Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-10-21


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Florida probably has hundred or
more survivors of the Seminole wars,
for whom Congress has provided q
yearly pension of $50 since 1892, and
the money is appropriated. Few sur
vivors. however, can prove their cases
for want of muster rolls. The State
Legislature refuses to appropriate
$1700 to get copies from the Ear De-
partment.
OF the hundred replies received by
the Commissioner of Labor of Me-
braska from representative farmers to
the question, Does farming pay?"
seventy-one gave as their opinion that
farming does not pay, twenty-one say
1t does, four say that 1t pays as well as
anything else, and four gave up the
cQnundrum.
Fashion gossips of New York are
telling US that unless all signs fail"
the tendency of mems styles of dress
will be backward toward the Golden
time" In evidence II is said that the
old-fashioned stock of black satin, a
garment that swathes the neck and
ends In bosom ruffie, is now worn in
London and Paris.
1t is said that Secretary Ayers
scheme for supplying transportation
over the Yukon by steam snow sleds
has been anticipated ny the Klondike
Transportation, Express and Com
mercial Company, of st. Louis. whose
secretary says that the company has
already arranged to run trains over
the Yukon River in Aecember.
The little town of Buxton is the
home of Guy C. H. Corliss, Chief JUS
tice of the Supreme Court of North
Dakota. Justice Corliss believes that
every man should be able or willing TO
earn his bread by the sweat or his
brow. With the view to demonstrate,
Ing his own capacity in this respect,
the learned Justice cast aside the
robes of Office and, rake in hand, fol-
loved his own reaper over his own
fields, along with his "hired help" in
the recent harvest.
The exhibitions Of the past year seem
to have been remunerative in adverse
ratio to the number of visitors. At
Stuttgart Exhibition there were 800 900
visitors and a surplus of $4,000. At
Dresden there we're 100000 visitors
and the surplus was very small. But
at Nuremberg, with 100000, and at
Geneva, with 100000, and at Buda-
pest, with 100000, there were very
great deficits, while at Berlin, with
nearly 100000 visitors, the exhibit
ton was financially the greatest fail
ure of all.
The British Medical Journal, in a
recent issue, sounds an alarm concern
ing the rapid spread of the cocaine
habit in England, where 1t threatens
to become the third scourge of HUI
mainly, alcohol and morphine being
the first and second. All ranks of So
ciety are declared to be crowded with
its victims-both men and women
many of whom are literary people, who
take cocaine to stimulate their mag
ination. The Journal advises that
most stringent measures be adopted to
eradicate this blighting vice.
Professor Morehcad, of the Ohio
State University, and two other men
are soon to begin systematic hunt
for buried treasure supposed to COM
prise one hundred pounds of pure gold,
that was hidden away by two French
men on their way from the Great
Lakes to New Orleans during the sew
enteenth century. Tradition has it
that the treasure was buried at the
foot of an oak tree near the site of
Bucyrus, o.; that the two men died
while with the Indians, and that the
latter, fearing the spirits of the dead
men, would never reveal the hiding
place.
Some of Denver's society bellies, in
stead Of spending all their surplus pin
money for fruits and candy, carefully
hoard every cent and invest in cattle!
The girls of the West seem ambitious
to become cattle queens, and they pur-
chase the animals from stock commits
sion men, and pay farmer a small
sum each year to pasture them and
look after their welfare. Cattle have
in value of late, and the girls
say they are going to hold" their
herds until they can turn a pretty
penny on their investment. These
herds" consist of from one COW up to
fifty head. The fair owner of herd
uses her own especial brand and is en-
thusiastic over her possessions.
A sensation has been created by the
discovery that both the Austrian and
Italian governments are busy day and
night constructing the most costly and
elaborate Notifications at the points
where the Empire and the Kingdom
meet in the Southern Tyrol and in the
of Pontebba. This, 1t |
would appear. means that neither at
Vienna nor at Rome is there much
confidence on the part of the authori-
ties in the extension of the existing
Triple Alliance, since allies do not, as
q rule, consider 1t necessary to adopt |
such means of defending their, domin-
ions against one another. There are
no Notifications of any kind along the |
frontier of Germany and Austria. Why |
should there be any on the Austro-
Italian boundary line?
Mrs. F. A. Steel, the author of ION |