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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19
Farming In France.

The report of the Secretary of the
English Legation in Paris has just
been submitted to parliament. 1t
appears from the report that no less
than 1900, 900 of the inhabitants
of France, /. e., three-quarters Of the
agricultural population, are occupied
in small farming. There are 4, 8O2, 697
farms of twenty acres or under, which
cover an area of "a, 90O,214 acres, or
one-fourth of the total of the land
capable of cultivation. Butter, eggs,
chickens, grain, vegetables, fruit,
milk, cheese, and in q certain degree
cattle, sheep and pigs are the pro-
ducts they rely upon. Sheep, and, il
we except few calves. cattle, other
wise than for the dairy, are clearly
not suited for production on such
small farms. Grain may also be at
an economic disadvantage, but
everything else here enumer-
ated would be suitable for small
holders in England.
Producers in France suffer, as do
those of England, from middlemen
and heavy transit charges, for articles
of commerce which are only worth
from eight to ten cents each in Fin
istere are sold in Paris the following
day for SO cents; the difference is
swallowed up by the railways, the
brokers and the retail merchants.
The transport system from Finistere
to London via st. Malo, is also un-
satisfactory, both as regards cost and
speed, and attention is being directed
towards establishing direct trade
with Manchester. In Normandy,
however, producers are better treated,
as they realize three-fourths Of the
price paid by consumers. In some
parts of Brittany they do we'll, but
in others they only get one-fourth.
The system Of association for the
mutual protection of agricultural in
terests is making great strides.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19

- 83s~~~ ~ - 1->~1@A@"@ ~48 5000
Secretary lGerten wnling - ~ nsspons-
ne n He uas Oontrel % Then.
Secretary Morton has submitted 70 the
House Committee on Agriculture some
amendments 70 hi estimates Of appropria-
tions for the fiscal year 1sol-eA The most
important 10 that relating 70 agricultural
experiment stations which we're omitted
from the estimstes for reasons which the
Secretary explained IN his annual report
This amendment includes the necessary
sppropriations for the stations 70 carry
into effect the provisions OF the act OF
March 2, 1881. but the following proviso -
attacheds
Provided that the annual reports Of the sx-
psndituxes Of this fund made b. the several
stations, - now required under this cot. shall
be fully ttemised according TO blank schedules,
which ehall DO prepared BY the Secretary OF
Agriculture.
With this proviso Secretary Morton II
willing that the appropriation for the sta
tions shall be included In the appropria-
tions for and b. charged to his depart
pent The secretary declared In . recent
conference that while the aggregate sx-
penses Of the department were now run.
ming at the rate OF esl.S5a7o per month
less than q year ago larger amount was
being spent for science applied TO agricult-
ure than ever before In the history Of the
department
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19
LABOR is VICTORIOUS.

Contractors Lockout ut Chicago Proves to
BE q Grand Failure.
Organized labor has won the first days
skirmsh in the conflict which q few con-
tractors In the building trades at Chi
cago sought to provoke The lockout of
all trades connected with building con-
struction which the employers had ordered
to begin Thursday is practically failure,
says dispatch Less than 400 are
idle In consequence of the combin alton
The contractors who advocated the gem
eral lockout are not In the majority. There
Is not unanimity among them. 1t is said
that the most siren uous proposcrs of the
lockout are firms that have but little work
on hand. The men who have big jobs we'll
under way hesitated about stopping their
business Many Of them did not stop and
will not stop work Thus the lockout
movement ends In wild vision conjured
up In the whirling brains of men who had
a purpose to serve In securing sympathetic
corporation in enforcing terms with the
workmen who had refused to work for
them.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19
TRICKS OF TIPsY RABBITS.
Bunny Behaves Pretty Much Like .
Man When Under Alcoholic Influ.
ence.

A number of experiments are be-
ing tried in the pathological depart
ment Of the John Hopkins Hospital
to ascertain the effect that alcohol
has on rabbits, says the Baltimore
American. Six rabbits were several
weeks ago started on diet of alcohol
and whisky and were given a dram
each day, diluted with water. The
object of the experiments is to ascer-
tain the amount and degree Of fatty
degeneration that follows the use of
stimulants, and interesting results
will probably be attained. The pro-
cess is something like this: A rabbit
is selected which is apparently
thoroughly healthy and is given little
to eat. When ready for his first
dose he is taken from his cage by the
ears or back and placed fat on his
back on a small piece of plank, with
slipknots to hold his feet firmly ex-
tended. In the meantime the little
animal begins sharp, shrill cry, not
unlike that of child screaming from
temper. 1t is during the process Of
UncSe CITIES UiidO UhO IuOOit Will OiOO
and painfully wound his tormentors
il he gets a chance. AS soon as his
cries cease, however, forceps are put
over his mouth and held open by an
assistant, while the operator passes
down through the mouth and gullet
into the stomach soft, hollow rub
Der tube, into the outer end of which
is placed small glass funnel. By
this siphon-like arrangement the
dose of alcohol or whisky is admin
istered. 1t takes but little more than
a minute for the effects to become
manifest, and unmistakable signs of
bunny on drunk are witnessed.
These drunks, as with men, differ ac-
cording to the nature and disposition
of the subject. In one case lively
mood supervenes, and, II the rabbit
could get out, he would show how
much OF q sport he could be. He
jumps up and down in his little cage,
and is pretty lively in showing the
stage OF excitement from his drink.
He will then become stupid and
heavy, his breathing will become fast
and deep and he will stagger like a
drunken man and fall down as fast as
he gets upon his feet.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19
MISSING LINKS.

CALIFORNIA has q $500 acre prune
orchard.
VICTORIA, Australia, had gold out
put of about Sl5, 600, 0J0 last year.
WESTMINSTER bridge, built in 1850,
was the first in which the foundations
were laid by the aid OF caissons.
SOME OF the Comstock mines are SO
deep that no means has yet been de-
vised to overcome the excessive heat
THE green ants Of Australia make
nests by bending leaves together and
uniting them with . kind OF natural
glue.
AS THERE were just thirteen mar
riapes In Henniker, N. H., last year,
the brides are all the objects OF super
stitious solicitude.
CIVIL engineers say the wings of the
butterfly display the greatest possible
liQhtness combined with the greatest
possible strength.
In what are called looming mirages"
distant objects show an apparent ex-
travagant increase In height without
alteration in breadth.
A GEORGIA girl who raises pigs
marks them by cutting their tails OF
very short. She says it takes bushel
less corn to fatten them thus.
AMERICAN buggies are superseding
those of English make In London and
Paris. The only light, graceful vehi-
cles In Europe come from this country.
A CURIOUS growth with unusual re-
suits Is reported from Tombstone, Ari.
The roots of tree are said to have
grown around water pipe and caused
e 70 break.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19
Death of Senator Vance.

Senator Vance, of North Carolina, died
at his residence, No 1925 Massach usetts
avenue, Washington. D. @, at 10 40 o'clock
Saturday night He had stroke OF
apoplexy IN the morning. He had been
suffering for some time from paralysis and
n complication of diseases. but the end
was sudden and unexpected, as he was re-
gaining his health aud IL was thought was
on the road TO recovery. He was
compelled during the winter to leave
the Senate and 90 to Florida Here
he grew somewhat better. and In
view OF the struggle over the tariff he re :
turned to Washington. he was q member
of the Committee on Finance. but took lit
tie or no part in framing the present tariff
bill His last appearance in the Senate
was eight weeks ago
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19
DECRxAsE IN FAILURES.

Favorable Progress Has Been Interrupted.
but the Outlook Il Hopeful.
r G Dun q Co.'S Weekly Review OF
Trade says,
Business improvement meets many OBJ
staclss and IL scarcely as distinct as IL he's
been In recent weeks Strikes have checked
the Improvement In building and in some
other tradsA and scarcity Of coke has
caused closing of some iron works. while
strike OF all bituminous coal miners 10 or
dered, and may prove serious Moro
favorable crop reports than were expected.
which Justify larger hope for nextsfalL
have arrested the upward tendency In
prices of producta The renewal OF sold
exports occasions some disquiet, but the
gradual exhaustion Of goods In the hands
OF dealers makes the consumption OF the
people more distinctly felt and apparently
larger, and this demand increases with the
gain in number of hands at work. 1t can
not be said that the uncertainty as TO the
future has materially diminished, but
there IL evident a growing impression that
there will be no important legislation on
the currency or the tariff This impression.
whether erroneous or not. influences the
action of many. On the whole. though
progress Is still INSTRUCTED by uncertain
ties, 1t has not been arrested. The most
cheering sign Is the decrease In impor-
lance OF commercial failures.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19

The atmosphere is at all times
charged with dust particles to a de-
gree difficult to realize. The most
pure air tested by Professor Atkins
previous to his celebrated expert
ments at the Observatory at Ben
Nevis, contained about "a 600 such
particles to- the cubic inch, which
would give 85, 282, 900 particles to
every cubic foot, or 85, 232, 000. 900 to
q horizontal column Of such air ex-
tending but 1000 feet high.
1t would be interesting to see o
calculation on the number of deadly
microbes in the same proportion of
''the air" we breathe.--[St. Louis
Republic.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19
BIG STRIKE BEGUN.

Great Northern Road from Larimore to
Spokane Tied Up.
general strike on the Great Northern
Railway extending from Larlmore. N D..
TO Spokane, Wash, on the main line, aud
from Havre to Butte. on the Montana Gem
trail. was inaugurated at noon Friday.
Nearly 1900 miles of road are tied up
The strike embraces all classes of em-
pioyes Every conductor. engineer. fire.
man, brakeman. operator, clerk, shopman.
section man. car repairer. and coal HEAVIER
between the points named quit work to-
gether. and the switchmen with the ex-
ception OF those employed In the Butte
yard
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19
wild Wreck and Death.

Wednesday morning. almost within the
mouth of New York harbor, but with
trifiing gap between her and safety, the
schooner Kate Markec was driven upon
Sandy Hook and her crew of seven lost
Eight lives we're undoubtedly lost by the
going to pieces Of the three master Albert
w. Smith. of Providence. on Manasaquan,
N. J., early the same morning. Other
wrecks are known to have occurred, with
fatalities that will swell the total on the
Atlantic coast alone to over thirty. The
storm was one OF the most terrific ex-
perienced for years
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19

MlcAasi CAllsAas. of Chicago stole .
loconoslvs early Sunday noruine The
sagins has besn recovered CallshAa only
gos away aboss quarter Of nias vtsh
HI plsnAes whea is Left The track Calla-
Aaa hes bssa employed by william Green.
suvsr1asenAsat Of railroads In JAcksoa
PARA. for tWe ysan He got drunk eatps-
day night and waited ride Finding IN
nlinsls Oss tral engins. with steam up tenn
porasiiy deserted south Of the terminal sta
taoa. be jumped aboard, threw over the
lever and opsaed the throttle The headlight
vs. unliA but Callahan did NOS care Old
No went down the track toward slss
street ~ Tie rata Of mile minute Then
~ ran into Q dsrailing switch ouly ten
yards fron the main track Of the South
Chicago branch The locomotive did not
coms 70 standslill until IL had bumped
over the ties As the crossing and the wheels
were buried In the sand The Window OF
the cab we're shattered and the headlight
smashod
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19

Screwed Cars. Like Umbre1les,
Often Go Astrsy.

Borrowed Care, Like Umere'sees
Often Go Astrsy.
Ifyou want to get an idea Of the
immensely Of American railroading,
talk to car searcher. The United
States cover pretty large area, as
some one has observed, but the rail-
road men, and particularly the car
searchers, know their way about 1t as
q policeman knows his beat. A car
searcher, be IL said for the benefit OF
the uninformed, il an official sent out
by one of the companies to look for
cars which have been borrowed by
other lines and treated like borrowed
umbrellas. OF course these officials
are experienced men, q great trust
lie reposed in them and they have o
great weight of responsibility to carry
on their shoulders.
One of these men whom I met q
few evenings ago talked of one car
somewhere around by Eagle Pass,
or chance of finding another at
Portland, Oregon, as II these places
were only few squares the other
side of Broadway. He had been sent
out by one of the big lines that cover
the territory between New York and
Seattle to find certain freight cars
that had been running up long bills
for "demurrage" against their bor-
rowers. Demurrage is a charge
made by the owners of car, at go
much per day, for the time the car
is kept away from its own line.
They'll take car" he said,
somewhere down South, and, in
stead of sending it back when they're
done with it, will use it for some
other work. That goes on and on
until, first thing you know, the car
gets in smashup."
"Then you have no more chance Of
finding it," interrupted. This was
where displayed my ignorance.
Haven't 1, though? go to where
the car was sent and make them show
me the books. Let me tell you about
one car belonging to our line that got
away down South, and nobody could
trace it. The agent at that depot was
little bit of man, all beard. When
/ showed him the entry on his books
and asked him where that car was he
said he didn't know anything about
it. One night, he says, 4 left it
here on the siding, and when / came
next morning it was gone. Some of
those freight conductors must have
come in here in the night, and look
ing around for car, they just took
that one.' You're - liar /
said. 1--we been railroading all my
life, and know that conductors
don't 60 rawhiding about a yard at
night time looking to get cars. They,
amt so anxious to find extra work as
all that. Now / said, you just tell
me where that car got to, or will
report that you lost it, Well, he
commenced whimpering about his
family, and how he'd lose his job if I
got him into trouble about that car.
At last he owned up that one day
they were short of cars in the yard;
they took and loaded up our car with
agricultural machinery for Atlanta,
Ga. the train was wrecked and the
car was all burned up. If you had
told us that at the time, / said, you
would have had to pay $500 or $500.
Now you'll have to pay about ~ 600
for demurrage, and serve you right.
AS for your family, I've got family,
too. If 60 back and tell the COM
pany l can't find that car, what is my
family to dor And 1 was right.
They had to pay about 5000
Louisville Courier-J ournal.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19
LAKE ERIE DRAINED OF FISH.
Many of the Ohio Companies Are Seeking
New Fields.

Many of the Ohio Companies Are Seeking
New Fields.
A few days ago nine carloads OF fishing
nets, q small tug and other fishing sppar-
stus we're shipped from sandusky to
point near the Lake of the Woods. on the
boundary line between the United States
and Manitoba The shipper was the San
dusky Fish Company. which is COM
posed of tina combined fish companies
of that city. Lake Erie Is said to
have been drained of fish. there being
too many fishermen for the stock. Nothing
but soft or the least desirable fish remain
and the company goes north under the be-
lief that great quantities of whitefsh and
sturgeon are to be had with comparative
ease It In said that other fishing COM
panies along the north coast of Lake Erie
will soon follow suit, returning TO Lake
Erie when cold weather sets In In the
North. None OF the Toledo companies Will
20 this year. but will probably do SO II
Lake Erie should not make q better show
ing by next spring.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19

THE celebration of the twenty-fifth
wedding anniversary of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Kendall, of CRANKY, Conn.,, re-
Gently was noteworthy on two ac-
counts. Mrs. Kendall was attired in
the dress in which she was married,
and cake, which was left over from
their tenth wedding celebration, was
served
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19
NO MUSIC THERE.

Stranger in town Ito hotel clerk
Where can 60 and hear some music2
haven't heard any in two years.
Hotel Clerk-Great Scott Where
have you been2 In darkest Africa?
Stranger-No; director of q travel
ing Comic Opera Company.-[Ray-
mond's Monthly.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19
Defied the Militia.

Seymour Newlin, a negro with bad
reputation. committed q criminal assault.
Saturday night upon an aged woman
named Mra Knowles. living at Rushsyl-
vania, Logan County, Ohio He was cap
tured Sunday morning, and. despite the
fact that the Sheriff summoned q strong
posse and the Bellefontaine militia, fu-
rious mob lynched the culprit
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19
Blow mt Breckinridpe.

The Now Albany Presbytery took action
In the Breckenridge Pollard scandal and
adopted resolutions to be presented at
the general assembly, which meets at
Saratoga next May, asking that men of
dissolute and immoral habits be excluded
from the national councils
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19

Dr. silveira MARITIME, the Brazilian revo-
lutionist at Montevideo, received tele-
gram saying that the insurgent forces
under Admiral de Mello have occupied Rio
Grande City.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19

The papers are being prepared In che ap-
peal OF Russell Sage from the verdict as
sessing him in damages to the tune of e2B.-
900 for making target Of Bookkeepsr
Laidlaw when Norcross. the anarchist.
attempted to blow the nuancier to pieces
with dynamite bomb
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19
Bids for Indian supplies.

Arrangements for the opening OF bids
for furnishing supplies for the Indian serv-
ice have been completed at the Bureau of
Indian Affairs The opening will be COM
menced In Chicago on May Is and in New
York on MAY 81
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19

Leave me here those looks Of yours
All those pretty airs and lures:
Flush Of cheek and fash of eye;
Your lips smile and their deep dye;
Clean Of the white teeth within;
Dimple Of the cloven chin;
All the sunshine that you wear
In the summer Of your hair;
All the morning of your face;
All your figures wilding grace;
The hower-pose of your head, the light
Flutter of your footsteps flight;
own all, and that glad heart
must claim ere you depart.
III.
Go, yet 60 not unconsoledi
Sometime, after you are old,
You shall come, and will take
From your brow the sullen ache,
From your eyes the twilight gaze
Darkening upon winter days,
From your feet their palsy pace,
And the wrinkles from your face,
From your lock the snow; the droop
OF your head, your worn frames stoop,
And that withered smile within
The kissing of the nose and chin:
i own all. and that sad heart
I will claim ere you depart.
ILL.,
am Race, and both are mine
Mortal Age and Youth divine;
Mine to grant, but not in fee;
Both again revert to me
From each that lives, that may give
Unto each that yet shall live.
NV. d. Howells, in Harper's Magazine.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19

The other night an unknown man assas-
sinated Thomas Waldron. . farmer who
lived west Of Macarthur. Ohio. disch arGing
the contents Of . shotgun through the
window The charge took effect in Wal
drou's head No clew has been discovered.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19

Willie Huston. aged II. was drowned at
virdeu, Man, while attempting to save
the little I-year-old daughter of Robert
Mullins. who had fallen into Gopher Greek.
The little girl was saved later. but her
brave rescuer perished
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19
Militia for Rockford Encampment.

Rrigadier General Andrew WEIGH has or
dered his full stan Of officers and Eve COM
panies of the Third Regiment. Illinois Ma
tional Guards, to report in Rockford dur
ing the coming g. A. R encampment May
IS, 16, and IL, and take part In the parade.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19

Murders, HanRings, and Lynchings.
Il is calculated that each year there
IL an average Of 5000 murders COM
mitted in the United States, 100 legal
b angings. and 200 lynchings.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19

A one result of the franchise being
extended 20 women In Colorado Mrs q A.
Hahen, of Newcastle, IL . candidate for
Town Marshal and has three masculine
opponenta After the town board had taken
forty ballots the board adjourned without
making q selection
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19
General Strike Ordered.

The United Mine Workers Of America
have ordered general strike J. A. Craw-
ford, of Illinois. member of the Executive
Board, presented the resolution to strike.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19
Sudden Death of Corydon c. Ford.

DIR. Corydon @ Ford. M D.. LII d.. for
forty years Demonstrators of Anatomy at
the University of Michigan. died At his
home in Ann Arbor at o'clock Saturday
morning. His death was entirely unex-
pected.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19

A serious railroad accident took place
at silverbrook. near Haxelton, Pa. A
Pennsylvania Railroad freight train ran
into . Lehish Valley Railroad express
train, killing one man and injuring many
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19
oseph Was Poisoned.

Joseph shadle, who died suddenly and
mysteriously at Fort steilacoom Asylum,
Wxshingto was poisoned with atropia.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19
NATIONS SOLONSJ
SENATE AND HOUSE or REPRE-
sENTATivEs.

Or National LAv-Maksrs and what Ihsy =
Are Doing for the Good os the Ceun1sy
vnsssss Measures Proposed. D1ssssssAp
I'D Acted Upoa.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19
STEALS A MAD RIDE.
Mr. CALLAHAN RUNS orr WITH
AN ENGINE.

uorth carolins's Great Less-yuriess Ollie
Hob Dsass sheriff saa Anassa -
Ly,sAss . Negro = Distia9sasAsa Lss-
t.rss Dass 90 A. AraeN