Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

% for each man, woman and child in
the State. OF the amount 81, O29, TIT. :
81 was for the salaries of the teach
ers.
According to writer in The Inde-
pendent, only four of the States of
the Union use officially the term Com
monwealth, these being Massachusetts,,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Ken
lucky.
That army chaplaincies continue to
be very alluring to the clerical mind is
indicated by the fact that nearly three
hundred ministers applied to the Fed
eral Government for appointment to a
single vacancy that recently occurred.
In India boarding is the universal
method Of providing for the future,
and one authority says that the stores
of the natives in the shape OF coin and
ornaments amount to as much as
81 $50, 600, 900.
Seattle, in the new State of Wash
ington, is seeing its great opportunity
in the excitement over the Klondike
gold discoveries, and is awaiting it.
self of it. Enthusiastic citizens pre-
dict population of hundred thous-
and for the town before the close of
1898.
A Californian with wooden leg has
started for the Alaska gold fields, and
proposes to tramp over the Chilkoot
Pass alone. Well, he is fifty per cent.
better off than many who will make
the trip, opines the Chicago Times
Herald. He has only one foot to
freeze.
In the United States the yield of
cotton is worth about 400 millions
dollars, hay 43O, dairy products $50,
poultry and eggs $50, and we export
more or less of everything but the
latter. We eat all our eggs and chick
ems at home, and then call for more
from abroad.
The Galveston News notes as sim
gular fact in view of it's States i'm
mense herds of cattle, that Texas i'm
ports from other States much of the
butter it uses. Some of its citizens
are now laboring to procure the estab-
lishment of creameries> and cheese
factories there.
Every day we find paper being used
for new purposes. Now jackets are
made of it to support those weak
spines that hitherto have been held
in position by heavy plaster jackets.
Tn nf he Oh in tnh
can easily believe the claims of its in
ventor that lit is the thinnest,
lightest and strongest spinal support
ever invented"
A sinister prediction comes from
Vienna. Professor Falb announces
that on November Is, 1899, comet
will strike the earth. The calculations
of the. meteorologist are not yet suffi-
GENTLY complete to inform the world
whether the violence of the shock will
reduce the planet to dust, or whether
it will be enveloped in an atmosphere
of poisonous gas, which will kill all
Twin. beings.
In Shelbyville, Ind, the other day,
constable who called to serve writ
upon widow was scalded with ket-
tleful of hot water, and ran away so
rapidly that he entirely forgot that he
had suffered for twenty years with
chronic rheumatism which would
scarcely permit him to walk. The hot
water cure seems to be effective, but
it may be little too severe for the
average sufferer.
Hans Wiseman, famous Nebraska
pioneer, discounts the ordinary dime
novel hero, for he is said to have killed
in the course of his life 500 or more
Indians. He now lives near Harring-
ton, Neb., and is about so years old,
but he is still hale and hearty. About
thirty-five years ago, when Wiseman
was serving in the army, the Indians
murdered his five children, and for
years no red man dared come within
range of Wiseman's rifle.
The Atlanta Constitution is respon-
sible for the statement that duelling
became dead letter in Georgia be-
cause the farmers of the State suffered
SO much that they banded together
against it and stamped it out. Their
barn doors and window shutters were
seriously wounded by the duellists,
who never would pay for repairs, and
many fine Georgia cows were slain by
the stray shots of the dangerous COM
batants. The real sufferers could stand
it no longer and they kicked.
Baltimore's Board of Health has
issued orders that will stop the mad
dog craze. 1t commands the police
to apply ligature above the bite and
then try to suck the poison from the
wound with the mouth, care being
taken, of course, THAT your own lips
are not chapped or cut" This, de-
clares the New York Press, will put
an end effectively to the mania pecu-
liar to policeman to shoot every dog
as mad which may be tortured into
biting somebody.
The wives of three well known citi-
zens of Fort Scott, Kan. the first
time in the history of the State-have
been drawn to serve upon the jury.
Unless the court excuses them, they
will be obliged to deliberate with the
other talcsmen regarding testimony
which may not be pleasant for them
to hear. Under the law of Kansas, all
taxpayers who are electors are eligible
for Jury service. The women there