Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-09-12

1 49, Juov ~ Avs ~e&VvA - - ws@Scs
exporter, expects to ship 80, 600, 600
| bushels OF last years crop. Out OF
the crop for the previous year 1t ex-
ported rs. 600, 600 bushels. chiefly to
England.
| PROFESSOR CEsARE LoMBRoso, the
/, famous italian criminologist, has
| discovered that one of the most
striking characteristics of criminals
IL the absence of wisdom teeth. This
should not make those people, how
ever, who boast of being without
these unnecessary molars feel I'M
comfortable.
THE official estimate of wheat con-
sumption in the United States Is
4.67 bushels head of population.
1t has been revised on figures rep
resenting the actual consumption OF
over 5000 persons. and 1t Is now
fixed at AIT bushels q head. This
would give %. IS bushels as the an
nual consumption OF the average
family, with total annual consump-
tion for the entire country Of about
1874. 600, 600 bushels.
THE Frenchman who proposes to
set out for the North Pole in bal
loon argues that the polar circle is an
ideal place for an airship. as the
temperature is even, the earth unob-
structed by vegetation, the daylight
uninterrupted for six months, and
electric discharges rare. or course,
the balloon will be very elaborate
affair, and it will be provisioned for
over 100 days. 1t is not to start un-
til July, 1896.
DURING the fiscal year which closed
June 80 over four thousand million
"a, 100, 440, Q00) cigars were manu-
featured in the United States. This
is an increase Of 63. 522; 600 over the
number manufactured during the
previous year, yet nevertheless the
United States Tobacco Journal
claims that the cigar trade is being
damaged by the increasing use of
bicycles. The theory is that the
time spent on bicycle is withdrawn
from the possible time for cigar
smoking.
UNION COUNTY, New Jersey. has
found good roads profitable, the in
crease in tax valuations having been |
marked this year. The total assessed |
values for 1895 are $35, 972, 500, an |
increase over 1894 of 81, $50. 600.
The most conspicuous gain was made
by Summit, which stands at 81, $780,
600, an increase Of SAG, 600, or over
25 per cent. Westfield advanced |
$2l6, 600 to 81, 44S, 600, and Plainfeld,
Crawford and Union had substantial
additions to the assessed vale of
their property.
THE completion of the Eleventh
Census OF the United States is now
promised within this year by a report
from Commissioner OF Labor Carroll
ID. Wright to Secretary OF the Inte-
rior Hoke Smith. He finds the total
cost to date is $40, 53l, 142, and the
chief cause Of delay has been the
population schedule. The only other
parts remaining uncompleted are the
vital statistics, part Of the COM
pendulum and the second edition OF
the abstract and the statistical
atlas.
LUNACY is on the increase in Eng
land, according to the report OF the
British Commissioners on Lunacy,
issued recently. The total number
OF lunatics, idiots and persons of I'M
sound mind was, on January l, OF
this year "a ,081, an increase OF 2, OLA
over the number for the preceding
year. The increase was confined al
most wholly to the pauper class, and
is due apparently, it is said, to the
more general reception in asylums
of cases OF simple mental decay re-
sulting from extreme old age.
ARGENT compilation OF New Eng
land vital statistics shows that in
1892 twenty-five marriages in every
thousand OF population occurred in
the towns of more than 10000 popu-
lation, while in the villages and in
the country the marriage rate was
five less in the thousand. The city
birth-rate in higher in about the
same proportion, but the death-rate
is also higher. The statistics in
dictate that while the chances Of
sufficient food are better in the cities,
the chances of prolonged life are
better in the country in spite of
short rations.
BosToN has Lighthouse keepers
daughter who, perhaps, has not emu
lated Ida Lewis, yet she is an accom-
plished oarswoman as well as q versa
tile writer. Miss Louise Lynden has
lived with her father on that beauti-
full headland for nearly fifteen years,
and although graduate OF the Bos-
ton Girls High School in 1879, has
preferred to keep herself on the island
summer and winter. ever since her
father was appointed as keeper of
the light in 1880. Miss Lynden is an
accomplished photographer, and
many of her charming stories are
illustrated by her own pictures.
THE trouble with the Bannocks
recalls the fact that the Indian pop
ulation OF the United States in 1890
was set down at 24S, 253, not in
Guiding the native inhabitants OF
Alaska, who numbered 30, 052. The
Indians living on the reservations
and receiving assistance from the
Government numbered 1873, Alt. 1t
is believed by many who have made
a special study OF Indian archaeology
that the number of Indians within
the present territory OF the United
States, at the time OF the discovery
OF America, was little il any greater
than the number now existing, a
statement which will strike many
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