Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-12-17

DC worn with the med~i " noio
awarded to soldiers sor distinguishes
| gallantry. has rfescribed a silk ribbor
one inch vide and one inch In length
with red, white and blue stripes.
Casters Magazine suggests the need
of an Ice machine OF small capacity
which can be sold at a low price. There
Is q great field for such n device, and
the inventor OF successful ma
chine of this nature will undoubtedly
reap rich reward. This Is q good
field for inventors to work In. for al
though many improvements have been
made, they are usually adapted only
to large plants.
The expedition sent out last spring by
the Geological Survey to explore the
headwaters of the Yukon and to dis
cover If possible the source Of the gold
found along that river has returned
with a wonderful tale Of rich ore veins
extending from the British territory
into Alaska i'm the neighborhood of
Forty-mile Creek, and running thence
for five hundred miles in n northeastern
ly direction. The gold belt Is at least a
hundred miles wide and the biologists
say that the deposits are fully as rich
as those OF South Africa.
The election Of Mrs. Matte Hughes
Cannon to the State Senate of Utah Is
another step forward in the progress
of women in politics in this country.
I,ax l,ft oh
seats in the lower legislative branches
of the government in one or two OF the
States where they share equal polit-
zeal privileges with the men, but this is
the first instance where woman has
been elected TO the upper legislative
branch. What adds a special signifi-
canoe to this case is that the woman
ran against her own husband, and
beat him out of sight.
A Kansas City paper says that firm
In that city, which makes canned soups
of various sorts, was surprised to re-
ceive from Rhode Island the other day
an Inquiry rs to the terms at which 1t
would sell "wishbOnes" in thousand
lots. The request has revealed to the
company new source OF income, and
nne not wholly unimportant. Hitherto
the skeletons Of the numerous fowls 1t
uses have been ground into fertilizer,
but having discovered that there Is a
demand for "wishbones" to be used
for various decorations and senti-
mental purposes, the Kansas City men
think that by properly pushing the
trade they can get more for this bone
than they have been receiving for ali
the rest.
A yarn about living mastodons seen
by Indians in the mysterious eastern
part of Alaska recently went the
rounds Of many papers. Some of them
less belief, and others cautiously made
generous use of alleged" and lit is
said" Prof. George Davidson of San
Francisco, not only derides the very
idea that elephans prinogenus still sur
wives, but says that the tale was stolen
bodily from n book by Aleck Badlam-
whoever he may be-and formed one of
n series that made no pretense to
truth. Among the inventions Of this
author. ii SENS, was an animal, also
Alaskan, with long legs on
one side and short ones on the other,
form of construction evolved to meet
the needs of n creature that passed all
its time on steep mountain sides.
If the plans recommended by Charles
Payne, Of Wichita, Kan, the we'll
known hunter and authority on wild
game, are carried out, the greatest pri-
vate game preserve in the United
States will soon be established in
Northern New Mexico. Mr.. Payne has
been frequently importuned by
wealthy men for information as TO the
best location for extensive private
grounds in the West, and he
recently took a trip through Colorado
and New Mexico. His report recon-
mends the purchasing of nearly 20O,-
600 acres of mountain land. which now
belongs to the Maxwell Land Grant
Company, and which Is located in
Northern New Mexico. Should it be
used for a game preserve, the entire
tract will he enclosed with high and
strong wire fence and stocked with all
manner of wild game.
Some courageous person recently
wrote to Ex-Governor Hogg of Texas.
asking him II ii were true that one Of
his daughters Is named Ina and an
other IRA. Statements to that effect
have frequently appeared in print,
but most people supposed that they
were the inventions of -discourteous
humorlsts or of political enemies. 1t
seems at least that they were half true,
for in answering the query addressed
to him, the Governor says: "T:.e name
Ina was given to my daughter n few
days after her birth, and the singular
application Of ii to the old, well-estab-
lished name of her paternal ancestors
did not occur to any one until had en-
daughter named IRA, for the reason,
among others. that Governor Hogg has
but one daughter. His sons are named
William, Michael, and Thomas.
Miss Frances Z. Willard, President
of the Women's Christian Temperance
Association. has recently compiled
some interesting statistics with regard
to women's progress the world over.
She chronicles, among other things, the
fact that women have about succeeded
in gaining admission to the General
Methodist Episcopal Conferences, and
that they have been successful in