Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-13

rule In Spain. The King rides
bicycle.
EXPERIENCED people don't tumble
when they get In hammock, because
they know the ropes.
In Philadelphia a secondhand
bookstore advertises: "Webster's
Dictionary cents per pound"
THOUGH the action is about the
same, there's big difference between
training for RIM and running for a
train.
PRINCE BISMARCK has an income
of $3.50, 900 year. And he owns o
brewery. Could earth afford him
happier lot?
If Mr.. Astor were to try to keep
pace with his income by counting II
in silver quarters, he'd be a gibbering
idiot In weeks time.
HAVING been an actor, and written
book, there seems to be no more
worlds for John l.. Sullivan to con-
quer unless he will tackle the pulpit.
BY the recent death of two OF its
members the College Of Cardinals Is
now more nearly divided between
Italians and foreigners than for a
long time.
THE French Academy concludes q
careful study Of the problem Of arti.
fetal rain with the observation that
the solution of the problem has not
yet been found.
IT is doubtful If the astronomers
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might have been different If they had
tried Venus. It's said that a woman
can't keep secrets.
EVEN the most sanguine are now
convinced that the Iron Hall Is dead
as a door nail. The only remaining
hope of the stockholders is to get
what they can Of the assets.
ABOUT twenty missionaries and
moro than five million dollars worth
of liquors are sent to Africa every
year. Successful eyangellzation will
need few more missionaries.
SOME of Whittier's earlier poems
indicate that the good Quaker poet
might have been a fighter had not
the doctrine of non-resistance con-
strained him to the ways Of peace.
PROFESSOR TYNDALL is visiting
Switzerland and trying to compare
the huge glaciers of the mountains
with the one that buried his friend
Lord Salisbury on the Home Rule
: plateau.
? THERE are 1,022 Americans in
! China, and 100000 Cinnamon In
. America. The Chinese send million
In hard coin home to Chinae ever.
year as result Of their interference
J. with American labor.
. A MAN named Shirtoff has been ar
( rested at Lawrence, Kan, for steal
lug chickens. If he had stolen ;
, Ticket of tar also, the material
! would have been at hand for provid
!. ing him at least with coat.
: WHEN the Queen OF Portugal il
q making her own bonnets, and tn,
It Queen of Sweden doing her owl
IS housekeeping, it begins to look a
: though their respective peoples wer
d doing their own bookkeeping.
y y IT may be that the courts will fin,
: trout troubles ts- but il is doubtful. It woul
y be far better for the disputants to &c
n together and settle their differences
Litigation will not help them.
!, THE girl who has a new engage
IN ment ring and new pair Of glove
which are a perfect match for he
70 new gown at the same time is put /
state of undecided uncertainty tina
rs is simply impossible to adeQuatel
L. describe.
es The coal trust robs the poor. Ric
n. people were able to buy their co;
4 last spring when the price was tw
"a dollars a ton lower than 1t will be
w December. 1t is the man who blu!
D coal one ton at time as he needs
~ who will suffer.
THE young forger' who dumped
:. Chicago detective into sample trun
y, ~ and left him locked up has put b
ms discount on detective stories. III
he detective should have got the forg
M ~. into a Eox instead Of letting IL
ny forger get him into one. ,ris
by The biggest man in Canada
sis Leonard Whitton, of Brighton, wi
OF tips the scale at 400 pounds. NJ
let Whitton is yet under 40 years Of as
ms He measures seventy-four inch
nd around the hips, and his head mea
ire urement is twenty three inches.
aS COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK and b
It. bride will, it is said live in Austrl
re This will be inconvenient for Tic
so bert's princely dad when he wants
nd "run over" To his boys for qui
'ns smoke and a subdued bit Of sYeari
'n' at the way things are being run
the Germany.
zen A FRENCH duelist, on trial for t
up. killing of his opponent, took adva
the tage of the occasion to deliver 10
ct. speech about his business venture
has There is no necessity so widely recC
aos nized in this world nowadays as til
red of advertising. Even the "ield
of honor" is made a medium.
-, A LONDON paper is discussing t
the question whether man ought to |
rho his hat to his female servant II
1t meets her on the street. In Il
as country that question might HI
: il concerning ones wife or sister,
pie the average man here would not d;
no to think even of Haunting a basel
ret superiority in the face OF the arbl
the of his domestic destinies.
esx. In the mild and lovely parish
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