Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-29
FROM THE BIG CITIES.



Chicago.
The city is soon to have woman's
hotel.
Marriage licenses to the number of 129
were issued in one day recently.
Physicians and citizens are about to or
ganize society for the prevention of con-
sumption.
The Postoffice Department at Washing
ton has allowed appropriations of $24,3OO
and $4,000 to be used in improvements
OF the city postal service.
G. A. II. men are waging lively battle
for the location of the thirty-fourth ma
tional encampment Of the Grand Army OF
the Republic in the city in 1900.
The Pullman company has received an
order from the Government OF the King
dom of Bavaria for six compartment pas
senger cars for the railroads of that coun-
try.
President Mckinley and his cabinet
have been invited to be present at the
ceremonies of laying the corner stone of
the new Federal building, Chicago Day,
Oct. 8.
Skilled workmen in the building line are
at a premium, and the scarcity of men is
giving trouble to the representatives OF
the organizations that are affiliated with
the Building Trades Council.
London.
Scorching is forbidden cyclers, and the
police enforce the order with strctness.
Aged workmen are said to dye their
gray hair so as to be able to obtain en-
ployment.
A 17-year-old London vegetarian bicy-
clist has made 317 miles in twenty-four
road trial over hilly country, unpaced.
The latest addition TO London clubs is
a Poodle Club, which has been formed by
a number of ladies and gentlemen inter-
ested in the breed.
The public entrance doors of the great
building of the Bank of England are so
finely balanced that a clerk, by pressing
a knob under his desk can close them in
stantly.
Sandwich men are not permitted to pa
rade on the sidewalks. They must keep
close to the curb, however, and not nearer
than thirty feet from the next man bear
ing placard.
Complaint is made of slow delivery OF
letters. A letter posted at 4:15 on Sat.
urday afternoon did not reach its destina
ton, half a mile away, until the second
delivery on Monday.
The new floating hospital will soon be
ready.
Three pensioners of the war of 1912 live
| in Boston.
| Forty free fountains furnish ice water
| to the thirsty.
Complaint is made of the increase of the
| municipal debt.
The new municipal gymnasium is practi
| cally completed.
Salesgirls in the department stores nc
longer wear aprons.
The United States Hotel is to follow the
| old fremont House into oblivion.
Hand organ renters have formed a trust
! and increased the rental paid by the grind
| ers.
Citizens are to be given a chance to pat
| ronize home peddlers. Their licenses are
| to bear even numbers, while non-residents
| will bear tags with odd numbers.
New York.
Horse cars will soon be thing Of the
past.
Cucumber punch is the newest summer
| drink.
Controller Coler says New York is tn,
Mecca of beggars.
Tea bars are to be established in order
to combat the ''liquor evil"
1t is suggested that Coney Islands name
be changed to dewey Park"
Increasing numbers of baseball crank,
cross the river to see the Brooklyns play
ball.
Among the women of the fashionable
| set there is a mania for handsome bed
| steads.
The Sun notes that the number of WON
en- who patronize bootblacks is increasing
steadily.
| Baltimore.
Golf is the fad of the moment
a wave of suicide seems to be sweeping
| over the city.
A new reform City Council promises tc
\ make a record for economical administra
| tion of municipal affairs.
| The old High Street Methodist Church
| landmark of Methodism, has been sold
! and will be converted into a synagogue.
A correspondent writes to one of the
| papers saying that Baltimore girls are
| losing the beauty for which they were
| famous.
Berlin.
Cabmen are forbidden to use certain
streets unless they have passenger.
Berlin's population is increasing with
such great rapidity that it is predicted il
, will pass Paris within twenty years.
Automatic telephones are to be estab.
| lished in convenient places, such as cigar
stores and restaurants, by the postal ai-
| thorities.
A new military establishment for the
| manufacture of explosives is being erected
In the Jungerfernhalde, vast plain near
| the city.
Paris.
Glass is being used as street pavement.
Anglomania is rife among the jeunesse
dore.
Work upon the buildings of the exposi-
tion is progressing rapidly.
Omnibuses are to be run all night and a
train service to the suburbs is to be in
augurated which will run up to 2 a. m.
Mummy photographs is the latest form
taken by the French fad for grewsome-
ness. The faces of pretty women are
placed on mummy cases.
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