoked his last tobacco bundle a very
short time before his death.
The Roman soldiers must have been
powerful men. Many of the swords
hat have been recovered from tombs
weigh six to ten pounds, while the bat
,le-aXes often weigh twenty.
\ London charitable organization
called the Ministry of Old Boots" an
aually collects and distributes 10000
garments and 2 900 pairs of boots to
he needy poor of the great city.
Sarah Bernhardt has earned aud
spent more money than any other living
actress. In the last twenty years she
1as earned -. 800, 900 and circulated II
with the extravaganza of a princess.
Cecil Rhodes started his South African
career as Il cotton planter in the colony
! If Natal, but when the first rush to the
kopjes of Kimberly took place, Mr..
! Rhodes deserted the cotton field for the
! diamond mines and has remained there
| ever since.
There are pa daily papers in the
| United States and Canada, TO each one
of which is accorded over ), 900 circula-
ton and less than -, 900 circulation by
the American Newspaper Directory.
The aggregate circulation Of the entire
mum Der is ), 616, 100.
Russian engineers are studying the
route for the waterway to connect the
" bite Sea with the Baltic. The total
distance is about $50 miles in part al
ready navigable, a uniform depth of 30
feet can be obtained FOR the whole canal
it is estimated, at cost of only 50, 00O,-
900.
Marion. the American revolutionary
general. once Toasted an English officer
on sweet potatoes baked in the fire by a
darby and served on a strip of bark,
with log for a table. 1t is said that
the officer resigned and went home say
ing it was no use 10 try To conquer peo-
pie who could live on sweet potatoes.
There are great many strange
names for the bicycle. French, German
and Italian are queer enough As velo
farrad and velocfero may be quoted
The Chinese call it foreign horse "
dying machine" and "cairiage-that-
observation-disclosures The Flemish dis
tnguish it with the easy name Gee
wiel,nelrijvoettrappeudneusbrekerg e >
tel. ="
1t is said that the Emperor William is
a great admirer of what is called in
Germany the "Reichester officer style
of curling the mustache, with points
toward the corners OF the eyes Having
been told that "A Berlin hair-dresser had
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ment, he sent for him and ordered him
to dress the imperial mustache daily in
the desired style. The event is the talk
of Berlin, and the artist, Haby, who gets
) marks for each visit, is delighted with
the effect OF his treatment.
Very few of the famous singers of the
world have died rich. although many
made enormous fortunes Aboni was
a notable exception. 50 was Mile.
Catalini Malibran died too young to
acquire much wealth Henrietta Sontag
was ruined by the courts of 1915 and
forced to return 10 the stage. Sophie
Cruvelli was wealthy. Layinia Fenton,
the original Polly in The Beggars'
Opera, died Duchess of Bolton, and
Kitty Stephens became Countess OF
| Essex.
\ pleasant instance of the contempt
i'm which authors are held by business
men is told by the writer of "A book. An
edition de luxe was on the market at -
a copy, and the bookseller was COM
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