Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 14, 1903, Page 4

Bheratae' Review Published Every Saturday. "By BE. C. KILEY. -| House of Representatives of the Unit- WO DOLLARS A FE R IN ADVANCH Kavered.in the Postofiice xt Grand apie Minnerota, as second-Class dutter was! WITH THE SAGES. Liberality consists s rather in giving _ ceeded Richard Hi<Weightman, who sea sthably than much- Pesple seldom improvi have no modei-but themsél -after=—Goldsmith. Nobleness’ ofeharacte}"¥s' ‘nothing , else.ghat: steady eve of *gocd and steadgy,scorn of evil_—Epietetus. Owe characte is but the stamp on | our seus of thé*free choices: of god | il we have made through life — ‘ er. en they ss to'copy.| Gel 5 He who will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others’ gcod, is a poor frozen churl.— Joarna Baillie. That alonecan be called true refine- ment’ whieh elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.—Coleridge. Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be ered upon with courage and in a spirit of se’ sacrifice—De Tocque- ville. No trug.man cart live a half life y when he his genuinely learned i 1at it is only a half life. The other haif— the higher half—must haunt him.— Pillips Brooks. Life is no idle dream, but a solemn reality, based on and encompassed by eternity. Find out your work, and stand to it; the night cometh when no man can work.—Carlyle. Thoughts of virtue lead to virtuous actions; acts of virtue ripen into hab- its; and the goodly and permanent re- sult is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.—Chalmers. Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institu- tions than upon the character of its | men; for the nation is only the aggre- gate of the individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal improvement. — Samuel Smiles. -SOME POSTSCRIPTS. The word “pen” means a feather, and is from the Latin penna, a wing. Tortdise shell, however old, can be kept bright by polishing it occasionally with rouge powder. It is claimed that you can drive nails into hard wood without bending | them if you dip them first in lard. German farms occupy nearly 1,000,- 000 acres in Central America on which over 20,000,000 coffee trees are planted. A dollar loaned for a hundred years and compounded ,at 24 per cent will amount in that time to $2,551,799,404. The oldest statue of the world is of the sheik of an Egyptian village. It is believed to be not less than 6,000 years old. Steam power is almost an impossi- bility in Southern China, fuel being _ one of the most expensive Chinese luxuries. The assessed value of real estate in the State of New York, according to the board of equalization, is $5,169,- 308,070. Rev. Dr. W. D. Parr of Kokomo, Ind., has officiated at 105 church dedi- | cations, which is thought to be the world’s record. At Plinitz, near Dresden, is the larg- est camelia in Europe. It is 160 years old, about fifty feet high and has 40,- 900 blossoms each season. ALL SORTS. An early crop—the small boy’s first hair-cut. ay clock is a hard worker striker. Sometimes it is his lie-abilities that increase a man’s ets. Much of the charity that begins at home is too feeble to get next door. Any small boy in his first pair of trousers feels sorry for his mother. The skin-deep beauty of the - -oceros isn’t calculated to make hit vain. When it comes to a question of mane ing qualities the undertaker can sed the pugilist out. If it is true that the good die young it is up to the oldest inhabitant to ‘offer an explanation. A cynic is a man whose discppoint- ment is due to the fact that the world was made without his advice. It sometimes happens that a man puts beth money and confidence in a bank—and later draws out-his confi- dence. ° » A Kansas man boasts of running the only strictly third-class hotel in the courtry. - lt, is »p to other landlords indignartily to deny this assertion, CAREFULLY THOUGHT OUT. He who gains time gains a good friend. One must suffer in order to tolerate _ the sufferings of others. The manager of an opera company is justified in putting on airs. _ A cat has nine lives—and at least eight of them are devoted to vocal _ culture. - Consider the man who is always on time—and the time he wastes in wait- ing for other men. A man may be reasonably sure his friends will not forget him as longias A SPANIARD IN CONGRESS. pond abit & New Mexican’ Delegate Who Spoke No English. Forty-six years ago there sat in the ed States, and introduced measures for its consideration, a man who had 20 knowledge of the English language, | says a Washington writer. He neither | understood it nor spoke it. He was, | ——— ' moreover, an educated- Spaniard, and was said to be a Catholic priest. ‘his |man of foreign tongue only had suc- ‘served dvring* the -prévious* Congress. * . He held his seat“by* virtue ofthe vote-*” The Indian hunts to live; the pale- of hisseonstituerits;-the favorable 1 nce to Kill. ; port of-a committee of Corgress: upon Want: evesrthing alwnas ‘carries a a. contést ade ‘against him, and the | “approval of tat’ report Ly vote of tife’t | House? in the’Hotse of & portion ‘Ofthe United” States but little TessYP area than twice | that of New England, He went into , | his seat, as has been said, on a contest ' that ended favorably to him. He went | out of it after an election on’e, contest / that was decided against him His po- | sition in the House, and the manifers | disadvantage of it to his constituents | led to repeated attempts by his friends © to provide him with an interpreter upon the floor of the House. The first effort contemplated that this should he done at public expense. Later it was sought to provide that some one to in- terpret for him might be permitted merely to come within the doors of the legislative chamber. The first effort failed through a decision of the speak- er that the resolution offered was not a privileged one. The other failed from the lack of a two-thirds vote in favor of suspending the rules to permit the introduction of a resolution, I have given above in a general way the congressional history of Senor Vose Manuel Gallegos, delegate from | New Mexico in the Thirty-third Con- | gress of the United States, as gathered | from the Congressional Globe, the House journal and the House reports of committees. FROM A KING’S DEATHBED. | @tar Cloth of St. Osyth's-a Remindez of the Times of George II, There is a pretty little village called | St, Osyth in Essex, Eng., close to Clac- ton-on-Sea. The aliar cloth and cush- | ions of the pulpit in its parish church/| were made from the counterpane and the velvet hangings of the bed in which George II died. | In the royal household there is an office called “groom of the stole,” filled by a peer if the reigning sovereign is aking, and styled “mistress of the robes” and filled by a noblewoman if the sovereign is a queen. There is a salary of $2,500 a year at- tached to the office, anu, as a per- quisite, the holder of it at the demise of the crown receives the furniture of | the beichamber in which the king or queen dies. The groom of the ‘stole when George II died was the earl of Rochford, who had the furniture of the-room in which the monarch passed a2way removed to his residence at St | Osyth, and presented the rich trap- pings of the royal deathbed to the par- ish church. Fat Treasaries. Some say that the amount of moziey in the United States Treasury at the time of the Secretary’s latest report— $545,876,305—is not oniy the largest in the history of our treasury, but the largest on record for any nation, says the New York Press. Such is not the case. Some eighteen months after the Franco-Prussian war the Bank of France had in its vault ao less than 8,000,000,000 francs ($600,009,000) in gold, the biggest amount of gold the wcrid has ever scen. The most extraor- dinary thing in connection with this was that France had paid to Germany about a year or so previous 5,000,000,- 000 frances ($1,000,009,000) as a war in- demnity. The war increased the na- tional debt about 7,000,0U0,000 frances. {Tne Commune = d gyed property j worth 800,000,000 francs in April and May, 1871. Just th of the recuper- ative powers of France to have more than hal* her war indemnity back in her pocketbook in a year and a half, and through trade, too! The First Newspapers. As it is to Germany that we owe the first exampié¢ of p-inting, so to that country is due the credit of publish- ing the first regularly issued newspa- per. This was the Frankfurter Zei- tung, and it appeared fir:t in 1615. Th's publication is still in existence. [It was followed the year after by the Nieuwe Tidjinghen, a Dutch produc- tion, printed at Antwerp, says a Lon- don paper. The first English newspa- } per was the Weekly News from Italy, | Germany, etc., published in London ja 1622. The Gazette de France (Paris, | don Gazette was the ‘irst regularly is- sued English newspuper that su to the present day. It appeared in 1463, and the earlicst numbers were pub- lished at Oxford, where the court at { Difference Retween Artists. | | Down at Greenporj, L. I., late last fall two New York painters whom it were cruelty to name under the cir- cumstances, who had lingered. about their summer haunts to get some duck shooting, were taking an afternoon at pketching to secure some notes of ma- ; «ine and nautical details among the shipping in the harbor. A village sign painter saw them, and came up and watched them. Presently he spoke. “J suppose you fellows studied years i DEFECTIVE PAGE to get to do that,” he said. They allowed tuat he was right. He pondered a moment, criticaliy, then: “Mipe come natcaral to et quoth he. He-Was thd 86te representative" Furter lives... - - it. | the smartest baby on earth has | Baby. 1631}, and others foliowed. The Low- - | that time was temporarily established. ° Bone gle rman) regaecs igialar sc Stolen eS have encased tails, Battles are not won with war paint. Lazy squaws live in cold wigwams. A cowardly hand carries a weak Fine moccasins do not make fine feet. The biggest tree fears the bess teeth. The hunter should be stronger than his bow. The deer’s Jhice is worth more than ‘his horns. empty belly. Game.is always scarce> eenere Slander. talksr< ‘gnrough’ “the copper head’s mcuth. | Hot-Head fills the pipe of peace gag the powder hor A man’s ashes secon smother the light cf his fame. Even the gocse does not lay its pk in the eagle’s nest. H The paleface is not satisfied with the seas for fences. lt is easier to imitate a hundred birds thai. one virtue. mers Put-it-Off waits to dance until he hears the partridge drum. The young crow thinks its mother the finest singer in the woods. There is more murder in a jug of firewater than in a barrel of toma- | hawks. A sharp ear is better than a dull | eye.—Charles Stow in New York | Press. * RI aC SS aa CYNICISMS. Speaking of society, the worst is rot always the poorest. ; “Ex” usually denotes a has-been, but an exhorter is one who is still at A man is often said to be feeling his | oats when in reality he is pear his rye. The man who doesn’t think he has ‘no \ben_a man has never been: dis-: setisfied He can never enjoy content- mect. ; It takes.a clever woman to make the story of her aches and pains in- ; teresting. Juaése a man by the expression of | kis mouth and a woman by the ex- pression of her tongue. It’s surprising how very good a mai is to his ~ife the day after she gets next to one of his secrets. Men who mind tkeir own business are usually successful becaues they have very little competition. RUSSIAN PROVERES. Russia is a land c= many proverbs, a large rumber cf which lose their point when translated into English. Among some of the best, however, are: Home is a full cup. Calumny is ize s coal; not burn it will soil. Sorrow kills not, but it blights. The pire stands afar, but whispers to its own forest. Poverty is not a sin, but twice as j bad. A dog is wiser than a woman; dces not bark at its master. By that which wourded may your wound be cured. Black may be (~~ price. The sheep. Be born neither wise nor fair, but lucky. — | An old crow croaks not for noth- ing. if it does it but white is its wolf cat. the destined | ALL TRUE. Saloonkeepers always have plenty of fall goods on hand. It doesn’t take much of a marksman to draw a head on beer. The prica paid to quiet conscience | keeps mighty few people poor. A conceited man admires his own mistakes because he makes them. In order to reach success you must pass through a door labeled “Push.” j When money is tight it makes it- self scarce, but it’s somewhat different with men. A famine of silver dimes annoys the average man more than the scarcity of $1,000 bills. When a man compliments a woman she isn't, satisfied unless she can in- | duce him to repeat it at least seven times. Some marriages are failures be- cause the woman ir the case is suspi- | cious and some are failures because she isn’t. OBSERVED BY THE WAY. A cow never faints, but she some times turns pail. s | It’s easy to find fault because there | is so much of it. When a man is always sure he is sure to get left occasionally. 4 Sometimes an orator makes his best point when he comes to a stop. It is better to be a live-man in a dead town than a dead man in a live town. A little tin makes the nutmeg grater —and it’s the same way with men in some cases. An ounce of pluck is worth a pound of luck when it comes to removing the feathers from a goose. ‘When a woman purchases a cheap article in a first class store she for 9 friend. — ‘| be of higher effectiveness than one in gold” | fix tp some way for 4 woman to wear + that she is worth her weight in gold. i like casting a flower into a sepulchra, | employs his wealth, his thought, his : erable.. | you have bow iegs don’t wear striped | | trousers. | | his ideas it must be done when he | gets into a train of thought. | policy, but a good many men some- ; | up. A big puddle is never half so much rippled by its duck: a is the ye puddle by ore big 6 ERK However, this does on mean that a shipping trust in a bath tub would tke ocean. Tae sultan of Bacolod tries hard | to inflame our wrath by calling us hogs. But we know too well the price of meat these days. The pity is that the sultti does not pause..to conri@er the value.of-prop- | erly,appreciatirg the relative: propor . tion, of some ducks to some puddles; The gertieman of Bacaldd-eitaer is | lookir. for trouble cr fame: » Fame ome acquired by saying..things,.or by saying nothing. Samesway about | ALONG) a 03 e | But-tf any person placed any cre, dence in that “werta your thecry, Dame, Fa | | if ight would ion a set of platform scales: } The sulian seems to be about the only thing that ever happened in Bacolod, aryhow. Vere it not for him, Bacolod would be an unknown quantity in the problem of civiliza- | tion. { What we are and what we are | worth are mere matters of opinion,‘ anyway. Many a girl has been told | Lots of us, too, kave said that to a ton of coal. SAYINGS OF THE WISE. Nature is the Thomas Browre. No. man has been matriculated in the art of life till he has been well tempted. For a woman to love some men is art of God.—Sir | —Havwthorne. Tt was to combat and expose quacks and fools thai laughter was invent- ed.—Thackeray. Unbecoming forwardness proceeds from igrciance pudence.—Cnvyi"<o. In counsel it good to see dan- gers; but in execution, not to see taem unless oy be very. eee Bacon. He only does not Jive in vain who oftener | than im- | speech, to advance the good of others. —Hindoo Maxim. Poetry is not made out of the under- standing. The quesiion of common ! sense is always: “What is it good for?”—“a question which would abolis.a the rose and be triumphantly answer- ed by the cabbage.—Lowell. If this free people, if this govern- ment itself, is ever utterly demoraliz- | ed, it will come from this human wriggle and struggle for office—that is, a way to live without work. —Ljn- coln. GOOD TO REMEMBER. A sewing bee can’t sing, but it does a lot of buzzing. Setting up the drinks is what fre- quently upsets the drinker. Humanity is always ready to lend a | hand—but it is often empty. It is said that sight drafts frequent- ly induce temporary blindness, | ..-Were.it. not’ for love many’ a girl | would be unable to make herself mis- | Never advertise your troubles. If If a man is ever carried away by | Honesty is undoubtedly the best | | how fail to keep their premiums paid | The man who sits around and waits | for his friends to find him a job is | always the first, to line up in front of | the bar on a general invitation. and Wedlock. Official 1 23 relaing to mar-j riages in Cape Ci during 1901 in- dicate that the war cid not seriously interfere with the course cf true love in that portion of the British empire. In fact, it was a record year in the matrimonial ventures. - The total num- ber of weddings solemnized was 9,547 —nearly a thousand increase on tae figures for 1900, and over 2,000 more | on those of a decade ago. War it is easier ior some people to make mistakes than it is for them to | keep from criticising others. Many a wet.an begins to wonder ; how she will celebrate her silver wed- | ding before she has been married two | weeks. There can be no serious objection | to a man’s knowing it all if he will | kindly refrain from saying “I told | you so.” “A loadstoan put in tne piace ware | the pane is, is beautiful for the Rhsu- matiz. | “A basin of water gruel, with a haff | a quart of cld rum in it, with lots of brown sugar, is goed for Cold in Head. | “If you have hiccups, pinch one of your wrists wile you count sixty, or | § get somebody to skare you and make | you jumpe. “The earache—Put onion imvear after | it is well roasted. | . “The consumption—Eat as many | peanuts as possible before going to bed.”—Philadelphia Record. < Eventually the poor may mnerit tne earth—when Mr. Morgan gets through with it. A pawnbroker says it takes a man of nerve to soak his umbrella when it is raining. 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