Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-04-02
Current Condensations.

Money is wasted reckleSSly every
day; some people pay eighty dollars
for guitar.
If woman can boast that she never
thought an oath, no one ever. stepped
on her corns. '. x1s
When man eats too much and be-
comes sick he says that he has been
working too hard.
Under the new Oregon game law
sportsmen are permitted to kill but
twenty upland game birds day.
English curates are thinking Of form
ing themselves into professional
union, on the plan of the trades unions.
No woman should ever marry a wild
over who has figured out how much
his first wife's final sickness and death
cost him.
The famous collection of coins which
the late William Bayne spent sixty
years in getting together is to be sold
at auction in London.
DR.. Bohr has gone to the Farce Is
lands to study the breathing apparatus
of the diver birds. In the same ship
went the Ehlers expedition that is to
investigate leprosy in Iceland.
A proposition has been made to erect
a statue in Copenhagen in memory of
DR.. Hans Wilhelm Meyer, who dis
covered that ''adenoid vegetations," as
he called them, are the most fertile
cause of deafness and imperfect nasal
respiration in children.
A peculiar form of asphalt paving has
recently been tried in France. The
asphalt powder is heated to 120 degrees
and modelled under pressure of about
five and one-half tons per square inch
into blocks, which are afterwards set
in cement mortar.
BY recent decree of chancery only
chartreuse made at the monastery of La
Grande Chartreuse may be sold under
that name in England. A firm at
VOirOn pretends to have the recipe used
by the monks and to make the same
liquor, but it has been enjoined by the
French courts from using the name.
One of the courts of New Jersey has
decided that husband who drives his
wife from home is guilty of abandon
ment, and that the wife has the right
to control the domestic affairs of the
family, Notwithstanding the opposition
of the husband or any of his relatives
and the woman in this case was a sec
ond wife, at that.
An enthusiastic horticulturist, when
he heard of the massacre of the Eng
lish missionaries in China, wrote in his
farm journal: while. we deplore
bloodshed, it must be confessed that
are a selfish lot, lacking i'm patriotism.
They never have sent a seed of the
famous melons of Asia back to their
own country"
The new municipal technical school
opened the other day at Birmingham,
England, contains 134 rooms of which
116 are devoted to teaching, occupies
an area of 1000 square feet and has
cost $4,000. Its expenditure is about
10000 year. The school is used by
1,600 students, of whom about two
thirds are instructed in science and one
third in metallurgy.
The Indian pharr1acopoeia comprfs-
ed thoroughwort. spurge and Indian
hemp, used as emetics; the bark Of
the horse-chestnrt and butternut, used
as cathartics. They were also acquaint.
ed with many poisons, most of which
they used on their weapons. For
asthma they employed tobacco and sas-
safras; for coughs, slippery elm; for
dropsy, the wild gooseberry; for
wounds, powdered puff balls. They
treated bols with onion poultices.
In room over Benson's saloon, in
Bessemer, Ala, recently John Under.
wood. miner, had falling out with
Mary Pratt, with whom he was drink.
ing. During the course of the quarrel
Underwood pulled pistol and shot
the woman square in the mouth at
short range and then fled, thinking she
was dead. When the woman was rails
ed from the floor few minutes after.
ward she calmly spit the pistol ball
out of her mouth. Beyond the loss OF