Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-18

WITHIN Oho year.
ONE hundred millions Of dollars in
vested in truck farming yields, from
535, 900 acres OF land, nearly ST., 000, 900
worth of production. giving constant
| occupation TO 240, 600 men, women and
children and 76, 900 horses and mules.
Truck farms, as a rule, are on lands far
removed from markets, aud this marvel
Gus advance in capital investment and
people employed is due entirely to the
contemporaneou extension OF railroad
facilities.
IT may encourage the humble maiden
OF limited resources and busy life to
know that during the life of the Danish
Kings daughters the royal sire was
comparatively poor, and consequently
the two most popular and powerful
women of Europe, the Princess Alessan-
dra of Wales and the Czarina Dagmar OF
Russia, used to trim their own bonnets,
fashion their own gowns, and do up
their own laces, besides looking after
several other things not nearly so easy of
accomplishment.
AT church, the theatre, and other as
semblies the Japanese take off their
shoes. sat the large theatre in Trukiji,
Toxic" says Il correspondent, 1.-THE rush
for shoes is sometimes tremendous. I'm
agine ?, coo people after a matinee crowd
ing and elbowing and pushing to get at
their shoes, so as not 10 be late for their
supper! Further, imagine what ankle
ties and distress of mind the attendants
must undergo who have in charge
the task of getting the multitude prop
erly shod. The famous problem pro-
pounded by Car yle in the opening
chapter of Past and Present of getting
the thousands of shirts on the thousands
of backs doesn't offer more difficulties. "
WILLIAM H. RIDEING who has all his
life been familiar with steamship atfairs)
gives in ScribIer a clear account OF the
ingenious precautions and devices which
have made ocean travel one Of the safest
methods of locomotion. He prints the
following remarkable record for 1890:
''Nearly two thousand trips were made
from New York alone 10 various Europ-
can ports; about two hundred thousand
cabin passengers were carried TO and
fro, in addition TO nearly three hundred
and seventy-two thousand immigrants
who were landed at Castle Garden. This
accident, and no more coiiifted without
ance can be given than this of safety ON
the Atlantic"
THERE is no sweeter charity in all
England than the Robins Treat, which
Mrs. Louisa Brit, of Liverpool, pro-
vides semi annually for ., 200 Of the poor
est little children she can find. 4 month
in advance of the Treat agents are sent
into all the dark courts, alleyways and
back streets OF Liverpool with invita-
tions for the Robins Absolutely no
questions are asked, the messenger see
ing with half an eye whether the dwell
ers deserve cards or not. At the last
Treat, served New Years Eve, the FL
nance Committee placed St. Georges
Hall at the disposal of Mrs. Brit and her
| 5000 Robins. The treat was all that
could have been desired. and not one
birding was permitted TO escape until
he was too jolly full to eat another
crumb.
SAYS a Nebraska beet-sugar man:
"dere is a prediction that will startle you,
but it will be fulfilled in every particular.
| Within one decade the States west OF
| Ohio will produce enough beet-sugar to
| supply the entire demand of the country,
and that notwithstanding the alleged
| cheapness of the cane product. The
| home made aud homc- grown product
, will supplant the foreign article. ILL
noIs, Nebraska and California have the
best soil for the growth of sugar produc-
ing beets. Capitalists have great conf
| dence in the future of this industry and
are investing large sums in it. have
| Just completed two reineries at
Grand Island, Neb., and the other at
Pomona, Cal. cost of each being
5000, 600. We shall begin work on an
othos plant at Norfolk, Ncb., next
month";" -------.s---ssa..
THE census shows that there are twenty
eight cities in the United States with a
population of 100, 600 or more. II also
shows that Texas, the largest State in the
Union, has not single city of the first
or 100, 900 class. According to the cen
sus the largest city in Texas is Dallas,
whose population is 5000. Next comes
San Antonio, with 81, 800, while Calves
ton is third with 20, 600. But the census
shows that Texas, in the percentage of
its increase in the population OF its cities,
surpasses all rivals. From 1880 TO 1890
the ten leading cities of that State had
an increase in population ranging from
80 per cent. to 1900 per cent.-the for
mer Galveston, the latter FL Pasc. Fort
Worth shows an increase of 246 per cent.
Dallas, 2G7 per cent, and Laredo, 221
per cent. At this rate of progress the
next census will show nothing in Texas
excepting cities of over 100, 600 popu-
lation.
DIR. WILL r. LEE. of Springfield,
Ohio, who has been appointed royal
physician to the King of Siam, is only
twenty eight years of age. Only four
years ago he was driving an express
wagon and delivering express packages
in Springfield. He was youthful, of
handsome appearance, OF fine physique,
rare intelligence ana was always sctive
in church work His friends raised a
fund of over 81, 900 to assist Mr.. Lee in
taking course at the University of New
York to fit himself tor a medical mission
ary. He was graduated with high hon
ors in the class of 1890, and after his
marriage with young Canadian lady,
who had also studied to become q medi-
cal missionary. he was assigned by the
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions
to station at Petchaburee, Siam. He
entered into the work there with a will,
and the stories of the astounding cures
of the young Yankee physician soon
filed the sleepy Oriental land with won
der. What it took the native physician
five weeks TO cure with their pagan TOM
foolery Young Lee would cure In five