Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-08-09
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

France is more nearly equal than In
any other country of the world, there
being only !, 007 women to l 900 men
In Switzerland there are 1,064 mer
to / 900 women, and in Greece only
383. The conditions in Hong Kong,
according to this authority, are zap.
palling," there being only 866 women
to 1000 men.
DIR. ANDERSON BROWN, one of the
foremost women physicians of Eng
land, has established an industrial
farm for inebriate women. The test
of the practicability Of outdoor life al
cure of drunkenness will be made
under the auspices of the Women's
Temperance Association. Fruit-grow-
ing, poultry-raising, gardening, bee.
keeping and buttermaking will be
among the branches taught.
THE Boston Transcript, says that
the yearly salary of Ida Lewis, the
famous keeper of the Lime Rock
Lighthouse. at the south end Of New
port Harbor, is $3.50 and two tons oi
coal. She is past fifty now, her haii
slightly streaked and her face some.
what rugged and weather-bcaten. but
she is still alert and strong. She be
gan her wonderful record Of life-sev.
ing with the rescue of four small boys
whose boat capsized in the harbor
before her.
ACCORDING to recent statistics,
there are now in Japan CAB Christian
missionaries, 377 churches (of which
7S are self-supporting), and 81, 40C
church members, ofwhom 3, 636 were
added during the last year. There
are also 1893 pupils in Christian
schools, and 27,000 Sunday-school
scholars. There are 2S6 native min
listers, 267 theological students and
665 unordained preachers and help.
ers. The sum contributed to the
native Japanese Christians is given as
62, 400 yen, or $40, 600.
FISH COMMISSIONER w. P. ANDRUs,
of Minneapolis, Mimi, who has re-
Gently returned from an extended
trip along Rainy Lake, Rainy River
and Lake of the Woods, has sue
ceeded in attracting the attention OF
the United States officers at Wash
ington to the threatened depletion OF
the fisheries in the international
waters along the boundary between
Minnesota and Canada, and as re-
suit joint committee will be formed,
consisting Of an United States fish.
cry representative, Minnesota fish
cry representative and a Canadian
officer, who will formulate plan for
the better protection of the fish along
the international boundary.
A RECENT report from the Mexican
Bureau of Statistics, giving the agri-
cultural products of the Republic for
1892, must be very gratifying to the
president, as it shows an enormous
increase in nearly every item. The
value of the cereal products increased
from $64, 747, S37 in 1889 to $133, 500.
23S in 1S92-more than 100 per cent.
in four years. The corn crop increas-
ed from $47, $40, S25 to SOB, GA, /, $50,
and the wheat crop from $12, 657, 9S3
to $23, 242, ,304. The coffee crop in
1889 was $500, SIS pounds, va ne
at 81, 1882. The tobacco crop :
creased from 1852, 500 pounds 10
%, ,422, 812 pounds, and the value of
the sugar crop frem $14, 789,3 ,374 to
$17,024, ,634.
THE island of Ceylon is one of the
most valuable possessions Of the
British Empire. 1t has an area of
over twenty-five thousand square
miles and a population of over three
millions. Great progress has been
made within the past few years. The
people are Industrious and education
is making progress. Ceylon is situ-
ated off the southeast side OF the ex-
tremity of India, and the island is
supposed in past geological ages to
have formed part of the mainland,
between which and Ceylon there are
now some islands and some reefs.
The depth Of water on the latter is
small. A railway is now projected
to connect Ceylon with India. 1t is
estimated that the waterway requir-
ing to be bridged is about thirty
miles in extent. The whole work, it
is supposed, will cost not more than
IS. 600. 600.
The Maine Farmer says: It is q
fact that the "hard times" expert.
ences in town and city have had the
effect to turn an increased measure
of attention to the farm and the ad-
vontages it affords for a home. With.
in limited circle of observation in
this central part of the State q con-
siderable number of farms have been
recently purchased by parties from
the city out of employment, and
therefore out Of the opportunity to
earn their daily bread. II we must
have periodical hard times there is
then a measure of good resulting
from such o condition of the coun.
try's industries, in that people in the
always overcrowded cities are led tc
look out to the country where there
is always room, and are led to see
that the farm always furnishes en-
to the owner and to his
and literally supplies the
home with the comforts and necessi.
ties of life. There may not be sc
much money handled from their la.
Dor on the farm, but in many cases
that labor judiciously expended on
the land will bring more for the out
lay in other and necessary forms
than the money earnings in the city
can purchase. This drift, then,