Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-04-19
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The strength of two horses equals
that Of fifteen men.
A white quail was shot by sports
nan near Palatka, Fla, few days
ago.
The humming bird of Mexico lays an
egg that is not much larger than pins
head.
Deep sea sounding of $500 fathoms
were taken on the coast of Alaska in
1898.
The latest estimate of the population
of Maine is 722 600, gain of II, 900 in
four years.
Pope Telesphorus, of the second CEN
fury A. d., instituted Christmas, the
great Christian festival
The marriage ceremony of a Javanese
bride is not complete until she washes
the feet of the bridegroom.
The sound of a bell, which can be
heard -, POO feet in the water, can be
heard only 100 feet in the air
A Saco physician has certified that an
old lady died from old age, and that
said disease is not contagious"
Deposits of sand and dust six inches
deep were left in some dwellings dur
ing a recent sandstone in Wyoming.
In nine consecutive transatlantic voy-
ages the Il, 000-ton Lucania averaged =
tritle over twenty-five miles an hour.
The wife of c. Beaupre, of St. Ray
mond, Providence. Quebec, gave birth
10 twins after she was Is years of age.
The wettest place in the world is
Cherrapungi, in Assam, where the aver
age rainfall for fifteen years has been
493 inches. In 1861 it was 905.
WV. Thomas ex-ministerto Sweden
and Norway, says that, relative 20 its
size and population, the railroad sys-
tenn OF sweden Is the most complete in
the world.
A Newark On. j. bridegroom start
ed on his wedding tour the other day
with black eye. His sister-in-law
causing it by vigorously throwing a
weighty slipper after him to give luck
TO the young couple.
A storm overturned a large oak tree
on the farm of NJ ID. Cartwright OF
Ripley. Miss. While squirrel huntin z
b. ). Saunders, of Indian Bay, Ark. +,
discovered beneath the roots pot
of gold and silver coin amounting to
$l0 900.
In the shop of ST. Petersburg watch
maker human-faced clock is on view
the only one of its kind. The hands
are pivoted on its nose and any mes
sages that may be spoken into its ear
are repeated by photograph through
its mouth.
Herr Maschs has lately unearthed in
Moravia a number of skeletons of NAM
moths associated with those of human
beings. A remarkable feature of one
find was that of what appeared TO be a
whole family of human beings of 81
gantic size cOexistent with the MANI
moth.
The death of the oldest cat in Con-
nectcut at the age of - years and 7
months is recorded at Hartford. The
cat was named Dick and was hand
some fellow Maltese and white, bright
and intelligent above the average of his
race. and had plenty of admirers out
side of his home associates.
w. c. Sterling Il Son, large cedar
pole dealers of Monroe Mich. have re-
ceived an order for telegraph poles to he
shipped to Buenos Ayres. South Amer
lea. This is trial order, and if the
poles 90 through safely and are salts
factory, this company is promised some
large orders.
Ffty-iive towns and cities in Eng
land destroy their garbage and solid
refuse by burning, u ~ an average of
ten furnaces each for that purpose. The
combustion of the material is used for
the generation of steam, by which the
streets are electrically Illuminated thus
reducing their municipal expenses by
this means.
render the fame he has long enjoyed
tot bestowing an alphabet on Greece.
Engraved stones unealthed in the ISL
and of Crete prove this existence of a
method Of writing long before the in
PRODUCTION of the Phnnician alphabet.
Archeologists are evidently bent on
showing that the ancient celebrities are
really quite modern.
Trinity parish in New York City is
served by small army OF organists,
singers, acolytes and other semi-ecclesi-
astical adjuncts to worship. There are
twelve organists and assistants and
more than 800 persons are employed in
the choir or as acolytes servers and
crucifers. Besides these the parish EN-.
ploys nearly forty teachers in its daily
schools, a score of sections and nearly d
dozen doctors.
New Hampshire yields most of the
mica produced in this country. and No
great quantity at that. Mica always
maintains a good price, and second
hand furniture dealers in New York
sometimes make it speciality. Even
bric-a-brac dealers occasionally keep it,
and an eccentric member of that guild
in Houston street has a pane in win
dow of her shop glazed with leader
mica by way of advertisement
Kentucky has been rounding up hel
fat children and has discovered some
notable youngsters. Carroll county ha,
a 9-year-old boy who weighs l3l pounds
Little Horace Lane, of Wyckliffe. is the
last prodigy heard of. He is wears Old