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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27
California,s Wonderful Temple.

In Southern California, In the Coun-
ty of San Luis Obispo, there is situated
one of the most remarkable prehistoric
monuments known to the archaeolo,
gists. From distance 1t looks like an
immense rock rising from the plains Of
Carissa, but upon nearer approach II
Is seen to be temple Of extraordinary
dimensions and of unknown antiquity.
The inner court has a level floor 225
feet long and 125 feet wide, and the
ceiling is from 90 to 100 feet high, ac-
cording to situation. The building was
evidently used by prehistoric man, but
for what purpose, and how long since,
no one knows. 1t has been suggested,
however, that 1t was either temple Of
worship or the capitol of some ancient
government. The walls and portions
of the ceiling are beautifully decorated
with paintings In colors red, white and
black, many of them supposed to have
some symbolic meaning. The colors
are apparently as bright as when first
laid on. The Indians Of that locality
are said to have no traditions concern.
ing the building of this temple, yet they
all regard It with superstitious rever.
ence.--st Louis Republic.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27

or Juno, or any other of the goddesses
that the Greeks loved to depict in stone.
Greek faces they have, with the black
hair and eyes and swarthy skins Of
the Latins, with 1.-the, graceful forms
and hands and feet that an empress
might envy. They are mere peasants;
most Of them gain their living by the
hardest description Of manual labor;
yet neither ages Of poverty and want
nor the admixture Of a dozen foreign
races has been able to deprive them of
that wonderful beauty which Is their
birthright.
sic ground, for it was there that De-
mosthenes last touched with the
Athenian fleet when on the way to Sici-
ly and defeat. and 1t was there thar
Cicero turned back to his death when
about to leave Italy after the murder
Of Caesar. Not far away Is the world
famous Scylla, the rock that plays such
a part in the story of Ulysses. A town
now rises on the precipice, and the
whirlpool Charybdis is no longer dan
gerous to navigators, but some idea of
the terror formerly inspired by both may
be gained from the words Of Homer. A
little more than 100 years ago Scylla
was the scene of disaster more dead
ly than any that could have happened
in it's earlier ages. A terrible earth
quake came on February 5, 1873, and
the entire population, DESERVING their
houses at the first shock, gathered on
the seashore. The evening came on
with the terrified people still in groups
on the sand; n renewal Of the shocks,
more severe than the first, took place.
A great headland not far off was liter
ally upset into the sea, a tidal wave
swept along the coast, and 1000 Of the
people of the town were carried away.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27
who Was Kosciusko?

Thaddeus Kosciusko was a Polish
gentleman, born In TAG, and educated
at Warsaw, Versailles and Paris. He
became a captain of artillery in Poland,
but in 1777, on account of love affair,
he went to Paris, and then joined the
French force fighting in this country.
He became a Brigadier General in our
army, and returned to Poland in 1886.
In 1889 he was made Major General,
and distinguished himself in the war
against Russia. In 1874 he headed q
revolution against Russia, and became
Dictator OF Poland, and but for the I'm.
terposition Of Prussia, would have
freed his country. He was captured
by the Russians, and remained a pris-
oner ut St Petersburg until 1796. Then
he went to England and America, but
settled in France in 1T9S. where he
lived until 1916. when he moved TO
Switzerland. He was thrown from his
horse, and died October IL, 1917.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27
ON THE SOUTH COAST,
a DISTRICT m ITALY WHERE
EARTHQUAKES COME OFTEN.
4 Country Where the People Are
Always Il sady to Jump and Run-A
Region of Sand, Seismic convuisions
and Miasma.


The terrible earthquakes reported
from the southern extremity of Italy
are no novelty to the people of that por-
tion of the peninsula. For over 1000
years the southern coast of Italy has
been subject to recurring seismic con-
vulsions, and their frequency has been
so great during the last three centuries
that they have practically made des-
ert of the whole coast from Naples on
to the south, following the toe Of the
giant foot round to the heel. For over
century curious periodicity has
been observed in the eruptions Of vesu-
vius and Etna. When one Is active the
other is quiescent, and vice versa. Be
tween the two is Stromboli, that from
the earliest times has never been quiet,
and with Stromboli as the center Of the
volcanic disturbance the pendulum
swings from vesuvius on the Bay of
Naples to Etna in Sicily, and back
again. But there are times, not very
frequent, when both are quiet and then
the trouble begins on the South italian
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27
A Mcthodical Man.

Now this actually happened when
Bumstead was at certain hotel where
you put your shoes outside your cham
Der door at night, to be polished by the
porter before you rise in the morning
asserts the Worcester Gazette. Bum
stead Is a travelling man, who sells :
well, never mind what he sells. Some
times, he does not sell. He travels long
distances by rail, but he does good
deal Of walking besides, and one result
is the growth of tumulus, mound, an
excrescence on one of his toes which
would do the heart Of a chiropOdist
good, only to look at it.
Now Bumstead is a methodical man.
He prides himself on his business hab-
its. 1t is his custom to get shine al
the end of his days work. 1t is his
habit, also, to say to the boy, when he
reaches his left foot, "Now just go easy
over that little toe, will you?" and the
boy polishes the tumulus with the
greatest delicacy.
On this particular night, Bumstead
had neglected the afternoon ceremony
so before he retired he set his shoes
out to be BACKED in the morning. And
he wrote a placard and placed it in the
left shoe, reading, go easy over tina,
little toe" Then he retired calmly to
bed, but the porters laughed earlier
than usual the next morning. And
they laughed so loud the night clerE
won't down to see whether the wafer
pipes had not burst.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27

suit U III 1 > BtIIIUS FNOF' a. u Della
and labor. Prof. Bells career is Il TO-
mantle one. His wife is totally deaf, aud
it was while experimenting on mechani-
cal appliances to relieve her that he dis
covered the secret of the transmitter Of
the telephone. His devoted attention
to his wife is a marked trait of Prof.
Bells character. Notoriety is distaste-
full to him. and he leads quiet life
away from the centers of business ami
society. Prof Bell was born in Scot
land in 1S47, and came to the United
States in 1872.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27
HOW FISH BREATHE.

Require but the Minimum of Oxygen
to Keep UP Tenn pcrature.
The gills OF the fish are situated at
the back part Of the sides of the head,
and consist of a number of vascular
membranes, which are generally ar
ranged In double, fringelikc rows, at
tached to the parts by the base only.
In some cases these membranes are
feather-shapcd; in others, mere folds
attached to the sides of the gill cav
tiles. The fish is a cold-blooded animal;
that is to say, its temperature is seldom
more than a degree or two higher
than the water In which 1t lives. This
being true, the creature needs but q
very small amount Of oxygen to keep
the blood at a temperature sufficiently
high to sustain life. This oxygen il
supplied to the blood Of the fish by re-
spring large quantities Of water, or,
rather, drinking large quantities Of
water, and respiring the air separated
from it by the gills. This explains why
a fish cannot live In tank of water
which has been sifted through the gills
time and time again any better than a
human being or other animal can in
air that has been deprived Of all its
oxygen by being taken into lungs and
expelled without being aerated. Fish
that die In the stale water Of aquariums
may be properly said to drown, be-
cause they perish for want Of air, the
same thing which occasions death by
drowning in man and other lung
breathing animals.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27
Howorth's History.

A story is told of Sir Henry Howorth,
the author Of a well-known History of
the Mongols," that he sat at dinner one
day next to lady whose mind seemed
full of the distress of her pet dog, and
who bombarded Sir Henry with ques-
lions as to what should be done for
the animal.
Not being satisfied with his replies,
she finally expressed her great disap-
pointment at his ignorance, and re-
marked: "Well, Sir Henry, must say
did think you would have told me
how to manage my little dog, particu-
larry as it is cross-bred-you who wrote
that delightful History of the Mon.
prels'"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27

very inadvisable; in fact, large house
is generally tumbled over before it is
fairly completed, and so the villages
are of small one-story houses, from
which the inhabitants are ready to flee
into the open air at moments notice.
They are always expecting an earth
quake, are always prepared for one,
and never feel the slightest surprise
whe~ one comes. No matter what the
villager of the Calabrian coast may be
doing, he Is never so engrossed In his
job as not to quit it when he feels the
first tremor of the earth beneath his
let, but drops everything and gets into
the open air in as few jumps as posi-
BILE, for he knows that there is danger,
IL not death, in delay. He thus lives
in constant state of nervousness, and
even in sleep is ready to jump and run.
A recent traveller, telling of his expe-
rience in a coast town. heard an unus-
ual sound, which proved to be the vii
lage blacksmith striking a board with
his heavy hammer. 1t was easily ex-
planned on investigation, and the entire
population was investigating 1t In less
than one minute, for nobody under
stood it, and every one suspected that
1t might be some new form of earth
quake manifestation.
But the earthquake Is not the only
drawback to life on the Calabrian coast
One of the most singular changes Of
climate recorded In the annals Of me-
terology is that which has come about
I'm the last fifteen or eighteen centuries
I'm certain parts of Italy. The Roman
Campagna, for instance, In the days Of
the Empire, was a singularly pleasant,
fertile and salubrious country. All over
the plain are to be found the ruins Of
the villas which once belonged to
wealthy Roman gentlemen, who, dur
ing the heat of the Italian summer, left
the city for the GOODNESS Of the plains
outside. Now the Campagna Is deadly.
Every part reeks with miasma, and the
incautions traveller who passes a night,
or sometimes even a day, In the vicin-
ity OF its sluggish streams and fetid
marshes always pays the penalty by a
long iIlness-sometime with his life.
The southern coast is. In this respect,
like the Campagna. Some points are
40 unhealthy that men connot live in
their vicinity; there are stations on the
railroad that follows the coast SO dead
ly that an appointment as stationmas-
ter is considered equivalent to sen
tcnce of death. For many miles at a
stretch the coast is uninhabited even
by the acclimated natives, who, when
obliged to go thither, finish their bust
ness by daylight, and toward night
fall go to the hills, where safety is to be
found This Is one of the most remark
able things about the desolate coast
the fact that immunity from the MAS
ma is to be found among the foothills Of
the range that makes the backbone Of
the peninsula. Thus, while the coast II
deadly, the hills. two or three miles
away, are as healthy as tropical eli
mate can be, and the population of thu
mountains. though not dense. Ia ye
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27

OF hiS numerous attendants On his
head he wears a turban with three
cockades, and hanging down in front
OF his face, like horses nose bag, is Il
little silver sieve, supposed to strain the
gnats and bad smells OF Dahomey out
OF the air which his Majesty breathes.
Many women attend him. One drives
away flies, another fans him, another
looks after his umbrella, and fourth
attends to his smoking apparatus. The
French are responsible for his corona
don.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27

fruit Ill the air. Carts constantly pass
through the streets bearing the golden
crop to the warehouses, whence 1t is
passed on to the sailing vessels that
carry II to the nearest large port, where
regular lines Of steamers distribute it
all over Europe. Formerly this region
was as celebrated for It's palms as now
for its oranges; hut that was during
the Saracenie occupation, and after
the Saracens were driven cut the pop
ulace 20 hated anything that reminded
them Of the detested Moors that all the
palms were cut down, and now they
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27
Ooina Of Enormous Size,

When the area and square inches Of
surface Is taken into consideration the
largest coins ever issued by any gov
eminent on the globe were those put
into circulation by Sweden during the
sixteenth century. These mammoth
pieces are neither round, square, oval.
nor octagonal In shape, but are great
irregular slabs of copper described rs
resembling pieces Of a boiler after an
explosion" The smallest pieces Issued
under the law which authorized thjs
gigantic coinage was an irregular rec
tangular slab of about twelve SQUARE
inches of surface, and about a half an
inch thick. 1t was worth about thirty
cents. The largest of the same ser,ea
was about foot square and had face
value of $4. Each of these copper slabs
are stamped in several places on the
face, the various inscriptions giving the
date, denomination, etc. The 81 piece
mentioned last above Is nearly an inch
In thickness and weighs four pounds,
lacking a fraction.-St Louis Republic.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27
Game at the Cape, 1852.

When the early Dutch settlers land
ed at the cape in 1862, and under their
first Governor, stout Jan Van Rie-
beck, took possession of the soil, they
found the country one vast and teem-
ing natural preserve of great game.
Down to the very shores Of the Allan
tic and Indian Ocean there wandered a
countless multitude of the noblest and
rarest species with which a prodigal
nature ever blessed the earth. The ele-
plant, rhinoceros, and buffalo roamed
everywhere; the hippopotamus bathed
his unwieldy form in every stream and
river; the lion, leopard, and cheetah
pursued their way unchecked; the
Gland, koodoo, gnu, bartebeest, and a
number of other fine antelopes grazed
In astonishing plenty.
The mountain zebras paced the sicr-
ras of the Cape peninsula and every
other range of the colony In strong
troops; the quagga now, alas! extinct)
thronged the karroo plains. In every
corner of that vast land, upon fat and
upland, In deep and lonely kloof, and
over boundless plain. there wandered,
free and undisturbed as they had wan
dered through countless ages Of the
past, an unexampled array of wild ami
mails.
The early Dutch settlers scarcely
knew what to do with this profusion OF
game. The Glands and koodoos broke
into their gardens and vineyards, the
elephants and rhinoceroses made hay
with their crops; the lions besiegcd
them in their fort and logged Gov. Van
faiebeek N his garden. There is pa.
thetic, yet ludicrous entry In the old
records of the Cape commanders, bear.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27

the north, for they have a pet theory
that when there is such an outbreak u
relief will be given to the forces of ma
ture, and that by the new outlet be.
tween Vesuvius and Etna the fires and
gases will pour out and earthquakes
will cease. They may be right or they
may be wrong, but they are certainly
entitled to have a theory on the sub
ject, and after all it is not improbable
that they may know as much about the
matter in question as the man who,
1900 or 1000 miles from the nearest
volcano, and in a country that never
had an earthquake, sits down at his
desk and gravely discusses the causes
of seismic commissions.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27
masses OF rock that oyerhang and shut

masses Of rock that Overhang and shut
them in from view
One Of the few exceptions to the
dreariness Of the southern coast Is the
city OF Reggie. where recently such
fearful destruction was wrought by
the earthquake. The causes Of the diff
ference between the country about Reg
gio and the rest Of the shore are as
mysterious as the reasons for the prev
alencc OF the ,miasma elsewhere, but
certain It Is. no part OF Italy is fairer
than the district that harvests all its
lemons and oranges in Reggie. The
neighborhoed ID one OF singular beauty.
Picturesque villages crown every hill
top, while across the blue straits of
Messina rises vision of Sicily and the
snowy heights Of Etna.s The country
round Reggie j. one great orange plan
Triton, and everywhere the perfume of
the blossoms ana the fragrance of the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27
Avn american Coach Horse,

An exchange says: THE experiment
station attached to one OF the State uni
versities is at present considering the
propriety of evolving a type Of coach
horse distinctly. American are superior
or to the kindred breeds Of Europe. II
is proposed to select a few large trot-
ting mares, with the desired conforma-
ton and action, and q stallion of SINH
lar build and gait, and possessed of a
good measure of speed, and 1t will not
take long to produce and establish such
n valuable type of coach horses.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27
Sacred Fires.

The sacred fires of India have not all
been extinguished. The most ancient,
which still exists, was consecrated
twelve centuries ago in commemora-
ton of the voyage made by the Par
sees when they emigrated from Persia
to India. The fire is fed five times
every twenty-four hours with sandal
wood and other fragrant materials,
combined with very dry fuel. This fire,
In the village of Oodwada, near Bull
sar. is visited by the Parsees in large
numbers during the months allotted to
the presiding genius of fiis.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27

coast, for as sure as Etna and Vesuvius
calm down the earthquakes in Gala
bria begin. 1t is true there are earth
quakes there at other times also; In
fact. there is hardly a day in the year
when an earthquake may not be looked
for at some point along the coast, but
when both great volcanoes are quiet
earthquakes of unusual violence may
be expected, and the expectation Is
rarely doomed to disappointment
The consequence is that the whole
coast is almost desolate. The frequen-
cy of the shocks renders the construc-
ton OF houses of any considerable size
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27

lene D'Orleans was born at Twicken-
ham 20 years ago. She married when
quite young, and is the mother of two
handsome sturdy boys. The Duke Of
Braganza succeeded his father five
years ago, and since that time both he
and Queen Amelie have won golden
opinions from their subjects and for
eign critics. Queen Amelie is devoted
to her children. takes an active inter-
est in the condition of her husbands
people. and is greatly beloved by them.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27

country. Even during the Roman SUI
premacy the southern end Of the pen
insula was noted for it's wealth. and
only after tn ,iruptions Of Vesuvius
and Ema and thc accompanying earth
quakes became numerous and destruc-
tive did the coast fan into commercial
decay. Not 4 few dozen villages and
groups Of ruins at every mile mark the
coast that once sent fleets to every part
OF the Mediterranean and defied alike
the power Of Greece and Carthage.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27

and international communism on a
sound basts' Mr.. Hobson is an officer
of the Labor Electoral Association, and
was chairman of the British section at
the Zurich socialist congress In August
last. He is a man Of genial disposition
and scrupulous fairness, who has work
ed long and arduously in the cause Of
the International organization of labor.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27

late Comte de Paris,
and 1t was owing
more or less direct
ly to her marriage
to the then Duke Of
Braganza, that the
Il r e n ch govern
ment passed the
Expulsion Bill
against the direct
heirs Of families
w h o had once
reigned in France.
Amelie Louise He
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27

phone has won for
him. He Is now ,e-
cretly working o u
a n G w invention,
which / s rumored
to be a flying ma
C h | n e, regarding
which Prof. Bell is
a s IN tie as q
sphinx. The world
may again be star
tied by q marvellous
continuance, the re.
~..,IA n q q ~anttr1
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27

hours. One young man who awakened
whenever the assistant began work
ing in cavity went to sleep again i'm
mediately afterward."
Instances are recorded In which some
mysterious psychic force has been en-
ployed in making ones leg longer than
it really ought to be, but it remained
for Minneapolis dentist to perform
as miraculous an operation on molars
and bicuspids. The report does not
say so, but it is no doubt true that q
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27

cal dentistry and minor surgery was
demonstrated before the Minneapolis
Dental Society this afternoon. Dean
Suddeth, of the dental department Of
the university, conducted the clinics
and showed for the first time in the
United States In a school Of instruc-
ton how the science may be put to
practical use. He put his patients In
a hypnotic state and turned them over
to an assistant, who performed the
dental operation. The rooms were
crowded with members Of the society.
Two university students had cavities
filed and testified to their freedom
from pain when th0y awOke. Another
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27

Tooth Pulling Becomes q Source q
Pleasurable Enjoyment.
If the latest news from Minneap-
oils prove reliable, 1t will be no less
pleasing hereafter to have tooth
drawn than to receive an invitation
to take drink, says the Chicago Her
aid. Hypnotism, according to report,
has made the horror of the dentists
chair thing of the past This Is what
n dispatch from Minneapolis says:
"The success of hypnotism In practi-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27

are almost ss muca Of . curiosity In
Reggie az In Paris.
But they are not needed to recall to
the beholder the fact that he IL In Italy.
The marvellous beauty Of the women IL
enough. Every one Is painters model;
every one looks as though she had step
ped out Of an antique picture. There
are hundreds In Reggie who could
stand as models for Venus. or Diana.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27

Such is the fate that the jewellers on
the South Italian coast must contem-
plate as possible at any time. But with
all their earthquakes and the constant
state of alarm in which they live, they
are a careless. happy lot. They work
as little as possible, stay out of doors rs
much as they can, and pray for the
time to come when volcano shall
break out in the mountain ranges to
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27

brother of the late
k n g. Agoliagbo
| s tall, dignified
a n d attractive =
from an African
point of view. He
i s very particular
in matters Of dress,
wearing a garment
of silk and parti-
colored satin, fas-
tened around the
waist and held at
his shoulder nv one
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27

whole community
complete owner
ship Of the means
Of transport, the
means Of manufac-
ture, the mines and
the land. Thus
they hope to put an
end forever to the
wage system, to
sweep away all dis
tinctions of class,
and eventually to
establish national