Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-04-02

for Canadian use carf be manufactured
there.
The new court dress to be worn in
Berlin consists of a light-blue coat
with red trimmings and elaborate sill
yer embroidery. This garment will
be worn hereafter by all members of
the high aristocracy holding hereditary
court Offices.
COLONEL John c. Taylor, of Dayton.
Ky, has fallen heir to estates in Ireland
that make him the Earl of Tyrone, and
better still, give him property valued
at $7,000,00 1t is needless to say
that Kentucky will soon lose one of its
prominent colonels.
"TAKE any twenty-five tall, lean
men," said an old court officer to a re-
porter, "and you can secure jury in
murder case. They have no conscien-
tious scruples against the death penal
ty. As rule, short, thick men havo
doubts on this point"
DRs. BERLIN and Picl, of the Nan
tes faculty, who recently injected if
teen grains of goats blood into the
muscular tissue of the thighs of two
patients suffering from tuberculosis,
assert that cures can be effected by re-
newing such injections every ten days.
ABELT now being made for Louisi-
ana electric light company will be the
largest in the world. 1t is to be feet
wide, 10 feet long, and will take the
skins of 175 animals to complete it.
When finished it will weigh two tons,
and cost $4,000 or about $40 a square
foot
The report of the Russian Imperial
Commission, intrusted with the duty
of investigating the Hebrew question,
is decidedly in favor OF the Russian
Hebrews, and proves that they made
their living not through usury but by
agriculture and other industrial pur-
suits.
\ NEW use is reported to have been
discovered for English hops-namely,
for the curing of bacon. 1t is found
that sprinkling of hops in the brine
when bacon and hams are put in pickle
adds greatly to the flavor of both, and
enables them to be kept for an indef
mite period.
a SYRACUSE man, who wanted some
genuine, homemade and unadulter-
ated Bavarian beer" sent over to
Bavaria and got two barrels. He was
Dragging Of the purity, when chemist
analysed the beer and found the adul-
teration per cent. greater than in the
average American brewed.
THE rabbit cannot climb the outside
of tree, but he can climb up the in
side of hollow tree, provided the
hollow is not too great in diameter.
The thing is done by humping" his
back, and with his back against one
side and his feet on the other side he
works his way up.
THE President of Delaware saw
ings bank refused to give tramp 10
cents, and the tramp went about hint
ing that the bank was unsafe, and in
twenty-four hours there was q run
which took out many thousand dollars,
but fortunately not enough to occasion
any inconvenience to the bank.
THERE are twenty weight towns in
Kansas, Nebraska. Idaho, Washington,
and California which have lost Is to 30
per cent. of population in five years,
and where business property has
shrunk 40 to go per cent. in the same
time. Land syndicates always let go
when the pigeons have been plucked.
A CHICAGO real estate man says that
only one man out of ten who talks of
buying does buy, and out of fifty
women who will look at a house or lot
not over two will consummate the pur-
chase. He never counts sale as
made until the papers are signed and
the money paid. and even then people
frequently want to back out.
OVER three hundred years ago, in
the reign OF Henry Will, an Italian
ship sank in the River Stour. at the
entrance Of the English port of Sand
witch. The river, which is noted for
frequently changing its course. recent
ly shifted into an old channel, and
exposed the wreck of the vessel, which
since the year 1912 has lain imbedded
in the sand.
PETROLEUM was discovered near the
surface at Lafayette, La, recently.
Drilling was commenced at once in
the hope Of tapping reservoir OF the
fluid. At depth of fifty feet bed
of solid coal of fine quality was struck.
The oil, which tests 80 per cent pure
kerosene and small per cent. of lubri-
eating oil, naphtha andvaseline, has so
far appeared only in limited quanti-
ties.
Lucy THICKER, colored, of Trigg
County, Kentucky, aged 105 years, has
cut full set of new teeth, the old ones
having dscayed and disappeared about
forty years ago. She had also been
nearly blind for many years, but re-