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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

DIR. PAsTEUR believes that inocu-
lation will prove as efficacious In pre-
venting cholera as in the treatment
OF smallpox. He hopes to Induce
the King of Siam to furnish him
with a number of condemned GRIM
inals to operate on. He will inocu-
late. them, and then inject virulent
cholera germs into their intestines.
Such an experiment, If 1t proved sue.
cessful, would work. vast benefit to
the human race, but it would doubt
less be regarded as cruel by many
tender-hearted people, in whom the
scientific Instinct has not been suffi-
cicntly developed. To avoid this,
and to give the poor devils of crimi-
nails some interest insthe proceedings,
the King Of Siam might pardon all
who survived the treatment. In
fact, this would be necessary to give
the experiment full value. All physi-
clans agree that nervousness must be
avoided by cholera patients. DR..
Pasteur's Siamese patients, unless
given some chance for their lives,
would be likely to be trifie nervous.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06
A Clever Tow Horse.

A Washington driver says that there is
an old gray hill horse there that some
times cannot get back to his accustomed
place at thesf of the hill in time for
the next car. ''This horse has nothing
to do with the blue line, and knows the
difference between the blue and the
brown cars. II he is on his way back to
the starting point and sees brown car
coming, this shrewd animal will turn
around and stand alongside the track
waiting for the car to reach him. No
amount of coaxing can induce him to
move, but after the car reaches him he
will pull like a Major until nc reaches
the top. Then he returns to his post,
and. when he again sees his car coming
turns and gets into position.
"a day or two ago the hill boy, in.
stead of walking back with the horse OF
riding him, as was his usual custom,
jumped on a car and rode down. The
horse saw this and stopped half way up
the hill and would not move until the boy
came after him. Whenever the boy rides
on the car the horse stops half way down
the hill, but when the boy remains with
him the old gray purses the even tenor of
his way until he reaches the bottom."--
I0ur Animal Friends.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06
-. -.i.s 20 st.s..-.a-
Oid-Time Table Manners.

=, In a book entitled domestic Man
ners Of the Middle Ages" we are told
that in those days dinner tables were
covered by a"nappe" or table cloth.
Upon it was placed large salt.cel
lar, bread, and cups for wine, but no
knives or plates. The reason for the
absence of knives arose from the CON-
mon practice in vogue OF people car
rying their own knives in a sheath
attached to their girdle. In an early
work, written by Lydgate-~Rules
for Behavior at Table"--the guests
are told to bring no knives unsecured
to the table, which can only mean
that each one was to keep his own
knife--that Is, the one he carried
with him-clean. Among the ancient
Romans all articles OF food we're cut
into small pieces before being carried
to the table. For cutting meat per
sons of rank kept a carver, designated
the scissors or carptor, who ha1.the
only knife placed on the table,
House Furnishing Review.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

set forth charming novelty In the way
OF fashions for the young, a grain-yellow
crepe garnitured. with Russian tulle.
The skirt is set off with a. deep hounce
run with two cords. the material being
doubled where 1t is thus run. The skirt
is slightly pleated front and back.
| There Is a pleated collar and also yoke.
The corselet is of black MORE. The
dress should be lined with silk or al
paca. 3 s.. =. 2
While with the young folks must
be careful not to neglect the claims OF
the household tots, for they invaria bly,
fulfill scripture by proving that tho last
shall be first. In the old countries they
are usually served with a diet of por-
ridge and bundled off to bed with the
fowls, but in this country they seem to
know instinctively that it is a land of
liberty, and refuse TO be SO ignominous-
~ hustled out OF the way when there are
pudding and Ice cream In the air. The
fourth illustration shows the front and
back view OF very pretty dress for n
child. the material being atpale-rose
pongee, with sash of the same shade
with figured design In green. and deep
lace drapery around the neck and bot
tom OF the skirt. .t3s
1t has taken the fashionable world q
long while to learn the charms. OF coun-
try life during October, but they are
making up for lost time, for the town is
quite deserted nowadays In early au-
tumn, or at least is filed with strangers
and sight-seers. City homes are not
opened and furnished up till the arrival
Of those really melancholy days which
poets claim are the saddest OF the year.
Meanwhile, all goes merry and mad at
the country seats. They chase anise-,
seed bags over the.hills, ride out to wit
ness October games, or drive to the
cotnty fair, where the racing is quite as
interesting as at the great meets earlier
in the season.
October styles are set before you in
the last picture. The figure on the left
displays Russian blouse over a dress
OF apricot silk, lace passementerie to
correspond, large black lace hat with
bows OF apricot ribbon making up cos
tune OF charming brightness and sim
plicity. The material of the dress on
the right is an almond-green canvas,
small vest of gouzo of tho same shade
with stripes OF deeper green.
l am more and more convinced that
the great designers intend to exhaust
their art on corsages thiscoming season,
rather than on skirts. Skirts win keep
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

SKIN, combined with pluck. over
brute force. his doubtful A a more
unspeakable ruffian than Sullivan
ever entered the ring, and az long as
he was'@champion" it was dominated
by toughs- No matter how the con-
test ended, the public is TO be con-
graduated on its ending. The bruis-
ers have had their inning, and atten-
tion may now be secured for the de-
cent and rational concerns of life.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

you. All married women should. edu-
cate their husbands to take interest In
their gowns; it makes 1t easier to pay
the bills
Speaking OF bills, they promise to
cause groaning among those who have
to pay them this fall, for the great de-
signers have fairly outdone themselves
Thora will hA embarrassment of choice
when you come TO gaze upon the beau
tiful gowns in which there are at times
reminders OF all the great epochs-
Directory, Empire, Henry H., Louis
Nv, and even Louis XVI. / am quite
sure that some purists in style will cry
out at the mixture, and others will rail
against setting meadow-green beside
indigo blue, and proclaim the fashion
able tones to be harsh and the combina-
tons rather startling than artistic.
But, after all, will they not be modish,
and does not mole make the woman, as
manners make the man?
In my initial illustration you will find
garment as useful as 1t is pretty, an
artistic wrapper with double fronts, the
under ones being tied In with a ribbon
and ornamented with a cascade of the
stuff extending 10 the bottom of the
skirt. The collarette and the cas-
cades are unpublished by two rows OF
open work. The sleeves have rufies in
the same style, with bows OF ribbon.
The loose fronts also have the rows of
open work. The back breadths form a
train and are lined with satinette.
Although 1t is hardly time for the GER
emonious dinner party in town, yet at
country clubs and county seats every
dinner Is ceremonious one, calling for
more or less dress. Dinner is, in fact,
the event of the day. 1t begins late
and lasts late. for you are expected to
do more talking than you do in town,
where, often, carriages are in waiting
to hurry you of to the theater, opera or
dance. But in the country there is no
such pressure. The whole evening is
before you, and II you are good story
teller, or have knack of describing
what you have seen abroad, there Is no
objection to lingering over the coffee
and cheese and listening TO you.
Hence, I'm sure you will like to get a
hint or two for a stylish dinner dress.
Some one has said well armed is half
won, which / suppose means don't go
into any conflict, social or martial, UNI
less you are prepared for it. The din
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

THAT man. has ridden a bicycle
in the time of the mile of Nancy
Hanks IS taken by the Philadelphia
Press as evidence that "a man is
nearer match for a horse than Is
ordinarily supposed" Our contem-
porary should not lose sight of OF the
difference In the conditions OF the
test. On one hand the bicycle aided
greatly the speed of the man; on the
other, 1t retarded the speed of the
horse. In addition to the bicycle, or
cart, the horse had to carry along a
man.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06
Our Great Country.

Do you know that very few of us
realize what a great country ours isg
Listen. ....,. .a
The United States is eighteen
times as large as Spain, thirty-one
times as large as Italy, and sixty
times as large as England and Wales.
1t is three times as large as Great
Britain and Ireland, France, Ger
many, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portu-
gal, Switzerland, Denmark and
Greece all put together. Our rivers
and lakes contain one-half the fresh
water on the globe. We can travel
up the Mississippi and Missouri
Rivers 5000 miles, or as for as New
York is from Constantinople.
|. We can crowd into the space occu-
pied by the United States, not in
Guiding Alaska, the countries OF
Great Britain and Ireland, Norway,
Sweden, Denmark, Germany, A ustria,
Holland, Belgium, France, Spain,
Portugal, Switzerland, Italy, Greece,
European Turkey, Palestine, Japan,
and China. Should there be a great
famine all over the world, we could
raise enough wheat to supply all with
food.
1t would require six countries OF
the size OF Greece to cover the two
Dakotas. Texas is nearly rs large
as the entire continent of Europe.
not including Russia.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

the country and the stin and ceremonl-
GUS affairs m town, and that Ia tho
young people arc on hand aud are per-
mitted 10 assert their Individuality.
which they saro no. slow In doing and
doing IN a way peculiarly their own.
The first thing Tor young girl 10 do IL
TO show hor lack OF years by her dress.
This Is not so easy as showing II by her
conversation. People usually talk up
ton. There is really no such thing as
fiction, for fancy has never been able TO
ourstrip reality. In the third picture is
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

In Little FoIks' Eyes.
How strange IL would be II the pixies came
down.
And SCI up shop In the midst of the
town;
and sold % us speetacles, through which
the guise
or all things would seem as In little folks
eyes
In little folks eyes. oh. what dreams VIII
come true!
How long is q lifetimci What things one
will dol
Aow wealthy one is with purse of small
size; s. -.s est --t-
For pennies are dollars. in little folks
eyes
How easy IL sfrom all danger 70 fee
TO harbor OF safety on someb Jdy's kneei
How quickly soft kisses and low .lullables
VIII clear away trouble, In little folks eyes
Such wee clouds OF darkness make every
where night;
Such wee glints OF sunshine make every
thing bright;
And birthdays come slowly, for time sell
But crawls toward the future. in little
folks eyes.
What great world OF singers we'd have
before long
II these magical glasses were sold for
song;
Oh. clowns are so funny, and sages so wise,
And hearts are so honest In little folks
eyes.
Youths Companion.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

rhs House sim stands. Ai,hsux,
Crumblins Into Decay.

/ rhs House sim stands, Although
Crumblins Into Decay.
On the Gale de Colon, diney,
narrow old street in ValIadolld,
about 200 yards long, stands the
house In which Columbus died,
although fast crumbling into decay.
The fact that IL does stand is not
due to any effort taken for its
preservation, but rather To the solid
ity OF its construction. 1t Is OF con-
siderable size, and was, no doubt,
originally constructed for some per-
son OF rank and position. The en-
trance Is through great Norman
archway OF stone, and the entrance
hall Is spacious, while the staircase
Is broad and its incline SO gentle,
that one might almost drive up IL.
The basement OF the building Is OF
stone, though the upper stage is OF
brick, covered with stucco--or as
much stucco as has survived the
sravages OF time. The outer walls
are massive, and their interior is, no
doubt, composed Of a species OF con-
crete, or mixture Of mortar, pebbles
and fragments of stone, which figures
strongly in all old Spanish struct-
ures.
No nation in the world, perhaps,
has less respect or appreciation for
the antique and time-honored than
have the Spaniards. The house
where Columbus died is now used as
constable. Above the stone arch
way Is time-stained medallion,
bearing mans head, standing out
In bold relief on the stucco. I'm
derneath is the engraven Inscription
"Aqui murlo Colon-Ano 1906"
lHere died Columbus, year 1907
Close to this hangs small sign
board, with the following inscrip-
ton: New milk sold here; you may
see 1t MIXED" An old woman liv-
Ing there gives tourists some infor-
nation.
Upon entering the ancient strnct-
ure one steps into the spacious en-
trance hall, which is pitched with
small pebbles. On either side is a
large doorway, but the doors have
been removed, and through the open
ings one can see the cows standing in
rows. Twenty cows are stabbed I'm
the lower part of the house. The
cowman and his family live up
stairs. One is quickly led into a
large room overlooking the street
the room where Columbus died. The
windows are furnished with massive
iron gratings, as. indeed, are all the
windows in the house. A thin par
titiOn, running half way across the
room, forms a small recess or alcoba,
in which is an old wooden bedstead,
with a wretched straw pallet and
scanty covering of old Clothes. On
such a bed, probably, died the great
discoverer in poverty and desolation.
In the middle Of the partition is a
little square window, through which
anyone sleeping in the alcoba might
see If any one entered the room.
The walls, bare and discolored with
age, look as II they had not been
whitewashed for at least a century.
The floor is of square earthen ties,
the same on which Columbus trod
four centuries ago. In this room he
was FOR long time prisoner. In
that alcoba, where the cowman and
his wife sleep every night, the great
discoverer died. Near the head of
the bed the form of a cross has
been scratched with some sharp in
strument deep in the plaster of the |
wall. Tradition says that Columbus
made the cross.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06
Childish Prattle.

MAMMA says, If papa keeps Oh
making money so fast, said Bessie,
~that we shall be milliners pretty
soon!"
Mr.. GUsPPs-Gce Wilkins! What
on earth are you Yelling like a wild
Indian for? Dutiful Son-I'm keepin'
baby quiet.
DUDLEY's sister Gertrude happened
to get between him and something
he wished to see. Get out of my
looking, Gertie," commanded the lit.
tie fellow.
"PAPA," said Willie, "iittle brother
is a month old tomorrow, isn't hep"
"Yes." Lets you and me give him
birthday present." "Very we'll.
What shall it be?" "Let's buy him a
wig. needs that more'n any
thing"
TOMMY had been boasting about
his new brother. "How old is he,
Tom?" asked the policeman. 1.-Two
weeks" said Tom. "He's very small,
isn't hep" "Yes," said Tom, she's
pretty small-that is, all except his
voice."
(MAMMA explaining to her little
girl, aged 5, that everything she does
and says is written down in q large
book in heaven.) She asks: Are
all the naughty things, too?" Mamma
Yes, dear. Child (pensively)-'
Then l think I'll take piece of In.
dia rubber with me.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

PAIN In this world is an undoubted
reality. 1t visits all, and though il
bears greater anguish to some than
to Others, all feel its torturing touch.
Pain meets man as he enters the
world, follows him through life, and
leaves him not until his heart grows
still In death. 1t attends us as
dark angel wherever we go, through
all seasons OF the year, and through
every period OF our llfa
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06
A coon deal Of thunder has been

A GOOD deal of thunder has been
exploded under suppositon that
the American flag was insultcd at
Montreal. 1t now appears that the
whole thing was an advertising
scheme, and that Manager Florence
had negotiated in advance for the act
of sacrilege. He should be interviewed
by drum-head court martial and
judged according to his offense.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

PATRICK SARsFIELD GILMORE, the
band-master, besides being a wonder
fully swift music penman, has the
largest stock of orchestral, scores in
America, If not the world The cash
value Of his musical library is esti-
mated at over $4,000. A man Of
note every way.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

ner dress pictured In second illustra-
ton is an exquisite creation in a black
pearled stuff, set off with a brocade
corselet and garnitured with lace. The
straight collar Is covered with pleated
lace fastened at the back with bow
from which falls lace cascade. caught
on the edge OF the corselet with a ro-
settle OF brocade and at the waist with
n rosette o. lace. The sleeves are In
brocade and are draped as shown. The
bottom OF the skirt has q Ribbon ruche.
There is still another great difference
between the delightful dinner parties In
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

DIR. TALMAGE has been given a
watch by his London admirers. 1t
should be held on the Doctor by some
reliable deacon of the congregation
when the great pulpit orator puts in
some of his wonderful bursts of speed
In his delivery. He could defy all
rivalry.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

WHEN Fred Douglass talks about
anarchists icing -goaded into maxi
ing and throwing bombs" and the
probability that the Africans dowE
South will become race OF Anarch
lists, he simply shows that good man
Will sometimes talk through his hat
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

AN Evanston woman has offered a
prize Of 800 for the best essay on the
government of Chicago written by a
student Of the Northwestern Uniyer-
sity. Competitors will find it hard
to secure evidence Of anything except
the misgoyernment OF the city.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

BY the way, what has become Of
Richark X. Fox, the eminent sport
Tor revenue only? Mr.. Fox has been
discovering and importing and dig
ging around for men to whip Sullivan
for the last ten years, and yet, in the
present cataclysm which has over
taken the great man, the ubiquitous
Mr.. Fox is noticeably absent guam
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06
Of their BARRIERS.

palmer, but they devote quite as much
time to pluming them as the women do
to theirs. But, upon the whole, think
the men are becoming more and more
resigned to woman's love of flnery.
They struggled against II for centuries,
and finding that its cure is impossible,
have resolved to make its endurance
more agreeable by directing It's course
and catering TO its desires. / look for
ward to the time when a. husband will
say to his wife: my dear, notice that
the fall styles are ready; suppose we go
down and pick out few new gowns for
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

MR.. GLADSTONE is above suspicion
Of flirting with Queen Victoria, but
IL is little queer that Mrs. Glad
stone required him to telegraph to
herself from every station on the
road to Southampton. And he did
1t like a dutiful husband.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

WHY should any man in the bosom
OF his household, reading aloud of the
capture Of female piekpocket, look
with a hard, hIdden-meaning ex-
preston at his wife?
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

For the benefit of certain talka-
tive statesmen it may be remarked
that the rewards of silence are by no
means incohsiderable. The oyster rs
proverbially dumb, yet none name it
but to praise.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

THE telegraph operators have failed
In their efforts to form new brother
hood, and contend for an advance OF
wages. The click Of the keyboard
will notlbe silenced during this most
eventual year.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06
AG,od Reason.

l., A q jod Reason.
First Boy-Why do they call all
goats Billy goats and Nanny goats?
Why don't they call 'em George
goats, and Johnny goats, and Jimmy
goats, an so on? N,-,s
Second Boy-Why, goats look SO
much alike you can't tell 'em apart,
sowot's the use of havin' dif'rent
names? - ~
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

THE first duty OF Tennessee, now
that 1t has put down the rebellion
against the convict stockade, is to
suppress the convict stockade.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

WE observe with much satisfaction
khat.--fha cholera scare has not
ratified" our valued contemporary,
the New York Herald, in the least.
1t still says boldly and emphatically:
~Never print paid advertisement, :"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

THERE'S many man who would
suffer like Calico for the satisfaction
OF saying, Still the earth moves"
but they'd imagine it would stop after
they died.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

ONEof the terrors of San Francisco
is known as the hoodliss. 1t is
neither an earthquake, tidal wave,
nor cyclone, but still makes its pres
'ence very forcibly felt. The hoodifss,
IN fact, is merely female hoodlum.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

In presenting timepieces to clergy
men 1t would be full OF meaning IL
some OF the longer-wlnded were given
stop watches.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06
The Same swim.

Mother-Why didn't you come
home to dinner? ,
Small boy-I was in swimmin'.
"Then why didn't you come home
for supper"
Il was in swimmin'."
Il told you not to go in swimming
twice in one day, because the doctor
said 1t wasn't good for you"
Il didn't. 1t was all the same
swim. Good News.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

No NATTER what application is
made OF the most suggestive moral
In the case, it's fact that the moon
is brightest when it's full.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

ANY person can get there, but the
question is what is he going to do
after he arrives.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

THE future need not be wholly dark
for John L. With proper effort he
could make dandy advertisement
Tor bichloride OF gold cure.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

WrTH the coming of frost the nut
ting season. Chestnuts have come
90 be. like the poor-always with us.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

WE suppose Corbett is to be con-
graduated on his victory, the more
90 as 1t was triumph OF science and
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06

ELEvATINa influences are at work
In Chicago. Coal, manholes, beer and
big buildings are still sbihg up.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06
MY Dog.

have n dog,
His name IN Tray,
He likes TO sleep
The llvelong day.
He sleeps through morn
And afternoon,
Then all the night
Banks at the moon.
Perhaps he thinks
That this is fun.
But wish he
Would take the sun.
-Harpcr's Young People.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-06
LITTLE BOYS SAND GIRLS!


Quaint sayings and Doings Of Little Ones
Gathered snd Printed Here for Other
Little Folks 90 Read.