Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-09
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


at the time Of Alfred the Great $40,
672. 900, 900 ancestors, and at that Of
William the Conquerof 1888, 094, 592.
Adoctor who has been experimenting
with coffee a. remedy for anaemia
says he has brought about some
remarkable cures. He requires his
patients to drink weak coffee exclusi-
vely, also ordering them to take
baths in decoction of coffee.
1t is now asserted that Frenchman
has discovered method of making
silk of a fine quality from the webs Of
ordinary spiders. His name is M.
Cachot, and it is probable that he will
claim the reward of $40, 900 offered by
manufacturers of Great Britain to any
one who could accomplish this feat.
The retiring president of the De-
troit Board of Education, in his an
nual report, makes the novel sugges-
tion that courses be established for
parents rs well as for children in the
public schools. His idea is to give
some of the advantages of schooling to
grown people who come to America
from foreign countries where they
have not had the advantage of free
tuition.
There is a certain minister in Kan
sas who has an eye to the physical as
well as the spiritual welfare of his
congregation. He brought one of his
recent Sunday sermons to sudden
close with the following words
Brethren, / will now close, for see
that we are going to have thunder
storm. The congregation will please
follow me to Brother Soandso's field
and help him stack his wheat.
The postal service of the United
States costs $9,000,000 year above
receipts, while that of Great Britain
yields profit of over $14 900, 900, that
Of France nearly so, 900, 900, that of
Germany 5000, 900, that of Russia
SO, 900, 900, aud that of even India and
Japan $1,000, 900. About the only
other nations whose postal service
does not pay expenses are Canada,
Norway, Siam, Chill, Peru, Bulgaria
and Bolivia.
Horse dealers of France are appar-
emily no longer able to supply the de-
mand for the flesh of that animal in
Paris. An order from the French cap
ital for five thousand barrels of horse
meat has been received by company
of Portland, Ore The animals used
are the half-wild cayuse of Oregon,
which are bought for about 50 80 each.
As the use of horsefesh for food seems
to be growing in several foreign coun-
tries, it may become profitable
article for export,
The legislatures revision of the
laws i'll Iowa has included some no.
table changes in that States school
law. Hereafter teachers there may
be examined for either of two county
certificates, one year and two year
certificate, the latter depending upon
some higher studies. The superin-
tendent may revoke the certificate of
any teacher who fails to teach ply
siology and hygiene as required by
law. The power to suspend students
is placed i'll the hands of the teacher.
The school treasurer is to be elected
annually. A teacher may not also be
secretary of the school board.
In Finland there is decided sur
plus of women, the female population
of that country being /, 208, 500, while
the male is LII, 541. Out of total
population of some two and one-half
millions, therefore there are $1,000
more women than men. This means
that women have to work hard for
their support In just published
book, Through Finland in Carts, I"
by an Englishwoman, one learns some
of the ways in which the Finnish wo-
men do this. ''She soon comes to
think that there is nothing she cannot
do. On looking over the statistics of
women employed in trades one is
pleased to see seventeen women car
penters and twenty-five paperhangers,
as these trades are eminently fitted for
women; but we sigh to find 765 are
employed loading ships, which man
ual labor is very hard. One is sur
prised to notice that twenty-one wo-
men are slaughterers"
Gold exists in larger or smaller
quantities in every portion of the
world 1t has been found in almost
every State in the Union; in Devon
shire, Cornwall, Wales and Scotland,
in Great Britain; on the sands of the
Rhine, the Reuss, the Rhone and the
Aar; at Salzburg, in the Tyrol, and at
Zell; in the valleys of Toppa, Sesia
and howard, in Piedmont; at Per-
cheria, in Lombardy; on the Tagus, in
Spain; in the rivers of Provence; in
Southern and Eastern Siberia; in four
teen of the nineteen provinces of
China; in the island of Yesso, in
Japan in odd spots in India; Thibet,
and the islands of Ceylon and Borneo;
in Abyssinia, Kordofan, and the Sou
dan generally; in North Africa and the
region watered by the Zambesi and
Limpopo, in South Africa; in Austria
liz, New Zealand and Canada. But,
as general rule, the precious metal
is found in such small quantities that
it will not pay to work the mines or
placers. 1t is only now and then that
it occurs in isolated localities in abun-
dance.
"Miss Gertrude Josephine Dryer,
of San Antonio" says Leslie's Week
ly, twas crowned Queen of Texas at
the Wake Karnival, held at Wake in
May last. One of the features of the