Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 17, 1897, Page 4

Grand ‘Hepids Treratts Review Published Every Saturday.’ By E. C. KILEY, TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Stx Months...... $1.00 | Three Month: 50e Entered“ in the postomcc at Grand Rapids | Minnesota. as secoud-class matter. Se BIMETALLIC COMMITTEE. Last Tuesday President McKiniy announced the appointment of Senat- or Edward O. Wolcott of Colorado, Hon. Charles J. Paine of Boston and ex-Vice President Adlai E. Steven-} son of Illinvis as commissioners to an international monetary conference. "These appointments are made under the act approved March 3 last “for the promotion of an international agreement for bimetallism” and by its provisions do now require com- firmation by the senate. It has been generally conceded that Senator Wolcott would be made amember of the commission. He has been an active leader in the move- ment for a monetary agreement and widely known as an advocate of the silver cause. His trip to Eurepe last summer was generally conceded to be at least semi-ofticial as the represeat- ative of the new administration. His tour extended over several months and embraced the leading European capitals’ He hal au- s with the more noted finan- ciers aud ministers and itis believed then laid the foundations for the in- ternational conference which the commission appointed will en- deavor to bring to a conclusion. Senator Wolcott is now serving his id term in the senate, having been elected to that body in 1885. hile a pronounced bimetallist he was astanch supporter of the St. uis tic -Vice ocratic Member President Stevenson, the cf the commis- though geverally known as an advocate of bimetallism, was a stanch H er of Bryan and the Chicago supp! platform. He and Senator Wolcott ; are said te be in ord on the financial question. Gen. Paine, | Gen. Paine, who may be termed the} minority member, is a Republican and was a McKiuly man. He is one of the most prominent business men of Massachusetts and is said to be a deep student of the financial ques- tion. While heis classed asa sup- porter of bimetallism, based ou inter- national agreement, he is regarded as allied with the sound money fac- tion. He isa graduate of Harvard a member of the class of ’53. Gen. Paine is largely identified with railroads and other corporations, be- ing a director of the Chicago, Burl- ington & Quincy railroad and other large concerns, and a director of the Boston Institute of Technology; was an intimate friend and associate of Prof. Walker, the financial auth privy. He isa man of large wealth and probably better known as one of the syndicate of gentlemen who built the cup-defending yachts Puritan, Maytlower and Volunteer. It is a fact not generally known that Gen. Paine accompanied Senator Wolcott on his European trip last summer} and assisted hiw in that work. It is believed that he went abroad with Senator Wolcott with the under- standing tbat he was to be made a member of the commission. It is not yet known when the commissioners will meet and orgau- ize. When an organization is effect- ed, however, it is believed. that Senat- or Wolcott will be made president. itis authoritatively stated that the commissioners will not go abroad be- fore May 1, by which time the new ambassadors will be at their posts and render the special envoys the as- : sary in the consum- heir mission they ma: ae obtained by writing ipece Go c. EB. Stone, General Pass- enger Agent, St. Paul, Mino. Wis @ Mesum A primary teacher in a ‘Watervliet Sundzy schooi took for a subject, “The Lord Joveth a cheerful giver.” She inquired if any one knew what it meant when a. little 4¢year-old boy said: “Miss L—-, I know what that means.” “Well, George Edwin, what is itt? “Ff: ang give a Whole lot sad don’t ery Neglected Education, Mistress—Gracious, Bridget, you don’t clean this house at all! See, I cau write my name in the dust ou the mentel. Bridget—Shure, mum, you've bs good edjikashun. That's mors T sim do.—New York Jourra, A POINTLESS SPOON. Fashion Cries “Checkmate” to the Man Who Uses One Head On. Destiny is shaping the end of the man who for years has been breaking hearts by his efforts to fetch the point of his soup spoon head on between the wings of his mustache, says an exchange. He may refuse to be shaped, of course, and may continue to dislocate his shoulder at each mouthful and to wreck a frill of his neigirbor’s sleeves at each hoist- ing of his elbow, but he cannot longer in fashionable houses get the point of his spoon into his mouth. And the reason is like that which the little boy gave for refusing to give the core of his apple. “There wasn't going to be any core,” and there isn’t any point to the hew soup spoon. A round spoon, not so very unlike a miniature ladie in its shape as tc entirely escape calumny, has been eagerly adopted by those who like up-to-date service and is now be- ing bought at the rate of thousands a week by those who follow fashion. To make a rather aesthetic companion for the new soup spocn, that it may not go forth into the world alone, so to speak, there is a positively new pastry fork. A “pie fork” they would probably call this in the land where Ralph Waldo Emerson, a favorite son, is reverenced for having once answered a man who asked him if he really ate pie at breakfast. “But, my ‘dear sir, what is pie for?” A “pastry fork” it is called. But by even a more euphemistic name yet it would be an interesting invention and a high nov- elty. The wavy edge, which has made a certain sort of bread knife famous has been applied to the pastry fork, together with a curving shape, which makes it possible for even a nervous map to keep the tip of the fork on his plate and saw through an obstinate bit of puff paste. To be spared the oid familiar agony of see- ing the soft and melting heart of his “sweetie” go sailing away to make a cranberry island on his next neighbor’s white-satin lap is worth more than $2 a fork to any man. Wrong Emphasis. % In these athletic days the college half-back ie sometimes more famous than the college president. And this is as true in England as in America. The New York Tribune says that a certain Mr. Webbe, “the famous Ox- ford batsman,” a student at Trinity college, once made an inning of “299 not out,” in a college cricket match. Of course the famous ceed was her- alded far and wide. A few days after- ward, the president of Trinity co%ege, a venerable ani highly distinguished man, went to the Bank of England or some college business, and was waited | upon by one of the younger clerks. At the end of the transaction the presi- dent had to sign his official name. The clerk glanced at the signature, and broke out with the greatest enthusiasm, and with 9 look of the deepest respect: “What, sir, do you belong to the same college as the celebrated Mr. Webbe?” But it is not in college athletics alone that the English mind misplaces the emphasis. The Tribune tells another story: At the house of Sir William Smith Marriott, in Dorset, a few years ago, the butler came into his master’s room one morning with a very long face. “There’s very bad-news this morn- ing” he said. “Poor Mr. ——,” men- tioning the name of a clergyman in.an adjoining village—“has been and gone | and hung himself. And that isn’t the worst of it, Sir William; that there fox has been into our preserves again, and -iHed twenty of the young pheasants!” fae Northwest Magazine argues that country school 2 too thick and consequent- ly Loo expensive. 1b offers as a reme- dy the consolidation of three or four districts intooue and suggests that somé system of transportation be de- vised whereby tbe pupils living ata} distanee might be brought to and | from sebools. ‘The Northwest Magazine is a pretty Jevel-headed re- presentative of material affairs gen- erally, but the Heraid-Review is un- ableto figure out where tbe saving would appear in the proposed change. editorial Sar Sagar From Beets. ~Lhe sugar beet is enjoying in- ereased portance because of the ease with which itis raised and the demand jer American sugar. ‘The dest kand #0 the Northwest for grow } ing of this valuable vegetable is along the lise of the Saint Paul & Duluth Railroad, and it is likely that the in- dustry will be a great one jJater on. This fine is known far and wide as tne Duluth Short Line, and is im- mensely popular with its thousands of patrops. Its luxurious, modern and speedy trains between the 'I'win Hities and Duluth, West Superior, Stillwater, Taylor’s Falls aud other jmaportant points are always well filled. Always take the Dulutn Shori Keine, ‘and at this season of the year BUY Tae BEST The “DOMESTIC” Is absolutely the best Sewing Machine made. Leads in latest and best improvements , SIMPLEe PRACTICAL «DURABLE For over 30 years has been endorsed by the public as the most satisfactory of ail sewing machines. We want your trade and can save you money. Write for free catalogue and prices. THE DOMESTIC S. M. CO. 298 Wabash Ave., Chicago. \‘air pressure, by THE MAGNETIC STROMSTADTS. They Drank Iron Water and Were | Magnetised by Lightning. A temarkable story comes from the upper Yakima. Two’ years ago Mr. Peter Stromstadt lodated on a piece of land near what is now known as Barox Springs, his family consisting of his wife and two children. A few days after his settlement Mr. Strom- stadt discovered a spring close to the shack he had erected, the water of which was strongly impregnated with iron, but was not unpalatable. Mr. £tromstadt dug out and deepened the spring, and since July, 1893, the fam ily have used the water for all domes tic purposes. On the night of April 2 a heavy elec: trical storm passed over the Cascades, accompanied by vivid displays of lightning. The following morning Mrs. Stromstadt, while kindling the fire in the stove, found it almost impossible to separate the stove lifter from her haid. Hes husband, hearing her call, ran to her assistance, when, to his sur prise, he found that he, too, experi- enced great difliculty in detaching any article of iron with which his hands vame in contact. Breakfast was finally prepared and the family sat down to the meal. The children, two girls of five and seven years, drank their milk from tin cups, and upon reising their cups to their lips found themselves unable to detach the cups from their mouths. Mr. Stormstadt, who is an intelligent immigrant from Sweden, was nopplussed, and while unable to account for the wonderful occurrences, nevertheless laughed at his wife’s ex- cited declarations that the family were bewiched. Mr. Stromstadt has written a frievnd in town. He says that the small bed on which the chil- drer sleep is upon roller casters and that in the morning the bed invariably pointed north and south, the bed be- ing a little to the east of north. The case in one cf the most remarka- ble on record. A member of the Academy of Sciences, to whom the cir- cumstances were related, states that the Stromstadt fa-nily have become saturated with iron, which was ren- dered magnetic by the passage of elec- tricity from the clouds to the earth during the storm on the night of April 2; and they are actual human magnets —sacoma Daily News. OIL ON THE WATERS. An Automatic Machine Operated by the Rolling Waves. A simple device for distributing oil on rough water is meeting with adop- tion among British ship owners. The arrangement is practically automatic, | taking advantage as it does of the rise and fall of the vessel to create an oil is forced from the reservoir and mixes with the sea. Briefly, a tank is fore or after end of the vessel, above the water line, and is about three parts filled with dil, the re space acting as an air reservoil connection with and passing through | this tank is a tube, the lower end of which is curried as far down as pos- sible, and is open to the sea, the upper part being fitted with an air valve te column of water passing into the re- servcir, In connection with the maia tube an additional air tube immediately under the iter which, when the vessel ri: air into the main tube, and by means of a valve prevents its escape. The air is acted upon by the column of main tube by the pitching of the ves- sel, and a pressure of five to six line, acting upon the air stored in the re tributing pipes to the sea.—London Invendon. Grim Highlanders, about our ancestors, parts of which I remember, though I was only a school foom child of under fourteen when I teard him relate them. I was, how- zver, old enough to feel keenly inter. asted in them. One story pressed me very much was related: to account for the origin of the Clan Macintyre. A party of Macdonells on one occasion were out in a boat, when a knot of wood sprang out, causing a serious leak; whereupon one ot the | party stuck in his finger to fill the | hole, and then cut it off with his dirk, thus saving the lives of the whole | party. From this circumstance his de- or Sons of the Carpenter. Another story which I heard my father tell relates to the bloody hand which appears in our coat of arms. A doubt hawing arisen as to which of two brothers a certain estate belonged, ft was agreed that he whose flesh and blood should first touch the property was to be regarded as the rightful owner. Accordingly the two young { inen started in two boats for the land in question, | he was losing the race, when near the shore pulled out his dirk, cut off hie hand and threw it on land, thus es- tablishing his right to the property, as his flesh and blood had touched it first | —Blackwoed’s Magazine. Combined Fish and Snake Story. A Barberton man church regularly was one day walking along the banks of Concession creek, {in Bechuanaland, eating a sandwich, between meat and bread he threw the redundant piece into the water. Im- mediately « swarm of yellow fish bubbled around it, fighting for the mouthful. The man searched his pock ets for fishing tackle, but all in vain end lie was just beginning to give up in despair when his eye lighted on & blacksnake. At that moment he re. | membered how his father used to tei him that blacksnakeS were very ex: pert in eatebing fish. He therefore grabbed the reptile’by the tail, carried it to the river and held it over the struggling fish. The snake proved it- relf a born, angier, and in the course of an hour the man bad captured forty sh. A few days later, as he was walking in the same place. he felt something rub against his leg, and looking down, he saw his friend, the ‘lacksnake eager for mora ep irt- Rangoon (Burmah) 7 mes- means of which the | placed in a convenient pesition at the | admit of the air pressed up by the | fitteT | » admits | pounds can easily be obtained, which, ; servoir, ejects the ofl through the dis- | My father had no end of aneedotes | that im- | scendarts were vated the Macintyres, H One of them, seeing that | who goes to. fad on account of the usual disparity | TAX JUDGMENT SALE. Pursuant to a real estate Tax Judgment of the District Court, in the county of Itasca, State of Minnesota, entered the twenty- second (22nd) day of March, A. D. 1897, in pro- ceedings for enforcing payment of taxes and penalties upon real estate in the county of Itasca, state of Minnesota, remaining delin- quent on the first Monday of January, 1897. and of the statutes in such case made and provided, I shall, on the first Monday, being the 3rd Day of May, A.D. 1897, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. at my office, in the court house, in the village of Grand aupids and county of Itasca, Minnesota, sell he lands which are charged with taxes, pen- alties and costs in said judgment. and on which tuxes, penalties and costs shall not have been previously paid. [seat] H.R. KING, Auditor Itasca County. Minnesota. Dated at Grand Rapids this 12th day of April A. D. 1897. Published April 17-24 Order for Hearing of Application for Liquor License. did.on the 23rd day of March, 1897 make appheation to tLe Boa , of County Commissioners of ‘tasra couaty, for license to sell intoxicating liquors in ue hotel Luding occupied by them at Whereas, Wright & Ri {Sw Rver ~tatin in Section tweive (12), To fifty-three 53), Kange twenty-three (233). i ‘unty for the year ending March 9th. ‘ore, notice is hereby given, that ation will be heard before the said County Commi-scners at the a__ itors office on April 24th, 1897 at 2 p.m.at wh :) time and place all persons are notified to appear and show cure if any they have. wh said application shoud not be grented aud sai heense ixsued as prayed Dated at Grand Rapids, Minn., this 2rd day of March, 1887, HR, KING 8 dl aprlica Board of County auditor. First State Bank OF GRAND RAPIDS CRGANIZED DECEMBER, 1893. Paid Up Capital, - - $20,000.06 | Sarplus, . ee 10,600.0€ | DIRECTORS: 42 AKELEY, W. ©, GiLBert. | iP. Stats, Wa. 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GRAND RAPDS, peat wis General Merchandise = - - Lumbermen’s Supplies. Clothing and Furnishing G cds. Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes. Groceries and Crockery Hats and Caps. N BETTER CIGARS ARE MADE THAN THE... Pokegama Boquet “Cup Defender Manufactured in Grand Rapids By CA bs +++t GEORGE BOOTH. for either of these brands and you will get an exeelient smoke, None but the finest stock used. | BISVSLSLSISMSLSLVSLES 15.99 For the above sum Broeker & Whiteaker are making as fine a suit as can be had in any city in the country fur the money. Or, if you want something better, they can show you the finest line of samples ever brought into the county. Atany rate, give thema call before” placing your order, They guarantee every garment they turn out in every way. BROEKER & WHITEAKER, Grand Rapids, Minn. 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