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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02

AN article in the Iron Age of April
% last, by w. r. Hinsdale, is reprint
ed in pamphlet form for circulation
among railroad men. 1t calls atten.
tion to the recent increase in the
number of casualties arising from
broken rails and the necessity for
more efficient inspection of rails be.
fore they are laid in the track. The
matter is one Of great importance to
the public, all the more so as If de-
fective material be used the recent
increase in size of rails is no ade-
quate compensation for the heavier
locomotives and cars and longer
trains, which are the rule as COM
pared with few years ago. The
point is made that steel rails are now
manufactured very rapidly and cheap
ly. The workmen are paid by the
piece, and while generally making
good wages they must produce, a
larger tonnage to realize them.
Hence, no matter how DESTROYS the
management may be TO produce only
good work it is necessary that safe.
guards be provided. The tendency
would seem not to be in that direc-
ton, judging from the fact that the
remark, "Thcy are getting as good as
they pay for" has been heard more
than once from the lips of manu-.
facturer, while admitting that he
could make better rails than were
turned out of his establishment. And
it is added that the new rapid proc
ess of rolling and finishing direct
without relocating the blooms is quite
likely to increase the existing evils,
on account of the lower and uneven
temperature at which the blooms will
reach the finishing rolls.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02

MASSACHUSETTS is working early
and earnestly in the movement to Sc
cure good roads. 1t has created a
State Highway Commission, which
has submitted report to the Legis-
lature recommending the appoint
ment Of a permanent State Commits
sion for the care of the highways
The report estimates the economic
losses from present generally bad con-
ditions at five to ten million dollars
per year, this not including indirect
loss by damage to animals, vehicles.
and harness. 1t discusses methods of
road construction, and states that
more than 600 miles of road have
been photographed under the over
sight of the commission. Twenty
three per cent. of the towns in the
State spend less than 81, 900 per year
each on their roads, and so per cent.
less than $1,000 each. The seventy
five towns which eXpend less than
1900 each average SIS per mile per
duuuHn VI CApCuuiOulC. LHC uluCUy-
three towns which spend from 81, 900
to 50, 900 average $26.7 per mile, and
flfty-seven spend from $4,000 to
$4,000, averaging 5000 per mile.
In all these towns the best that can
be done is to struggle against further
depreciation Of the highways. There
are 257 towns, covering s2.5 per cent.
Of the town area of the State, which
are financially unable to keep theif
roads in good condition. There are
twenty-five towns which spend each
from 81, 900 to IS, 900 per year, aver
aging 4.30 per mile, and in these
alone is it possible to secure reason
able improvement Of the public
highways. Four-ffths, and perhaps
as much as 80 per cent, of the bad
roads are directly connected with the
manufacturing places.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02
Onlr a snool or rhread.

ITO make spool of thread says
a manufactures, "is a complicated
process. Only the very best Sea
Island cotton can be used for this
purpose. The cotton lis taken in a
raw state, and torn all to pieces by a
machine called a breaker
1T then goes through several other
machines, by which it is carefully
combed and freed from impurities.
A machine called a 'slubber' then
takes it up and twists it out into soft
white yarn.
This Is carefully combed again,
and it is then taken into another de-
partment, where several small strands
OF this yarn are twisted together;
and you then have six-cord thread,
which, after it is bleached, Is ready
for the market.
Another interesting thing Is the
numbering of the thread. Every
lady knows the size OF the threat that
she requires for doing certain piece
OF work. but very few of them know
how IL came to be so numbered.
"You see, when cotton threat was
first made $40 yards of it weighed
just one pound. This was called No.
L; and II a pound contained just
twice this number Sof yards 10 was
called No. 2, and so on"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02
The Horrors OF war.

Camille Flammarion, the French
author, has passion for big figures.
General statistics, he says, prove
that since the Trojan war, 5000 years
ago, not single year has elapsed in
which some. war has not killed its
proportionate number, says the New
York Journal. During the thirty
centuries which have elapsed since
the beginning of Asiatic and Euro
pean history, loss Of 10000, 900 a
century makes the total number de.
stroyed by war to be 1900, 900, 900, a
number very nearly representing the
total population Of the globe at the
present day.
The sword is ceaselessly drawing
blood from human veins. Eighteen
million cubic meters have been shed.
In summer at Paris the Seine de-
livers to the two parts of the bridge
Pont-Neuf about one hundred cubic
meters of water every second,
moving with force of $500 horse
power. Every hour 800, 900 cubic
meters of waters pass under the
arches of the bridge, or 8,640, O0O
cubic meters in a day.
Imagine the river to be human
blood instead of water, for IL all the
hood shed in all the wars was put
into a basin between the quays II
would form such river, and we
would have to remain standing on
the parapet fifty hours to see it flow
away. -.
If the 1900, 900, 900 skeletons
should rise and climb one upon the
other the ladder thus formed would
reach the MON, coil about that body
and, continuing onward, would mount
into infinite space four times as far
again, that is, 500,7 leagues in
height. The corpses IL thrown into
the channel at Calais would form a
bridge between France and England
and separate the ocean from the
North sea by a weir. IL only the
heads of the men slaughtered in war
were taken and placed side by side a
band. would be formed reaching six
times around the world.
A great deal of money is necessary
in order to kill'in a proper manner,
for each man slain costs about 81, 900.
The increasing and multiplying taxes
of all nations are never sufficient to
pay for the butchery of human troops.
Every year Europe spends more than
81, 200, 900, 900 in shedding her CHI
dren's blood and France spends $780,
900 every day.
From the Crimean war down to
that of 1901, the civilized ma
tions of Europe and America spent
In destroying one another $40, 00O,-
900, 900 of the ordinary budget and
more than 81, 900, 900, 900 raised ex-
pressly for the purpose, making to-
tai of S21, 900, O00,O The wars Of
the last hundred years have cost
$40, 900, 900, 900, without counting
the sorrow, the loss of men and other
results.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02

AN Official of railroad, recently
returned from Europe, referring to
railway practice in Germany, says:
The roadbeds are about perfect,
while the stations are simply mag
niflcent, even in the most inslgnifl-
can't places being very fine. The
roadbeds are quite rigid, but this is
mainly due to the iron and steel cross
ties that are used. The locomotives
are fine pieces of mechanism, but
their capacity is scarcely equal to
those on this side of the Atlantic.
Their. entire passenger equipment is
away behind that in use here. Their
trains, however, run like clockwork,
and the connections are perfect.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02

In one OF the great Pennsylvania
manufactures there was recently an
apparent discrepancy in the accounts
involving a matter of 5000 pounds Of
scrap iron. The clerks spent two
whole days over the dgures and final
ly gave up the task OF trying to make
the accounts balance. Several days
later the office boy took notion to
amuse himself by adding a column Of
figures on a sheet OF paper which hap
pened to be on the desk before him,
but somehow he could not make the
footings agree with the amount set
down. His curiosity was quickened
and, not being pressed with work, he
examined each figure minutely and
discovered fly speck at the side Of
the figure one, in the thousand col
umn, which made it look precisely
like four. Each of the clerks had
called 1t four, and but for the sharp
eyes of the boy, the mystery would
have probably remained unexplained.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02

THE Minnesota legislator who In
troduced bill making the wearing
OF hoops crime may have meant
well, but he must be unfamiliar with
the feminine mind. A woman would
delight to array herself In forbidden
toys and walk all over the fragments
OF any such statute. 1t will be a
grief to the gentler sex to know that
the bill cannot pass, and that IL 1t
could there would be holes in It's con-
stitutionality through which she
could sweep In expansive crinoline
and never disturb the ruffie on the
most distant outpost OF her skirt.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02

WIN Make an Exhibit Despite His C0un
try's Refusal TO Participate.

WIN Make an Exhibit Despite HIS COun-
try's Refusal 20 Participate.
Mr.. Chun Is q merchant in Canton.
He is said to be one OF the richest
men In China. The Chinese Govern
ment was very wroth when the act
excluding its citizens from landing on
American shores was passed by Con-
gress, and In reply TO President Har-
rIson's invitation to take part In the
Fair sent back curt refusal. Mr..
Chun heard about this, and was
grieved to think that his country
would not be represented In any way
at the Fair. He called on Charles
Seymour, the American Consul at
Canton, and talked the situation over,
and finally decided to shoulder the
burden OF making China's exhibit
himself. Mr.. Chun convinced Consul
Seymour that he would represent
the country creditably, and the
Consul cabled to, Chief Fearn
to save space for Mr.. Chun.
He assured the officials that
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02
Punishment for a King.

Harper's Young People mentioned
not long ago that the King of Spain
is a more or less naughty boy, and
that he does not always treat his sub
jects with that gracious courtesy
which is expected from monarchs in
these times. The other day, when
he was driving with his nurse, the
boy king is said to have put out his
tongue at the world in general, and
the residents Of Madrid in particular.
The editor of republican newspaper
thereupon proceeded to make politi-
cal capital out of the event, and drew
a moral that kings are not needed in
this age. When the news Of the
kings behavior reached Queen Chris
tina through the newspapers, it is
said that she first lectured her son on
his duties and responsibilities, and
then, laying him across her royal
knee, administered a vigorous spank
ing. This may not be the touch that
makes the whole world kin, but a
great many little American democrats
will know hereafter how to sympa-
thize with this son of royalty.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02

the Chinese would spare no money to
have the industries Of his country
properly shown. Mr.. Chun intends
to concentrate his efforts to show
what the manufacturing industries
Of that country are doing. Ivory
carving, silk fabrics and numerous
decorative articles will form the prin-
cipal exhibit, on which Mr.. Chun ex-
poets to spend thousands Of dollars.
The rich Chinaman is not prompted
by patriotic motives alone in making
this lavish outlay at the Fair. He is
the senior partner and tinancier Of
one Of the largest mercantile houses
in Canton and by means of the exhibit
expects to draw the attention of the
American buyers to his house.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02

rectness of his claims, that trains
composed Of coaches and engines built
after his models will add from twenty
to forty miles an hour to the speed OF
ordinary trains without an increase
of power. The train is a perfect
vestibule and so built as to afford the
least possible resistance to the air.
The plans and models have been ex-
amined by practical railway men and
their value recognized. The New
York Central is now equlpping a
train on the Adams system, and rail-
readers believe that in six months as
many hours will be knocked off the
between here and New
York, while Mr.. Adams can produce
figures to show that the New York
trip can be made in twelve hours less
time than is now occupied, with no
added consumption Of coal.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02
The Proeresslve Austrian.

Austria announces an electric loco
motive which is to travel 125 miles
an hour. The Independence Beige
follows with the statement that the
North Belgian Company and the
North France Company are construct
ing a line for locomotives, operated
by electricity, on which the journey
from Brussels to Paris, about 1872
miles, will be accomplished In eighty
minutes, a speed Of nearly $50 miles
an hour. 1t is further stated that
the trains will be running in about
two months.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02
A STORY About the Pansv.

A pretty fable about the pansy is
current among the French and Ger
man children. The flower has five
petals and five sepals In most pam
sizes, especially of the earlier and less
highly developed varieties, two of the
petals are plain in color and three are
gay. The two plain petals have a
single sepal, two of gay petals have
sepal each, and the third, which is
the largest of all, has two sepals
The fable it that the pansy represents
family, consisting Of husband, wife,
and four daughters, two of the latter
being stepchildren of the wife. The
plain petals are the stepchildren, with
only one chair; the two small gay
petals are the daughters with chair
each, and the large gay petal is the
wife, with two chairs To find the
father one must strip away the petals
until the stamens and pistils are bare.
They have a fanciful resemblance to
an old man with a flannel wrap about
his neck, his shoulders appraised and
his feet in bathtub The story is
probably of French origin, because
the French call the pansy the step
mOther.-Ex.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02
word. for Young spoilers.

Words for Young spoilers.
stand up. scholars. now, aud spell
Spell plon akistocope and kneli.
Or take some simple words as chilly,
Or gauRer. or the garden lily.
TO spell such words as syli0gism
And lachrymosc and synchronism.
And Pentateuch and saccharine.
Apocrypha and celandine,
Lactiferous and cecity.
Jejune and homeopathy.
Paralysis aud chl0rofQrm. ts s.Si
Rhnoceros aud pachy derm,s, - ssteSaiFt
Metempsychosis. gherkins, basque.
Is certainly no easv task
Kaleidoscope and Tennessee.
Kamschatka and dispensary. y
Diphthong and erysipelas.
And etiquette and sassafras.
lnfallible aud ptyalism
Aliopathy and rheumatism,
And cataclysm and beleaguer.
Twelfth. eighteenth. rendezvous. intriguer
And host of other words are found
On English and on classic ground.
Thus Behring Strait and Michaeimas.
rhermopyl@. Cordilleras.
Suite, hemorrhage. jalap. Havana,
Cinquef0il and ipecacuanha.
And Rappahannock and Shenandoah,
And schuylkill. and a thousand more.
Are words that some good spoilers miss
In dictionary land like this.
Nor need one think himself scroyle
IL some of these his efforts foil
EXCHANGE.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02

SOMEBODY sent a Minnesota Sen
ator telegram stating that the re-
cipient was morally of color, and the
Senator has sued the transmitting
company for loading its wires with
such unpleasant assertions. The issue
will be watched with interest, as the
world is largely made up Of people
who are of color and good people en-
gagged in bruiting abroad the melan-
choly knowledge of this prevailing
turpitGdc.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02

feat that was simply astounding to
athletes the world over.
Thompson's device consists OF a
hinged board fitted to a handle. The
Splinter uses one of these with each
hand. AS he pushes it, forward the
two sections fold back against the
handle and offer no resistance TO the
air, but when his armriS fully ex-
tended and he begins to pull it back
the flaps open and offer good deal
of resistance TO the air. Thus as
he pulls his arm back he pulls his
body forward, having anchored his
fist in the air, so to speak. This
scheme allows a man, as it were, to
run with hands and feet at the same
time, and is quite worthy Of Aus
tralia
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02

STATISTICS of the cost of the late
election in Italy show the amounts
spent on treating" to aggregate a
total of ten million six hundred thou
sand lire-about two millions of dol
lars. In some districts the peasants
had meat and wine, all they cared
for, at the candidates expense, for a
whole week before the election, and
one candidate is said TO have spent
one hundred thousand lire for select
oral purposes"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02

A YOUNG man at Reno, New, bet
SO that he would kill himself within
twenty-four hours, and won the bet.
Some young men might, on sober Sec
ond thought, have considered them
selves of more value than a So pot.
The Reno young man seems, however,
to have been modest, and, besides, he
appears not to have been given much
TO sober thought.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02

THE Austrian Government mod
estly requests the Mayor OF Pitts
burg to suppress Hungarian paper
published in that city, because its
utterances are offensive to that Euro
pean power, but the Mayor could not
exercise such a power If he would.
The chief executive of an American
municipality is not vested with the
powers of a Gar and, as rule, has
not the disposition Of such ruler.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02
wealthy Indi.ns.

The richest people in the world are
said to be the Usage Indians, of Ok
lahoma. The tribe only numbers
some 1900 souls, and it has to its
credit in the United States Treasury
the sum of $500, 900 in cold cash,
besides /, 400, 900 acres of choice land,
worth, at the least computation, IS
an acre. Eight hundred thousand
dollars of the money in the Treasury
is interest fund, and the national
council Of the tribe wants Uncle Sam
to shell it out that they may be able
to pay their debts.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02
SENATOR PRocroR thinks that t

SENATOR PRocToR thinks that the
age Of 80 years is the highest at which
an army recruit should be enlisted in
time OF peace, and that soldiers of
that age can do any amount of fight
ing. Experience has, however, proved
that veteran soldiers are the most
reliable, and that it does not do to
assume that the young man can do
harder or more continuous work than
his time-tried senior.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02

ONE of the most agreeable conse-
quenoes of knowledge is the respect
and Importance which it commune
Gates to old age. Men rise in charac-
ter often as they increase in years;
they are venerable from what they
have acquired, and pleasing from
what they can impart.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02
A Young Mans Chances.

A mother who now sends out a son
into the business world launches him
at atime when the chances are all
In favor of young man, writes Ed
ward W.. Box, in the Ladies' Home
Journal. Business men we're never
more willing to place larger trusts
upon the shoulders of young men
than they are to-day. "Young
blood" as it is called, is the life Of
the modern business world, and Is
everywhere sought. In New York
the demand for the right kind of
young men in all capacities is far
greater than the supply, and what is
true Of New York is true of all the
large cities. Bear in mind, however,
/ say the right kind of young men,
and by that classification mean
young men who are willing to work,
and work hard. The day of the
young man who works by the clock,
eagerly watching for the hour when
the ONCE shall close, has gone by,
even If 1t ever existed. Hundreds
OF young men are energetic in new
position until its novelty wears of
duu UUcH DeCOuc LucIc ludCulHCo
whose places can be filed at
a days notice. No mother need have
undue anxiety for the success OF a
son who steps out into the business
world, so long as he bears in mind
few essential points. He must be
honest above all things, and allow
nothing to convince him that there
is a compromise between honesty and
dishonesty. He must be an out and
out believer in the homely but forci-
BILE saying that man cannot drink
whisky and be in business He must,
too, decide between being society
man or business man; he cannot be
both. He must make his life outside
the Office the same as in it, and not
be possessed with the prevalent idea
that his employer has no business to
question his movements outside OF
Office hours An employer has every
right to expect his employees TO be re-
spectacle at all times, in the office
or out of IL.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02

THE London Statist is of the opin-
lon that the gold being poured out Of
this country is in response to the de-
mands of Europe in preparation for
the greatest war the world has ever
known. Everyone of the continental
military governments is scrambling
for the precious metal.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02

EIGHTY MILES AN HOUR.

Frederick Upham Adams Invents veStI-
buIe Train Which Annihilates Space.
Among the patents recently issued
is series held by Frederick U.
Adams. of Chicago, covering an inn
proved system of train construction.
1t is asserted blythe inventor, and
experiments have borne out the cor
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02

AN item of news that naturally
tindsa place about half way between
the pugilistic and social columns is
that Charles Mitchell, the fighter,
who so vociferously evades tistic con-
tention. is out of Jail. He is under
stood, however, to still be ready to
beat such aged cripples as may get in
his way.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02
THOSE only read the worlds futu

THOSE only read the worlds future
truly who have faith in principle, as
to faith in human dexterity;
who feel that in human things there
is really and truly spiritual nature,
a spiritual connection, spiritual
tendency, which the wisdom of the
serpent cannot alter and scarcely can
a fact
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02
Very Accommodating.

The other day Mr.. Burleigh was
taking walk In the woods with his
little boy. They commenced hunt
ing for chestnuts, and soon Donald's
eyes bulged when he saw the double
handful his father had found, and
then he made this kind remark:
SAY, papa, wouldn't you like to carry
your chestnuts In my pocket '--HaR-
per's Young People.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02

In Arkansas there is 13-year-old
girl who makes the weighing machine
tremble at 300 pounds. 1t is almost
unnecessary to add that the sylph-
like creature does not care about
playing skipping rope.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02

A NEW YORK crank has made
wager that he can go to sea for forty
days in a dry goods box, with nothing
but a dog and a spirit lamp to sus-
tain him. The navigator may be al
lowed his own way, but the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails should give the dog a show.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02

denly finding the wall lined with
specters In white. They may be only
mischieyous boys with old sheets
draped around them, but IL is dollars
TO ducats all the same that Annie
would yell and run.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02

The clover English lady who is
the spiritual successor OF Nine. Bla-
vatsky is among us once more, lectur-
ing on ghosts, and mentions Incl
dentally that she is not afraid Of
them. We viii believe this after we
have seen Annie going to country
graveyard ON a dark night and sud-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02

MISSOURI has new religion that
is breaking up families with satisfac-
tory rapidity and overstocking the
lunatic asylums of three counties
The envy of Teed when he hears of
this would be interesting to witness.