Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 7, 1898, Page 4

Grand Ravits Preratas Review Published Every Saturday. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN” ADVANCE Six Months .....$1.00 | Three Months........50¢ Entered im the postomce at Grand Rapids Minnesota. as secoud-class matter — GREAT GIRL. She Pleases the Men at the Boarding House. “Greatest git] at our boarding house you ever saw,” declared Quirkly, with a giggle, according to the Detroit Free Press. “Never what you expect her to say, and you'd be disappointed it she did, after hearing her. Dry- goods clerk sits opposite her and asked thought the other dé he really there were ba in the matrimonial lottery. ‘Of there are,’ slie answered, with a laugh. ‘I myself have been marked down from 38 to 25." Old bachelor (at sits next to her at the table lap. She away, but ef hand and c coolness of Dude bourder bad the nerve to pro- pose to her and she took half an hour explaining to him how it was all she could pessibly do to support her moth- er and herself. When she thought of taking on any more obligations she would certainly have another talk with him. The it, proud as a turkey gobbler. Real estate fiend wanted to sell ker a lot for twice what it was worth. She closed the deal by offering to take half ion and give him a quit Hhe still scratches his her from the cor- screamed nor ively took him by the d him on the proceeding. the his comm claim to the lot. head and looks at ners of his cyes. Think of laying my own fortune at her feet. Haven't the slightest idea that she will accept and for that very reason am inciined to think that she will.” A POINTLESS SPOON. Fashion Cries “Checkmate” to (ac Mar 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 cn between the w S of his mustache, says an exchange. may refuse to be shaped, of course, aud may continue to dislocate his shoulder at each mouthful and to of his neighbor's sleeves at each hoist- ing of his elbow, but he cannot tonger in fashionable houses get the puint ot his oon into his mouth. And the is like that which the li boy gave for refusing to e the core of hi apple. “There wa ig to be any core,” and there isn’t any point to the new soup s. A round spoon, uot 80 Ver} a miniature ladle in its shape as te entirely escape calumny, has been ea opted by those who 8 ce and is now be- the rate of thousands a those who fo on. To a. a rather aesthetic companion for the uew Ip spoon, 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 pr ly call this in the Iand where Raiph Waldo fmerson, a favorite son, is reverenced he rea te ought at for hi once answered a man who asked nim if he really ate pie at breakfast. “But, my dear what is pie for?” A “pastry Tork” 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, whick makes it possible for even a nervous map to keep the tip of the fork on his plate and saw through an obstinaic bit of puff paste. To be spared the o:d familiar agony of see- ing the soft and melting heart of his weetie” go sailing away to make a cranberry is!and on his next neighbor's white-satin lap is worth more than $3 a fork to any man. Wrong Emphasis. In these athle: a the college half-back ig sometimes more famous than the college presideni. And this js as true in Engiand as in America The New York Tribune says that a certain Mr. Webbe, “the famous Ox- ford batsma a student at Trinity wollege, once made an inning of “299 not out,” in a college cricket match. Of course the famous deed was her- alded far and wide. A few days after- iward, the president of Trinity coiiege, a venerable ani highly distinguished man, went to the Bank of England on some college business, and was waited upon by one of the younger clerks. At the end of the transaction tie presi- dent had to sign his official name, The clerk glanced at ihe signature, and broke out with the greatest enthusiasm, and with a 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 Smitn 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 willed twenty of the young pheasants!” ice cream in her | 2 Tau | 1ump went around telling | THE NOW WOMAN VERY OLD. | @HE MAGNETIC STROMSTAD'S. Tires Maury Astell Plourished in 1702. When our rew woman is not pro- t eystcm of poly- ce. it McLennan, Westermarck, Morgan and Bachofen) she is apt to disdain and shrink from the atrecious and oppressive male sex, says the North American Review. She is not so new but that Mrs. Mary Astell was before her, in 1709. Mrs. Mary “proposed a sort of female col- lege, in whe) ladies nauseating the parade of the werld might find a happy retirement.” Queen Anne meant to endow this estadlishment, but Bishop Burnet persuaded her that it savored of popery. Sir Walter Scott (who had nothing rew in him) speaks of Mrs, Mary as a Precieuse, who is anxious ‘(on w to confound the boundaries which na- | ture has fixed for the employments and studies of the two sexes, Swift laughed at Mrs. Mary in The Tatler (No. 32). But the new woman who sprns the de- grading coarseness of matrimony has closer patterns of Moliere’s Cathos and Madelon (“Les Precieuses Ridicules,” 1659). These ladies express themselves with irtuous freedom that I such vi | could not quote them unless I were a new lady novelist, writing in a new The student is, there- nely referred to the or- a by the unprincipled Po- quelin. For Molieve, too, had nothing new about him: he laughed at these original delicacies of sentiment. The new young lady in society is remarked for the generous breadth of her lan- guage and the large frolic of her wit. But, alas! even this is not so very new. In the correspondence of Lady Suffollr (1714-1769) we find the maids of honor, led by the coldest and most prudish, bout on a win~ sington palace, krocking on the panes and throwing open the windows of the inmates. Nothing can be more in the modern taste. I read in a period’eal devoted to the intellectual needs of women. The Lady's Realm. that the most popular and most ; ly popular lady in Eng- land els in the confection of “ap- ple-pie beds.” [ don’t believe it, of course, but this news is of the kind that women love. ter night, cw JULES VERNE. Very Different from the Man One's Im- agination Would Picture. If, meeting’ him without knowing who he was, I had been asked to divine his profession, I would have said he was a retired army general or a pro- fessor of physics and mathematics or a cabinet cfficer—never an artist, says a writer in the Chautauquan, in speaking of Jules Verne. He does not show the burden cf his almest 80 years, he has somewhat of Verdi’s build, with a se- rious, kindiy face, no artist-like vi- vacity in look or word, very simgle manners, the imprint of great sincerity in every fleeting manifestation of feel- ing and thought, the language, tho bearing, the manner of dress of a man who considers appearances of absolute- ly no account. My first sensation after the pleasure cf seeing him was one of stupefaction. Apart from the friendly lock and the affable demeanor I could recognize nothing in common with the Verne who stocd before me and the one that had a place in my imagina- tion. My wonder even increased when, induced to speak about his works, he spoke of them with an abstracted air, as he would have dene of some one else’s writings, or, rather, of things in which entered no merit of his—as he would have spoken of a collection of engravings cr coins he had acquired and with which he occupied himself | from the necessity of doing something rather then from any passion for the art. The Wity Raven. The following anecdote, communicat- ed by Mr. R. Ball to the author of Thomson’s Irish Birds, is a curious il- lustration of the remarkable sagacity of the raven. A tame raven, kept by schoolboys, was very attentive’ in watching their cribs or bird traps, and when a bird was taken, the raven en- deavored to catch it by turning back top of the trap with its beak, but in so doing the bird always escaped, as the raven could not let go the crib in time to seize. of this kind the raven, seeing another bird caught, instead of going at once to the trap, went to another tume raven and induced it to accompany him. When the second raven lifted up the crib, the other bore the poog captive off in triumph. ry Feeds Newspapers to His Hens. A farmer of Clare County, Michigan. bas found that he can increase the egg-laying abilities of his hens by feeding to them old newspapers torn in bits and soaked in sour milk until the whole becomes a pulp. The hens, it is said, like the new food, and the inventor expects to see almost any day one of the freak papers come out with the picture of a hen that sets type. Origin of Horseshoeing. In the ninth century they began to shoe horses, but, strange to say, only in time of frost. King William I. in- troduced ‘horseshoeing into England, and six horseshoes are on the coat of arms of the man to whom William gave vast estates for caring for his horses in this way. A Resemblance. Mrs. Kuddler—Do you know, George, that every body says the baby is just’ like me? Mr. Kuddler—Nonsense Anne. The baby is now more than siz wonths old, and it has never spoken word.—Beston Transcript. i | father tell relates to the blocdy hand ! which appears in our coat of arms, A After several vaiu attempts | | was to be regarded as the rightful They Drank Iron Water and Were / Magnetized by Lightning. | A remarkable story comes from the | upper Yakima. Two years ugo Mr. Peter Stromstadt located 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 impregaated with fron, but was not unpalatable. Mr, ftromstadt dug out and deepened the spring, and since July, 1823, the fam ily have used the water for all domes tic purposes. On the night of April 2 a heavy elee- trical storm passed over the Cascades, accompanied by vivid displays of Mgntning. The following moruing Mrs, Stromstadt, while kindling the fire in | the stove, found it almost impossible | to separate the stove lifter from het haad. Hes husbend, hearing her cali, ran to her assistance, when, to his sux prise, he found that he, too, experi- enced great difficuity in detaching any article of iron with which his hands game in contact. Breakfast was finally prepared and the family sat down te the meal. The idren, two girls of five and seven years, drank their milk from tin cups, and upon réising 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 nonplussed, and while unable to account for the wonderful occurrences, nevertheless.laughed at his wife’s ex- cited declarations that the famiiy were bewiched. Mr. Stromstadt h: en a frierd in town. that the small bed on which the chil- dren 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 of the most remarka- ble on record. A member of the Academy of Scieuces, to whom the cir- cumstances were related, states that the Stromstadt fanily have become | saturated with iron, which was ren- | dered magnetic by the passage of elec- | tricity from the clouds to the eartb during the storm on the night of April f; and they are actual human magnets —sacoma Daily News. OIL ON 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 ise and fall of the vessel to create an y pressure, by means of which the gil is forced from the reservoir ana mixes with the sea. Briefly, a tank ig placed in a convenient pesition at the tore or after end of the vessel, above the water line, and is about three parts filled with sil, the re ising Bhace ing as an air reservoir. In connection with and pass:ng through this tank is a tube, the lower end of which is carried as far down as pos- | sibie, and is cpen to the sea, the upper part being fitted with an air valve to | admit of the air pressed up by the | column of water passi into the re- serycir, In connection with the maia tube an additional air tube is fitte} Immediately under the water line, which, when, the vessel rises, admits uir 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 pounds can easily be obtained, which, acting upen the air stored in the re servoir, ejects the oil through the dis- tributing pipes to the sea.—London Invenwon. Grim Highlunders, My father had uo end of anecdotes about our ancestors, parts of which I vemember, though I was only a school raom child of under fourteen when I geard him relate them. I was, how- sver, old enough to feel keenly inter: asted in them. One story that im- pressed me very much was related to | s.ecount for the origin of the Macintyre. A party of Macdonells on tne occasion were out in a boat, when | a knot of weed sprang our, causing a serious lea whereupon cne oft 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- seendaris were «J the Macintyres, | or Sons of the Carpenter. Another story which I heard mv dovbt having arisen as to which ‘of two brothers a certain estate belonged, it was agreed that he whose flesh and blood should first touch the property owner. Accordingly the two young men started in two boats for the land | in question. One of them, seeing that he was losing the race, when near the shore pulled out his dirk, cut off his | hand and threw it on land, thus es- | tablishing his right to the property, as his flesh and blood had touched it first —Blackwood’s Magazine. Combined Fish and Snake Story. A Barberton man who goes to church regularly was one day walking along the banks of Concession creek, {in Bechuanaland, eating a sandwich, aad om account of the usual disparity between meat and bread he threw the redundant piece into the water. Im- mediately a swarm of yellow fish bubbled around it, fighting for the mouthful. The man searched his pock- ets for fishing tackle, but all in vain and he 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 catching fish. He therefore grabbed the reptile by the tail, carried it to the river and heid it over the struggling fish. The snake proved it- | self a born angler, and in the course ef an hour the man had captured forty sh. A few days later. as he was walking in the same p'ace, he felt something rub against his leg, and | looking down. he saw his friend, the | dlacksnake eager! for more sp yrt- Rangoon (Burmah) Times | ceive short weight or inferior goods. | for the car to stop. He now rides on |; other valuables, carried off the young NEXT-DOOR COMPETITION. Sheps in France Not Allowed te Crowd Each Other. In France two shops selling the same thing are not aliowed to exist within a certain area. In provisions this absence of competition materially increases the prce, but, says a woman who has large experience in house keeping in France, your taxes are less, and you have in return clean streets, good gas, constant water supply and perfect sewerage. It addition, by vir tue of state supervision, you never re- There is no quantity so small that the grocer will not sell it. And in doing this and in delivering it he is aa scrupulously polite and careful as ‘n buying larger amounts) The butcher is the cook’s friend and will trim the meat and take out the bones with loving care. Meat is dear. Good deefsteak costs from thirtv-seven cents to fifty centsa pound. Fish is very expensive, but poultry is reasonable and good and butter and eggs good and comparatively cheap. 4 good deal | of cooking in small househol.is is done with gas, and gas stoves are loaned by the gas companies for this purpose. Sugar, matches and all imported ar- ticles are dear, owing to the high tar iff. The lowest price for servants is $10 a month. Charwomen ask six cents by the hour. Englishwomen say that life on the continent is much more agreeable for Americans than for themselves, owing to the fact that in each consular town the consul and his family make a nucleus for a colony which soon gathers about them. IT WAS ONLY A SLIPPER. But Decorated With » Bogus Mouse It | Created @ Sensation. | She is a roguish and jolly girl, but being an Episcopalian, she had been making a great effort since Ash Wednesday to affect a certain subdued and demure manner. Hut one after- noon the sewing cirvle to which she belongs met. Her gown for the occa- sior was simplicity itself—of soft gray cashmere, with a plaited bodice made | Quaker fashion. Her bonnet was a quaint little gray chip poke, trimmed 1 es a ae a ae eH eat ake Mae ae Hea ae ea se eae a ate se ae a eae ea a with gray ribbon and one large purple passion flower. The tie strings were of broad griy | satin ribbon. She glided inte the room very quiet y and became at once intent «pon her Lenten sewing. Sudden'y the sewing circle quiet was interrupted by wild shricks of terror and the members with one accord climbed on tables and chair seats. What was the trouble? Simply the demure little maiden’s new hon e slip- per. It was of black suede. No buckle ornamented its instep, but in its place «was a tiny movse in high re- lief and made of gray suede, with bright beads for eyes and along tail with a regular mouse curl to it, Now the fair practicai joker is trembling lest ler rector may heat of it. YOUR CH4NGE, SIR, A Conductor Who Gets Even With a Ten-Dollar Passenger. There is ® conductor®on a Cleve- land street-car line who played a | elever trick on a passenger the cther morning, which has probably taught him to have his fare ready hereafter when he boards a car. The passenger lives away out at the end of the line, and was so punctual that he caught the same car every morning. About a j week ago he tendered a $10 bill in pay- ment of his fare. The ronductor did uot have so much money at the begin- ning of his trip and told the passenger that he would pay the nickel out of his own pocket and he ec--ld return it the following morning. ‘che next morning the business man again pre- sented a $10 bill. Again the conductot paid the fare for him. This occurred four mornings in suc cession. Thefifth morning the same $)0 bill came around, but the conduc tor was prep»red. He drew a heavy bag from benesth the seat and handed it to the passenger with the remark: “‘Here’s your change, sir. It’s all right. I’ve counted it.” He had se- cured 1,000 pennies the night before pnd kept twenty-five of them for the fares ae had paid for the business maz. The bag contained 975 copper coins. The passenger took the bag and rang another car. An Elopement in Mexico. One evening reccatly the residence of Refugio Martinez, near Chepuite- pee castie, Mexico, was entered and robbed bya band of supposed brig- ands, who, besides stealing money and daughter of Martinez. Detectives traced the bandits to New Orleans ana | zocated them in a fashionable hotel. Zhe criminal was Louis Salazar, a | prominent young man, who was liv- | ing with the abducted daughter of Mr. Martinez. Salazar was arrested, and made a confession of the whole affair. He states that he was the lover of Miss Martinez, and that her parents opposed his sait and forbade ber seeing him. In «rder to gain pos- session of his sweetheart he arranged | the attack with a party of friends, The girl says she was not tiken against her will. They were married en the day following the abduction, The daring young lover and his com: | panions have been placed in jail. The Point of View. “This country is growing,” observed sthe statistical editor. looking up from ais work, enthusiastically. “at a rate never before equaled, not only is wealth and 1: opulation, but in manu- factures. arts, sc’ences und everything that makes people great.” { “That's all right enough,” growled she sour-looking man at the desk ix Yhe corner, ‘but it’s a country o yvamed fools!” | The sour-looking man w<s the sditos | af the answers to queries “epartment \ “A Good Suit” is always a winner. “Clothes make the man,” isan old saying well worth considering. - Many a young man aa eee eel S , Homesteaders Hy Can save time and expense by Mi proving up before E. C. Kiley, i Judge of Probate, Grand Rapids. ® Filings Upon Land May also be made before him, mat, The Expense of taking witnesses to Duluth or St. Cloud can be saved. 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