Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 7, 1899, Page 4

3y E. C. KILEY. @EXT~+DOOR COMPETITION, hops {@ France Not Aliows3 te Crowd Each Out : in France tio shops selling the same thing are not allowed to exist tyithin a certain area. In provisions this absence of competition materially increases the pr:ce, 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 ee of state supervision, you never re- ceive short weight or inferior goods. There is no quantity so small that the grocer will not sell it. And in doing this and in delivering.it he is as scrupulously polite and earefil as ‘n buying larger amounts. The butcher is the cock’s friend and will trim the meat and takeout the bones with loving care. Meat is dear. Good beefsteak costs from thirty-seven cents to fifty cents'a pound Fish is very expensive, but poultry is reasonable and good and butter and eggs good and comparatively cheap. A good deal of cooking in small households 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 810 a month. Charwomen ask six cents by the hour. Englishwomen say that life om the continent is much | more agreeable for Americans than | tor themselves, owing to the fact that | in each consular town the consul and | is family make a nucleus for a colony | which soon gathers about them. i IT WAS ONLY A SLIPPER. Bct Decorated With » Bogus Mouse It | Created a Sensation. She is a roguish and jolly girl, but | veing an Episcopalian, she had been making a great effort since Ash} Wednesday to affect.a certain subdued and demure manner. But one after noon the sewing circle to which she belongs met. Mer gown for the. occa- sior was simplicity f—of soft gray cashmere, with a d bodice made Quaker fashion. bonnet was a Her quaint little gray chip poke, trimmed with gray ribbon and one” large | purple passion flower. ©The tie | strings were of — broad gray satin ribbon. She glided inte the room very quiet y and became at once intent «pon her Lenten. sewing. Suddenly the sewing circle quiet was interrupted by wild shrieks of terror and the members with one accord | climbed on tables and chair seats. What was the trouble? Simply the demure little muiden’s new house 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 cyes and a long tail with a regular mouse-like curl to it Now the fair practical joker is trembling le3t her rector may hear of it. YOUR CHANGE, SIR, — 1 A Conductor Who Gets Even With a | Ten-Dollar Passenger. There is a conductor on a Cleve land street-car line who played 9 lever trick on a passenger the other 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. Abouta week ago he tendered a $10 bill in pay- ment of his fare. The conductor did not 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. ‘The 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. The fifth morning the same 610 bill came around, but the conduc tor was prepared. He drew a heavy bag from bene»th 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 end kept twenty-five of them for the fares he had paid for the business mas. The bag contained 975 copper coins The passenger took the bag and rang for the car to stop. He now rides on another car. ‘The Divers Heavy Dress. The dress of a fully equipped diver weighs 169% pounds and costs about $500. clothing. The dress itself weighs 14 pounds and the heavily weighted boota weigh 32 pounds. The breast and back pieces weigh 80 pounds and the hel- met 85 pounds, The greatest depth at which a diver cen ordinarily work is! 150 feet, though there are raro in- stances of work being done at a depth of 210 feet, where the pressure sus- tained is 88% pounds to the square inch. It is not generally known that the present system of diving was tirst suggested by the action of the ele- | himself rid of both pests. | in your pocket. It is made up, among other | things, of 8% pounds of thick under- | phant, which swims beneath the sur- | face, breathing. meanwhile through its | trunk, which it bolds aboye the water. New York World : Gog “Wailah!—'tis' my opinion there haw been neither going up nor coming down, neither marring nor mending; ‘tis all hocus-pocus!’ "—“The Story of Marco Polo,’ by Noah Brooks, in St. Nicholas. bs For Bicycle Riders. There are several well known rules tu bicycling to-day which have estab- lished theinselves by custom, and yet many of which, perhaps, will not be found in any book. ‘They are, none the less, rules to be followed, because they are founded on experience. Rid- ing in the city is very different from riding in the country, and there are certain differences in riding in small towns from either the country or the city. im the country there is no rea- son why one should not ride on side patbs or sidewalks if <he road is bet- ter there.- There is much less trattic, pot so many pedestrians, and no one has any objection to this side-path riding there. It is’ very different in towns, how- ever. There, whether the law forbids sidewalk riding or nat, no_ bicyclist should leave the street. In towns and in cities bieyeles become in every way subject to the laws of carriages; & wheelman. should keep always on the right-hand side of the road on principle. When a horse and carriage or another svheel is approaching, he should turn to the right. alth both the driver of the horse aud riage and the rider of the wheel must give him room to pass on the right. In overtaking and passing either carriages or bicycles, you should pass to the left ,turning, in other words, from the right-hand side of the road in towards the center. In turning a corner, rules to be observed, and in practice they onght all to be observed invan- ably. If you are turning into a street to the loft a wide circie should be there are several | made, keeping well, to the right, leav- | ing room always at the corner for any | vwilcle, whether bicycle or carriage, %. aseiiy pass.—Harper’s Round ‘fable. 4a Seeps the House Free of Mice. It is a fact of natural philosophy that rats and mice do not nfest a house at the same time. Working upon his hint as to the nature of rodents, N. K. Laureson, of Vicksburg, adopted a scheme by which he keeps This he ac- ecomplishes by capturing a young rat and training him to catch mice. This singular mouser, whose name, by the way, is Czar, is doubtless the most suc- cessful one on record. He has been taught to pounce upon a mouse on short order, without fear and without favor, and he shows no mercy. Of course he can follow the mice into close quarters and never has been known to lose his quarry. Strange to relate, large rats have given the house the go-by also, seeming to under- stand that the house belongs to Czar, and that there must be no encroach- ment upon his prerogative. Laureson is yery fond of his queer pet, and has taught him many interest- ing tricks. Among others be has train- ed him to handle a bow, and with a miniature violin Czar manages to scrape the strings in a way not unmu- gical. Of course it has been impossible to teach him really to play a piece, but sitting up on his hind legs, with his fiddle grasped in his tiny claws, Czar produces a sort ot half-sereeching sound that is altogether weird and fantastic. Laureson is himself a vio- linist of no mean order, and Ozar likes nothing better than to sit on his mas- ter’s knee and listen to his playing. Pet Squirrels. To teach a squirrel to Decome ac- customed to handling, however, re- quires some patience. Every time he is fed it is well to make a little cluck- {ug sound, or something ie will recog- nize as a friendly call meaning feed- time. After having tamed him so that he will eat while you are watching him, which he will sometimes <o in one or two days, get him accystomed to having your hand around ‘he cage. Then lasso or noose him around his body with a small cord, and take him | out of the cage without lifting him by the cord. ‘Take care, for he will bite and sink his little. teeth almost through the bone of your finger if he has the chance. Now take a glove that hes been stufied full of cotton, aud stroke him gently with it. If he attempts ‘to bite, which he is almost certain to do, give him a litile tweak. liepeat this as often as he tries to bite, and he will soon learn that if he sits still he is all, right. Now feed him from the thick glove. In a surprisingly short time he will give up the idea of biting, and you can stroke him or pick him up with your hand, and carry him about He will grow wonder- fully attached to you, and when once tamed thoroughly he will never rup away; although he may pay short vis its to his mates, he will return to you. But pray remember this, that his dead- ly evemy is the cat. A Sun Farnace. Sir Henry Bessemer, the well known inventor of the steel process whick bears his name, tells how be tried t+ ecustruct a “sun furnace” end failed His invention was iutended to revolu tionize not only the «cience of metal lurgy, but the whole world. It was to attain a temperature of nearly 60,0U0 deg. and therefore fuse anything and everything, and Sir Heury puts the blame of its failure to fulill tltese expectations on the stupidliy of a coun. try lens maker. ‘The “sun furnace” consisted of a wocden building 35 feet high and about 12 feet square. A few feet from the grcund was fived a large inclinable mirror for catchivg the rays of the sun; from this mirror the rays were to be reflected cn a number of powertul superimpe<-d lenses above which by a simple arrangement were to throw the enormously concentrated tays upon whatever object might be in the crueible below. Such was the mighty plan, but the manufacturer of the upper glasses brought it mise ‘ably to naught, for instead of turning wiem out uniform he made them all different, and thus spoiled the focus. Sir Henry was sc disgusted and disheartened thit he refused to go over the ground agaiu,’ and so the pretentious scheme lapsed, but the peculiar furnace remains to this day a remarkable monument of what might have been. has | ; and Mora | I handed | that I was quite familiar with the con- ! | & story. | men began to talk, and soon a trade | stranger two hundred acres of land for | ! stranger «vuld say or do would move True Greztiness. Rey. H. W. Knapp, in his evloxy upon Ruskin, tells how Ruskin begau by gi\ing first a tenth ef his income to the-poor, then half, and finally near- dy the whole. If others would not en- courage the study of art in schools, Ruskin would buy ten water-color drawings of Wiliam Hunt, and give them to the public schools of London. He fell heir to one million of dollars; this amount he has given away except a sufficient sum to give him an income of fifteen hundred dollars a year. Upon this he now lives, the income of his books being distributed among his old pensioners and his various plans for social] reform. He bestowed his art treasures with like generosity. He gave the marbles which he had. col- lected in Greece and his priceless Ital- ian drawings to public galleries and muse.ms, where they would benefit | the common people, Refusing ‘the in- vitations of the rich, and putting away the temptation to a life of elegant ease and refined luxury, Ruskin gave himself to the poor. His best lectures were never given where English wealth and social prestige were represented, but were delivered to working-girls clubs 21d workingmen’s associations If Revsseau refused the yoke of law and service upon the plea of genius, this man, by reason of his talents, was carefuj to fulfill the duties not expected of mediocrity, Such Is fame. The Rev. H. R. Haweis, author of “Music and Morals,” tells a good story in his last book, “Travel and Talk,” of an unconscious rebuif he once received in a railway carriage. An old gentle- man who sat opposite had been eying me over his evening paper with what 1 faneied was a look of recognition. Presently he handed me the paper and pointed to aa article ona musical sub- ject. “I thought, sir,” he said: polite- ly, “you might like to see this article.” One glance was sufficient. I recognized an almost verbatim chapter of “Music Disgusted at the fraud, he paper back, remarking tents. “In fact,” I rashly added, “it | is a chapter out of ‘Music and Morals.’ | You may Know the book? | “Indeed, I never heard of it. Who is it by “Oh,” I said, “a man named Haweis --a parson, you know.” “Oh, really, I never heard of him.” “Haven't vou?” said I. “No,” said he. | “Oh!” said I, and the epnversatioa | drepped. So of whomsoever it may be ! said or sung, “’E dun know where ’d | are,” in the long run “most everybody” {nds his level. DOS OS OSOG9 OOOH OOO OP OOOO OO HOS SOO OOOO SO Where Tand ts Cheap, A large weaiuer map hangs in the svnate chamber in Washington, and senators gather oefore it in tne morn- ing. studying the conditions for the day. Many a gvod story is there told Tegarding«the climate uf different lo- calities. To Senator Kyle of South Da- kota the New York Sun accredits such | If the Sun is a true reporter in this case Senator Kyle must have abandoned hone of a recollection. Da- Kota weather is so bad, Senator Kyle is reported as saying, that farmers are often very glad to get rid of their land. One of my neighbors saw a stranger leading a cow along one day. The twa Was made. ‘fhe farmer offered the the cow. When the stranger, who could not read, took the deed to Aberdeen te be recorded hv tound it to eall for four huudred acres instezd of two hundred He went bach to the farmer, expostu- lated end trieil to get the deed changed but the farmer held out. Nothing the the farmer anc the stranger was forced to take the faar hounded aerar Ost of the Worta. Members ci the Nansen expedition gay that so iirecé did they become of seeing the same faces aud hearing the game voices day after day in the} course of the slow drift northward that in the end a feeling of irritation be- eame well nigh insupportable, and the men would set off on long walks across the ice, each map by himself, and care fully avoiding his fellows. Flattering Them, Guest--Why do you priat your bili @? fare in French? Fashicnaple Hes taurvieur-—Heceuse { want my patron t@ think that IJ jhink they cen read t.—Tit-Bits, One cénnot easily con. iitee of his on or a person who finds gentle solace ra .$% nerves from an after-dinner cigar’ out the almost continual employment of tohaeco 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 exampse 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 corpulenee. She had had no previous experienve 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 thivgs 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 $0 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. 9OO 90000090 00000000: r DULUTH, SOUTH SHORE & ATLANTIC R'Y. Leave Duluth 6:30 p. m. (Except Saturday.) Time 24 Hours Pare $16.47. SAGINAW TORONTO fime g54"" MONTREAL fire 33450" BOSTON Time 48 Hours Pare $29.00. NEW YORK fire &2'30""" Arrive Duluth 8:50 a. m. (Except Sunday.) T.H, LARKE, Com’! Agent, 426 Spalding House Blk. GULUTH, MINN. : i : SRE A ae ata ae ak MERE aE ARE ae. eae ae a ae ae ate a ae ae eae a aL ae ae te It Costs No More fo become the possessor of a high-grade, reliable Cloak than it does one of those ill fitting and cheaply made garments with which the country is flooded. 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