Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-02-11
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


post Office robber alive now In orde
to get the reward.
President George Falcon, of the Oil,
Fish and Game Commission, says tina
the supply OF fish in Lake Erie will h,
exhausted In two or three years unles,
the existing laws regulating the cato.
are quickly revised and thoroughly Ell
forced.
All the Paris papers are comment
Ing on the success of the bicycle exhibi
tlon in the Palnis de rIndustrle. Among
the novel and interesting machines ex
hiblted Is an ice sextuplet, built to 20
on ice or crusted snow at the rate Of
one mile minute. The wheels, which
are spiked, revolye through the centr,
of pair of thin sleds, the spikes JUS
passing beneath the surface.
Taking the suggestion from Ger.
man scientific journal, which recently
pointed out the advantage Of elephant-
as beasts of burden even in European
cities, the Comite de rElephant has
| just been formed In Paris for the pur
pose OF preventing the killing of Gle
| plants for sport. Next summer a mum
Der of elephants will be employed as
beasts OF burden in Marseilles, where
the winters are milder than they are
| In Paris.
Benton Wilson has been liberatei
from n Washington State penitentiary
on n pardon, after having served two
| years Of long sentence that he had
received on confession of murder
| which he had made TO shield his faith.
err. The two were charged two years
| ago with the murder of Benton WI.
sons brother-in-law, and the father
being tried first and the prospect being
dark for him, his son gor up and con-
| fessed that he did tie killing.
BY the increase In the French army
many men are with, avn from other
vacancies thus made are largely filed
by women, and the prediction is ven
tured that II the folly Of ornaments
goes on increasing France will be-
come, owing to its stationary popula-
ton, nation Of women-supported men.
However, as living becomes more ex-
pensive the competition of women in
nearly every profession becomes
keener.
Californlans contemplate erecting in
Washington, at the time of the inaugu-
ration of the new President, an elabo-
rate citrOus arch. its prime object being
to advertise their States agricultural
productions. The arch Is to be Of red
wood, AMI the design provides that
the columns, four in number, shall
be completely enveloped by oranges
and lemons. The bases are to be faced
with California onyx and marble. Tie
whole is to be lighted at night by in
candescent lamps.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union intends to erect National Tenn
perance Hospital in Chicago. One of
it's promoters says: I'VE shall show
the doctors who think that in some
cases the administering Of alcohol is an
absolute necessity to save n patients
life that they are utterly mistaken, and
before our work in the new field Is 4
year old we can present facts in the
shape of cured patients which will
change the mind of many a physician,
no matter how hidebound he may be
In his prejudices."
In 1897 there will be six State cleo
tons, five of which will give some in
dication Of how the country feels about
the new administration. The first is
in Rhode Island on April Z. The live
others are in the fall. On Nov. . Mas
sachusetts, Ohio, Iowa and Virginia,
representing in way important sec
tons of the Union, hold elections for
all State offices, and on Nov. 8 New
Appeals and members Of the Assem-
bly,. On the same day the Greater New
York will choose its first government
under the new charter.
Thirty thousand elk are winterng in
the Jackson's Hole country of Wyom-
ing, according to the estimate Of the
game warden, who says that in one
herd which he saw the other morning
there were 1900 of them, stretching
over distance of six miles. The sight,
he said, surpassed anything he had ever
seen and utterly amazed him. The
elks' trail over the snow was like flint
ice, he said, so hard had the SNOW been
packed down. The animals are seen
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along the Snake River from the Great
Swamp to the Gros-Ventre hills, and
at night the walls of the calves stray
ing from their mothers may be heard.
The Charleston News and Courier
says: Professor ]. w. Homan, OF the
State Colored College of South Caro-
lima, Is the first cOlored man TO intro
duce among his people of the South
biology. He is introducing line Of
industry among his people In the South
that will make his work felt not only by
the colored people but by bolh races.
Professor Hoffman Is said to be a
very competent man. and has a great
college work. The Booker Washing
ton idea Of making the colorcd people
self-supporting and self-respectlns Is
worth all the empty political privileges
and positions that could be conferred
upon them. What they need is TO be
trained so that they can work ,hc.r
hands and heads together"
During the last two years the idel