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

millions OF dollars yesr.
The new battle ship. Maine, now ap-
preaching completion, Is the forty-stxth
man-of-war built ct the Brooklyn Navy
Yard since 1917, when the keel Of the
Ohio, the first, was laid. Not an insty-
nincant showing for home talent.
TIE war In the East does not appear to
have daunted the industrious Japanese from
preparing for the fourth exhibition at Ky
OTTO, to Judge from the number OF articles
and exhibitors, which amount TO 206, 900
and $1,000 respectively. a,
A WEIsHMAN, with plenty Of conson-
ants In his name, proposes 10 build ship
that will have speed of sixty miles an
hour. The boat will be $50 feet long and
80 feet wide, with q fiat bottom and wedge
shaped bow and stern, Of 10000 tons dis
placement, and with eight paddle wheels
on each side, each making seventeen. revo-
buttons minute. esI
SIR WILLIAM G. +. ROBINSON, Governor
of Western Australia, says that colony pre-
sents record OF advancement during the
last four years which few, ifany, countries
could equal. The population Of the colony
has increased very fast, and he knew Of
no country which has displayed more
promising field for enterprise and industry
Of almost every description.
Miss MARY M. HASKELL, of Minneapo-
lis, has just been appointed census taker
for Cass County, Minnesota. The under
taking Is by no means an easy one. The
population of the country il widely scat
tered, and the trip will have to be made on
horseback. Much of it Is an unbroken
wilderness, and there are many Indians in
the country, some of whom will have to be
enumerated.
THE people of Roxbury, Mass, are de-
batting whether they shall reconstruct the
fort above the Norfolk House, planned by
Gen. Knox during the siege of Boston,
and approved by Washington. The origi-
nal with its untransferable associations
having been offered to the town in 1880
for 90, 500, and rejected, the Roxbury
citizens will now pay twenty times as much
for mere copy. fof
NABI, a bandit chief of the Caucasus,
believes in thoroughness. The villagers OF
Khodshaan lately captured one of his men
and hanged him offhand. Nabi loaded
train of pack horses with naphtha, swoop-
ed down on the village with his band,
killed all the men, soaked the houses with
naphtha and burned them to the ground,
and carried off the women and children to
his refuge across the Persian border.
A RESIDENT of the State OF Washington
tells the Washington Post, that horses are
the most worthless kind of property in the
West. He says: "You can hardly give
them away. Arfriend of mine, who used
to bring ponies to the East, getting from
$25 to $50 apiece for them in New York,
Philadelphia and Washington, told me not
long since that the business was completely
played out, and he could buy all the ponies
he wanted for $3 head. II horseflesh
were as much in use for food in this coun-
try as in Europe, the beef trust would
meet with pretty lively competition about
now"
A DEALER in bicycles who has an extern
lsive business in New York, predicts that
in five years more the present style OF BIZ
cycle will be out of date. The motor
wheel will have taken its place. He
points to the fact that in the 750-mile race
from Paris to Bordeaux and return be-
tween horseless carriages, as the French
style the new departure, the winner main-
tanned an average speed OF 154 miles per
hour. The inevitable cheapening in the
cost of production and reduction in weight
are bound to insure general demand for
this latest form of rapid and economical
transportation.
Mr. KRUi'P, the famous cannon-maker
of Germany, and proprietor of the Essen
foundries, has been described as the man
who paid the largest amount Of taxes
throughout the world. He paid annually
about 100000. But MIR. Marinesco-
Bragodr, the most important manufact-
urer Of alcohol in Rumania, who has re-
Gently established also brewery at Blu
charest, paid in 1894 $440, 200 of divers
taxes to the Government. This repre-
sents an immense fortune, which had
very modest origin, since Mr.. Marinesco-
Bragadir was an apprentice to a pastry
cook only twenty years ago. q ..3i0, I
ACCORDING to Chicago paper the use of
bicycles by farmers in sections where the
road supervisor supervises is growing quite
common. City wheelmen who are given
to cross-country runs frequently meet men
pedaling home from town with good
sized collection of groceries strapped to the
handle bar. Sometimes a home made
carrier, consisting mostly of rope, is used,
and sometimes the wire and leather ar
rangements which are kept for sale among
other bicycle accessories. The problem
presented by punctures and other mishaps
which the wheel Is heir to are not serious
ones, as every well regulated farm has its
own repair shop, and the farmer makes up
in ingenuity what he lacks in tools.
"LKAvRs OF HEALING" issued in Chi
cago. is the organ OF the "divine healing"
cult. A recent number announces that
552 acres of land, just out of Chicago,
near Blue Island, will soon be purchased,
where various institutions connected with
the movement are to be placed and homes
for people provided. The plans include q
lions Temple, to hold 10000 people; d.
vine healing homes, arranged around an
inner garden and park, to be called Beulah
Gardens; Zion College, series Of schools
from the kindergarten to the university
preparatory school; Zion Printing and Pub
fishing House; Zion Refractory; homes for
young men, young women and orphans.
The healing institutions are to be in the
centre.
ACCORDING to Professor Baird, there is
now in the imperial aquarium OF St. Peters
burg pike that first saw the light at the
close of the fifteenth century He still APP
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