Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-09-13


carry in a year GOO, 900, 600 passen-
gers and transport 800, 600, 900 tons
Of freight.
THE Methodist Episcopal Church
has $500, 600 members. owns over
$4,000 churches and 10000 parson-
ages, worth In the aggregate $685.
600. 900.
HERR LOVES invention of the
''tailor-made" armor is followed by
that OF Hungarian, who says he
can make from wood pulp. fabric
suitable for clothing.
SOME notion may be formed of the
enormous volume Of corporation law
from the fact that federal courts are
operating l52 railway systems, re-
presenting capitalization Of 81, 500, :
600, 900. And on all the litigation that
those figures represent lawyers are
collecting fat fees.
THE statistics of illiteracy in the
United States shows that of total
population over 10 years of age OF A.
Alb, $50, there are 6, 1924, 702 illiterates,
or over ID per cent. The percentage
OF illiterates in the white population
is over seven and half. and in the
colored population nearly 81.
THE statistics Of houses used wholly
or chiefly for dwellings are vague and
unsatisfactory, but it is fact pretty
we'll known that there are 8, 500. 600
houses in the United States, against
5000, 900 in France and Russia, g.
500, 900 in England, and 5000, 900 in
Germany.
The price of corn in Russia has
shrunk so low, in consequence of the
splendid prospect of the harvest,
that many farmers are sending their
cattle into the fields, as the cost of
harvesting would exceed the price Of
the corn. In the Caucasus barley
and wheat are cut green and given to
the cattle. Forty-five pounds of corn
are worth cent and half.
A MAN whose business it is to So
licit subscribers for several medical
periodicals complains that doctors
are feeling the hard times. Many
decline to subscribe, and more who
subscribe delay payment. The fact
is that many sick folks are making
shift to get along without the doctor,
while some are seeking advice at the
hands of less expensive men than
they have usually employed.
THERE are not a few newspapers
which speak of little Korea 1t is
true that size is relative, and as COM
pared with either Japan or China, it
is relatively small. At the same time
''little Korea" has an area Of 80, 600
square miles, and is consequently
equal in territory to England, Scot
land and Wales combined. The
population of the last census was re-
ported as 10, SIS, 937. It's capital city
is Enclosed by wall twenty feet high
and contains population of over
200, 900.
THE increase in the consumption
of absinthe in France is one of the
worst features of recent statistics Of
the republic In 1885 the reports
show that 81 900 hectoliters of alb
sinthe were sold ut retail. In 1892
these sales had swelled to 126, 900
hectoliters, and there was q corre-
spending increase in the sale of all
other alcoholic drinks. Whether this
growth Of the absinthe habit had any
thing to do directly with crime is un-
certain, but it is fact that the num-
Der of persons condemned by the
courts advanced from Sc, 600 in 1865
to l27, 900 in 1885.
DURING the last fiscal year ended
June 80, 1894, 800, 662 letters from
foreign lands drifted into the dead
letter Office, Washington. The indi-
viduals addressed being not discover
ed, nearly all Of these missives had
to be sent back to the countries
whence they came. Yet the United
States post Office is vastly more clever
at finding people than are the author
tiles abroad. Only few days ago
letter dispatched from New York
with the superscription, Levi p.
Morton, Paris, France, was returned
marked "Inconnu"-i. e., ''un-
known" Nevertheless, the ex-Vice-
President was in the French capital
at the time at one OF the great
hotels.
IT is reported from Oklahoma that
the melon planters Of that Territory
have found an unexpected enemy in
the coyotes that abound there. On
account of the drouth the springs and
smaller streams have gone dry; but
the coyotes have found that they can
quench their thirst on melons. When
one gets thirsty he hunts melon
patch, jumps on melon till he
breaks it, and then, thrusting his
sharp nose into the interior Of the
fruit, regales himself with the con-
tents. Then he usually reports to
his thirsty comrades, and brings them
in great numbers to relieve their
wants. A pack of the creatures will
make havoc of melon patch in one
night.
A WASHINGTON sea captain COM
plains of the tramp nuisance at sea.
There is large and increasing num-
Der of men who make practice of
beating their way from place to place
on vessels, and the coasting craft are
their favorite prey. They manage to
slip aboard vessel just as she is
ready for sea, and hide themselves
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