Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-05-03

AcclbENrs AND INCIDENTS Or
EVERYDAY LIFE.


oussr Facts and Thrilling Adventures
Which Show that Truth 10 Strange.
than Fiction.
SAvILIAN BEEBE, of Salem, Conn.
made big haul with his eel spear q
few days ago, says the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat Last July, among
the people who sojourned at Essex,
was wealthy Cincinnati family. A
young lady member of this family
went out boat riding one evening and
during the trip she, lost a valuable
| gold bracelet from her arm. The
bracelet was in the form of gold
chain that fastened with a hook. A
few days ago Beebe, who usually
makes about two ceiling trips to the
Connecticut River during the year,
hitched up his horse and drove down.
/, He worked all day like a beaver and
succeeded in getting but one very
small eel. He then ran his knife in
to the cells throat and showed II
toward its tail. When about half way
down the point of the knife struck
something that refused to be cut.
He slashed into the cells middle. To
his establishment long metal chain,
as bright as il new, lay lengthwise OF
the stomach. He showed the chain
to his wife. Mrs. Beebe took the
thing and examined it. On the heel
of the clasp the name of the young
woman who lost. the bracelet last
summer Vas engraSed. The circYm-
stances of the lost bracelet were
known to the people of Salem, and
after breakfast Savilian hitched up
his horse and headed for Essex, where
he delivered the bracelet to the peo-
pie with whom the Cincinnati family
boarded and received the $40 reward.
JOHN Carroll, JR.. of Cincinnati,
after four years of hard work, has
completed an invention which he
hopes will make him famous. Mr..
Carol conceived the idea that he could
make machine which could be pro-
PEELED in the air. He is a mechanic
of unusual ability. His model was
completed and tried few days ago,
and it worked successfully. The ma
chine, which is neat piece of me-
chanism, weighs about forty pounds,
and is made of sheet iron. 1t is
capable of carrying about 25O pounds
weight. Mr.. Carol tried the machine
and worked it very easily, and rode
through the air at height of about
fifty feet for quite a distance. He
was bit bashful in attempting the
trial in daylight, so he did it after
nightfall. The inventor has an idea
that with some alteration he can con-
trive machine which will be capable
of travelling at least eighty miles an
hour, and that he will also be able to
continue this rate of speed even
against a strong wind. Some day,
shortly, he intends to give a public
exhibition of his new machine, and
Cincinnatians will then be afforded
the novel sight of seeing man fly
through the air like bird. Mr.. Car
rolls machine is box-like in form, and
is propelled by means of rotary shut
ties.
STRANGE freaks are played by wind
blown sands in the New Mexico
River valleys and mountain canons.
In the canons one may see cliffs and
natural stone pillars cut into fantas-
tic forms by the natural sand blasts
formed by the winds sucking up and
down these narrow passes. In broad
river valleys, the Rio Grande especi-
ally, great areas of sand hills are seen
tossed up like giant waves of sea.
These shift their positions slowly,
travelling in the direction Of the pre-
vailing winds, until they scatter on
the plain or encounter some obstruc-
ton, such as a mountain side,
against which they heap. Not only
valuable lands but towns may be
buried in this invading element.
Thus along the Pecos River, at dis
tances from twenty to forty miles
below the town of Eddy, in south
eastern New Mexico, there are five
old deserted pueblos or villages built
by ancient agricultural Indians
which, it is estimated once contained
a population of from 10, 900 to Is, 900
people. Now the villages are nearly
buried in sand blown from the hills
that bound the valley. Vestiges Of a
canal to these towns have been dis
covered leading from canon near by
which once furnished water but is now
filled with sand.
PRUSSIA is conspicuously music
loving and music-making country.
AS the inhabitants of it's cities, how
ever, for the most part live in fats,
they are not allowed to play or sing
in their own apartments after 10
o. clock p. m, unless with the express
consent of the persons residing inn
mediately above or below them, whose
innate right to enjoy unbroken rest
CO. nights" they are bound to re-
spect. Nor may they keep on their
premises any furred or feathered ami
mails addicted to the nocturnal utter
ance of sounds that murder sleep"
and give rise to irritation Of temper.
The conscientious dog, prompted by
a sense of duty to bark all night long;
the sentimental hound that gives
vent to it's tenderer feelings in pro-
tracted series of melancholy howls-
these and other varieties of the canine
species, IL VIGOROUSLY vociierous,
have to be severely eliminated from
the precincts OF q Prussian town
house, or the local police will make
point Of knowing the reason why"
and acting upon their knowledge with