Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-23
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

DIR. Jordon, of Stanford University,
says that the only way to save the
seal herd is to prohibit pelagic seal
ing.
Some $40O, 900 of worlds fair money
still remains to be distributed among
the stockholders at Chicago. 1t has
been tied up by litigation.
According to the indianapolis News
the board of public work Of that place
recently made proposition to the
council that ''we put our heads to-
gether and build wooden pavement
this fall"
England's Cirque Ports, now nearly
all high and dry, may become harbors
again. The sea, which for centuries
had been receding from Rye and
Winchilsea. is returning and is fast
eating into the land.
One of the students at the Chautau-
qua cooking school is middle aged
man. ct am widower," he explained
when he entered. 81 must either get
married or take a course in cooking,
and / prefer the latter"
A deaf and dumb congress is about
to be held in London. Some of the
newspapers are complaining that no
list of speakers has yet been an
nounced. 1t is probable, however,
that "all hands" will carry on CONVEX
sation even if no formal addresses are
to be made.
Talk about Klondike That coun-
try isn't ''in it, with our farmers.
They will get over $500, 600, 900 more
for their crops this year than last, from
present indications. That's more
gold than the whole of Alaska will
yield in years. And our farmers are
getting it right here without leaving
"all the comforts of home"
There is a nervous anxiety among
some people to discover a new name
for the Anglo-Saxon subjects of the
queen. One genius has hit upon
"Anglicander as suitable to inhabi-
tants of the British Isles and of the
colonies alike. 1t is not probable that
any Englishman or Australian will
yearn to call himself an "Anglicand-
en-"
The Yashima, the new Japanese
battle-ship built in England, is the
fastest vessel of the kind ahoat, and
it is claimed from the showing made
on her trial trip that she is one of the
greatest fighting machines ever built.
She is 372 feet long, with 70. feet
beam and 1913 feet draught, and has
IL, 400 tons displacement. She has
the very best armour, ranging in thick
ness from Is to IA inches.
The rapid rise of the land about
Hudson Bay is said to be the most re-
markable gradual upheaval of an ex-
tensive region ever known. Drift
wood-covered beaches are now twenty
TO sixty or seventy feet above the
water, new islands have appeared, and
many channels and all the old harbors
have become too shallow for ships. At
the present rate this shallow bay will
disappear in few centuries, adding
vast area of dry land or salt marsh to
British territory i'll America.
Street railroads, says Municipal
Affairs, are owned and operated by
thirty-three cities of England and
Scotland, by some cities in Germany,
Switzerland, Holland and of the Aus
tralian colonies; by Toronto and in a
measure by New Orleans. Municipal
ownership, is, therefore, no new or
over-radical thing. 1t is feasible and
reasonably successful, and it cannot he
attended with any greater political
evils than the no more universal mu-
nicipal ownership of docks, ferries,
bridges, markets and the water sup
ply.
There have been three British wars
with Afghanistan during the Victorian
sixty years, and the news from the
Khyber Pass seems ominous of an
other. One of the earliest military
tragedies of the Queens reign was the
appalling massacre of McNaghten's
command in one of the passes leading
southwark from Cabul into India.
Over Is, 900 men, women and children,
retreating from the Afghan capital
under pledges of peaceful journey to
India, were overtaken in the pass by
the ferocious tribesmen and massacred
within few hours. One man only
survived the slaughter, and he badly
wounded, crawled slowly on to Jellala-
bad to tell the horrible story.
The indications are now that the
current agricultural year will prove
great one for the farmers. In almost
every unexpectedly in cotton, rice,
corn, wheat, peas and potatoes-the
yield promises to be full and the mar
ket better than for some years. Added
to this is the fact that the farmers are
less in debt than they have been for
quarter of a century. The proceeds
from their crops, therefore, will go
into their pockets or to swell their
savings bank accounts, and not to
satisfy mortgages and liens and open
accounts for provisions and supplies. |
The farmers have been learning and |
close economy during the
past two or three years, and they find
it profitable.
Can nothing be done to save the old |
landmarks of American history? The
stately old mansion of the Van Rens-
salaer family in Albany, N. Y, was
sold few days ago in pursuance of
nm interlocutory judgment, and will be
torn down to make room for an ice