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

Ia very proCCy uCCl0 boy, aged 2
year and q half, who has had the mis-.
fortune to lose his dear mamma,
wishes in this manner-as he seldom
comes in contact with ladies--to find
( new mamma. who, however, must
also be capable. by tenderness and
delicacy Of sehtiment, of affording q
faithful companion for life for his pa
pa. My papa" the advertisement
goes on, suddenly forsaking the ties
of the third person, lis an architect,
who fills an Important social position /;
therefore / am unfortunately obliged,
besides delicacy of sentiment, to look
out for some fortune, so that my pa
pa may be content with my new
mamma in every respect. l repulse
all go-betweens with all the energy ]
possess, and beg that communications
may be made direct"
\. AT Madras, some time ago, a valu-
able lion, having incautiously allowed
its tail to stray into an adjoining
cage, the tail was seized by an evil.
disposed leopard, close to the lions
body, when as the lion attempted to
escape, almost the whole of the Skin
of his tail was stripped of. This was
followed by such an amount of infiam-
nation that the lions life was in
danger. Surgeon Major Miller, bro
ther of the late Professor Miller, OF
Edinburgh, the surgeon to the Gov.
ernor of Madras, volunteered to per-
form amputation. The lion was
seized in his cage. and his head GOV.
cred with cap containing consid-
cradle quantity Of chloroform. He
was then dragged to the edge Of the
cage and the tail passed through the
bars, where DR.. Miller cleverly per-
formed his operation. The animal
made good recovery.
| IT is amazing to think that there
are people in this country who have
never seen a looking-glass, but it
| seems to be the case. Charles Pat
terson, a farmer living near Gallipolis,
Ohio, has never had one in his house.
He went to town the other day and
bought one. That evening his ten
year old son saw it for the first time
in his life. When he saw his image
there, it frightened him dreadfully.
He thought it was ghost, or some
equally uncanny thing, and seizing
shotgun, fired at it, shattering the
new mirror into thousand frag-
| ments.
THE Mohave Indians of the far
West have one curious superstition
that is supposed to be of compare
lively recent origin. They refuse to
eat the flesh of the beaver, and de-
clare that who so eats beavers flesh
will have swollen necks. An agent
who has lived for some time among
the Mohaves conjectures that some OF
the Indians must have eaten the flesh
of beavers poisoned for their skins,
and died with swollen necks. The
memory had been handed down
through the tribe, and no Mohave
eat beavers flesh since that day.
A RICH foreigner settled in Mar.
settles and built very costly villa.
Two years ago he made elaborate
preparations for dying by his own
hand whenever he decided that the
moment had come. He built vault,
which could be Theoretically sealed,
in corner of his garden, furnished
with a reclining chair, two candela-
bra, and two pans, filled with char
coal, ready to light. He entered the
vault frequently, but not until
week ago did he close the door and
light the charcoal. He was found
dead in the chair.
MRS. G.. F. RoUToN, wife of West
Newton, Qnd. )pioneer, was buried at
that place recently. She was fifty
eight years of age, and was an ex-
ceedingly large woman, weighing 352
pounds. This necessitated a casket
six feet long, twenty-eight inches
wide and nineteen inches deep. A
few weeks ago an attempt was
made to rob a grave at West Newton,
near the lot in which Mrs. Routon
was buried, and this led the relatives
of Mrs. Routon to have a ghoul-proof
grave vault of iron made.
In the window of cigar store on
Columbus avenue in New York Is to
be seen freak of nature that attracts
much attention. 1t is agoldfish that
has no fin on its back. Otherwise it
is perfectly developed, and seems to
suffer no inconvenience from the abb
sence of this part of Che anatomy.
There is said to be but one other
such specimen in the country, and it
is q stuffed one in the Smithsonian
Institute at Washington.
MARY MARTIN, Of Oakland, CAL,
had little lamb which followed her
to school one day. Instead of max
ing the children laugh and play. and
having fleece as white as snow, the
lamb butted the teacher over a stool,
upset quart of ink and rolled in it,
and then jumped through window
and carried the sash along. Mary's
folks ate lamb chops that evening
and the teacher had three helps.
ONE of the patients in the Kanka.
kee Qll.) Insane Asylum has the de-
fusion that he must not under any cir
cumstances subsist on any other food
than ostrich eggs. He refused to
touch hen eggs or duck eggs, but
they deluded him with the eggs Of
goose, and he is perfectly happy.
The doctors say that his within having