Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-01-22
News Summary.

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convict who for five years had feigned
to be deaf mute confessed Ills I'M
posture.
Ii seems to be easier to save tobacco
than whiskey in Kentucky An Au-
burn man has piece that is twenty
seven years old.
On five and half acres of land a
Bath county. Ky, man raised crop
which he sold for five and half hun
dred dollars.
Bv washing clothes at the under
ia ker's the second wife OF a Bangor |
{ Me) man is paying off the bill for
the burial OF ner predecessors.
A monument to Donatello the sculp-
tor was recently unveiled in the church
of San Lorenzo at Florence III the
presence OF the roya! family.
Paris University is considering the
establishment of degree for foreign
students, especially Americans. as tes-
timony Of their work done there.
An aged inmate of the Sioux Falls,
=. d., poorhouse. who has been pima
for seven years. has had return OF
vision sufficient for him to distinguish
things near at hand.
A sensational feat is being performed
AT the London Royal Aquarim, where
man is tied up IN a sack soaked IN
| Kerosene which il set on fire, and then
he makes a flying leap into tank OF
water.
Thieves crawled under the floor of
a warehouse at a distillery at FoltZ,
| Md, and, boring holes through the
flooring into the whiskey barrels got
large quantities of liquor, with which
they made oil.
Kaiser Wilhelm'S Jubilee Cup, to
be raced for by British yachts next
summer on the OCCASION OF his grand
mothers reign of sixty years, Is three
feet high. The course OF the race viii
be from Dover to Heligoland.
The most beautiful appareled man
i'm Germany is the Prince of Thurn ano
TaXis. 1t is believed that he wears a
least one new suit of clothes daily
! Those who know and admire him say
they have counted more than 365 suit
worn in one year.
A pic Jumped in front of a Il. n q
train near Jacksonville, Ind. HI
engineer saw it ana sighed tor ON
farmers loss. But when the train 60
to Watson, five miles away the porkc
was found on the pilot of the engine
a little bruised but not otherwise in
ljured.
Driving with her children late ON
= evening 10 her home on the Pctersbur
turnpike. near Manchester, Va, VIC
man was held up by a negro. Seizin
"A biz tin horn She had bought for
present she so bella bored the highway
y man that he retreated, and the tan
Il lily got home safely.
Some farmers in Polk county, Fla
i as an experiment last spring sent Il
y some Cuban tobacco seed and plantt
u it. When the plant had grown the
u got Cuban experts To cure the leave
q md the results have been SO good tn
: the farmers feel themselves assured I
/ 4 successful new industry
a Sir John Brown. one of the first
- Great Britain to advocate the pIatil
Of warships with armOr,dicd at Brlgh
p on last week lie was Mayor of She
p. field from 1862 to 1868, and mast
~ cutler there from 1860 to 1866. /
t. was formerly proprietor of the All
20 steel and Iron works at Sheffield.
Lille has hundred year-old wom'
le who has not only abstained all h
| life from wine, beer and liquor, b
le has also never tasted coffee. =
ST drinks bouillon and occasionally Il
She is descended from merchant w
is still celebrated in Lille rs "Po
H. Ouarante DeuX," having been t
i father OF forty-two children III Lon
~ NN.'s time.
il Capt. John Watson, of Wcsche
or, Mass. died recently, aged ~ yc'
70 He landed in England, at the end
.le his first trip across the Atlantic, il
mo rs the news of the battle of Waterl
"a. had been received. j. FEMININE
IT, Cooper being one of his compa
+. ions. Capt Watson brought ho
IA the French indemnity money. 1t "
II he also who brought across the oco
~. the first cargo of French mirrors
d. the capitol at Washington.
to An enterpriSing schoolmarm
West brook, Me-, seeing fine rooS
choking TO death on the way to sch
I'm one morning, caught it, cut open
ed crop. which was cleaned out thorou2
OF ly. sewcd up the incision with 81
cir and put the rooster in a barrel VIII
a there was nothing TO eat. Tn
lie times for two days she gave II me-
'ad cine, and it came around all right
\ drill which j. j. kuminer
III sinking in a quest for water on
Jill place at Gadsden, :. &. struck, TN
. feet of a substance which was sol
ice than the sand above it or below it.
uTs was found to he wood and rescmb
uIa cypress or walnut There have b
TIC other similar finds in the nei9hb
-. hood, and no water has been str'
'oN anywhere around there.
ew The story is told in MARYLAND I