Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 6, 1899, Page 5

k i | : eee | ee Hlas always on hand a full line of Foreign wad Domestic Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Vine Purposes a Specialty. THE ONLY BILLIARD AND § POOL ROOM IN TOWN. Leland Ave. SLSISPVSLSS 2 SBSOSVSSSCSSSVSVSVSVSS ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS TO ST.LOUIS. eeaeebehts 1 Optaae! vOLUNE, «3 SOUTH SHORE & ATLANTIC R’ Leave Duluth 6:30 p. m. (Bxcept Saturday.) a SAGINAW TORONTO abe fen MONTREAL fis 26 tea BOSTON NEW YOR’ Time 48 Hours Pare_$29.00. Time: 49 Hoars Pare $27.50. Arrive Duluth 8:50 a. m. (Except Sunday.) T.H. LARKE, Com’! Agent, 426 Spalding House Blk.» DULUTH, Minn SSO SSCEE OSES SSO SES h You Like 40 Read Good Hovsls 2 Enough For all the Winter Evenings ALMOST FREE. will send, on recelj get iis adv. — TOWN TOPICS, a 208 Sth Ave. N. Y., ts in tha following prize novels ean syane AND FIFTY-SIX pages, regular price FIFTY cts.); for FIFTY sents any FO! for ONE DOLLAR any TEN; for ONE DOLLAR AND A HALF the whole library of SIXTEEN volumes, 6-THE SALE OF A SOUL By C. M.S. Mc- Jian. 17H SousIN OF THE KING. By A.8. Ven it aie If HADES. By Clarico 1 sites 1 a oF CHANCE. By Captain wan THO ONY OF Bee Charles Stokes Wayne. u-AN ECLIPSE OF VIR" eee Champion. Bisse. 9-AN UNSPEAKABLE SIREN. ByJ Jobn amiat Ghar REAR! L WOMAN. By Harold it. nea Bit IN DEXVER. By Gilmer McKen- %6-WHY? SAYS GLADYS. By David Christio AEIN" reMARRABLE GIRL By LH. 3 MwA pis HATE. By Harold 2 Ee IU, By TC. Be Ton. 19-T) inpion Bisnis ca i 3: ly Auita e JE EXPERIMENT By eon aaa Si o = Sadiccea to Girth ines you wane What is this ” ‘It is the only bow (ring) which cannot be pulled from the watch. To be had only with Jas. Boss Filled and other watch cases WwW stamped with this trade mark. A postal will bring you a watch cane opener. Keystone Watch Case Co., -dpecapimeea a é bias | Liquors for oe IF YOU WANT A FIRST-CLASS MODERN PRICED HOTEL Stop at the ST, JAMES HOTEL, WHEN IN DULUTH 213-215 West Superior St., DULUTH, MINN. LOCATED... ....- nate a aac CENTRALLY $100 PER DAY AND UPWARDS: Electrie Light, Baths, Steam Heat, Eleetric Bells. Ete oe THE Sisters o: St. Benedict WILL ‘Boarding School for Girls The terms being so ey. reasonable, it is pected that quite a number of the good f the surrounding country will take f this excellent opportunity anc aughters at once. n of tive months, OPEN A | { { PAYABLE STRICTLY IN ADVANCE: | Board, Tuition, Washing and Bedding...g50 | Day Scholars, per term of five months...6 5 | Music lessons will bo given on piano, organ, | violin, mandolin, guitar. zither or banjo. | PIVATE AND CLASS Voca LESSONS. tor particalars apply to Sistors of St. Bone |- | diet. ‘Dul, “Mississippi River & Northern. | Gatng North Goins South tl i t49p.mAro.. D.M. PHILBLN, os) PEAVEATS, TRAD MUR car ¥R GHTS. St $ Haye’just opened a , NEW Sample Room With a FINE and Cigars. 4 In. the LINE of ‘ Wines, Liquors ¢ 4 i Sawyers’ Bldg, Leland Ava. GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. : SSSI FBSVWSVSLSVOCSOSOSISOSS. BIDS WANTED. Notice is hereby given that the Village Council of the Village of Grand Rapids wil on or before Tuesday, January 17, 1899, reculve bids for One Hundred and Fifty (159) Cords of Wood to he dolivored at Water Wo: pump station as fullows: | Fifty Cords Green Tamerac Wood, | Fifty Cords Groen Poplar, | Fifty Cords Green Jack-Pine, All wood to be FOUR FOOT LONG, sound bod y and split, The right is reserved to reject any sande! bids. Grand Rapids.Minn.. Jan. >, 1990. By Order of the Village Canneil of thr) ¥il- jogs of Grand Rapids, Minn. FRED A. KING, Village Recorder: { 4 Banton &Lawrence 1 COLLEGE GIRL PATRIOTISM. Students at Smith and Moent Holyeke | The Da; Stirred by the Events of War. From the New York Sun: . On Tues- day morning last the Smith college girls had an opportunity of seeing at close range what the parting of thirty years ago must have been when tha | soldier boys went away. A great crowd gathered at the station at 8:15 to cheer the coldiers on their way to the state camp. The band played pa- triotic airs, cannon saluted, bells rang, whistles blew and the people shouted themselves hoarse, and the college girls helped in the enthusiasm. For a week or more the college organ bad been ont of repair, but at chapel that morning it wes ready for use again. Dr, Blodgett played “The Star Spangled Banner” as the girls marched out two by two, and even the girl who d!d not sympathize with the war felt a thrill of the patriot- ism on that occasion. At a class meeting which lasted the entire afternoon, a few days ago. the juniors discursed the advisability of giving up the promenats. Many argu- ments were brought ferward pro and con, but it was finelly decided that the best thing Smith girls cculd do in these exciting times was to keep the evem tenor of their way, to do well the du- ties before them, and to hold the junior promenade on May 11. Mount Holyoke bass ot been behind her sister college in etsreesions of pa- triotism. On April 27 4 flag was pre- sented to the students by Mr. Hill, the steward, and a flagstaff by A. L. Wil- ister, At 8:30’in the merning the girls marched, two by two, in long lines, from the different houses ccn- verging on the south campus, where the flagstaff was placed. The flag was raised am!q much enthusiasm, and after the formal ceremonies the girls with national airs. On May 2 another American flag was presented to the college, this time by the Robert 0. Tyler Grand Army post of Hartford, Conn. At chapel, Miss Hazen read a letter cf presentation from the donors, saying: “In this time of war and battle when we, as true Americans, wish to show i bers of Robert O. Tyler Post, No. 50, of the Grand 4rmy cf the Republic, Hartford, Con-., to present this flag to Mount Holye%e college. Throw it to victory is ours.” As Mis letter there was an outburst of ap- plause; the audience rose as one girl xd gang “America.” A TRAIN OF HARD TACK. ; One M'iion, One Hundred and Twenty Thousand Elscuit for Cuba. From tke Atlanta Constitution: A train load of hard tack, made in Atlan- | ta factories, was shipped from here to Tampa yesterday for the ermy which is to invade Cuba tomorrow. The gov- ernment, in {ts contract, the bread forsthe troops at Tamna be ready there tocay. This in itself sig- nifies that the invasicn is to be made tomorrow. Eighty thousand pounds ef hard tack was sent from th’s ci y. Block’s candy and cracker factory and Lewis’ cracker factory made the hard tack for the soldiers,-2znd the govern- ment officials raid it was as good as any they had ever eaten. The order for the crackers was at first for 60,000 pounds, but it was increased to £0,000 pounds to meet the demand of the troops. Hard tack is tough cracker, in shape exactly simi'ar to a large soda cracker. The tacks are cut with the soda cracker mclds end are the same size, with the exception that they are much thickers They have the liit'e in- dentations end poforations which twenty thousard of the touch little b's- cults were made here Sunday and yes- terday. It takes fourteen cf the crack- were made. Abert twenty of erackers are served to each cf the mea every. day, and, consifering the fact that they are.scl'd, they make three good meals. ‘he kard tack is cfily marches and like escursons. Always! where a camraign cf active fighting be- gins the troops a-¢ vell. supplied wih the tack, ro that ‘vr mav have bread ready cocked. » large supply of hard tack sent * pa makes it cer- tain that the tr “hore are ready te Invade (uta. f r “ness an invasion was contemplated the immense supply ‘woutd not. have been sent. ; Advantage of Proper Training. There is one great practical advant- age to women that comes from train- much a matter of beauty and attrac- tion as it is of healti—that is her car- riage. Many a woman who sweeps along in her coach with steeds of fire before her cannot beast the carriago of her poorer sister who walks along to her destination, tempted perhaps by the beauty of the turnout to be envious of Madame Rich, but not induced to that walking produces for her «reparing fer an Iiness. : Judge: Cock—Have yez company eomin,’ mum, thot yez do be cookin’ up so many pies and cakes an’ things? | Mrs. sent word that he is to take a week’s lay-off on account of his health. . Distilleries. sang together, alternating college songs | our colors, {t is the desire of the mem- | the breeze and there let it wave until | Hazen finished reading tho | stipulated that | mark the scéa crackers and can not ; j be told from a eommcn craeker vatil ) | tasted. One million, ore hundred and ; ers to weigh a pound, and 80.000 pounds | the 4 used to a large e-to>t upow invasion | ing ar from proper exercige that is as | long for this luxury. from any fatigue | Wiseley—No, my husband has | { | see, sah,’ was the answer, | | | | | The number of distilleries in-opera- | tion ip the United States in March was 592 of grain and nine of molasses, pre- ucing 321,214 gallons of grain spirits nd 9,461 gallons of molusser spirits daily. DEFECTIVE | of his | died, KING {LLED BY A SEEF BONE. en Fua Meant Only Sheer : Bratailty. =e The king who dew in’ this” house was that young Daze who appears to have been an incarnation of the ideal Danish brutality. le dragged u.s brother’s body out of its srave. and flung it into the Thaises; .c ..assacred the people of Worcester and ravaged the shire; and he d.d.these brave deeds and many others a.j in two short years, says the Pall Mall Magazine, ‘Then he went to his cwn place. His de- parture was both fiiiing and dramatic. | For one so young, i. showed with what a yearning and madness he had’ been drinkicg. He went acress the river— there was, I repeat, uo other. house in Lambeth except this, so that it must have been here—to attend the wedding standard bearer, Tostig the Proud, with Goda, daughter of the Thane Osgod Clapa, whose. name sur- vives in his former estate of Clapham. A Danish wedding was always an oc- easion for hard drinking, while the minstrels played and sung and the mummers tumbled. When men were well drunken the pleasing sport of bone throwing began; they threw tne bones at each other. The fun of the game consisted in the accident of a Man not being able to dodge the bone, | which struck him and probably killed him. Archbishop Aiphege was thus killed, The soldiers had no special desire to kill the old man; why couldn’t he enter into the spirit Of the game and dodge the bones? As he did not, of course he was hit, and as the bone was a big and a heavy one, hurled by a powerful hand, of course it split open his skull. One may be permitied to think that perhaps King Hardacnut, who is said to have fallen down svddenly when he “‘stood up to drink,” beet bote which knocked him down, and as he remained comatose until he the proud Tostig, unwilling to have it said that even in sport his king had been killed at his wedding, gave out that the king fell down in a fit. This, however, is speculation. MYSTERY OF SHOE SIZE. America and England Use One Stick, France aad Europe Another. From the New York Sun: Although every one has his feet measured for shoes, there are very few persons wh< know what the sizes marked upon tha shoe stick mean. There are two shoe sticks in,use in America and Europe. | The stick used in the United States was originally English, and is still used in England. The rest of Europe uses the French stick. The sizes on the English shoe stick were derived from the length of a bar- ley corn; and they.run three to the inch, The first mark on the stick, or size 1, is madv arbitrarily, just four and a half inches from the upright. Why this distance was fixed upon does not appeer to.be known. For some other reason, which can: on!y be gnessed at, the graduated part of the stick is again divided- into two sets of numbers. ‘These numbers begin at 1 and run up to. 13) amd.then they begin at 1 and Tun up to.13. The first numbers from 1'to 5 are known as Infants’ sizes, those from 6 to 10 as children's, from | 11 to 2 as misses’ sizes. from 2% to 6% as Women’s, and from 7 to 13 as men’s sizes.” The French shoe stick is divided into a great many more sizes than the Eng- lish, and the French shoemakers sub- divide these again. as is done with: the: English sticks, into half sizes: There is no exact relationship between’ the markings on the, two sticks, but the French size 16 carresponds to the Eng- ‘lish Infante’ 1, and their size 44 is the | same ag the English size 10 for men. A woman who wears a 2% shoe by Eng- lish measure would get a 24 or 25 by'|* the French measure. and-a mat with aT foot by. English measure would wear 2:40 shoe in France Over here the width of the shoe fz designated by a letter. while the French’ use figures. The width AAA is the Frenck 000. B. is the French land BE the French & width. IT CAME LATE. Bat xt Was Nono the Less Heartfelt and Sincere. “The assistant rector of a well- | known. Episeopal church in the bor- | ough of Manhattan told an amusing story to a Brooklya acquaintance not long ago,” says the Brooklyn Standard ; Union.. “There is: colored woman in my parish whom i have known: for several years.. A yeur or sO ago she lost her husband, and though she did not put on mourning for him, she seemed to feel her affliction deeply. A short time since she was married again. I met her a day or two ago, and to my surprise she was.dressed in the deep- est‘mourning. “Why, Mrs. Black; what does this mean?’ I asked. ‘Well, you ‘when my first husband died I didn’t hab no money, sah, to pay for mourning; and now I’se married again, end got de money, ]’se put on mourning for my first husband.’ ” © r bord Wolseley as Man of Letters. Lord Wolseley is almest as devoted to the pen as to the sword, and if he had not been fated to be a fleld-marshal he would beyond question have been a man of letters. He rises early in the morning to write, and his official duties | only commence when a'‘pile- of MS.- testifies to his industry with the pen. For some time past he has employed a number of copyists in making ex- tracts for him in the archives of Venice. - Heinrich © Heine's Jealousy. : Heinrich Heine, the German poct, was terribly jealous. One day he pois- oned a parrot belonging to his lady | love, for fear it should claim teo mich E of her attention. did actually intercept a big{ ANOVEL EXPERIMZNT. @he Startling Result of Firing = Can non Baried Under Water. The miost. curious experiment ever made with a-plece of ordnance was at Portsmouth, England, says Invention, A stage was erected in the harbor | within the tide’ mark; on this an Arm- strong gun of the 110-pourd ‘pattern was mounted. The gun was then load- ed and carefully aimed ut a target— all this, of course, during che time of low tide. A few hours later, when the gun and the target were both covered with water to a. depth of six feet, the gun was fired by means of electricity. We said “aimed at a'target,” but the facts are that there were two targets but only. one was directed for this spe- cial experiment, the other. being the hull of an old vessel, the Griper, which tay directly behind the target and in range of the ball ~The target itself was placed only twenty feet from the muzzle of the gun. It.was composed of oak beams and planks and was twenty-cne inches thick. In order to make the old Griper invulnerable. sheet of boiler plates three inches thick was riveted to the water-logged, hull, in direct range with the course the ball was expected to take if not «de: flected by the water. On all of these —the oak target, the boiler plates and the old vessel hull—the effect of the shot from the submerged. gun was Teally startling. The wooden target was pierced through and through, the boiler fron target. was broken into pieces and driven into its “backing,” the ball passing right on through both ides of the vessel, making a h'ge hole through which the water poured in tor- rents. Taken altogether the exper ment was an entire success, demon strating, as it did, the feas!dility of placing submerged guns in harbors {r times of war and doing great dam- ge to tue vessels which an enemy might dispatch to such points for the purpose of shelling cities. GIGANTIC REVOLVING TOWER, Wrench Ingenuity Is Again to che Fore. France started the bali with the Eiffel tower, says London Invention, England endeavored to go one better with the Wembley, which is still in an wmbryo stage and appears likely to re- main sv, while our American cousine struck a bright and novel idea in the ferris revolving wheel, which was af- FAMINES I?¢ INDiA. Records of some the Most Destrue: ive in Former Years. With an evercrowded populatica of 200,000,000 peasants whose annua! sup- ply of food dépends on a rairfall sub- fect to decided irreguarities, evitable that India should su frequent and destructive famines. teorological * observations have closed no rule of periodi i failures of rainfall by w of drought can be forecas ith tainty. They have, on the ot le« established the fact that the never either deficient or exce: any single year throughout the ¥ of India, says a writer in the New York Observer. There is always a re- serve of food supply in some part of the area which may ke drawn upon for use in the needy districis. It has been discovered, too, that winters m d by an excessive’ snowfall in the H alayas are always followed by d ished summer rainfal), cenerally northern India, but some portions of the great peninsula. Ap from. these few facts, gathered wit the last quarter of a century, there is little data from which seasons of drought may be forecast, though it is known that a drought. once bes generally extends over two or & years. The approach of scarcity can be determined only in the year ia which it actually occurg, and by tem of observations beginning with the June rainfall and continuing until autumn. Of the extent of the s ing from drought and crop iai the Asiatic world Western peopl have but a faint conception. In great droughts in northern 1877-78 no less than 9,500,000 perished; and although during the present century at least no single tam- ine in India has attained that magni- tude, it is estimated that in (he score or more disasters which have 0¢- curred, between 15,000,000 and 20,00 000 lives have been lost. That wh began in 1875 and culminated in was the most prolonged and de tive, resulting in the death of § 000 peraons. In 1865-66 a third population of 3,000,000 starved to death in Orissa, and in 1868-70 about 1,5 000 died from want in Rajputana. famJne of 1861 in the northwest p: inces was a huge calamity, and Berar drouth of 1873-74 was only : terwards Introduced int> England, and fast season went merrily round, ex- cept when {t occaslonaly stopped and Tequired more or less coaxing ere it resumed its “daily round.” ‘As a fact, our readers. will remember !t once. had “a night out” on is own account: Now, French ingenuity is once again te the fore and this time the idca is to construct a lofiy building that will spin slowly, like a majestic top. The festive Parisians are, it is stated, to have this novelty in their midst, the site chosen being n.ar the summit_of Montmartre, the highest point within the fortifications of the gay city. The | conception of this vig révolving tower (about half the height of the Eiffel) is credited to M. Devic. The motive power for turning the structure, a com. plete revolution of which would oecu- py atout two minues, would be hye draulic force. The upper part-of the building would be occupied by a public ballroom, in which dancing . would take place from 11 p. m. to 2a. m., while below: this it is intended to eon- pstiact an artificial ice-skating rink, A Great Telescope Some idea of the remarkadle charac ter, of the proposed:telescope for the great Paris Exposition of 190 nay be gained by comparing the « mt. is | fifty-one-inch object lens wis! > mdet wonderful yet constructed. . the largest instrument of this } ow in existence is tne Lick, having ©. object ' gless of thirty-six inches diameter: tne second largest is at Pulkowa, Rus- sia, with a glass of thirty inches; the third is at the Un‘versity of Virginia, | Ite glass being twenty-six Inches: Hiss vard has the fourth largest, with a | twenty-fonr-inch giuss, and the fifth in size beivugs to Princeton Col'ege. The famous Yerkes’ telescope glass, the | largest of the celebratec productions at Cambridge, Mass., is rated at forty «nches diameter. And sd, by - some eleven inches, the Parls lustrunent is im excess of all others, and thus able it 4. anticipated, to bajar the moon | withip one mile of us. Te teleanone vented from becoming so by lavish ex penditure on the part. of the Indian government. Prior to the white co’ quest famines of !mmense dimensio: devastated the peninsula, resu!ting o casionally in an appalling deciiatic of the feebler classes of the populat These classes are always so near s vation that a seasOn of drouth reduces them at once to extremities of hun- ger. In the old days the devices for famine relief in India were of the usual Asiatic sort. First the shops of the grain deglers were sacked and their owners murdered. When that failed the offices of the native governments were besieged and when the royal gran- aries were emptied the gods were pro- pitiated with sacrifices, ending with the slaughter of human victims and the distribution of their flesh over the barren fields. But during the past thirty years these devices have given way to the remedial measures of a more practical and effective kind. Taught by long experience, the gqern- ment ‘of India has elaborated a system of’-relief, machinelike in its opera- tions, capable of being put into effeci at any time and of adjustment to the. needs of any particular scarcity. The old naticn that a government cannot be made responsible for deaths trom starvation any more than for deaths by fever has disappeared. Every rural of- ficial is made to feel his responsibility. and is minutely instructed beforehand as to his particular duty in such stages of scarcity. First a system of crop forecasts gives notice of the possible approach of famine. When the possi- bility becomes from further reports probabiiity the government begins ac- tive preparations to meet it. Its fore- casts may not prove correct but it acts at ouce and energetically, knowing that if it waits to verify its estimates action will be teo late to be effectual. - Fish Chew Tobacco. Francis Harding, living near Lilly lake, N. Y has made a discovery. He was out top-up fisbing, and had cut “pxooay ex BoWQ—, "10s pyea ese £093 Tun ysv) UTEq} Jo suEs TEM. od SPOYOOAY *9[9S9jG ‘poos & Jo 93] SFvIEAT Oq2 S} YUAL, ‘pearl Suoq eon HerIq—,,sjesodoid pug sary nok UWRQ} JapfO MoMO\., ‘aousto[y ‘pues yseq WY pecoasus ,,{}UY} Avs 2,UOCT,, “MY oq 0} JULONT eno} BUT {LIEpIE S81JT PorBpoop ,,'AIIvOT JAM [[BIS Ly ‘esajadoy 19qI0Ts;1V ION ‘IBIg TOIUYSeA—,"q50-1 “ArvyUR! 38)8 U SujMvip 9q 0} Ulas 3,00P I,, ‘Ivep ‘asin00 JO— AN 4201 0} sia} Ja] aA ©3414 0} pasn not TeqAL SUAL | SB ,,'97| | qnos jo ims om, THe 1 UV—SITy ‘Buorm Suyqjemos " x “UR 1901 V 7 THON vydlepryya—saersd A] pya0. 04} PazUNIS ,,"18{] Yo0}s ay} Uo po} syvey puy +00p 1 ‘eA in, "8220108 PIvs ..Atey pejosap Sor ys Suyqjou ssiysnyp Mok sso Us. Y “"aRIwA ON . “Px02971 OF va: Po ee [88104 V UO 9d} OG JaAcy Sued v prea Due ‘8}q3]] oj0e]07 4q.. 4 Wqve ey WA wWqQED S00 ePuUN, UNI Oo} Sujos Ie eM ‘Bax,, “ai WOST eBuys op eUrBID am uo sou" Sur ov. Rares Fra several holes in the ice. He had wait- ed in vein for a bite for severa! hours, when he uappened to toss a quid of tobacco in one of the holes. Quick as @ flash it was snapped up and disap- peared beneath the water. This gave him an idea, and, pulling up one of his many \ooks, he place a piece of plug tobaces on it. Instr.atly there was a commotion, and he pulied in a fine four-pound pickerel. Fraacis then dis- tributed bis remaining supply of to- — bacco on the various hooks, and the result was that in half an hour he had over fifteen pounds of fish.. Since then he has made several large hauls in this manner. BINDER TWINE We Saueis prices fF. 9. Seoars, St. Minn., un’ il stock’ ie sold, ena ouowe: SISAL, 12 > “eer “STANDARD, 12%0 “* MAN! eho