Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-06-24
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Arkansas man has petitioned the
Legislature to change his name, John
Rat, because he can induce no young
woman to accept it. Very naturally
the feminine sex is aversc to becoming
Rat catcher.
The Massachusetts, Supreme Court
has decided that musician cannot re-
cover for services at a public concert
on Sunday because such contract is
in violation of the statutes, and, being
illegal, no suit can be maintained.
WORD comes from India that dia-
mond valued at 1900, 900 has been
stolen from the Nizam of Hyderabad.
1t ought to be comparatively easy to
detect that stolen gem whenever it is
worn, unless it happens to fall into
the hands of some hotel clerk.
GEORGE w. STONE, Burlington
(Ia. commission merchant, became a
rich man in almost a minutes time.
He was the successful bidder for the
unknown assets of the Burlington In
surance Company, which recently
failed. The unknown assets were Of
fered for sale in one lump. 1t was bid
off by Stone for So. The assets have
now been discovered to be worth
$40, 000
Mrs. HELEN M. COUGAR, who
wanted to vote at Lafayette, Ind, at
the election in 1894, and was refused
permission, and then appealed to the
courts, only to be disappointed in the
decision of the lower court and also on
appeal, has again been rebuffed, her
petition for a rehearing having been
overruled, the court holding that the
privilege of voting is enjoyed by males
only under the present constitution of
Indiana.
A Boston man says he can change
the climate of New England and the
maritime provinces of Canada by
building dam across the Strait of
Belle Isle, blocking it and diverting
the northern currents. The dam would
have to be ten miles long and about
two hundred feet high, and strong
enough to resist the ocean. He thinks
this could be done for $4,000, 900, and
that it would give the territory named
climate much like that of Southern
New York and New Jersey.
A FEW years since there was not a
canning factory west of the Allegheny
Mountains, but now they dot the
prairies and plantations of the Missis-
sippi basin, and are increasing year by
year at rapid rate. There has been
steady increase in the demand for
canned goods. Their consumption
was enormously increased by their low
cost-so low, indeed, at present that
there is no profit in the industry,
which shares the depression common
to business in general in recent years.
In prosperous times the trade is a
vast and profitable one, and is only in
the first steps of it's development.
WHEN is man aged? The time
honored limit fixed in many States, by
the limitation of service on the bench
or in other responsible positions, is
the age of seventy But that tradi-
tional limit of three-score years and
ten has been judicially shortened four
years by the Supreme Court of Geor-
gia. In the language of the court,
while the term aged, as applied to
human beings, is not, for all purposes,
susceptible of precise definition, and
while it is not practicable to fix arbi-
trarily a period of life at which the
condition of being aged may be said to
have certainly begun, it is safe to hold
that man sixty-six years old is en-
titled to exemption of his property
from levy and sale under that clause
of the constitution allowing this right
to every aged or infirm person. This
is true, although the applicant may be
"a hale and hearty man."
The Chicago Times Herald chroni-
Giles the news that Miss Emma Ray, of
Cass County, Mich, has been COM
missioned by the Bachelor Girls As
ISOLATION of that State to organize
branches in Indiana. The Bachelor
Girls Association was organized by
the young women of Edwardsburg,
little hamlet of several hundred souls,
and its outlined objects are to fit its
members for higher positions in life
than to be wives, driven by mar
riage into drudgery. The society was
organized in September, 1896, and
each member is pledged by solemn
oath to remain single until she is
twenty-five years old, when she may
receive matrimonial propositions from
well-educated young men of ire
proachable character. Letters com
mandatory of the society were re-
ceived in such numbers that action
looking toward national organization
was determined upon.
The vexed question of the extermi-
nation of the Australian rabbit, which
has hitherto constituted the chief
problem that has confronted every
antipodean administration, has at
length received satisfactory solution.
There is no longer any necessity for
invoking the services of great scientists
such as the late DIR. Pasteur and Pro-
lessor Koch to devise means for their
determination, for the invention of the
cold-storage rooms on board ship has
led to the Dummies being exported in
refrigerated condition to the omniver-
Gus market of the mother country.
Rabbit pie is favorite dish in the
United Kingdom, and the rabbit which
could not be successfully canned for
transport and preservation is now
leaving Australia for England at such
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