Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-05-06

pose or making powder and dynamue
90 up" That il absurd; powder and
dynamite cannot be trusted.
Harvard has furnished seventy-five
| college presidents. OF this number
twenty-five have been presidents OF
their alma mater and four have pre-
sided over the sons of Old ELI.
A Chicago man fell from his bicycle
not long ago, and the wheelwomau
who assisted him to rise has become
his wife. Many Chicago men will
doubtless fall on their bicycles when
they hear of this incident.
Philadelphia vital statistics. which
have the reputation of being pretty
carefully compiled, show that there
were 30,961 births In the Quaker City
last year, 1886 marriage licenses,
and 23.962 deaths.
1t Is said that more than 76 per
cent. of those who people New York
to-day were born of foreign mothers,
while more than 40 per cent. were
themselves born on foreign soil. Peter
Stuyvesant ruled in his day over 400
New Workers who conversed in eigh-
teen different tongues.
1t is said that enterprising New Eng
land hunters who live near the boun-
Diary line of Maine and New Hamp-
shire are taking advantage of the
bounty laws of each State and getting
double pay for each bear killed. New
Hampshire pays SO much for each pair
Of ears, while Maine keeps tally by the
nose.
Utah will celebrate in July the fif-
tieth anniversary of its settlement.
and they who take pride in the history
of the Territory and State are advoca-
ting the establishment of a historical
society to preserve the memories Of
the past. Materials are abundant, and
some of the history thus to be pre-
served is unique in American annals.
The Swedes do not intend to let
their neighbors, the Norwegians, have
1t all their own way with Arctic ex-
plOrations, and 1t Is said that an ex-
petition will be sent from Stockholm
to KONG Karl's Land, east of SpitZ-
that the same expedition shall also ex-
plore the islands and undiscovered re-
gicn between Spitzbergen and Franz
Josef Land.
Not very many years ago ex-Gov.
John ID. Long, of Massachusetts, who
is now Secretary of the Navy; Eugene
Hale, of Maine, who is chairman
of the Senate Naval Commit
tee, and Representative Samuel G.. Hill
born, of California, member of the
House Committee on Naval Affairs,
were schoolmates and piayfellows in
Hebron, Me. The little town is very
proud of this.
Estimates of the population of
Greater New York must leave out the
census of the busy communities on the
Jersey side of the North river. Geo
graphically, Jersey City, Hoboken and
Newark are parts of the new city, but
legally. owing to State lines, they can
not be absorbed. They are, however,
in the metropolitan district and will
contribute their share of business,
wealth, activity and public spirit to the
general total Of New York progress.
New York. says the Chicago Times
Herald, cannot pursue the annexation
policy much beyond the boundaries of
the proposed Greater New York. But
Chicago's possibilities in this line are
measured only by the Ohio and the
Mississippi. When the time comes to
gather in Aurora, Elgin, Evanston,
Kenosha and a hundred other cities
and towns, the charter of Greater
New York will have been in operation
just long enough to enable the COM
missioners of Greater Chicago to per-
ceive it's defects end thus frame char
ter for the government of the model
metropolis Of the world.
Cumulative evidence as to the
growth of insanity is furnished in a
report of the Minnesota Board Of Cor
rections and Charities. 1t is shown
that the ratio of insane patients to the
million inhabitants increased from
$50 in 1880 to 1870 in 1896. The young
err localities show the smallest ratio.
Only the vigorous men and women
push out into the van of civilization.
The rural counties, while showing an
increase, have smaller ratio than the
urban counties, the number per mill
lion in the country districts being 1866
as compared with the 1870 in the State
at large. Nicollet. one of the Oldest
counties in the State. has the excep-
ticnally high average Of 3,495, which is
greater than that of Massachusetts, or
perhaps any Eastern State. Nicollet
county is the home of the first State
insane hospital. and it is claimed that
this has much TO do with the high ra-
ito, many insane being credited to
that county that do not belong to 1t.
But that explanation does not apply
to Chicago county, where the ratio is
3,43O, or to other urban counties with
ratios ranging from 2,S35 to 1900.
A peculiar form of insurance, COM
mon enough in England, but almost or
quite unknown in this country, is illus
trated by reports of recent transac-
lions in London. There many persons
who have invested large sums in rent
ing windows along the route of the
great June procession have minimized |
their risk by taking out policies on the |
life of the Queen. A large number of |
such assurances have been effected at |
Lloyd's at the rate Of five guineas per |
cent. for three months. Double this
is the quotation for risks"