Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14

promoters have secured the lease Of =
lot on Carroll avenue for its site. The
cost is $1,000. OF which the greater part
has been pledged. The auditorium Will
seat 500. The idea Of ship Will be
carried out by having smoke from the
smokestack during services, and the
presence of corps OF naval cadets and
naval band. The sensational meth
DDS are simply to attract the people.
Services will be held every evening,
and the ship will be open Mt all hours.
II will he ready to 'sail" about Jan. 1.
DIR. Abbott, the secretary Of the
Board Of Health OF Massachusetts,,
gives the bicycle n long mark az Fac
tor In the improvement In the health
Of Massachusetts women. He says that
last year. for the first time in the his
tory OF the State. there were fewer
deaths by consumption Of females than
males. He gives the bicycle the credit
for the change. Blcycle-riding gets
women out-of-doors and strengthens
their lungs. Five years ago, about the
time bicycles began to be prevalent,
the annual rate of mortality among
Massachusetts women by consumption
began to decrease, and has steadily
diminished ever since.
"The Boston Transcript thinks the
election of Mckinley confirmation OF
the old tradition that the American
people like their presidents to have only
one Christian name. The first five
presidents had no middle name, and
when Mckinley is inaugurated he will
he the seventeenth president without
one. The list includes George Wash
ington, John Adams. Thomas Jeffer-
son, James Madison, James Monroe,
Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren,,
John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, Willard
Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James
Buchanan. Abraham Lincoln. Andrew
Johnson. Grover Cleveland, Benjamin
Harrison.
"One can't help observing with much
satisfaction" says w. ii. Webster.
that the bicycle has attracted the
thorities in European countries, nota-
bly, England and Spain. The postal
folk at Washington are also investi-
eating the bicycle as means of postal
delivery, and rather exhaustive ex-
perlments will be made in this cOun-
try next year. This is as 1t should be.
| think that the bicycle is destined to
be an important factor in the postal SER
vice. and that, too, before many years
have passed. Its advantages are APP
parent to any one who considers the
subject"
Spanish inefficiency has been shown
up In n ludicrOus way by the recent
self-foating Of the new cruiser Prin-
cess de .Asturias at ,adtZ The YES
sci. which it had taken seven years to
build, got stuck in the mud when they
tried to launch her, over a month ago.
out success for thirty days. the Span
ish engineers gave up the job. adopting
the usual Micawber policy Of Spain. OF
waiting for something to turn up. They
were justified by the cruisers slipping
into the wafer Of her own accord one
afternoon when no one was watching
her.
1t having been stated lately in the En-
glish papers that Queen Victoria has
been total abstainer for several years,
somebody has deemed it worth while
to investigate the important matter,
and now this announcement Is made:
Her Majesty drinks little wine, but at
o'clock lunch-which really cOnsti-
tutes her dinner-her beverage is
glass Of weak Scotch whiskey and min
eral water. At dinner her Majesty
does little more than merely touch her
wine."