Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-02
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

the STARS ana stripes Dy klUos = hliio
above the summit Of Pixies Peak, and
claim that it is the highest point ever
attained by Old Glory.
OF the thousands Of prisoners re-
leased from jails in India on Jubilee
Day, some have voluntarily returned
TO Jail, while others are committing
burglary and other offences.
In order to reach the deep-water
sailormen on the great lakes, the Navy
Department has decided to establish
recruiting stations in several of the
lake cities. The Bureau of Nayiga-
ton has just issued an order notifying
recruiting officers that native-born
Americans be regarded with especial
favor.
The English sparrow has spread far
hence and increased rapidly. The
farmers of the Province of Ontario are
complaining that he is an unmitigated
nuisance to them, and they insist that
he should be exterminated as soon as
possible. He drives away the insecti-
vorous and singing birds and does
nothing to compensate for their loss.
A patent has been allowed by the
British Patent Office for making gold.
A similar application has been made to
the United States Patent Office, and
the Treasury Department has under
taken to test the process. Sensational
versions of this fact have appeared in
some of the daily papers, but the pat
emit has so far been withheld, and it is
not probable that it will be granted.
No one disputed the dictum of a
Chinese physician who had been called
to attend Celestial who had tainted
in store at Portland, Oregon, when
the doctor said, after filling the pros
trate mans mouth and nose with red
paint "Him blow out paint, him all
same not yet dead him no catch i'm
wind, no blow out paint, him heap
dead" The man didn't blow out the
paint and the coroner was called.
"In OIL respect" says an English
paper, ''the Siamese Army is superior
to every other, and that is in its ele-
plant corps. Eight hundred of these
animals, which are stronger, though
smaller, than those of India, are or
ganized into special corps, com
manded by a retired Anglo-Indian
officer, and their heads, trunks and
other vulnerable parts are protected
against bullets by India rubber ar
NOR"
"The Railway and Engineering Re-
view" raises the question whether
the present tendency toward heavier
track, more powerful locomotives and
larger cars has not reached its practi-
cal limit, if, indeed, it has not already
exceeded it, The fact that railroad
is primarily designed and operated for
the purpose of making money is too
often lost sight of, and some officials
in charge of the various departments
are apparently impressed with the
idea that its chief use is for the ex-
ploitation of their various hobbies"
Invitations to "bloomer lawn
party" from church society of wo-
men of st. Louis recently stirred up
great excitement and criticism, but
tuc ttcniuhu ioI tiChCto NdS tICihCh
dous. One of the conditions of the
invitations was that all the women
should wear boomers, and those who
were not properly equipped in that
respect were to be provided with the
articles on their arrival. When the
crowd arrived on the night of the
party it was discovered that all
the women were adorned with i'm
mense sunfowers, which were the
boomers that had invited so much
criticism.
As knowledge of the Klondike re-
gion increases, says the New York
Times, it will probably be discovered
that to live from the resources of the
country is not impossible or even es-
pecially difficult. From time immem-
orial men have managed to subsist in
places fully as cold and much more
sterile. Most of the Yukon Valley is
heavily wooded, and wherever trees
grow there are animals and the posi-
bility of raising at least a few rapidly
maturing crops. This, of course, will
be of no immediate advantage to the
multitudes now hurrying northward
through the passes to camp on an open
plain just as winter begins, but it will
have much to do with the future de-
velopment of the new gold fields.
A Liverpool medic i man was called
in to attend patient seized with
cholera cramps as the result of excess
sive drinking, and found together
about dozen persons, mostly young
women, in a room with full glasses be-
fore them, three gallon jar of strong
ale on the table, and several bottles of
whiskey, which from time to time were
This remarkable session
was kept up for five days. 1t was in
celebration of wedding, and all had
saved up for weeks in anticipation of |
the event. The father pawned his |
watch, and most of his furniture; one
young fellow pawned his coat, hat and
watch. The whole party, twenty or
thirty in number, slept together on the
floors, or anywhere, the house being a
small ehree-roomed cottage in one of
the streets of Tox Teth Park. When
the five days revel was ended they all
proceeded to the house of Father
Nugent and signed the pledge"
There was a narrow escape from a
unique fatality in the Treasury De-
partment at Washington. The vast |
accumulation of paper money and coin
was being counted, an incident in the