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

Gran “Reapits Mreratas'tReview Published Every Saturday. By E. C, KILEY, rwoO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE fonths $1.00 | Three Mohths. 50¢ i in the postofice at Grand Rapids Minnesota. as second-class matter. LIGHTHOUSE IMPROVEMENTS. Changes That Have Been Made in Lights and Lenses. Meantime the means of lighting was oeing steadily improved.. The open fire ave place to the oil lamp; then a rved mirror, cailed a parabolic mir- r, was placed behind the lamps to 1g the rays tegether; next, many s with mirrors were grouped a central spindle, and some such s are still in operation, says St. icholas. The greatest stride came hen an arrangement of lenses, known s the Fresnel lens, in front of a lamp replaced the miror behind it., This lens we pidly improved for lighthouse until now a cylindrical glass house surrounds the lamp flame. This house has lens-shaped walls, which bend all the rays to form a horizontal of strong light which pierces the ness to a great distance. The rap- increase in the number of light- ses has made it necessary to have means of telling one from an- her, or, as it is termed, of giving o each light its “characteristic.” Col- ing the glass made the light dimmer, red comes most nearly to white in brightness, some lights have 1 lenses. The latest and best plan, ver, is to set upright prisms at in a circular framework ihe lens and to revolve this by clockwork. Thus the light ade 1 every time a prism between it and an observer. By the speed of the clockwork, 2 flashes cf any one light can be ur at intervals of so many t light, Putting in red other changes. Thus = “characteristic,” and written down in signs on the fully stated in the light- ca ed by vessels. Thus, on a art you may note that the light you ht is marked “F. W., v. W. ” which means that it is 1 by white flashes ten second When a light is ed you see if those are its char- , if so, you have found “fixed every nete the right ¢ The Mountain Parrot of New Zealand. The Kea, or mountain parrot of New Zealand, is a very funny little st. When he meets.tourists on the tramp, he at once falls in solemnly,with his family and chums, all waddiing in Indian file. Here is a scene described traveler who recently made the cent of the Fox glacier: The keas having settled on the ice began to fol- low in a long straggling line, about 15 of them. Then have a preternaturally solemn walk, but when in a hurry they hop along on both feet locking very eager and very much in earnest. To see these fifteen birds hopping along behind in a string as if their very lives depended on keeping me in sight was ridiculously comic, The ice was undu- lating, with little valleys and hum- mocks, and the birds would now, for a second or two, disappear into a hollow and now show up on a hummock, pause a moment, and then hop down again out of sight into the next shadow. To judge by their expressions and manner, they were in a great state of anxiety on emerging from a hollow on to a hummock, as to whether I was still there. Now and then the one in front would appear, craning his neck, and on seeing me still ahead, would turn round and shriek “ -e-a,” as much as to say, “It’s all right, boys, come along.” And the others, putting their heads down, would set their teeth and travel “all they knew,” a fat one in the rear evidently making very heavy weather of it. bea Flooded With Pearls, A Bond street jeweler was telling me some weeks ago of the new rage for pearls and the consequent rise in price, A tiny pearl which cost two shillings two years ago would now cost ten shil- lings. Since then I have learned that the London market has become ab- solutely flooded with pearls. The poor, famished Indians have sold all they possess at famine prices and the Hatton garden merchants have profited by their distress. Great, then, as is the demand for pearls, the supply is far greater—a hint to those who fondly | desire a necklet of pearls in th®s year of grace 1897—The Gentlewoman. Should Aceept It, Priscilla ( just arrived)—Are there any men here? Phyllis—Oh, there are a few apologies for men! Priscilla— Well, if an apology is offered to me I} shall accept it.—Tid-Bits. A Longing and a Wish, i The graduating class of the Grant City (Mo.) high school has chosen as its motto: “Where is my boy.” The class is composed of five young ladies, Warwhoops on the Scaffold. Not yet extinguished is the spirit of the Indian warrior’s death chant in the northwest. Charcoal, an Indian mur- derer of one of the mounted police at McLeod, Manitoba, was so infirm in the Jegs that he had to be carried to the scaffold, but he died full of defiance, giving three ringing warwhoops as he was taken up the stairs. > the nutnber and places of the | & LESSON FOR AMERICANS. indignant Londoners Show Them How to Treat Railway Managers. Every morning at 9:21 @ train from Wimbledon stops at Streatham to take up a strong contingent of stock brok- ers, which party it is timed to deliver in good condition at London bridge at 9:43, in order that “bulls” and “bears” alike may be safely ensconced. in their respective stations before the clock strikes 10, says the London Daily Mail. Earlier trains have already car- ried off hordes of city clerks, “business young ladies” and a sprinkling of pros- perous merchants of the early-rising persuasion; later ones are provided for the sluggard journalist and the com- pany director. The 9:21 is the stock brokers’ train and is treated. by them in quite a proprietoriai way. A few days ago the 9:30 sun shone brightly down on the up platform, upon which some sixty stalwart stock brokers displayed every variety of city-made clothes, while awaiting the arrival of their overdue train. There was no fog, and the distance from the Wimbledon ter- minus is hardly worth mentioning. Whence, then, could the delay arise? These questions agitated every mind during the intervals of perusing suck items of news from East or the Cape as might, perchance, affect the subse- guent doings on ’change. Presently a passenger happened to remark, genial- iy, to a reporter: “Train very late this saorning,” and received the astonish- “Train’s hoft, sir.” “OH?” A dozen pairs >f ears had caught the reply, a dozen mouths re- peated it. “Off? Where’s the station master?” With the promptitude that characterizes their race, sixty shouting stock brokers swarmed into the station master’s offic Ter answer to their clamorous questions the official repre- sentative of the L. B. & S. C, railway company explained that, as the train lad not gone down to Wimbledon that morning he was afraid it would not come back. Cupel Court promptly re- jected this logic as being of a spurious type and as promptly presented an ul- timatam, It took the form of ordering the station master to stop the ex: from Mitcham at 9:32. He refused to do so, and since a pacific blockade was al- ready in force without effect other pr sure ¥ employed. Threats ef clai ing compensation, defaands for the re- ir money, fel] unheeded up- on the official ea: Pale-faced he met the ultimatum, fortified by the exam- ple of little Greece, with a sturdy non- possum Then a voice from the back of the crowd proposed in distinct terms that Mr. Station Master should be dragged on to the platform and public- ly denuded of his nether garments. Wild legends of similar doings in the house had evidently reached the station master’s ear. He capitulated at dis- cretion. He wired to Mitcham, the ex- press pulled up and the Mitchamites, who condemn the Streathamites as these latter despise the Tulse-hillers, were too much taken by surprise to make any effective resistance by bar- ricading the carriage doors, to the boarding of their private train by sixty triumphant stock brokers, flushed with their victory over the L, B. & S. C. rail- way. The 9:21 up service was resumed without explanation on the following day and is still running. Ai the Cape of Good Hope. The Dutch settled this part of the world about the same time that they founded colonics along the Hudson riv- er, say the middle ot the seventeenth century. When they built a house they meant that it should last not merely their lifetime, but that of generations unborn. ey planted trees in long, straight avenues, which are stil] the pride of the colony, and they built their bridges and highways with the ebvious intention of making this neighborhood another Holland. Mr, Cecil Rhodes nas shown his apprecia- taste by purchasing for ¢ of the finest ancestral es- tates in the colony, where he lives when he sojourus at the cape, very much as wight have done a governor of the old Dutch East India company. Before the Jameson raid Mr. Rhodes enjoyed great popularity among the Dutch Africanders, for he was always careful to treat their national charac- teristics with respect, and he was cred- ited with an honest intention of mak- ing. in South Africa a great Anglo- Dutch United States, where each nation might forget the jealousies born of al- legiance to different flags and all unite under the banner of Africa for the Af- ricander.—Harper’s Magazine. The Geauty of the Greeks. The beauty of the Greeks has been greatly praised, and I was much disa pointed at Athens; but the Greeks of the Ionian Islands are of a purer race, and one sometimes comes across a very beautiful face. There was a village on the island famed for the beauty of the women. I drove over and saw some very handsome, tall women, with the low, classic brow, and often with blue eyes. They wore their hair plaited with ribbons and twined around the head like a coronet. I was amazed to see such luxuriant hair, but was told that it was probably mixed with their moth- ers’ and grandmothers’ hair. I think Leighton’s idea that the Greeks were originally fair was correct. for I saw several fair-haired women. My maid Marguerite had the most lovely gold- en hair an. blue eyes; she was tall and statuesque. Her sister Puterpe was no less handsome, but dark.—Cathotic World. The Cause of the Row. Gibbs—How did siurers come to hit you? Snoggs—Oh, it was all on ac- count of a trifling difference of opinion between us. Gibbs—Difference of opin- ion? Snoggs—Yes, I thought he lied and he thought he didn’t,—New York Tribune. £ A WOMAN DIES OF RABIES, Bitten by a Dog, She Expires Three Months Eater. Miss Jennie B. Glatigny died of rab- fes at her home at Seventh and Bull streets yesterday morning about 2 o'clock. . Her sufferings from spasms of the throat and larynx just before her death were terrible, and it was impos- sible to do anything for her relief, says the Savannah (Ga.) News of March 23. Dec. 29 Miss Glatigny took her dog and went out for a walk toward Mr. Kies- ling’s place, a short distance from her home. When near there she saw two dogs, one of which attacked her dog, and when she took a stick to beat it off the other dog sprang at her and bit her through the right hand, between the thumb and forefinger. Miss Glat- igny went on to Mrs. Kiesling’s, where some turpentine was applied to the wound and after some days it healed up. On Jan. 12 it broke out again and Dr.. Stanley was called. He pricked the hand and let out a small accumula- tion of pus, after which it healed again and she took no further notice of it until Thursday, March 18, seventy-nine days after the bite, when, about 12 o’clock noon, she began to feel a pain in the hand, which ran up the arm, through the shoulder and down her side. She was very restless Friday ht and in the morning and com- ned that the pain kept annoying She was about the same Friday night and Saturday morning about 10 o'clock she sent for Dr. George H. Stone. When Dr. Stone called he found her suffering from this pain, but there Were no other symptoms and it ap- peared that she had taken cold. The pain was easily relieved and it did not return. She had one choking spell and on the return of Dr. Stone Sunday morning she complained that she had not Slept through the night, though she had suffered no pain. She then showed signs of rabies in her inability to swal- low and from then until 2 o’clock in the morning, when she died, there was @ constant succession of spasms when- ever she attempted to drink water. Al- though she wished for water eagerly, and would hold a glass of it in her hand for aa hour at a time, while the sight of it did not seem disagreeable to her, yet when she attempted to swal- low it her effort would make the spasms of the throat still more intense and these kept up continuously to the time of her death, nature being unable to endure longer the severe strains pro- duced. Miss Glatigny was conscious to the time of ‘er death. She knew those about her and would talk when she had long enough relief from the constantly recurring spasms of the throat to do so. Her case was accom- panied by all of the other symptoms of rabies, such as extreme nervous irri- tability. Touching her nose at at- tempting to blow it would bring on a severe spasm, as would also any draught of air, no matter how slight. On one occasion the suggestive treat- ment was tried and she was finally en- abled to drink a glass of water through the induced belief that she could do it. But this could not be kept up and the spasms became more frequent and more severe until death relieved her. Yesterday morning Dr. Stone and: Drs. Graham and Brunner held an autopsy for the purpose of making a thorough investigation of the case. There was no doubt in the minds of any of them that it was a true case of rabies, They took some of the virus and will culti- vate it and try its effect on some an- imal, such as a rabbit, for the purpose of more thoroughly understanding the case, The German Emperor and Empress. 1 remembered that when I lived Eerlin, when a_ child, scarcely observed in any way by the Germans. The churches were well nigh empty. You might have im- agined yourself in London upon a bank holiday. But the present empress is a woman of very firm religious princi- ples and William Il, however change- able he may be in other matters, is a rock where his pious cerned. It has been the dearest wish of both himself aud the empress to in- troduce the ‘“‘Euglish Sunday” to the Geimans, and it is wonderful, indeed, how they have succeeded. The in- crease of belief is remarkable; the Ber- lin churches are now attended by crowds and the clergymen, termerly at ty, are feted as if they were the military. Both ermperor and empress always attend divine ser- vice in the morning. The preacher is forbidden, it is true, to speak longer than fifteen minutes and the congrega- tiou is warned against “staring” at their majesti After church the royal couple entertain a few intimate friends at luncheon and before bed time the iusparts some bible knowledge idren.—The Womau at Home, in Sunday was Writers of Boo! Ip a pretty large experience I have not found the men who write books superior in wit or learning to those who don’t write at all. In regard of mere information, nonwrite:s must oft- en be superior to writers... You don't er in full practice to be with aH kinds of literature; sy with his law; and sc a is commonly too busy with his writer own books to be able to bestow atteu- tion on the works of other peopte,— Thach Puy. The Unlikely. “No,” sighed the poster former as he sadly contemplated the poster cow, “I can’t say that I consider her a very likely animal, but we all have our short- comings, I suppose. ‘Letroit Journal. The Difference. She—I can sympathize with you. I} ‘was married once myself. He—But you weren't married to a woman.—Tid-Bits, belief is con- | | Tuesday, July 20, 1897, at 9 o’clock a. | we will receive applications for the | entry of said lands in said Townships, | A. J. TAYLOR, Register. | “f ¥. L. RYAN, Receiver. NOTICE! United States Land Office, Duluth, Minn., June 2, 1897. Notice is hereby given that the of ficial plats of survey of Township 152 Nerth of Range 26 West of 5th P. M., will be opened for filing in this officeon m. Corrected plats of Township 157 North of Range 27 West of 5th P. M., Township 158 North of Range 27 West of 5th P. M., and ‘Township 158 Nerth of Rarige 26 West of 5th P. M. Wednesday, July 21, 1897, at 9 o a. m., and that on and after said days | LOST. Heavy gold ring, with garnet set- ting, Masonic device and the figures “32” in black enamel on outside, owner’s name and date “Nov. 18, 1892” engraved on outside. Leave at Herald-Review office and receive a suitable reward. | For Sale. Eight lots in block 24, Third Divi- sion of Grand Rapids, for sale at’ a) bargain, or will exchange for Farm Stock of any kind These lots adjoin model farm and are clear of incumberanees. For par- ticulars address. J. A. BLACKWOOD, Duluth, Minn. or Herald-Review, Grand Rapids. BEST LINE ST. 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