Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08

IIom The PROVINCES lOr the use OF the
students heavy drain on their re-
sources, have been shipping them as
smoked bacon, the freight rate for
which is much less. The discovery
has put all France into Mysteries.
A Kentucky strawberry grower re-
ports q clear profit this season of
$729.63 on seven acres of ground.
Numbers of women and children who
would have earned money in no other
way made one or two dollars q day
picking berries. Another grower of
strawberries reports his clear profit to
have been $357.50 on two acres of
ground.
Is it right to make dog work in
harness? Belgium answers yes, Eng
land no, the United States is indiffer-
emit, and France is celebrating. The
French law against using dogs as
beasts of burden is often violated in
some of the provinces, and move
ment has been started for repeal.
Belgians say their draught dogs are
quite jolly; but if the dogs could vote
on the subject, they would be apt to
approve the English view.
The German census of 1895 shows
that the population of Germany num-
bered 52,279, 901, or 1851, 434 more
than at the previous census in 1890.
This increase of more than five per
cent. in five years is greater than in
almost any other country the popula-
of which is not added to by immigra-
ton. The number of females exceeds
by nearly one million that of the
males, viz. 26, ,651 against 5,661,-
$50.
The new Missouri law requiring the
owner of swine, sick of any fatal dis
ease, to { once notify those keeping
swine on adjoining premises of the
fact, and requiring the owners of
swine that die of any disease, to bury
same within twenty-four hours. and
prohibiting from burying them Gin or
Immediately adjacent to any water
course, ravine or slough leading
through or onto other premises" is a
good one, and the farmers of that
state should see that it is enforced.
Australia, which has led in many
socialistic experiments made by the
state, is now considering the question
of state physic. The-president of the
Queensland Medical Association pro-
poses that the country be divided into
medical districts, under doctors paid
by the state to look after all the in
habitants, and that the money for the
purpose be raised by poll-tax of two
dollars year. This would enable
the state to pay fifteen hundred dol
lars for the lowest medical salaries.
A New South Wales labor league has
declared that "the practice of medi-
cine should be national SERVICE"
There has always been good deal
of lodging of responsibility in cases
where overcoats or hats have been
stolen while the owners were eating at
restaurants and the like. The Supreme
Court of New York now says restau-
rant keeper is bound to look out for
the safe keeping of its patrons prop
erty in such cases. 1t has just held a
restaurant man for $35 for the loss of
an overcoat be one of his guests. The
restaurant diner can now wrestle with
his viands without having to cast an
eye ever and anon at his fur-lined
overcoat or wonder whether he will
have to go home bare-headed.
"Nothing new under the sum-" said
the preacher. Yet many people think
that he did not foresee the bicycle.
Nevertheless, Mr.. Yang Yu, late
Chinese minister to this country, de-
clares that they used bicycles in the
Flowery Kingdom twenty centuries
ago. He adds that their manufacture
was finally prohibited by the En-
peror because the Chinese women
rode so constantly that they neglected
their families and domestic duties.
This bit of satire indicates to Youths
Companion that Mr.. Yang Yu has at
tanned very intelligent appreciation
of Occidental humor during his resi-
dence in this country.
Concerning the Polar basin, where
to, with the opening of the season, the
explorers are again scurrying from all
quarters, Sir George Mares says that
it is locked-up bay continuing out of
the narrowed Atlantic channel, with
warm stream of water constantly pour
ing into it between Spitzbergen and
Norway AID cold, icy one as con-
stantly running out between Spitz-
bergen and Greenland and also
through the narrow straits between
Greenland and America, the first con-
veying an enormous source of heat
'oward the north, the latter causing
:, intense cold of Canada and that on
he east side of Greenland and North
America.
1t is estimated that there are ,000,-
900 blind people in the world, or to
every 1900 inhabitants. Latest re-
ports show $4,000 blind persons in
England, or $40 for each million in
iabitants. Blind infants of less than
five years, 166 for each million; be-
tween five and fifteen, 2S8; between
twenty and twenty-five, 400; between
forty-five and sixty, 1925, and above
sixty-fve years, 1000 for each mil
lion. Russia and Egypt are the coun-
tries where the blind constitute the
largest proportionate number of total
population, in Russia on account of
the lack of experienced medical atten-
ton, and in Egypt because of oph-
thalmia due to irritation caused by
movements of the sand by the wind.