Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-07
aoTss AND CONSENTS.

yOu must look very snuFpiy uHcuu VI
you and about you. SO decides the
New York Supreme Court In damage
| suit.
New Jersey tramps are getting less
particular what they take. One OF
them recently carried of back door,
and another honeysuckle viue. Peo-
pie now are trembling for their red
hot stoves.
Forty-twO thousand elephants were
slaughtered In Africa alone. for their
ivory. 1t will not be long before the
pachyderm joins his colossal fore
father, the mastodon, and remains In
evidence only as portions of him are
dug up.
According to the census Of 1890, the
total number of deaths from consump-
ton In the United States for the year
ending May 81, 1890, were 102, 100; of
these S4,173 We're white and 1S,026
were colored; the per cent Of deaths
from this disease being Ill among
the white population and 1914 among
the colored.
The total number of federal APP
pointees In the classified civil service
is, at present, 1924. There are TS1
exempted places. 4,S15 appointive
places subject to confirmation by the
Senate, and S,603 laborers. watchmen.
and messengers unclassified. Presi-
dent Mckinley will have fewer APP
pointments to make than any Of his
predecessors.
BY the direction of the Omaha Board
Of Education boys in the pubic schools
are asked to sign of their own free
will pledge to abstain from the use
of tobacco during their school days,
with proviso that they can be re-
leased from their pledge at any time
on a personal request. The teachers
report that the plan has worked well.
that very many of the boys have signed
the pledge, and that keeping II has
come to be regarded as matter Of
honor. Better scholarship, better
morals and more clearly habits are
among the direct results Of the move
ment
Interesting statistics showing the
growth of the work and influence OF
the Young Mems Christian Association
were given at the celebration Of the
thirtieth anniversary of the interna-
tional committee OF the association,
which correspondent Of the Philadel-
phia Ledger thus summarizes: In ten
years the number of associations has
increased FROM $50 TO 1913; the TOT,
Membership from $780, 400 to 263, COS;
the buildings from 225 to 315; the value
of buildings from Sl2,s3S, 900 to Sic
759,S00; the volume of libraries from
207 ,539 to AIS, 1858; the annual expenses
Of local. state and international work
from 81 ,654, Ago to $1,000, III; the num-
Der of students in educational classes
from 1,941 to 25.SS6; the college asso-
Citations from 254 to $50; the railroad
associations from ~ to 10S.
Recent attempted prosecutions Of vio-
lators of the game laws in Kansas
have revealed a singular state of af-
fairs. During rhe annual tinkering
of the game laws certain sections were
first repealed. The legislators Of the
Sldlt lutll HtSltCltu W tndCt Jaw
which had been proposed to take the
place of the repealed sections, these
having been pigeon-holed in committee
rooms, presumably through oversight
The result is that there are practically
no laws there to prevent the wholesale
slaughter Of game, in or out of season.
The pot-hunters are, therefore, revealing
In their opportunity to kill everything
of the feathered or furred sort, and the
sportsmen who believe i'm the preserv-
alton of game are at their wits end
to prevent the destruction now in prog
ress.
Electric railways are spreading over
Europe almost as rapidly as over the
United States, while the use of cleo
trically propelled carriages on ordina-y
roads is increasing much more rapidly
there than here. Last year the number
of trolley, or storage lines. In Europe
grew from 30 to III, while the total
amount Of rails used went up from
437 IL miles to 5G4. Germany heads
the list with n total Of 25J miles and
S57 auto motor vehicles, France being
second with go IL miles and 223
vehicles, England third with 60 miles
and les vehicles, and Switzerland
coming fourth with 20 IL miles and SO
vehicles. Bulgaria and Denmark are
the only two European countries
which have no line with electric trac-
ton. OF the Ill lines now worked.
81 are driven by wires over head, 8
have central rail, have accumula-
tors, and 3 are underground current.
1t is strange to what lengths the
taste for adventure will induce men to
go. A Russian nobleman of the name
of Malegan has just been condemned
by the Dutch authorities i'm Java to
twenty years penal servitude, after
being captured while directing the
operations of the fierce native insur-
gents Mt Lombok, where so many of
the subjects of young Queen Wilhel-
mine were massacred. The English
authorities ut Suakim are now engaged
in investigating the case Of a former
Austrian cavalry officer captured in
the attire of a Dervish, while on his
way to rejoin the Mahdi at Khartoum.
The officer Is believed to be member
of the princely house of Schwarzen-
berg, who deserted from his regiment
in Austrian Poland four years ago.
In Tongking the French authorities
have recently arrested, court-martialled
and shot n Swede and Dane, whom
they found acting as chiefs Of bands
Of native pirates.