Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-05-13

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"0ive me $50. O0O," observes Explor-
Or Peary, "and will find the North
Pole" We decline with thanks. We
can't AFFORD to fritter away that much
money on a cold deal like this.
There are only three towns In Rhode
Island now unprovided with public OF
semi-public libraries, and these. three,
are being spurred to equal the public
spirit of the rest.
The number of horses consumed In
France each year is now about 10000,
and of this number $4,000 are sent to
Paris. In 1896 only $500 horses made
their final appearance In the guise OF
beef. OF the 10000 now consumed 1t
Is, of course, impossible to say how
many are eaten in ignorance of the
fact that they have probably once
been between the shafts.
The city of Paris is making a, sani-
tary record of every building in the
city. Since March, 1894, 81, 900 houses
have been described, and it is expected
that the register will be completed by
1900. 1t contains for each house a
description Of the drains. cesspools
cord of whatever deaths from contagi-
Gus diseases have occurred in it, and
| of all distinctions and analyses of
water, air or dust.
The long-talked of project of rail-
road connecting North and South
America is being revived. The nego-
| tiations between Mexico and Guate-
mala. which were interrupted two
years ago by the strained diplomatic
relations of the two countries. have
been resumed, and Mexico has just
appointed commission to act with a
similar commission to be appointed by
Guatemala. 1t will be the duty Of
the joint commission 70 select FEAST
BILE route for the proposed road.
Butte, Mont, is now credited with
being the busiest place in the West.
concern which makes a profit of from
$4,000 900 to $6,O00,0O0, a year, ex-
plains the status there. 1t is employ
ing more men and has bigger pay
roll than ever before, and its en-
ployees get the highest rate of wages
paid anywhere. No wonder that
Butte is prosperous for where several
thousand men get steady work and
high pay there can be no stagnation.
Professor Dussaud,\ of Geneva,
Switzerland, announces ithe discovery
of system whereby the deaf can be
made to hear. The apparatus Is
known as the microphonograph, and
it consists of an exceedingly sensitive
monograph connected to micro
phone. The speaker talks into the
photograph and the words are trans
mitted to the deaf person through the
microphone. Prof. Dussaud expects
to have his apparatus perfected for
the Paris Exposition so that large aud
fences of deaf persons may listen to
lectures.
A letter in The Ohio State Journal
resident of Columbus and now living
in Texas, the honor of being the
youngest man who carried musket
from the beginning to the end of the
Civil War. He was a member of
Company A. Forty sixth Ohio Volun-
teer Infantry, and was only twelve
years old when he enlisted. He was
a boy of remarkable size for his age
and showed few signs of his extreme
youth. There were many drummers
younger than Burton, but he was
real soldier from the first, and always
did mans duty.
The report for the Darkest Eng
land" scheme for the Salvation Army
in England for the last year shows
that 3,231,91 meals were supplied and
1,339,246 nights lodging; 25O1 men
were received into the factories, All
into the first prison home, IL 1893 pro-
vided with employment, temporary or
permanent, and 1885 women and girls
received into rescue homes. Although
there is no pretense of making the
work self-supporting, the shelter for
food and lodgings received over $780,
900 from those sheltered; the city col
ony with its many branches returned
$476,000 toward an expense of $493, 900,
and the farm colony, in spite of very
many difficulties, came within $25, 900
of meeting its expenditure of $3.50, 900.
The Outlook tells how the school
children Of Rochester, N. Y, have by
their industry succeeding in Kidding
the city of pest of moths. These
moths had become so destructive that
the Forestry Association offered a
prize Of five dollars to each of the !
children of any one school who would |
bring in 1000 or more of the cocoons
of this insect; three dollars to the
three bring in the second largest num-
Der; two to the three bringing in the
third largest number. This was in
1893. The next year the amount of
the prizes was increased to ten dollars
for the boy or girl who brought in a
greater number of cocoons than were
brought in by any one pupil in 1893:
this was $4,000. Twenty children
each won a ten-dollar prize. The
school children of Rochester have
gathered from the bark of trees, |
fences, rough places in houses, ETC.,
almost 100000 of those moth CO.
cOOns. and now the city IL frae from i