Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-11


work can be demonstrated and an APP
preparation be secured for its con-
tinuance.
Aguinaldo mother says he is not
fit to govern the Philippines, A
| fellow cant amount to much whose
mother doesn't believe he could do
wonders If he only had chance.
Requirements for public-school
teachers in Alabama are very simple.
Applicants for third-grade certificates,
which allow the holder to teach for
two years, are obliged to be examined
in arithmetic only through fractions.
and in geography only through the
primary grade.
The Shamrock cost between four
and five hundred thousand dollars to
build and the London Yachtsman
now suggests, on the score of economy
that the next challenger be shortened
| twenty feet and the cost reduced to
$50, 900.
Mere than $4,000 persons were
killed by wild animals and snakes in
India during 1898. Nearly thou
and large number to man eating
wolves. Lord Curzon has directed
that special measures be taken to ex-
terminate these particular pests.
The Board of Ordnance and Forti-
fication of the War Department has
decided that the utmost care shall be
exercised in having tests carried on
at the proving grounds so that the
character of the projectiles, explo-
sives and guns experimental with,
and the results of the tests, will not
be made public.
British strategy has consisted main
ly in coming on just as their oppo-
nents desired The succession of
disasters, with the heavy losses even
when an advantage has been gained,
will not make the war, or the govern
ment responsible for bringing it on,
highly popular in England. But, of
course, there can be no question of
the British determination to see the
thing through at any cost.
One great reason for the popularity
| of the automobile is that it can be
more readily managed by women than
| horse-drawn vehicles. Many women
L oh 30 1rir ,,,4
of their liability to shy or bolt. The
automobile offers marked advantages
in this respect, but no lady should
try running an automobile until she
thoroughly understands the mechan-
ism.
There can be even too great GRAVITY
in contemplating entrance to the
marriage state, as illustrated in the
case of that citizen of st. Louis who
the other day became so severely i'm
pressed with its possibilities that be-
fore the arrival of what should have
been the blissful hour he blew the
top of his head of. His act is not
justitiable by any train of philosophic
or economic reasoning. although, in
the words of an esteemed contemp-
orary, marriage undoubtedly is q
| problem of gigantic dimensions, and
it is sometimes entered upon without
due reflection.
| Kommerzienrath Loewe, Berlin
manufacturer, who recently returned
home from attending the Commercial
Congress held in connection with the
National Export Exposition in Phil
adelphia, has expressed himself as
greatly surprised at the development
of electrical machinery in the United
States. He says Americans are far
in advance of the Germans in the en-
ployment Of electricity as power,
and believes that the increased en-
| ployment of electricity in industrial
enterprises is an absolute necessity
if Germans are to hold their own in
the worlds markets.
The Italian army is now studying
the ACCESSIBILITY of introducing the
automobile. 1t is considered that it
could be used both for transporting
ammunition from the rear to the fir
ing line and for carrying the wounded
to the nearest hospital With COM
paratively free roads higher velocity
can be maintained with motor car
riage than with a horse. The roads
in Italy are SO perfect that expert
ments in this line should be very in
teresting.
The circulating library scheme in
connection with the public schools,
which has been tried successfully in
several cities, is about to be intro
duced in Pittsburgh. It's aim is to
supplement the school work by di-
recting the reading of the children
along the lines of the studies in hand.
Books suitable for each grade are
chosen by committee of the teachers,
and from the selected list the books
are sent from the public library to
the school ordering them under the
same conditions that are in force for
general patrons. A valuable feature
I of the scheme is that it gives the
teachers some supervision of the read
ing of the children, matter too often
neglected by parents, and will tend
to cultivate in the children love Of
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