Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-10-31

els do not play fair. They throw dyna-
mite hand grenades, which are extremely
likely to go Of and hurt somebody.
TnE mania for manufacturing every
thing out of paper does not lessen.
Gloves, handkerchiefs. ties, In fact, the
whole stock-in-trade Of the average hosier
Is now being knitted from paper yarns.
A CHICAGO religious journal advocates q
head tax of 800 on every American go
ing to Europe to spend precious American
gold. II that Is such a terrible thing for
the country, how about these marriages Of
heiresses to foreign titles. which take away
in bulk In some cases as much as 10000
ordinary travellers spend In the course Of q
season?
ONE of the curiosities OF the cable code
method OF sending information is shown
in recent message announcing the loss
by fire Of ship at sea. The whole mes
sage was conveyed in three words OF
SCOTS cable code: ssSmoulderd, hurrah
hallelujah!" "Smouldered" stands for
1.-THE ship has been destroyed by fire."
''hurral" for screw saved by boats" and
"hallelujah" for sail hands saved-inform
wives and sweethearts."
THE law passed by the last Wisconsin
Legislature for the treatment Of habitual
drunkards at public expense has so far
cost $l7 900. This sum will pay for 1877
treatments. In only twenty-five of the
seventy counties of the State have the
judges availed themselves of the provisions
of the law. Some judges believe the law
4, he. mt
upon it. In large majority of cases the
treatment is reported to have been ef-
fective.
The trade newspaper, Hardware, has
solicited the opinions OF the leading bicycle
manufacturers OF the country as to the
number Of bicycles manufactured in
America during 1895, and the probable
output for 1898. The responses, which
are from the leading manufacturers of
the country, place the output for 1895
anywhere from 1000 to $50 900, and
that of 1896 from 100000 to 100000.
A fair average of these opinions would
bring the prophecy for 1895 to near $780,
900 wheels.
EXPERTS report that it is impossible to
send Geographic dispatch through the
Hoosic Tunnel, four and one half miles
from North Adams, Mass. 1t has been
tried with all kinds of wires, and with q
cable such as is used under the ocean, but
in vain. The telegraph wires in conse-
quence of this curious condition, have
been carried over the surrounding noun
tains. A careful exploration of the tun-
mel has been made, but no magnetic or
other ore has been found to interfere
with the tran smission of message.
THE ST. Paul Pioneer Press gives sum-
mary of the recent State census, which
shows that the present population Of Min
nesota is 1,573, $50, gain of gil, 524
since 1890. The greatest percentage of
gain is shown by those counties in the
pine forests of the northern part of the
State, and in the Sixth Congressional Dis
trict generally, the district showing gain
of A per cent. The agricultural section,
embracing the western half of the State,
and comprising the Second and Seventh
Districts, shows u gain of about 20 per
cent.
HENRY MILLER and Charles Lux, cattle
men, of San Francisco, confess to owning
more than 14,OOO,0OO acres OF land in
three States. AS the San Francisco Ex-
amlner puts it, this makes an estate equal
in area to the States of New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Con-
necticut together. 1t is half the size of
New York end three times the size of New
Jersey. 1t is about the size OF West Vir-
ginia and an eighth the entire area of Cali
fornia. 1t is as large as Greece with the
Ionian Isles, of which Byron wrote. 1t is
four times the area OF Alsace-Lorraine, over
which France and Germany fought. 1t is
but little smaller than Ireland and half
again as large as Switzerland. 1t Is twice
as large as Belgium and one-third the size
of England and Wales together. These
two remarkable men are natives Of one OF
the Rhenish provinces of Germany.
THE new army rifles are now being dis
tributed among Uncle Sans soldiers
Eventually $4,000 of them will be deliv-
cred to the War Department from the Ma
tional Armory at Springfield. To make
them has taken year and a half, and not
all of them are finished yet. These mod
ern small arms are wonderfully different
from the guns carried by our troops hith-
erto. The clumsy old 4j-caliber has been
replaced by weapon that shoots as fast as
a man can pull the trigger. 1t is effective
at the distance of a mile, and the lead bull
let, clad in steel coat, leaves the muzzle
at speed of nearly half mile second.
The idea of the up-tO. date rifle is to
throw a small and very hard projectile
with enormously increased velocity to a
much greater distance with greater preci-
sion than formerly.
An aggregate area Of about twenty mil
lions of square miles of the earth's surface
is as yet quite unexplored, according to
an address by Professor l. Logan Tobley
to the London Geographical Congress.
This aggregate is made up as follows:
Africa, $500, 900 square miles; Australia,
$3.50 900; North America, 100000;
South America, 100000; Asia, $50, 900;
islands, $1,000: Attic regions, $500 900;
Antartic regions, 100000. This esti-
mate leaves out of account the very i'm
perfectly known regions of Central Asia
and the interior of the northern parts of
both North and South America, as well as
the similar areas Of Africa and Australia.
When we add not merely the enormous
areas of these only partially explored re-
gions, but also those that, though ex-
plored, are not accurately surveyed, 1t
will be seen that the field for further ex-
ploration and research is abundantlv
wide.
A GRAND RAPIDS paper says that the
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