Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 26, 1896, Page 4

: ‘ WARTIME: ec —— Grand Rapids Mreraid-"tReview Published Every Saturday. By E. C, KILEY. Rg TN ‘hree MONths... ADVANCE 50 DOLLARS AY $1.00! Two Six Months Entered in the postomee at Grand Rapids Minnesota. as secoud-class matter. WEEDING THEM OUT, were co to a financial policy whieh they are able to show is oppres- banks required under “Te business sive. aud distasteryl to them, they could justly claim te be very much abused institutions, and therefore they would.be jusbly entitled ly those of them that are obnoxious especii compelled to close their dours—to a vreat deal of heart-felt sympathy. Men who are overtaken by mis fortune are al entitled to mere sympathy than when the inisfortune is brought upon them through no fault of their own, than if they brought i* directly upon themselves, The sam? is true of banks. Now, every bank failure that has ever occured jo Duluth has been the direct resulp of our accursed British wold standard, and yet nineteen bankers aub of twenty tell that the gold standard is just one ef the most magnificent financial. s\ that was eyer invented. The us that it is just what they want aryl that all those who'do not want ib are nks, anarchists and lunatics. Mhey tell us that they like it se well ind admire it so much that they Ww yd and beneficent ps our years Mo 1 banks which the pash fir jnooths, were all goldbuy institet- in particutar, tc National Bank of spe ty rabid If, therefore, their iIned= made them wh id the rest of us put on “irony ing” and wring our hands with gric¢ If they advocated a fnane which their ¢ e down over their themselves are ty blame Duluth ‘Tribunal SILS us the sau conpinu Our a jons, two of them M ind the Commer being own sick, icine has caused Ouse 68 tum own heads, who but SCHOLASTIC. — | Phe literature of the silver camp- | tigu seems to have been only the | primary work in the eause of bimetal- | jism. The facts and figures are being handled by able men who are | putting them into such shape that they cunnot fail to exert a contin- vally powerful influence in the work | of education. .The npaign itself’ | las opened the eyes of the people to | the value of understanding both | sides of the question and many who voted for the singie standard are, nevertheless, ready to admit the vue of the bimetallic arguments. ‘These arguments are being presented in compact, effective and readable form by men whose practical know- jedge, combined with their attain- nicnts dn seience, places them where they command . attention. One of | * works issued under the title: nob Silver; what?” is among Uhose that bids fair to be potental in the literature of the day and warks of its class, frequently appearing, how most plainly that the issue is not Lo be either overlooked or forgot- ten. Its author is John W. Book- walter, well knownas a manufe turer | ul an of general affairs. There vill be many more such men jn the tuks of the siiverites before 190) tud they will sway an iofluence in the centers of thought an business that will tend to neutralize the one ided views of the single standard advocates. SENATOR TELLER shows the in- sincerity of the talk of international rimetallisu; by saying that if the gold men thought there was any hope for it they would be against it ‘They the attempt, because they know positively thay nothing can be accomplished, But it is good dust to throw into the eyes of the people. are for And still they come. The big paper mills have farmed a payer trust. If the people form a people's trust their action is styled anarchy. When unprineipled capitali forma trust they are enterprising business men. This question of the suppr of trusts will become greater and more important than that of the remonetization of — silver.—Duluth ‘Tribunal. One of the highest compliments Mr. ’ ed was when Mr. Moody said in a sermon in New York ib the stness ond eloquence siog soon of sucha man would make the great- | est preacher of the age. The 3 The girls are Perhaps it is a ¢ old-time Ger therland, when pa at once y for her dowry, and the mother stows west pieces of linen and Ss for household use, of which a German housewife must have such an abund:unce. Our American women are generally | germ multiplies with amazing rapidity, | tween it and the eontent with the beby's present wel- fore, or, at most, with its immed ets future, and do not begin so carly in its | little life to arrange its trovsseau. The girls theaselyes are now taking the matter in hand, and it is quite the thing for a young girl with a fiance, or even an attendant or attentive swain, to gather materials for her “chest,” as she calls it. _ If she can have one of the old-fash- joned chests, such as our grandmoth- ers used for bedding, so much the bet- ter. If not, an ordinary trunk will do. She lets all her relatives and intimate friends know that she has a “chest,” and that is considered an invitation to contribute to its contents. Costly arti- eles are not expected, but into it may go towels, napkins, or any of the fancy bits of embroidery that girls are al- ways doing, pretty but inexpensive handkerchiefs from bargain sales-- anything that will be useful to the fut- ure housekeeper. The engagement cups may go in, too, and even the | spoons, if the girl be willing. ‘The chest is not a burden to the friends of its proprietor, for its treas- ures are not of the costly sort; and then, as the contents are not examined until just before the wedding, there is a mystery about it that adds to the fun of the thing. A Boston girl who has heard of the custom—in fact, has contributed to the chests of one or two of her friends— declares that, although she is a man- hater, and never intends to be married, but looks on single life as blissful and the married state as purgatory, she is going to have an “old maid’s chest,” Her friends have taken up the joke, and all sorts of cute and curious arti- cles are going into it. When it is opened, after she really “turns the first corner” of old maidhood, some startling and wonderful developments may be expected.—Excharge. gers of a Seratch. Scarcely a day passes but many per- | sons do not, in some way or other, get a scratch, a small cut or a bruise that may break the skin. In most instances not the slightest attention is paid to| this beyond the temporary annoyance of the pain and the possible irritation when the hands are put into water, | or some subsequent blow in the same spot brings an exclamation on account of the hurt. ‘his, while a common practice, is by no meaus a wise one. 'The air is full of floating disease germs, | especially the air of cities and towns, and any injury of this sort, be it ever so slight, might furnish excellent breed- ing ground for some deadly bacteria. It is a good plan alw: to keep a bot- tle of prepared carbol id and gly- cerine, and frequently touch all bruises and sore spots with it. This is one of the most convenient and effective germicides imaginable. It is believed that maz of fever and other ailments can be contracted by a float- ing germ coming in contact with the apraded skin. Once snugly lodged in uus most congenial dwelling place, the nnd soon overruns the entire system. ‘therefore, whenever there is 2 bruise or scratch or any injury of this sort germicidal applications should be at once resorted to.—Detroit Free Press. fall-Bearing. The question as to how ball-bear- ings reduce friction has often been asked. With ordinary bearings the wheel runs on the axis as a sledge on the ground, and no matter how smooth and well-oiled the axle may be, there must be considerable friction. | With “ball-bearings.” however, the wheel runs on small steel balls placed be- le, and these, turn- the wheel rotates, heels,” and reduce ‘tion between wheel and axle to ninum., The circumference of a more than three times its diam- so the balls travel round the | <le only a third as fast as the wheel, but the inside of the wheel in contact with the balls must have a greater | circumference than the axle, and, therefore, the wheel will tend to turn the balls faster than they can run truly on the axle, with the result that there must be a certain amount of slipping of the Is; the friction thus caused, however, is a third less than if the wheel were running directly on the axle.—Cincinnati Enquirer. ing on their Ruined Temples in Africa, Ruined temples are stated by Mr. Robert M. W. Swain, an English an- thropologist, to be so numerous in Mashon nd that one might safely | underta to find within ten miles of Salisbury a hundred, while the number in the entire country between the Zambesi and Limpopo rivers must be enormous. These remains of the peo- ple who built Zimbabwe take the form of arcs, if not complete circles, One of the temples visited—about 300 yards east of the Lundi river—is 169 feet 6 1-2 inehes in circumference, and the foundation diverges only a few inches from a true circle, It is of small, ti F Ishaped blocks of 2 regular | leyel courses in a finely built double wall, The two doorwsys the 60 feet 8 1-2 inches apart. One of them forms, with the center of the temple, a north and south line, so that it is supposed that the wall between the two doors was intended to face the sun at the summer solstice. It is suggested that these remarkable struc- tures were not temples in the ordi- oe sense, but simply religious sym- | 01S. Three Balls tazzle—I thought you said that a mackintosh was impervious to water. Dazzle—So they are. Razzle—Not much! I had mine soak- ed before I bad it a week—Harlem Life. Her Trade Mark, “Who is that woman with the terri- ble-looking face? Was she ever mixed up in a powder explosion?” “No. That is Mme. de Blank, the inventor of De Blank’s celebrated face | loticu.”—Cleveland Leader. i Unfair Advantage. “But is was decided in regular meet- ing,” said the tarantula, “and you and the rattlesnake and the mesguito were in favor of the motion; why didu’t you carry it?” “The chairman called for a show of lands,” pitterly replied the scorpion, “and the centipede threw himself on his back and outvoted us.”—Chicago Tribune. MIGRATING SWALLOWS. Watching Their Flight Along the Vhames on a Rainy Evening. If the late Mr. Seebohm had wit- nessed the scene which I did on the evening of Sept. 15, he might have added a chapter to that on the migra- tion night on Heligoland, which is the locus classicus-of that branch of orni- thology. It was a dark, dripping evening, and the thick osier bed on Cheswick Eyot was covered with wet ieaf. Between 5 and 6 o’clock immense flights of swallows and martins suddenly ap- peared above the eyot, arriving, not in hundreds, but in thousands and tens of thousands. The air was thick with them, and their numbers increased from minute to minute. Part drifted above, in clouds, twisting round like soot in a smoke wreath. Thousands kept sweeping just over the tops of the willows, skimming so thickly that the sky-line was almost blotted out for the height of from three to four feet. The quarter from which these armies of swallows came was at first undis- coverable. They might have been hatched, like gnats, from the river. In time 1 discovered whence they came. They were literally “dropping from the sky.” The flocks were tray- eling at a height at which they were quite invisible in the cloudy’ air, and from minute to minute they kept drop- ping down into sight, and so perpendic- ularly to the very surface of the river or of the eyot. One of these flocks dropped from tlie invisible regions to the lawn on the river bank on which I stcod. Without exaggeration 1 may say I saw them fall from the sky, for I was looking upward, and saw them when first visible as descending specks. The plunge was perpendiculay, till they were within ten yards of the ground. Soon the high-flying crowds of” birds drew down and swept for a few min- utes low over the willows, from end to end of the eyot, with a sound like the rush of water in a hydraulic pipe. Then by a common impulse the whole mass settled down from end to end of the island, upon the osiers. Those in the center of the eyot were black with swallows—like the black blight on beans. Next morning, at 6:30 o’clock, every swallow was gone. In half an hour’s watching not a bird was seen. Whether they went on during the night or started at dawn, I know not. Prob- ably the latter, for Gilbert White oxce found a heath covered with such a flock of migrating swallows, which did not leave till the sun dispelled the mists. The whole army are now, I hope, catching gnats in the Nile valley or beyond the Atlas mountains.—Cor- respondence of the London Times. The Angel of the Home. She does not mske any fuss about it, nor ask to have a reporter at her ¢l- bow., But her sunny heart and self- forgetting love will not let her hands be at rest while there is any bit of helpful service she can render. If she can, without observation, slip the burnt roll or undercrust on her plate, it is done. If some ore must stay at home when there is a day's outing, she tells, with music in every tone, how glad she will be to be left quietly ‘be- hind and baye time all to herself to do ever so many things: she has in mind. And none suspect, from werd or tone, how great the sacrifice to give up the pleasure. Her quick eye detects the oversight or neglect on the part of another, and she quickly bastens to remedy the matter, careful that none shall know | her hand has made up another failure. Is a harsh round of judgment started by some ill-advised criticism? She deftly and tenderly drops the gentlest, the sweetest possible word for the criticised one and.switches the couver- sation to other topics. Do we not recognize this “angel?” | We call her mother, wife, sister. In the glory-land they will call her saint. —The Contributor. “I'ma No Deia Yet. There has just died in Liverpool | John Geddes, who was once the hero of a rather stirring incident. In 1S6L a very old building in Edinburgh, con- taining about twenty tenants, fell, The Geddes family were among the eceupants. Although many lives were lost, many of the inmates were res- cued in a remarkable menner. ‘The accident occurred on a Saturday, and on Sunday the ccowd became so great that the provost sent for and received the assistance of a company of the Canieronians from the castle to aid the police in keeping order. Under great risk, the work of excavation was carried on during the whole of Sun- day. For several -hours the rescuers had labored to reach the little boy Geddes, guided by his voice. While the men were clearing away the de- bris, Geddes was heard to shout: “Heave awa, lads, I’m no deid yet.” When a vew tenement was built on | the spot where the house fell, a bust of young Geddes, with tnese words, was placed above one of the doorways. —Westininuster Gazette. A New Develyper. Quinine has cropped up in a some- what singular way ia photographic work. An old story tells how a pho- tographer was driven almost insane by the repeated produetion, upon devel- opment of plate axter plate, of a » death’s head upon the forehead of one of the sitters. The ghastly joke was explained by the sitter having made a preliminary sketch ¢n tnat part of the face, using a solution of quinine for the purpose. Whether the story is su- thentic or not, it is now claimed that if two grammes of sulphate of quinine, eight grammes of giac dust and forty cubic centimeters of water are heated at 100 degrees centigrade, in a closed tube for ten hours, 1 liquid with strong reducing properties is obtained. It is said to act as an excellent developer, producing a clear and sharp image. A Rule That Didn’t Work Both Ways. “What's your name?” said the new ; School teacher, addressing the first boy on the bench. “Tule Simpson,” replied the lad. “Not Jule—Julius,” said the teacher. 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