Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-02

The proportion Of killed to the num-
Der Of railway travellers Is In France
one In 10000 England has one In
q. 000, 900. and In the United States
one in 100000.
Benin city, on the west coast Of
Africa, which only a few months ago.
before the British captured 1t, was
known as the City of Blood, Is now
w-abiding and civilized. 1t has a
British residency. a council Of chiefs.
regular postal service and golf links.
A woman in washington claims to
have the power to locate any internal
physical disorder by means Of concen-
tratiSg her vision upon the patient.
Physicians have declared that her oh
servations are correct. and they are
able to use them in diagnosing dis
ease.
It is generally thought that the prac-
tice of having bon1res on Election Day
was first suggested by the fact that 1t
used to be the custom in England to
build bonfires on Guy Fawkes Day,
November 5. In Bristol, r.. l., 1t Is
still the custom to have bonfires on
that day.
One way Nature has of evening
things up in this world is to make
spendthrifts of rich mems sons. Money
carries its own curse. The late Mil
lionaire Pullman. by his will, cuts of
his two sons with bare living, held
in trust for them, thus anticipating
the stern curse of providence.
1t is said that there are three times
Sunday schools in Massachusetts, as
are employed in the public schools of
that State, and the Congregationalist
says that Sunday school teaching has
reached a sage of developments when
teachers, in addition to piety, must
have mental equipment.
Reports indicate poor peanut crop
this year. 1t was hurt first by the dry
weather, and then by the wet weather.
The rain found part of the crop on
the ground, dug, but not sacked, and,
as there hasn't been sunshine enough
to dry the peas, the result is that both
the vines and the nuts are damaged
from mildew. And even where the
peas had been stacked there is some
damage from the rain being carried by
the high wind into the interior Of the
stack.
State Superintendent Stryker, of
Kansas, has discovered that thousands
Of dollars belonging to the school
funds are annually squandered by res
idents of the plains in the western part
of the State. In Logan county there is
school district containing but one
family The man, his wife and his
son annually elect themselves men,
bers of the School Board, vote six
months school, at $50 month, and
employ the daughter as teacher. The
younger son is the only pupil of the
school.
and there are nearly 13,OO0OOO COM
municants-will celebrate the 250th
anniversary of the meeting of the
Westminster assembly and the adop-
ton of the Westminster Confession Of
Faith. There is to be no national or
international celebration, but each
presbytery will have a celebration of
its own, that being in accordance with
Presbyterian polity. New York will
lead the way with celebration; few
weeks later there will be one by the
Philadelphia presbytery; Washington
will follow shortly, and then others
will be held at various times in differ
ent parts of the country. I.
Discipline is evidently a factor in
the French army, as two incidents
which have just occurred during a
single sitting of court martial at
Tunis go to prove. A soldier belong
ing to one of the African battalions,
brought up on a charge of disobedi-
ence, when asked what he had to say
in his defense, shouted, 'You are lot
of swine and drinkers of blood" and
was promptly sentenced to ten years
hard labor. The man who was intro
duced after him was accused of sim
liar offense, and Tire usual questions
with view to establishing his identity
had scarcely been addressed to him
when he tore button off his tunic and
flung it at the face of the President.
For this offense he was condemned to
death.
An agitation has sprung up in Rus
STA for the reform of the church calen-
dar of business reasons. One of the
results Of this is an embarrassment in
trade A Russian writer says: I'm
view of the constantly increasing traf-
&c between Russia and foreign coun-
tries, the twelve days difference be-
tween calendars is .inflicting sensible
and growing losses on our commerce.
To cite one instance, it need but be
pointed out that our exchanges and
our reports during the Christmas sea-
son abroad are most inactive, and
when business abroad revives again,
Russia celebrates her own Christmas. :"
The Russian press has taken the mat
ter up, and is urging the governmet
to take in hand a reform which must
ultimately be inevitable.
Commodore Melville proposes, in
order to test the question Of trans
polar currents, to send adrift a num-
Der of specially constructed casks
north of Behring Strait, and then at
tempts to trace their course. Ger
tainly," says the Philadelphia Press,
"the experiment is worth trying, and
1t would be fitting were the money
raised in Philadelphia to furnish the