Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-04-23

NOTES ANe COMMENTS.
little Black Bear, Nez Perez Indian,
CT Oregon, has just snapped thirty
head Of horses for a bicycle.
The cathode ray having become a
chestnut, 1t Is once more true that there
II nothing new under the sun.
In New Mexico 0S per cent. O: the
population attend church, while In Wis
consin only 32 per cent are church
g0ers.
Cecil Rhodes old nurse thinks II no
wonder he should be none too good, as
his mother gave him cake whenever he
wanted 1t.
Reports from New Orleans are to the
erect that the handicapping system has
been applied to baseball with good re-
suits In equalizing clubs of different
caliber.
There are more army and navy pen
s'oners In Ohio Mt present than In any
other State In the Union. Ohio has
$4,000. Pennsylvania follows with
10000; then comes New York with 49,
OOO.
Armenia Is not thoroughly Christian
country, as is generally believed. Out
of population of 3,510, 205 nearly FIVE
sixths are Mohammedan, the exact
number being 2,9OO,414 to only 600, 791
Christians.
The production Of peppermint oil Is
almost entirely an American industry.
New York and Michigan produces the
greatest yield of extract. About $50
pounds of mint plant produce single
pound Of oil.
1t is reported that the Woman's Chris
tan Temperance Union Of Portsmouth,,
Va intends to establish matrimonial
bureau, to meet the cases Of young men
and women who have no proper facili-
ties for becoming acquainted.
There is a banana plantation in Cuba
covering an area Of fifty square miles,
containing on an average 100000
trees, and keeping in constant employ
r1cnt $500 persons. A feet Of twenty
six steamers is required to transport
the fruit to the United States.
The Commercial Association, Of Pen
G!eton, Ore, has offered prize of $3.50
fer a method of inoculating squirrels
with some contagious fatal disease.
So numerous have the squirrels become
III that part of the country that many
formers are threatened with bankrupt
cy on account of their depredations.
a short time before he died, DR.. Char
cot stated, in lecture, that semi-scien-
lists had for more than fifty years ridi-
culed the idea that the full moon is n
dangerous time for insane persons. DR..
Charcot stated that scientists were now
going back to the old-time notion, as \
result Of increased learning on the sub
Jcct Of earth tides, which are similar
10 the oscillation of sea tides.
The Rev. w. ii. Milburn, the blind
chaplain Of the United States Senate.
was one Of the most popular lecturers
in the 'lyceum days." 1t is noted OF
Mr.. Milburn that he was first elected
Congressional chaplain in December,
1915, fifty-one years ago. He was then
% years of age, and the youngest man
whose voice has ever been heard IN
Congress before or since that date.
An English expert points out that II
England was to put all her battleships
in commission it would absorb 40, 900 of
the $1,000 petty officers and seamen Of
the navy, leaving but IL, 900 to man the
SEQ and more remaining vessels of all
classes in the navy. This would leave
200 vessels unnamed. 1t is said that
a reserve of 10000 men is needed Cor
the present navy and the additions soon
to be made.
The Mikado is the religious head Of
the japanese, as well as their ruler.
Ills place is hereditary and it has been
filed by members of his family for
more than $500 years. His is incom-
rarably the most ancient lineage
known. The MikadO is the one hr1-
dred and twenty-second of the line.
The founder of it, whose hope Of pos
terity in his widest dreams could not
have equalled the result, was contem-
rorary with NebuchadneZZar, ego b. q.
The most ambitious railroad scheme
yet preached in Arizona has developed
iii the Incorporation Of the Saluda
Southern Railway Company, will
capital Of $19,755,OOO, to construct S7S
miles of road from new town to be
established eighteen miles north of
Phoenix, upon the lands Of the Rio
Verde Canal Company. The company
is now constructing the water storage
system on the Verde River and the
great canal, and it expects within two
years to cover with water an area of
$4,000 acres Of land in the Salt River
Valley.
Nj. Monod, of the French Academy of
Medicine, gives a striking account Of
the results Of anti-toxin treatment for
diphtheria. In 10S towns Of over 90
Goo inhabitants the average number Of
deaths from diphtheria in the first six
months of each year from 1888 to 1894
was 2,627. At the end Of 1894 the Pas
tour Institute began sending out anti
toxin to practitioners In those towns
And the total number of deaths in the
first six months Of 1895 was only 904.
That indicates n decrease in morality
from that one cause Of more than O.
pcr cent.
The following state flowers have
betn adopted by the votes of the pub