Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-05-13

to learn that q party of English
sportsmen Is coming over here this
summer to shoot wild horses. or
these animals somebody has told the
eager Nimrods, there are at least q
600, 900 galloping about the mountains
of Utah, and such a nuisance are they
to the inhabitants of the country that
aid In decreasing their numbers Will
be gratefully welcomed. Once, ac-
cording to the veracious narrative
from which these facts are CLEANED. az
much attention on the ranches was
paid to the rearing OF horses as 10
that of cattle, and they were so valu-
able that to steal one OF the animals
was regarded as a crime worse tnan
murder, but now the man who would
round up few hundred bands OF these
animals and run of with them would
be elected Senator. The story does
not state whether the horse hunters
are coming chiefly for game, as bene-
factors to helpless people, or because
they have Senatorial aspirations, but
coming they are, and there is no doubt
they will have lot Of excitement
before they go back.
A flock of wild pigeons, so numer-
Gus as to recall the hunting stories
of days that were supposed to have
passed forever, has taken possession
of grove in Shasta County, Cal.
When the birds are on their foraging
expeditions they are said to form a
line a mile in length and from 100 to
200 yards wide, while the sound uf
their wings is like that of furious
storm. At night they gather In
black oak forest, where, over an area
of about 100 acres, they seem to cover
every twig and Dough. So numer-
GUS are they that people in the vicini-
ty kill as many OF them as they can
carry away, doing the work with clubs
and stones rather more effectively
than with guns. Local ornithologists
say the birds are the true wild pigeon
once common in Kentucky, Ohio. and
Indiana, and afterwards often seen
further west, though rarely in fiocks
so large as this one. They are de-
scribed as not quite foot long from
the tip of the bill to the end of the
tail. The prevailing color Is blush
gray, in some parts with green and
purple reflections, and with two broad
and distinct bars of black across the
wings. The lower part of the back
is white, while the tail is a deep gray,
with broad, black bar at the end.
The bill Is blackish brown, and the
legs and toes are of reddish orange.
The birds show great uniformity in
both size and color.
The emergencies created by the
plague have been the cause of some
thing like revolution in the case of
some Of the most deeply rooted social
and religious prejudices of the natives
in India. The increase of the pest
has compelled measures, such as the
isolation of the sick, which are in
direct antagonism to the most cherish
ed traditions Of religious observance,
liberty, and family life. At
the outbreak of the epidemic very few
sufferers could be persuaded to accept
hospital treatment. For a time it
seemed impossible in Bombay to in
duce more than twenty-five patients
to enter the wards. BY the beginning
of March, however, the Arthur Road
Hospital alone contained nearly a
hundred patients, while numbers were
availing themselves of the hospitals
of the Parsee, Jain, Hindu, Khoja,
and Mohammedan communities. and
Of special institutions, such as those of
the Port Trust, the Sahibs' servants,
and Parel. The devout Hindu breads
above all things to die in the hands of
men OF another caste, and to be de-
prived of the last rites which his own
are alone competent, accord
Ing to existing usage, to perform. 1t
is not merely a question of sentiment
In this world; 1t is also one of saliva
lion in the next. Almost without ex-
ception, until now, the respectable
classes of Indians have preferred the
certainty of dying among their own
people to the chance of recovery in
public hospital, however considerable
It's management, If it involves separa-
ton from their families. But segre-
CATION is the essential condition OF
hospital treatment in great epidemic.
and for the first time in India it is
not only being enforced, but is accept
ed as inevitable by the people them
selves. few months ago such sani-
AIRY proposals would have excited the
most fanatical opposition.