Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-11-10
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


traversed with sledges without serious
difficulty. Greenland would seem TO
offer the most practicable route to the
pole. Stone houses as supply stations
could be constructed and stored with
food and other Decessaries at sufficient
intervals In the heart of the Gre inland
continent, and In this way the pole could
be reached and its magic and magnetic
mysteries unlocked. 1t is the last grand
secret that the surface of our earth con-
ceals, and IL is not in the nature OF men
In this advanced and daring age to per-
nit such secret to be much longer with
held. The New Orleans Picayune is
convinced that the pole can never be
seached by ships. Greenland projects
as an enormous tongue OF granite far into
the Polar Sea and perhaps with craggy
peak marks the site of the pole Who
will be the daring explorer to attain iti
THE San Francisco Examiner declares
that the need OF new system OF forestry
in America is coming gradually to be
understood by larger and larger num-
der of people. The system or no-system
of turning the forests over TO the lumber
men to be destroyed as rapidly as possible
has been followed too long, but the
popular sentiment that shall change all
this is being reused. 1t is coming to be
understood that forest preservation does
not mean the withdrawal of forest lands
from sthe-use of the people or the cutting
off of the supply of timber. On the
contrary the reservation of public forest
land is to secure its free use to the public,
and to bring the forests under manage
ment that shall furnish a steady supply
of lumber and fuel without impairing the
forests. 1t is only by public ownership
and public administration that this object
can be secured, and any force that aids
in establishing national system is to be
welcomed.
KICKING BEAR, the famous war chief
of the Ogalalla Sioux, who was the lead
ing spirit in the ghost dancing and in
surrectfon that led to the bloody affair
at Wounded Knee, has been set at liberty
and returned to Pine Ridge Agency. He
was captured by General Miles in 1890
and confined for while at Fort Sheridan.
Afterward he was allowed to go to Europe
under the charge of Buffalo Bill, in the
hope that an idea of the greatness OF
civilization would tame him. He came
back, however, full Of warlike spirit,
threatening to go on the warpath as soon
as he reached his people. For this reason
he was again imprisoned at Fort Sheridan,
and has only rcgained his liberty on
solemn promise to refrain from hostilities.
II he had been white man, he would
have been hung long ago for his many
murders.
SIR JAMES CREIGHTON BROWNE de-
livered an address on "Tooth culture"
the other day at Cambridge, England.
He referred TO the alarming increase OF
decay in the teeth in this country, espec-
tally among the young. In Leeds 80 per
cent. of the teeth of the population are
bad, and in England 10, 900, coo artificial
teeth are used annually. Sir James
ascribed the increase of dental decay to
pulpiness and softness of the food in
modern times, and other causes. Sir
James advocated increased attention to
the state of the teeth, and the periodical
inspection of all school children.
THERE is now in operation in Denmark
law giving every Danish subject, man
and woman, the right to pension at
sixty years of age. Exception is made
Of persons who have been convicted of
crime; who have fraudulently made over
their property to relatives or others; who
have brought themselves to distress by
extravaganza or cvil-living; who have
during the preceding ten years received
relief from the Poor law; or who have
aa--safn1 Nf ,,,an6anifx- Annlinn-
tons are to be addressed to the parish,
who will make all inquiries, and fix the
amount of the relief to be granted.
THE vast extent of the territory covered
by and tributary to the Great Lakes and
the volume of business transacted there
on are little known. The total basic
area is 100000 square miles, embraces
the globe, and the coast line in the
United States extends over 5000 miles.
The extreme distance in the United
States east and west is 1879 miles and
north and south 500 miles. Bordering
on the lakes are eight states, with a total
population of over 26, 000,0 900. In these
eight states are over thirty-six cities
having a population exceeding 10000
each and six having over 100, 900 each.
THE advertisement of the brigand
Candino, in the Journal of Sicily, COM
planning of correspondents letter, is
curiously illustrative Of the march of
civilization. He is still pursuing his
profession at the head of considerable
band, and he begs to state through
your esteemed columns" for which pur-
pose he forwards one dollar that the
remarks in question are injurious to him.
1--WE do not touch the poor who work
for their living, but only the rich. Nor
do we kill persons with a dagger, as is
| UNANIMOUSLY asserted of the man Cassctaro
we shot him."
THE continued absence of Mr.. Winans
| who has not visited his vast Highland
deer forests for five years, is provoking
the criticism of the Scotch newspapers.
These preserves, in the north of Scotland,
stretch from sea to sea, and Mr.. Winans
pays an annual rental of S25, 900 for the
territory. The point is made that an
| American should not be permitted to
keep such a great tract locked up fol
wears when there is such dearth of land
| for pasturage and other purposes.
THE city of Bremen has spent 80, 900,
600 marks, or about 81, 500, 600, in making
the Weser navigablc. Big steamships
can now go up to the city instead OF
being obliged to discharge cargo and
land passengers at Bremerhaven, necessi-
tating for the latter car-ride Of a couple
Of hours or so.
Fuel on Ocean Steamers.