Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-06

pedestrians ~ GeGroo1 % cgooo a eafoey-
There h 20 much driving that one has to
keep hie eyes peeled 20 tnko advantage Of
lull to gain the refugee. There be awaits
second chance to make the sidewalk he
Is aiming for. Sometimes minutes 20 by
before the opportunity comes and on gala
occasions ten minutes are consumed be-
fore venture No. Il undertaken. But
minute or two ordinarily brings the re-
Quired chance. On Trafalgar square there
are two refugees intervening between side
walks, as several streets unite here and
the crossing il most dangerous.
One of the sights st the town IL the di-'
minutive chap employed to clean the
streets. He Is usually years old and il
armed with bag and brush to gather up
the refuse that defaces the roadway.
This chap will take his place in the mid
die of the street and will pursue his work
unmindful of the dangers that surround
him. The wheels are passing within an
inch Of his body, but so careful are the
drivers and 50 alert the brave little fsl!oY
that he escapes Injury. Sometimes You
would imagine he would be crushed as he
disappears in the jam, but moment later
he reappears doing his work the same as IL
death did not hover about him.
In New York the open circles are called
squares; when you reach Italy they are,
denominated plazzas; in London they are
known as circuses. Strangers, for the,
most part, are misled by this designation
when they first arrive in London. Ask;
directions to firm doing business in thei
vicinity of these areas and you are told it,
adjoins Ludgate circus, or Oxford circus,
or Picadilly circus. At once you head
for one of these, expecting to find the,
party desired adjoining a tented exhibit
ton. But you look in vain for the circu-
lar canvas roof with supporting projecting
poles rising one above the other. Afteri
inquiries that make you vexatious you find
that the circus that does business every
minute in the year in London is nothing
more than the diametrical space where
half a dozen streets intersect and has
neither clown nor ringmaster unless the
policeman can be counted as such.
Boobies.
The uniformed guardians of the law in
England are known as boobies and in
Ireland as peelers. The nicknames come
from Sir Robert Peel, who acted respec-
lively as secretary Of Ireland and home
secretary of England. Under his admin
istrations he reorganized the police con-
tingent of these countries and made them
a formidable body of civilian soldiery.
From 1912 to 1918 he held power in Ire
land, and displayed vindictiveness to
Catholics that made him detested. O'Con-
nell called him an Orange Peel and taunt-
ed him so that he challenged the Irish
statesman to duel, which the police pre-
vented. So the latter were dubbed peel
ers, which they retain to this day. AS
home secretary he overhauled the police
in 1926 and made it much more efficient
body. Up to this time they were known
as Charlies-from King Charles l., who
improved the system he found in 1910
and they were afterwards known as bob
bies, which grew from Robert. A monu-
ment is erected to Peels memory near a
spot where he was thrown from his horse
in Hyde Park and received fatal injuries
June %, 1850.