Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-30

the mines. Yet nowhere on earth IL
the wealth of the forests wasted more
wantonly than In this country.
In a recent address In New York, Il.
Francis Hyde declared that the 31S
square miles Of area of Greater New
York was sufficient TO accommolatew with
standing room all the Inhabitants of
the earth, ,45O, 900, 900 In number, and
allow six square feet to each indi-
vidual.
French authors will henceforth have
power to have the books Of their pub
fishers examined in order to ascertain
whether they have been paid their
royalty in full. A decision has just
been rendered in the case Of Paul
Bourget versus Lemerre. Lemerre OBJ
jected to an inspection of his books,
and this was the cause OF the suit.
Electric railways have displaced in
the United States no less than 275,-
600 horses, says the Pittsburg Dis
patch. So many horses would require
about 125,0O0 bushels of grain n day to
feed them, amounting to 45,O00OO0
bushels year. The loss of the COM
mercial demand for this grain in the
cities where these railways run mean
an enormous loss of transportation
tonnage for the railways-some g.
800 carloads. Here Is n question Of
domestic economy that is serious.
Hair-splitting on legal technicality
this time in Minnesota. The crime al
this time in Minnesota. The crime was
legged was forgery, and the indictment
charged the defendant with having
fraudulently and felOniously uttered
and disposed Of a forged instrument
then knowing the same to be forged.
be sufficiently definite. But 1t happens
that the statute, in defining forgery,
makes the crime to be the uttering of
forged document 'as true" The
words "as true" were omitted from the
Indictment, and this, in the opinion Of
the Supreme Court, was fatal defect.
DR.. Toner, the venerable historian,
who knows more than any one else
about the private life of Washington,
for he has made 1t special study for
half a century, says that the recently
published story about woman at Will
liamsburg, Va, being Tilted by the
Father of His Country is untrue.
Washington had many love affairs, but
he never Tilted any woman. He was
sentimental and susceptible, fell in love
with. a number of girls, and offered
himself to several before he captured
the pretty Widow Custis. But he was
not heart-breaker, and in all his re-
lations with woman was sincere and
honorable.
The importation of American horses
into France is becoming a success that
is not only stimulating to the national
love for the honest penny, but to pa
triotic pride as well. The French will
not yet acknowledge that our product
equals their finest breeds, the Perche-
rons, for instance, but as carriage
horses, draught animals and perhaps
for cavalry use they regard them as
far superior to the corresponding class
Of horses bred in France The French
breeders are taking fright, and we may
perhaps expect to see some sort Of a
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES law passed
by the French Parliament.
Lepers are not so uncommon in Eu-
rope as is generally thought. One was
picked up in the Paris streets recently.
and sent to the st. Louis Hospital,
where there were already six other pa
tents with the same disease. There
are isolated cases dotted all over
France, while the lepers' hospital at
San Reno and in Spain and Portugal
are never without patients. They are
gaining ground in Turkey and the
Ionian Islands. Crete has 500 Of them.
They are most numerous, however, in
Norway, where there are 800, and are
rapidly increasing iT Sweden, which
has already 462. In British India
there are 100000 lepers. The disease
infests Indo-China, Tonquin, China,
and Japan, as well as Hayti, Trinidad,
Guiana, Venezuela, Brazil and Para
quay.
zone of the most remarkable new
departures in the freight bIsiness,"
said Mr.. Omar III. Bartlett, general
freight agent of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad, lis the idea of icing
vegetables for shipping long distances.
1t has been tried spasmodically in other
years, but never until this year was
the plan carried out to any extent. Now
the New Orleans shippers are icing
their vegetables right along. We have
already this season hauled twenty-five
cars to New York city alone that con-
tanned iced vegetables, and the ship
ments to Boston, Buffalo, Pittsburg
Baltimore, Philadelphia and, in fact, to
all the Northern cities, have followed
out this new idea. You know, the
shipment of cucumbers, cabbages,
beans and all kinds Of garden stuff
have grown very rapidly in the past
few years, and now the producers have
found it necessary to ice them. The
process of packing is quite interest
ing."-New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The Railroad Gazette says: THE
records of the new railroad building In
the United States in 1896, which have
been gathered, show that III miles of
road has been built In the first half Of
the year. The total is not very different
from the amount Of railroad which has
been constructed in the first half of any
year, since the conditions In 1893
called sharp halt In railroad building.
Last year 622 miles of new road was
built up to July 1, and the record In