Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 8, 1899, Page 5

Has always.on hand:a full line of Foreign aud Domestic Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Fine Liquors. for, Medicinal Purpuses a Specialty. THE ONLY BILLIARD AND: 4 POOL ROOM IN TOWN. $ Leland Ave. Grand Rapids. ST. PAUL MINNEAPOLIS ST.LOUIS. h You Liks 40 Read Good nt Enough For all. the Winter Evenings ALMOST FREE. TOWH TOPICS, osc" cir-and 208 Sth Ave., N. Y., apeoticr| the following Spee novels CE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIX cts.); for FIFTY Eon bg) an reel 3 for 01 DOLLAR any TEN; for ONE DOLLAR AND A HALF the whole library of SIXTEEN volumes. ©-THE, BALE OF A SOUL By C. M.S. Mc- sacatgt ta couse OF THE KING. By A. 8. Van s-sik al MONTHS IN HADES. By Clarice 1. o-THE SMTiTs OF CHANCE. By Captain Al fred a pompenn 20-ANTHONY KENT. Br Gharies Stakes Warns. UU—-AN ECLIPSE OF VIRTUE. By Champion i 1-aK UNSPRATABLE SIREN, By J John Gina B- Tar te EADFUL WOMAN. MA DERE IN DENVER. By ene McKen- ww" ct SATE GLADYS. By David Christio 16-0 VERY 3 “REMARKABLE GIRL. By L, H. u-A MHATIEEAGE FOR HATE. - By Harold h SULPHUR, T. C. De Tron. THE By E ¥ RCEG FAs, By Ch jon Bissel! EE Fou in SN By Anite w8- our os Fy 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 ‘6 | stamped with this trade mark. A postal will bring you a watch case opener. ch Case Co. Should Accept It ss Priscilla ( just arrived)—Are there any men here? Phyllis—Oh, there are a few apologies for men! Priscix¥a— Well, if an apology is offered to me I shall accept it.—Tid-Bits. A Reagen. Washington Evening Star: “I some- times wonder,” said one enthusiast, “why the baseball season doesn’t be- gin earlier.” “It’s a wholly imprac- tical idea,” replied the other. “They've got to give us a chance to get over our spring colds. Otherwise how could we yell?” Persians Support Him. His Excellency Mirza Mahmoud |- Khan, the shah’s ambassador at-Con- stantinople, derives his only income from a tax upon the 5,000 Persian sub- Tripune jects tx the Turkish capital MODERN:PRICED HOTEL "Stop av the ST,. JAMES HOTEL, 3 WHEN IN. DULUTH 213-248 West Superior St., ‘DULUTH, MINN. 81: 00 ‘PER DAY: AND UPWARDS: Steam Heat, Electric Light, Electric Bells, Baths, Ete THE Sisters ot St. Benedict WILL OPEN A Boarding School for Giris The terms being so very reasonable, it is expected that quite a number of-the good people of the pereousding country will take advantage of this excellent opportunity anc send their daughters at once. Terms, per session of tive months, PAYABLE STRICTLY IN ADVANCE: | Board; Tuition, Washing and'Beddirg...650 Day Scholars, per term of five months...8 5 Music lessons will be given on piano, organ, | violin, mandolin, guitar, zither or banjo. PIVATE AND CLASS VOCAL LESSONS. | Bor particulars apply toSistersof St..Bene- | dict. | Duluth, Mississippi River & —— Going North Going South | 5:00 p.m.L Arg:l5 a. rm 5:20 p. m. 9. a.m. 6.32 p.m. a.m. | 6:38 p.m. auty Lal | 6:52 p. m. Powers. 7:00 p.m. p.m. mh. p. m. p.m. . M. PHILBID AEATS, TRADE Mats yy COPYRIGHTS. WAN TOFTAIN 4 * a jence in t lone strictly confide mela.” ba formation ¢o: Patents and bow to ob tain them sent t so a catalogue of mechan« ical and scientific ent free. | Patents " junn % Co. receive special notice in rth ic American. ang thus are browcht wide! 7 beror re the panic with | out cost to the inventor. ‘This splendid sssited weekly, eter largest cireulation 2 veer. pe. Ecition, Bra pints in in colors, uses. with plans, latest designs and secure contracts, ‘Saar e ROAD MUNN & CO., New Yous. 361 B Se: io] - =} Ss G-) = feo — rt) = pax} ra) = oo ra) as ; NEW Witha FINE LINE of Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Sawyers’ Bldg, Leland Ave. GRAND RAPID, MINN. i Room i } 4 H & ee B& 6 Mos Ellen Terry. Mies Ellen Terry cannot sleep spon- taneously; she has to be hypnotized | into rest by the voice of some one read- ing aloud. Therefore, her gir! friends | take turns at some book every after- | noon during her long engagements. | A Lame Excuse. | She—It seems so funny to-day to seo | young men in overcoats taking young | ladies into treat them to ice cream. | He—Y’yes. Too bad. I left my over- enat at home.—Cleveland Leader. Compensation, “Mrs. Brown—“We missed you in the conversation so much.” Mrs, Jones~ “I’m so sorry.” Mrs.’ Brown—‘But then, of course, your absence made a lot of talk.”—New York World. Comment. Maud‘—Cholly hasn’t been quite | Mimself of late.” Rose—“No? I | kadn’t noticed any improvement.”~- Puck. The Cause of the Row. Gibbs---How did uliiters.cume to hit | you? Snoggs—Oh, it was all on ac count of a trifling difference of opininn | y between us. Gibbs—Difference of opin- fon? Snoggs--Yes, I thought he lier and he thought he. Std. > -New Yar: | it was slowly drawn forward. | awning above the rider | veyance, This may prove that Fether- j other, built on a somewhat ; in berry time. * jeave the water. | noiseless cannon.” ORIGIN. OF THE BICY, LE. ee Tt May Be Traced as Far, Back as the Nineteenth Centurv. It has often been ssid that “to trace the origin of the bicycle we must go back to the beginning of the century;” and as this has not been denied it is probably. true. I shall try to show that the bicycle grew from experi- ments in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and that the Celerifere, first invented in 1690. was the earliest form of the “safety” of today. The first at- tempts to ride wheels date back as far as the fifteenth century. True, the machines then made were. crude, clumsy, and imperfect; yet they de- serve mention, for they were a dis- tinct step iu the history of the wheel. The first of these was a heavy carriage driven by means of ropes attached to and wound round its axletree. To the other end of tHe ropes a pole was tied, and this pole, was used ds a lever in front of the.vehicle; and by this means Little was done in the century following; yet in the “Mémoirs of Henry Fether- stone” it is told that a Jesuit mission- ary named Ricius, who was traveling down the Ganges, having missed’a boat that plied at regular intervals between: points he was to visit in his journey, made up for lost time by building a small carriage propelled by levers. Be- cause so few details are told; the truth of the author’s account has been doubt- ed or discredited by many. In one of England’s ol¢.er churches—St. Giles’, at Stoke Poris—is a window of stained | glass on which may be seen a cheruy astride of a hobby horse, or wooden “wheel.” 4.t the sides, in separate pan- | els, as if to fix the date of the design, | stand two young men attired in puri- |\tan dress, ‘one playing the violin, the other, with hands in his pockets, smok- ing a pipe. Is it from this design that the first thought of the hobby herse of other days. was taken? Before the | Royal Academy of Sciences, in 1693, Ozanam read a paper describing a veh- cle driven by the pedaling of a fort- man, who stood in a box behind, and rested his hands'on a bar, level with his chin, attached to the back of an in the con- stone’s account was not untrue Qza- nam’s vehicle was followed ky an- similar plan, by an Englishman named Oven- den, about 1761, for a. descr‘ption -of the machine then appeared in the Uni- versal Magazine, The vehicle was said to be: “the best that has hitherto been invented.” The distance covered “with ease” by this rude vehicle is stated to have been six miles an hour; with a “peculiar exertion,” nine or ten miles. The steering was done with a pair of reins.—St. Nicholas. MOSQUITOES WHICH KILL BEAR Yukon Insects Force Deer to Fiee to the Snow Line. , From the Denver Times: Not only do the Yukon mosquitoes attack men and overwhelm them, but they drive the moose, deer and caribou up the mountains to the snow line, where these animals would preter not to be They kill dogs, and even the big brown bear, that is often -miscailedi a grizzly, has succumbed to ‘ them. bears come down to the river from the hillside in the early fall to get some of the salmon that are often thrown upon the banks when the “run” {is heavy. If bruin runs foul of a swarm co? | mosquitoes aad has not his wits about him his day has come. The insects ; will allght all over him. His fur pro- tects his body, but his eyes, ears and nose will soon be swollen up and bleed- ing, and unless he gets into a river or a strong wind he will be driven mad and blind, to wander about hopelessly until he starves to death. Although the Alaska summer is short, two brcods of mosquitoes hatch out each year, and are ready for busi- ness from one to ten seconds after they It rains a good deal along the Yukon, and rain is welcomed, for it drives the mosquitoes to cover. They hide under leaves and branches antil the shower is over; then they come out boiling with rage at the time they have been forced to. spend in idleness, and the miner has a harder time than ever after his respite. Mosquitoes and snowflakes are not contemporaries in the states, but in Alaska it is different. Snow does not bother them so much as rain, and an early snow.may fall while they are still on the wing. Fog does not choke them, either. They appear to like it. They fioat about in it as in «mbush, and take the unwary prospector hy sur- prise. Jules Verne. Jules Verne is an officer of the Legion of Honor. There are many others who wear this distinction, and there is nothing noteworthy about this fact except that the decree conferring the honor upon him was signed only two hours before the fall of the em- pire. His we!l-known book, “Round the World in Eighty Days,” has brought hig publishers about $2,000,000 and to himself a goodly share of the proceeds. , = “From Stenographer a Premier. arate Like many another successful man, Sir John Gordon Sprigg went to the Cape in his youth because he was. too delicate to live comfortably, in.Eng- oad s | land. His occupation was at first that | of a shorthand-writer, but he quickly found his talent in, the direction of politics serviceable, and has been premier no fewer than three times in the Cape parliament. A Greater Necessity. “A French officer has invented o “Wish somebody would invent a noiseless pugilist.”.— Rageaiens Vane a ; oe Gael MYSTERIOUS FALCON ISLAND. ‘ Which Has a Way of Disappearing and | -Reappearing at Wil. Far away out in the deep Pacific ocean exists a small strip of land which shows that it has a sweet little will of its own, for it willnot undergo allegiance to any country. Govern- ments often experience considerable trouble in preserving the allegiance of people they have conquered, but as a-rule a piece of property or real es- tate has been lcoked. upon as likely to remain in the same place for a considerable period of time. This lit- tle island,“ which has received the name of Falcon Island, proves an ex- ception to the rule, however. No soon- er has it been annexed than it disap- pears off the face of the globe, leav- ing only a dangerous reef to indicate its former whereabouts, and coming up in a few years’ time, when the country that has performed the annex- ation has given up all claim. Our old friend, John Bul, always on the watch to increase his imperial empire, was the first to’ encounter it. In 1889 the British corvette Egeria was sent on a cruise’ among the South Sea Islands, with orders to seize upon any islands or-coral reefs that had hitherto been unclaimed, and to take possession in the name of the queen. Cruising around she noted from afar off a prominent island, towards which she sailed. Tall palm trees. were growing on its south- ern extremity, which was a command- ing bluff, rising 150 feet above the sea, age, the admiralty next year sent out a transport ship, with orders to make further discoveries and reports: What was the dismay of the captain of the Egeria, who happened to be in com- mand of the transport, on arriving at the place where he had the year he- fore left the island sporting the union jack, to find that it had disappeared from view. Instead of the beautiful island standing out so prominently from the ocean, was a low and dan- gerous coral reef with the sea heat- ing and surging up against it. Two years later France, also seized with the desire of annexing néw territory, sent the cruiser Duchaffault to the Pa- cific. Cruising around she found her way to Falcon. There, instead of find- ing a sunken reef, whitened with the foam of the breakers, the vessel’s. crew discovered an island the exact shape of the island tourkt by. the English corvette in’ 1889. carcely two years had passed away Wher a brig sent out by France tot revisit her possessions found hér wety to’ félcb Island. It had again disappeared, it being simply a recf dangerous to navigation, where- upon France was obliged to give up all rights of possession.—San Francis- co Chronicle. NO WONDER SHE KICKED, Ample Reason for Not Wishing to Re- move Her Picturesque Hat. Mrs, Falls Front had been the lead- ing spirit in the movement to call a meeting of women to protest against the theater regulations which call for the removal of women’s hats in the various New York temples of Thespis. ‘She visited seventeen different ladies and urged them to attead; she pro- cured the use of a hall for the meeting and when the ladies came together she made no less than five speeches, de- claring that the removal of hats in the theater was an iniquitous innovation, that the women of this great and glori- ous land of the free should rise up and crush. Her vehemence was so noticeable that after the iniquitous innovation had been duly crushed by weighty pre- ambles and resolutions several women who attended the meeting were won- dering why she threw so much spirit into the crusade. “She was so fierce in her denuncia- tion of the hat-removal regulations,” said Mrs. Upton Howles. “I never saw ; her £0 much in earnest before.” “Yes?” said Mrs. Willard Henderson, “Did she have any good reason for be- ing so ardent?” “Reason!” cried little Mrs. Gadsby Teller. id she have any reason? Well, rather! The first and only time | she was compelled to remove her hat in a theater her frizzes went with it!” —Harper’s zar, SIN OF OMISSION. Enthusiastic Lawyer Carried It Far. “There is such a thing as overdoing your pax,” declared a man of the law who now has the knowledge gained by much experience. “Shortly after I be- gan practice in the west I was called } upon to detend a man who had drawn a revolver on another and threatened to kill him. The accused dia not have a character above reproach, but the prosecitting witness also was shady in reputation and I made the most of this 1uc.. I pictured him as a desperado of the most dangerous type, a man that was a constant menace-to the commun- ity and one who would recognize no other law than that of force. Such men as he, I insisted, made necessary the organization of vigilance commit- tees and injured the fair name of the Too |. west among the older communities of | the country. The jury returned a ver- dict of guilty and my man was sen- "taneed to a year’s imprisonment. As soert as court adjourned the foreman of the jury came to me and said: “Young feller, you spread it on too thick, After that there rip-snortin’ speech of yourn we couldn't do nothin’ else ’an what we done.’ ‘I don’t understand you, sir?’ ‘You don’t? Why, we found the ger- Ivot guilty ‘cause he didn’t shoot.’” : Not That Kind. ; Smack Owner (to fisher boy)—“I’m liquor last night, Sam. You take after "your father.”* “No, sir, I don’t Father never legves none to take." Having received the report of this voy-* sorry to hear you were the worse for | He Began with a Camp Stove Outfit and ‘Wound Up with Camp Kettles . From the New York Sun: “‘When- ever I see that picture illustrating the Bible-story of the two men carrying a great bunch of grapes hanging from a pole resting on.their shoulders,” said a civil war veteran, “it reminds me of the way we used to carry our camp kettles sometimes in the army on the march. We had, when we: left our state, a stove for each company, de- signed for camp use. It was made of sheet iron, about five feet long by two high. and a foot and’a half wide. It was stayed inside with iron bands riv- eted to the shell, to keep it in. shape. The boilers, to boil/meat and things in, were shaped like square wash boilers, and when we moved, these, with the rest of the cooking outfit, went inside the stove to save room and for con- venience in transportation. -When the stove was packedin this way two men could lift it into the wagon, and there you- were, everything snug and com- plete. But while the stove with its outfit was a good’ thing, we never had but that one; it was like many another thing that we had when we started out—some good and some not so good —when it was worn out its place was supplied with things. of the regulation kind. The stcve was certainly con- venient, and it was all right when we had a wagon to carry it in, but it was on the whole rather an elaborate out- fit for actual service, and when it wore ‘} out, as it finally did, getting more and More battered and smashed up, we érew in place of it and its boilers camp kettles; straight-sided kettles of -heavy sheet-iron. This was at about the time we got settled down to real business, and camp kettles were what we had from that on until the end ot the war. We had three kettles thai nestled together so as to take up less room in ‘transportation. One was for coffee—that was the kettle most used— one for meat, and one for vegetables. There were plenty of times when we had only one kettle in use, the meal consisting of hard bread and coffee. Many another time we had use for only two kettles, cooking coffee in one, and pork or salt horse in the other, When we had all three going at once it meant coffee, meat and potatoes all at one meal, and it was a sight agreeable to contemplate. When we .werg settled anywhere in camp the cSok fire was at the inner end of the company street and there was the cook, tent, alse, where were kept whatever supplies wt had.on hand, in the way of hard bread, sugar, salt and so on, and where the cook slept. In cooking the camp ket. tles were hung on a pole, whose ends rested on two crotched sticks driven into the ground; the fire was built on the ground under the kettles. When we moved, if we had transportation, the kettles would go in a wagon; if we had no transportation, or were going on some expedition where we didn’t take any, or there were wagons but not room for everything, then as likely as not the cook and another man would tote the camp kettles hanging from the pole used over the fire, or, if that was too heavy, froma lighter pole cut for the purpose.” COLLIDES WITH MOTORCYCLE. Fred Clark Nurses Bruixes for Steering Between the Lights, Fred Clark, chief scorcner of 2 north side club, is nursing many bruises from sudden and unforeseen contact with a mysterious vehicle that masqueraded during the night as two bicycles. Fred was preparing for a club road race and sacrificed all his spare moments to the acquisition of touga. muscles. He arose early in the morning and flitted through Lincoln park like some specter of the night that had overslept itself beneath the trees. Far out on Sheri- dan road the milkman would hear a peculiar swish noise, see a human form glide by him, and then all was still, Many times he nad hailed the mysterious rider, but no word of greet- ing came back from the gliding figure. Clark was not content with the many hours of sunlight, but invaded the night. He would distribute three lamps of 1,000 candle puwer about the front frame of the machine, attach two more behind, screw on a rasping horn to his handle bars and then cut the at- mosphere at a 2:02 gait. The incor- rigible scorcher bisected the north side and bounded the limits of Tim Ryan’s baliwick. Strips om cement were miss- ing from the half-mile speedway at Garfield park, and the grass was singed where the scorcher had left his trail. Jackscn boulevard was the site of Clark’s Waterloo. He sought to dis- appear about carriages and other wheels and appear again unscathed without letting up his pace. One night he saw two lights approaching him at a speedy clip. He marveled at the even distance between the two head- lights and with the precision of an ex- pert undertook to steer between them. There was a crash of bending tubing and a stifled scream. Mr. Clark. had run into a motor carriage. A Busy Minister's Wife. The lot of a minister’s wife is not always a bed of roses. Rev. William Alderman, pastor of the Methodist ehurch at Pawnee, Okla., has been seri- ously ill for several weeks, during which time his helpmeet has not only nursed him, but has conducted the church services. She has led the pray- er meetings, and has preached. two ser- mons each Sunday, to the entire satis- faction of the congregation. Old-Time Regulation of Dining. An act of parliament was passed in 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 gir! helped in the enthusiasm. For a week or more the college organ had been out of repair, but at chapel that morning it was ready for use again. Dr. Blodgett played “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the girls marched out two by two, and even the girl who did not. sympathize with the war felt a thrill of the patriat- ism on that occasion. At-a class meeting which lasted the entire afternoon, a few days. ago, the juniors discussed the advisability of giving up the promenade. Many argu- ments were brought forward pro and con, but it was finally decided that the best thing Smith girls could do in these exciting times was to keep the even tenor of their way, to do well the du- ties before them, and to hold the junior promenade on May 11. Mount Holyoke has r.ot been behind her sister college in exsressions of pa- triotism. On April 27 a flag was pre- sented to the students by Mr. Hill, the steward, and a flagstaff by A. L. Wil- lister. At 8:30 in the morning the girls marched, two by two, in long lines, from the different houses con- verging-on the south campus, where the flagstaff was placed. The flag was raised amid much enthusiasm, and after the formal ceremonies the girls sang together, alternating college songs with national airs. ‘ On May 2 another American flag was presented to the college, this time by the Robert O. Tyler Grand Army post of Hartford, Conn. At chapel, Miss Hazen read a letter of presentation from the donors, saying: “In this time of war and battle when we, as true Americans, wish to show our colors, it is the desire of the mem- bers of Robert O. Tyler Post, Nv. 50, of the Grand Army of the Republic, Hartford, Con», to present this flag to Mount Holyc%e college. Throw it to the breeze aud there let it wave until victory is ours.” As Miss Hazen finished reading the letter there was an outburst of ap- plause; the audience rose. as one girt ead sang “America.” A TRAIN OF HARD TACK. One Million, One Hundred and Twenty Thousand Biscuit for Cubs. From the Atlanta Constitution: A train load of hard tack, made in Atlan- ta factories, was shipped from here to Tampa yesterday for the army which is to invade Cuba tomorrow. The gov- ernment, in its contract, stipulated that the bread for the troops at Tampa be ready there today. This in itself sig- nifies that the invasion is to be made tomorrow. Eighty thousand pounds of hard tack was sent from thig city. Block’s candy and cracker factory and Lewis’ cracker factory made the hard tack for the soldiers, and the goyern- ment officials said 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 80,000 pounds to meet the demand of the troops. Hard tack is tough cracker, in shape exactly similar to a large soda’ | cracker. The tacks are cut with the soda cracker molds and are the same size, with the exception that they are much thicker. They have the little in- dentations and perforations bee {mark the soda crackers and can not) be told from a common cracker until tasted. One million, one hundred ang twenty thousand of the tough little bis- cults were made here Sunday and yes- terday. It takes fourteen of the crack- ers to weigh a pound, and 80,000 pounds were made. About twenty of the erackers are served to each ofthe men levery day, and, considering the fact that they are solid, they make three good meals. The hard tack is only used to a large extent upon invasion marches and like excursions. Always where a campaign of active fighting be- gins the troops are well supplied wi the tack, so that t! ey may have brea ready cooked. ~-o large supply of hard tack sent t- 17pa makes it cer- tain that the tr here are ready to invade Cuba, fr “n’ess an. invasiot was contemplated the immense sup| would not have been sent. ’ Advantage of Proper Training. There is one great practical advant+ age to women that comes from train- ing or from proper exercise that is ag much a matter of beauty and attrac, tion as it is of health—that is her car- riage. Many a woman who sweepg along in her coach with steeds of fire before her cannot boast the carriage of her poorer: sister who walks along to hez destination, tempted perhaps by the beauty of the turnout to be envious of. Madame Rich, but not induced to long for this luxury from any fatigue that walking produces for her SS ee Se ES Wane SEEING