Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-10-28

any Quiet Country IN INC Woitus
There are about 100 900 islands, large
and small. scattered over the ocean.
America alone has $3.50 round Its
coasts. ~
The inhabitants of the German Em-
pire use up about $4,000 tons OF To-
bacco every year. eighty per cent. OF 1t
being imported.
The newest thing in letter boxes Is
box with an electrical attachment,
which will ring bell In the kitchen
when the letter is dropped In.
Onions sell for IS a pound on the
Klondike. Thus for the first time that
humble but pervasive tuber has risen
to an actual plutocratic altitude.
Statistics prove that nearly two
thirds of the letters carried by the
worlds postal services are written,
sent to and read by English-speaking
people.
ntzapolatavskayatis is the name
of station on the Siberian Railway.
BY the time the brakeman gets
through calling it the train will be at
the next town.
After Luka Jantje, the Bechuanaland
chief, had been killed in the recent at
tack by the Cape forces on his camp,
his head was cut off by British SOL
der at the order of his superior OFF,
Ger.
What is probably the most vener-
able piece of furniture in existence Is
now in the British Museum. 1t is the
throne of Queen Hatsu, who reigned
| in the Nile Valley some 1000 years
before Christ.
| An English expert declares that he
knows of at least 600 counte-feits OF
| the old masters which are now hang
| ing in private galleries of the United
States, and all of which were orig
inally purchased in Europe at very
high prices.
Not to be outdone by the pin, the
needle has become an enormous fac
tor in German export trade: Last year
there were exported 100000 pounds
of needles as compared with 100000
pounds in 1895. The factories of AK
la-Chapelle alone produce 5O,OOO,OOC
needles a week.
There are all sorts Of conventions In
this country. One Of the latest was
that of the Kentucky State Horse
Swappers, who met in Covington tt
the number of 1000 or more. One mar
brought twenty-five horses, and an.
nounced his intention to swap every
horse three times before the conven
tons three days session was over.
DR.. Marpillero, an eminent Italian
scientist, who has for a number o
years been making experiments ant
observations relating to children's
ideas of life and death, has published
his experiences. He found that II
answering questions about life thu
poorer children almost invariably tool
brighter view than the children O
the rich.
Approximately 100000 pounds o
prunes were harvested in the United
States last year, which was only 5000,
| 49,
1t is estimated that France will pro
duce this season not above 33,OOO,OO'
pounds, and that our crop will attain
to the enormous aggregate of 10000
600 pounds, all of which, exceptin,
100000 pounds, will be supplied b,
California growers.
The German military authorities In
tend soon to make some interesting
, experiments on an unusually larg
scale, to test the value to the troop
, of mounted cyclists. Bodies of mel
on bicycles will be portioned on
among the cavalry divisions. Thes
will act as pioneers with the recon
, NOTHING cavalry, and their tactica
value as a support will be tested. De
tachments of cyclists will be fitted on
as fighters, and their value in sup
, porting the larger bodies of ordinar
troops put to the proof. 1t is pro
posed to make the regulation rate @
, speed for the military bicyclist fiftee
, kilometres (nine miles) an hour.
The Moorish pirate is an ancient In
, stitution, but he still exists. Tn
British steamer Onfa has reported tina
) she fell in with the Italian three-mast
} ed schooner Fiducia, which had bee
, becalmed off the Moorish coast. Whe
, in this helpless condition a band 9
: twenty Moorish pirates fired on tn
: ship and then boarded her. The Italia
D crew, being unarmed, hid themselve
D in the hold while the Moors looted tn
Y ship. And when they came out fror
l their hiding-places they found tina
the pirates had taken away all tn
t provisions, had polluted the ship
Z fresh water, smashed the vessels CON
t pass and destroyed the chart. TIL
4 Fiducia then drifted into the sea wit
t a starving crew until she sighted tn
Q Onfa.
The domestic cat is henceforth nc
3 to be carried on the roster of the Gel
q man Army. Puss has until no
!, formed part and parcel of the latte
) and been in the receipt of regula
pay, intrusted with the responsible
duty of guarding all the vast mags
zines of stored-up war material frol
the ever-invading mouse and rat. TIL
!; pay of the cat cannot be described Q
q having been excessive, the amour
having been exactly 81 a year, b.
y sides few additional expenses in col
: nection with the purchase of med
n cines and military badges. 1t seen
y that a savant has discovered how
s1av all German mice by means OF