Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 31, 1898, Page 4

Grend Rapies Peratt-“Review| By E. C. KILEY, Entered at the Postoflice at Grand Rapids Minn.. as second-clasp matter, ene a ee SRNR RES ONMINKING IN * ANY AGES. » (nteresting Lecture on the History of Alcohol. aval histery Museum ef Columbia Uni- i of an inter- ciures upon 3 subject was . ’ and began ! prevalence drugs as craving of man- id for something to hide the trials and troubles of life. He spoke briefly about the early beverages of the an- cient Hindoos and Chinese, and then illustrated the drinking habits of the ancient Egyptians with a curious col- | lection of lantern sides. The habits | and customs of ancient Greece came ext, and tne wo of the great god Dionysus, or Bacc , was illustrated by some splendid photographs of | v tatues and bas-reliefs. Their | w drunk diluted, never stronger tha two, milde and frequently with | four or even fifteen parts of the | er fluid. Mention was made of the | nature of their wines, the ad- and spices, or rosin | ven of salt water, and question of fermented and unfer- ted wines among them and the an- | Hebrews. The use of wine among | the more hard ss civilized Mace- | donians was less refined, and the ex- its of Philip and his son Alexander ed the es told by the most ar At the feast giver tomb of Cyrus, # d for the boldest i victor, Promachus, credited with fourteen quarts of wine, died in three days’ time from the effecta of his debauch, along with some fifty of his competitors. ly Rome was de- scribed as painful temperate, espe- cially for the fair sex, who were sen- tenced to death for touching wine. It was sad to hear that kissing on the mouth was invented by the Romar husband to test his wife’s abstinence from the wine cask. Later, however, after Greece and the East were con- quered, wine fiowed freely, and the later re licans vied with the sub- jects of the early emperors in gross and unbridled drunkenness. The capacity of the Roman must have been considerable, for a citizen was knighted by the Emperor Claudius under the title of Tricongius, or “‘three- gallon man,” such having been a sin- gle draught of New-England came in for a touch from the lecturer. It was somewhat surprising to heart that, in the first call for supplies sent home by the Plymouth Bay eelonists, the famous appeal headed by “ministers,” there were, along witr requests for barley, | rye and wheat, tr seed, and stores of fruit trees, a petition for “vyne plantes” and for “hop-rootes.” The minister, Mr. Higginson, was duly sent in 1628, and his ship was furnished with “45 tuns beere, 2 tuns canarie, 20 gallons aqua vitae” and only 6 tuns of water. The lecture closed with a short de- scription of the last century, charac- terized by the growth and development of the temperance movement. Some Gne illustrations were given from Cruikshank’s powerful plates of “The Bettle,” and a comparison of the drink- ing habits of both the educated and un- educated classes of the present day as compared with those of a hundred or even fifty years ago showed the great advance of the present civilization. He Didn’t Mind. Andrew Lang, in the illustrated Lon- don News, gives an anecdote of Dean Btanley’s amiable simplicity. The dean was invited out to dinner, and was very late. When he arrived his collar was unfastened, and the ends vibratea like little white wings about the head ef acherub. People could not but look @t him with curiosity during the din- ner, and at length, with due precau- tion, his hostess ventured to ask him if he knew that his collar had broken adrift. “Oh, yes!” said the dean, mind?” ot at all,” said the Tage: “Then I don’t mind either,” answer- e4 the dean. “The button dropped off while I was dressing,” and he contin- usd his conversation. “It was not,’ says Mr. Lang, “ab- sence of mind, but unrivalled presence | of mind that Stanley displayed on this occasion. Any other human being than he would have been at the point ef changing his shirt.” “Do you Easily Ganged. “Johnny,” said the farmer, “go down in the cellar and draw a pitcher of that aweet cider. Take a candle with you.” “Don’t need no candle,” said Johnny. “Ah, my little man,” said the min- ister, who was staying over night, “you maust have quite an accurate judgment to have filled that pitcher in the dark without running it over.” “Aw,” said Johnny, “it ain’t no trick at all. When it got up to the first goint of my thumb I gtopped,”—Cin- ginnati Enquirer. For Herself Alone. She—Do you love me for myself alone, dearest? He—Of course I do, You don’t suppose I want your mother ‘phot a all the time, ao you?—Judy. | of commerce. ! Politiques et Litteruizes, CALIFORNIA CONDOR, | @uge Bird Shot on the Edge of the Desert. Archibald Campbell, writing from Laguna, on the edge of the desert, un- pae ee Aug. 1, says: To-day as | Henry DB. Clark was riding near the | sagura he noticed a large bird among | some carrion crows, eating at a steer which lad dicd from a rattlesnake bite, It flew up into a tree, where he shot it with a rifle, and the shot broke its thigh. It then flew away among some rocks, when he threw his riata over it and caught it, and it tried to get away and near}y unhorsed him. He gave it another shot through the wing and disabled tt. He brought it home and it measured 19 feet 3 inches\ across the wings and 4 feet 4 1-2 inches long from the beak to the end of the tail. Valen- tine, the captain of the Indians, says it is a female and not near so large as the males. The males have the under part spow white, while this is pretty dark. I think it is the cathertes vul- turinus, also called the California vult- ure, which approaches tlre condor in size and has wings even longer in pro- portion. It is very little inferior to the condor in spread of wings, which natural history says often spread io more than 10 feet, with a length of 4 | feet. Last Sunday, as a party of us were out on the high peaks overlooking the desert, three of the birds kept cir- | cling around overhead, and now and ! again by far the biggest of the birdy would swoop down suddenly toward | as and make such ugly demonstrations that the ladies got scared, and we all \feft on that account. I think their young were in the cliffs above us and they wanted to scare us away. The biggest was whiter underneath than the other two, and I think that it was one of these smaller birds that was shot. Mrs. Wiegar from San Diego, who is up here on a visit, skinned the bird, and on her return will take it with her and put it on exhibition at the chamber They are very rare here now. Valentine says they used to be very numerous here when he was young. Two years ago we used to see a solitary vulture every now and again, but he disappeared, and now these three are to be seen near the same place. This one, I think, could have eusily caried off a spotted fawn, a young calf or a baby.—San Diego Sum Beaconsficld’s Work in the Balkans. The great Sobranje has sanctioned | the changes in the Bulgarian constitu- tion which’ the lesser Sobranje lately | voted; sanctioned them with an amnaz- ing unanimity of obedience. There is no pessisle reason why these altera- | tiens should have displeasing to the pewers, since they provide the country with 2 dynasty and tend to solidify the nation A strong Bulgaria betwecn Russia and Constantiuople is most de sirable, and the present conditions of the Balkans affords the surest prog? of Lord Beaconsfield’s sagacity st the Berlin conference. His compliaace witi the desires of Russia on that oc- easion startled many people. Russia wishyd to manufacture a congeries of small and independent states in oraer that she might occupy them in the day of her good pleasure. Lord Beacons field knew that independence is the last gift which a nation will willingly | surrender; and the event has proved him wise in his hour. Indeed the te (cent act of the great Sobranje is tho last disaster which has fallen upon the expansive pan-Slavist party as 4 gesult of the Russo-Turkish war; the last revenge brought in by the whirli- ig of time upon the victors.—Pall Mall jazette. Six Years After. 4 young man and a young woman | jean over the front gate. They are lovers. It {s moonlight. He is loath to leave, as the parting is the last. He ‘s about to go away. They swing on the gate. “T'll never forget you,” he says, “and if death should claim me, my last thought will be of you.” “TL be true to you,” she sobs, “I’li never see anybody else or love them ts long az 2 live.” They part. Six years later he re turns. His sweetheart of former years had married. They meet at a party, She has changed greatly. Between the dances the recognition takes place. “Let me see,” she muses, with her fan beating a tattoo on her pretty hand, “was it you or your brother whom J ased to know?” “Really, I don’t know,” he says. “Probably my father.”—Boston Globe. New Method of Making Car Wheels. An unusual method of making wheels for cars has recently been brought be fore railway men. Wherever it is de sired to have reliable whetls stee? Ures are almost universally used, with aper, wrought or cast iron centers, it iron centers are the cheapest form of any as regards first cost, but it is rather difficult to form a good connec- tion between the tre and the center. In the new method of manufacture s stock is made up complete. The’ molds for the center of the wheel are then cut up, leaving a space for placing the tire In the mold so as to form a part of 1% The mold is next opened and the tire, heated to a red heat, is placed in pos) tion. The mold is then closed and molten metal for the center imm ately poured in. The result is said te be a. practically perfect uuion of ths steel and cast iron, forming a solid whecl which has the advantage of @ durable steel rim and a cheap body. The Cholera Scare, Tho prefect of —— has gone on a tour of inspection through his depart- ment, being anxious to ascertain if the necessary precautions have been taken in every parish te prépare for a pos- sible tnyasion on me part of the dread plague. To the mayor of a certain vil- lage he said: “Well, have yon carried out my tw structions?) What have you done? | “I have had graves: dug for o}* me | inhabitants of the parish,”"—anasles HIS VISION IS PERVERTED. A Bow Who Writes Backward, but Seen It as If Written Correctly. A remarkable case of what, for want of a better name, is termed "perverted vision is just now at ig 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 determine, he in no way differs from other boys of his age, except that it is practically impossible for him to write in ‘he or- dinary manner. He uses his left hand, writing from right to left, forming his letters and sentences backward. This peculiarity of the boy was noticed as soen 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- ifar about his chirography, and he persists that his handwriting is like that of any other petson. One may guide his right hand over a Jine of copy iu the proper man ser, but (ae mo- ment his hand is released he instantly shanges the pencil tv bis left hand and tommences 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 the 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 us he is told, but it ts as difficult for him to write in ‘he | ordinary manner as it wou'd be for | ‘nother to practice his umique 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. Dr. C. W. Wright, of North Adams, 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- ture.” He does not, however, 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- tand. who, when he gave them some colored lithographs, persisted in hang- ing them upside down, and when asked why they did so declared that only when they were so hung did they ap- pear natural. To these natives the ac- tual individual or object seemed to sccupy a proper position, but in the ease of pictures, apparently, they found it necessary to reverse them in order to appreciate them. Beaten Gora. One do)Jar’s worth of ordinary com- mercial gold-leaf, it is said, is suffi- cient to cover an area of nine hun- dred square inches. In other words, rhat nine hundred square inches of gold have been pounded or beaten out of a ‘lump of the yellow metal which weighed no more than a gold dollar. This gold-leaf, thin as it is, is thick when compared with that which is now being made by a recently discovered process. By this process the yellow métal is deposited with electricity ix a bath upon a uighly polished sheet of copper. In this manner a film only one-four-millionth of an inch in thick- ness may be produced. When mounted on glass, this new kind of gold-leaf is perfectly transparent. Very Desirable. Algernon Verisoft—I feel as though my presence is not desired. Miss Play- theboy+—Oh, ne; on the co:.u_i.y, your presents are very acceptable.—New York. Tribune. pecepnhon, rerhaps. . Her glance fell confusedly under his ardent look. “Darling,” he whispered. “yours is the first mothe I ever really hated.” But men are such deceivers.—De- troit tribune. It Frequently Does, “What caused the fire?” “An insurance policy which wag about to expire.” think | One cannot easily convince of his en or @ person who finds gentle solace 14 ~(s 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 exampye of men who have been tobacco-users for a lifetime with im- punity proves nothing save that there &re 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 lean 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. bpe5eensaeeonsenecsecss: ‘ DULUTH, SOUTH SHORE | & ATLANTIC R’Y. Leave Duluth 6:30 p. m. (Except Saturday.) | SAGINAW Pare sis." TORONTO = fire sis30"™ MONTREAL fire §27%50"" BOSTON = Res.00"" NEW YORK faze s7'30:"" Arrive Duluth 8:50 a. m. (Except Sunday.) T.H., LARKE, Com’! Agent, 426 Spalding House Blk. DULUTH, MINN. 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