Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-04-16

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CRAWLING, MICHIGAN.
THE real man Is one who always
dnds excuses for others, but never ex-
cuses himself
THERE is nothing IN tho universe
that / fear but that shall not know
all my duty. or shall fail to do it.
A NEwARK, N. j.. family Is bothered
by mysterious rappings on the walls
and furniture Though the members
Of the family do not believe in spooks,
they think the rappings are intended as
warming of some approaching calam-
ity.
A SYRACUSE, N. Y, man has a snake
In his stomach, and unless the reptile
gets what il wants to eat and drink it
makes trouble. Port wine is its favor
lite tipple, but if it gets too much of
tho wine it acts as If it had delirium
tremens.
The latest plan for beating the
nickelin the-slot photograph is for two
men to drop one nickel into the aper-
ture and each hold tube to his ear.
The music, speech or song ground out
by the machine then costs them only
"a cents each.
AN Illinois man left by will $40, 900
to defray the expenses of removing
certain tree and placing it by the side
Of his grave. The tree was twelve
miles away. The tree has started on
it's journey. A large amount of earth
is removed with the roots.
WE read that freckles may be OBJ
liberated by carefully touching pure
carbolic acid to the spots. This eau
terization or burning produces a
scale which falls off in about ten days.
Any one wanting TO make the expert
ment had better try one at time.
In the celebrated French trial of the
man Eyraud and his mistress Bonn
pard for murder, the latter claimed to
have been hypnotized by the former and
therefore not responsible, but the jury
decided against her. She was not SEN
fenced to as severe punishment as the
man.
If you own horse which, by letting
ont every link, can make his mile in
2:30, you had better sell him to a
butcher for about 5000. There are
nearly 500 trotters in the United Sta res
who can do this clip and are at the
same time just fast enough to get beat
en- By the 2 30 class.
A New JERSEY man who made fifty
seven weather predictions last summer
and hit one of them, is now out with o
card of advice to farmers to get their
hay in as soon as possible, for March
may bring mo less than three separate
earthquakes, with deluge of rain af-
ter each" Go ahead, old boy! you
can't scare our fish away
ETGHTY years ago James Larkins
bought an area of land five miles
square of the Indians in Wisconsin for
an old shotgun and gallon of whisky,
and the chief who made the sale lit out
as quick as possible for fear that
Larkins would change his mind and
want to trade back. In those old days
the red man had no tricks about him.
The Metropolitan Public Gardens
Association of London, England, has
offered $500 each to twenty of the city
vestries and district boards to be ex-
pended in planting shade trees in suit
able public thoroughfares in each dis
trict, on condition that the local au-
thorities agree to maintain the trees
when planted, replacing such as may
die.
A PECULIAR accident happened yes
terday on the local Omaha line, says
the st. Paul Pioneer Press In going
to the Junction, and before reaching
Hersey q Beans mill, the passenger
and smoking cars left the track, owing
to a broken rail- ran some distance on
the ties, struck a switch, and regained
the rails. The engine and tender had
not left the rails.
THE new Argentine Pacific Railroad
from Buenos Ayres to the foot of the
Andes has what is probably the longest
tangent in the world. This is 2l1
miles without curve. In this dis
tance there is not single bridge and
no opening larger than an ordinary
culvert, no cut greater than one meter
in depth, and no fill of height ex-
ceeding one meter.
ONE afternoon large concourse Of
spectators watched a novel contest at
the Boston Athletic Club between a
man and rod. Mr.. George Mixter
attempted to bring Swimming Pro-
lessor John Robinson out Of the tank
while the latter, who was fastened to
the end of fishing line, stoutly re-
sisted the persuasive argument of a
trolling rod in MIR. Mixter's hands.
PHosPHo-BoRIc glass for microscopes
is new kind of optical glass, which
contains phosphoric acid and boracic
acid, and is designed especially for the
construction of object glasses. The
Photographic Ne1cs says il is asserted
that by means Ct this new glass, lately
produced in Germany, an object pos