Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-11-11

ity into which he plunged some five
years ago.
A farmer in Madison County. Indi-
ana, announces that he has discovered
a new corn. Well, he'd better look
after 1t little before II becomes too
troublesome.
There are now twenty-scven socie-
ties in the United States membership
in which depends on descent from an
cestors who distinguished themselves
by coming over to America at an early
date, or by being participants In Amer
lean wars prior to 1861.
Lake City, Florida, has set out to
make the dancer pay the fiddler In a
novel way. The town has appointed
a single night Waterman and decreed
that he shall be paid at the rate OF
$3.50 for each arrest made, the prison
err to furnish the money.
Until recently" remarks the Bos-
ton Transcript. I'VE believed that oXy-
gen rendered the protoplasm of the or
gan phosphorescent with disengage-
ment of the phosphoretted hydrogen.
It is indeed sweetly solemn thought,
brother, that at last you have been
set right upon that all-important mat
ter.
The gold production of 1897 is likely
to exceed that of 1896, which was the
largest in the history OF the world.
Advices from Eucador show that mines
being developed there are reported
richer and more extensive than those
of South America, where such enor-
nous quantities of gold have recently
been produced.
In the French navy it has been found
that the electric search-light employed
on men-of-w war injuriously affects the
eyes of seamen who have to work
about the light, and dark blue specta-
cles are supplied to them for protec-
ton. Brown eyes are less affected than
gray or blue ones the reason suggested
being that the former are more heavily
| charged with pigment.
A Philadelphia policeman the other
day arrested little boy in knee
breeches, to the great indignation OF
| some bystanders, who sent to the sta
ton house to make a complaint against
| the policeman. At the station they
| learned that the little boy was Dublin
| joe" notorious pickpocket, forty
years old, and that his pockets were
filed with other peoples money. No
| complaint was entered.
A young student in a certain theo-
| logical seminary recently persuaded
fellow student to listen to him while
he rehearsed a sermon. His subject
was Light" With violent gesture
with the right arm he said, blot out
movement of the left arm he roared
blot out the moon," Then, with ;
combined gesture made up of botf
arms, he beloved, blot out the
stars!" But it was enough. The audi
tor arose to leave with hoarse, crue
whisper, "Turn off the gas"
In the single State of Massachusetts
there are more than 200 miles o
electric railway, while in England
Scotland and Ireland combined Their
are only 200 miles. Moreover, nearl,
all the electric roads in the British
Islands have been built and equippe'
by American contractors. This coun
try has led all others in the use o
electric power for traction purposes
and the construction of similar road
ways in other nations is conducted al
most exclusively in accordance wit
American models and methods.
A Cincinnati firm of contractors
making considerable trouble anon
business men of its class in that cit
by its unusual methods. One of tn
firm is an old circus man, and bein
we'll acquainted with the capacity {
elephants for work, he secured one
the animals. which is now used on tn
firms contracts for grading. The mon
ster is hitched to an immense pillow
saving the work of ten horses and fiv
or six men, and the firm for which b
works is thus enabled to underbid a
competitors because of the savin
made.
In commenting on the automati
!, hot water supply now furnished in Gel
, tain parts of London by dropping
penny in a slot machine attached to
lamppost, THE London Telegraph
suggested that food may soon be ful
nished in the same way. Whereupon
, correspondent writes: 1T may intere!
| some of your readers to know that til
I | problem is already solved, and that
the exhibition grounds at Brusse
there Is cafe which provides hot an
| cold luncheons entirely by the auto
[ | matte method, and l can say from e,
perience that they are very good 3
placing a franc in the slot chop {
) steak, with potatoes. can be procure
: hot and well cooked; another frar
/ ! will produce a half-bottle of wine
| half q franc will supply plate I
I cold meat, with salad and roll, and
/. | nickel of ten centimes will extract
. piece of bread and butter and chees
3 or a 'brioche. Besides all this nick
r will draw an excellent glass of hoe
from one of the two large vessels
4 the centre of the cafe"
: Again the important question, "Ho
Long are Women Beautiful?" is di
!, of beauty does not reach itshrdlud
cussed in an English journal, OF
5 writer maintaining that "the fullne
: under the age of thirty-five or forty
| hx,