Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-07
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
One OF the most striking features Of
the war in South Africa is the ignor'
ance about the Beers which is man
ifested by the British army stan.
Luncheon is superiority, as any
man will discover If he will try doing
without it for the period Of one month,
says the New York World.
1t is found that wireless, telegrami
are likely to become confused il sew
eral are transmitted at once. Mr.,
Marconi can hardly expect to have the
entire earth to himself every time he
sends message.
Statistics show that Germany leads
the world in the publication Of educa
tional works, the arts and sciences,
bellies lettres and travel; France in
history, poetry and the drama; Italy
in political economy, and England in
novels.
OF course: An American syndicate
has bought the San Juan battlefield
and will preserve it as it is, with
trenches and block houses. Then they
will probably put fence around il
and let You in for 10 cents. Cuba is
learning things.
And now the scientists have dis
covered microbes in the representatives.
used in canning and bottling food,
and advocate that they be done away
with. Next thing we know the mi
crobe will be infesting chloride OF
lime and things like that. Nothing
is safe from it.
1t is the opinion of German ocu-
list that the use of the ordinary states
by school children tends to produce
short-sightedness. As substitute
he recommends pen and ink or an
artificial white slate with black pencil.
The latter have been introduced in
some of the German schools.
Twelve inch guns of an improved
pattern are to take the place of the
thirteen inch guns in the three new
battleships. The new "Kearsarge'
has answered every expectation up to
the present, and it is her success
which has led to an unhesitating APP
plication of the superimposed turrets.
Among the new adventures in the
egg industry is that of marketing of
the egg by weight. The Dominion
of Canada has already introduced a
bill in Parliament regulating the sale
of eggs by weight. The act provides
that unless otherwise agreed upon
between the buyer and seller, eggs
shall be sold by weight, and the
weight equivaleQt to dozen shall be
pound and half" which is equal
to fifteen pounds to the ''long hun
dred," which is 10 dozen as demanded
by the British market.
In 1897 the corn crop of this coun-
try was nearly 1000, 900, 900 bushels
and must now considerably exceed
that amount. Considering that use
in manufacturing has been found for
every pound of ton of cornstalks, it
may be roughly imagined what value
will be added to the country's do
nestle and exported wealth by utili-
cation of material much of which was
formerly looked upon as worse than
useless or left to rot in the ground.
1t is, perhaps, the most impressive
lesson given for a long time in the
value of the by-product. The Amer
lean corn grower is changed at once
into producer for more than dozen
different demands, all of them APP
parently with permanent place in
industry.
Convict labor is in demand in
Georgia, and prices are rising. to the
benefit of the state. Formerly the
lessees OF convicts paid the state only
81 per head yearly, but the new law
IL ouhitioh w cCOuiiht ttCut-
ment for the prisoners, has resulted
in greatly increased prices for their
services. Under the latest bids few
of the convicts were farmed out for
less than 500, and one lessee has
recently sold his bunch of fifty con-
victs to another contractor at hand
some profit.
The latest report of the United
States Land Commissioner shows that
Uncle Sam has 500, 30S, 900 acres of
land which he is anxious to give away
or sell for song. Much of it is not
fit for agricultural purposes, but then
since the mineral development boom,
who can tell what the rough lands
may be worth with respect to that
1t might pay men with money to in
vest to look up even the lands, that
are considered worthless.
The discovery that we owe our
alphabet, the very foundation of our
civilization, to n people of Chinese
atfinities, is rather dampening to our
pride of race. But that is not the
only thing in which the Mongolian in