Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-16


basket, bats his hook anew, and again
drops his line into the sea Occasion
ally, and always with every appearance
of satisfaction. he takes drink from a
bottle which he carries III basket. La
this fishing place, which is one OF the
busiest streets of the city, he catches tin
fishes in a great variety of shapes and
sizes.
MAJOR WIsS:-ANN is knocking about
Europe on a three months furlough with
two African servants. One of the ART
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q member of a peaceablc tribe on the
upper Congo. Taken captive by another
trioe, who were cannibals, he was being
fattened for the pot to which several
companions in better condition had al
ready been consigned when Arab slave
traders made raid on the village and
carried off the inhabitants, including
thti. intended dinner. The poor fellow
was taken to the east coast and sold 10 a
Zanzibar merchant, who afterward pre-
sented him to Major Wissmann. He has
accompanied the major in ali his east
Africa campaigns and is faithful. and in
telligent. 1t Is said, however, that he
can never pass butcher shop without
! shndLoIints, reminding him, as II does,
of the cannibal orgies. Such is the
story told by Lieutenant Bumiller, the
majors aid. de-camp.
In plain about nine miles frnm Shin
akotan, Hokkaido, China, there has been
unearthed junk capable Of carrying
about 200 koku of rice. Only a very
small portion was to bc seen above.
ground, and on a closer inspection the
middle part was found 10 be covered
with tomatsu. The vessel was incrusted
with shells and hardened into stone. On
inquiring of the natives they said that in
olden times Yezo was divided into two
islands, and that the present districts OF
| Sapporo, Sorachi, Ishikari and Kabado
were all under water. 1t was further
said that ships piled at the mouth Of
| the river Kamuikotan, in Kamiiura, in
the district of Kamikawa. Though it is
! difficult TO imagine such a state OF
things. still it is not geologlcally i'm
possible. and the presumption is that the
ship now discovered was wrecked when
this plain was under water.
JOHN T. Wilcox, of Waynesboro,
Ca. has in his possession portions of the
petrified tooth and tusk of n mastodon
whi sb are 6. easissities The . skeleton n. was
1881, while digging a canal. The en-
tire skeleton was found, and DIR. Will
cox, reporting his find to the Smithson-
ian Institute, was offered and refused
| So, 900 for it, 1t was said to be the
largest skeleton ever discovered. One
can Judge OF the size OF the animal when
told that the jaw-bone measured seven
feet nine inches, and one eighth part of
tooth measures two by four inches on
the gricding surface. The enamcled
surface of the tooth has the appearance
| OF quartz, while other portions and
where it has been fractured, resembles
close grained blue limestone.
A PECULIAR malady from which Miss
Lille Miller. daughter of Henry Miller,
OF York, Penn. has been suffering for a
number OF years has resulted In her
death. The'young lady, who was TWEEN
ty-fve years of age, was IA seamstress, and
contracted the habit of sticking large
number OF needles and pins INTO the
bosom of tight fitting dresses, which
entered the flesh and worked out of diff
ferent portions of the body. Even after
discovering the result of her foolish
habit she was unable to break il off.
Dropsy and blood poisoning set in,
caused, the doctors say, by the pins.
Miss Miller suffered intensely and the
case baffied the skill OF the physicians.
who pronounced it the most singular
that had ever come within the scope OF
their knowledge and observation.
Mrs JOSEPH CLEMENTS, of San Fran
cisco, has donated very unique speci-
men of the fish family to the Mining
Bureau. II is the pipe fish of the Japan
csc waters, and is er-looking object.
The fish is nearly all head. for although
hardly five inches In length, the head, or
rather the nose. is fully two and a half
inches long. The body is not over three
eighths of an inch in diameter, and the
long. pipe-like nose is quite round, taper
ing from tho head To the point. The |
body tapers from the head to the tip of |
the tail, which at the point is no larger |
than an ordinary pin. From either side |
of the body and tail are little protubcr. |
ances OF substance very similar TO cut
tie bone and knifelike in their sharpness.
The pipe fab is queer combination of |
nose and tail.
SNAKES are not in demand as family
pets, but Ernest Lower, the telegraph
operator ut the Georgia Midland and
Gulf railroad depot, Griffin, Ca, has n
pet king snake which he can handle with
the utmost ease, and his snakeship rather
seems to like being taken out of the cage
aud handled. IL is about three feet In
length and is quite pretty In its bran
new coat, having shed his old one. II
is very fond of mice, and OF curling up
in a small .oS filed with pieces OF