Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-02
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

A REPORT from Russia states that
It has been found that "strychniue
can cure men OF the appetite for
drink" 1t cures them In this
country also II they take enough Of It.
BECAUSE the Reichstag was spite
full against Bismarck, conservative
Germany IL roaring against universal
suffrage. But 1t Is we'll to remember
that only few years ago the EN-
peror himself was spiteful against
Bismarck.
A PHILADELPHIA street railroad
now operated by electricity saves
SO, 915 a month as between the cost
OF coal and that OF horse feed. 1t is
said that this Is only one OF numer-
GUS items In which the trolley system
has greatly cut down operating ex-
penses.
ORDINARY vigilance would prevent
nine-tenths of the bank defalcations
But the vigilance which does not see
anything suspicious In the personal
deposits OF 81, 200 clerk reaching
$40. 900 In recent case, Is not Or
binary; it's extraordinary, in the
opinion of the Hartford Journal.
THERE are a great many medical
missionaries, but DR.. Jennie M. Tay-
lor is the first person to 60 to for
eign land as dental missionary.
She Is the daughter OF the Rev.A. r.
To IL 1tot ript ckn -
Martinsville. Pa, and is working in
Africa as missionary and dentist.
A NEW York woman, whose name
Is held secret. has endowed the chair
Of history in the National University.
to be built at Washington, with
$107, $50. The intimation of the offer
was made on an old postal card, and
within twenty-four hours the head Of
the university was leaving New York
with securities to the required
amount in his possession. For expe-
ditiousness this surpasses the en-
dowment record. When the woman
was asked why she selected the chair
of history she said: "Men can give
for bricks and mortar, I'll give for
brains"
THRIFT is not an extinct trait in the
original home of the thrifty, New
England. A young woman writes to
Boston paper to tell how we'll
family Of three can live on $40 week.
my mother" she says, lis an in
valid. My father is foreman in fac
tory and earns $21 week, and ! stay
home and do the work. Every week
we put 81 away. / dress we'll and
can play the piano. l attend the
theater twice week, but the % cent
seats are good enough for me. Sat-
urday / cook quart of beans and
buy loaf OF brown bread and one
half pound OF salmon, and that does
us until Tuesday Tuesday pint of
oysters is sufficient for dinner. We'd
nesday buy chicken or a small
piece of lamb. which does until Sat-
urday with little fish. We use
small quantity Of pastry and bread
and cake and vegetables. We run
two fires, burn gas; we use matches
and pepper. My father only spends
10 cents week for pleasure. When
my company stays to tea Sunday we
have few extras. do all my dress
making. and average four dresses
year" But the poor fathers 10
cents worth of pleasure ~
The power of hypnotism has been
made responsible for almost every
thing and now writer in the Pitts
burg Dispatch attempts to show
that sleeping in church is often due
to this subtle force. The conditions
under which the phenomenon is most
frequently observed are described as
follows: There is dim and SUBJ
dued light in the room; the atmos-
phere is somewhat close, the tenn
perature is high; somewhat behind
the speaker, in position which COM
pels the eyes of the congregation, is
jet Of gas or sharp CLEAN Of cleo
tricity, into which they look as the
sermon proceeds; and the preacher
goes on and on, in gentle and mon
otonous voice. and down and up, like
q mothers lullaby; and behold. our
eyelids are pressed down against our
will by soft, invisible fingers, and
everything is deliciously vague and
far away" This, the writer would
have his readers believe. is hypnotic
sleep. Most people, however, will
be inclined to think that poor venti-
lation in the churches, or natural
fatigue on the part OF the sleepers, is
responsible for more of this kind of
somnolence than can be traced to
any mysterious power.
THE importation of beans ut the
ports of New York, Boston and Phil
adelphia last year was pa, 776 bags
of 200 pounds each, and yet this
country is admirably adapted for
bean culture. A correspondent of
the Country Gentleman says:
Where the crop is grown on a large
scale so that machinery can be large
ly used the cost of growing should
not be materially greater than
that of growing an equal area Of
wheat They may be planted by
machinery, harvested by machinery,
threshed by machinery, and the
large buyers in bean growing districts
use machinery largely in picking over
the product. The yield will probably,
on the average, equal that Of wheat.
Then look at the price per bushel
compared with that OF wheat. The
straw, too, is valuable food for
sheep, as we'll es for other live stock,
far exceeding wheat straw in this re-
spect. Bean pr ces, usually high, IRE
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