Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-25

OALbAS HUNTER, the IhL DOy
Green County, Indiana, is dead. II
was only IA years old. but he weighe
249 pounds, and he died in his SLEEP
practically smothered in his super
abundance of adipose matter.
AN artist has been looking through
the Boston cemeteries and finds to Li
surprise that there is no monument il
any of the cemeteries there that i
worth over $1,000. The Chadwick
tomb cost about $4,000, but this i
not classed with monuments.
The Paris street extending from
Neuilly TO st. Denis is lined will
tumbledown tenements that are said t.
shelter more vice and iniquity thar
can be found in any other spot in the
world. The houses throng with Grim
inals. The street is known as the
Route de la Revolte."
THE French Society of Men of Let
ters, which held its convention in
Paris on April 6, has pension fund Of
100000 for old and INDECENT mem.
bers. Its whole property is worth be-
tween $500, 900 and 100000. It's an.
nual expenditures are 100000, OF
about 5000 less than its receipts.
"
THE commander of the st. Peters
burg police has issued an order that il
house owner is in arrears with his
water taxes he is to be compelled by
police measures to pay them. But the
water supply is not to be cut off, in
order that the tenants shall not suffer
for the delinquency of the landlord.
THERE is not mile of railway in
Brown County, Indiana, nor within
six miles of it. Nashville, the county
seat, has 400 inhabitants and but one
brick structure, the Court House. The
Jail is built of logs. The county has
not sent any one to the penitentiary
for several years, and there is not sa-
loon within its limits: =
AN assessor at Bucktown, Ind.
called at the house of an old woman
whose furniture was valued at so
cents. Under the law he had to fix
the value at 81, which would make her
tax a fraction over / cent. Before
leaving he discovered that the old
dame was the owner of six dogs, on
which she was assessed ell.=
GENERAL BUTLER lives on scale
that most millionaires would regard as
extravagant, keeping up establishments
in Washington, Boston and Lowell.
Despite the belief to the contrary. he
is remarkably generous man, and
gives away more money than do many
people who have regulations for phi
lanthropy.
= The expedition sent out by the
Vienna Academy of Science to explore
the Mediterranean found its greatest
depth to be something over two a.d
one-quarter miles, between Molla aud
Cerigo. On the African coast, where
the water is clearer, white metal
plates could be seen at depth of 144
feet. Sensitive plates we're acted upon
by the light at a depth of over l,600
feet.
AMONG the curious trust funds in the
hands of the overseers of the poor of
Boston is one the income of which is TO
be applied TO the purchase of tea, cof-
fee, chocolate and sugar for the refresh
ment of those persons who, in the
providence of God, are or shall be
obliged to seek refuge in the almshouse
after having lived respectfully. but al
ways giving preference to the pious
poor.
= The latest fish story comes from
Ocala, Fla, where the cook at res
taurant is alleged to have found
diamond ring in fish's stomach. The
ring is of handsome design and con-
tains seven small stones set in circle,
with one larger than the rest in the
center. Inside the band on the lower
ode are engraved the letters s. E. l..
The ring is valuable one, probably
worth from 800 to S125.
MEDICAL specialists are numerous
nowadays, but they we're quite COM
mon, in Egypt at least 45O years be-
fore the Christian era. Here is what
Herodotus, the father of history, says
Of thom: THE Egyptisns have
among them a great multitude of
physicians But each man is physi-
clan of one part Of the body only, for
one healeth diseases of the eyes, and
another diseases of the head, and
third diseases Of the teeth"
CARBON is an element which assumes
diverse forms; for instance plumbago,
charcoal, and the diamond. Herr
Schutzenberger has recently produced
It in q novel state by passing cyanogen
through porcelain tube heated to
cherry-red, and containing gas carbon
sprinkled with powdered cryoIite. The
carbon separates in bulky mass Of