Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-16

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NOTES AND coMMENra
The European country where d.
| vorces are most numerous is Switzer-
land. Since tho Federal law of 1874
the proportion has reached AZ to the
], 900.
THERE were but III bicycle facto-
ries In the United States in 1885 and
they made but IL, 900 wheels. This
year there are l26 factories and it Is
estimated that not less than 500, 600
wheels will be turned out We have
received no figures yet showing the
number OF bloomer factories or the
number Of boomers which will be
worn this summer.
New ZEALAND has invented q
unique method for the prevention
OF incompetence. 1t proposes to
pass law to the effect that any per-
son convicted Of being an habitual
drunkard shall be photographed at
his own expense and q copy be sup
plisd to every saloon keeper in the
district. The dealer supplying liquor
to such person is to be fined.
The divorce statistics OF Europe
show that marriage is positive fail
ure in England in one out of every
400 ventures, in France there are IL
divorces to every 400 marriages, in
Switzerland one out of every 500. 1t
is surprising to learn that in Ger
many the average is still higher. In
Scandinavia, where q divorce was
formerly rara avis. there are now
200 annually.
The Gold Dollar Saloon, of Buffalo,
said to be one of the handsomest
drinking places in the United States.
Is to be converted into O temperance
saloon. The proprietor is tired of
kselling liquor and will be put in
charge OF the new enterprise. The
floor OF the place is laid with 500 gold
pieces, the bar is studded with $50
gold pieces, the walls are hung with
fine pictures, and it is furnished with
1920 incandescent lights.
Mr.. DORSEY MoHUN, United States
commercial agent to the Congo Free
State, who has recently returned to
Washington after two years in Africa,
declares that 10000, 600 people in
that region are eaters of human
flesh. He tells horrible story
about surprising a village one day.
when q big cannibal feast was in
progress, and also describes how he
saw fourteen persons buried alive in
grave with the dead body of great
chief.
FRANCES Chief Magistrate is Sc
riously considering the policy Of pro-
claiming reward for the discovery
OF the whereabouts OF the sardine.
The latter, which constitutes the
chief means Of existence of most Of
the seaside population of France,
has disappeared in most mystic
rious manner, not only from the
coasts Of that country, but also from
those Of Spain and Portugal as we'll,
and within short space OF time the
entire sardine industry in these three
countries will be at standstil].
CHOLERA has already appeared this
year on the Red Sea. At Camaran,
through which 1000 pilgrims for
Mecca have passed so far, 1900 are
quarantined in the lazaretto, and the
cases amount to thirty q day, many
Of them resulting in death. AS the
bulk of the pilgrims will come dur
ing the next few weeks and those re-
turning home are likely to spread
the plague, the Sultan has been
asked to stop the pilgrimage from
the Indies. but he does not wish to
interfere on religious grounds.
The marine hospital surgeons who
are manufacturing anti-toxine at
New York say that a young girl who
died eight minutes after the first in
lection Of anti-toxine did not die
from the medicine, which has been
analysed by government chemists
and proved to be pure. This new
remedy for diphtheria is said to be
doing wonders. Among the lives it
saved recently in New York was that
of a colored child who had been
carried about the streets for seven
hours because no hospital applied to
would admit diphtheritic patient.
THE republic Of France proposes to
tax people who continue to use the
titles Of the old regime. The rate
for q prince is to be 5000 year, for
a duke and for marquis $40. The
lowest tax is to be $40 for man who
uses single prefix with his name.
A contemporary facetiously asks:
"Why not tax American girls who
marry titles? If heavy export duty
on American wealth were levied it
might deter the American girls from
marrying the foreigners and would
give the American bachelors q better
chance"
In spite Of the repeated assurances
on the part OF the semi-official Rus
sian press that the deportation Of
criminal and political convicts to ST.
IBERIA had ceased, it appears from
municipal returns now published at
Moscow that exactly IL $50 convicts
passed through that city on their
way to the penal settlements Of Sibe-
ria during the last year. This is in