Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-01

100 uttio auvertlslq8 ID ike sowing
too little seed. A farmer In sowing
grain puts q number of seeds into
each hill, and Is satisfied II one
healthy stalk comes from each plant
ing. @
1t Is said that In the near future 1t
will be possible, by the aid of the
telautograph, to draw weather maps
In all OF the large cities on the globe
at one and the same time. OF course,
this involves setting apart certain
hour and minute when all Of the
lines are in the service of the gov
eminent. AS such an arrangement
Is actually In existence in this coun-
try, the extension of 1t would seem
to be no very difficult matter in or
der to make it international.
Comparisons are sometimes odious.
But there is more truth than poetry
in the following facts, which are
taken from good authority. We have
spent nearly $40, 600, 900 in building
churches in this land, and $500, 0O0,-
600 in building jails. 1t costs $780,
600, 600 year to run the churches
and $500, 100000 to run the jails.
The interest money on our jails
amounts to two and one-half times
as much per year as the whole church
raises for home and foreign missions.
We pay out eight times as much for
running our fellow men down and
falling them as we do in trying to
make them better so that they will
not need Jail.
A somewhat famous Frenchman
who has devoted himself to the pro-
motion OF freer trade between this
country and his own, estimated
nearly twenty years ago that the
population of the United States
would reach 100, 600, 900 at twenty
four minutes after 5 p. m. on July
"a, 1908. He has recently, however,
revised his estimate, and he now
gives himself wider range. He be-
lieves that the 1OO,OOO,OOO will be
reached between the years 19I5.and
1920. All calculations on this sub
ject for the last fifty years have been
absurdly out, and the Frenchman'
estimate may have to be revised
again should emigration remain ut
its present low ebb for five years
longer.
One of the most striking things to
the educated Metropolitan visitor is
the lack of monuments in and about
New York. Probably no great war
in the world has been less comment
grated by monuments than the war
of the Revolution. There are battle
grounds in and about New York where
thousands of heroes have died that
are remembered only by the students
of history. There is not monu-
ment on Fort George or Fort Wash
.ipgton- osrFort Tryon, and the old
earthworks are still there, mute evil
dences Of the mighty labor that
wrested the country from the grasp
Of England, but there is absolutely
nothing to commemorate the strug-
gle. 1t is all we'll enough to say that
great deeds will always live in the
memory of man, but granite is far
more immutable and more pleasing.
Odessa, which is frequently de-
scribed as the Liverpool of Russia,
and which in point of trade and pros
perity ranks as the most important
city Of the Empire, has just been
celebrating the centennial anniver-
sary. of its foundation. Built on ter
ritory coded to Russia by Turkey in
1892. the foundations of the present
city were laid in 1874, and when, at
the beginning Of the century, the
French emigre, the Due de Richelieu,
arrived upon the scene to assume his
duties as Governor-General, a post
to which he had been appointed by
Emperor Alexander, there were only
400 houses and about 5000 inhabi-
tants in the place. To-day the pop
ulation is over 500, 900, of whom no
less than 10000 are Hebrews, and
there is no city in the Empire more
bountifully endowed with magpifi-
cent public buildings or where the
inhabitants are possessed Of greater
wealth, mostly amassed by COM
merce.
The interest among scientists in
aerial navigation appears to be in
easing rather than the contrary,
especially in France. Capt. Renard,
Chief of the Military Aerostatic De-
partment, ut Chalais-Meudon, has
nearly completed large dirigible
balloon, called the General Meusnier.
which is designed to keep up speed
of about % miles. an hour for 10
hours. The balloon proper is 230
feet long and has capacity Of 120-
900 cubic feet. 1t is driven by very
light gasoline engine operating pro-
peller wheel, nearly 30 feet in dame
ter, at 200 revolutions minute. If
this balloon is success it will be q
quite important matter, for the car is
100 feet long and can carry a COM
paratively large number OF men.
Some interesting experiments have al
so been made in France with an ordin-
airy balloon fitted with a small screw
placed horizontally, to produce mo-
ton in vertical direction, so as to
avoid the usual wasteful process of
discharging gas and sand alternately.
The screw Is seven and one-half feet
in diameter, and by means of light
hard machinery it could be revolved
at the rate Of 100 revolutions a min
ute. BY this apparatus the balloon,
Of 5000 cubic feet capacity, would
be raised about 1925 feet in a minute.
General Armstrong, acting COM