Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-06

boom" towns OF Kansas have been
hauled out to neighboring farms
where they are utilized a. dwellings OF
barns.
| The people seeking q more direct
route to the Klondike region might
learn something to their advantage BY
consulting several miners who desire
a more direct route from the Klondlke
A philosopher on the editorial stat
of the Denver Post asserts that "a
| good many girls marry man because
he has pretty mustache." About
how many of them usually marry him :!
New Bedford, Mass. is about to es-
tablish textile school under the par
tial support of the state. The city has
appropriated $35. 900 for the work, and
the state will appropriate the same
amount.
Nathan King, who Is said to farm
''in a scientific way" and Is known "a
"the butter king OF Boone County
Missouri, sold more than 1000 pounds
of butter the past year, the product Of
twenty-four Jersey cows; and 1t is
said that he has been able to set
twenty-five cents pound or better for
| all of II.
New South Wales is experimenting
successfully with irrigation, having a
territory estimated at 62O0O square
miles requiring that sort of treatment.
The water Is obtained from artesian
wells, and the official report upon the
work declares that 1t is entirely sue
cessful, and that the whole tract can
| thus be made fertile.
A system of school savings banks
| imported from Europe in 1885 is now
in operation in eleven States. About
twenty-eight thousand pupils are de-
positors, with $4,000 to their credit.
DR.. Fitted, an authority on the subject,
says that the prime object Of the
school savings-bank system is not so
much the accumulation of money az
the inculculation of the principles Of
thrift, honesty and self-responsibility.
The Christian Scientists have just
dedicated a new church building in
Chicago costing about 100000 1t is
of Greek architecture, capable of seat
ing between fifteen hundred and two
thousand people. Eight thousand de-
voices of the faith attended the four
services held on the Sunday Of it's
dedication, few weeks ago, there be-
ing elaborate choral and musical per-
formances accompanying each service
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this faith, but addresses were given oy
the readers. A letter was read from
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, the foundress
of the denomination, in which she set
forth the doctrines of which she calls
the science of Christianity. 1t Is said
that there are now $40 regularly orga-
nized churches of Christian science in
the United States, England and Cana
da, and that the denomination Is rap
idly growing.
The example of the Indianapolis
Board of Education in daily disinfect-
ing the pens and pencils which the
school children use, and which,
through the childish habit Of inserting
articles in the mouth, have been
thought to be the means Of communi-
eating infectious diseases, Is to be
copied in several other cities. Another
source of infection has been discovered
in New Haven in the use by the school
children of textbooks in common.
Cases of measles and scarlet fever. have
been traced to books in which
germs of the diseases were brought to
school from the homes Of children af-
ficted with those ailments. 1t has
been the practice Of the school authori-
ties to burn the books, which had been
in use by sick children, but this, In the
opinion of members of the finance
committee, is a waste Of public money.
They recommend instead the installa-
ton of fumigating apparatus, and this
has the approval of the local health
officer.
Superintendent w. B. Powell, of the
Washington, District of Columbia,
public schools, has recently sent cir
cular letter to the teachers Of the var
ious schools asking them to inculcate
the minds of their pupils kindness to
the lower animals. He states that the
manner in which the animals are treat
ed by people are indicative of their
character, and requests the teachers 10
impress this upon their pupils. In his
letter Mr.. Powell makes special men,
ton of the song birds of the country,
and asks that the teachers make
point of instructing the children in
their charge on the rights of bird life,
and of the manifold advantages to be
derived of leaving unframed the song
sters which give added character to
the flowers, trees and sky. Superin-
tendent Powell is of the belief that
this new departure will be of infinite
value In the future, as the pupils are
sure to remember some of the teach
ings they received, even after they
have left school,
Near Whitechapel, in one of the
poorest and most squalid districts in
London, is the Rothschild School, tho
largest in the world, educating thirty
five hundred children, belonging
mostly to the poorest foreign Jews,
and having a staff of one hundred
teachers. It was founded fifty-fye
years ago by Rothschild of that time,
and has always been presided over by
one of the family, the present Baron
Rothschild now performing that Office.
Free breakfasts are given each morn
ing to all the children who wish them,
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