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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
Marriage in Sumatra.

Among Kubus of Sumatra the tender
passion is most prosaically dealt with.
1t would seem that delicate susceptible
tiles have but slight chance of develop
mcnt among so untidy, so thriftless
people. Their lives are seldom
marked by progress; they seem content
to go on their ways exactly as their fore
fathers and foremothers have travelled
Very simple indeed is the marriage
ceremony. A Kubu youth, having
settled in his own mind his choice, in
terviews the parents of the maiden,
mentioning what he can offer in return.
If late bargains with the itinerant trader
have been gratifying, he may have in
hand knife, spear, or some strips of
gay cloth-possibly money, if he has
acted as guide or burden bearer to trav-
clers there may also be dammar and bees
wax, rare fruits and favorite animals for
food "a dainty snake or nimble lizard).
all most acceptable in the eyes of the
father and house mo Their. Should this
queer endowment fund be satisfactorily
large, neighbors are called together, who
are seated with due formality under
tree. The father of the maiden then
publicly announces his consent to the
betrothal shows the presents received
from the young man, and expresses his
pleasure Harper's Bazaar.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
AS TO sPRIEa

Ilovs the Spring. II is so frce
From ardor and acti gity.
IL predisposes man TO shrk
All bat memorable work.
When grasses start and buds foreteil
The blossoms by the way they swell;
When feathered things distract the air,
Getting their dwellings 10 repair;
When eggs and bugs aud flowers and
weeds
Are all n-hatchIng. Nature needs
All the spare force there is afoat
To make her enterprises mote.
For men n can't but foolish be
To strive with her for energy.
Give in to her: give over wishing
To overcome her. Go a-hshingi
Find nc stream and duly try
Ifang'e worms will justify
Their title. For the time ignore
Remote results. Consider more
The yagrant impulse OF the present.,
And what IL offers that is pleasant.
Brief IL the season Of transition
The jog-trot summer has its mission.
In It's fierce sun you dare not bask.
To shun it's heat becomes a task
That lasts till Fall comes back again
And natures work is finished. Then,
When growth at length in harvest ceases
The energy that she releases
Comes back to man and holds his MOI
Down to the work of humankind.
Spring is alone the time of choice,
Respect her. then, and heed her voice.
Edward s. Martin in Scribner.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28

beautiful dream. Then he flung Ralph
to one side and was gone.
Ralph rushed In. Mr.. North stood
In the centre OF the room beside
young lady. She was looking with
pleasure ut picture on the wall, Of
which Mr.. North was evidently speaking,
for he had hand extended toward II,
although he was looking at her. On the
other side stood an aged lady, with a
very kindly though sad face
IL took but q moment to warn them
Of the danger, and they hurried from the
house.
Meanwhile Jim had hurried to the tree
Nick appealed to him fiercely:
''Jim! Brace up! She's trying to 60
back! Jump up and hit the wedges
while ! cut out the centre! Hit 'em !
Hit 'em hard, Jim, and never stopw
Nick sprang up and leaped into the
under-cut. He raised his axe, and at
that instant the Tower quivered to its
heart with the blows which Big Jim was
showering upon the wedges on the other
side. Swiftly and carefully Nick Mar
began to chop out the centre of the tree.
Suddenly a deep, hollow, stunning
crack sounded as the wood broke. Nick
Mar, tingling as il with an electric
shock, threw up his hand. The great
slanting bevel of the under-cut was clos
ing down upon him. The tree was fall
ing.
He sprang out upon the staging and
then to the ground, ran swiftly two OF
three rods to one side, and looked up.
The majestic top of the Tower was
slowly and graudly describing its tre-
mendous arc in mid-air, and Big Jim
stood on the staging, at the gaping saw
cut, still striking the wedges, which
now flew from under the blows far into
the heart of the tree.
"Look out, JIM" screamed Nick Mar.
He had time for only one cry, for then
the descending mass struck the largest
tree of the clump above squarely. II
bent far back, but perceptibly checked
the momentum of the fall and the recoil
whirled the great butt of the Tower of
the stump and projected it down the
steep declivity, filling the air with flying
rocks and earth.
This was the successful contamination
of the dwarf's plan, for the Tower oil
Babel lay with the butt forty feet below
the stump, and one hundred and fifteen
feet of the trunk unbroken.
Nick Mar was not thinking of his tri-
umph. He called for Jim, but there
was no answer in the stiffness that fol
lowed the downfall. Lanterns were
brought, and after time Ralph and the
dwarf found poor Jim, hurled down
the hill, with the pallor Of death on his
face.
The men bore him down to Mr..
North's house, and at the door they met
the aged lady whom Ralph had seen.
Her face turned white, and she threw
herself down beside him with moaning
cry. "Jamie"
Jim opened his eyes, and his face
lighted up with smile.
"Mother," he sighed, family. She
kissed him and wept, and smoothed his
damp hair, and spoke to him tenderly as
she had done when he was little boy.
His head dropped, and he died in her
arms, with the light still lingering on his
face.
Mr.. North came and knelt beside her,
and said, ave have found HIM at last,
mother. y Youths Companion.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
Some Census Curiosities.

The English National Review has col
lected some amusing curiosities in an
article on the ''Censuses of the Century" !:
1t is said that the Duke of wellington,
then eighty-two years of age, returned
himself as deaf-a touching trait of his
truthfulness, though, of course. deaf
ness, as an lnfrmity of old age, did not
come within the scope of census inqui-
ries. On the other hand. "a clergyman
refused to return the schedule to the
parish clerk, who was the enumerator,
and sent it direct to the central office,
alleging that if he had done otherwise
his wife's age would have become a topic
of gossip in the beer shops of the viii
lage." ''In Devonshire a middle-aged
man refused to make out his schedule,
saving that he did not know either his
name or his place of birth, and he would
not perjure himself by making false
entry An author added to his return
a note, stating that his wife said he was
both an idiot aud lunatic. SIN the
matter OF the ages of the people, the
most curious fact noticed in the report
for 1881 is that there are more girls aged
from twenty-five to twenty-five than
can be accounted for. Young women of
twenty-five at one census must have
been fifteen at the previous one. We
must allow for death having thinned
their ranks, and yet the girls at twenty
five are far more numerous than were
the girls of fifteen, of whom they are the
remainder! Among the girls of the
working class (so-calledD there is desire
to be over twenty in order to obtain bet
ter situations IN domestic service; and in
the class above them there is an even
stronger desire to remain below twenty
five. which is some how looked on rs a
sort of limit of the most manageable
age
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
A slot-Machine Microscope.

The newest slot machine is micro
scope. Underneath it in box is arranged
q circular glass plate, to which are
fastened various minute objects. In the;
one the reporter saw was a piece of the.
flesh of monkey, black spiders head
and eyes, and collection of insects said
TO have been taken. from sea shells.
Under the plate small lamp burned
1t gave sufficient light to enable the man
who looked down the microscope to dis
tinguish the object on the plate. A cent
dropped in the slot started clock work
that made the plate revolve. 1t stopped
an instant as each object was directly
under the microscope. The microscope
magnifed about forty times. [Phila-
delphia North American.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
A Condemned Cruiser.

The trials OF the Vesuvius are over, and
the fate OF that vessel as a @dynamiten
cruiser has been decided. She will un-
doubtedly be stripped Of her pneumatic
guns and converted into a frst-class tor
pedo cruiser. IL is an open secret about
the Navy Department that the present
trials were ordered I'm order to have an
official pretext to dismantle the vessel IL
has been known all the while that shs was
not capable of doing all that was claimed
for her. and the prejudice of naval officers
against serving in the ship has done much
10 bring about her prospective coneemna-
tion
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
Looking 10 . Third Party.

The so-caIled national linton conference
of the organization supposed 20 favor a
third party has attracted large crowd of
grangers TO Cincinnati. but II Is n signin-
cant fact that comparatively few States In
the East are represented. Two delegates
from Maine and four from Massachusetts,
comprise the contingent from New England.
The Maine delegates are old Greenbackers
who we're hero four years ago at the organ
ization of the old Union Labor party. white
those from Boston are deciples of Edward
Bellamy and his utopian ideas. The New
York delegation is small and there are only
two or three from Pennsylvania.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
can ONLY Die TEMroRARY.
Any Present Depression I'm Trade wi
he Short-Llvcd.

ANY Present Depression I'm Trade VIII
he short-LIved.
The review OF the weeks trade by Dun &
Co. contains the following:
At most places trade seems healthy, and
there Is not more than the usual complaint
about collections At Philadelphia collec-
tions are bad in groceries. Pittsburg notes
that railroad orders are held back waiting
for crop results, and. while window glass
does we'll, flint glass has slack business. AT
Cleveland dry goods. groceries, hardware
and shoes improve fairly, but machinery,
iron ore and clothing are dull. At Cincin-
natl the tobacco trade Is brisk, but the car
rage trace Is NOT qufte up Iast years.
Detroit notes good prospects, though
margins are dull AT Chicago dry goods
sales exceed last years considerably, as do
sales OF clothing, and there are fair coun-
try orders for shoes Crop reports are very
satisfactory, the recent rains having been
OF inestimable value The business fall
ures occurring throughout the country dur
ing the last seven days number 254 fall
ures as compared with 231 last week For
the corresponding week of last year the fig
IIres were 222.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
$3.50, 900 FOR 4 BALLROOM.

Cornelius Vanderbilt Pays a Big Price
for Fifth Avenue Property.
The purchase by Cornelius Vanderbilt Of
the house and lot on Fifth avenue north Of
his residence is significant for number of
reasons: In the first place Mr.. Vanderbilt
has probably paid for the property a much
larger sum of money than has ever before
been paid for any Fifth avenue property of
similar character and dimensions The ex-
act amount does not seem 10 be commonly
known. but it is learned on good authority
that II was over s25O,OO0. The market price
would probably be somewhere in the neigh
borbood of $780, 900. Mr.. Vanderbilt intends
TO bald the handsomest ballroom in New
York.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
Proving Silk.

Silk can be identified in a mixture
with any other fibre, animal or veget-
able, by means of concentrated hydro
chloric acid, which dissolves it COM
pletely and Immediately without appre-
Gladly affecting any wooden or woody
fibre with which the silk may have been
interviewer. Strong sulphuric acid has
\ powerful solvent effect upon silk, and
is likewise much more destructive in its.
action upon cotton than the other acid.
Should it be desired to determine the
nature Of any fibres remaining after the
solution of the silk it is first essential to
wash and collect them, when they will
usually be found destitute of color
Dry Goods Chronicle.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
NAvAssA RIoTERs SAVED.
Their Death Sentences COMMITTED TO II
prisonmert for Lite.

Their Death Sentences COMMITTED 10 Inn
prisonmert for Lite.
The President has committed 10 imprison-
ment for life at hard labor the sentence OF
the three Navassa rioters sentenced by the
Circuit Court of Maryland 10 be hanged.
In taking this action President Harrison
says; 1.-THE conditions surrounding the pris-
oners and their fellows were OF most pc
cuiiar character. They were American citi-
xens under contracts to perform labor upon
specified terms within American territory
removed from any opportunity TO appeal 10
any court or public ofiiccr for redress of any
injury or the enforcement of any civil
right Their employers were, in fact. their
masters. The bosses placed over them Inn
posed fines and penalties without any SEM
blance OF trial. These penalties extended
to imprisonment and even 60 the cruel prac-
eice of tricing men up for a refusal TO work.
Escape was impossible and the state OF
things generally such as might make men
reckless and Desperate
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28

Two French chemists, Messrs. Berth
eliot and Andre, have investigated the
cause Of the powerful odor that rises
from vegetable mould after q fall Of
rain. They find the essential principle
to be an organic compound Of the aro-
matte family. It's odor is very penetrat-
ing, aud analogous to that Of the cam
phors; its proportion in mould is only a
few millionths, but one threc-millionth
OF dram Is sufficient to produce q SEN
sible smell.-[Trenton IN. J.) American.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
N.rinNAL rrAnnr
swIndled Ton Thousand People.

Ten thousand people paid so cents each
TO witness the flight of the Chicago airship
at the Omaha fair grounds. After the
crowd had gotten inside Profs Bush and
Dodd, OF Chicago. securely locked the
gates so that their audience could
not get out. raked the pile of money into u
sack, and jumping on horses already ar
ranged for their escape were out of the city
before their fight was discovered. When
the crowd discovered the deceit the case
supposed TO contain the airship was torn to
pieces and only cid paper was discovered
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28

John Culver's suit for $4,000 against the
Chicago Herald ended against the man who
gained such notoriety as cronin juror. IL
took the jury just half an hour TO reach "A
conclusion after listening 70 Judge An
thongs charge. Culver and his attorney
stood as the foreman OF the jury announced
sNot guilty. and remained standing during
the time occupied by each juror responding
individually to the question II he agreed In
the verdict Culver professed 20 be not
greatly surprised at tho verdict. but IL is
believed he had hoped for at least nominal
damaOaa
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
NAV Defeat the Park Projects.

The greed of property owners threatens
TO defeat some favorite projects OF Con-
gress. The last Congress made provision
for three national parks One was in Cali
fornia, where the object was TO save the
famous Sequoia gigantea or redwood trees.
Another was to preserve the historic region
around Chickamauga. and the third was TO
turn the picturesque Rock Creek country on
the edge of Washington into "a national
Measure ground 49,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28

There is a strong feeling in British trade
circles likely 20 be affected by the French
tariff I'm favor OF retaliatory duties on
French wines, etc. This would be a serious
matter for France. the United Kingdom be-
ing the best customer for that country's ex-
ports. 1t is estimated that the new French
tariff will diminish British exports to
France to the amount OF about f7,0O0,0O0
annually, and British manufacturers do
not know where to find market for their
goods thus barred from French markets
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
GREAT HEAvYwEIGHTs.

Ths Corbett-J jackson Fight Ends In a
Draw.
No pugilistic event ever occurred on the
Pacific coast that created more interest or
excitement than the great heavyweight
battle between Jim Corbett, of San Fran
cisco, and Peter Jackson, OF Australia,
which was fought at the gymnasium of the
California Athletic Club. San Francisco.
Walking match tactics marked the close OF
a prolonged combat, and at the end OF
the sixty first round Referee Cook said the
men could fight no longer, and declared the
fight no contest
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
BLOWN TO ATOMS.
Thirty Killed and Injured-Much Property
Destroyed.

UAhJuFou-IhuCu AEOperty
Destroyed.
A car laden with dynamite, TO be used in
blasting on the Hudson River Railroad, sud-
denly exploded few miles below larry
town, n. Y.
The dynamite was TO be used In the con-
structon of third track on the New York
Central Railroad. The explosion came
without warning. 1t shook the ground like
an earthquake and tore up everything
around about. The earth trembled and the
air was filed with flying debris and frag-
ments of human bodies. People block
: on Were thrown 10 the ground by
the conclusion. Glass was broken In the
windows I'm houses two and three hundred
yards away. When the smoke cleared away
there was a sickening spectacle. Thirty
one men, principally Italians, lay upon the
ground. The car was nowhere TO be seen;
portions of the trucks were thrown 100 feet
away. Not even the heavy iron wheels
remained on the track. Portions of the
track and the roadbed were blown away,
and great hole was dug in the ground
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28

The doctors will not allow Mr.. Blaine to
talk of public business TO anyone. and
Mrs. Blaine has been ordered not to let him
read the newspapers. Meantime there is
certa n public business which must be con-
cluded; so the President, with Mr. Blaine's
consent. has authorized John w. Foster to
act for the State Department during the
secretary's enforced absence. Therefore
Mr.. Foster is Acting Secretary of State
where questions OF policy are concerned.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
England Invaded by Hebrews.

The London Epening Ners warns the Cow
eminent that unless the influx OF Russian
Jews is checked there will grow up an anti
Hebrew movement beside which the New
Orleans feud would be Insignificant. The
manager of a Hebrew charitable institu-
ton says, however that not more than
twenty arrive per week destitute. and fully
ninc-t enths go to the United States or the
colonies. They are provided with money
before leaving, so that they cannot be ex-
cluded from the United States.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
Tracy.s DynamIte Guns.

The special correspondents who were in
vited by Secretary Tracy 20 witness the
tests of the dynamite guns on the Vesuvius
have returned. They say the tests demon
strated that the pneumatic guns OF the We
.suvius can only be relied upon for accuracy
when the range is known exactly, vas was
the case In the first shot That the guns
can be aimed by the rudder OF the ship so
as TO have little lateral deviation was shown
by the fact that nearly every shot was
practically line shot.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
Two Lives Lo It by Mistake.

While party of vigilantes, who had cap
tured a cattle-thief named McAlvey, near
Dunning, Neh.. were bringing the prisoner
20 town at night they met another vigilante
posse. The night was very dark, and each
party mistook the other for thieves. Fire
was opened on both sides, and before the
mistake was discovered Judge Aikens,
Treasurer of the county, and McAlvey, the
cattle-thief, who was I'm his care, were
killed. No arrests have been made.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
MANUEL GARCIA.

The Cuban Insurgent Chief Issues a STIR
ring Manifesto.
The noted Cuban insurgent chief and
brigand Manuel Garcia has issued mani
festo declaring Cuba annexed to the United
States and setting forth the grievances of
the Cuban people against Spain. The
proclamation is being widely circulated In
Florida and the Atlantic States, and
throughout Cuba, and has put new spirit
into the many hundreds OF Cuban refugees
residing in New York City.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
Contract Labor for Chicago.

Says telegram from New York: 1t has
been decided TO send TO Chicago the eleven
Austrian contract laborers who are held at
the barge Office. charged with coming here
under contract to work for the City Cable
Company ana tho Gousuvsss---'- Gas Com pan N
OF Chicago Their expenses will be paid by
the Government. They will be used as
witnesses against the above-named cor
porations. IL the latter are found guilty
they will be fined ST. 900 for each man hired
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
Thinks the c mnpany Unsafe.

The New York State superintendent of
the Banking Department, deeming it mex
pedlent and unsafe for the American In-
vestment Company. OF Emmettsburg. Iowa,
TO continue to transact business in his State,
has revoked and annulled the license here
tofore Issued 70 said company.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
THE NEW PARTY

VIII Try to Make Itself Felt In 1899.
The flag of the Peoples party has been
unfurled, says a Cincinnati special. The
platform upon which its supporters will
stand has been constructed. and tonight
the delegates to the National Union Confer
encc are journeying back to their respective
localities with the firm determination OF
seeking no rest from their labors until the
ballots have been counted in November of
no irnn vnn
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
Welded In Haste.

Frank Turke. aged 40. who kept n small
shoe store on Palisade avenue, Englewooa,
N. j.. quarreled with his wife, to whom he
had been married but n few weeks, and
finally shot and killed her and then killed
himself Turlxe buried his first wife seven
weeks ago and engaged his second wife as
housekeeper from an agency in New York.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28

A cave-in on the improved sewerage
work in Elmwood, suburb OF Providence
r. l., buried eleven Italians, Seven were
saved, but the other four arc still buried
and are undoubtedly dead. AT Albuquer-
que, N. NJ, while gang Of men were Dig
cling a sewer, the earth caved In, burying
several OF the workmen, killing J. A. SAM
chez and Amino Cesto
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
DISASTROUS wINDsToRM.
Vast Amount of Property Laid waste.

Vast Amount OF Property LAID WINE.
One OF the most terrible cyclones that
ever visited Missouri swept through the
central portion OF the state recently. Tne
climax of lite destructiveness seems to have
been reached in the neighborhood OF Mexi-
co, Scotland County. So far ten bodies
have been found. and many people are
missing. 1t is believed that when all are
accounted for the number of dead will run
mn to thirty or forty.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
Crooked FinancIerIng.

President Francis M. Kennedy and Cashier
II. II. Kennedy, OF the suspended sprin {
Garden National Bank. were arrested, at
Philadelphia charged with receiving de-
posits at a time they knew the bank was
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
Kentuckr RepuhIIcnns.

Kentucky Republicans have nominated
the following ticket: Governor. I. A. Wood
of Mount Sterling; Attorney General, l.. J.
Crawford OF Newport; Treasurer, Ell
Farmer of Somerset; Superintendent OF
Public Instruction. l.. V. Dodge OF Bersa;
Register OF tho Land Office. w. J. A. Rar-
din OF Greenup; Clerk of Court of Appeals,
T. X. Blaine of Lexington.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
In Favor of DIR. Brooks.

The standing committees OF the Episcopal
dioceses OF Indiana, Michigan and missouri
have approved of the election of DIR. Phil
lips Brooks as Bishop of Massachusetts,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-28
Arrivals odd . MONTH.

The Bureau of Statistics reports the total
arrivals OF immigrants at the ports OF
the United States for the month OF April
were sS,OO1 against 6i,2l2 last year.