Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 28, 1903, Page 4

ke pn aaa eee A SPANIARD IN CONGRESS. Delegate Who 8poke } Grant Rapts eras TRevien| Published Every Saturday. By E. C. KILEY. WO DOLLARS A YER IN ADVANCE tered in the Postoffice at Grand Rapids ~ Minnesota, as Secoud-Class datter Biferality consists rather in-gtving wegsonatiiy than much.—Cicero. People. seldom improve when they kaverno-model but themselves. to.copy aften—Goldsmith. i Nobleness of character is nothing elpeiitut steady love of good. and meadyscorn of evil.—Epictetus. Our character is but the stamp on eur souls of :the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.— | Geikie. He who will not give some portion of, bis ease, his blood, his wealth, for ethers’ good, is a poor frozen churl.— Joanna Baillie. » That alone can be called true refine- ment which elevates the soul of man, ing. the manners by improving Antelect.—Coleridge. Remember that life is neither pain ner pleasure; it is serfous business, to be‘entered upon with courage and in spirit of: sel? sacrifice—De Tocque- ville: : No true man can live a half life when he’has genuinely learned at it as only a half life. ‘The other half— the higher half—must haunt him.— | Pillips Brooks. . Life fs no idle dream, but a solemn reality, based on and encompassed by eternity.. Find out your work, and wstand 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- salt is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.—Chalmers. Experience.serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend tar 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 eiyilization itself is but a question of personal improvement. — Samuel Sailes. ae! WITH THE SAGES, "=r | SOME POSTSCRIPTS. The word “pen” means a feather, and is.from the Latin penna, a wing. , Tortoise shell, however old, can be kept bright by polishing it occasionally with rouge powder. It is claimed that you can drive ails into hard wood without bending them if you dip them first in lard. German farms occupy nearly 1,000,- #00 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 velieved to be not less than 6,000 years old. Steam power is almost an impossi- wility in Southern China, fuel- being ope of the most expensive Chinese Yagurics. 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- _ 8t.camelia in Europe. It is 160 years eid, about fifty feet high and has 40,- 006 ‘blossoms each season. } ALL SORTS. An early crop—the small boy’s first haircut, With some 6-cent cigars you get at east six scents. The eight-day clock is a hard worker and a chronic striker. Sometimes it is his lie-abilities that merease a man’s assets. 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 rhin- eceros isn’t calculated to make him vain. When it comes to a question of stay- img qualities the undertaker can lay 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 a8 man whose disappoint- ment is duc to the fact that the world was made without his advice. It sometimes happens that a man puts both money, and confidence in a. bank—and later draws out his confi- dence. A Kansas man boasts of running the. enly strictly third-class hotel in the country. It is up to other landlords | indignantly 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 eulture. 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 long as he owes them money. | upon the floor of the House. The first | and through trade, too! {was followed the year after by the; A New Mexi No English. _ Forty-six years-ago there sat in the House of Representatives of the. Unit-. ed States, and introduced measures for {ts 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. This man of foreign tongue only had suc- ceeded Richard H. Weightman, who served during the previous Congress. He held his seat by virtue of the vote of his constituents, the favorable re- port of a committee of Congress upon a contest made against him, and the approval of that report by vote of the House. He was the sole representative in the House of a portion of the United States but little less in arca 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 a contest that was decided against him. His po- sition in the. House, and the manifers ; disadvantage of it to his const:tuent. led to reveated attempts by his friends to provide him with an intcrpreter 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 introductionjof a resolution. I have given above in a general way the congressional history of Senor VYose 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. Gitar Cloth of St. Osyth’s a Reminder 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 altar cloth and cush- fons 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, a king, 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, and, as “a per- quisite, the holder of it at the demise of the crown receives the furniture of the bedchamber in which the king or queen dies. The groom of the stole when George II died was the earl ef Rochford, who had the furniture of the room in which the monarch passed | away removed to his residence at St | Osyth, and presented the rich trap- | pings of the royal deathbed to the par- { ish church, | Fat Treasuries. | Some say that the amount of money in the United States Treasury at the time of the Secretary’s latest report— $545,876,305—is not only 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 no less than 3,000,000,000 francs ($600,000,000) in gold, the biggest amount of gold the world has ever seen. 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 francs ($1,000,000;000) as a war in- | demnity. The war increased the na- | tional debt about 7,000,000,000 francs. The Commune destroyed property worth 800,000,000 francs in April and | May, 1871. Just think @f the recuper- ative powers of France to have more than hal’ her war indemnity back in her pocketbook in a year and a half, The First Newspapers. As it is to Germany that we owe) the first example of printing, 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 first in 1615. This publication is still. in existence. It Nieuwe Tidjinghen, a Dutch produce: | 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 ia | 1622, The Gazette de France (Paris, 1631), and others followed. The Lon- don Gazette was the ‘irst regularly is- sued English newspaper that survives to the present day. It appeared in 1665, and the earliest numbers were pub- lished at Oxford, where the court at/| that time was temporarily established. | Difference Between Artists. Down at Greenport, L. I., late last fall two New York painters whom it were cruelty to name under the eir- cumstances, who had lingered about: their summer haunts to get some duck | shooting, were taking an afternoon at sketching to secure some notes of ma- wine and nautical details among the shipping in the harbor. A village sign’ painter saw them and came up and watched them. Presently he spoke, “} suppose you fellows studied years to get to do that,” he said, They allowed tnat he wag right. He pondered a moment, criticaliy, then: | “Mie come natchral to me,” quoth | he. _ famous conjurer. , Remarkable , Writer on occult topics. coreee A FEAT OF MEMORY. Wonderful Accomplishment to Which. +. the Mind Was Trained, ~ » Some light is thrown on the -poss!- bilities of memory culture by an inter- esting recital contained in the auto- biography of Robert Houdin, the He taught his son to glance at, say, a shop window and to memorize accurately, as in a brain picture, the window’s contents. Then he would ask him to describe the con- tents, checking and correcting him.as he went on. On one occasion Houwdin was commanded to tke Tuilertes™to give a performarce before the French court. As he passed through. an ante- room to the.salon he bade bis son to note the arrangement of the rooms and the contents of the bookcases. Then at the close of the entertain- ment Houdin astonished his audience by giving what he called a “secord- sight” test. Declaring his unfamil- farity with the Tuilieries, Houdin, blindfolding his son, asked him to send his gaze through the well of the room to the chamber beyond, to de- scribe the arrangement of the cham- ber and to.read the titles of the yol- umes on the shelves cf the bookcases. This feat the young lad accomplished, to the astonishment of the court. MUST HAVE BEEN A SHOCK. Effect of Change of Newspaper Headlines. Capt. Edgar S. Dow of New Haven, to;whom was given the honor of pilot- ing President Roosevelt's yacht into New Haven harbor on his visit to Connecticut’s metropolis last fall, is an entertaining old salt, who can al- ways go a story-teller one better. Ap- propos of the humorous mistakes that printers make, the captain lately told the following of his own observation: “Years ago,” he declared, “I used to take a New York paper that printed its shipping news on the same page with the obituaries, You can imagine the shock it gave me one morning to find the captions exchanged, and a ‘| long list of respectable names printed under the marine heading, “Passed Throwgh Hell Gate Yesterday.” A Promising Chimpanzee. A chimpanzee taken to England. lately from the United States is. said to be on the point of talking. It,al- ready. makes. guttural sounds which its attendants can understand, But a dog can do.as much as that.. When it, was shown, at the Buffalo exposition a German doctor who. had to do. with déaf-mutes said that.a slight operation upon.one of the ligaments of. the tongue would .enable the animal to speak. At that time the chimpanzee was under contract, But it, will prob- , ably now be taken to.Germany for the operation, It can even now.use a type: writer and play the piano, But these professions are overcrowded. A talk- ing chimpanzee would make an excel- lent living, even though, like many other talkers, it said nothing worth hearing. Turned On the Light. The man Calve is reported to have selected for her first husband and sec ond love is Jules Bois, an interesting His one-act play, “The Devil in Darkness,” was given only one performance at Mont- martre.. It was played in total dark- ness, voices of different timbre. speak- ing solemnly a dialogue that quite transcended in mystic realism any- thing Paris had ever heard before. Unluckily for Bois, some envious rival] bribed the gas man to turn on the hghts in the middle of the act, and a | half-dozen commonplace Montmartre singers of both.sexes were discovered sitting on wooden chairs, all of them grinning over the misadventure. Af- ter that Jules Bois gave up, the stage in despair. The Iriskm n and the Sun. -An Irishman who had just landed in New York from his home in Ireland ! was stroiling around the city, taking in the sights. In the course of his walk he came across B.ttery park, and seeing a bench unoccupied near the water front, sat down. It was just about sunset when the Celt took his seat in the park snd as he gazed across the water at Governor's island the big guas at that place boomed, announcing sunset. Now, this noise was nev to the Irishman, and he said to a policeman who was passing by: “Phat’s thot noise fur?” “Aw, it’s the sun goin’ down,” r plied the officer. “Begobs.” remarked the Celt, “the sun nivir went down thot hard in Ire- land.”—Philadelphia Bulletin. Herring Cleaned by Machine. Very clever is & Swedish inventor | named Ekenberg, who has construct- ed a machine which takes herrings as they come from the net, sorts them into the four sizes recognized by the trade, scrapes off their scales, cuts off their heads, splits, cleans and washes them inside and out. The machine does all this automatically, and turns out 20,000 herrings per hour. One of the big floating herring ‘factories which go out from Goteberg to the herring banks is to be equipped with this astonishing apparatus, which ought to effec’ a revolution in the price of bloaters. American Generosity. Under the title, “Gifts and Be quests,” Appletcn’s Annual Cyclopedia enumerates gifts and bequests for public purposes which were made, be- came operative or were completed in the United States to the amount of more than $85,000,000. This list does not include amounts less than $5,000 nor denominational contributions for educational or benevolent purposes, nor state or municipal appropriations. Among these excluded contributions are those to the American board of missions, over $18,369,163. when he came around there I wasn’t - gress who had departed the land of HAD NO MONEY TO BURN. How John D. Rockefeller Cured Em- ploye of Smoking. “I worked. fcr John D. kefeller once,” said a well-known landscape gardener of this city. “One morning I was out in the grounds doing some work among the plants and flowers, and as I worked I smoked. Pretty socn the old man strolled out that way and when he came up to where I was, said in a quiet way: ‘I-never had any money to burn.’ I didn’t tumble for a second, and he stood there looking at me. ‘I have matiaged to put away a few dollars,’ he continued, “but I never had any money to burn’ It came to me-allat once what he meant and I threw the cigar away. Next morning smoking. He came up with a smile on his face apd said: ‘Well, the stove isn’t going to-day.’”—Columbus (0.) State Journal. TOO EARNEST IN HIS WORK, Old Colored Man’s, Humorous Warn- ing to His Employer. A southern member of Congress who lives in a Washington hotel has for his personal attendant an old col- ored man to whom he is much attach- ed.. The negro, by virtue of long servi- tude, has come to assume considerable authority over his employer. The Congressman was visited by some friends the other evening’ the host offering them a.drink of whisky, say- ing he was about to take one himself, hoping to break up a cold. The party took three or four drinks, and the jug was about to be passed again, wnen the negro servant made things very embarrassing to the host by saying: “Deed, sah, you said you was a-takin’ this yer whisky. to break up a cold. *Pears like they was tryin’ to break up a hull winter,” Wants Stcte to Feed Legislators. Representative Louis J. Tichacek of St. Louis will introduce a bill in the legislature - providing that the state shall furnish. its legislaters with rooms and board during their stay in Jefferson city. Mr. Tichacek says he is.tired of rabbit pie and tough beef- steak and that as things are now a man who lives in decent shape during the legislative session can hardly meet his expenses. He wants the legislature to appropriate $50,000 for the establishment of a hotel, which could be used by members during the session and by state officials at other Now.as to Your Winter . ' Suits and Overcoat i 1 have the goods that will please you, styles that are superb, and that’s all I need announce ---the hundreds of suits worn in Grand Rapids to-day attest to my skill as a “Fitter of Man.” Calland see J Johnson, The Tailor, Hotel Gladstone FIRST-CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT. Sample Room and Livery in Connection. Special Attention Given to Transient Trade. Headquarters for Lumbermen. One-half Block From Depot. times. “Then,” says he, “if the boarding house fails to supply stan- dard grub the state can be held re- sponsible.” Chicago’s Centennial. The _ Chicago Historical society, tnrough its executive committee, has expressed in. favor of the commemor- ation and celebration on Aug. 1, 1903, as the centennia! anniversary of the founding of Chicago. Resolutions were adopted in which the committee calls attention to the fact that the date chosen marks the passage of one hun- dred years since the Federal troops, commanded by Lieut. Swearingen, es- tablished Ft. Dearborn at the mouth of the Chicago river and laid the foun-' dation of Chicago. The occasion, in the opinion of the committee, marks the real beginning of the city’s his- tory, rather than the arrival of John Kinzie, as has been suggested. Mountaineer’s Harsh Judgment. Bishop Coleman of Delaware goes on a tramp through the mountains of West Virginia every summer and, of course, has many odd _ experiences. Last summer, clad in old and dust- covered clothes, he entered an inn where several mountaineer; sat talk- ing. One of them with characteristic hospitality invited him to take a drink, but the bishop courteously de- clined. “Do you eat hay?” said the native. “Why, no, my friend,” said the stranger wonderingly. “Then,” said the mountaineer with scorn, “I don’t think you are fit company for man or beast. Come, boys, let’s take something.” ; Friends Thought Him Dead. Ex-Congressman Outhwaite of Ohio has been visiting Washington and was surprised to find that nearly every- body thought him dead. A Joseph H. Outhwaite of Ohio died recently, and newspapers generally announced that it was the former member of con- the living. “Fifty times during the past ten days,” said Mr. Outhwaite, “I have seen a startled look come into the eyes of acquaintances when I met them. ‘Great Scott, ma ,’ they will exclaim, ‘I thought you were dead.’” Paid Bridesmaids. At a recent wedding held in New York there were no fewer than fifteen bridesmaids, who were all punctually paid. Besides the beautiful toilettes, given by the bride’s father, they each received $25 for appearing in the wed- ding train. Some of the young ladies receive as much as $100 for the “office of honor,” while one womax, who is much sought after for her beauty, has appeared as bridesmaid at more than 200 weddings, and has in a short time amassed quite a little fortune, besides receiving many costly presents. Novels Read by Statesmen. Senator Platt of Connecticut hap pened into a house committee room and found Congressman Metcalfe of California reading. “A novel?” quer- fed the Yankee gravely. “Yes.” “Say, Metcalfe, do you like detective stories —the one with villians in °em?” The Californian showed him the title page of the book he had been perusing. 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