Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-03-25

The man whose pockets are empty
never has to stand and listen to- the
fiatterer. A poor man always knows
the worlds candid opinion Of him.
Figures have been compiled by DR..
Ogle, of the English Registrar-Gener-
ais department, showing that out OF
every million persons 50 men and 225
women are alive at the age Of 100.
A Kentucky man buys all the horses
he can get at 81 head. He kills thcm,
feeds the flesh to his hogs, sells the
hides and bones and finds II profitable.
Whenever he buys horse for 81 and
he can sell it for 81 he lets 1t go. other.
wise 1t is fed to the hogs.
DIR. d. r. Brewer, of Chicago, says
he Is the rightful owner of 600 acres Of
lane in the heart of Philadelphia. the
present value of which is about $780,
100000. He reliarks that IL somebody
VIII pay over to him that $400, 000, 900
he won't do thing to anybody; but
II the money is not forthcoming, just
look out for law suit.
| The production of bicycles in 1896
was 100000, as against IL 900 in 1885.
The capital now invested is $50 ZOO. 000
The estimated output for the present is
not less than 100000 wheels. The
| Commissioner of Public Reads of New
Jersey asks: What better argument
for the speedy Improvement Of our
roads than the necessity Of affording
passage for this immense number of
vehicles?"
The new marriage law in Argentine
provides that every male from the age
OF twenty to thirty shall pay a tax
until he marries, and shall pay 1t once
month. There is also provision to
the effect that young unmarried persons
of either sex who shall, without suffici-
ent reason. reject the addresses OF
those who may aspire to their hands
and who continue contumaciously un-
married shall pay 500 piastres for the
benefit OF the young person, male or
female, who has been refused.
There are forty State colleges in the
United States, some States having more
than one. and the number of students
in 1896 was $4,000 which is about one
fifth of the total number of students
nesota educates the largest number,
3,O14, at State expense, Michigan being
next with 2,575, then California with
2,400, followed by Wisconsin with 1000,
Nebraska with 1906, Iowa with 1900,
and Illinois with LOO. Tuition fees
are charged in only six States, the fee
In North Carolina being $50, in South
Carolina $40, in Iowa $25, in Missouri
$40, in Oregon $40, and in South Da-
kota SO.
Your chance Of being buried alive Is
anywhere from 2 to 20 in 1000, accord
ing to statistics gathered in England,
Wales, France and Germany. Colonel
z. p. Vollum and Mr.. Tebb have writ
ten book on the subject of premature
burial, and they have followed up the
book by declaring that they by no
means exaggerated the case That the
percentage of these distressing disas-
tiers, as compared to the total annual
interments, is small is obvious, but
small percentage on $4,000 annual
burials in England and Wales, on 800,-
600 in France and over 100000 in the
United States will total a vast aggre-
gate OF unimaginable and needless suf
tring. 1t would have been impossi-
BILE to include all the cases collected,
says Mr.. Tebb, in volume of 400 pages.
DR.. Franz Hartmann himself has col
lected 700 cases, including several in
his own district, and DR.. lie Guern,
whose work entitled Danger des In
humations" has passed through sever
al editions, has collected 2,313 cases.
1t is noted as both remarkable and
alarming that Bombay, where the raw
ages of the plague have been vastly |
greater than in any other part of India, |
is the cleanest city in the country, |
has an excellent system of sewers and |
general sanitation, and In ordinary |
times boasts of a death rate SO low az |
to compare fairly well with that of |
more than one European capital. Yet |
here the malady has assumed it's most |
deadly form, while at Calcutta a city |
where hygienic precautions are mostly |
of the true Oriental sort-that is, en-
tirely lacking-cases of lie disease
have been few, and those attacked by |
1t usually recover. The Chinese theory
Of the plague Is that 1t originates in
the ground and rises slowly from it,
killing animals Of different heights one
after another as it mounts above the
surface. The rats, they say, are the
first victims everywhere, and then in
order come pigeons, pigs. dogs, goats,
sheep, cows, buffaloes, and finally man.
Observers have noticed, too, tnat where
there are no rats the malady does not
60. 1t has never crossed the line in !
Southern India where the extensive
family of the murinae ceases and that
of the bandicoots begins.
Berlin is wondering over the marvel
GUS achievements of Otto Poepler, the
son Of butcher. He is an infant pro-
dizzy of the most infantile end prodig-
ious sort, for he taught himself to read
at the age of two, and now. though only
four years old, has been deemed worthy
of presentation to the Anthropological
Society of Berlin as a remarkable speci-
men of precocious intelligence. His
for acquiring information
have been small, and yet from an at
tentive study Of the few books that
have come in his way and from observ-
ing the inscriptions on the monuments
with which the German capital Is rich. |