Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-05-20
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


Michigan people claim that their state
contains within it's borders 4.545 lakes
and nearly or quite $4,000 streams.
The amateur fishermen take great de-
light In these statistics.
A dispatch from New York says that
gold has become a drug on the local
market" Here seems to be fine
chance for some enterprising young
man to enter the drug business.
Mrs. Fred G. Harris advertises in a
Chicago paper that she will not be
responsible for any debts which her
husband may contract" The new
woman Is beginning to strike back.
The Atlanta Journal announces that
"a splinter which had remained in the
foot OF Miss Babe Martin for forty
four years has worked itself out" This,
we believe, Is one of the longest in
fantNe infections on record.
A man in Beaver Falls, Pa, ran over
dog the other day and received a
severe fall from his bicycle. Ever
since then he has seen everything
double. nat Is much cheaper than
the usual way of producing such
effects.
DIR. Wiley. the chemist of me Agri-
cultural Department in Washington,
says that, in his opinion, the coming
salad oil will be made of sunfower
seed. 1t is a perfect substitute for
olive oil, and will be so cheap that it
may be used on the poor mans table.
In his recent researches in regard to
disease which has wrought great havoc
in South America, DR.. Koch has dis
covered that by using the bile of an
animal which has died of rinderpest to
inoculate healthy animal, the latteri is
rendered immune to the pestilence for
some months at least.
Statistics from various sources re-
port that there are 1,118,000 women
stenographers in this country, earning
annually about 60,0O0,000 dollars.
That in France there are 2,150 women
authors and journalists and 700 women
artists. Among the writer's, 1000
are novelists, 200 poets, $50 educational
writer's, the others writer's Of various
departments.
"This is life in the East" says Mr..
Heitfield, the new Senator from Idaho,
Its all new to me. am getting so
dissipated now that l don't go to bed
until 10 o'clock and get up with the
sun. am used, TOO, to an active, busy
life, so that the sitting around all day
makes me lazy. Just as soon as the
extra session is over / am going back
to harvest my crops.
Commenting on the statement that
Kipling's salary of $4,000 month for
reporting the Cretan war would be
a pretty fair salary for beginner in
reportoral work. the Knoxville Tri-
bune gravely calls attention to the
fact that Kipling is not beginner,
but has done local, edited telegraph
and written editorials. All right,
then; he is entitled to receive as much
as the rest of us do.
1t is said that experiments in Florida
and Louisiana show that bamboo will
grow in those states almost as well as
In the hotter countries. Around Fort
Myers there are bamboos that have at
tanned to height of fifty or sixty feet
They are Of variety which usually
grows to about seventy feet in India.
In FRANCE County (Florida) there is
one clump of bamboos, said to be only
ten years old, in which the stalks have
attained to the height of sixty-five
feet, the stalks averaging thirteen in
ches in circumference. There are
eighty stalks in the clump. This par
ticular clump is a variety from Ben
gal, where the wood is used for build
ing purposes and for light spars for
vessels.
In a call for National Fish Con-
gress to be held at Tampa, Fla, next
January, Governor Bloxam of Florida
says: I'VE respectfully request the
Governors of the various states of the
Union and the fishery commissioners
of the same to appoint delegates to
this congress, which should command
the earnest attention of all good citi-
zens of the United States. In this in
terest we commend the words of the
Hon. T. T. Wright, who says the water
farms of the United States, oceans,
lakes and rivers, are neglected and but
half developed Let us turn on them
the searchlight of science to reveal
their treasures and possibilities, and
thereby increase openings for new
fields of labor and a larger supply of
food for mankind"
1.-THE Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle" says
James M. Smith, of Oglethorpe, Geor
gia's greatest farmer, has just broken
all records of cotton sales from a single
plantation by selling to Macon cotton
buyers in one lot over two thousand
bales of cotton of his own raising. The
cotton was sold on basis of seven
cents for middling, and when it is all
weighed and shipped Mr.. Smith will
receive a check for about $4,000. This
would be a tremendous crop, even il
Mr.. Smith raised nothing but cotton,
but when 1t is remembered that he
grows similarly large crops of grain
and hay and that cotton is his surplus
money crop after producing all the
provision crops he needs, then one can
grasp some idea of the scale on which
Colonel Smith farms, and see the
justice of calling him Georgia's cotton
king"
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