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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06

HE Iiansss Causes Enterprfsing BioEra-
pliers ca Hustle.

HE It1ness Causes Enterprfstng BtonFn-
pliers ca Hustle.
Since the beginning of Mr.. BIaine's
illness biography fiends have industri-
ously ransacked the departments in
Washington. looking for data which
would aid in making an interesting
story OF his life. Reports. which have
probably been magnified, of his con-
tinued illness at Bar Harbor, are the
immediate cause of starting these en-
terprising gentlemen a-goinR. There
are moro than q dozen men Al work
looking mp data and preparing biogra-
phies, and the demand for photographs
OF Mr.. Blaine for several weeks past
has never been 50 great since the cam
raign of "a.
Mr.. Blaine looks quite web when he
is sitting down, propped mp by the
big down pillows and covered up al
most to the chin with Mrs. Blaine's
old gray wooden shawl; but when he
goes to walk aud kind of loses his
equilibrium, he doesn't look nor act like
really well man. He had q bad stroke
of paralysis about this time last year.
which his physicians said was caused
by overwork. and this is offered as one
solution to his present i'll health.
He has been sick, very sick, but the
reports of his condition have been
greatly exaggerated. He couldn't have
all the symptoms of nervous malady,
be sallow almost like corpse, shaky
like paralytie, bilious and troubled
with insomnia, aud be an entirely well
man; and, whilo these ailments have
not obliged him TO keep in bed every
hour of the day. they are NOT just the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06
Punlshment. of IN. Anc,.o,..

CRIME refused 70 plead he was Con- a.
demned to the forte peine ct dure. .
He was stripped, taken into dungeon,
and laid on the floor, with q sharp
stone under his back. On him was
laid door, whereupon were piled
heavy weights, as much as he could
bear and more. The first day three
morsels of Lad bread we're given him,
the second day three draughte Of
stsgnant water, and 50 until he died.
If prisoner was convicted, his es-
tates were confiscated; to pre%entthis
conhscation many prisoners suffered
this punishment. In this country o
man. called to plead to an indictment
Of witchcraft, stood mute. and Is said
to have been pressed 10 death at
Salem, Mass, in 1892.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06

al around me are what appear TO be
innnmerable canvas shades, seven feet
wide, two covering the space between
roof and floor At intervals between
these shades are seven doorways, each
representing tho entrance to compart-
ment. and each compartment containing
a double tier of hunks on either side,
with three-foot passage down the CEN
ter. These seven compartments are
arranged to hold two hundred and twen-
ty human beings-one hundred and
fourteen on the starboard-but only one
hundred and eight on the port side, the
remaining space here being occupied by
the steerago stewards
gropo my way into tho center COM
partmont on the port side. Already
sonorous music has begun, aud wonder
II shall have 10 endure these sounds
night after night. Luckily my bunk
isn't there. try the next and believe
that 1 have found my dom.cile at last
I start to climb up to an apparently
empty bunk, and am quickly lifted By q
concealed foot over onto the other side.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06
Cowartiice Of Crowds.

The Spectator has a paper called
the "Cowardice of Crowds" The
writer is deeply impressed with the
worry strange story Of the poor woman
who had lamp thrown at her and
was burned to death. while little
crowd of people looked on and did
nothing. whites Walter Besant. One
roor woman alone attempted to put
out the flames. ID is horrible story,
but should not have made it the peg
for paper on cowardice, because think
that cowardice had nothing whatever
to do with it. Why cowardice? There
was no courage wanted to tear off your
coat and wrap il around the burning
drapery of the unfortunate woman.
p-Aa4.~>--~f---:-a--. ls-0hiosS m you
please, but not courage. Presence Of
mind, which means readiness to act
for the best on q sudden emergency,
will prove to be wanting more and
more as we depart more and more from
the primitive conditions of man, VIII CHI
is one of being always hunted for food
by wild beasts, always hunting for
food. and always fighting. In that
condition man is full of resource, con-
trives a thousand stratagems, and
meets q thousand dangers. Remove
from him the habit of hunting and the
necessity of fighting. Make his life
assured and easy, ~nd ne VIII lnfalll-
Dry lose the readiness and the resource
in other words, the presence of
mind-of the savage. This, in fact,
we have done. In moments Of unusual.
unexpected dangers, we are parslyzed.
This is my reading of the conduct of
the crowd which looked on while a
woman's clothes famed up and burned
her to death.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06
JERRY RusX's DAUGHTER.

Tho Charming YounR w~ss"u VINO Ia the
,1ur OF the Secretary's Househotd.
Mrs. Jerry Rusk takes more interest
in her old home at Viroqua than she
does in her husbands balloon-burstipg
experiments in the heavens or his mi
croscopic fight with Emperor William
and President Carnot as to whether
the American hog shall be received at
court abroad. Mrs. Rusk cares moth
ing about the hog, except as he APP
pears every fall in her sausage ma
chimes or her pickle barrels. Her
-ctarmfng daugnter cares even less.
She guys her amiable father on his
agricultural fads and tells him that
size and Ter mother can make better
butter at home and give better recipes
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06
Icy Aaron Burr.

Aaron Burr was, by nature and
training. man of extraordinary self
control. He allowed 10 circumstance
to throw him off his balance. An an
ecdote told by Rufus Choate to the
late Richard H. Dana, recorded in Mr..
Dana's "Diary," illustrates the moral
callousness which aided Burr so greatly
in controlling himself. Several years
after the death of Hamilton-killed by
Burr in duel-Burr visited Boston,
and Mr.. Devereux of Salem paid him
some attentions. The visitor was
taken to the Boston Atheneum. where,
while the two men were walking
through a gallery of sculpture. Mr..
Devereux happened to catch sight of
bust of Hamilton.
The thought flashed across his mind
thai Burr might not care to be con-
fronted with the sight of the features
of the man he had slain. But no.
instinctiye1y turned away, he walked
up to it and said in loud tone: sAh.
here is Hamilton Then passing his
fingers along certain lines OF the lace.
he added: There was the poetry 7"
Hamilton's contemporaries gave him
credit for possessing a poetic mind,
though his writings betray no trace of
poety, but, on the contrary, are as in
tellectual as Euclid. Atlanta Con-
SiiLlLfiOn
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06
HOW Llshtaing Makes Gas

When bolt of lightning strikes a
bed of sand il plunges downwald into
the sand for distance less or gAeater.
Transforming simultaneously into glass
the SILICA in the material thfon0h
which it passes. Thus, by its 4reat
heat, it forms at once q glass tube Of
precisely its own size. Now and then
such a tube, known as fulgurite,S il
found and dug up. Fulgurites hat 3
been followed into the sand by excavA.
ton for nearly thirty feet; they vary
in size Of q quill to three inches OF
more, according to the bore OF the
fash. But fulgurites are not alonA
produced in sand; they are found id
solid rock, though very naturally of
slight depth and frequently existing
merely as a thin, CLASSY coating on the
surface Such fulgurites occur in as
tonishing abundance on the summit Of
little Ararat in Armenia. The rock is
soft and so porus that blocks a foot.
long can be obtained, perforated in al
directions by little tubes filed wild
bottle-green glass formed from Il
fused rock.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06
NATURAL HISTORY PALACES.
MOSS of Them Compile ely Exploded, hut
Some Ill Survive.

Some Ill Survive.
Less than.a century ago, in the time
when men had not penetrated so deeply
into the study of nature. there was a
g ees deal of poetry and romance con-
pected with animal life that had been
slowly but surely driven out rs the
study advanced.
Travellers returning from unexplored
regions told strange and incredible
stories about the wonderful wild
animals they had encountered; but in
vestigation has rent asunder these
feociful tales, and left only cold facts
in their places.
am the owner Of natural history
written by one Riley and published
about the year 1850. It is a quaint old
book, and ITS yellow leaves and odtf
type furnish the reader with number
OF strange accounts. Among others
NAV be found something like the
following: "Ths digestive apparatus
Of the ostrich is said TO be very strong;
indeed, that bird not only being able
to digest such things as stones, bits of
glass and iron. but it is even said that
ID makes q good meal OF bed OF live
GOALS
We laugh ~ such statement, but
no Doubt at the time Of publication it
was stated for fact.
What right have we to laugh? IL is
NOS long since almost every one be-
lisved the porcupine capable Of shoot
ing It's quilts like arrows, and rega, ded
il an animal we'll able to defend itself
against almost any foe, instt ad OF the
quiet, inoffensive little cresture that
curls itself in ball at the first APP
prosch of an enemy, trusting solely to
lbs spine-covered shin sor protection.
Men who lived only q short time be-
fore Us did not question that the
pretty, graceful swallows that skinned
30 lightly DER the blue waters in sum-
nser buried themselves in the mud at
the bottom of our rivers and ponds
when the season was over to await the
return OF spring.
1t has been but a short time since
investigation has shown that the sup
posed happy family made mp Of the
prairie dog, the burrowing owl, and the
ratuesnake is not only not happy
family but does not exist at all. Our
first idea was that these three animals,
of such different habits, lived in per-
feet harmony, like the so-called happy
families Of the modern oipsaaS bgs our
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06
LimberlIp.s Loauac.tN

~Y0 pashtur' hab ter 'nounce ter dis
congregation dat on do forfcomin'
Chuseday ebenin' Perfesher Nozzel-
tester will glib Interpretation on
character as REFLECTED in de art OBJ
snorin', an 70 de puppus er maxim de
'casion full er marrer ter de presen'
comperny he will erply de funnygraf
ter de nasual fackelties err sutton egs-
perts in dis fol-, an afterwards, in de
course OBJ de lectur, tu'n de crank an
let de perfeshernal snorers er dis
chu'ch hear TO- darse'fs de sorter music
dey s'plies DER breddern wild endurin'
de sarmons. Elder Yawp, Dea con
Buzzhua RrnddAr Rupalla- G;~ser
Treetode am speshually quested ter
bring dair double barrcled trombones
wild EN- on dis ercasion, an low de per-
fesher ter can few er dair bes' nasual
oblergatters TO comparison wild de
works or some udder sheff-dovers in
dis line. boston Courier.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06

THE Constitution of the United
States was ratified by the several
States as follows: Delaware, Dec. 7,
1857, unanimously; Pennsylvania, Dec.
II, 1887, vote 46 to %; New Jersey,
Dec. 16, 1887, unanimously !, Georgia,
Jan. 1888, unanimously; Connecticut,
JAN 9, 1888, vote 1913 to 20; Massa-
chusetts, Feb. g. 1888, vote 1877 to 1853 (;
Maryland, April %, 1888, vote GO to
II; South Carolina, May, %, 1888,
vote 149 to 10; New Hampshire, June
81, 1888, vote 81 to 46; Virginia, June
%, 1888, vote SO to 10; New York,
July 26, 1888, vote 30 to %; North
Carolina. Nov. 81, 1889, vote 1913 to
70; Rhode Island, May 30, 1890. vote
"a TO 80.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06

surest symptoms of long life for an
oe,rworked man to ease his mind
over.
Sitting on the piazza of the Blaine
cottage at Bar Harbor. the writer
got an excellent peep into the inner
rooms of the villa The doors were all
thrown open, for the weather was ex-
tra MarR aRd Mrs Blaine e B Rb lis SoSss in
The house is entered by partirl
glass and partial inlaid wood entrance.
reached by four steps. just inside
large hall is seen. 1t is square like a
room, aud serves as a reception-room
for callers. Oak benches are on either
side, and it is here the unlucky visitors
who are not intimates are left to await
their refusals.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06
A Pad Precedent

Mrs. Motherhood Why is it I have
such time finding nurse-girl for my
children?
Employment Agent-Well, you see,
mum. some time ago lady hada baby
die, and she thought so much of that
baby that after it was dead she kept
the baby's nurse right along ut the old
wages, with nothing to do but walk in
park, pretending she's got the baby
with her. Since tbenI can't get a
nurse-girl to go into q family where
the baby looks bealthy.-Neso York
Weekig.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06
for it than con his wisest of experts in
the Der artment of Agriculture.

for it than con his wisest of experts in
the Der artment of Agriculture.
Miss Mary Edith Rusk is the only
living daughter of the Secretary
While Governor of Wisconsin, and
when the family were living at Madison,
another daughter died. Miss Rusk is
the light OF her mothers household.
She is about 20, of ettyfgure, clean
ly modelled features and quiet demcan-
or, yot when walked up she is very vi
vacious and ever alert for repartee.
As gentleman laughingly observed
the other day, "If Uncle Jorry Rusk,
with bis bombs and balloons and all
that sort of thing, means 10 bring
clouds and storm and wet, I'll bet that
If he takes his daughter along her
smile will upset all his plans. No
cloud could Withstand the sunshine Of
that smile. even if it wee OF Uncle
Jerry's own make"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06

~These hremen must he a frivolous
set said Mr.. Spillkins, who was read
ing paper.
~Why sof"
Il read in the paper that after Ere
was under control tie firemen played
all night on the ruins. Why didn't
they go home and go to bed like sensi.
BILE men, instead OF romping about
like children G"--Terds Strings.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06

faith In this beliefis somewhat shaken
by the following, which may be found
in Woods Natural History" Accord
ing to popular belief, these three Great
ures live very harmoniously together
but observation has shown that the
snake and the owl are interlopers, liv-
ing in the burpow because the poor
owner cannot turn them out and find
ing an easy subsistence off the young
prairie dogs
We were satisfed with this for o
time, but judge the astonishment cre-
ated when klliot Coues, in one of his
latest wriings, makes the following
statementia speaking OF the burrowing
owl: Il have. found colonies IN Kansas
aud other Ststos,in all cases occupying
the deserted burrows OF the quadru-
peds, not living in common with them,
usually supposed
Naturalists are DOW telling us that
the opossum does not play possum,
but is merely paralyzed with fear for
the time being; articles are published
every day in our pathological papers
aud magazines which go to prove that
owls can see rs we'll by day as by
night. II is still an undecided ques-
ton whether snakes charm" their
prey or not. In the Western back
woods these odd stories are still be-
lieved in, the ignorant classes cling
with fondness to them and will not
learn anything different, and down in
our hearts do we not all of us cling to
them, more or less? Do we not hate
to give them mp, and is it not with o
little regret that we are forced to ac-
knowledge that tho porchpino does not
shoot his quilts. that the bird of para
disc really has feet aud legs. and that
our national bird, the white headed
eagle, is far from the noble bird we
once thought him. to be s-ForeSt and
Stream.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06
A Sad Condition.

First Bank President-Did. you see
about the president of the Ninth Ma
tional? No sooner was he dead than
they discovered that he had defaulted
TO the amount of 800, 900.
Second Bank President-Yes, / saw
It. 1t is getting 50 bank president
can't die with any safety.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06
Three Recommendations.

"What do you think of this baccarat
scandal?" asked Shingles.
"Baccarat," replied Duks0e; you
mean baccaraw. don't you?"
as that the way to pronounce it
@(lf coss-sai IN lasva IL m Tlinwid-
@All right! Dinwiddie, how do you
pronounce this game that the Prince
of Wales and Sir William Gordon
Cumming played at Tranby Croft?"
Il pronounce it bad, sir; very bid
tough. In fact. '-Pihsbur0 CkSonicle.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06
HI. own Funeral.

Capt. Ben Wakefield. OF Bfddeford,
who lost his life Monday. once at
tended his own funeral, being one Of
the few men who have had that privi-
lege, says the Bangor (Me) CONNER
ctdL He had gone on q fishing trip
down on the Grand Banks and had
been away from home q good while
without his family hearing from him.
The same season had proved very dis
astrous to plumber Of other fishermen
who went out from thsreabouss, and
the vessel Capt. Ben was in had her
share of hard luck. and the report
reached home that she, with her crew,
was lost. Time passed and Capt. Ben
did not reSnrn. until al last his family
gave mp oil hope that he had bsen
saved and q day was SET for the mem
orial services. The services were held
in the church at Cape Porpoise. The
minister had offered prayer for the ab
sent fisherman who was supposed
have found his grave m the sea, and
was just beginning his sermon wheu
Capt. Ben walked i1to the church.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06
Startling Prescription.

~These symptoms would soon leave
you" said the physician, eff you would
get up early in the morning. put on a
pair cf stout walking shoes, and 90 out
for tramp"
SEQ out for a trampl" echoed the
astonished lady. "Why. doctor. there's
a dozen Of the creatures ct my kitchen
door every day in the yearl"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06
LIsi,< On n MISTY Legend.

CustomeS-What do you mean, sir,
by saying that you are selling at cost?
I've been in this business myself, and
I know your prices are up 100 per
cent.
Isenstein-Vell, We are selling at
cosd-vat il cosd the cusdomes.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06

Mrs. Dresser Why, John, why do
you go on so about eating shad? I'm
sure the bones don't annoy me ct all.
Mr.. Dressep-Of course they don'ti
You never feed 20 much at home %
when you have your mouth fulbof pins.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06
Alarming symniom.

Mr.. and Mrs. Billus were on their
WAY home -fnona. an auanine- as11---------
John" inquired Mrs. Billus anx-
iously, "are you sick?"
NO." he answered. "Why?"
Because you haven't said anything
about my doing all the talking at Mrs.
Chugwatey's and making a blamed
fool of myself in my usual wsy"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06

Efow cumming and HIS Ameriean Bride
Passed Their Boneymoon
The notorioas haccarat scandal,
which lately set all the world agog
and shook the greatest throne of mod
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06
He Carried Them Long Enouch.

Postmaster-So you would like Q
position as letter carrier. Have you
ever had any experience?
Applicant-Yes, sir; my wife has
always given me all her letters to post.
You might ask her.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06
HUMOR OF THE WEEK.
STORIES TOLD BY FUNNY MEN
OF THE PRESS.

Many Odd. Curious. and ksughabIS
Phases of Human Nature Graphically
Portrayed by Eminent Word Artists %
Our own Day.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06
Ambiguous.

Clerk Ito patent medicine mani
Here is a curious credential from one
of our customers.
Medicine Manfred it.
Clerk-"Defore 1 took your Elixir
my face was sight. You ought to
see it now. Send me another bottle
for my mother-in-law."- Brooklyn
Life.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06


ductive of many incidents of both humor
and pathos. Therefore, determined to
make my return trip to America, after
five weeks holiday In Europe, means
of observation aud profit cannot now
say, pleasure.
Cousignlng my baggage TO the care OF
q friend who travelled by tho saloon, |
content myself with the toughest suit Of
clothes can find, and armed with a
huge bundle, consisting of a mattress. a
heavy rug. brush and comb. towel and
soap, tin cup, two tin plat S, and knife,
fork and spoon, embark upon the ten
der at Princes Landing, Liverpool, En-
gland, and amidst an uncomfortable
crowd OF people and baggage, find my
self on my way to "the ship that's to
carry me over"
At last we reach her, aud mount to
the upper deck, having my bundle thrown
up after mo in \ very unceremonious
manner
1 already begin to realize that am
not feeling very happy grasp my bun
die and look around. "Down stairs, I"
says q grutf voice, and another uncere-
moniOuS shove brings me opposite a
rickety-looking ladder, down which
have TO climb My incumbrance causes
me rather TO fall than walk down. and
when reach the lower deck, / sit on
the bundle and sigh.
haven't been sitting there minute
before l gel another ungentle shove,
-snd srufror--v0tv0- o~oisi.-.s,--snos
stairs!s
~Whatl" gasp, "more dcscent?"
Then look down large opening into
what l thought was the hold for cargo
or cattle, and see more rickety ladders
with iron guides, and almost weep as l
land on the first step and roll down the
rest.
as this the steeragc?" ask
Eyes; get your bunk" is the reply.
SECT your bunk?' I murmur, plain
lively; ~but where am to get it?"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06
Didnr Strike Him rs Us~sa :,

Didn't strike Him rs U..-sa.
Sunday School Teacher-T8m my. in
this conflict of David with Goliath
what great lesson may we leal I'm P1
.Tommy-I don't see nothing very b;0
in it, ma'am. David viii kped Of
course, bat the prophet SAD uel had
been coaching him right alonGA'
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06

The first city organized was New
York, when in 1852 she received her
charter as New Amsterdam.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06

The evidence thus far adduced m
dicates that Sir William Gordon Cum
ming married the pick Of the Garner
family and that she isn't likely to be
spoiled by being taken into the best"
society.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06
In A SHIPS STEERAGE.
ACROSS THE OCEAN ON A SEC
OND-CLASS TICKET.

Experience OF a Passenger who Tried IL
from Curiosity-Huddled Like Cattle
Immigrants Roughly 1rrnted--sisl sass fss
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06

CONSISTENCY is q jewel and is ge
orally worn, as other jewels are,
vain show.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06
Relaxation.

First Boston BELIEF ibe to talk
with New York man.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-06

HAVE spent twelve
days In tho steerage
OF an emigrant ship,
and / am still alive.
The steerage OF an
cmigrant vessel =
even though II be on
an Atlantic liner-is
"a by no means
lpalatial abode, aad
the consorting to-
gether OF compara-
tive strangers for
days in a confined
enaeo fnnst he nrO.