Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-29

Last years crop reached the enorm-
Gus total OF 0, 476, 485 bales!
The fiscal year just passed has been
bloody one for San Francisco.
More than thirty men and women
were murdered In this city between
the last of July, 1894, and the last
Of June OF 1895.
ENGLISH Is taught after q fashion
In the public schools throughout
France. A young American girl in
a small Picardy village. interesting
herself In schoolboy's English ex-
ercise, read as follows: 1.-THE bird
has nest =" 1.-THE horse has q
nest" Substituting the word mare"
for horse" the young woman passed
on the exercise as correct.
THERE seems to be an extraordin-
airy craze for cycling in South Africa
The johannesburg Star states that
cycles are more generally used in
that town than probably in any
other town OF similar size in the
world. There are, it adds, some
1000 machines in use by all classes,
from the head OF the mining industry
down to clerks and shop assistants.
One firm have sold 600 in the last
two years. Ladies are taking to
cycling freely, and so are educated
Kafiirs.
GARDNER NJ SHERMAN, OF Spring.
field, Mass. has 555 specimens Of
Indian relics that lie himself picked
up and one of the most remarkable
collections Of these relics in New
England. If not outside OF the Smith
sonian Institution. Not only is Mr..
Sherman fan enthusiastic collector,
but also an explorer of indefatigable
patience, and he has been an ON
nivorous reader OF all that pertains
to this. his pet study, for over q
quarter OF O century. He is me-
chanic and has had to take the odds
and ends Of his time for this work.
A NEW fact bearing on the disuse
OF the horse is the alleged effect on
the oats market. According to the
dealers the demand for oats is con-
siderably less than it was year ago.
This is easy to believe when we learn
that according to conservative es-
Inmates electricity has supplanted
at least 0,O00 horses on the various
street railway systems of the country.
A fair estimate of the grain con-
sumed by these animals is only a.
000 600 bushels. Moreover, we
hardly think it is fair to presume
that every one of the eighty thou
sand horses displaced by the trolleys
has given up his diet of oats owing
to his loss of job. We should be
more inclined to suspect that shrewd
board OF trade operators were using
this specious plea to derress the
price OF oats before buying.
The st. Louis Republic thinks that
the most remarkable piece Of piano.
ramic painting ever attempted was q
1000 mile view of scenery along the
Mississippi River, which was ex-
ecuted by John Barnard, the artist.
who died at WATERFOWL, S. d., in
the summer of 1891. This panorama,
which gave faithful and clear cut
pictures Of bluffs, river mouths,
farms, prairie dells and wooded
promontories along the Father OF
Waters for distance almost as great
rs that which separates st. Louis
from New York, was painted on u
strip of canvas twenty-five feet wide
and nearly two miles long. Nothing
similar has ever been attempted on
such gigantic scale, and. while
Artist Barnard was not known as
the Michael Angelo Of America, "
he will long be remembered by the
lovers Of the curious, in either art
or nature, as the man who painted
the largest painting ever known.
BEAUTY is matter OF geography,
as we'll as the result Of transforma-
tion insthe brain of the susceptible
being of centripetal nervous current
in centrifugal and equally nervous
current. These facts may comfort
brunettes who covet the supreme
beauty Of the fair complexion. DR..
Beddoe made some careful and elab-
crate inquiries, and his conclusions
were published in The British Med
ical Journal. He examined 720
women-taking them haphazard from
various classes. OF these. $50 had
red, fair or light brown hair; 361.
black or dark brown. 1t proved that
60 per cent of the former were
married, against 70.5 of the latter,
and 81 per cent unmarried. against
21.5 per cent. The sum does not
work out correctly, but it must be
supposed that the deficit represents
those who, for one reason or another,
could not properly be reckoned. 1t
appears, therefore, that brunettes
have very decided advantage in the
lottery Of marriage.
THE accounts of an eyewitness Of
the hideous cruelty of Chinese to
men OF their own race in Formosa
form one of the darkest pages in the
history Of the oriental war. A big
powder magazine near Kelung ex-
ploded and scores Of men were fatally
or dangerously injured. They were
thrown into the paddy fields, where
the growing rice Is covered with
water. There they lay in the broil-
ing sun, and though their female
relatives walled over them, not one
of the able bodied Chinese men who
stood around lifted hand to help
the suffering. In fact they jeered
at the unfortunates and laughed
when the poor wretches tried to call