Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-31
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Admiral Dewey has a double In New
York, who, strangely enough, Is q Span
lard. When the war with Spain broke out
Senor A. B. Planas sympathized with
his mother country. At that time the
battle of Manila had not been fought,
and his likeness to Admiral Dewey was
not generally noticed. After the defeat
Of the Spanish fleet, however, when Senior
Planas had enough, as he thought, to
mourn about, the men of his acquaint'
ance began to twit him with his resem-
blance to the man who had destroyed the
sea power Of his country. That worried
the Spaniard to such an extent that he
shaved off his mustache and thus escaped
persecution. Now his mustache Is grow
ing once more, and Senor Planas finds
life again burden.
Farmers In North Dakota, who report
250, 900 acres Of standing wheat destroy
ed by hail, met with a similar loss thir-
teen years ago. On July "a, 1856, a
great hailstorm swept over Minnesota
and North Dakota, wiping out nearly
5000 acres of wheat and doing immense
damage in other ways. Some Of the hail
stones were as big as hens eggs. The
biggest hail stones on record, however,
fell at Whitehall, ILL.,, in 1881. They
were as big as goose eggs and dyifts ten
and twelve inches deep were found the
day after the storm. In August, 1883,
hailstcnes measuring thirteen inches in
circumference fell and at Dubuque Iowa,
In 1882, monster hail stones weighing two
pounds were picked up.
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The West Indies, which have been de-
vastated by cyclone, are peculiarly LA
BILE to such visitations. In 1880 nearly
the whole island Of Jamaica was devas-
tated, hundreds Of buildings being de-
stroyed and twelve lives lost. In October,
1882, a hurricane crossed Cuba, killing
forty people and thousands of cattle. In
1888 a cyclone killed 1000 people in
Cuba. Three years later a hurricane
struck Martinique, wrecking all the ship
ping in port and killing $40 people, in nd
dition to a property loss estimated at
SIC, 100000.
August Is the month Of the dog days
and of falling stars. Venus Is now
morning star, rising only three-quarters
of an hour before the sun. Mercury Is
an evening star, but he will begin to get
up in the morning on Aug. 10. Jupiter
may be noticed at sunset, far down In
the western heavens. Mars and Uranus
are both evening stars. The moon was
new on the 9th, and will be full on Aug.
20.
Yellow fever Is distinctively an Amer
lean pestilence. 1t first appeared In Phil
adelphia in 1869. Again in 1762 it raw
aged the City Of Brotberly Love and in
1791 broke out in New York. During
this century it has appeared many times
Sn New Orleans and other Southern
cities. During the great epidemic of
1878 there were $4,000 cases and 1900
deaths in the United States.
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II Ia an honor to represent q whole
State In Congress, instead Of a district,
but 1t is not a popular one. In Kansas
no one seems to desire the nomination.
Kansas, Pennsylvania and South Dakota
have Congressmen representing the State
at large, the Legislature having failed to
make a reapportionment of the State
since the census of 1890. The position ia
unpopular, because there Is no patronage,
and there In no chance OF continuity In
once, as the territory Is likely to be di.
vided into districts at any time.