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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-01-25
In Japan.

A new disease is reported to have
broken out in Japan. You are walk
ing along, feeling perfectly we'll and
suspecting no evil, when suddenly
you are seized with a violent cramp.
You fall down, experiencing, how
ever, no particular pain, but when
you have leisure to examine yourself
you find, to your horror, that a slit
an inch or an inch and a halt in
length, and about an inch deep, has
opened in your arm or your leg. In
a short time the wound begins to
bleed and becomes very painful You
are in no especial danger Of your life,
it appears, but the mysterious wound
is very difficult 10 cure, and you will
be lucky If it heal in six months.
The people naturally attribute the
malady to malignant spirits, and as
the European doctors are unable to
give any more satisfactory expiana-
tions Of its cause, the efforts at pre-
vention are at present confined to the
making Uf incantations, the burning
of fragrant incense, and the sacrifice
Of fowls These are not reported to
be very etfcaciouS
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-01-25
Coffee as a Disinfectant.

Numerous experiments with roasted
coffee prove that 1t is the most DOW
erful means not only for rendering
animal end vegetable eftiuvia innocu-
Gus, but OF actually destroying them.
A room in which meat in an ad-
vanced degree of decomposition had
been kept for some time, was instant
ly deprived of all smell on an open
coffee roaster being carried through
it containing pound OF coffee newly
roasted. In another room exposed to
the effluvium occasioned by the
cleaning out Of the dung pit, so that
sulphurated hydrogen and ammonia In
great quantities could be chemically
detected, the stencil was completely
removed In half minute on the en-
ployment OF three ounces of fresh
roasted coffee, while the other parts
of the house were prematurely cleared
OF the smell by being simply ira
versed with the coffee roaster. al
though the cleansing of the dung pit
continued for several hours after.
The best mode Of using the coffee as
a disinfectant is to dry the raw bean,
pound in a mortar and then roast
the powder on a moderately heated
iron plate until 1t assumes dark
brown tint when it is 1t to use.
Then sprinkle 1t In sinks or cess
pools, or lay 1t on plate In the room
which you wish to have purified.
Coffee acid or coffee oil acts more
readily In minute quantities. --Mer-
chants Review.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-01-25
Various Sources of sugar.

The plant which supplies the most
sugar for human use Is the beet; next
comes the sugar cane, and these two
excel all others The hard maple,
however, produces large quantity OF
very pleasant sugar. The soft maple
and the box elder produce a whittier
but poorer sugar. There are many
species Of palms which yield juice
almost as rich as that of the tropical
sugar cane, and much purer. Clari-
fed sugar palm sap is as clear as
spring water. The wild date palm
produces the most sugar. Sugar has
been made from watermelons, and
even from the American field corn,
but not profitably. Sorghum is a
most promising sugar plant 1t is,
undoubtedly, the Northern sugar
cane, and when better sugar produc-
ing varieties have been selected, the
manufacture OF sorghum sugar will
certainly prove large and profitable
industry.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-01-25
Tricks of Trade.

AS everyone knows 4. T. Stewart
was man Of shrewd and original
ideas During the early days of his
mercantile career, his store was
situated near those Of fashionable
jeweler and halter. The canny
Scotchman noticed every day that
there we're private carriages standing
in front OF these stores while the oc-
cupants were inside, and there were
seldom any in front Of his store.
Private carriages were conspicuous in
New York at that time, for there
were few of them. Stewart wanted
them to stand In front OF his place
as an advertisement 1t would give
the impression that the occupants,
who represented the wealth of New
York, were inside buying goods. He
hit upon scheme that kept a row
of private carriages in front OF his
store all day. He paid the driver of
each carriage shilling dav to drive
up to his door and wait there until
they were wanted.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-01-25
CHIGAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1884,
COLLEGE GIRLS FUN.
A Lot of Frenchwomen Give n Sensational
Rise to the Venerable Prexs

sThey may talk about the college
boys and their hazings and tricks, but
for real genuine fun you can't beat
the college girl" said young fresh
woman the other day to a reporter
for the New York Advertiser Last
year-you know the mems college Is
right near our seminary, and so they
call on us every evening-the presi-
dent made a new rule.
HE declared that we must dismiss
our guests at Y:30 and we decided we
would not do it. After a great deal
of plotting and planning we hit upon
a delightful plan, and it was a great
success The boys secured a big
basket and two ropes and pully for
us, and this we hid during the day
and at night fastened two great
hooks on the sill of our study win
dow. The boys sent up their cards
in the basket and then, after inspect
ing them with lantern to make sure
they were not burglars, we hauled
them up.
"But one night the grave and dig.
nified president caught us and
planned little surprise for us. He
found one of the boys cards in our
rooms and placed it in the basket
1t worked beautifully, and we hauled
him half way up before anyone
thought Of using the lantern.
"Then Miss Flyaway held it out the
window and took peep at him. One
glance at the spectacles and baldhead
was enough. 1t was lucky for that
president that we did not let him fall
to the ground in our horror and
amazement, but we held on to the
ropes until we decided what to do.
"We couldn't let him down again;
he would only come up and catch us
and we couldn't drop him, bad as he
was, and we certainly didn't intend
to help him carry out his plan by
hauling him up, so we compromised
by securing the ropes and letting him
hang there in midair.
"He begged and implored to be let
down, offered us any bribe we could
wish for and wasted more eloauenca
on us in that first hour than he did
during his yearly lectures. But We
had no visitors that night. He
amused us and we wanted revenge,
so we left him.
"He tried to jump, to climb down
the wall and up on the rope, but
failed In everything. At last he
howled, yelled like an Indian, till
everyone in the town was aroused,
and even the boys turned out to see
the terror of their worst nightmare,
crimson with rage, suspended in mid
air in a clothes basket"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-01-25
A GEORGIA SUGAR BOILING.
simple Charms of . Rustic Treat which
the Natives Find Full of Sweet Delight.

yimple Charms of . Rustic Treat which
the Natives Find Full of Sweet Delight.
When the frosts begin to tinge the
leaves the young people OF Southern
Georgia are on the alert for news OF
the first sugar boiling. Many a gay
straw ride Is arranged and planta-
tions far and near are visited, for no
distance Is too great and no roads too
rough to deprive them Of pleasure
so peculiarly their own.
To Northerner the scene has all
the charm of novelty. Great stacks
of sugar cane are piled round grind
ing mill, which is propelled by horse
power and fed by a couple of negroes
who. with great rapidity, handle the
long stalks, which are quickly crushed
to pieces, the juice escaping through
a narrow channel into large barrels
prepared for it. This Juice of sickly
greenish color and to a Yankee tastes
as sickly as 1t looks, but the natives
consider it nectar fit for the gods,
and their liking for it is stongly in
evidence as gobletful after gobletful
disappears. A few yards distant
from the mill is an immense caldron,
under which great fire is kept burn
ing. Into this Juice is poured, and
after about three hours boiling 1T is
run of into trough, rich brown
syrup
1t is at night the scene assumes it's
most interesting aspect. The sur
rounding darkness is intensified by
the deep glow of the oak fire, which
throws fantastic shadows and gives a
weird look to the figures of the
negroes, who hover around like un-
canny spirits.
The presiding genius of the caldron
on one plantation was coal black
African, whose grotesque appearance
was heightened by peculiar head
gear made of carpet. AS, armed with
long handled ladle, he stirred the
foaming syrup. which spluttered and
hissed and leaped in brown catar-
acts, one could almost imagine him a
wizard Of fairy lore muttering fierce
incantations over some deadly potion.
A torch, dimly seen through clouds
Of vapOr, cast feeble light on the
boiler and lent an additional strange
ness to the scene.
AS soon as the syrup is run off the
visitors cluster round the trough like
bees round honey pot. Each has a
''paddle," which Is strip of cane
bark, and all scoop up the rich yell
low foam which floats on top of the
syrup. Unlike the juice. the foam
wins its way into favor at once, and
very ridiculous it is to see the dain-
tiest damsel contentedly slipping out
Of trough with twenty or thirty
people and enjoying every sip which
finds its way to her little red mouth.
The skimmings Of the syrup are
put into barrel. About the third
day fermentation begins, and the re-
suit is cane beer, a very agreeable
beverage.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-01-25
Must BE at a Premium.

The long-delayed but inevitable rec
ognition by the Treasury Department
OF the necessity for an issue of bonds to
meet the demands OF the government
and to maintain its credit at home and
abroad was made when Secretary Car
Isle issued circular inviting propos-
ais for $50, 100000 of per cent. bonds,
redeemable at the pleasure of the
United States after ten years, and to
be issued in denominations of $50 and
upwards. The per cent. bonds were
finally preferred to either the ~ or the
per cent. bonds because of the pOssi-
bility of redeeming them at maturity
and the convenient control over them
given the government in case it might
be desired to continue them at lower
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-01-25
A New Form OF Hash.

How to get rid of scraps of meat
and small amounts Of food that will
accumulate in the refrigerator, was
solved by my John, when was too
i'll to be cut OF my bed, and had no
help. He brought me small amount
Uf a very appetizing dish. and when
insisted on knowing what it was,
he said, Norwegian hash," and so
we have called it ever since. AS the
receipt differs according to what l
have on hand, l tell YOU how l made
1t last week. / had a little roast
meat and some gravy, mutton chop,
slice Of fried liver, two links Of
smoked sausage, one Hamburg meat
bail, some potato that had been fried
raw, three boiled potatoes, one sweet
one, about two dozen Lima beans,
and tomato. l ground them all
through my meat grinder, adding an
onion, salt, and pepper to taste.
Make 1t up in any shape you please
round cakes, croquettes, cylinders.
Whatever happen to have l use,
but always trying to have some to-
matoes and some smoked meat, such
as little ham or dried beef. If I
do not have gravy, l make little
white sauce with butter and -four,
and add enough to make them hold
together. II L want them very nice
1 dip them in egg and bread crumbs,
and fry them as l would croquettes.
l have never had any one taste them
and not like them, and they are
never twice alike, as one never has
just the same left-overs Scraps are
not inviting warmed over by them
selves but will make the foundation
of a good meal II used In this way. -
Housekeeper's Weekly.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-01-25
NeII,s Observation.

Little Nell, dining with the grown
up members OF the family. gazes con-
templatively at each one In turn,
then remarks slowly: "All the ladies
has they bangs over they noses and
sll the gentlemen has they bangs un-
der they noseA "-Hsrper's Bazaar.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-01-25
SHOWS WORLDS FAIR FACTS.
President Palmer Presents His Annual Re-
port to President Cleveland.

pOrt W OteSeanus
The annual report of the Worlds
Columbian Commission has been SUBJ
mitted to President Cleveland by Pres
ident T. w. Palmer. Detailed state
ments of the scope and various feat
ures of the Exposition are left for
the final report, to be prepared by
q special committee of tho commits
sion, with President Palmer at its
head, and which will be work of great
magnitude, practically history of the
fair. to be completed next November.
An estimate OF S42, 500 to complete the
work of the commission, not including
the committee on awards, is made,
and congress is asked to make its
transfer from the funds of the commit
tee on awards and Board of Lady Man.
ayers. The commission has balance
of $11 900 in the treasury, the commit
tee on awards $96,273, and the commit
tee on awards Of the lady managers
0,539; present Board Of Lady Man
ayers, SOL, 1856.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-01-25

LORD" BEREsFoRD, who was con-
victed in Rome, Ca, last year of forg-
cry and sentenced to serve five years
in the State penitentiary, escaped from
the convict camp at Kramer He board
ed a train for Florida, and, it is sup
posed, has made his arrangements to
sail from Southern port to England.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-01-25

S. II. Hart and Frank Dinsmore,
President and Cashier of the defunct
Buckley Bank of the State of Washing
ton, have been held TO the United
States Circuit Court at Baltimore in
$1,000 bail. The case will now 90 to
the United States Circuit Court OF APP
peals at Richmond, Va.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-01-25

G. w. GIBBS, arrived In New Orleans
from Honduras, says Maj. A Z. Burke
had told him he would return 70 tho
United States TO stand trial on the
charge Of embezzling e3,000,0 900 from
the funds of Louisiars
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-01-25
SOCIETY MEETINGS.


NJ E. CHURCH-Rev. s. g. Taylor, Pastor.
Services at 10 80 o'clock I'm. and 71e pm Sun
day school at IL IN. Prayer meeting every
Thursday evening at 7]a o'clock. All are cor
daily invited to attend.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. John Irwin
Pastor Services every Sunday morning and
evening at the usual hour. Sunday-school fol-
owing morning service. Prayer meeting every
Wednesday evening.
DANISH Ev. CHURCH-Rev. A. Henritzy
Pastor. Services every Sunday at 10 a. IN. and
D. m, and every Thursday at 73o p. m. Sun
day School at p. m.
METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH.
Rev. J. J. Willis, Pastor. Services every Sun
lay at $3.50 p. m Sunday-school at p. m.
ST. JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH.-Father
II. Weber. Regular services the last Sunday
In each month.
CRAWLING LODGE, No. SSe. =. d A. NJ.
meets in regular communication on Thursday
evening on or before the full OF the moon
R. d. CONNINE, W. NJ.
A. TAYLOR, Secretary.
MARVIN POST, No. 24o, G. A. R., meets the
second and fourth Saturdays in each month.
w. WOODBURY., Post Com.
A. TAYLOR, Adjutant.
WoMEN's RELIEF CORPS No. 1e2, meets on
the I'd and 4th Saturdays at 2 o'clock in the af-
ternoon. ISABEL JONES' President.
REBEccA WIGHT, Sec.
CRAWLING CHAPTER, r. A. M, No. 49,
Meets every third Tuesday in each month.
VIM PRINGLE, H. p.
A. TAYLOR, Sec.
CRAWLING LODGE, 1. o. o. F.. No. 1s7.-
Meets every Tuesday evening.
Q. o. MCCULLOUGH, N. G.
w. BLANCHAN, Sec.
CRAWLING ENCAMPMENT. /. O. O. F.. No.
1lo.-Meets alternate Friday evenings.
W. MCCULLOUGH. c. P.
s. @. TAYLOR, Secretary.
CRAWFORD TENT. X. O. T. M. No. 1O2.-
Meets every Saturday evening.
T. NOLAN, R.K.
CRAWLING CHAPTER. ORDER OF EAST
ERN STAR, No. SO, meets Monday evening on
or before the full of the moon.
MARY l.. srALEY, w. M.
ADA NJ. GhODLOffs bcc.
PORTAGE LODGE, X. of p, No. H1.-Meets
first and third Wednesday Of each month.
MARIUs HANSON, c. G.
j. HARTwIcK, X. of r. and s.
COURT CRAWLING, I. o. f., No 79o-Meets
second and last Wednesday of each month
@. w. SMITH, @. r.
T. NARRIN, r. 8.
WAGNER CAMP, s. OF ", No. l4s.-Meets
nrst and third Saturday of each month.
l.. J. PATTERSON, Captain.
Err. BELL, 1st Sergeant.
CRAWLING HIVE, No. "a, L. O. T. M.-Meets
every first and third Wednesday Of each month.
SARAH N. wooDyrELD. Lady Com
EDITH WooDyrELp. Record Keeper.
LEBANON CAMP, No n. W. o. w.-Mests In
regular session every Monday evsaine-
Gro. \. DoUBLE. oeunsea ConL
uA1n1 nvAua. Osuk
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-01-25
BONDS TO BE ISSUED.
SECRETARY CARLISLE CALLS
FOR PROPOSALS.

The Total Is s5O,O0O,0OO and the securi-
ties VIII Bear Interest at the Rate OF
Five Per Cent, Redeemable In Ten Years
In Denominations of $50 and Upwa rd.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-01-25

PROFILE are 90 much alike, they
should b better friends
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-01-25

ST. JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH.-Father
II. Weber. Regular services the last Sunday
In each month.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-01-25

No~~O~~oON~N~N~OCOCO~ONON c~~SC~0O"O"~N~N~~
M. E. CHURCH-Rev. s. q. Taylor, Pastor
Services at 10 80 o'clock am. and 7I9 pm. Sun
day school at IL IN. Prayer meeting every
Thursday evening at 74 o'clock. All are cor
daily invited to attend.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-01-25

CRAWLING LODGE, No. sSs, =. d A. NJ.
meets in regular communication on Thursday
evening on or before the full Of the moon.
RD. CONNINE, W. NJ.
A. TAYLOR, Secretary.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-01-25

METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH.
Rev. J. J. Willis, Pastor. Services every Sun
lay at $50 p. m. Sunday school at p. m.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-02-28
STATE NE US.


WOODLAND.
The past week has been very changeable,
ona day being very pleasant and the next
old and rough.-M, n lay w spring like
day and the roads il all directions were
filed with teams drawing potatoes to mar
ket. On Tuesday, the Goth inst, report
says there were delivered at the station in
Caribou 1000 barrels of potatoes, and at
Fort Fairfield station on the same day there
we're 5000 barrels delivered.-Notu it'll
standing the uncertain result of tariff re-
form, farmers are getting ready for spring
planting of potatoes. Large lots OF phos
pilates of different grades are beiog delivered
to the station at Caribou.-Typhoil fever
still prevails in Caribou. Several deaths
have been reported, and other cases of
which but little hopes are entertained.
MAsARpIE.
r. M. Pollard and VIII Tagett have re-
turned from Patten where they went to
work in the woods.-The school in District
No. 2 opened last Monday with Miss Bliss
of Linneus as teacher. Miss Bliss is an ex-
cellent teacher and very successful term
is anticipated. The school in District No.
| close Thursday. Feb. % after very sue
csssful term of 10 weeks ia1glt iy Miss
Eva Bri ileham of Ashland.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-02-28

In the police station is rocking-chair,
which is not an upholstered one, fit for the
parior of some wealthy family. 1t is called
the "Chapen Chair" and is an entirely new
make. The construction of this seat is
not a specimen of fine workmanship
but rather display of genius (:)
The top is that of an old arm chair
nailed to a common boot box 10 inches
in height ard upon the bottom Of the box
the two rockers are attached, being roughly
cut out of two boards about three and one
half feet long. For back to this luxury
is q wide board which extends about
20 inches or more above the back
of the chair and serves as resting piece
for the tired ''cop" or poor drunk, as the
case may be. True, not every police
station could afford this, neither has every
city an officer with sufficient mechan
ical ability to build such a chair. 1t win
accommodate any of the members of the
force. 1t should be saved as relic.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-02-28
THE GULF STREAM.
The Idea Advanced That Il Had Changed It's
Course Mas not Maierialized.

Has the gulf stream gos off its trolley?
Some few years ago the papers of the
country were deluged with reports that the
Gulf stream had changed its course and the
old fashioned New England winter, with
its twelve (?) months snow and bitter cold,
wes thing of the past. Instead we were to
have perpetual summer with its tropical
flowers, birds Of gorgeous plumsge, and fruit
ia abundance.
Has it come? The steady cold of this
winter will answer the question and the
great mass of frozen vapor upon the ground
indicates whether or not the atmosphere has
resembled gentle summer. Such revolu-
tionizing Of temperature has not material
lied, and the scheme must have originated
in the thinking % dome of some would be
scientist.
In the meantime the beautiful snow
floats calmly from the sky, and long before
the early bird thinks of looking for Il e
down trodden worm, we poor mortals are
SumAhOHVo " d1ASC AiOuu q =" a. IA ACSt, PAos
lawn tennis on snow shoes, and shovel
over ten acre lot, while the Alaska breezes
chase through our hirsute growth. When
the good house wife calls her legal lord to
breakfast he feels like old Atlas with the
world on his shoulders.
With the winter growing colder year by
year it really makes one wish the mighty
Gulf stream would shift its course
and afford the sturdy New Eng
landers, at least, Whit of its mildness.
Now that March is in view we have some
hope that the wishbone of winter for '9i is
about broken. There being nearly four
feet of snow on a level it looks as if our
friends who do business close to the water
bank should take time by the "cowlick"
and fly to the high grass, ''ere the rain fall
eth and the floods come
Shoald the clouds leak in torrents about
the latter part of the windy month it is
probable that Noah and his ark would be
in demand for several days. The Gulf
stream idea died natural death and was
buried in the cemetery of forgetfulness
without tombstone to indicate the resting
place of the noble dead.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-02-28
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Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-02-28
WARD 2.

The Republicans or Ward are requested to
meet at the Court House Thursday evening,
March LIST at 80 O'Clock z. NJ, for the purpose of
nominating an alderman, two counciimcn and
ward officers 10 be supported at the coming
municipal election.
Per order. WARD COMMITTEE.
Augusta, Feb. 2ith. iSl4. feb2idtd
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-02-28
4}urlr.
Dieo.

lThc name, age, date and place OF death.
of deceased persons are published in this
column free OF charge. More exieaaea
notices and obituary poetry mnss DC pai'
for at the rate of ten cents line.l
kENNEBEC.
Readfeid-Feb. II, Mr.. John Coombs, aged Y.
years, months; Feb 2s. Joseph. iufaat con OF
Mr. and Mrs. VIM. Pike. aaed days
North Wayne-Feb. y, 3lr Sylvanus BLACKWELL.
aged ~ years.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-02-28

Highland Lodge No. % initiated four
candidates and received several applications
at the Tuesday night meeting. fine sup
per was served after the work.