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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08
How an Ostrich Runs.

Considerable misconception prevails
as to the manner in which the ostrich
runs, says the Zoologist. 1t seems to
be still generally held that when run
ming it spreads out its wings, and,
aided by them, skins lightly over the
ground. This is not correct. When
a bird really settles itself to run, it
holds it's head lower than usual, and a
little forward, with deep loop in the
neck. The neck vibrates sinuously,
but the head remains steady, thus en-
abling the bird, even at top speed, to
look around with mistaken glance in
any direction. The wings lie along
the sides, about on level with, or
little higher than, the back, and are
held loosely just free of the plunging
thigh" There is no attempt to hold
them extended or to derive any as
sistance from them as organs of flight.
When an ostrich, after long run, is
very tired, its wings sometimes droop;
this is due to exhaustion; they are
never, by running bird exerting it
self to the utmost, held out away from
the sides to tighten it's weight or to in
crease it's pace. But the wings APP
pear to be of great service in turning,
enabling the bird to double abruptly
even when going at top speed.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08
A Substitute for Rubber.

With reference to the new substitute
for India rubber. to which we referred
sometime ago, we are now informed
that the mandatory established for
the manufacture of this product is in
an advanced state of preparation, and
is expected to be shortly in full work.
The machinery provides for an output
of forty tons per week, and the works
cover nearly three acres of ground,
and are situated but short distance
from London. "Oxilin," the name
registered for the new product, mani
testify indicates an oxidized oil. There
is in itself nothing particularly new
about product of this nature, but it
is claimed by the inventor, Charles
Grist, that up to the present time no
one but himself has been successful
in completely oxidizing the oil, whether
when in the form of a film or in a
spray. Mr.. Grist has adopted per-
fectly different course to that which
has been heretofore pursued, making
large employment of vegetable fibers.
It is stated that "oxilin" will perfectly
replace India rubber for large variety
of purposes, such as hydraulic pack
ings, wire insertion and the like, being
impervious to mineral oil, and stand
ing temperature of from 200 to 800
degrees Fahrenheit in its natural and
vulcanized forms respectively. 1t can
be sold at considerable reduction on
the price of India rubber. --Industrie
and Iron.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08

Professor Joseph LIE Conte recently
read Q paper before the Geological
Society Of America, from which we
learn that there are two primary and
permanent kinds Of movements OF the
eaath's crust. namely, those which
cause continental surfaces and oceanic
basins, and those which, by interior
contraction, determine mountains Of
folded structure. These two are de-
termined, the one by unequal radial
contraction, the other by unequal con-
centric contraction--that is, contrac-
ton of the interior more than the OK
terror. There are also two secondary
kinds of movements which modify
the effects of the other two, and con-
fuse our understanding of them.
These are, first, oscillatory move
ments, affecting large areas, and iso-
static movements, or gravitative re-
adjustment, by erosion and sedimen-
tation. In the minds of some writer's,
oscillatory movements have masked
and obscured the effects of continent
and ocean basin making, and isostasy
has concealed the effects and prevent
ed the proper Interpretation of all
the others. 1t is believed that to
make secure progress we must keep
these several kinds of movements dis
tinct in our minds.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08
A Marriage Certificate in Rhyme.

A Dublin newspaper revives the
following story of Dean Swift, which
is very characteristic one:
Once, while walking on the Phenix.
Road, Dublin, Swift was overtaken by,
a sudden thunder He took
shelter under tree where party
where sheltering also-two young.
women and two young men. One of
the girls looked very sad, till as the
rain fell her tears began to flow. The
dean inquired the cause, and learned
that it was her wedding day. They
were on their way to church, and now
her white clothes were wet, and she
could not go.
Never Mindful marry you, said
the dean; and he took out his prayer
book and then and there married
them, their witnesses being present.,
and, to make the thing complete, he
tore leaf from his pocket-book, and
with his pencil wrote and signed a
certificate, which he handed to the,
bride:
Under a tree in stormy weather, /
married this man and woman to-
gether; let none but Him who rules the
thunder sever this man and woman
asunder. Swift, dean of St
Patrick's."
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08
SUNDAY Feeding,

Under the heading of the Sunday
Penalty of Irregular Feeding" the,
Medical Record points out that in our
progress from barbarism we have
evolved people with whom regularity
in eating is absolutely necessary to
good health. AS result of this arti-.
fetal existence, the secretions are.
poured out and ready for action with
the monotony of clockwork. If this
system is neglected, the violator not
only suffers bodily discomfort, but an
actual injury is done to the digestive
apparatus, which has been so educated
that it requires definite amount of
exercise and positive promptness in
feeding that requirement. The stom-
ach having poured out its secretions,
as customary, waits only short time
before allowing them to be absorbed
without the accompanying nutrition
which goes to the formation of more
secretions. After few such expert
ences, the secretions become less in
amount and activity, and Indigestion
ensues. Dyspeptics are ordered to.
eat at infexibly regular intervals.
Normal stomachs are by no means.
many, yet this rule, so imperative to.
sufferers, is regularly disregarded by
the well. Once week, the three
regular daily meals are replaced by
late rising and abstinence, followed by
gluttony. The gastric juices know
nothing of a seventh day of ''rest, >"
and the result is discomfort, stupidity,
and loss of appetite on Monday.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08
Bald Headed Men No. c Constructive.

"There is one satisfaction a bald
headed man can have" observed a.
physician to Star reporter, land
that is that there are hundreds of
chances in his favor that he will never
die with consumption. There seems.
to be some kind of connection be-
tween bald heads and sound lungs. If
a man is prematurely bald it shows
that there is something abnormal with
him, but it does not show that there ia
any trouble with his lungs. Indeed, it,
shows that the lungs are all right.
There is another thing in connection
with consumptives, and it is an old
woman's saying that consumptive
man or woman will never comb THEN.
hair gray. BY this is meant that the.
consumptive will die before his or her
hair becomes gray, and it is safe
rule to go by. My observation is, and
it's the same with many others, that
consumptives have very full growth
of hair; indeed, if one looks into the
matter with any care, it will be noticed
that their hair is very heavy in COM
parison with others. Washingtc D.
Star
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08
Cork Tires.

Among the improvements in tires
are those with coiled wire springs, sur
rounded with sections of cork. The
idea of cork tire is not new, neither
does it seem practical for long distance
or hard riding. For nearby trips and
perfectly smooth roads they might
work all right, but the cross-country
rider who takes wheel-track and foot
path, as the case may be, coming in
contact with broken stone, gravel,
concrete and what not, they appear
somewhat faulty in the way of dura-
bility. The sharp edge of stone will
take a piece from cork as quickly as q
knife, and few long trips would make
short work of one of these tires il
much bad road were encountered.
Take it all in all, it is likely that a
good rubber tire will be found the
cheapest and best in the long run.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08
A Self Winding Clock.

The latest freak that has been in
vented in clocks is windmill ap-
pliance just perfected and soon to be
patented by II. w. Gebhard of Louis
vile, which, according to the Post of
that city, will dispense entirely with
the necessity of people watching their
timepiece in order to keep them wound
up.
The windmill is perched at some
point on the building where an occas-
ional puff of air will strike it, and ex-
tension rods from it are connected
with the clock so that the motion of
the mill winds just far enough, when
the rod is automatically shifted, and
thus it remains until the clock runs
down to point where it is automati-
cally connected and again wound to
this connecting point. Thus it goes
on, repeating this action continuously.
The device can be applied only to
weight clocks. The inventor has an
other device that will wind spring
clocks, which consists of an occasional
drop of water falling on lever from
tube connected with vessel con.
tanning the water.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08
Wild Celery for Ducks.

1t is we'll known that the favorite
food of the canvashack duck is the
tubers of wild celery. A few years
ago large part of the best feeding
ground in the upper Chesapeake was
destroyed by combination of strong
winds and heavy Snowfall, which
was followed by severe cold. Excep.
tionally low water was produced and
ice formed on the exposed flats, SC
that when the tide at last came in and
lifted it the plants were torn away and
foated off. At meeting of the Bio.
logical Society of Washington, F. r.
Coville lately called attention to the
fact that the wild celery had been sue
cessfully transplanted to western lakes
and that the ducks now linger there
to feed in their migrations. He advo-
Gated the restocking of the shallow
water in the Chesapeake with the wild
celery.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08
A Stone Full of Diamonds.

Mr.. Banckhaus, a farmer, of Ian
caster, N. Y, has found big, hollow
stone on his farm, almost literally
filled with large and fawless diamonds.
He tells his visitors that he sup
posed the stone was nothing but an
ordinary one and of no consequence,
but he was not able to put it out of his
mind, and at last investigated. He
found it hollow and the inner walls SO
thickly lined with diamonds of large
size that he at once took rank as q
great capitalist. There are in all
nearly 500 gems, most of them of large
size. The farmer has brought few
of them to the city, and reports that
jewellers pronounce them genuine and
Of great value.
But for this the inference would be
natural that the farmer had stumbled
on a geode, although this rock, the
inner walls of which glitter with crys-
tails, is not found commonly in this
vicinity. The farmer is extremely
reticent, and will not say what he in
tends to do with the diamonds. New
York Tress.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08
Where Wild Ducks Breed.

The breeding places of the Chesa-
peake ducks are in Canada, where
they are being destroyed in vast num-
bers by the cutting away of the forests
which shelter the lakes and pools
where they harbor, and by the use
and sale of their eggs. Thousands of
these eggs, says Lippinoott's, are an
nually marketed, and by these meth
DDS, rather than by the numbers ac-
tually shot, they have been greatly
diminished.
This condition of things seems to be
beyond remedy, since State cannot
make treaty with a foreign power;
and the general government is not
likely to interfere on behalf of what is
practically Maryland industry, or to
provide such compensation as Canada
might see fit to ask if proposal were
made to her to protect the ducks in
their native habitat. So the prospect
is that fifty years will see the exter-
mination of the finest wild fowl in the
world and one of the most priced deli
cacies of the table,
The range of the wild duck reaches
almost from the Arctic to the Antarctic
circle.
1t lives through the summer in the
far north, in Greenland, Iceland, Lap
land, Siberia, and, as we have shown,
in Canada, until the waters in those
regions become frozen, so that it can
no longer obtain it's food. Then be-
gins its fight southwark, sometimes
reaching as far as India and Egypt,
and, in this hemisphere, the Isthmus
of Panama.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08
Python Eggs.

In house on Rhode Island avenue
is female python. This reptile is
the pet of young man who is inter
ested in herpetology. He bought the
"vermin" week ago in New York,
whittier it was brought by traveller
from India. Day before yesterday,
to the complete establishment of the
young student of snakes, he found in
his python's quarters mess of white
objects unlike anything he had before
seen. They were eggs, and there were
twenty-five of them. In size and
color they are much like hens egg
The shell or skin which envelopes the
yolk is not rigid as in hens egg,
but as flexible and tough as leather.
The shape is oblong, but not symmet-
rioal and somewhat irregular. The
whole twenty-five eggs were laid in a
few urs.-Washington Star.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08
The Green Turtle.

The best known of al the turtles is
the green turtle, 50 called from the
green color of its fat.
This useful animal is found in the
seas and on the shores of both conti-
nents and is most plentiful about the
Island of Ascension and in the Antil-
les. The shell of this reptile is of
very little use and of small value, but
the flesh is remarkably rich and well
favored, and the green fat has long
enjoyed world wide and fully de-
served reputation.
The eggs of the turtle are thought
as great delicacies as its flesh. 1t is
while the female turtle is visiting the
shore for the purpose of deposlting
her eggs that she is usually captured,
as these sea reptiles care little for the
shore except for this purpose. De
troit Free Press.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08

Out o. 100000 People Only 22s
Live 20 be 100 Years Old.

In answer to the above question one
of the leading statisticans of England
has recently complied number OF in
teresting figures showing that out Of
every 1000, 900 children born yearly
in Great Britain only small percent
age reach middle life.
Several thousand come into the world
with such feeble constitutions that
they do not survive more than a few
hours. During the first five years OF
life scarlet fever carries off 1900,
whooping cough $1,000 and infantile
cholera 100000. Before the sixth
year is reached death has claimed at
least $4,000 From this time on,
however, the generation makes steady
progress, and during the next five
years only "a, 900 fall by the way. Be-
tween the ages ten and fifteen only q
few deaths occur among children, but
from fifteen on consumption and other
inherited maladies become active.
Out of $4,000 deaths occurring be-
tween the ages of twenty and twenty
five more than one-half are due to
consumption. Typhoid fever gets in
its deadliest work when its victims
are between twenty-five and thirty.
Between these ages overwork carries
off several hundred, and violent deaths,
including suicide, accident and muir
der, not less than 1,700.
But this time barely more than one-half
of the generation is left, and between
the ages of thirty-five and forty 1000
fall prey to consumption. During this
period diseases of the heart, kidneys
and other internal organs of the body
make their appearance with great
fatality. Between the ages of forty
five over 81, 900 deaths occur, most of
them due to consumption. Cancer
usually asserts itself during this period
with fatal and steadily multiplying re-
suits. Only 300, 900 of the generation
enter their sixty-ffth year, which
number, during the next decade, is
cnt down to 100000. At ninety-five
only 1900 are left and when the CEN
fury mark is reached only 223 are
living. Within the next ten years the
last remnant OF the generation is ex-
tinguished. Atlanta Constitution.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08

thus making the process rapid and
comparatively cheap. Remarkable II
also is that the canals now being dug
in this way follow the course Of the
ancient irrigation canals dug there by
the highly civilized people that inhab-.
tied this region before recorded Amer
lean history began. Here fourished
nations that knew as much about irri-'
cation as we do to-day, and no doubt
the desert blossomed under their cui-'
tivation, for this land is exceedingly
productive as soon as water strikes it.
Probably the prehistoric inhabitants
of the region migrated southwark,
thus leaving the country to revert to.
it's desert condition. Ruins of large
buildings, in the form of great mounds
of rubbish, are seen along the lines Of
the old canals.
Cats are no longer regarded o. de-
spised creatures, to be victimized by
small boys and permitted to live only
on tolerance by their elders. Like
the end of the century woman, they
are at last beginning to achieve some
of the rights for which they have been.
clamoring SO long, and perhaps when.
they are accorded equal rights with
their natural foe of the canine race
they will cease to bemoan their fate
about the streets and to hold indigna-
ton meetings at the midnight hour
and display similar anarchical procliv-
tiles. That they have already made
rapid strides toward the desired end is.
proved by the fact that they have re-
cettly held their annual convention"
in other words; cat shown Man
chester, England. Champion Keno
phone, sent by s. Woodiwiss, Of Lon
don, was pronounced the best cat in
the show. He received the prize for
brown or tabby males, and was valued
in the catalogue at FL, 900 ($5, 000).
Champion Perfection, who is said to
have taken more prizes than any cat
living, was worth even more. He
took the first prize for red male tab
bies, and Peeping Joe the second
Both belong to Mr.. Klumell.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08

thoughts. I feel II only due to you,
sir, to make this confession, ashamed
a. / am to have to do II; but you will
forgive me, will you notf'
There was Q pause. Mr.. Marchmont
did not take the offered hand, but sat
still, with strange, fixed look upon
his face.
ssI was so anxious about Ellie, my
little sister" went on the young man
we are all alone in the world, as you
know. But if I cruelty misjudged
you, sir, am at least ready to 40
knowledge myself utterly in the wrong
and to ask your forgiveness. We're
my dear father here, added the young
man, with some emotion, ct am sure
he would fully appreciate your kind
ness to his orphan children and thank
you as sincerely as ] do for your noble
and conscientious fulfilment of the
trust he reposed in you"
Mr.. Marchmont slowly staggered to
his feet; an awful grayness was over
spreading his face.
''It OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
flying" he began, in a strangely al
tered voice.
Then he suddenly collapsed, and fell
on the foor-dead.
'The fellow had some conscience
after all, thought Mr.. Vivian to him
self, whenever he looked back on the
awful occurrence; but, lawyer-like,
kept his own counsel.
Failure of the hearts action" was
the medical verdict, with the adden-
dunn that Mr.. Marchmont had long
been in critical state of health.
Harold Williams often reproached
himself for having, by little addi-
tional excitement, possibly accelerated
the fatal catastrophe; but yet, as the
young man once remarked to Mr..
Vivian:
81 cannot understand how my merely
thanking poor Mr.. Marchmont should
have affected him so much. It was not
as if anything had been wrong with
his accounts"
Mr.. Vivian only coughed in reply
and, to the end of their lives, Harold
and his sister believed their trustee to
have been a model of honesty and
rectitude. Yet, perhaps, as the law
yer had surmised, it was Marchmont's
conscience" that had killed him after
all.-Household Words.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08
coop-eY.

We say it for an hour or for years;
We say it smiling, say it choked with
tears;
We say it coldly, say it with kiss,
And yet we have no other word than
this:
Good-by.
We have no dearer word for our hearts
friend,
For him who journeys to the worlds
far end
And scars our souls with going; thus
we say,
And unto him who steps out DER the
Good-by.
Alike to those we love and those we
We say no more in parting. At life's
gate
To him who passes out beyond earth's
sight,
We cry as to the wanderer for night:
Good-by.
Boston Traveller.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08
Ingenious Way to Filter Water.

A supply of spring water at Kiel,
Germany, is so strongly charged with
iron as to be unsuitable for use. To
improve it, the authorities first cause
it to traverse system of metallic.
channels and cascades, then to pass
through bed of coke ten feet thick,
and finally through sand filters, each
about sixty-five feet long and forty
nine feet wide. The treatment has
proven successful in removing all iron,
leaving the water unobjectionable in
color, taste and smell. The bed of
coke is divided into eight compart-
ments, which are washed free from
iron once week by isolating COM
partment at time, and the sand Al
tiers are cleansed by replacing thin
upper layer with clean sand.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08
The First Railroad.

Gridley Bryant, civil engineer, in
1926, projected the first railroad in
the United States. 1t was built for
the purpose of carrying granite from
the quarries of Quincy, Mass, to the
nearest tidewater. It's length was
four miles, including branches, and
its first cost $500,000 The sleepers
were of stone and were laid across the
track eight feet apart. Upon rails of
wood, six inches thick, wrought-iron
plates, three inches wide and quar-
ter of an inch thick, were spiked. AT
the crossings stone rails were used,
and as the wooden rails became un-
servicable they were replaced by others
of stone. Atlanta Constitution.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08
Pilfsring Sparrow Hangs Himself.

A. s. Cooley, of Canandaigua, N.
Y, recently found in his yard a spar
row hanging by the neck from limb
of q cherry tree. The bird had evil
IDENTIFY attempted to rob the nest of q
robin in the tree, and, while affecting
an entrance to the nest from the I'M
der side, accidentally pushed its head
through moose formed of horse hair,
which had been utilized in the con-
struction of the nest. From appear
ances the sparrow, in Withdrawing its
head from the nest, had frightened the
moose and was hanged.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08
Oomesticated Buffaloes.

The story of the buffalo should end
with the determination of the northern
herd in 1888, but under wise protec-
ton and fostering care it may be that
another chapter is still to be written.
The domesticated herds, meager
though in numbers compared with
those that once roamed the treeless
Western plains, may yet become the
founders of a stock that shall cover
the vast, desolate stretches of terri
tory which nature intended for them,
redeeming the region from its present
barren and profitless condition.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08
How to Swing hammock in the Yard.

eff you want to swing hammock
in yard Offering but little space, "
says the Ladies' Home Journal, "have
two brackets or davits made of two
inch gas pipe and bent at the black
smiths. At the hanging ends hooks
are welded, to which hang the ham,
mock. The pipes are fastened securely
to the fence by bands of iron screwed
fast to the fence. Wires may be strung
overhead upon which vines can be
trained.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08
Tomcat That Slays | ambs.

An Ayrshire tomcat has been slay-
ing young lambs. The farmer, miss
ing many of his lambs, kept watch,
and saw the cat sneak along on top of
wall, at the bottom of which the
lambs were summing themselves, and
sprinr down upon one and kill II.