Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 3, 1897, Page 4

nia aa Our Dry Gocds Department is the largest and Most Complete in Grand Rapids. = In Winter... A person must be prepared for all sorts of weather. In order to do this he must be properly clothed, and to do this he should buy them autour store. We have the largest and finest stock of Clothing and Gent’s Furnishing Goods in the county and our prices are the low- est. When io need of a Suit, Over- coat or anything else in our line, come in and let us show vou what we can do. C. H. MARR. Have Everything in the Line of Footwear for Men, Women and Children. | iVe Lumber, Lath and Shingles, Mannfacturers of Sash, Doors and Blinds. PS2SF FLSS Turning and Scroll Sawing Done on Short Notice. ESLSVSVSS STS PSSS LSM VSMSVS’ ESTIMATES FURNISHED. W. V. Fuller & Go,, Gseer2: SLSLSLSLSLSLSLSVEVSSSLS NS QSLTSLSLSLSVWSLSLELE se GRAND RAPIDS, % MINN. r) SOSLSLSLENSS! eaeseseseceseassoeses soeesessoseovsesesesscoseseses5ee Sok SSS eR oR Ga RRM O It is none too early It is none too late TO ORDER YOUR to get a winter suit if you SPRING SUIT. have sot done 80 yet. AUGUST JOHNSON has just received the finest line of samples ever pro- duced from the factories He is offering Fine Suits at “18 and upwards, and he always guarantees satisfaction. 7 % A Re aE eS ae ae ae NE ea Re ae ae a ae eRe ae ae aE ae a a S (eRe RE Ee eH ae eae eae ae ae eae a a Ae ae ae ae ae ae ae eae a ane aE Re ME EAE ae ae ae ates ate ae eae ae ate ae eae ae a a ae se a Mr. Fohnson ts now tin the Camps on his Annual Visit to the Woodsmen. ME Ge ak a ae ae ae ate oh ae ae ae ate a ae ale ae ale ae ae ate ate ae ae ae ae A ae ah ae ee ae a a ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ate ate se ae SIO: es e % |, GIGANTIC REVOLVING Published Every Saturday.) By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Six Months. Entered in the postofice at Grand Rapids Minnesota. as second-class matter. ' ANOVEL EXPERIMEN’. The Startling Result of Firing a Cau non Burled Under Water. The most curious experiment ever made with a piece of ordnance was at ; Portsmouth, England, says Invention. ‘A ‘stage was erected in the harbor within the tide mark; on this an Arm- strong gun of the 110-pound pattern was mounted. The gun Was then load- ed and carefully aimed at a target— all this, of course, during the time of low tide. A few hours later, when the gun dnd the target were both covered with water to a depth of six feet, the gun was fired by means of electricity. We said “aimed at a target,” but the facts are that there were two targets but only one was directed for this spe- cial experiment, the other being the hull of an old vessel, the Griper, which lay directly behind the target and in range of the ball was placed only twenty feet from the muzzle of the gun, It was composed of oak beams and planks and was twenty-one inches thick. In order to make the old Griper invulnerable a sheet of boiler plates three inches thick was riveted to the water-logged hull, in direct range with the course the ball was expected to take if not de- flected by the water. On all of these —the oak target, the boiler plates and the old vessel hull—the effec! of the shot from the submerged gun was really startling. The wooden target was pierced through and through, tho boiler iron target was broken into pieces and driven into its ‘ the ball passing right on through both sides of the vessel, making a in»ge hole through which the water poured in tor- | rents. Taken altogether the experi- ment was an entire success, demon- strating, as it did, the feasibility of Placing submerged guns in harbors im times of war and doing great dam- ege to the vessels which an ehemy might dfspatch to such points for the purpose of shelling cities. TOWER. Again to French Ingenoity Is the Fore. France started the ‘ball with the Eiffel tower, says London Invention. | England endeavored to go one better with the Wembley, which is still in an embryo stage and appears likely to re- main so, while our American cousins struck a bright and nove! idea in the Ferris revolving wheel, which was af- terwards introduced into England, and last season went merriiy round, ex- cept when it occasionaly stopped and required more or less coaxing ere it resumed its “daily round. As a fact, our readers wiil remember it once had “a night out” on its own Now, French ingenuity is once again to the fore and this time the idea is io construct a lofty building that will spin slowly, like a majestic top. The | festive Parisians are, it is stated, to | have this novelty in their midst, the site chosen being near the summit of | Montmartre, the highest point within the fortifications of the gay city. The conception of this big reve!ving tower (about half the height of the Liffel) is credited to M. Devic. The motive power for turning the structure, a com- plete revolution of which would occu- py about two minues, would be hy- draulic force. The upper part of the | building would be occupied by. a public ballroom, in which dancing would | take place from 11 p. m. to 2 a. m, | while below this it is intended to ean- struct an artificial ice-skating rink. 1 SE a ae ae ae ae a ae ate ae ae a ae ae ea ae hee Ne ae ee ae ae ee eae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae a ae ae ate ae Se aes tt You can get anything in the line of Chamber Suits, Parlor Suits, Lounges, Chairs, Bed- steads, Mattrasses, Springs,&c., at rock bottom prices, at Richardson & Stevens 6 ae ae a ate ae ae ae ae a ae ae a a ese a ae ae ae ae ae ae ae a ae se a ae a ae eae ae ae ae eae ae ae ae ate te ae ate ae este tea LUMBERMEN'S STATE BANK) First Sigte Bonk Grand Rapids, Minn. OF GRAND RAPIDS A AE ea ea ae SR ae ae SE REE REN ee ee ee ee ee fee eae Se ae ae Re ae ae Se ae ea a ae ae ae ae hee ae a ae ea eM: ORGANIZED DECEMBER, 1893. €. W, HASTINGS, Pres't. Paid Up Capital, gh des P. J. SHELDON, V. Pros't. Si She F. P. SHELDON, Cashier. * Serples; 10,000.00 Capital = - - = $25,000.0€ os DIRECTORS: Surplus arate aie. 5,000.0 ‘2 amare a & cueeant.. GEO, F. MYERS. A. P. Wurre, A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. This Bank will conduct a ‘TAX Faisal oe partment and will attend promptly to the A General Banking Business Transacted. Fire Insugance Carefully Wntten. Picea ment of taxes in Itasca County for non-1 Presi eo dents: also furnish abstract of titles, ete. e. Hasti gs A. mM. mrelipe, _—— It Fshadon cm i PR heldon Special attention giyen toCollections. A Great Telescope. Some idea of the remarkable charac- ter of the proposed telescope for the great Paris Exposition of 1990 may be gained by comparing the size of its fifty-one-inch object lens. with the most wonderful yet constructed. Thus, the largest instrument of this kind now in existence is the Lick, having an object glass of thirty-six inches diameter; the second largest is at Pulkowa, Rus- sia, with a glass of thirty inches; the third is at the University of Virginia, its glass being twenty-six inches; Har- vard has the fourth largest, with a twenty-four-inch glass, and the fifth in size belongs to Princeton College. The famous Yerkes telescope glass, the largest of the celebrated productions at Cambridge. Mass., is rated at forty inches diameter. And so, by some eleven inches, the Paris instrument is in excess of all others, and thus able it is anticipated, to bring the moon within one mile of us. The telescope at Paris, as plannea, will pe 18U reet long, and so arranged tnat bvv persons will be able simultaneosuly to view the heavens with it. The image, it is ex- plained, is to be received on a level mirror seveuty-five inches in diameter, $20,000.00! and trom that reflected on a screen, Not Weeping. Kind Old Gentleman (to small boy eryiug on the step)—What is the mat- ter, little boy? Small Boy--I—p—pa— pa is putting down a c—c—arpet. “And does that unpleasant task of your father’s make you co sorry, then?” “N—n—no; p—pa hit his thumb!” “Ah! Sympathy for your father’s pain, Is that what makes you weep?” "“N— no! I—I~I° langhed!’ — Pearson's Weekly. The target itself | “backing,” | account. | | when they were so hung did they ap. | in Finland, “HIS VISION IS PERVERTED. A Bow Who Writes Backward, but Sees It as If Written Correctly. A remarkable case of what, for want of a better name, is termed perverted |. vision is just now attracting much at- tention in North Adams, Mass. The victim of this strange malady is John Ghidotti, a six-year-old boy who at- tends the public schools of that city. Physically and mentally, so far as sci- entists and physicians can deterthine, he in no way differs from other boys of his age, except that it is practically impossible for him to write in the or- dinary manner. writing from right to left, forming his letters and sentences backward. This peculiarity of the, boy was noticed as soon as he began to take writing les- sons. He learned the letters quickly, and wrote rapidly for one so young, but his writing was invariably in the reverse order. Starting from the wrong side of the page he would cover his copybook with characters which looked unlike anything called writing, but if the page was held before a mirror the reflection was perfectly legible and ap- peared like ordinary writing. Strange to say, he makes figures in the proper manner, Yet he cannot explain the difference between writing figures from left to right and letters just the re- verse. It seems impossible to teach this child that there is anything pe- culiar about his chirography, and he persists that his handwriting is like that of any other person. One may guide his right hand, over a line of copy in the proper mayer, but the mo- ment his hand is released he instantly changes the pencil to bis left hand and commences to write in his through- the-looking-glass fashion. Another pe- | culiar feature of this perverted vision is that apparently he has-no difficulty in writing thé handwriting of other.| persons, although there is such a dif- ference between his own and that of others. His teacher, Miss.Alice C. Buckley, says that he evidently tries | very hard to do as he is told, but it is as difficult for him to write in the | ordinary manner as it: would be for another to practice his unique method. | She cannot make up her mind whether | his difficulty comes from a defect in | his eyes or from the fact that he is | left handed, but she has little hope of remedy unless she can induce the child | to use his right hand. Wright, of North Dr. \.€... W. Adams, ture.” He does not, however, think | that there is any unusual crossing of | the nerve fibres of the eye. The doc- tor, in all his years of experience, never met with an analogous case. Some years ago a returning Arctic ex- plorer told of a number of Esquimaux whom he met in the north of Green- land, who, when he gave them some colored lithographs, persisted in hang- img them upside down, and when asked why they did so declared that only pear natural. To these natives the ac tual individual or object seemed to occupy a proper position, but in the case of pictures, apparently; they | found it necessary to reverse them in order to appreciate them. Imatra Waterfall in Finland, The celebrated waterfall of Imatra, which was visited, we be- lieve, by Mr. Gladstone during one of his Scandinavian tours, promises to become a source of very large profit to the revenues of the imperial grand duchy. The ever-increasing crowd of summer and autumn tourists visiting the fall already support a special line of railway constructed for their con- venience and accommodation. The so- called Historical hotel, which stands above the Imatra, and also the many flourishing settlements on the Saima canal, exist almost entirely on the yearly influx of visitors from all parts of Europe. A Russian company is now | being organized for exploiting the in- herent forces of this magnificent cas- cade as an electrical motor. A net- work of wires will transmit the motor power of the tumbling and foaming waters of Imatra in various directions, even as far as the gloomy and misty Petropolis, The new company desires to obtain a driving force of twenty thousand horse-power, and, as the Fin- nish executive values each singie horse- power at five hundred riksmarks, the necessary capital for working the en- terprise will be twelve million five hundred thousand of that currency. The lessees will pay for their acquired force by a fixed percentage on the gross capital. It is stated that twenty thou- sand horse-power represents only one- sixth of the colossal force of the Fin- nish Niagara.—London News. White Slaves of Old England. Eight hundred years ago all of the large cities of England had regular slave markets for the sale of white slaves from all parts of the kingdom. In the “Life of Bishop Wulfstand” the writer says: “It was a moving sight to see in the public market rows of young people of both sexes tied together and sold dike cattle—men, unmindful of their obligations, délivering into slay- ery their relatives, and even their own children.” In another part of this work it is noted that among these slaves were “particularly young wom- en, of fine proportions and of great beauty.” Weyler's Warfare. “Give me my writing material,” said Weyler to his secretary. “Red or black ink, sir?” “Red, you tool! I’m going to fight a battle!”—Atlanta Constitution. Cold Business, Ain't It? A baptist through a hole in the ice entertained Main Hill, “ toe ene Sunday recently, He uses his left hand, | specialist | on the eye, after a number of exam- | inations of the boy's eyes, has arrived | at the conclusion that the child is, to | | use his own expression, “a freak of na- | General Merchandise =: - Lumbermen’s Supplies. ; IF 3 I} / |i) 3 Largely increased store room increases our capacity to do business. We always carry a -amplete line of the Hest quality of goods zn all departsuents. Prices the lowest. " Clothing and Furnishing G ods. Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes. Groceries and Crockery Hats and Caps. GRAND RAPDS, - - SESRORENS CARER BETTER CIGARS ARE MADE THAN THE... _ Pokegama Boquet “Cup Defender Manufactured in Grand Rapids By tfttt CEORGE BOOTH. CAlb for either of these brands and you will get an excellent smoke, None but the. finest stook used. S15.0° sum Broeker & r are making as fine a suit. as can be had in any city in y for the money. Or, something better, her the country % if you want they can-show you the finest line f f For: the above Whitea ofsamplestever brought into the county... At any rate, give them a call before pl your order, They guarantee ry garment they turn out in every: way. ing BROEKER & WHITEAKER, ? Grand Rapids, Minn. DW DORAN, Proprietor. “trst-Class in Every particular. Rates Uniformly Reasonable. All Modern Conveniences, Centrally Located. 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