Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-16
wooden cloth to sleep. and generally
seems very contented aud friendly

wooden cloth to sleep. and generally
seems very contented aud friendly
A CURIOUS discovery has been made at
the Scilly Islands. Considerable damage
has recently been caused 20 the narclssus
and daffodil bulbs on the islands by a
worm which eats out the heart OF the
root and thus destroys Il o flower BY
carefully Matching out the chrysalis to
which the worm turns on eating its way
out OF the bulb, Mr.. I. G. Dorien-
Smith, OF Tresco. the lord Of the isles,
has conclusively proved that fly. much
resembling bee. and which has hither-
To been looked upon as harmless, Is the
cause of the mischief.
THE latest dinner nov, lily, according
TO the San Francisco Argonaut Il the
serving Of lettuce grown under the eyes
of the guests. The secret OF performing
this feat lies in soaking terminating
lettuce seed in alcohol for about six
hours, and sowing it in an equal mix
ture of unslaked lime and rich SOIL Alter
the soup has been served, sprinkle the
seeds with lnkcwarm water. and they
will sprout Immediately, the lettuce
growing 10 the size of hazelnuts before
the time for serving the salad arrives.
SOME OF the peculiar customs OF the
East Indian coolies, called Lascars, are
very amusing 10 Americans. For in
stance, they always eat their food in the
orcn air. with their faces toward the
west and the greatest insult a white
man or "Giaour" can offer them is to
walk between them and the sun while
they are eating, causing his shadow to
fall on their food, which Immediately
become unclean.
QUITE freak in the way of vege-
table was grown in the garden Of Mrs,
Roane at Lexington, Ga. 1t is double
radish, or rather two radishes, growing
under one top. One IL red and the other
white, both distinctly formed, the white
being below the red. the two connected
by stem a half inch long. IL is GER
tainly rare freak, and has excited the
curiosity of all who have seen it.
A PETROLEUM spring has been discov-
cred at Vannes, in Brittany, by curious
accident A peasants wife drawing
water from a spring on the border oil
Lake Homet was struck with the curiou:
smell of the water, and was still more
surprised when she saw q vapor from II
catch fire while boiling. The water was
examined py chemist, who pronounced
it strongly mixed with petrole ln.
The body of E. M. Haskell, who has
been dead for over twenty years, was re
Gently removed from his grave, at North
field, Ind, it being purposed to put the
body in another lot. When his body
was exhumed it was found that he had a
beard of over twenty three inches long,
. His wife said that before he died he nae
been shaver, and all his hair must hav'
grown after his burial
THERE is man who lives entirely or
a Georgia train. He goes every night t.
the sleeper, pays his $3.50, and gets in
the berth and sleeps through to Augusta
Next night he goes back to Atlanta. He
has plenty of money and never has any
thing to say to the conductor or anybody
else.
]. p. McMURRAY, a farmer living nea
the Trinity River, Texas, has curiosit,
in the shape OF pig with five we'll FORMED
! legs. Tho fifth leg is between the TIVE
forelegs. 1t seems to suffer no inconve
. nience whatever in the manipulation o
the same. 1t uses all five legs in walk
ing