Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-02-22

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Only three States in the Union pay
their Governors $1,000 per snnum.
They are New York. New Jersey and
Pennsylvania.
While Mr.. Roberts of Utah is ''walk-
ing the earth as angels walk the
clouds" the three Mrs. Robertses
will probably tag along behind, as
usual with the perambulators.
1t is gratifying to notice that large
aud increasing number Of men, es-
pecially young men, are finding out
for themselves the relative value OF
the different articles OF their apparel.
A Boston church has purchased a
farm near Shirley, Mass, which will
be used as vacation home for work
ing mothers, young men and women
and children connected with the con-
gregation.
In two articles on the development
of the United States which have just
appeared in the Vossische Zeitung,
one of the leading German News
papers, that journal declares that no
people has better right to bless the
nineteenth century than has the
American nation.
The Cuban census shows a surpris-
ingly small population, only about
1900, 900, being only'three-fourths OF
what it was, or was said to be, IN
1894. This is in part due to the
sufferings of the last decade, when
thousands of the poor died, but hardly
four hundred thousand.
The business of college education
is one of the greatest busiC esses in
the United States. The 426 colleges
and universities, in which are en-
rolled It's. 900 students, represent an
invested capital of $3.50, 600, 900, and
give employment to $4,000 persons
as teachers and officers.
The rule of the South African war
has been that to attack meant defeat
and to defend meant victory to either
side. The only way to restore the
balance thus profoundly disturbed is
to invent artillery that will destroy
entrenched troops from beyond rifle
range. This was expected of lyddite,
but the British have been disap-
pointed.
The New Jersey bureau of labor
statistics has gathered some facts re-
lative to the existence of company
stores in the state. Fifteen such in
stitutions were found, and the Stats
tician estimates that on an average
the person obliged to deal at com
pany store pays thirteen cents on the
dollar more than if he could purchase
where he pleased.
There are more Indians to-day in
the United States than would equal
those living east of the Mississippi
when the white man set foot upon
American shores 400 years ago. The
present Indian population is some
thing over 243, 900, while it is said
there were never more than 200, 600
Indians in the United States east of
the Mississippi River.
Wars and war debts have to be paid
for by the common people, who are
the principal taxpayers. The wars
| of the nineteenth century cost the
world. mainly Europe, directly or in
directly, over one hundred billion
dollars. This is enough, if devoted
to commerce and the arts of peace, to
build one thousand ship canals at a
| cost of one hundred million dollars
each.
During 1899 there were $40 cases
of suicide reported in the papers, in
comparison with 80S the year before,
Of this number 70 per cent. were
men and % per cent. women. OF
the causes assigned the following, in
order, were the most frequent: lack
of work, love, domestic troubles, sick
ness, business troubles. The num-
Der of lynchings reported in 1899 was
10Y, which is the smallest number in
any year so far recorded. In 1892
the number was 235 and in 1898, 200,
since when a steady decline has been
noted.
Japan is taking another important
step toward the higher plane of modern
civilization by separating the church
from the state. A bill is now before
the House of Peers abolishing Bud
dhism as the officially recognized re.
ligion of the state and placing all
creeds on an equal footing, and it is
said that it will surely pass. Thus
within the brief period of thirty years
or so japan has emerged from a state
of complete heather barbarism and
established her right to a place in the
front rank of the most liberal and en-
lightened of the civilized nations oil
| the earth.
The use of electricity is becoming
more appreciated in almost every
walk of life, remarks the London Ell
ect ical Engi eer. For instance, q
man was recently arrested charged
with being found on the roof of a
jewelers. shop, for the purpose Of
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