Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-03-18

Maine have died since the election,
and before the session was half done.
a loss never equaled there before.
One of the results of the Indian
plague has been to flood the London
market with pearls. The native deal
ers In the marts of Bombay have been
In such haste to quit the stricken city
that they have eagerly disposed of their
wares at far below the customary mar
ket value.
The State Of Arkansas claims to be
| first in the South in the production of
small fruits and apples. first in the
Union In quantity of uncut timber. sec
ond In the Union In coal, and second In
the number Of acres required to produce
q standard bale. of cotton, Louisiana
being first, but only slightly In the lead.
A little bit of municipal reform is ap-
parently needed In Chicago. The Chi
cago Evening Post remarks: When
Washington Hesing, at the banquet of
the Merchants Club, said that Chica-
go was the dirtiest large city In the
world except Constantinople,' the truth
was SO palpable to those present that
they were filed with pity and disgust
over Constantinople. And when he
said that Chicago's 'asgessment Is the
most outrageous OF any city in the
world, there was not a man around the
table to take issue with the statement,
because every man there knew that 1t
was VIGOROUSLY, scandalously, discre-
ditably true"
who shall persuade coming ages"
asks writer in the Chicago Times
Herald, that the busiest city in the
world harbors women who pursue
whist as the chief duty of life; who
screw up their household finances to
the highest possible point in order to
pay an expert SO an hour for instruc-
ton in its sacred code; who meet over
card tables at 8 o'clock in the morning,
hurry up their marketing and hush up
their children lii order to attend whist
luncheons at /, come home again with
vexed and wearied brains to sit silent
at dinner, absorbed in regrets for leads
unreturned and signals unanswered,
and wind up the unregenerate day by
lingering over whist table until mid
night?"
The extent to which the temperance
agitation has prevailed in railroad SER
vice Is shown by the comments Of rail-
road managers on a bill in the Mime
sofa Legislature. The bill, IL enacted,
N ioh 10
to fine If 1t did not discharge an en-
ploye in the train department who was
known to have been intoxicated. The
only objection offered to the bill by the
railroad officers was that 1t was super
fiuous. The Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railroad has a rule which is more
stringent than the proposed law. 1t
reads THE use of intoxicating drinks
has proved a most fruitful source OF
trouble to railways as well as to indi-
viduals. The company will exercise
the most rigid scrutiny in reference to
the habits of employees in this respect,
and any employee who has been dis
missed on this account will not be re-
employed. Drinking when on duty or
frequenting saloons will not be toler-
ated, and preference will be given to
those who do not drink at all"
studied the cornstalk scientifically.
thinks that within a few years the far
mers of this country will be receiving
from SIS to $25 per acre for their corn
stalks. Mills will be established In the
South and other parts of the country,
he says, and pretty nearly the whole
crop of cornstalks-at any rate, that
part Of the crop which is grkwn on
farms contiguous to railway lines
will be used in the mills. The market
for the manufactured products is al
ready made, as the products will be sta
pie articles In constant demand. OF
the products that may be evolved from
the matured cornstalk-the stalk which |
has borne its grain-Mr. Prater enum-
crates cellulose, celluloid, smakeless
gunpowder, lacquer, cattle feed, roof |
ing material, and material that will |
answer every purpose Of papier mache. |
Green stalks, he says, are rich in glu-
cose, and will yield "a better quality |
and a finer sugar with less expense |
than can be made from the cane OF
Louisiana"
The Louisiana tale of the Cow Island |
hen which Matched out a brood of |
young alligators and nursed them with |
a mothers care finds its parallel In the |
exploit of a North Carolina fowl which |
has brought triumphantly forth from |
her nest twelve lively young terrapins, |
which look up to her with filial respect |
and tenderness. 1t is a new demon |
stration of the composure of that USE
full domestic bird, and the breadth of its !
maternal sympathies, that 1t takes up
its family duties without the smallest |
token of surprise, and leads the brood |
about as TRANQUILITY as IL it consisted of |
peeping young Dorkings or bun Coch-
ms. They will, of course, part COM
experience and access to water, but |
they will carry with them the privilege
OF pointing with peculiar pride to at
least one branch of their ancestry.
When they reach the goal appointed |
to all conscientious terrapin, that is, the |
stewing pan, hint Of chickens may
hover about 1t, mingling with their
own fragrances commemoration of the |
enterprising North Carolina hen which
started them on their career.
Queen Victoria, born In 1919, is by no /
means the oldest of living monarchs
- IL.