Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-20
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

price OF petroleum CnrOugnOuD Qer-
many has been to cause inventors to
apply themselves to attempting to
devise some sort OF substitute for
the staple.
A PHOTOGRAPH album will be re.
quired In the saloons OF New Zealand
II the proposed local option bill Is
carried into effect. A clause In this
bill provides that everyone convicted
OF habftual drunkenness shall be
photographed ut his own expense,
and every saloonkeeper In the dis.
trict where he lives must be supplied
with copy.
BROOKLYN has established great
water tower, sixty-five feet high. as
part OF the fire department equip
ment Of that city. 1t is intended to
counterfeit the evils attendant upon
the erection of enormously high
buildings that are now becoming q
most serious menace to life and prop
erty in all the large commercial cities
of the country.
IT is often supposed that boys in
growing keep ahead Of girls; but re-
cent measurements disprove this.
The boys, up to their eleventh year.
were found to run about a quarter to
half an inch taller than the girls.
They were then overtaken by the
girls who surpassed them in height
till their sixteenth year, when the
boys again grew faster than the girls,
and came to the front.
1--WE New Englanders. says the
lions Herald, have been talking
many years about annexing various
parts Of Canada, but they are in
reality turning the tables upon us.
Nova Scotia, for instance, is annually
annexing New England. II you go
down to Nova Scotia in July or
August you will be convinced that
there can hardly be New Highlander
left at home-that is New Eng
lander OF the better sort-you will
find 80 many Massachusetts, school,
ma ans, and Boston doctors, and
clergymen, and writer's, and other
professional people from New Eng
land and New York down there"
THE New York Sun is glad to hear
of the revival Of silk-worm culture
in Georgia. and hopes that those en-
gagged in this business will prosecute
it with greater perseverance than did
their predecessors. The trouble is
not lack of perseverance, but that
industry in this country has so far
found more profitable employment
than in tending silk worms. The
work is not difficult. but the pay is
very small, and so long as the Old
World can do this work so much
more cheaply than we it will make
silk production Improbable here.
Cheap as cotton has been and yet is,
the growing Of cotton pays better
than does the care and feeding of
silk worms.
IT is said that the future prosperity
of many portions of the State of
Washington depends upon finding
some feasible method of exterminat-
ing the myriads of squirrels that in
fest the State. Traps, guns, bombs,
arsenic and strychnine are being ex-
tensively employed for the purpose
The bombs operate on the same prin-
ciple as the giant powder cones now
in general use, except that they are
charged with sulphur and other
paralyzing ingredients. and at the
close of the process slight explosion
occurs, producing pyrotechnic dis
play that sends the victims off to
squirrel heaven in blaze of glory, so
to speak, from beneath the depths of
the earth.
A MARVELLOUS story Is that which
comes from Arizona, where few
months ago some prospectors in the
Bradshaw Mountains came upon q
cliff jewellers village in one of the
most inaccessible canons Of that
range, the largest village OF the kind
ever yet discovered. Several of the
houses were explored and large guam
titles of pottery and some instru-
ments, evidently used for cultivating
the soil, were found. In one, the
skeleton of a man, not over feet s
inches in height, was discovered. The
canon at this place is half mile
wide, and shows evidence Of having
been cultivated. If this theory
proves to be true, it will throw more
light on the habits of this little
known people. So far as known, no
other evidence has been discovered Of
cliff jewellers having cultivated the
soil.
The largest railway map in the
world has just been mounted in the
Broad street station of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, at Philadelphia. 1t
was made by the American Bank
Note Company. of New York, and is
112 feet inches long by Is feet high,
and includes the United States from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, between
Norfolk on the south and the Great
Lakes on the north, giving a com.
plete representation Of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, it's leased lines and
western connections. A railway map
OF such colossal dimensions has never
before been attempted, much less
carried to successful completion,
and when the final touches were
given the work before an admiring
crowd, gathered from many parts OF
the country, it was conceded that the
beautiful painting was worthy of
among the most interesting
sights of Philadelphia.
HERE is o fact to astound one
even the reader that may be old
enough to vouch for its authenticity,
says the New Science Review: In