Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-05-27
NOTES AND COMMENTS:

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According to the London Court Jour
nal, Ia Hung Chang has most arduous
| task before him. The story Is that the
Chinese. emperor. being anxious to
learn French. appointed the erstwhile
possessor of the yellow jacket as his
tutor. But when he discovered that
| his teacher had but a smattering OF
the tongue, he ordained that Ii be in
carcerated.until he learns the language
Two high class German art journals
-vom Fels Zum Nicer and Moderne
Kunst-of Berlin have recently printed
beautifully illustrated sketches Of Pres
fdent Mckinley and his family by C..
Frank Dewey, an American writer, now
living In Berlin. This Is only one OF
many indications that intelligent peo-
pie in Europe are coming to take more
interest in American Affairs.
An interesting evidence tending to
show THAT the middle name has grown
in favor during this century Is found
In the fact that while there were fifty
six signers of the Declaration of indie
pendence, only three had or used
middle name: Robert Treat Paine, OF
Massachusetts,. and Richard Henry Lee
and Francis Lightfoot Lee, of Virginia.
George Peabodys gift of $4,000. 900
for London workingmen's houses has
increased to $6,000,000 in the twenty
four years since his death. Last year
the trustees of the fund provided H.
367 rooms, besides bathrooms, lavator-
les and laundries; 1884 persons oc-
cupied them. The death-rate OF infants
in the buildings is four per cent below
the average for London.
Commenting on Secretary Wilson's
suggestion that Western farmers would
do we'll to raise more cattle and hogs,
The Chicago Times-Herald says: THE
situation has already begun to right It
self. The profits In cattle and sheep
feeding have been SO large to the for
tunate few this season that every corn
raiser is determined to have stock to
eat his grain, and within year or two
the effect of setting apart more ground
to pastures, and of feeding more corn
on the farm, will be apparent in re-
duced stocks of this grain and better
prices. The advance in wheat last year
came too late to help most of the grow
ers, but with present prices for wheat,
corn and oats restored, and cattle, hogs
and sheep as they are, the farmers OF
the country will be liberal buyers
again"
The Agricultural Department is being
importuned from all parts of the coun-
try for sugar-beet seed. In view of the
unsatisfactory prices received for staple
products during the past few years and
the prospective increase in the duty on
sugar, farmers in all sections of the
Union evidently intend to experiment
with sugar-beet culture. Heretofore
sugar-beet growing has been confined
almost exclusively to Nebraska, Kansas
and California. The Agricultural De-
partment has sent beet seeds this
spring to about thirty states and terri
tories.
Professor Henry p. Armsby, dean OF
the School of Agriculture of the Penn
sylvania State College, says that the
agricultural products Of Pennsylvania
exceed the total iron ore, coal and oil
products of the State by $4,000 He
also makes a strong plea for agricul-
tural education. Whether we like 1t
or not" he says, I'VE are face to face
with new problems and new conditions.
In this process of evolution, by which
agriculture is adjusting itself to its
environment, as in every other process
of evolution, the fittest will survive.
The community or the individual farm
er that can successfully readjust its
agriculture to these new conditions will
continue to prosper, while the farmer
or the community which fails to do
this will be borne down by forces as
ton"
Some time ago." says a man who al
ways tries to heed good advice, Il stop
ped eating hearty dinners on the advice
Of an eminent physician, who said that
a hearty dinner tended to shorten life.
Not long afterwards saw that another
physician, equally eminent, said it was
simply suicidal to eat heavy lunch
con, and so l made an apple or
cracker serve me for luncheon. 1t was
pretty tough to get up from luncheon
and dinner in famished condition,
but consoled myself with the thought
that l was frightening my life. And,
besides / could eat hearty breakfast.
But the other day / saw that still an
other eminent physician says that no
one who wants to live long should eat
any breakfast and / am puzzled to know
what to do. These men are experts,
and presumably know what they are
talking about. But IL adopt their di-
rections for the attainment of a long
life it looks as II l might die of starva-
ton in less than a month"
The United States Supreme Court
has decided case involving claim
for damages for killing dog. The
case had made its way from the lower
courts of New Orleans through various
phases of litigation, to be finally decid-
ed here in opposition to the claim. The
suit was instituted by George w. Sen
tell Jr., vs. the New Orleans and Car
rollton Railroad Company. The dog.
Newfoundland, valued at 5000, was
killed by a car owned by the. railroad
company. The case turned upon the
validity of an act of the Louisiana
Legislature recognizing dogs as per-
sonal property only when placed upon