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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

pictured. The petticoat part may have
at the foot border as costly and ele-
CANT as you like. It may be lace, knots
OF ribbon. flowers, or rich beading. The
material may be of the richest, and may
either match or contrast with the train.
The train is OF heavy stuff and, OF
course, lined with rich material. because
1t Is entirely loose from the petticoat.
It's edge may be embroidered heavily
with rich jewelinG and beading. The
lining may contrast with the outside.
About the waist, the waist, Of course,
being close under the arm, passes
bodice girdle OF the material of the
train. The bodice should be so heavily
embroidered that it seems merely
Persan-like band Of rich needle work.
The big pulled sleeves, OF the material
of the train are furnished at
of the same embroidery. This must
not be applique embroidery, and it
should be OF real metal thread, and Of
jewels as costly as you please, or can
afford. If you fancy the Empire style
suits only the simpler materials, you
are making big mistake. One thing
may be said for the Empire: Maybe a
woman may took a bit queer standing,
but seated she can hardly help being a
picture. If she will only hold her head
well and try TO do justice to her gown,
the rest of her will be all right. The
woman with very long waist held in
by fearfully tight corset is not only
miserable when she IL seated, but she
looks it. and she can neither sit down
nor get up gracefully. The Empire
clad girl should be able to do both, IL
she is not dressed all wrong beneath
the gown.
Be careful in selecting your puppies,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23
The Cat.

: The Egyptians arc the first people
among whom we find notices or the
cat. 1t figures largely upon the mon
uments as domestic pet, and was
honored when dead. Comical stories
are told by Herodotus, Of the anxiety
to save the cats when house caught
fire, and of the grief when one died.
The cat seemed to have served as q
retriever In fowling expeditions, and
even in fishing. 1t seems strange
that no mention OF the cat occurs in
the Bible or in any Assyrian record.
Professor Max Muller is quoted as
saying that even in India 1t was but
recently known as "A domestic animal.
Its Sanscrit name is marjara, from a
root meaning ito clean" from the
creatures habit of licking itself at its
toilet. The cats housing habits
were well known TO the Romans, and
even to the Etruscans, as shown by
antique gems and even wall paint
ings. The mouse-killer domesticated
among the Greeks has been shown by
Professor Rolleston to have been the
breasted marten. Besides the
cat. the Egyptians domesticated the
ichneumon, popularity known as
PharaOh's rat, which is still TO be
seen Ia houses at Cairo.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23
A meay Cor Cold rect.

All that is necessary, says an ex-
change, is to stand erect, and very
gradually lift oneself upon the tips
OF the toes, so as to put all the ten
dons of the foot at full strain. This
is not to hop or jump up or down,
but simply to rise-the slower the
better--upon tiptoe, and to remain
standing on the point OF the toes as
long as possible, and then gradually
come to the natural position. Re-
peat this several times, and by the
amount OF work the tips OF the toes
are made to do in sustaining the
body's weight a sufficient and lively
circulation Is set up.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

trimmed with braid. The sleeves are
also trimmed with braid.
1t seems pity 10 begin to- use or
candies and silk muslins till summer
comes in, be they are 80 pretty that 1t
is hard not to. Besides they give an
effect of vogue to the somewhat passe
gowns of the season, at this time when
one hardly wants 10 buy entirely new
outfits. A very pretty Nile green silk
that had grown a little soiled about the
edge or the skirt, and marked about the
arms as q party dress, was frightened
into charming freshness by a deep
iuffic of silk organdie set in festoons at
the foot OF the skirt. The top OF the
rufne was headed by three rows OF rib
bon. pink, rich green and gold, these
being the colors in the organdie. The
ribbons were jeweled with amber, black
Jet and emerald beads. The upper pait
of the bodice was covered with the or
candle, making sort OF yoke outlined
by a band OF the pink ribbon that
crossed the breast and passed TO the
back under the arms. Big RULES
OF the orRandie fell over the
shoulders. The dress was certainly
a loyelier one than ever it hal been
when first made. Another afternoon
gown of rose elk had the entire skirt
covered with delicate silk muslin, all
misty with a combin alton of lilac cream
and pink design of flowers. At the foot
of the skirt there was rufie in roset-
ted folds, the sleeves of silk were taken
out entirely and muslin ones substitut-
ed. These were full at the shoulders
and extended to below the elbows. A
feather fan In cream and lilac hung by
a pink ribbon from the waist, Still, it
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

especially in cloth. Many puppies seem
TO be an ugly brown at night The
right purple should only take richer
aud deeper tone by gas light. Black in
combination with purple brings out the
latter color, by day as we'll as by night,
into added brilliancy. Purple seems 10
suggest furs and velvet and richness,
It is by all means a color for winter and
cold weather. Also remember that the
revived royal purple" ,loes not shade
off into lighter colors and lavender as
did our violet OF season or so ago.
Purple is essentially color by itself.
and merges itself into no other color.
1t permits near 1t only such other shades
as will lend themselves to its own regal
ity. Just remember. that when you
contemplate putting a purple veil over
your rosy cheeks and don't do It. As
for green wells, what can one sayg The
woman who will wear one is beyond
advice. AS well leave her to her own
destruction, and what Is worse, let her
disturb every one who looks at her. By
the way, the purple we find in old bro
cades makes the modern purple seem
harsh and garish. The modern purple
has a stone-grayness OF tone; the old
purple has a soft, almost rosy shade.
Let this be a word to the wise.
COPYRIGHT. 1893.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

A PIrrsBURG hotel keeper has been
sued for damages by railroad con-
ductor because the night clerk failed
TO call the conductor for his train.
The conductor missed the train and
lost his job He asks for $4,000. We
believe it will be. the testimony OF
most travellers or people living in ho-
tells that clerks and bell boys take a
fiendish delight in waking up people
who leave calls" Not only are they
rejoiced to arouse the man who wants
to te turned out at some unholy hour,
put they include all his neighbors
In modern hotels where there is pipe
telephone or teleseme connection be-
tween office and rooms the business
is simplihed somewhat In old-fash
toned hotels, such as llnger in many
Southern cities, the arousing of all
the guests by thumps on the door of
one is part of every nights history.
The Pittsburg night clerk must have
3 been new at the business or he would
have shaken the dreams OF the
plaintiff guest even if he had been
felled in doing it.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

some small plAats; In the Dack Inc
folds turn toward the center. The skirt
is lined with silk or satin and has a
balayeuse. The waist Is plain, and
may be worn with or without the velvet
vest. The long jacket can also have a
vest which is buttoned to 1t directly. III
the waist Is worn without the vest a
velvet belt is used which crosses at the
back. The dress material has no seam
in front except the darts, and fastens at
the shoulders, arm-hole, and under the
arm, with very small hooks. II you do
not want to cut the material the front OF
the bodice can be pleated. The sleeves
are Russian in form, with deep cuffs.
The velvet vest is low cut in front and
in the back, as shown in the picture,
and Is kept in position by whalebones.
1t reaches only to the skirt band and
hooks in front, carrying the side point
to be hooked at the side OF the belt.
The skirt of the cloak crosses in the
back by an added fold. In the front 1t
is box pleated and sewed at the waist,
so as TO fall loosely. The jacket is silk
lined and has little cape which is
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

busters around awhile, threatens to
prosecute the man who made AFFIDAVIT
to his daughters age, and then goes
home to simmer down at leisure and
to forgive.
Altogether there have been not less
than 10, 600 marriages contracted in
Clark County during the last fifteen
years, and as each one puts $3.50 in
the exchequer OF the. county clerk
and probably as much into the pocket
Of the justice or minister who ofiici-
ates, it is easy to be seen that the
business is a profitable one to the
city, and as such it has been fondly
nursed. Elopcrs- have been treated
kindly and with all possible consider
alton, not only by the justices but
by the people. The court house,
where the County Clerk dispenses the
licenses, is almost in plain sight or
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

Is almost pity not to wait till summer
with its garden parties and soft warm
moonlight But that Is the way with
us nowl Green peas and violets at
Christmas, and organizes in February
Next we will have Ice boating and fur
right here in Junsi Both of the costumes
described are sketched herewith.
The. next picture shows an en-
broidered theater wrap. The fur pas-
tron which comes down 10 a point in
front Is surrounded by a double-frilled
collar, which fastens in front. Be-
meath the plasiron the long front
breadths begin. These are fastened on
with large safety-hooks and held In
position in front by very broad girdio
that Is sewn on one side aud hooked on
the other. This belt or band is very
stiny lined and is adorned with bead
work. 1t is straight on the lower edge
and at the TOP is cone shaped. The
whole Of the front breadths, lenRthwise
and around the edge, are bordered with
fur. They are made OF straight ma
terlal and are slightly gathered In at
the top under the yoke AID collar.
Were they join the back breadths they
are very much sloped, SO as 10 ut the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

accommodating friend" is gone TO
procure q license. $3.50
Under the laws of Kentucky, which
State furnishes more than ninety per
cent. OF those happy pilgrims 70 this
shrine OF wedlock, girl may not
reach the marrlagable age before
2l years, whereas her debut ia society
is frequently made at the age OF 10
or earlier, period OF life when the
ardor OF romantic sentiment often
reaches its elimination, and IL is
then she begins to bemoan the re-
quirements OF cruel law that would
restrain the one Important step which
is ever uppermost inhber miild Bat
she may have q frlepdf ~ q bor,
-derIng commonwealth, the statutes 81
Indiana permitting her TO marry at
18, and, knowing this, rather than
suffer long period OF suspense which
may prove fatal TO her, future pros
poets, she is apt to become the prom
inent one OF two figures who win seek
this friendly Gretna by that method
OF procedure commonly recognized
as an "elopement.
Justice Keigwin had the bulk Of
the business. Another Justice saw
and became jealous, He pondered
and then cried Eurekal He would
train the business his way. Quietly,
about three or four years ago, he sta
toned a man at the ferry and had
him pilot the couples to. bis magis-
terial rooms. That was the origin
of the so-called matrimonial agent, {"
and. soon this branch of the business
grew and the agent became the prin-
cipal, and often the justices had to
plank down the bulk OF the fees to
the agent" 1t was an unmitigated
nuisance, too, in another way. Every
loafer, white or black, felt himself
called upon to act as steerer until
the justices, but especially Keigwin,
kicked. 1t was not much use, how
ever, for the steerer was mightier
than the squire.
Competition the Death OF Trade.
Matters reached a climax when
John Haus, agent for Squire Hall,
and Calvin Gather, agent for Justice
Keigwin, collided. Haus espied an
clipping couple coming across the ferry
and made dive for them. He had
obtained their consent to go with
them, when the other man came up
and, seeing his rival taking the fruits
or victory, he tried to snatch them
from him by proposing to do the mat
rimonial tying cheaper than Haus.
The latter met the cut, and finally,
after spirited contest, while the
Kentuckians looked calmly on, the
bride especially rejoicing that the job
was to be done so cheap, carried them
off to be married by his squire for
nothing, with chrome thrown in If
necessary. Gather then threatened
to assault his rival, and warrant OF
the peace was Haus' next move.
Keigwin asserts that he in no way
employed n runner, but that he could
not help himself, and that if a man
brought couple to him he could not
we'll refuse to marry them. He has
always been opposed to the steerer,
and year ago tried to get all the
justices to sign an agreement that they
would not employ any runners, but
one justice refused and the effort
failed. This move on Keigwin's part
incensed the runners, and they have
tried In various ways TO get even.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

A CHINESE anecdote OF Buddha, to
illustrate his observance of the first
OF "the ten precepts, @thou shalt not
kill any living creature, relates that
in the winter he hid louise in the
hole of a tree, wrapped it in silk and
regularly fed it; that he filtered his
water, not for his own sake, but in
order to prevent swallowing and thus
destroying any living thing in it.
This shows that there may be too
much of a good thing even in OBJ
seryance of moral precepts.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23
the season when they would else
where be prone 20 suffer from it.

So MANY Boston physicians fell,
into the way OF assigning heart fall
ure as the cause OF death that the
Board OF Health refused to accept
such certificates and demanded a
more exact statement of causes.
They might as well have said that
their patients died because they were
short of breath" The old familiar
phrase as truly represents the cause
OF death in many cases as does heart
failure. Indeed death comes either
through stoppage OF the hearts action
or stopping OF breathing. One may
take brief precedence. over the other,
but neither shortness OF breath nor
heart failure can supply Q satisfactory
statemento of the cause OF death for
statistical recotd.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

romance to the affair very dear to the
average female heart. In such cases
the parental consent, il the parties
are under age, is, of course, readily
obtained, and sometimes the clippers
even bring letter of consent with
them. Probably there are fully as
many of such cases as of real elope-
ments.
Sometimes ithappens that father.
with rage in his bosom and big gun
in his hand, follows close upon the
heels of the clippers, but it has never
been any fathers luck to be in time
to stop the ceremony. He usually
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23
The Irish village at the Fair.

Concerning the Irish Village at the
Worlds Fair, which isarranged under
the management OF the Countess of
Aberdeen and Mrs. Ernest Hart,
the latter says: ave shall have seven
cottages in which peasant girls and
lads from Donegal and elsewhere will
be seen at work, weaving, spinning,
dyeing, sprigging, carving, etc. The
girls will look very pretty in Come
mara red petticoats, dshwife skirts
and blouses and scarlet cloaks In
the first cottage will be a precise
model of cottage in Donegal, with
undressed walls of granite, with a
hooded fireplace and dresser full OF
bright crockery; a girl will be seen
dyeing and spinning our famous
Hand-and-Hearth homespuns, the
wool OF which she gets from the
lichens and neither of her native bog
outside. There will be an imitation
peat fire, on this the dyer will,
from time to time, place her iron po-
tato-pot and proceed TO dye the wool.
In the second cottage there will be
linen weaving and embroiderings OF
famous Kells Art Embroidery, while
linen damask weaving on jacquard
hand. loom and fringe-knotting will
go on in the third cottage. Between
this and the next cottage there will
be model dairy, in which dairy
maids will be at work churning and
butter-making. In the fourth cot
tage every description of Irish lace
will be shown. There will be a Linn
erick lace worker at her frame, the
Trochon lace worker at the pillow,
the numerous varieties of point lace,
etc. Sprlgging and veining, which
are employed in the production of
the beautiful homestltched handker-
chiefs of Belfast, will be shown in the
next cottage. The girls of Down are
especially noted for their exquisite
and delicate work. Other features
OF our Irish industrial village will he
a replica Of Donegal castle, an old
we'll, and other interesting Celtic
memorials"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23
ola AdvertI.ement.

From an old number OF the Phlla.
Aurora Is taken this curious
advertisement, showing the custom
in Pennsylvania of slaveholding il
] 500, and how one man endeavored u
get back lost slave:
From the subscriber ran away.
October last the eighth day
y dark mulatto man. named JOSS,
Not hear of since unto my loss;
just 90 years * his age.
8 IT, 10 in. I'll engage.
file is in height. and l suppose
scar on one side of his nose.
He also on the fiddle plays.
And fCnd of spir'iu "a drink always;
Aud when he has got Iretty mellow
An impudent talkative fellow.
He has much OF mechanic mind;
Few better farmers you will ind.
Whoe'er In Jail does him secure.
And notifies me. I'll insure
Them 30 DOLLARS when they please
Paid as reward, by
JAMES HAYES
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

A YOUNG man in New Jersey has
been sued for breach of promise. On
the witness stand the information
was wrung from him that the shat
tered engagement resulted from a
proposal made by the girl during leap
year. He was too polite to say mo. "
Politeness is sometimes expensive. In
this instance the figure has been set
at $4,000.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

JUSTICE KEIdwiN is Eph keiRwln. The
name OF "The Little Squire" is a
household word in many Kentucky
homes, Is, 900 of their inmates hav-
ing stood up before him and listened to
the fiowery eloquence OF his cere-
mony.
1t is quite an interesting pastime
to watch the Kentucky clippers as
they come to irsonville, seldom
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

DIR. SAMUEL. LOCKWOOD, President
OF the United States Hay Fever AS
ISOLATION, believes that the pollen
grains OF ragweed are the main
source of irritation in cases OF hay
fever. He thinks that when these
pollen grains settle on the mucous
membrane they begin to swell and
protrude a little tube or rootlet
which pushes it's way down into the
mucous membrane, practically taking
root there. Hence those localities or
atmosphere which are free from such
pollen are comfortable abodes for
persons subject 70 hay fever during
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

The prevalent idea that the oldest
university is in Europe is incorrect.
In the tenth and eleventh centuries
the university at Fee, Africa, was
almost the only seat of Arabic
and Christian learning in the world.
Before universities existed in Paris,
oxford, Cambridge, Padua, or Bo-
logna, students flocked TO Fee from
Andalusia, France, and even En-
gland, and Fee is to-day the princi-
pal western seat Of Mohammedan
theology.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23
The discovery that a gentle mai

The discovery that gentle man
perfected the incandescent lamp away
back in the sixties is not surprising.
Such discoveries are always being
made. However, the gentleman's
ingenuity in hiding his light so eff
fectually under bushel is almost as
remarkable as the invention, and his
modesty deserves more reward than
an unappreciative world is likely to
heofOw
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

less than two or three couples day,
says a correspondent. They are of
all possible conditions Of life and Of
all ages. 1t is a mistake to suppose
that only the people from the rural
districts seek matrimony in
Jacksonville, or that they are
in all cases young. People
from Louisville resort quite
frequently to an alleged elopement,
not because there are objecting par
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

Mr.. AND Mrs. PIPER. OF wyandotte
county, Kansas. are the proud parents
OF a baby having six fingers on each
hand.
john w. GRANTHAsT a resident OF
Johnston county. North Carolina, has
seven grown daughters, six OF whom
are married, all to men whose baptis-
NAL name is John.
MISS FLORENCE BAscoM, Of Will
Jamestown, Mass, who will take the IL
tie of "Ph. D." from Johns Hopkins
University, will be the first woman tu
receive such an honor from that insti.-
tuition.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

THE New York Recorder says: ITO
evade our laws the steerage of the
European steamers has been promoted
to the rank of second cabin. This is
the meaning Of it," Cholera doesn't
stop for names, and would as soon
make the trip in the cabin as in the
steerape.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

THE legal fraternity has griev-
ance. Chilli paid S75, 900 in damages
to sailors of the Baltimore. The
grievance lies in the fact that the
sailors received the money, the old
usage of accepting only such as law
yers did not care to retain having
been cruelty disregarded.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

A sTARTLINGLY large number Of
Chicago citizens have been reported
to the police as missing" during the
winter. When the streets are
cleansed most of these mysteries will
doubtless be solved and many fam
lily will be plunged into mourning
when the mud gives up its dead"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

OVER f44, 900, subscribed in several
mi:sing-word competitions, is now
impounded In the British Law Courts.
Five actions have been brought to
determine the ownership of the
money. The proprietor OF one paper
says he distributed e175, 900 in prizes
during the run of the competitions.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23
Education in Georgia.

The constitution OF Georgia limits
public school education to "the ele-
mentary branches OF an English edu-
cation" and the Governor has vetoed
a bill to afford instruction In physi-
ology and the State and Federal con-
situations, on the ground, among
others, OF It's impolicy. His Excel
lency is himself school teacher.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

IT is said that Colombia expects
the support of the United States in
the Panama troubles, but it might
be well to state that while this coun-
try is taking care of the Monroe doc
trine it is not seeking any unneces-
sary acquisitions In the way of
scandals.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

STATISTICS concerning longevi ty of
the Congregational ministers OF New
England show that they reach an
average age of II years. $50 much
for regular living" says some one.
Possibly it is due as much to ease and
the avoidance of many OF the risks
to which other professional and bust
ness men are subject.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

If Congress had power enough to
shut out "the heather" on the Pacific
slope 1t ought to have enough to shut
out "the Mafia," "the dynamiter,"
and the breeders Of pestilence on the
Atlantic slope.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

that would attract
more attention than
the diamonds Of AR
RIGA, the nanufac-
lures OF England or
the fashionsQf Paris.
1T Is o. magistrate
who has IN arrie d
9, 500 runaw,a y
couples during. four
teen years OF close
attention to bush
ness, and his name
.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23

LIEUT.. AND Ex-PRoF. ToTTEN
abandons the army to engage in lit
erary work. If the end of the world
is so near at hand as he has prophe-
sled, the wonder is that it mattered
TO him in what calling he should
engage.