Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-04-18
NOTES AND ooalaEsrs.

| JACOB kTBER, j. r., OF CASTOR, N.
c., has married l72 couples during
| his present term OF office, and feels
like putting another "s' in his last
name after saluting so many brides.
THE women OF the West are rapidly
removing the reproach OF sentimental
| weakness from their sex. One preach
ed her husbands funeral service q
little while ago, and another, Mrs.
8. j. Krufield, M. d. of Kansas City,
assisted in a postmortem examine
ton OF her suddenly deceased hus-
bands remains
NEW ZEALAND has invented q unique
method for the prevention OF intern
perance. it proposes to pass q law
to the effect that any person convict
ed of being q habitual drunkard shall
be photographed ut his own expense
and a.copy be supplied to every sa-
loonkeeper in the district. The dealer
supplying liquor to such person is to
be fined.
PHOTOGRAPHY is now more power
full than the eye in telescope work,
and the phenomena OF eclipses are
increasing in Importance. The posi-
BILE discovery OF satellite to our
moon has been agitated OF late, and
1t would be no more surprising than
to find that the familiar atmosphere
has an important element that es-
capped observation until few months
ago. The coming era OF larger lenses
and improved photography will prob
ably render the moon an object Of
remarkable interest.
'OUT in Lansdowne," says the
Philadelphia Inquirer, "a suburban
ite, whose cellar is infested with rats,
declares that he thinks that he will
soon be rid OF them. His method is
one which he learned from Sing
Sing, N. Y. He doesn't strap the
rodents in q chair to electrocute
them, but has placed number of
live electric wires in different parts
Of the cellar and has baited the ends
with cheese. He alleges that as
soon as the rat takes nibble it turns
over on its back without sigh, and
so successful has been his expert
ment that all the neighbors are
adopting the method"
SYNDICATEs have been formed in va
rious branches OF business for specu-
lation or to build up industrial enter
prises, but such thing as syndicate
to build warships to dispose of to the
highest bidder could hardly have been
expected. Yet such syndicate has
been formed in England for the con-
struction Of powerful cruiser of
10000 tons displacement and %
knots speed, upon lines laid down by
Sir Edward j. Reed, the we'll known
naval architect. The vessel is to be
built at Borrow-in-Furness, by the
firm which has the contract to build
the Powerful for the British navy,
and it is the intention of the syndi-
cate to sell her to the highest bidder.
WHATEVER romance and poetry were
in olden times associated with pill
grimages to places reputed sacred are
rapidly being destroyed by the pro-
sale spirit Of this very progressive
and matter OF fact age. Thus those
who with pious intentions now visit
the Holy Land are transported by
rail from Jaffa to Jerusalem, where
funicular line conveys them to the
summit of Mount Olives, while COM
Portable hotels on the American plan
are to be found at Bethlehem and on
the site Of the Garden Of Gethse-
name. And now q hydraulic elevator
has Just been established at Mar
settles for the purpose OF hosting
pilgrims to the much visited shrine
of Notre Dame de la Garde, perched
on the summit Of the highest rock
overlooking the city and bay, and to
which sailors and travellers on start
ing out or upon returning from sea
voyages have from time immemorial
been won't to ascend by the thou
sands of steep steps, usually on their
knees.
THE fads of queens and prin-
cesses are usually rather amusing.
Queen Victoria has fads which, as
rule, take the form Of violent likes
or dislkes. She clings to old time
manners, and insists upon her chill
dren addressing her as Mamma,
which, when they were children, was
only used by little royal people. She
also desires every child to wear a
sash when presented to her. The
Princess OF Wales is devoted to u
large family of bisque dogs and cats.
The empress of Austria's one fad is
an obstinate refusal to have her
picture taken. For thirty years no
portrait of her has been made. II
wish to be remembered, she says,
las the beauty nearly six feet tall.
whose hair reached nearly to her
knees, and whose waist measured
seventeen inches" Queen Margher-
tia, of Italy, has the wheeling mania,
and her golden bicycle, with pearl
and ivory handles and spokes enam-
eled with garnets, is treat for the
splendor loving citizens OF Rome
when it goes spinning by in the early
morning.
THE destruction OF bird life in the
Southern States through this win
ter's unprecedented cold has been
enormous. Not Only does this apply
to game, but to all the upland
feathered species. Quails havo been
exceptionally affected even so far
south as the borders OF the Gulf Of
Mexico. In Louisiana and Florida
birds of song were not only found
dead in great numbers, but in nddi-
ton many which survived were easily
.aptured, having been rendered in