Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04

| alton aftsr ali. as IL proved by statds-
| tics. In England only thirty deaths
| were produced by cycling In twelve
| months. On comparing this number
| with the total number OF the highway
and street accidents through England
and Wales, It will be found that barely
two per cent. of them were caused by
cycling.
1t II coming to light that the Chinese
population OF our cities, notably of San
Francisco and New York, where the
| Chinese quarters are distinct sections,
is gradually growing smaller. San
Francisco has about $4,000 of the 10000
that she. had five years ago. The ex-
clusion law Is wedding out the present
Chinese population and almost prohlb-
iting immigration.
So much has been heard about the
possibility of the invasion of England
that the newspapers suggest that Eng
lands militia, upon which the brunt Of
| the defense would fall, be put into a
better state of efficiency. At present
this force drills for only about three
weeks in the year, and has the whole of
the rest of the year to forget what 1t
has learned in that time.
The experiment station attached to
the Mississippi Agricultural and Me-
| chanical College at Starkvi.le has done
a great work In encouraging the growth
Of hay In that State. When 1t began
| its work in the premises the average
yield In the State was but .S3 OF ton
per acre, whereas, last year, 1t was LOS
tons, being IA per cent above the ave-
rage yield Of the northern and central
States Of the Mississippi valley.
Reports from the Pacific Coast say
that never in the history Of the West
have so many people taken passage
ON the steamers for Alaska. The dis
cOvery Of gold in CERTAIN parts Of the far
of Territory Is. of course, the attraction
for many Of the visitors; but the in
creased facilities for transportation and
the possibility of seeing some Of the
gNndest scenery In the world have in
duced many tourists to choose Alaska
rather than Europe as their objective
point.
Sweden" says n native Of that coun-
try who has just been visiting it, lis
building railroad, telegraph and tele-
phone lines everywhere. Every farmer
who has 100 acres or more Of land has
a long-distance telephone. 1t is the
most magnificent telephone system
ever saw, and Is very cheap. News Of
great import is flashed over these wires
from the urban to the rural districts,
and the average citizen is better posted
on the current events of the day than
in probably any other country in the
world. was In Sweden all winter, and
only two inches of snow fell during the
whole time"
This country, to people who have not
looked into the matter, does not figure
as large owner of floating property
outside Of war vessels and those at
tached to the revenue and lighthouse
service; but a recent careful estimate
shows that on one part of the Miss
issippi River the nation owns over one
thousand craft of different kinds. That
is the stretch between New Orleans and
Cairo, and the value Of the vessels and
their outfit for riprap, revertment and
levee work does not fall much below
$6,0OO,00O. When work Is rushing there
nre at times 10000 men employed OH the
vessels and in connection with the tasks
assigned them.
From the census recently completed
in Massachusetts 1t Is shown that the
females constitute more than so per
cent Of the population in each Of the
cities, except Gloucester and Quincy
The highest percentage Is in Northamp-
ton, where it reaches 1851, and the
lowest In Gloucester, 42.37. The differ
ence in Gloucester, where the males are
considerably In excess, is said to be due
to the peculiar character Of the city,
as the centre of the fishing industry.
Ten years ago there were five cities In
which the male population was In ex-
cess Of the female; but the census also
shows that the percentage which the
females constitute of the whole popula-
ton has declined in all but seven cities
since 1885.
"In the Choctaw Indian Nation" says
Z. l.. Craighead, Of Ardmore, in the
Washington Star, there Is no Jail for
convicted murderers. When l first
went to the Indian Territory l settled
in the Choctaw Nation, and hearing
that certain Indian was an excellent
hand on the ranch, hunted him up and
asked him IL he would work for me.
L Will work until the Goth Of next
month"; he said. why not longer?
inquired. i am to be hanged the Dist,
was his reply, in an unconcerned way.
l hired him, and upon inquiry learned
that what he said was true. But one
man has ever failed to return for hang
ing after he has been sentenced, and
my Indian did not prove an exception
to the rule. On the day before the exc
cution was to take place he left rs
calmly as though going on visit, and
the hanging took place at the time ap-
pointed. Notwithstanding his ap-
preaching doom the Indian made one
Of the best ranchers l ever saw, and
regretted to lose him."
Some Of our famous athletes may
think republics ungrateful when they
compare their treatment to that OF the
Greek who won the recent footrace
from Marathon to the Stadion. "Notli-
ing" says the correspondent Of the
London Chronicle, illustrates the char
acter of the modern Greek so much as
the extraordinary attention shown to