Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-02-18
Current Condensat ions.


The zircon has been found in Cali
fornia.
The opal has been found in New Mex
leo.
Alabaster exists in seventeen differ
ent States.
The Venus hair stone is found in New
Mexico.
Serpentine exists in New England and
Virginia.
In 1890 the United States produced
161, 754 short tons of lead.
Our deposits of borax are believed to
be practically inexhaustible.
The heliotrope has been discovered In
New Mexico and Georgia.
The United States has 115 medical
schools, regular, eclectic and homeo-
pathic.
A great number Of New Hampshire
trout have been stocked in several Cali
fornia streams with good results.
Lead collie has been treated most sue
cessfully in Paris by administering
large doses Of olive OIL In chronic
cases sixty grammes of oil day were
given with excellent results.
Teachers in Baden and other parts of
Germany a hundred years ago were so
poorly paid that they used to go about
singing in front Of the houses in the
evening to earn few extra pennies.
The total coinage, gold and silver, Of
the reign of Henry III. was f3,S9S; the
total coinage of the reign Of Victoria up
to 1892 was f544, 100000, of which f312,-
800, 1000 were of gold and 1921 SOC, 900 Of
silver.
The Sultan of Turkey nearly always
dimes alone. Tables, plates, knives and
forks are eschewed. He uses only a
spoon and his fingers, thus fishing or
ths food from little saucepans placed
on the floor.
Toronto unions demand of alderman
ic candidates that they shall vote for
the adjustment Of the property quail
fication for aldermen; union wages on
city work and the adjustment Of the
contract system on city work.
Lucinda Bedford, an ex-slave, who
died in Nashville, Tenn, at age Of 81
years, left fortune of considerably
over 100000 Her old master, William
Bedford, who died before the war, set
her free and left her his fortune Of
about 100000.
A Massachusetts thief has been sys-
tematically stealing canary birds. The
theory Is that he carries ladder, opens
second-story windows. as these are
usually left unfastened, quietly I'M
hooks the cage and carries off the song
ster. The police have not yet appre-
hended him.
At the close Of the year 1892 there
were In Switzerland $50 electric lights
run by waterfall power, SO plants for
electrical transmission of power, III
accumulation or storage batteries and
1,O56 other, dynamos and electro-mo-
tors. The number of incandescent
lamps run by water power was 1926,
and of arc lamps 9,116.
DIR Stuhlmann, who is travelling in
Africa, mas come upon tree WHOSE
fruit gives out n tallow-like fat. The
tree is one Of the largest in the forests
of Usambara, and the fruit Is big and
heavy, measuring a foot in length by
half a foot In diameter. 1t is a new
species of the guttiferl. The natives
call it mkani, but the botanists name 1t
Stearodendron Stuhlmanni.
The Russian authorities have inter
vened in behalf Of the nightingale. The
police Of Kew found some bird catch
ers who were on their way to Moscow
with 600 nightingales in cages. The
bird catchers were captured and fined
and their little victims were taken~to
the Botanic Gardens and released. 1t
is said they rose In the air In song,
which was responded to by the other
birds nro,lnd