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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02
A Popular Wedding in Paris.

A marriage is always a great event in
popular Paris, and whether il be that of
a workingman, of a shopkeeper, or of a
well-to-do manufacturer who gives a
handsome dowry to his daughter, it at
tracts the attention of the whole neigh
borhood.
In order to get duly married in popu
lar Paris there are three formalities
which tradition has made absolutely in
dispensable-going to the town hall for
the civil marriage, going to church for
the religious marriage and going to the
Bots. In closed carriages or in open Ian
daus, in omnibuses or breaks drawn by
three or four horses, according as the
wedding is more or less distinguished,
the party rides out to the Bots de Bou-
logne, makes the tour of the lakes, and
halts at the Cafe de la Cascade or at the
cheaper cafes outside the gates at Sur
resnes. The programme is invariable.
While the coachmen take drink, the
cortege visits the cascade, that little arti-
fetal Switzerland which the genius of M.
Alphand has concentrated within a space
of two hundred square yards. The
bride, the bridegroom, the bridesmaids,
the groomsmen, the parents, and
the guests climb up the steps and pass
along the gallery under the cascade,
whose waters form liquid crystal cur
tain, through which is seen the magnifi-
cent panorama of the plain of Long
champs and the soft hills of Suresnes and
Saint Cloud. Then follows further dri-
wing in the fine avenues of the Bots, the
Avenue DIES Champs Elysces, and the
boulevards, and so to the various restau-
rants of different grades that make spe-
cialty of wedding fcasts--Gillet, Lemar-
delay, Velour, or the more modest res
taurants of the environs aud of the fau-
bourgs. The table has Joyous aspect
in all these establishments; it is laid with
art and served with apparent abundance,
whatever the price may be; and the we'd
ding guests are joyous and noisy until
order is called for the speeches and songs.
In a popular Partisan wedding the bride
has to sing her little song like the rest.
The poet of the family recites some
verses, and everybody has something to
say, to sing, or TO do, ins)much that q
wedding dinner is often merely pre-
text for eloquence and amateur histrionic
talent. = Harper's Magazine.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

THE Rev. Carlos Martyr, pulpi-
teer of realistic tendencies, electrified
a Chicago congregation by asserting
that the devil turks in the journal
lists ink-stand. The Rev. Carlos APP
parently knows but little of modern
journalism. In any well-conducted
newspaper Office the devil turks in the
composing room during working
hours, and where it listeth his dia-
bolical soul to Turk at other times.
Realistic preachers should be sure OF
their facts, as should realistic novel.
lists, painters, and actors. Realism
and metaphor are to each other as oil
is TO water--they don't mix, and in
the attempt to make them do so a
grewsome mess is usually the result.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

Miss ELLA KNOWLES was candi.
date for Attorney General OF Mon
tana. Being woman Of brains and
character, and good lawyer, she
came near being elected upon heI
merits. Since the election letters
have been pouring to her address
containing offers of marriage from
every style Of masculine idiot whom
the asylums Of the country have neg
lected. The circumstance affords
opportunity for comment, but defer.
ence to members of the gentler sex
naturally impels the leaving of this
pleasant duty to them.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02
RELIABLE RECIPES.

Eggs covered when frying will cook
much more evenly.
PASoAKEs.-Two cups of milk, one
egg, two spoons Of sugar, two teaspoons
of baking powder, little salt, flour for
stiff batter; fry in hot lard.
RYE BREAKFAsT CAKEs.-Two cups of
rye meal, one half-cup of molasses, IL
cups of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of
soda, little salt. Mix very soft, and
bake at once in roll pan or muffin
rings.
SAUCE FOR PLUM PUDDINe. Two table
spoonfuls Of butter; one cup powdered
sugar; half cup boiling water and wine
glassful brandy Cream the butter and
sugar. add the brandy and boiling water.
and beat until very light. If you object
to brandy you may substitute the juice
of one large or two small lemons.
CELERY SALAD.-Cut your celery into
inch lengths. lay it in bowl and put it
on the ice until needed. After it is
brought on the table pour over it French
dressing consisting of three tablespoon
fuls OF oil two OF vinegar, saltspoon-
full of salt, half teaspoonful Of white
sugar and three or four dashes OF black
pepper.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

have tendency to shift the track in the
opposite direction II at all.
THE latest feat In spoon carving is re-
ported from the capital city OF Iowa, and
was accomplished by s. Il. Wilcox. He
took common Iowa souvenir spoon,
one bearing the Iowa coat OF arms on its
handle, and wrote the whole of the
Lords Prayer in its bowl. Every letter
and comma is in its proper place and can
be easily read with the naked eye. A
local paper in commenting on the feat
says; "The general use of such spoons
would make religious instruction more
easy and greatly improve the spirituality
of coffee and tea drinkers"
A STRANGE character has lately gone
over to the majority In London, and his
death is the most absorbing subject of
interest in the papers. Montagu Will
liams, the we'll known barrister, Is dead.
He was extremely popular with Grim
inals, who called him their professional
PAL" and could go with perfect safety
into the lowest resorts of vice and crime
in London. In fact, he was hale fellow
well met with all the crooks in the Seven
Dials or Whitechapel, and his death
will deprive his clients Of an able advo-
cate and merciful judge.
A RETURN of marriage made recently
to the County Clerk put on record the
first ceremony performed in Marion
County, Indiana, by woman. The
bridegroom was John s. Harris, of Shell
byville, carpenter, and Miss Sallie G..
Haverstick, of Indianapolis, was the
bride. Rev. Miss Minnie Thorne offici.
ated at the ceremony.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02
NEBRASKA rainmaker

A NEBRASKA rainmaker named
Swisher has been awarded $50 for
producing a half-inch rainfall in that
State, as per contract with farmer
named McMurty. Swisher was to re-
ceive $500, but McMurty refused to
pay him on the ground that the rain,
which actually fell, was the result of
natural causes. The Judge agreed
with the defendant, but ordered him
to pay $50 out of respect for the con-
tract. The decision was unjust, as
McMurty should either have paid the
$500 or nothing; but it will be of
great interest to General Dyrenfurth
and his Chicago hackers. II rain
maker could collect under a contract
in case rain followed his efforts, then
it might pay to hire an expert weather
prophet and follow the business as a
matter of speculation. But IL the
rainmaker is only to receive one-tenth
OF his pay, even when he happens to
make a strike, the business cannot
be considered promising.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02
Dangerous Curiosity.

my curiosity once came near being
the death of me-" said +. G. Martin,
chairman of the Renaissance Club, that
was holding forth at the Southern, says
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
II was at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the
Spring of 1873, and one day gigantic
iceberg was sighted. 1t was only about
nine miles out, but l determined to have
closer view. A daring young Irish
doctor and myself hired schooner and
set out. There was little wind, and the
sea was exceptionally calm for. that
latitude.
"We approached within half a mile OF
the monster, the captain wisely declining
to go closer. Then was seized with an
insane desire to get on the iceberg and
examine it. OF course, the Irishman
wanted to 90, too. Trust an Irishman to
run his head into danger! The berg
slanted down on one side at an easy
angle, and we bribed a couple of the
crew to row us to it. We climbed all
over it, with the exception of monster
ice hill in the centre that was like per-
pendicular wall of glass, and CLEANED in
the sun like floating Aladdin's palace
While we were prowling about the wind
increased, our boatmen became fright
ened and put back to the ship.
"The great mass of ice was surrounded
by an atmosphere of intense cold, and
we were already chilled to the bone.
We tried to persuade the boatmen to
come back, but they positively refused to
do so. The schooner put back to port,
and we were apparently left to our fate.
On the way in we met steam launch
bringing party of sightseers out, and
informed them of our situation. After
much difficulty the captain of the launch
succeeded in getting us off. Another
hour of that floating Siberia and we
would have been frozen to death"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02
About Correct.

Two old schoolfellows, who recent
ly entered the matrimonial state, met
at the local railway station the other
day. Although both of them had
made love matches, one OF the wives
could by no means be termed good
looking, whereas the other was an
acknowledged beauty. Eventually
the conversation of the two gentle
men turned upon their respective
spouses, and the husband of the
plain woman remarked laughingly:
ado you know what IL is, Tom,
think you and / married the two
best-looking women in our neighbor-
hood?"
"Well, old man, / dare say you're
about half right"
The other man did not see the
point until he narrated the circum-
stances to his wife the same evening.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

Hunters Island is most noticeable.
The cabin is forty feet long and
twenty feet wide. 1t is built of logs
"chinked and p'inted" and has latch
strings at the doors. There are two
clapboard windows on each side, with
a small square of glass in the top of
each Of them. The roof is of split
shingles with the bark side up. A
chimney built of sticks rises up on
the outside from the fireplace in the
west end. Inside, nothing mars the
beauty Of its architectural designs.
1t may have been one room or six,
according to the imaginative power
of an occupant and his ability to see
geometrical partitions. A long pine
table, a double row of pine benches
and cold draught up the fireplace
constitute its present furniture. A
couple OF gauDt hounds and a tor.
toise-shell cat may be added to the
chamber set TO render things more
realistic.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

the Two accompanying views that he
has asked the leading governments OF
the world for the exclusive right TO
manufacture and introduce the APP
paratus. AS will be seen from an ex-
animation of the illustrations, the
device has much the appearance Of
an ordinary life raft. The screw
propellers extend the entire length
Of the arrangement on each side of
the seat Of the rider, and are designed
to offer the least possible resistance
to the motion of the waves and yet
develop the maximum of power. The
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

A DENVER bank teller has vanished
and so have several thousand dollars
of the banks money. It's the old
story Of drinking, and gambling, and
women. It's really pity, in the in
terests of an ennuye public, that de-
faulters and absconders and the rest
of the ilk can't find some new combi-
nation of causes to allege for their de
fections. The old trilogy OF seduc-
tive delights waxeth threadbare with
much age and USE
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

HUNTING is so good in Colorado
that sportsmen are enjoying it in de-
flance of game laws. The people OBJ
ject to having their noblest wild ami
mails exterminated, and there are
prospects that some of the hunters
will be hunted before long. Their
hides when. taken will probably be
too porous to be of commercial value.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

TURKISH army officers are feeling
the rlgors OF reformatory discipline.
The petty ones among them are. now
allowed only two wives. Those OF a
higher rank may grace the domestic
hearth with but three, while the oc-
cupant or the topmost pinnacle Of
military achievement, must be con-
tent with a wifely Quartette. The
expected mutiny has not yet devel-
oned.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

A FRENCH statesman of the last
ten years who does not find dollar
mark opposite his name on the Pana-
ma list Is a lucky man. He will profit
more by the neglect which omitted
him from the roll OF Panama bene-
flciarIes than from all the money that
he would have gained IL he had par
ticlpated in the distribution OF the
DOODLE. M tEs
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

A FLOATING paragraph credits the
people Of the United States with the
consumption of eighty-flve tons Of
chewing tobacco per annum. This
would be an average of about one
twenty-third OF an ounce for every
man, woman and child. There must
be some mistake. The average in
Missouri alone is surely many times
greater than that.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

UP in Montana man about to be
legally hanged smiled cheerfully at
the spectators, but RETAINED from in
yiting them to see him later. Then
when he turned, still smiling, to the
sheriff, and told him to "let FER go,
the sheriff did so with regret that
he had not expected to feel.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

revolution of the foot-wheel is trans
mitted to the propellers by suitable
mechanism, the power being multi
piled as in the road cycle. While it
is not certain that this latest produc-
tion Of German ingenuity will prove
as valuable as is expected by the in.
ventor, the Philadelphia Record
thinks it nevertheless possessor many
novel points not common in water
craft OF this character.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

OLDER nations who sneer at Ameri-
can art never saw real tony butcher
shop in this country. Some Of the
Landscapes done with knife on the
flank OF steer cannot be duplicated
in any European gallery, while deer
with branching horns, all framed in
a lace work OF snowy fat that APP
pears ON a haunch Of mutton, is
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

A YOUNG lady in indianapolis who
teaches physical culture was attacked
by footpad the other night. Instead
OF screaming she gave him one
straight from the shoulder and
knocked him out. Physical culture
of the sort this young lady teaches
is worth the tuition fee.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

CHICAGO friends of DR.. Herr say
that gentleman will clear himself of
all suspicion of crookedness in con-
nection with the Panama scandal
This is a cheerful theory, but to
es tablish it will be a bigger contract
than the one in which De Lesseps
fai1ad
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

SOUTH DAKOTA is protesting against
the notorlety acquired through the
abundance of its divorce crop. Still
the crop is not particularly large. 1t
is merely out of proportion, South
Dakota needs what agricultural
writer's term diversified industries.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

Few improvements in domestic
architecture are more worthy of note
than the growing tendency of the
rich to erect affairs by their own fire.
sides. They are thus enabled to wor-
ship in secluded humility not devoid
of style, and yet escape contact with
such worshipers as are merely pious
and devOut.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

THOSE gold diggings in Utah, il
they pan out well, will send enough
people into that Terr itory within the
next two years to put the Mormons in
the minority. Then the objection to
its admission to Statehood will disap-
pear Immediately.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

MELVIN PRILAY, Of Bangor, Me-, a
young gentleman of society in that
town, recently broke his collar bone
while trying TO don his ulster. The
unloaded Maine ulster, which costs
costs $40 spot cash, is dangerous
thing to fool with.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

SULLIvAN's great heart-beats are
mufiled in a cushion of fat, and
doctors say he can never fight again,
cannot drink and carouse, and must,
in fact, be respectable. This is bitter
fate. Sullivan had thought the mir
acle of disaster attained when he got
whinned
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

THE Long Island man who eloped
with mis- mother-in-law showed re-
markable acumen. When he gets
ready to be forgiven and taken back
TO the home nest the mother-in-law
will not be in IL.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

1T is said that the New York Base
ball Club managers have a $40, COL. SO
deficit to face. Why doesn't New
York pay the sixty-nine cents, and as
usual hold her hands out to the coun-
try at large to make up the rest?
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

EDWIN GOULD has collected about
20, 900 home and foreign newspaper
notices upon Jay Gould's (his father
death. What he will do with them
is gorgeous mystery. Can he In
tend to open ~Chamber of Horrors"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

THE forms of snow crystals seem
numberless, and several hundred of
these forms are figured In reports by
arctic explorers. When snow is fall
ing such crystals can be caught with
out breaking upon fur OF soft cloth.
The variety Of these forms is much
greater in arctic than in temperate
regions
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

OCCURRENCES DURING THE
PAST WEEK.

injured by n Powder Explosion = Dush-
vile Wants = New Name = Aipens
Women Give Mouse Parties--"Cornered''
the school Hohse-Froze Both Feet.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02
NEW AQUATIC vELoc,pEpE.

German Inventors ns~Ins Tor hapid
Propulsion Through Water.
A German inventor considers that
he has at last solved the problem OF
rapid propulsion through water by
the aid OF muscular power. and so
great is his belief In the efficiency
Of the aquatic velocipede shown In
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

Stenography was first used in the
French Parliament about the year
1880, and one of the few ofiicial stem
ographers of that period still survlv.
ing is M. Lagache, VIII is now Sen
ator of France.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

MINERS are rushing into the San
Juan region OF Utah. The spectacle
is only less dramatic than the one
chat win be presented when they
rush out again. n 's
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

Down in New Orleans the authorI-
ties no longer permit cooking mains
Ia defiance Of the law. Rather than
have these illegal affairs dlsgracing
the community they have made them
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

An Austrian engineer proposes to
carry passengers from Vienna TO
Pesth by an electric locomotive at the
rate OF 1913 miles an hour.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02
CABIN ON HUNTERS ISLAND

3s the Worlds Fair Grounds.
OF all the buildings on the Worlds
Fair grounds the log cabin which
rises up from the primeval woods of
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02
MIcHroANI

Ira girls face is her fortune, what's
che figure?
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

something the most renowned artist
IN the Old World would not even
attempt.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-08-25
D,ut:er Packages.

Nothing is of more help in selling
butter at good price than to have
it in neat, clean, attractive looking
packages, says the Homestead. OF
course if the butter is taken to the
store and traded for dry goods and
groceries the. kind of packages does
not make so very much difference.
for the price is usually adapted to
butter of the very poorest quality
and the most untidy appearance
Those who are satisfied with taking
butter to the country store and tt ad-
ing it will not care to improve their
methods of packing, anyhow. They
are very easy people to satisfy and
the store keeper can pay about what
he pleases for their butter SO long as
he pays the same price for all, both
good and bad. But there are some
farmers and dairymeh who want to
improve the quality of their butter
and increase the price they are get
ting for it. They sell to grocers who
will retail it in the original packages
to consumers who have learned to
appreciate that brand, or to
private customers. The heater the
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-08-25

care you commanding this squsd.
or am /? I cay | will be obeyed!
Take up the lad and carry him back
to camp!''
They yielded to the force of disci-
pline, which is so strong as to be-
come nearly an instinct, and raised
the half-conscious form of Charlie
Hilton. The latter understood only
dimly what was going on, or he him.
self would have been the first to pro-
test against his friends heroic sacri-
fee.
..Good-by, Charlie" the sergeant
said; II shan't be able to keep my
promise to you; but when you get
back to England, tell Mary Ashford
that /, Noel Easterbrook, did my
poor little best to send you safe home
to her!"
And as the two soldiers, with their
burden walked silently and SHADY
away over the white desert plain,
Noel Easterbrook sank again heavily
upon the ground. and rolled over
once-sank this time never to rise or
speak again. IN. Y. Journal
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-08-25
SCHEME AT CHURCH FAIRS.

You Hire q Pretty Girl to Talk With
You at so Much per Hour.
Among the new devices for making
money at church fairs and other char
liable entertainments is one which
it's originators term 1.-The Living
Library" says Harper's Young Peo-
pie. A certain number of books are
chosen beforehand, and each one is
represented by some young woman
who is dressed appropriately to indi-
cate either the title OF the book or
some leading character therein.
Each impersonator must also be thor
oughly acquainted with the volume
she represents, and her actions and
behavior must be in accord with the
character chosen. A catalogue is
prepared and furnished on applica-
ton, and whenever book is called
for curtain is drawn aside and the
living copy stands revealed. The
regulations usually governing ''The
Living Library are that: First, all
books must be secured from the
librarian; second, the fee for each
book shall be 10 cents for ten min
utes' use, payable in advance; third.
books cannot be called for twice in
succession; fourth. persons having
called for and obtained the books
must relinquish them upon notice
from the librarian that the time paid
for has reached it's limit, or, failing
to do SO, shall pay at the rate of 2
cents minute for overtime; and,
finally, that no book can be retained
for longer period than twenty
minutes. The rules do not provide
for it, but it is understood, of course,
that during the busy hours of the
fair no book shall be taken off on a
promenade through the entertain
ment room, and the books themselves
are forbidden by the unwritten laws
to drink lemonade and eat ice cream
between the hours of and 10 at
night. Altogether this living library
seems destined to proved great sue.
cess.