Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-10-07

|. = rmative a tlhe courts Of Indiana ae
circuit and upon appeal. A passenger
had bought . return ticket which ne
was required to have stamped q sucn
4 station before 1t would be receivable
for his homeward trip. He neglected
b, apply at the station for this pur.
nose until after z p. M. when the
once had been closed for the day. ana
he insisted that Under those circum-
stances the conductor was bound 10
accept his ticket mnstamped. as 1t was
unreasonable not to keep the station
open longer. The courts, however,
we're unanimously of the opinion that
twelve hours day AFFORDED the pas
senger an ample opportunity to PEE
sent his ticket, and that The railroad
could not be required to Keep ITS sta
ton at such q village opca day ana
hight.
The majority of the patents issued to
women Of late years has been for ar
ticles in the culinary utensil line or
that of furniture and furnishings,
while In regard to wearing apparel
there have been many patents. 1t rested
with Henrietta ]. Lyon, Newark, N. J..
to invent waistband for trousers, for
which a patent was issued January 2,
1894, and for Leah d. Jones, Newburn,
N. c., to take out patent for panta-
Icons protector, May s, 1894. There
have been a number of typewriter
patents issued to women inventors,
sewing and spinning machines, sta
tionery articles, toys and games, toilet
articles, musical apparatus, theatrical
appliances, medical appliances and ag-
ricultural implements. Probably one Of
the most amusing patents for an in
vention is that of an improvement ON
a hammock for two. If the new wo-
man wishes some object lesson to
prove that the mind feminine is not
whit behind that of the male, she can
point proudly to the list Of women in
ventors in the patent Office. But If
the argument needs to be refuted 1t
can be done SO successfully, 1t Is
claimed, by pointing to the fact that
many of the articles invented are
solely to crafty woman's vanity and
assist in the adornment Of her physi-
cal charms.
That the lot of the sailor in the
British mercantile marine is no pss CT
roses is shown by a report Of the Gov
eminent Board of Trade just issued in
London, and according to which the
number of cases of discretion du' ng
| the twelve months which have ,ast
been brought to a close exceeds 1900.
| With the exception of few hundred
only, all these DESERVING seamen were
what are known as long-voyage men,
and their abandonment of their ships
in some foreign port-usually an Amer
lean one-meant to them not only the
sacrifice of character, with the GER
tainty of Imprisonment in the event
of recapture, but likewise the loss OF
all accumulation Of pay, which Is only
given to the men on completing the
time for which they have shipped. The
Board of Trade calculates that, esti-
mating the accumulated pay OF each
deserving sailor at minimum aver
age of $50 nearly $750,OO0 is thus lost
| to the sailors and to their families at
home, the money, of course, remain
ing in the hands of their employers.
The English Government now pro-
poses to devise means by which ship
owners and ship masters, who often
brutally treat their men with the ex-
press object of inducing them to de-
sert without demanding their pay,
should be forced to disgorse all such
accumulations of wages for the ben
eft of the nearest relatives of the de-
serters.-Boston Transcript