Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-09-05

IN the war Win Onlu8 10 O1Os ~
was lucky thing for the Japanese
army 1t did not run up against .
| football team, Fourth Of July or .
Brooklyn trolley car.
The Supreme Court of Nebraska
has just declared unconstitutional
the law requiring railway engineers
to whistle at every highway, and i'm
posing fine OF $50 for every failure
to do 30, half Of which went to the
informer. For years the farmers
along the railways have made con-
siderable money by bringing suits
under this law. The Union Pacific
Railroad recently had to pay %, 500
to one man alone.
PREPARATIONS are making to in
clude an exhibition of aeronautical
apparatus In the Paris Exposition in
1900. The exhibit promises to be
of unusual interest. 1t will include
samples of balloons of various de-
signs and all kinds Of flying machines
and soaring apparatus. A number
Of prizes and medals will be awarded
or the most successful designs, and
all foreigners will be able to COM
pete upon equal terms with French
inventors.
THE trained dogs OF the German
Army seem to be valuable acqui-
eition. At recent exhibition in
Dresden the animals carried dis
patches from one part of the field to
orofbar N v,,ila diofopx IN oua ar <wo
minutes; transported cartridges in
pack-saddles to points of need. and
assisted men who feigned being
wounded, some dogs signaling the
spots Of the fallen by loud barks.
and others dragging the bodies to
the rear.
APRoPos Of the agitation for good
roads. the Detroit Journal says {:
1.-The thing to do is to encourage the
spirit Of road reform, and cause it to
spread into all the States" Certain
ly that Is q good thing to strive for,
but it is not enough, comments the
New York Tribune. Something more
than the spirit Of road reform is
needed. There must be a practical
demonstration Of the advantages Of
first-class highways to encourage any
community to undertake this work.
A few miles Of good road are worth
more than theories on the subject
covering reams OF paper.
THERE has been a notable revival
in the mining industries of the Pa
oil IN I'd -
late, according to reports recently
gathered by the San Francisco
Chronicle. Many old gold and silver
workings are being reopened and
new discoveries developed, and there
is also. a greatly increased activity
in the working OF the many other
valuable mineral deposits OF the
region in addition to the precious
metals. The utilizing Of water to
generate electric power for running
mining machinery is new factor
that gives promise Of greatly extend
ing mining operations all over the
Pacific coast and the Northwest.
The desert OF Sahara is not all
desert. In 1892 more than nine
millions of sheep wintered in the AL
gerian Sahara, paving q duty Of
1,763, 900 francs 1882, 00O. These
sheep were worth twenty francs (%4)
apiece, or in all 175, 100000 francs.
The Sahara nourishes also 1000, 900
goats and 260, 900 camels, paying a
duty of 100000 francs. In the
oases palms, citrons and apricots
abound; there are cultivated also
onions, pimentos and various legum-
inous vegetables. The GASES contain
1900, 900 date palms, on which the
duty is $50. 600 francs. The product
of a date tree varies from to 10
francs; these OF the desert give about
Is, 900. 600 year.
NEW YORK CRY is in the midst of
a building boom that recalls the
is more money being put into large
commercial structures and Office
buildings on Broadway alone from
the Battery to Fourteenth street than
at any time previously. The march
of improvement. which for so many
years was steadily northward, has
turned back on its tracks, and
twenty-four extensive Improvements
are in process on that portion OF the
great thoroughfare indicated. Old
and cheap buildings that have for
many years been eyesores are being
replaced by towering palaces Of steel,
marble and granite. Eight million
dollars Is q conservative estimate OF
the value of the Broadway buildings
now going up. On the upper west
side, in the territory north Of Fifty
ninth street and taking in the Morn
ingside Park district, no less than
one hundred high-class apartment
houses are building.
A CHURCH has been organized in
Bollinger County, Mo-, with Ida
Deckard as chief divinity. She is
young, fair-haired and given to see
ing visions. Her neighbors. rude,
unlettered, superstitiously devout,
believe her to be an angel in human
form. They worship her as such,
and the ''church" is based upon
their faith in her. The girl is APP
parently single-minded and sincere.
From her frances she awakens with
messages for the faithful, messages
claiming sometimes to be from the
Deity himself. guiding them as He
guided the patriarchs OF old. Also,
she brings word from the blessed dead
in Heaven according to the belief