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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08

Farmer Heagle beat his breast ana
tore his hair In mute despair. Then
he had an inspiration. He took of
his hat and coat and carefully laid
them on the brink OF the ruined we'll.
Then he secreted himself under a
neighboring haystack and awaited
developments. Soon neighbor pass
ed the place and went to the well to
inspect 1t. He discovered its pre-
carious condition, and seeing Hea-
gle's coat and hat near by, naturally
concluded that the unfortunate man
had been engulfed In the ruin and
was now lying at the bottom of his
we'll. Impelled by a feeling OF hui
manity he ran to the neighboring
farm houses and gave the alarm. The
news spread like a flash, and before
long vast concourse OF farmers had
congregated around the spot. With
picks and spades they dug away at
the well until they had 1t completely
excavated. 1t was a long and labor
ious piece of work, but sympathy for
the unfortunate man and an earnest
desire to rescue him lent strength to
the laborers. At length the task
was completed and the well dug out.
There was no vestige of Heagle. Az
ter searching for him in vain, the
tired workers went home. Then
Heagle emerged from his hiding
place, thankful that human sympathy
had not entirely died out from the
face of the earth. New York Sun.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08

or not The only thing to Judge by is
In the character OF the planet gathered
by careful inspection through telescopes.
Astronomers are confident that they
have seen the eternal SHOWS of the two
polar regions of our neighbor world.
They are confident that its continents are
red, and that its seas are green, and
they are equally sure that It's seas do
not cover more than one-fourth of it's
surface. The seas on our plan ct
cover three-fourths of the world, which
points the comparison.
The scarcity of water in Mars is its
most remarkable feature.
The theory that people really do in
habit the planet is borne out by the fact
that Professor Schiarparelli Is confident
that he has discovered that Mars has
been trayersed by gigantic canals. 1t
Is easy to see that il there are canals on
the planet 1t is a surety that people
must have built them.
The idea, too. is strengthened by the
discovered fact that there is a scarcity
of water in the planet. Necessarily the
planet must be irrigated in that manner,
and as there are canals, the conclusion
is that there must be people there.
How the Canals Look.
The canals of the planet Mars are be-
ieved to have been cut for thousands Of
miles across the land to connect with
the seas. They are green in color, like
the water, and, in order to be visible
through our telescopes, they must be
from 100 to 400 miles in length. They
must also be about 200 miles wide.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08
Has His Revenge.

-Ha! ha' hal" laughed Reggy Mer-
riman, "ha! hal hal" and he stuffed
another suit into his overcrowded
valise.
"Well, old man." said his college
chum, who was helping him pack,
"what do you find so funny in your
thoughts just nova penny for
them!"
"Oh, they're worth more-they're
rich-such a joke, ha, hal"
Explain, or I'll dump the contents
Of this valise on the floor again"
do you see that box?"
"Yes, old man; what Of it?"
"It's full of Christmas presents.
ooh, come off, you're crowding the
season."
"Wait bit. They're my Christmas
presents. That is the joke. Say?"
"Yes, old man."
@You know / have cousin Jenny
in Jackson?"
"Yes."
"She's in the joke; and there's my
married sister EN- at Lansing, and
Bob's wife at Pontiac, and Lii and
Kate; they are other fellows sisters.
Oh, how do love those girls, and
they, every one, will get Christmas
present out of that box"
@Why, what's in it?"
"The presents they sent me every
Christmas for the past six years, ha!
hal"
But what are they?"
"Have patience. They'll save me
lot of money"
Tell me, so / can adopt the same
scheme"
"I'll send them back all their own
presents. Ha, hal"
But, for heavens sake, what are
they?"
"Suspenders, man! Embroidered
suspenders! Ha, ha! Revenge is
sweet! Ha, ha, ha!"-Free Press.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08
Pulse of Animals.

The pulse of the horse can be most
easily detected upon the lower jaw,
just forward Of the curved portion,
where the artery crosses the cord and
bone at the same time; it may also
be felt, and often its pulsations seen,
upon the long ridge above the eye, or
may be found inside the elbow. In
health it beats forty times a minute,
and when more rapid it denotes fever
or excitement. If slower, weakness.
In cattle it may be found over the
middle of the first rib, or in the ar.
terry upon the anlrlo Joint and should
have from fifty to fifty-flve beats a
minute.
Ia sheep 1t is easiest found near
the middle Of the inside of the thigh,
and should beat seventy-flve to eighty
times per minute. Although not in
cluded In the query, we add that the
rapidity of breathing is often as In
dicative of disease as the pulse, and
while the horse naturally breathes
nine to twelve times per minute,
cattle vary from eleven to fifteen
times, and faster or slower indicates
nearly the same thing as it does In
the pulse unless it results from over
exertion. Cultivator.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08
The Discovery of Tea.

BY whom or when the virtues of
tea as beverage were discovered is
"lost in the wide revolving shades of
centuries passed" The famous herb
is spoken of In Chinese annals as far
back as $500 years b. c., at which
time its cultivation and classified
ton was as much of an art as it is to-
day.
Tradition says that its virtues were
discovered by accident. King Shen
Nung She, "The Divine Husband
man." who hourished forty centuries
ago, was boiling water over a fire one
evening when some tea leaves hang
ing over the vessel were loosened by
the heat and fell into the steaming
fluid. Nung She partook of the de-
coction while 1t was hot "and felt
himself renewed in limb and sight
for seven days thereafter" Then
and there he consecrated tea as the
sacred beverage of China.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08
bicycle Wheels for Studies.

A well-known Boston horseman is
experimenting with an innovation on
the present style of sulky, which
promises to revolutionize racing
methods. This consists In using
bicycle wheels, % inches in diameter,
fitted with pneumatic tires, instead
OF the large wheels now employed.
All experts say that this invention
will increase the ease of trotting and
the horses rapidity, since no time is
lost nor effort required in turning
on the course. The constant jar,
which increases as the horses gait
becomes more rapid, is also done
away with.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08
Not Sold by the Dozen.

In the windows of a Broadway
book store was recently exhibited set
of Pickering's Shakespeare, in eight
16mo volumes. The books are mas
terpieces of the printers and binders
art. They are bound in half mo-
rocco, with the covers beautifully
fooled. The volumes caught the eye
of a good old woman, who had no
doubt been seeking bargains in dry
goods stores. She popped into the
place and, pointing at the works,
said to the salesman: "How much
air them Shakspeares dozen?"
Ninety dollars for the set of
eight" blandly answered the man.
Ninety" and she turned and
fled, forgetting her usual, well, l
think I'll call again. New York
Tribune.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08

| build floating cities. where they may
enjoy the climate near the water. while
the interior Is uninhabitable
wonderful cities.
A city built on steel or iron aulls-for
irox Is the metal OF Mars chained
CLOSELY together and built upon wood
and metal. would be practicable any
where, but would be necessary In a
world where the land Is dry and arid.
II there are people IN Mars, they must
possess much skill and intelligence. SO
they would probably have wit enough to
tow their floating cities to northern lati-
tudes In summer. AS the winter sea-
son approaches they would obviously
float them southwark, following up the
climate, as the American Indians do
with their skin lodges and women and
children.
II people can construct such enor-
nous works as canals of the dimensions
told in the foregoing, It would be inn
possible to tell where the limit of their
skill would reach. They must be far
ahead OF Americans as engineers and me-
chanics. What other astonishing tri-
umphs as mechanical origlnators they
have achieved must be left to the future
to discover.
Wnbb AUTONOMOUS THINK.
zone circumstance, says Professor
Proctor, that may at first excite sur
prise is the fact that in a planet so
much farther from the sun than the
world there should exist so close re-
semblance to the earth in respect to
climatic relations.
But II we consider the results of
Tyndale's researches on the radiation
Nf har hot q ,f.d
crate increase In the quantity of certain
vapors present in our atmosphere would
suffice to render the climate of the
earth intolerable through excess of heat
just as glass walls cause a dollhouse
to be warm long after the sun has set
we shall not fail to see that Mars may
readily be compensated by correspond
ing arrangement for his increased dis
tance from the vivifying center Of his
solar system.
Professor Swift says that there Is
certainly something that is mysterious
In the topography of the planet, as
viewed from the earth.
Some Of it's markings" he adds, ARE
changeable. and appear as clouds, while
others seem stable and are indicative OF
solidity. As, however, Mars rotates on
its axis 50 slowly, no belts like those
environing Jupiter and Saturn are
visible.
THAT Mars is inhabited Is an under
stood fact. That it was created to that
end is verify, but whether it Is or not
is only question that we can judge by
understanding its availability for the
giving OF life to human beings. No
telescope has yet been discovered that
truly tells that fact"
Prof. Schiaparelli is the only astron-
omer that has managed to draw a chart
OF Mars that as planet exists only in
the minds OF other not quite so famous
astronomers.
Aside from the discoveries OF the
Italian professor, tho credit OF finding
that Prof. Schiaparelli is correct must
be awarded TO the famous Lick OBJ
servatory at San Francisco. The money
to build this magnificent observatory
was furnished by Mr.. Lick, and It has
we'll demonstrated his faith that it was
needed by the fact that it has told the
world that Mars is probably another
planet like ours.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08
The Dun Done For.

A gentleman has just died in Paris
who owed most or his celebrity to
the quaint manner in which he man
aged to disembarrass himself of his
creditors. No sooner did a dun pre-
sent himself than he was ushered into
a room hung round with variety Of
mirrors, some convex, others concave,
etc. In one the unfortunate creditor
beheld himself with head as fat as
founder; in another his features
were nearly as sharp as knife: in a
third he had several heads; in a
fourth he was upside down. Here he
had the broad grin of clown, there
the long-drawn yisage Of an under
taker,d On one side of the room he
saw himself all head and no body, on
the other side it seemed as if dwarf
had put on the boots of giant. No
applicant, however pressing, was
known to resist this chamber of
horrors for more than quarter Of an
hour
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08
Noble Smelling.

Many a man has been sorry that
he ever put himself into the power Of
a dealer in patent medicine. A re-
cent example is furnished by a men,
Der of the British nobility.
The Duke of -, out Of feelings
Of gratitude, we may assume, gave a
testimonial to the proprietors OF a
patent cure for snoring, and they,
naturally enough, circulated litho-
graphed copy of the letter by way of
advertisement The result is that
everybody is asking where the duke
went to school. And the duke, we
are told, recognizing the fact that
the word "effcaccious" has a strange
look in print, has vowed never to pen
another testimonial without a die
tionary at his elbow.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08

sented in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, you are
ready to construct the game repre-
sented in Fig. 7.
Press on the ends of the first pod
Gig. ~ so as to bend it and move
the fiber away from it. Then pass
this fiber, bent double, through the
hole in the bean Gig. 81 so as to pass
the fiber of Fig. 2 into the buckle
which is formed by the fiber on the
other side of the bean.
Now bend back the first pod; its
fiber will come out of the hole in the
bean, and that of the other pod will
enter by bending double.
The problem is to get the bean
without breaking anything.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08

i52, 304, 900 miles, exceeds It's least,
l26, S1S, 600, by more than $4,000, 600
miles. When 1t Is nearest to the earth
It is in opposition.
Now the foregoing statement Is tech
meal, and TO the layman's mind tells
little. What the average man can see
when looking through telescope at
Mars is q great big star. Z,
What Mars Is.
It doesn't seem to be anything else,
but II 10. People who have made q
study of the planet believe that 1t is a
good deal like the world, and while they
do mt go so far as to actually say 30,
they think it possible that 1t is lnhab-
tied. It was some fifteen years ago
that Mars first became q planet that
had any, earthly interest to the people
who live on this globe.
A very wise man that used to sit up
nights and look at the sky through q
telescope first made known the fact that
Mars was good Ceal like the earth In
It's shape, and also uttered the startling
theory that he thought 1t possible that
the planet was inhabited.
People laughed at him just then. and
ne faded into the oblivion that comes to
people who are in the habit OF discover
ing facts ahead of time. > 49,
But after him came q man who told
the same thing again In new way. and
who now has got to a point where the
world Is beginning to believe that he is
right. ,,.
professor schiapareIli the Man
The man Is Professor Schiaparelli, OF
Milan, Italy. He says that in his opin-
ION the planet Mars is not simply neb-
ulous quantity of vapor, but It Is solid
substance on which animals and men
exist. az
He found that the planet has diam
eter Of about 1000 miles. BY careful
calculation he Is confident that Its year
consisted Of 6S7 days. and that each
day in time was forty minutes longer
planet Yves made up Of water and
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08
Liked 1t Seasoned.

He went into a Twenty-eight h
street restaurant and sat down at the
first table near the door, says the
New York Commercial Advertiser
square-built man with glasses, and
a mustache that turned up at the
corners. He glanced over the bill of
fare, picked up a fan, and told the
waiter, with the air of Supreme
court judge handing down a decision
Of national import, that he had de-
cided to eat watermelon. They
brought him luscious, blushing slab
of the toothsome ground fruit. Then
he put it through course of sprouts
which would seem to have eliminated
every vestige of the natural flavor Of
the fruit. First he dosed it literally
with salt. Pepper followed in pro-
portion. Then he astonished the
waiter, cashier, and diners generally
by shaking the Worcestershire sauce
bottle over the cold Wand. He ate
down to the rind with apparent
gusto, and arose to go with an ex-
preston on his face as of one who
hears for the first time the music of
the spheres. IL was sublime.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08
Took a Desperate Measure.

An English writer tells an amusing
story Of a country-hOuse where reg
ular daily routine is observed, and
where no chance is given one Of
breaking the monotony. 1t is Of a
man who wanted to stay in a country
house, thinking it would give him
the opportunity Of proposing to a
girl with whom he had been in love
for long time. His visit was to last
fortnight, but the last evening
came without his having had one
chance of being alone with. her dur
ing the whole time. AS he sat at
dinner (of course he was at the oppo-
site end Of the table to where she
was), he felt that the time was fast
passing away, and in a few hours he
would no longer be in the same house
with her. When the ladies went to
the drawing-room, he would have to
sit on in the dining-room. His host
might allow him to look in at the
drawing-room for a few minutes that
evening, hut after that his presence
would be required in the billiard
room. In utter desperation he took
up the menu card, and on it wrote:
"Will you marry me?" He doubled
it up, telling the butler to give it to
the lady in question. He did so.
She read 1t, and with the perfect
sang froid born only OF the nineteenth
century, said: "Tell the gentleman,
Yes. "-Argonaut.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08

At the insane asylum on Black
wells Island it is said that when the
insane are first committed they are
visited by family and friends. The
friends drop of, but father, mother
sisters and brothers return week by
week, month by month. Then the
brothers appear no more. At length
the father leaves to the mother and
sisters the duty of looking after the
afflicted son or daughter. The girls
marry, and husband and babies claim
their time. Then the day comes
when the mother alone is seen. Year
in and year out, unmlndful OF the
weather, unheeding the season, comes
the mother. When she comes no
more they know at the asylum that
she is dead.-Argonaut
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08
Commission ON Funerals.

The latest method adopted by
Partisan undertakers for increasing
their business is a circular notifying
house-owners that they will be paid
a handsome commission II they will
promptly send word to an undertaken
as soon as one of their tenants dies.
On flrst-class funeral the commits
sion will amount to $40, to which
may be added a commission of 8 per
cent. on all wreaths purchased by
relatives and friends of the deceased.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08

one Of the young ladies at Eldorado.

one of the young ladies at Eldorado.
In fact. all substances would be re-
duced In weight by transfer from our
world to Mars. Upon that planet our
oak would become as light as cork, Our
gold would be as light as tin. A glass
of wine that wouldn't affect the small
est child in this world. would make a
man in Mars feel that he owned that
and several other planets.
This statement may cause a sudden
exodus Of people to the planet.
~ Il Mars Inhabited?
The question just now is: Is Mars in
habited2
No one knows, of course, whether 1t is
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08
How TO Care for Boots.

Much damage is done by brushing
off dried mud from thin calf and kid
boots with hard bristle brushes, and
still more by the use Of common
backing. In the case Of ladies'
boots, made OF fine and soft leather,
both treatments are ruinous. When
boots are very muddy remove the
dirt with damp sponge or paint
er's sash tool and a little water.
Glace kid boots, etc, should be
sponged, allowed to dry and then
thoroughly polished with a soft rag
or handkerchief which is slightly oil
ed occasionally. York World.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08

land, Just like our world. IL has, he
says, seas and continents and rivers.
Al to It's density, II differs very little
from that OF the earth. Gravitation at
IN this world. A man who weighs $50
pounds upon this mundane sphere would
weigh about 90 pounds on Mars. The
most obese OF American stout people
would. II he lived on Mars, become so
light that he could dance as easily as
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08

the world on which we live of all the
great superior planets that make the
solar system. Mars travels around the
sun In q mean sidereal period OF CSC. 9767
days. on an orbit inclined one degree
and flfty-one minutes to the plane Of the
ocliptic, at a mean distance OF 1S9, 311,-
900 miles from the sun.
This orbit Is considered eccentric,
insomuch that Its greatest distance,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08
MAP OF THE SURFACE OF MARS.

But recently this planet has been In
what the astronomers call opposition.
That is very like saying to the average
mind that peas and beans multiplied by
cabbage make roast beef. So to find
out exactly what the meaning OF Apo
sition lie one must first learn something
about the history of the planet Mars.
After that you can put on an easy air Of
knowledge. -
Mars is the fourth planet in order OF
distance from the sun. It is nearest to
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08

Old Farmer Heagle in Chemung
needed water for his stock and began
to sink a well. 1t was a laborious
task. Gradually the work neared its
completion and its success seemed as
sured. Alas, one day, just as he was
putting on the finishing touches, the
well caved in and the labor Of weeks
came to naught. For few moments
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08

Up to within q short time ago very few
people had anything but an indistinct
Idea OF this planet. Everybody that
knew anything about astronomy knew,
Of course. all about Mars. but when q
man is harvesting his grain crop, watch-
ing the course Of the stock market. or try
ing 10 pick the winners at horse race.
he isn't paying much attention to as
tronomy. All the view that the average
man has Of the planet IL gained by look
ing at the heavens through the bottom
Of a soda water glass.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08
THE baleful effects Of war upon

THE baleful effects Of war upon
business enterprises and upon the de-
velopment and application Of invent
i've genius are evidenced In the
history of the first Atlantic telegraph
cables. The laying of the first cable
was barely accomplished when an ac-
cident caused its disuse. The civil
war in the United States, Immediate
ly following, exhausted every energy
of the American people, and all at
tempts to relay the cable were post
poned till 1866, the year after the
war ended.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08
THE MAGIC BEAN POP.
A Little Game which wan Require Sol
Study.

N 4AtAA0 O@AAAE W sAA"s* ~ - @<@A&e&0 1~*--'~
study.
Take your knife and make two
parallel incisIons in the lower part
of the pod, shown in Fig. in our
illustration. DO this so that the fiber
which unites the two ends will be
separated, except at the extremities,
as shown In Fig. 2.
Scrape with your knife the inner
surface OF this fiber, so as to make it
flexible, and then empty the pod of
its beans.
Make a hole In the middle Of a
bean Gig. 81 large enough to allow
the fiber, bent double, to pass
through it.
Then cut the ends Of another pod,
leaving intact the fiber which unites
them.
With these three elements, repre-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08

the absence OF
wooden blinds Oh
shutters a very
serious inco n
venience VIII g n
the sun reached
its highest point
In the heavens,
writes a CORE
spondent. 1t was
decided to seek a
way out of the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08

GOULD never offered his palatial
yacht for sale until Vanderbilt came
near being drowned and Kaiser Will
helms Meteor was left trailing by the
English cracks. Gould knows when
to get from under.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08

PATTI the "diva" intimates that she
has never been party to the "fare-
well" swindle perpetrated so many
times in her name. 1t Is all the
fault of her rascally managers. A
scapegoat is a convenience, even In
operatic business.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08

MOSQUITOES don't know very much
about law, but they always try to
bleed a man as soon as they are adj
mitted to the bar.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-08
OUR BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SAYINGS AND DO
INOS HERE AND THERE.

Jokes and Jokelets that Are Supposed 20
Have Been Recently Born-sayings and
Doings that Are Odd, Curious and
Laughable.