Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1881-07-28

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day, August 2nd, 1881, for the purpose
of electing three School Examiners
for the county, one of whom shall hold
Office for one year, one for two years,
and one for three years.
-Hodscha-A Ahmet, who was sent to
prison for life for having trans
lated the Bible into Turkish, and for
having circulated II in the States of the
Sultan, escaped from the prison at
Chic after the recent earthquake. The
prison was thrown down by the vio-
lence of the shock. but Hodscha- -Ahmet
was not hurt. He managed to get on
board an English vessel anchored in
the harbor, and he is now in London.
One day last week, Mr.. Peter
Dempsy came here from Gaylord, and
being taken sick with remittent fever,
and out of funds, became county
charge. lie is now at the Harder
House, and is being attended by the
county physician, DIR. N. ii. Traver,
and is thought to be improving. His
parents, who live in Germantown, Pa,
have been written to. and will proba-
bly, have him removed thence in few
days.
A TESTAMENT REvIsRRs OPIoN-
IoN.-The eminent author. Prof. A.
G. Kendrick, ID. d., LII. d., who is
professor of Hebrew, Latin and Greek
in the University of Rochester, and
was one of the revisers of the New
Testament, in general conversation
with number of gentlemen, short
time since, said: II have received from
the use of Warmers Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure very marked benefit and
can most cordially recommend it to
Others"
The great salt-mines of Cracow, in
Poland, employ 500 TO 600 men at a
time, and are, in fact, underground
cities, with streets, roads, and a large
population of human beings and hors-
es. In these mines the natural salt
forms the sides, roofs, and floors of a
series of vast caverns; and when the
men are all at work, and the light
CLEANS from torches and lanterns on
the toiling figures and glittering white
crystals, the scene is very striking.
The Cheboygan test salt well is now
down depth of over two hundred feet.
Tuesday night lime rock was struck and
at noon on Monday seven feet had
been drilled into solid rock. Some
parties are confident that salt will be
discovered Immediately beneath the
rock but the men in charge of the
drilling say that nothing definite could
be said about it. The first 200 feet
were drilled through sand, gravel and
clay and was slow work.
Mr. Maurice Birdsall, who recently
located a homestead up at Peavy Hill
in Maple Forest, has gone to Fenton-
vile, Genesee county, and is soon ex-
pected back with an assorted stock of
dry-goods and groceries, which will be
disposed of at lowest living prices TO
the settlers in that vicinity. Mr.. Bird
sail having formerly been in that
branch of trade, is qualified to run a
good country store, and will undoubt-
ly be accorded u liberal patronage.
The entertainment given by the
Arions Swiss Bell Ringers at the Hall
last Friday evening, was highly appre-
ciated by those who attended and pro-
nounced first-class in every respect.
The ludicrous personation OF character
by Jimmie Field, elected loud ap-
plause, and when in imitation of the
school boy, he became hopelessly
mixed and stood the man upon the
burning boy, the audience was con-
vulsed with laughter, and Jimmie re-
tired in confusion from the stage.
Shakespeare uses more different
words than any other writer in the
English language Writers on the sta
tistics of words inform us that he uses
about Is, 600 different words in his
plays and sonnets, while there is nc
other writer who uses so many as 10,
900. Some few writer's use as many as
8, 900 words, but the great majority OF
writer's do not employ more than 8, 600.
In conversation, only from 3, 900 tC
5000 different words are used
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