Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-04-04
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


money In eight banks, yet had been
found begging. The Judge said thai
q person wandering about and beg
ging Is yagrant, even II worth O
million.
The Russian government has taken
entire charge Of the sale of intoxica.
ting liquors in the four eastern prov
inces of the lempire. To prevent i'm.
moderate consumption of drink, a
new experiment is being tried. which
consists in attracting people away
from the gin palaces Ny organizing
other recreations and nmuse.,ehts
for them. 49,
A GREAT deal depends upon the
point OF view. The king OF Butari-
tart, one OF the Gilbert islaras in the
Pacific, recently annexed by Eng
land, made an edict that eerybody
should 60 to church on Sunday un-
derpenalty OF fine OF 50 foIabsence.
The English commissioner repealed
this, but made similar LAT looking
toward compulsory education.
IT is announced that II pan has
ordered two modern first clss battle
ships OF English make. The news
Insignificant as an intimatpn of the
petition which japan expects to
tske as one OF the worlds geat naval
powers. japan has the sdvantage
ofbeing able to afford thes luxuries
irasinuch, as we presume, as China
will be expected to pay for Them.
AN American in Germany was sur
pissed to find a number q cripples
among the celebrated college pro-
f'ssors, men whose high standard of
barning makes them famous the
world over. One Berlin professor is
Wheeled into his lecture room every
10y, and there are others similarly
though for the most part less pain
fully afflicted. This is due partly to
The fact that under the military
regime of Germany when boy is
disqualified for the army he is trained
for science or the law.
ACCORDING to the Electric Review
the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany collected about 81, 500, 600 last
year for telling the time of day.
THE company has telegraph desk
in the naval observatory at Washing
ton. Four minutes before noon the
wires of the system all over the
country are cleared of business, and
the instant the sun passes the
meridian electricity
carries.the news to every city" 1t
Is only in trying to realize fact like
this in all its bearings that we can
get some idea Of the way modern life
Is being regulated by science.
A WRITER in the New England
is of the opinion that the
teaching Of cooking in the future will
be in the hands Of specialists, that
Is, the work will be divided into
branches as cooking for the. sick,
the preparing Of meats, making Of
bread, or the like. The writer
further states that the demand for
teachers of the household arts seems
to be greater than the supply. There
have been many calls recently for
teachers of cookery who are also
qualified to teach sewing and mil
inery, and good salaries have been
offered ranging from 5000 to 81, 300
per year.
AN insurance journal has recently
collected statistics OF suicide in the
United States. Many of the facts
gathered are surprising, but the
most singular and perplexing Is the
act that "the classification by con-
lition shows greater proportion Of
among the married men
han among the unmarried, which is
to the accepted theory.
Contrary it certainly is to the statis-
les OF Europe, where the fact that
more bach elors than benedicts shut
he of their mortal coil voluntarily
las long been cited as one OF the
most obvious reasons for entering
he holy state Of matrimony.
A WASHINGTON dispatch recently
noted that japan had given contracts
or two new battle ships. The ship
programme of last year pro-
,ided for two battle ships. one pro-
.ected cruiser aud one dispatch YES
'el, and negotiations were begun
ooking to their construction. The
cruiser is to be built at the home
navy yard, at Yokosuka, and work
las really been begun upon her. She
s to be of the English Apollo type
Ind Of 2,700 tons displacement. The
TWO battle ships are to be Of IL, $50
,ons displacement each and Of the
;ype of the English battle ship Royal
Sovereign. The contract for one has
been given to the Thames Iron Works
Ind Ship Building company, Black
vail and the contract for the other
las been awarded to the Armstrong;,
If Elswick, England.
WILLIAM r. CRowDER lives in
ireencastle, Ind. So does William
Fisher; and so does hog, valued at
~, owned by Crowder. One day
Crowder let his hog out. Almost
Fisher left the gate
If nice new hogpen on his place
,pen. AS it was the hogs day of it
to see all that was to be
ieen and so it strayed into Fishers
reopen. Just afterward Fisher de-
.ided to close his pen. which he did,
Great Scott, I've got
logl Well, findin's is keepin's. !"
Pretty soon Crowder demanded his
log. Fisher replied Il amt got
-er hog" and the hog, with that In