Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-04-16


New, Jersey has had collateral In.
heritance tax little more than three
years, but its State Treasury has been
enriched to the amount Of $36S, 086.5e
ty the tax during the time.
The United States PostofIice Depart.
ment now uses over 5000 railway cars
on 10000 miles Of road, and keeps o..
600 clerks on the move, travelling In
crews 14O,OO0,OOO miles year, during
which time 1900 900, 900 pieces of mail
matter are handled.
st. Louis has organized war against
the new woman. Her most exclusive
feminine club Is responsible for the
crusade. A tendency to revolt against
the restrictions Of conventionality has
been observed, and although nothing
definitely mOnstr0us has been done,
It Is deemed wise to meet the emer-
gency at the start.
A new field for feminine energies
Is always theme Of interest. Miss
Hattie Louise Burns, of Chicago, de-
serves the congratulations of the bust.
ness world, and the thanks of woman
Genie, womanly and devoted to pretty
kind. Gentle, womanly and devoted to
pretty gowns, she Is still actively en-
gagged In the hotel business, and is
making Of it success.
The annual waste of the British ar
my is about "a, 900 men-more than the
There has been much talk of reserves.
England has over $4,000 reserves, all
supposed to be mature and expert
enccd soldiers. The Duke of yelling
ton, when asked what his reserve
would be in certain eventualities, said,
9Th. people of Englandv' Our re-
serve Is the people of America.
One of these days, warns the New
York Tribune, under the stimulation of
British enterprise and British capital,
Burmah may be serious competitor of
the United States and Russia in the
petroleum markets of the world.
Oil wells have been worked there for
1000 years, but in q rude and primitive
manner. Now they are turning out
many millions gallons year, and the
quantity is increasing in startling
ratio. The quality of the oil is also
very fine. Evidently the ancient
realms of the East are by no means
yet worked out"
According to official statistics the
public domain of the United States orr
ginally consisted of 1915, 100000 acres
Of land, of which all but $4,000, 000
acres have been disposed of. OF the
land remaining unentered Arizona has
55,000,OOO acres, California 45,OO0,000,
Colorado 100000, Idaho 100000,
Kansas 941 900, Minnesota 100000,
Montana 100000, Nebraska 10000
600, Nevada 81 100000, New Mexico
5S,0O0,O00, Oregon 100000 and wy
oming 5O,OOO,OO0 These immense
tracts include great mountain areas
which will be forever worthless for
cultivation, but they include also mil
lions of acres Of arid land which can
be made fertile IL money enough is
spent in irrigating them.
In the British Medical Journal a
Paris correspondent says ut least q
500 physicians in France are battling
with starvation, and he adds that
physicians themselves are largely re-
sponsible for this state of affairs.
They ''have taught lady patronesses of
different societies to diagnose diseases,
to dress and bandage wounds, to vac
cinate their own children and those of
their neighbors. Medical science is
vulgarized in every way. Doctors
write in important daily papers ex-
planning how bronchitis and cramps of
the stomach are to be cured, and in
fashion journals they teach how to
cure pimples and avert headaches.
Five hundred thousand gratuitous
consultations are given yearly in Paris
dispensaries, and in this way large
amount of fees is diverted from the
medical profession"
Speaking of women in the profess
sions, writer in 1.-The Congregational
ist'' says: "The advance in medicine
may be gagged by few salient facts.
When Harriet Hosmer, a sculptor Of
whom Massachusetts, is justly proud,
wished to study anatomy, she knocked
In vain at the doors of medical colleges
In New England and New York. Cross
ing the Mississippi she went to DR..
Mcdowell, dean of the Medical Col
lege in st. Louis, who said to her, with
true Southern chivalry: You shall
study anatomy in my college, and IL
anybody interferes with you he will
interfere with me first Yet in her
own State, not long after, the first
medical school in the world for women
was opened. This was In Boston,
November /, 1913, with twelve stud
ents. In the same city to-day are two
hospitals, the New England Hospital
for women and children and the Vim
cent Memorial Hospital, which were
started and are managed by women"
A factory for the employment of ex-
convicts will be planted in Chicago If
the plans Of the bureau Of charities of
the Civic Federation are carried into
ecect. The proposition is that the work
of the Illinois Industrial Association,
represented by A. G. Dodds, shall be
taken up in larger way. He has con-
Quoted broom factory in which con-
victs were employed. 1t has been a
failure. 1t is proposed that an organ
ization be formed to take charge of