Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 3, 1898, Page 4

Brand Rapids erait-'HReview! By E. ©. KILEY. WO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE t x Months........81.00 | Three Months........506 Qptered at the Postoffice at Grand Rapids Minn., as second-class matter. ———————— OOOO A Story of the French Revolution. At the time of the French Reytlu- tion, Houdon, the celebrated French sculptor (whose statue of Voltaire we have all admired in the foyer of the nter Francais), was thrown into 0 Mme. Houdon, in despair, went to Barras, and with streaming eyes implored his assistance. Barras sbook his head; he feared he could do aothing. Houdon was a man of genius and, therefore, as David was one of tue condenining judges, he feared there was little chance for his salvation. Mme. Houdcr refusing to accept this opinion as finai and using all the arts and beguilements of which an astute French lady is capable, Barras at last condescended to ask her if her husband had any statue for sale at that time in his studio. Madame replied that the only finished statue at present in his atelier was a figure of Saint Schol astice, holding a scroll of MS. in her hand. On hearing this the wily Barras rang the bell and said to his answering sec- retary: “M. Houdon has*just com- pleted a splendid statue of ‘Philosophy Meditating on the Revolution.’ Hastea and purchase this sublime work of art, and have it placed in the Assembly.” arras’ orders were earried out, with result tha: not only was the sculp- tor’s life spared, but he recelved more commissions for statues.than he was able to execute. On such small issues did the lives of men hang in those tre- mendous times. Not Disqualified. It is wonderful what good reasons men have for not serving on juries, but a bright judge ig generally equal to the occasion. In the Quarter Session Court, Judge Siddie on the bench, says the Philadel- phia Record. a German asked te be ex- eused from jury duty. “Why? scked the indea The tHeayty of the Greeks, The beauty of the Greeks has been ereatly praised, and { was much disap- dat Athens; but the Greeks of tonian Islands are of a pu race es metimes comes across very ace. There was a village on tamed for the beauty of the 1 drove over and saw some | ndsome, tall women, with the c , and often with blue yes. They wore their-hair plaited with | isvons and twined around the head; like a coronet. I was amazed to se? luxuriant bair, but was told that probably mixed with their moth- and grandmothers’ hair. I think hton’s idea that the Greeks wers ally fair was correct. for { saw 1 fair-haired women. My maid Marguerite had the most lovely gold- en hair anu blue eyes; she was tal! and statuesque. Her sister Futerpe was no less handsome, but dark.—Cathulic World. The Cause of the Row. ibbs—How did sinters come to hit Oh, it was all on ac rifling difference of opinion een us. Gibbs—Difference of opin- Snoges--Yes, I thought he lied | ion? and he thought he didn’!.--New York | Tribune ne Acetic Fox, hing ig told abowt tha x--that be imitates the cries of the birds cn which he feeds and so s them within his reach. Yeu he is not difficult to capture as comi-\ pared with other varieties. He readi): ers a trap, and when at large wil: Mer the hunter to approach him h within easy shot. He burrows 1 his fellows in groups, making s similar to those of the prairie nd, like that rodent, he will pop out of the hole to salute the with yelps. Av the Cape of Good Hope. ibe Dutch settled this part of the a about the same time that they founded colonics along the Hudson riv- e middle of the seventeenth When they built a house they | at it should last not merely ir lifetime, but that of generations porn, ‘They planted trees in long, straight avenues, which are still the pride of the colony, snd they built their bridges and highways with the ebvious intention of making this neighborhood another Holland. Mr. Cecil Rhoades nas shown his apprecia- tion for Durep taste by purchasing for his home one of the finest ancestral es- tates in the colony, where he lives when he’ sojourns at the cape, very much as light 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 thefr 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- pieander.— Harper's Magazine. ! OCONSOLDVG HER INTENDED. George's Unnecessary Fenre Were Dissipated by One Word. She had agreed to become his wife. For a long time he had sat in silence, too full of emotion to say anything, so grest was bis happiness at having at last achieved the fondest dream of his life. At length his face, hitherta wreathed with smiles, became clouded A scowl of annoyance settled upon it, She, who had been attentively watch- ing his countenance, was quick to ob: serve the change. < “What is the matter, George,” she asked in alarm. “You are not sorry you asked ne to marry you and that I consented? Oh, George, I hope that is not it.” “No, dear. You know I love you as never woman was loved before.” “Then what is it that causes you dis- tress? Tell me that I may console you. It is the duty of a little wife to comfort her husband in affliction, and I am going to be your little witie. Ain’t I George?” ‘Yes, darling, you are.” : And there was silence during which no sound fell upon the air except a noise like the popping of champagne corks. “Well, Georgie, now tell me all about “Well, dear, I was wondering what your father will say when I ask him for your hand. You are such a prec- jous jewel that I dare not ask him for you. ar the greatest and thing in the world.” “Well.” she replied, “if that’s all most precicus that’s the matter with you, I might as | well tell you that father and I re- | hearsed the whole act last night,wftey | you left, and I am sure he will retlect credit upon my lessons when you speak to him.” ‘And a great load was lifted from his heart, while he immediately deposited another in his lap. HUNTERS HIT THEIR GAME, instances Where Sportsmen Have Received Severe Blows from Bids. Game killed in flight has a omen tum that carries it a long way some: times. The London Field relates sev- eral instances where the birds have hit the sportsman. In one case George Monners was shooting in the woods of Long Isiand when a grouse, driven by beaters, came flying along fast and high up. He shot at it, and then, with the other barrel, fired at another bird Just as he was about lowering his | gun, after the second shot, le received a blow on the head that knocked him senseless. The grouse first hit had tumbled against his head. That same.afternoon a wheelman, riding along near the Hne of hunters, admiring the scenery, did not observe a big black cock till its feathers brush- ed his head. The black cock had heen killed and had nearly hit him i falling. The Badminton volume on shooting | tells how the late Charles Leslie was knocked out at the battery by a grouse he had shot. A strong hat probably gaved him from serlous injury. American hunters have had similar experience. A man was riding along in a wagon some time ago. according to Forest and Stream, when some- thing hit him on the head with enough force to make him dizzy. An un- wounded partridge flying through the woods had hit him fair. Why the biré did not turn aside is as much a mys tery as the fact that partridges some times fly against house sides and are tilled in so doing. A Motion to Amend. Those people out in Colorado are cer | tainly stuck on silvef. Now, the last time I was out there I attended church on Sunday, as I always do. The min- ister was one of the good, old-styte Methodists. He'd grown up in the country, though, and called a spade a spade when.it was necessary. He had reached his peroration, “and when the | last day shall have come,’ he said, ‘and we shall have knocked on the | yearly gates and they shall have opened to us, we shall enter the beaw tiful city and walk up the golden: paved streets and receive a goldet harp of a thousand strings; then. oh, Mhen, what joy will be—’ Just then, away down in the rear of the church, a little peaked-nosed runt with bow- legs, jumped up and shouted. ‘I rise for the purpose of making a motion.’ Well, the parson looked startled and | quit speaking. ‘My motion is,’ said the peak-nosed fellow, ‘that wherever in that there discourse the word “gold” appears, it be stricken out, and the word “silver” be substituted’ ‘Well, sir, about forty of that congre- gation got up to second the motion. | Now. that just shows what the silver sentiment is in that state.” “Well, what did the preacher say?” asked the listeners. “Well, gentlemen, he looked at that little peaked-nose, bow-legged runt for a minute, gettin’ madder and madder all the while, and he looked as if he was going to have a stroke of apo- -plexy. He slammed the book shut and he banged his fist down on the cover and said, ‘I’ll see you durned first!’ ”"—~ New York S Whe He ed at the Bill, He--I wish I had been Noah. She—Why? He—I'll bet no seal would have been allowed to board the ark.—Cleveland Leader. S Rig Difference. Scribbler—Have you ever read any of my verse? Spatts: o; I pref delpbia er poetry—-Phila- “ao. The Cheerfu) fdtot. “I wonder if Maceo ‘3 really dead?” said Mrs. Hasheroft, as she poured the coffee. “In view of tie fact that his physician is said to have had a hand in the affair it louks as if it might be true.” said the Cheerful Idiot.—India- sapolis Journal. Poor Girl. “Bob, listen to this: “The oldest love jetter in the world is 3,000 years old and is written on a brick.”” “S'pose the feller threw his proposai at the girl's bead then?” -Ally Sloper. I feel as if I were robbing hi | THE EARLIER BENIN, ad a Progressive Monarch in the Olden “ ‘Times. © 3 Benin, of which we have heard a good deal during the last few months. was at one time the center of a con- siderable empire, as African empires go, says the Londen Saturday Review The name will remind students of ear- ly voyages to India, and especially of Vasco de Gama's, the 400th anniversary jf which will be ceiebrated this year, ; that Portuguese curiosity with regard | to India in those far-off days was whet | ted by the reports which either a king of Benin or his envoys carried to Lis- | bon of I’rester John and the Nestorian | Christians who held sway on the other | dide of the Indian ocean. Eienin was | then associated, more or less intimate- ly, with Abyssinie, through whieh tke | knowledge of India reached the king of Benin, King Don Joan of Portugal sent forth two envoys via Egypt to dis- sever the mysteriov's land whence Ven- }ice and other cities had drawn untold riches. He also dispatched Bartholo- meu Diaz on a voyage ot discovery down the African const, with the result that the cape was accidentally rounded and the way cpened up for the great | voyage of Vasco de Gama in 1497. Por- tugal for years previous to the repre- ‘gentations made by the king of Benic | dreamed of a direct sea route te India, and it is curious io think that four cen- turies ago a predecesscr of *he barba- fian who now rules in Benin was in- | strumental in inciting her navigators | to new efforts which eventually brought east and west ints closer touch, Graphophone Against Matrimony. A confirmed old bhehelo deciares that the graphophone was the only thing needed to make the state of single | blessedness far preierable to the cares | ‘and doubtiul joys of matrimony. ‘I | admit,” he says, “that on a stormy | night, whea one does not feel like go- | ing to the club or some glace of a:nuse- | ment or when one is under the weather and ts confined to one’s own room, {* | is apt to be decide 1; one tires of books and ‘ongs ior companionship. | That is to say, I used to feel in this way | at times, before I bought the best | graphopbone that could be had for the | money. Now I have enly to set it go- | ing and I am amused all the ever 4 ; have the most charming and soothing | selections played to me on the piano, snatches from the opera and old bal- ; lads sung to me in the tenderest and | | sweetest cf voices and a repertory that H is inexhaustible, for I can always have | new music when I am tired of the old. | If I have a cold I can put my feet tn | hot water and take a hot punch and be | | entertained as well as if I had a w { and all without the worries of a Lecuse- hold or any danger of the swee. voice becoming fretful or complaining. Be: | sides,” continued the crusty old mis- | ogy: , “I can always shut it up whe: I want to. I wonder how many hus- | bands could do that to their woman- | | kind!"—New York Tribune Floating Sant‘ariums, The sanitarium et a European Idea. A iarge siwamer especially fitted up for the accommedation of invalids ’n need_of fresi atv and a favorable elimate is*to be constructed by a ship- owning association. The ship is to be in constant employment for eight or nine months in the year, but for at thoroughly cleansed and disinfected. It is proposed to make this steamer which is to be the forerunner of a large fleet similarly equipped, a veri- table floating palace in the matters of both comfort and salubrity. A}- though skilled advice and nursing will always be available, the accompani- ments of a sanitarium will be kept as much as possible in the background, | Lhe prominent idea to be carried out | in this new departure is the isolation of a dangerous class, with the least possible amount of discomfort to its members; and, furthermore, that by a | judicious timing of moves the suffer. ers will be afforded a chance of recov- ery under the most favorable climatic conditions, which it would be difficult to secure otherwise. A list of anchor. | ages has been made, all of which have their special seasons. As soon as any yindesirable change of weather is im minent at the port of stopping, the ship will sail for a more salubrious chmate. The “Chink” Was Not Slow. From the New Orleans Times-Demo- erat: “You may talk to me about the stolid, stupid Chinee,” said an accident- insurance agent, “but I know better. The other day I insured Hop Lee’s life for $1,000. A few days afterward a weak-looking ‘Chink’ called at my office and asked to see me. ‘Well?’ said 1. ‘Me wantee flive hundle dollar,’ said he. ‘What for? I demanded. ‘Hop Lee,’ responded my caller, ‘He gend me. Got thousand for degd. Half dead, wantee half money—flive hundle dollar. Say, I didn’t do a thing to that Chinaman.” : Jeast three months out of the twelve | she will go into dock in order to be } One cannct easily convince of b13 en" or 2 person who finds gentle solace 14 ag nerves from an after-dinner cigar’ out the almost continual employment of tobacco in some form, and especially the inhalation of the fumes from a cigarette, which has its own distinct and pernicious effect, is strongly to be discouraged The exampi? of men who have been tobaceo-users for a lifetime with im- punity proves nothing save that there are many men with constitutions strong enough to withstand a test which is entirely unnecessary. Couldn't Stand It. A certain fat lady resolved to con- sult a physician about her corpulence. She had had no previous experience with “banting” of any sort. The doc- tor drew up a careful dietary for her. She must eat dry toast, plain boiled beef and a few other things of the same jean sort and in a month return and re- port the result to the dortor. At the end of the time the lady came and was so stout that she could hardly get througk the door. The doctor was aghast. “Did you eat what I told you?” | he asked. “Religiously,” she answered, His brow wrinkled in perplexity. Sud- denly he had a flash of inspiration. “Did you eat anything else?” he asked, “Why, I ate my ordinary meals,” said the lady. DULUTH, SOUTH SHORE & ATLANTIC R’Y. Leave Duluth 6:30 p. m. (Except Saturday.) Time 24 Hours Fare $16.47. Time 38% Hrs. SAGINAW Fare $23.90. TMIONTREAL fire 387s" BOSTON = faresis.00"" NEW YORK 2 3,30""* Arrive Duluth 8:50 a. m. (Except Sunday.) T. H. LARKE, Com’l Agent, } 426 Spalding House Bik. 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