Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-02-13
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


A steel arch bridge 1,240 feet long
and 40 feet wide will be thrown across
the river ut Niagara Falls this year.
1t ii In this fashion that we propose
to treat our Canadian cousins to 4.O00,-
600 pounds Of cold steel.
A Congressman who will have to pay
$1,000 IL he takes single drink Of In
toxicating liquor during the year 1896
and who will earn 1000 by refrainIng
such IL Mr.. Southwick. the young
member from Albany, N. Y. This con-
tract he IL known to have entered into
with u millionaire friend who feared
the temptation that the young Con-
gresham might encounter I'm Washing
ton.
The question as to whether the
United States has exclusive jurisdiction
over q soldiers home. which was raised
I'm an assault case ut Milwaukee some
three weeks ago. has been decided by u
United States judge, who holds that
the homes come under state and not
federal laws. az the lands have never
formally been accepted by the United
States. The ease was Of particular
interest, as, III the jurisdiction had been
found to belong to the Federal Govern
ment, the inmates Of the home would
have been deprived Of their votes.
An American lady who recently Wis
tied Para, Brazil, was invited to dine
mt the house of wealthy merchant.
Everything was very gorgeous and Law.
isll In South American style, but, on
leaving. she was amazed to hear her
hospitable host say to her: IF you
have any washing. send it here" 1t Is
the custom there, 1t seems, for wealthy
households to take in laundry work rs
an employment for their large retinuc
of servants. 1T did, however, said
the relatOr, give me turn at the end
of formal dinner party to be asked
for my sOiled linen"
Something novel i'm the way of IA
secret society has been evolved In
Maine. Instead of going back to me-
diaeval time for inspiration the found
ers took the conditions lying next
their hands. and in place of loading the
officers with grandiose and grotesque
titles, the understandable commonplace
is drawn OH. The society is called the
'Annabessacook IIayloft. No. - ana
the officers are: Chief Haynaker. As
sistant Haymaker, Overseer. Past Chief
Haymaker. Boss Driver. IIornblower,
Guard of BarndOOr. Guard of Hayloft,
and Grand Keeper of Bundles.
The Rev Edgar +. Clough. supcrin-
tendent of the Black Hills Mission Con-
ference. ut Deadwood. S. d.. denies the
story that some cowboys i'm South Da>
kota recently gave a bullfight TO raise
money for Il church. He thus writes
to "Iion's Herald" II want to say for
our cowboy population that they are, i'm
morals, behavior, refinement and cour-
tesy far beyond the average farm hands
of the East. Occasionally the son Of
some good family in the East comes
West and puts Oh his war paint: but he
is the exception, and soon goes down
through the gates of depravity. Being
a New Yorker, am prepared to speak
advisedly. Our work goes well. We
have fine company of scholarly min
listers i'm charge of it,"
The Philadelphia Record says thft
two men were recently arrested for
slight breach of the peace. They We're
willing to pay their fines and wanted
to be released ut once. They were
accordingly bundled into the patrol
wagon and driven to the Magistrates
residence. There the patrol sergeant
learned that the Judge" was attend
ing divine services ut Il church some
squares distant from the house. They
drove to the church. and one of the
patrolmen went in and quietly called
the Judge outside. The latter went out
to the wagon and proceeded at once to
open court. The patrol sergeant testi-
fled rs to the nature of the offense for
which the men had been arrested. The
inflicted the usual fine upon
them. They paid promptly and were
and the Judge went back
to his interrupted dcvOtiOns.
The report of the Interstate Com
merce Commission shows that the pas
senger revenues of the railroads Of the
country last year reached $2S5. ,49. 5JS.
Il decrease of $16142,25S. The report
says 1.-The great decrease in railway
earnings is in freight revenue, the
from freight revenue in 1894
being 5000, 40O,914. as against $780,
OJ3. SCI in 1893. showing Il decrease in
freight revenue of $120. 562, 94S. This Is
4 decrease of 1853 per cent. The total
Of earnings and income for 1894 was
81 ,216, 17S,6O2, which is sum greater
than the aggregate expenditures of all
The governments Of all grades in the
United States. The corresponding fig
urc for the previous year was, however,
even greater, it being $1.37O, 4O1. 4S0,
which shows that the railroads had
s154, DID,, 1897 less money with which to
carry on their operations in 1894 than
In 1893"
The product Of the Witwatersrand
South Africa gold fields from 1887 to
the close Of 1894 was, according to the
official figures. 6,19S,767 ounces. the
Yield in 1887 being 2S,754 and in 1904,
!, 1897. 773 ounces, having thus in COM
short interval multiplied |
seventy fold, with no prospect of dimi- |
mutton in ties rate of increase. The esti-
mated yield of the past year is in excess
If $5O,OOOOOO, and this amount, in the |