Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-08-26

Gin their minds"
Improved sanitation, including clean
streets, has reduced the mortality rate
in New York from 81. ID per thousand
In 1891 to 10. 63 in 1897. The rate in
London. has been reduced to 1925 by
similar measures covering a longer
period.
In England it was stated at a meet
ing of farmers that one acre under
glass exceeded 100 acres in producing
profit, and that the labor and cost
was no greater in proportion to area
than for 100 acres, excepting the ORR
ginal cost of the glass and fixtures.
Paris has voted $40, 900, 900 to the
Exposition of 1900, or more than
double the amount appropriated for
its last exhibition. Two great palaces
will be erected in the Champs Elysees,
and the Seine, crossed by a monu
mental bridge, is to be transformed
into a Venetian canal, with terraced
banks and ornamental pavilions.
An old colored woman, former
slave, who died the other day in Oak
land, CAL, was commonly reputed to
be i02 years old, and the death GER
tificate so stated, but documentary
proof has since been produced show
ing that she was only eighty-six.
Many other reputed centenarians
might suffer equal deductions in years
if the truth could be established as
easily.
cit is q remarkable fact" says a
contributor to knowledge, London,
''that the two countries which are now
competing most keenly with us in the
industrial race-especially in those
departments allied to engineering
are Germany and the United States;
two which have for many years been
in the van in the matter of providing
facilities for education in matters per-
tanning to the industrial arts.
According to an estimate in the Sun.
clergymen in preaching average about
80 words a minute, campaign speakers
10, and senators in debate from 100
to 200. Very rapid readers find diff
Guilty in uttering intelligently so many
as 275 words minute. And yet q
story is going the rounds about q
stenographer who is able to write 402
words in 60 seconds. But of what
practical use is such excessive rapidity?
To what extent fogging is still toll
Grated by English law is shown by
certain prison returns just presented
to Parliament, from which it would
appear that no less than sixteen hun
dred foggings per annum take place
in the local and convict prisons of the
United Kingdom. Besides these,
there are six hundred and seventy
foggings year in the military pri-
sons, which means that the foggings
of soldiers belonging to the British
army average nearly two day.
Not in years has there been such
strife among the big cities, east and
west, for commercial supremacy. New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia and
Baltimore are all striving to get the
business of interior merchants and
shippers of farm produce. This ener-
getic competition among the trade
centers must prove indirectly helpful
to the farmer, because it means fur
ther whiting down of middlemen's
expenses and freights on what the
farmer has to buy and has to sell.
The indispensable character of
many of the mighty modern engines
of war has been forcibly illustrated in
connection with the late manoeuvres
of the British fleet. Both the Mars
and the Terrible, the former mon
ster of IA, 900 tons, were suddenly
placed entirely out of the range of ac-
ton by trouble with their high pres
sure cylinders. The truth is that
naval construction at the present day
is largely in an experimental stage.
We have discarded sails and we can
not depend on our engines.
The national debt during the last
five years in England shows an aver
age daily increase of nearly $780, 900.
During the same period the national
debt of the United States shows an
average daily increase of more than
$125,0 Frances debt increased
$3.50, 900 daily, Germany's debt over
$3.50, 900, while that of Russia shows
a daily growth of not less than $4O5,-
600. Frances national debt to-day is
tie largest, heading the list with
SO, 900, 600, 900. Russia comes next,
then Great Britain and then Germany.
'sThe East does not know" says
the Denver Republican. "and will not
believe that Colorado is gold-pro-
ducing State, except in moderate
way Above all, it does not know
that it will surpass California this
year, and that in the course Of few
years it will go ahead of the Rand dis
trict in South Africa. People are
ready enough to believe stories of the
discovery of almost fabulous wealth in
the Yukon Valley, but they turn
deaf ear to the statement that Colo
RADIO is one of the greatest gold re-
gions in the world"
Ireland of prehistoric times was the
gold country of Europe. In no other
country, at any rate, has so much
manufactured gold of early ages been
found. not less than four hundred
specimens of Irish gold antiques be-
ing contained in the museum of the
Royal Irish Academy alone, while the
British Museum gold antiques, illus
trative of British history, are entirely
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