Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-15

{ NOTES AND COMMENTS.
It has been wisely decided not to
attempt to run the Paris exposition
without the aid of Mrs. Potter Palmer.
In England, ''taking the Queens
shilling" or enlisting, has been here
tofore regarded as almost next to 60
ing to the poorhouse.
When q murderer on the gallows
declares that hanging does not check
homicide, as did James X. Brown in
Jersey City, it must at least be ac-
cepted as disinterested expert testi-
mony,
An old man wants to marry a young
girl. Relatives appeal to the courts
TO stop it, Now if every man had to
satisfy his family before he perpetrated
matrimony, how many marriages
would there be in the year :?
In 1895 there were 1,O30 savings
banks in the United States, and the
deposits in them amounted to 81, $40, :
900, 900. In 1899 there were 9412
savings banks in the United States
and their deposits were So, 401 900, :
900.
Writing on the decline of the
French language, M. Jean Finot
points out that at the end of the last
century French was the language
spoken by the greatest number of civ
ilized people, whereas now it stands
fourth. English is spoken by 49,
600, 900, Russian by 5000, 600, Ger
man by $4,000, 900, and French by
$4,000, 900.
While the United States is quarant-
lining against the bubonic plague it
may be well enough for the Orient to
be erecting some barriers against ap-
pendicitis. The latter seems to be
about as deadly in this country as the
former is in the Orient.
1t is asserted that no two countries
in the world make and eat the same
kind of bread. In England and Amer
lea there is the greatest similarity in
this respect, but the Englishman
never eats bread hot from the oven,
nor does he use biscuits made with
shortening.
The United States is marvellous
country; no part of it is so full OF
marvel as that vast section in the West
which only few years ago was a
wilderness, but is now sprinkled with
lowered cities and musical with the
busy hum of men.
The holding up of Prince Henry of
Prussia by Siamese bandits, who
robbed him of $1,000 and bicycle,
sets bright light of adventure in the
bow window of his experience. 1t
will sparkle in his history beyond all
his naval exploits, and as a decorating
memory is worth the money and the
vehicle.
Gout has been produced in hens by
all exclusive diet of lean horse meat
and water. Man always feels step
nearer Mark Twain time, when health
will be catching instead of sickness,
when he manages to give one of the
lower animals a disease of his. The
scientist that induced govt in hens
afterward alleviated it by diet of
crushed egg shells; but if he aspires
to cure human govt in the same man
ner he has undertaken task beyond
his powers. Abstinence even from a
few of the more delightful and govt
producing foods is as much as most
practitioners effect in their patients.
Mayor Hart. of Boston, has dis
covered that the employees of the Mu-
nicipal Water Department used $17,-
900 worth of streetcar tickets during
1899, and has determined to put
stop to such reckless extravaganza.
The higher employees of the Depart
ment have not only used the tickets
when riding to and from their resi-
dences, but have presented them in
payment of the fares of friends, and
have freely distributed them for po-
litical purposes.
The girls schools of England have
the finest women's fire brigades in the
world. Westfield college, at Hamp-
stead, was the first English college
for women to make fire practice q
prominent feature of school training.
Professional fremen were hired to
inspect and train the brigades, and
the girls learned all the tricks of the
profession, from tying firemen's chair
knots in ropes, and lowering them
selves from top windows, to carrying
insensible persons out of burning
buildings.
Georges Harmois, the owner of the
new dogs cemetery in Paris, thinks
that the enterprise will show hand
some profit from the start. Every
year. he figures. twenty thousand
dogs die in Paris. At least one sixth
of this number will be buried in the
new cemetery, the charge in each
case being SO, SO that the total re-
u