Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-08

shoEiw dme. Just ne confrnEys hoHnYoe>
be- been tho result. Columbia (the Cob
lege a Physiclans and 6urgeons) followed
Harvsrd's lad in this matter after year
or two; then the University Of P5hh
sylvsnia and The University Of Michigan
adopted The same plan. And aimee these
changes all four schools have grown stead
w. IL,
THERE viii soon be established in De-
troit the largest salt factory In the world.
s'The water Of the Detroit River, /" says one
of the prime movers In the enterprise, lis
especially adapted 70 our purposes, being
chemically pure. The chemical elements
which obtain In Lake Huron and the st.
Clair River, and handicap the salt works
Of that district, are entirely eliminated by
passing through Lake st. Clair. That
body OF water Is an immense settling basin,
and the water comes out. pure. An mex
haustible supply Of rock salt Is found here
ct depth Of from six hundred to nine
hundred feet Our process Il to pump
water into wells and force the salt ont in
the form Of brine. The brine is reduced
to crystals by the direct beat process, and
from the crystal form IL manufactured in
to the finest table salt. The refuse is used
for fertilizing purposes" Fs ~
TIE facts as to certain colleges are
illustrative. Cornell University has about
"a, O00, 900 in bonds and about $4,000
900 In mortgages; the University of Cali
fornia has somewhat more than $1,000
600, equally divided between bonds and
mortgages; Wesleyan University has $1,-
125, 900, of which % 900 are in real es-
tate, $3.50 900 In bonds, CIT 900 in stocks,
$685. 900 In mortgages. The property of
the University of Pennsylvania, more than
$2, 500, 900, is divided into 1857 900 in
buildings, SOL 900 in bonds, 1927 900 in
stocks, $429 900 in mortgages, and the re-
naming million is, as the treasurer de-
scribes, sin other values" Harvard's i'm
mense property is changed in the forms Of
its investments more frequently than the
property Of many colleges; but of its eight
or more millions, railroad bonds and real
estate represent the larger share, the
amount Of bonds exceeding the value Of
real estate.
THE Washington Post says that the
only two Government seals are correct
from the heraldic point of view, namely,
the great seal of the United States and the
seal of the Department of Agriculture. All
the Executive departments have seals Of
their own, designed with more or less re-
gard for the laws usually controlling such
devices; but not one of them satifies the re-
quirements of heraldry. For example, some
of the eagles have their heads turned to the
- tha cd th<,a aol
of the Postofiice Department is galloping
to the right. This is horribly wrong, in
asmuch as the regulations of the heralds
demand that all animals of whatever de-
scription shall face to the left. Then again,
the parallel lines on some OF the shields
represented are traced in incorrect direct
ions. In heraldry horizontal lines indicate
blue, which Is the proper color for the
background of a shield, whereas, il they
go other ways they mean other colors.
GENERAL YOU'VE, United States Minister
to Guatemala, now in Washington, says
Guatemala offers greater inducements to
an agriculturist than any other country on
earth. At time when corn is selling for
so cents bushel in the United States, it
may be of interest to the American farmer
to know that the same product in Guate-
mala frequently sells for as much as 49,,
and, at times, SO bushel. This, Of
course, is in silver, which is worth about
one-half as much as gold. All classes of
live stock also command high prices in
Central America. There is great demand
for pigs, and dealings in hog products are
enormously profitable. There are about
two hundred Americans at the capital, and
others are scattered through the republic,
but the number at the best is small. There
are more Germans in Guatemala than all
other foreigners combined. OF all the for
eign element, the Germans are the most
popular with the natives They engage
mainly in agriculture, readily fall into the
ways of the people, and marry among
them. After the Germans the Americans
stand next in popular favor"
A PATHETIC incident of the recent break
ing of the long drought in Kansas is told
by traveller who was in that region at
the time the rain came. There had been
insufficient rain in this particular part for
several seasons, the crops had been failures
or meager and Improbable, and many of
the farmers were utterly respondent and
sick at heart through hope deferred. But
the copious rains brought actual salvation
to very many. The traveller was driving
across bridge over creek that was run
ming bank full after being dry for months,
and noticed an old settler sitting on the
bank with his feet hanging in the stream
bailing up the water first In one hand and
then the other and letting IT, trickle back
into the creek. The traveller spoke to him,
but the old man seemed not to hear at
first, and continued to bail up the water as
though in dream. When he did finally
hear and look up, his face was wreathed in
happy smile and tears were running
down his cheeks. The traveller made
some remark in the way Of inquiry as to
the old mans actions. The old settler
bailed up double handful of water and in
voice that trembled with the intensity of
his realization of all it meant he rapturous-
ly cried "It's water, friend it's water!"
FROM some recent life insurance stats
tics 1t appears that the presidential Office Is
fatal one. AT Washington's inaugu-
ration his expectation of life, according to
the insurance tables. was sixteen years, but
he lived only ten years. The next seven
presidents not only lived out their expec-
tation of life, but tile two Adamses, Jeffer-
son, Madison, jackson, Van Buren, and
Tyler exceeded it. But Harrison fell nine
years short of his expectatation Of life.
Polk seventeen, Taylor eleven. Pierce
seven, Lincoln sixteen, johnson seven,
Lincoln sixteen, Grant seven, Hayes three,
Garfield twenty-five and Arthur fifteen. 1t
was true that Lincoln and Garfield were