Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-06-10
Current Coudensat ions.

lie french leau the WOrlu III tue
production Of pansies.
Few negroes but believe that the left
hind foot Of graveyard rabbit Is
token of good luck, and the supersti-
ton is spreading among the white race.
A firm iD North Carolina, which makes
speciality of rabbit skins, has re-
ceived an order for 100000 of such feet.
The native place of the potato IS still
an open question. but is probably the
tropical regions OF America. There Is
4 tradition that the vines once grew to
monstrous size, and that the balls"
Were of the "bigness of melons," and at
that time the roots were not tubers, the
edible parts growing among the
branches.
An old lawyer used to say mans
requirements for going to law were
ten in number, and he summed them
up as follows: Firstly, plenty of mon
ey; secondly, plenty of patience; third
ly. good case; fourthly, good solic-
itor; fifthly. plenty of money; sixthly,
q good counsel; seventhly, good wit
ness; eighthly, good jury; ninthly.
good Judge; tenthly, plenty of money.
1t would be interesting to know how
the word key" which is the character
istic name of many small islands in the
Spanish waters, should have
crept SO far north as the coast of New
Jersey where it Is found in Key East
and Key West. The word is from the
same root as quay, and 1T appears some
hundreds Of times between Florida
and the coast Of South America.
sir John Gilbert, President Of the
Royal Society Of Painters in Water
Colors OF Great Britain, has not sold
any of his water color or vi, paintings
for many years past, intending to
build a gallery for them and present
gallery and pictures to the public. H.
has decided to donate the pictures 10
existing public art galleries, and two
weeks ago announced this intention
and offered his valuable collection to
be divided among free galleries in the
principal cities of the kingdom.
For the feeding of London a little
more than 3D., OS3 tons of meat, poul-
try and general provisions were deliv-
cred last year from the public mar
kets alone. This total was some $4,000
tons more than in any previous year.
There was an increase Of over 10 per
cent. in the supplies Of American meat;
939. 442 animals passed through one
cattle market of the metropolis and
141, 40 through another. all going to
supply the city with food. These fig
ures, Of course, only indicate part Of
the supplies
All the hardware used in the great
Mormon temple Mt Salt Lake City was
made to order, and bears either the
device of the beehive-the Mormon
name Of their country being 'Deseret,"
or 1.-THE land Of the honey bee"-or the
clasped hands, which is also one Of the
symbols Of the church. In the base
ment all the door knobs and hinges are
of solid brass, polished. Those upon
the first floor are plated with gold, on
the second floor with bright silver, on
the third floor with oxidized silver, and
those on the top floor are of antique
bronze.
A thousand women cigar-makers in
Naples went on strike because, among
other grievances, they were required
to make cigars without tobacco. Eight
hundred of them marched to the May
or's office and publicly stated their
troubles. Bad tobacco was given TO
them. they said, and then when they
turned in bad cigars they were mulct-
ed of their wages because of alleged
bad. work. With 500 tobacco leaves
they were expected to make GOO CT
CARS. This Is the reason" said one,
"why people smoke cigars stuffed
with tow and bits Of wood" 1t Is
said a visitor to Naples found a cigar
he was smoking to be stuffed with
lock OF fine, soft black hair.