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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03
The Labrador Duck.

1t will surprise many readers to be
told that large and strikingly
marked duck, which within fifty
years was moderately common upon
the Northern Atlantic coast, is be-
lieved now to have become extinct.
A lad shot one in New York on the
Chemung River Dec. II, 1878, and
none have been seen since.
The last one known to have been
seen before that time was killed at
Grand Manan in April, 1871. The
one killed in 1878 was eaten before
any naturalist heard Of its capture
costly meal, as, according to DR..
Cones, 5000 had been vainly offered
for pair of skins. The head and a
portion or the neck were preserved.
The history Of the duck in question,
the Labrador duck or the pied duck,
is made the subject Of an article by
Mr.. William butcher in a recent
number of the AUX. Only thirty
eight specimens are known to be ex-
tant in all the museums Of the world
-twenty-seven in America and eleven
in Europe. Yet it is only short
time since specimens might have been
secured with comparative ease.
One Of our older ornithOlogists, Mr..
George n. Lawrence, Of New York,
writing in January, 1891, says:
about forty or more years ago 1t
was not uncommon to see them in
Fulton Market. At one time l re-
member seeing six fine males, which
hung there till they spoiled for want
of purchaser. They were not con-
sidered desirable for the table, aud
collectors had sufficient number, a
pufr'-tOtur,-~'uv Vssssvr-visssv~ O0nofuCrttf
enough to represent species"
Another ornithologist, Mr.. G. A.
Boardman, of Calais, Maine, says
that fifty years ago, when he began
TO collect birds, he had no difficulty in
getting a pair OF Labrador ducks,
which was all he wanted, but that
thirty years afterward, when he tried
to procure specimens for some New
York friends, his collectors all along
the coast reported that the birds were
gone.
Unlike the great aux, the Labra-
dor duck was a good fller, and was es-
pecally prosecuted by gunners. One
fact OF popular interest connected witt
the bird is that Daniel Webster sho,
a pair on the Vineyard Islands, and
presented them to Audubon, who in
turn presented them to Professor
Baird.
1t is not improbable, as suggested
by Mr.. butcher, that other mounted
| ~ Il IL.
out-of-the-way places 1t would not
be very wonderful IL some reader o.
this article should have the good for
tune to turn an honest penny for him
self, and at the same time serve the
cause of science by finding in some
seashore cottage or elsewhere a skin
OF this now famous bird.-Youth's
Companion.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

BUILDINGS eight and ten stories
high are not too high when the
streets are broad, but beyond that
there is hardly any surrounding
space in city wide enough to make
them proper. indianapolis, with her
broad streets, could stand buildings
Of great height well so far as seemli-
ness is concerned. In Paris the
height of buildings is regulated by
law according to tho width of the
AUDITING street,; nowhere in that
city are they fourth as high as Chi
cago's sky-scrapers, and this suggests
that there is more greed than need in
such structures. London, with four
or five million people, and Paris, with
two or three million, transact their
business without ten-story buildings,
and sewerage and sanitary regula-
tiOns are much better obeyed in those
cities than here. The Chicago effort
is timely. 1t should call halt.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

COMPARISONS are odorous"-
somebody will think the following
announcement out of all taste, and
smelling very strong Of anarchy, and
all that sort of thing. Without pre-
tending to settle thequestion OF ethics
or good taste, or the degree of crime
in either case, we give it just as we
find IL in another newspaper: 1.-TWO
Nebraska banks are in trouble. The
First National Bank at Enterprise
was robbed of several thousand dollars
by three cowboys, and on the same
day the National Bank at Tecumseh
was closed by order OF the Comptrol-
Ter of the Currency, having been
robbed Of about $4,000 by the bank
officials" Now where is the differ
ence? Is it not really in favor of the
cowboys1 Thoy had tho courage tn
make the bank officers hold up their
hands and violated no expressed faith
to the public. The officers got the
public confidence and cowardly stole
behind peoples backs. Yet the law,
or the public as the case may be, will
send the cowboys to the penitentiary,
and if possible settle with the other
thieves for so cents on the dollar.
And this is-what do you call it, any
how?
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03
what a BOY Can Do.

These are some OF the thlngs that q boy
can do:
He can whistle so loud the air turns blue;
He can make all sounds OF beast and bird,
And a thousand noises never heard
He can crow or crackie. or he can cluck
As well as a rooster, hex. or duck.
NE can bark like dog, he can loo like n
COW,
And cat itself can't beat his ame-ow."
He has sounds that are ruffied, striped, and
plain;
He can thunder by as n railway train;
Stop at the stations a breath and then
Apply the steam and of again.
He has all of his powers in such command
He can turn right into full brass band.
With all of the instruments ever played,
He makes of himself u street parade.
You can tell that a boy is very I'll
IL he's wide awake and keeping still.
But earth would be-God bless the noisei-
A dull old place II there were no boys
Chicago Post
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

Piggy Wee. So they went to the
bank and reached out one of the
stills, and poor, wet Piggy Wog took
hold of it and was drawn to the shore.
Both of his stills had foated down
the stream, and he hardly knew how
he was to get across the brook and
home again. The other pigs could
not carry him. He couldn't swim,
and there was no bridge. How was
he to get home?
Very soon Piggy Wee spoke up. IL
have it, said he. IL see board over
there by that fence. Well get that,
and you get on it and we'll push you
across on the board ferry.
"a good idea,' said Piggy Wig.
"Hurrah," said Piggy Wog.
"Just the thing, said Piggy Wee.
The board was brought and placed
on the water, and on 1t walked Piggy
Wog. Then began the journey across.
1t took some time to reach the oppo-
site shore, and several times did Piggy
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

Yang-tse-Kiang River, the mission
houses have been burned, the resi-
dences of the missionaries plundered
and then fired and even the consulate
buildings have been attacked. The
convent of the Roman Catholic Sis
tiers of st. Francis was burned and
the sisters were carried out and
thrown into the river, from which
they were rescued by converted ma
tives. The native civil and military
authorities were helplessly inactive.
They feared to seize the leaders of
the Outrages and crush the riots, lest
civil war result The European pow
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

induced TO leave theirhomes In Amer
lea by the lectures OF Bishop Turner,
who recently Travelled through the
South talking aboGt- Liberia, and tho
opportunities which IL presents for
colored men. The Liberia Coloniza-
ton Society gives twenty-five acres TO
every colored man who settles in the
republic, and the land is said to be
very fertile, producing three crops Of
coffee each year.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

BALMAcEDA and Boulanger each
left an aged mother. 1t appears that
each man wrote a letter the day be-
fore he committed suicide, addressed
to his mother, which said simply: Il
60 on long journey" This duplica-
tion of last maternal messages was
not the only resemblance in their
feverish career or their self-inficted
death. 1t already appears, too, that
the cause that each man professed to
hold dear has survived in each coun-
try. The Boulangists seem to have
revived since the death of the man
that gave their party its name, and
the new Gillian elections" have re-
suited in the choice OF Liberal
Balmaceda's partly Senate.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

-
Ma tells one story Of three pigs
Piggy Wig, Piggy Wog and Piggy
Wee. These three fellows thought
they would try to walk on stills one
day, and as they came to brook
thought it would be great fun to cross
1t on their new wooden legs.
abe careful" said Piggy Wig to
Piggy Wog, cor you'll step on Il fish
and slip over into the water"
"Oh. no." said Piggy Wng. "I'm all
right. Just see me wade off into the
deep water now" And away he
stamped off into very deep place,
when the first thing they knew down
went Piggy Wog in the water away
up to his neck.
Hi, H." shouted Piggy Wog, as
he splashed around in the water,
"help me out! Help me Quit"
"All right" said Piggy Wig and
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03
the jaws Of death, back from the
mouth OF hell, this long-suffering 800.

IT will take more than an open let
ter from Lord Tennyson 10 convince
the world that the Gar of Russia is
an excellent and amiable person, not
at all responsible for the cruelties
and crimes which make his domain a
scandal to the world. Very likely
the Gar was amiable to the poet, but
let Lord Tennyson go to Russia and
let fall few revolutionary words and
the chances are that his views will
undergo a change.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

don't like to be washed very well,
so every time take my bath ma tells
me about a little pig that she knew
once that always cried when he was
washed One day his mamma put
him into dry tub and no began to
cry, and cried so many tears that IL
filled the tub, and his mamma washed
him In his own tears.
Pa always says that's a pretty big
story, but / think 1t is very funny.
Pa is q very funny fellow. We have
lots of fun on suashiny days, am
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03
THE CHINESE RIOTS.

Scenes of Horrible Outrages Perpetrated
Against Foreigners.
Considerable interest has been CEN
tered in the treaty ports in the in
terror of China, because Of the horri-
BILE outrages there committed against
foreigners. Christian missionaries
especially have been subjected to the
most cruel indignities and merchants
from European countries residing in
the treaty ports have not escaped the
-,s-sat 1hinesoserfa na tics..sr-lAt
Ichang and Wuchang, towns on the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03
AD.ruerreotypc,. Eodurnnce.

A remarkable example OF the en-
during qualities Of the daguereotype
Is to be found In the old graveyard at
Waterford, Conn. In the headstone
that marks the grave Of woman who
died more than torty years ago her
portrait is inlaid, covered with a
movable shield. The picture Is al
most as perfect rs when 1t was takea.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03
MISS conNERs. PLUCK.
How she Kept the stars and stripes Over
Her school.

One OF the prettiest stories Of the
year comes from little town In Indi-
ana, where lives plucky young
schoolma'am who has recently shown
a spirit not unlike the good old Bar
bara Frietchie. Her noble defense of
the American stars and stripes has
brought her through the press to the
notice OF the public from the Atlantic
to the Pacific.
Miss Emma Corners, the heroine of
the story, teaches district school
near Charlottesville, Ind. She is
greatly Inundated to think that the
little cotton flag upon which she set
such store was torn down and de-
stroyed by crowd of men who had
seemingly forgotten that the great
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

ers and the United States govern
ment have made demands upon the
Chinese government TO protect their
subjects and threaten war II the de-
mand is not acceded to. A reply as
to what the government intends do
ing is anxiously awaited and IL 1t be
not speedily forthcoming vigorous
steps will be taken by the foreign
governments.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

REV. ROBERT o'NErLL. balance of their
lives on the soil from which their an
cestors were dragged in chains. There
were sixty-eight of these emigrants,
from a dozen different sections in the
South, and their departure may mark
the beginning of an exodus of colored
Americans to the African republic.
In the party were people OF all
anes frnm praV-haaded men down To
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

THE Grant monument was erected
in Chicago without single salary
paid to any of the hard workers upon
the committee. In New York from
the outset they have had costly
Office and paid their secretary 50, 400
per year for keeping it warm.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

A CONTEMPORARY figures out the
cost OF raising boy till he is 81 years
of age at $4,150. The trouble with
that expense is that influences entirely
outside of the expenditure determine
whether, when the boy is raised, he
is worth the money or would be
highly valued at the odd $50.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

ONE of the exhibits to be seen in
the Moorish palace. at the Worlds
Fair will be million OF dollars In
gold coin. AS our visitors, with
scarcely an exception, will desire to
feast their eyes on this tempting
sight, the Moors would seem to have
hit upon a very popular attraction.
IL is u pleasing thing to see million
Of money, though one cannot have it
llimRalf
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

Among those lately received is a
handsome pap spoon from the famous
dining organization, the Clover Club,
of which the ex-President is an hon.
orary member, and in the way of jew
elry this idolized morsel Of humanity
has enough to warrant a private box in
the family safe.
The happy young mother doesn't say
much, but it is learned on authority
that she is afraid her baby girl will
be squeezed and Rugged to death.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

The preachers
were more for
NAL In their man
ner OF dress,
wearing clerical
tail-cOats but
toned up to the
chin, and there
were several
weather-beaten
silk hats. The
oldest and most
dignitied Of the
party was Rev.
Robert McNeill,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

A CHICAGO lake captain proposes
20 dam Niagara Falls in order to Sc
cure deeper water in the lakes. Such
q thing Iwouid be certain TO meet
with strenuous opposition on the
part Of New York and Canada, but
NO one would object were he to damn
the malodorous Chicago River.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

AN old woman in the poor-house at
Butte, Mont, has received notice
that she is heir to an immense estate
I'm England. AS is usual in such cases,
a horde of relatives springs up, anx-
ious to take charge of the dear old
lady for the rest of her life. People
neyer have so many devoted friends
as when they inherit vast fortunes.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

BosToN builders and insurance
men, according to the New York Com
mercial Bulletin, are disturbed over
what seems to be the discovery that
asbestos paper between floors is not
only no protection against fire, but
an increase OF the danger. The law
provides that in Boston buildings the
whole araa -of-the- floor from wall to
wall shall be deafcned with one inch
of plaster or two thicknesSes of as
bestos paper, or other incombustible
material. 1t has been customary in
complying with this law TO use as
bestOs paper; but the American
Architect reports some recent ex-
periments in Germany which throw
grave doubt on the value of the pre-
caution. The fire inspector OF Ham
burg, it seems, has been experiment.
ing with various kinds of floors and
has found that floor of two thick
nesses of one and one-flfth inch boards
Joined at right angles was burned
JllTOuBu III Ohe Houi anu u"cHty iHih-
utes. The same construction with
asbestos between the hoorings was
subjected to fire in the same way as
the boards and burned in fifty-nine
minutes, or twenty-thrce minutes
quicker than without the asbestos.
With ordinary roofing felt the floor
burned in one hour and twelve min-
utes. The conclusion the inspector
reached from these experiments was
that AN materials introduced between
the floors are, to say the least, useless
for protection and may be injurious
on account of the foul smoke gen.
ersted.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

ca, sailed from
n e W York re-
Gently on t h e
little bark Lii
IBERIA. They were
bound for Mon
rovia, the capt.
tai of the negro
republic Of Lii
IBERIA, on t h c
west coast o (
Africa, a n d If
their ship is not
wrecked t hey
will live out the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03


lit e pickan-
ninnies. About
twenty Of them
were men, and
Of these fully a
d Oxen W re
preachers. A S
the ship lay in
a slip in the
East River, pre-
PAIRING for the
voy ag G. the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

LITTLE Miss CLEVELAND begins life
with fine collection of spoons, and
rs she approaches the age of Is or 20
they will accumulate about her more
and more.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

for the present she is re-
stricted to a little Moses
basket, similar to the one
found in the bulrushes
ages ago, but with slight
ly more embellishments.
The baby's outfit did not
come from Paris, as has
been stated by several
imaginative fashion writ
ers, nor was it bought in
Boston. To quote a very
high authority, at wasn't
bought anywhere" Mrs.
Cleveland preferred to
make the little baby gar
ments with her own hands.
All the elaborate things
were sent by friends.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

THE bugler of Tennyson's Light
Brigade still survives and lives In
Denver, IL is said. The chances are
that this good old man would long
since have been gathered to his faith
err had some fell accident ever
brought him before a country school
ON commencement day"-at which
time and place It Is an iron-clad Gus
tom to Kill of and br.:.y back from
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

RUTH CLEVELAND is a pretty name
and an apt one. 1t has one danger.
1t will tempt autumnal poets into
ditties that will make its happy
mother and proud father wish 1t had
been named Abelbethmaacah; Thel-
gathphanasa or Og, which are equally
authentic Scripture names and less
inviting for jingle
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

THERE is renewed agitation in
Springfield, Mass, of the dress ques-
ton, the point of attack being the
long dresses which sweep the streets
and carry into the houses not only
dirt but the germs of disease. 1t
win be necessary, however, to bring
some stronger argument against the
long skirt before woman Will consent
60 abandon it. What is mere health
compared with fashion?
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03
AN ONO man hid a potrre or WHISKY

AN ONO man hid a DotUp or WHISKY
I'm stone fence. Others saw him
and when he had gone appropriated
the bottle and drank its contents.
The whisky was drugged with strych-
nine and one man died of its effects.
Moral: Stone fence whisky is usually
fatal
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03
TYPE FROM GEORGIA

gathered around the deck in pictur-
esque groups, says. the New York
Sun. Some of the men were ragged
and barefooted, having already as
sumed the costume they expected to
wear during the long voyage. Others
wore the heavy shoes, the flannel
shirts and big hats of the plantations.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

THE whole Common Council Of
Newport, KY, has been incarcerated
in Jail. However, it is not so I'M
usual for Aldermen to be behind the
bars with their constituents in front.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

IGNATIUs DoNNELLY gets 81 out OF
his libel suit against the Pioneer
Press, and the general opinion seems
to he that the jury put the ciphers in
the wrong place.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

Mrs. KENDAL says the critics of
the American press are irreproacha-
bic. AS the compliment must be re-
turned some way the same may be
said of the fit of Mr.. Kendals trous-
ers.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

A PERSON in a Wilmington theater
the other mig IT arose in his seat and
demanded that the performance
cease unless it could be conducted
according to his own ideas. The re-
mainder of the audience were in
some doubt as to whether he was a
dramatic critic or popular clergy
man, but he proved to be an ordinary
rrank
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

JOHN TAYLOR, 10-year old, at st.
John, N. b., safely swallowed toy
whistle. He might be exhibited as
the human whistling buoy.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

A YOUNG and blushfng couple took
each other for better or worse the
other day on the very summit of
Pixies Peak. How's that for high?
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

THE Pullman Company will exhibit
at the Worlds Fair the first sleeping
car ever built in the United States.
There has been a revolution since.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

OF Georgia. He wore an enormous
beaver of ancient style, and his dia-
lect was that of the orange groves.
Many Of the emigrants had been
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

1T is quite appropriate that the In
dependence race-track should be kite
shaped. That is certainly good
shape for flyers.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

HELLOFITE is the name Of new
explosive. 1t must have sulphur and
birthstone in it.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03
NEWSOFOUROWN
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO MicHI-
0ANDERS.

Stronghold OF Thieves This Bank Was
surely Burst-QuarreI Over Railroads.
Patients--Lost ON the Lake-Accident to
Hunters.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03
FOR OUR LITTLE FOLKS.
A COLUMN OF PARTICULAR I'M
TEREST TO THEM.

what Children Have Done. What They
Are Doing. aud What They Should DO
70 Pass Thor Childhood Days.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

ONE of these days L jury will pre-
scribe large dose Of long-delayed
Justice for some vltriol-thrower.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

DESPITE the anti-agitation regular
iy inaugurated by various dress-reform
movements, the corset continues to
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

SINCE PATHS famous parrot has
learned to speak Welsh she uses its
tongue for corkscrew.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03
SAILED FOR LIBERIA.

Sixty-eight Colored Americans Emigrate
to Africa.
A shipload of colored people from
UIIc OOuUu, WHO wcrc urea Or auICri-.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

Wog come near upsetting. Finally
the board ferry arrived on the other
side, and Piggy Wog was very happy
TO think that he wasn't drowned.
When the three little pigs arrived
home their mother asked them where
they had been, and how Piggy Wog
got his tail SO wet. Tie little fellow
had to tell, and their mother said
that they must go to bed early and
without any supper, because little
pigs ought to know better than to
wade in the brook without asking
their mother.
Don't you think that Is q good
storyp
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

A LIAR is a man who knows all the
.acts about something that never
occurred.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

aged. bundled, pinned, and blanketed
in the usual way.
Baby Clevelands measure was Ia
ken Tor canopy cradle last week, but
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-03

IT is astonishing how debts will ex-
pand after being contracted.