Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 8, 1905, Page 7

Pubilshed Every Saturday. By E. C, KILEY. TW DOLLARS A . Katered in the Postoflice at Grand Rapid Minnesota, 28 Second-Class Matter, HAD BETTER KEPT THE FEE. Mayor’s Generous Deed the Cause of a Lot of Trouble. A young couple who desired to sur round their nuptials with additional glamor were married in the mayors office a few days ago. After the mayor had pronouneed the benedie- tion the happy groom passed over @ brand-new five-dollar note as a fee. His honor gracefully transferred the note to the bride with the suggestion that it be apptied to the start in housekeeping. The couple departed in such a blissful moed that the mayor was all smiles as he resumed his ‘duties. Yesterday the bride ealle@ wearing a gloomy air. “What’s the trouble?” asked the mayer, who re- membered her, “I wish you had taken that $5. Before we were out of the city hall my husband wanted it baek. I wouldn't give it to him, and we fought over it until now we're sepa- rated. If anybody else comes along to be married and offers you money, take it. Maybe it will save trouble afterward.”—Philadelphia Record... STARTING RUNS ON BANKS, Small Incidents Serve to Alarm De- positors—Ruse of Bank of England. A queer run on the savings hank in the Ghetto district of New York city has recalled others of the same sort. A good many years ago in London an old woman fell in front of a bank and breke her leg. A crowd gathered and the report got about that there was a run on the bank. In a very brief space there really was one. A disastrous run on the Bank of Ergland in the time of the Pretender in the eighteenth cen- tury was prevented by an ingenious delay. Vhen Prince Charles was marching on London depositors were in a frantic hurry to draw out all they had in the Bank of England. Every call was met, but in sixpences and shillings. So long did these coins take to count and se prodigious were the loads of bullion which had to be car that public eonfidenee was re stored, and news of the retreat of the anders coming te town, the situa- was saved. e is one: Song. You that have seen how the world and » Weary of laughter and sor- Pain and pleasure. Sick of the labor an@ sin, idnight and dreading the in; come in, are bearing the lead of the t have loved overmuch and too " confute all the saws of ths it served only because you must t. our werk was a wasted en- r You that, ve lost and yet triumphed h - Add less to your losses and triumph for- ever Ah. come in: come tn. Blackwood'’s Magazine, LITERAL IN HIS OBEDIENCE, Scotch Servant Should Have Made an Ideal Soidier. Scottish highland retainers, when made to do duty as servants, are said to show a very stolid, matter-of-fact kind of obedience. A Mr. Campbell, a highland gentleman, visiting a coun- try house, told Donald to bring every: thing out of the bedroom, meaning his personal belongings, But five minutes later he found all its. movable articles —fender, fire-irons and the like—piled up in the lobby, so literal was the poor man’s sense of obedience to orders! And of this he gave a still more ex: tvaordinary proof during bis sojourn in Edinburgh. When the family moved into a house there Mrs. Camp: bell gave him very particular instruc tions regarding visitors, explaining they were to be shown into the draw- ing room, and used the Scottieism, “Carry any ladies that eall upstairs.” The first visitors were two women who came at the same time. Donald seized one in his arms, said to the , “Bide ye there till I come for ye,” and in spite of her struggles atid remonstrances ushered the terrified visitor into Mrs, Campbéll’s presente THE PIONEER -OF. MENAGERIES. George Wombwell, the First to En- gace in Profitable Business. Wombwell, who was to name world known as a proprietor, was a cobbler Monmouth street, Soho, London, be- fore he made his adventure into the world of zoology. His initial purchase a curious one for a stiteher of puther—two koaconstrictors; $375 they cost him, but the soundness of his investment was proved by the fact that he cleared his expenses in the first few weeks of ownership by ex- Libiting them. Thus prosperously launched, he built up the finest travel- ing menagerie’ ever seen up to that time in England. His family of carni- vora multiplied exceedingly in captiv- ity, bis caravaps numbered forty and his expenses were $500 a day, Mind it took 120 Clydesdales to move him from fair to fair, YEAR IN ADVANCE A SOP TQ CERBERUS, Like Human Beings. The dog fancier, having approached the portals: of the infernal, regions, stopped to admire their famous canine guardian. “Fine dogt” he said. “Bully dag! If two heads are better than ane, what about a hundred? Bet he’d have tak- en a blue ribbon at a dog show.” Whereupon Cerberus wagged his tail enthusiastically, “Fine tail! Magnificent tail! But it cant wag this dog! Some people told me he was built out of proportion in the matter of heads—ought to have lege and tails ta match. But I think he’s fust right.” Ceiverus emitted a hundred simul- tanecus deep, low growls af satisfac- tion; et least one seemed to come out each of his heads in succession to he patted and finally held up his paw to shake hands. : The dog fancier passed on. “Stupid brute!” he said. ‘“He’d rath- er have flattery than a bone. But I’ve seen lots of men who are ~uilt just the same way.” DISTINCT VALUE OF POISE. Means Collecting and Balancing of the Vitat Forces. Poise must not be confounded with pose. It is not an attitude or an af- fectation, as so many women seem to think in disregarding it, says Har- per’s Razar. [t is really a prepara- tion, The arrow is poised for flight. Otherwise it cannot be aimed to the mark. Poise saves a woman from wasting energy in unaimed effort. The eleverer, the more energetic, a woman is, the more she needs correct poise. And few women are born ‘with it. while many have yet the alphabet of it to learn when they come of age. The exclamation point, in conversa- tion or life, betrays emotienal lack of balance and waste of energy. Poise reserves itself for the right occasion, and emphasizes important things with- out need of exclamation. In other words, it saves its owner from unnec- essary words or acts, and prepares her for necessary ones. Unless one have an aim in life, poise is never really at- tained. It is not mere repose. It is the collecting and balancing ef one’s forces. Seeking the Large Life. The habit which many women have formed and from which they apparent- ly de noi attempt to secure freedom, of devoting whe larger portion of their time and thoughts to the trivial things of life, robs them of the capac- ity of enjoying or assimilating much which would add to intelectual growth, says a writer in Maaam. The woman who sees nothing from day to day but the four walls of her abiding place often quite naturally becomes narrow in her thoughts. She even lacks the incentive to commune with great minds through reading. But in- terest in that which best serves hu- manity should not be limited by the lines of sex, As woa:an’s opportuni- ties open she is quick to place herself in touch with all the active forces which make‘ for the betterment cf mankind. Origin of the “Cocktail.” There has been much curiosity as to the origin ef the name “cocktail.” At last scme one has come fi» -vard with an answer to this question vaich at any rate sounds plausible. In the early @ays, when doctors used stren- uous methods and medicines in the cure of disease, among them of treating certain dis: eases of the throat with a pleasant liquid, which was applied by the tip of a long feather plucked from a coek’s tail. still retaining its cld name. In the course of its evolution the gargle gained most of the present ingredi- ents—spirits, sugar, bitters and so on —till it became the beverage of to- day. The Beauty of Repose. ef ease and grace or suggest the ma- neuvers of a seal. To fall into a seat with a thump and spill all over it is not pretty, nor is it necessary. The woman who takes a seat in this way elutches wildly at anything in reach whe= she attempts to rise, and strug- gies awkwardly to her feet. Controt of the muscles will prevent all this, and the heaviest woman may get up and down with some degree of grace and ease with a little care and prac tice. Boy Weather. v-time when it freezes. ‘ It’s boy-time when it snows; ‘The youngster is the ong whose lot Ts happiest when it snows. It’s rough on rheumatism, And it seriously annoys The dignity of grown folks, But it’s pretty good for boys. It’s just another instance, When nature makes it plain, That in the mighty scheme of things There’s nothing made in vain. So let’s forget our sorrows, In a fellow-being’s joys, The weather's hard on oo folks, But it’s pretty good for boys. —Washington Evening Star. Bony Ornaments. A farmer near Sunderland, Eng: land, has erected a gateway, the front entrance to his yard, which is com- posed of bones of various kinds, all of which belonged to favorite animals of his stock. His fondness for these relies is evidenced in other parts of his dwelling, the name on the front of the residential portion being mark- ed out with knuckle-bones; pairs of white horns and silver-meunted hoofs | gro the chief ornamenits:in the rooms. from every head. Then he stretehed | may be pure invention or truth, but | there was a habit | In course of time this | remecy came to be used as a gargle, | Guardian of Infernal’ Regions Very Great Vactation in Color of the Pre i { Sitting and rising may be motions |: | that which is taken from quartz. This ; taken from different placers will vary .bred black and tan ‘never comes, and yesterday, although OLD THINGS ABOUT GCLD. cious Metal. Few people know the real color of gold, because it 1s seldom seen except when heavily alldyed, which makes | it much redder than when it is pure. The purest coins ever made were the fitty-dollar pieces which once were in common use in Calitornia. . Their coinage was abandoned for twa reasons: first, because the loss by abrasion was so great, ard second, because their interior cculd be bored | out and filled with lead. The differ- ence in weight was so small that it could not be noticed in such large pieces. They were octagonal in shape and were the most valuable coins ever minted and circulated. : All gold is not alike wren refined. Australian gold is distinctly redder than that taken in California. More- over, placer gold is mcre yellow than is one of the mysteries of metallurgy, because the gold in placers comes from that which is in quartz. Gold in color. The gold in the Ural moun- tains is the reddest in the world.— The Sunday Magazine. MASTER OF MANY TRADES. Louisville. Man Shouldn’t Be Very Long Cut of a dob. The thriftiest man in the United States lives in Louisville. He has trades that fit any climate, season or time of the day. As an example of his wonderful versatility, a friend tells the following story of an average day in the life of this strenuous man. One morning last week he started eut with a rug to sell on commission for an installment house. He sold the rug, and then came back and taok out a clock, whieh he also disposed of. About noon he was called by an under- taker to embalm a body, which he did. | Another undertaker sent for him to | drive a hearse to the cemetery, and after he had disposed of this errand | satisfactorily he preached a short ser- mon at the grave. He drove the hearse back to town. and filled in an afternaon for a candy- maker who was taken suddenly ill. In the evenirg he worked from 6 till | 8 o’clock in a barber shop, and from | that hour until midnight set type an a daily newspaper. Admired the Judge’s Language. In the days when dentistry was not the science it is now the pounding of a hickory plug into the space between’ the teeth taking the place of modern | bridgework, the elder Judge Peckham, who was noted fer his pieturesque flow of profanity, visited a dentist. The work had hardly started when | the judge began to swear. ‘When the tapping of the hickory plug increased in force his language became torrid and when, in time, the dertist gave the final blows the patient arose from the chair and fairly shattered the atmosphere with a weird, terrible tor- rent ef profanity. As the judge passed out the dentist remarked to a waiting patient: “Wasn't it beauti- ful? It wasn’t really necessary to pound half so long, but I di@ so en- joy his inflection that I almost pound- ed the hickory plug into splinters. Wonderful command of language the judge has!” Proof That Degs Can Think. The following facts, which I saw with my own eyes on repeated occa- sions, fully convinced me that ani- | mals have the powers of memory and ! thcught. I once had a_ three-parts terrier, which, slept in a basket in my bedroom, that opened into the nursery. One of my ; children was, from ill health, very fractious, and whenever Tiny heard it ery she would go into the nursery, hunt about until she found a squeak- ing rag doll, take it to the side of the cot and sitting up, shake it to amuse the child. If in coing this she did not display powers of memory, thought and reflection, I utterly fail to | see to what her clever performance eould be attributed—Correspondence in London Globe. Truth Profoundly Expressed. The profound truth that to-morrow it is always passing, has never been | with us, has led a correspondent to throw off this little effort: “Although | yesterday to-day was to-morrow, and te-morrow to-day will be yesterday, nevertheless yesterday to-morrow would be the day after to-morrow, be- cause to-day would be to-morrow yes- terday, and to-morrow will be to-day to-morrow, or would have been the day after to-morrow yesterday.” We thought as much.—London Answers. Regret. It’s lonesome whar de shadows fall “Across de drifted snow. It_doesn’t seem de place at all Dat once I used to know. Dem frien’s I had in days gone by, Whah is dey keepin’ hid? I misses Mistah Butterfly An’ ol’ Miss Katydia. It’s kind 0” sad when life grows cold An’ toilsome an* severe, To think about good times of old So far away f'um here. Dey seemed so \Wuthless: as dey’d fly, De flowers an’ stars amid. But now I miss dat Butterfly An’ ol’ Miss Katydid. —Washington Star, Experimental Expenses. When I asked a young man how much his employer's stockroom repre- ! sented in the way of losses, he esti- mated that it would take a million dollars to cover them, but during this million dollar period his employer made four million dollars, so that everything went on cheerfully. Those who make money are not afraid of a reasonable amount of experimenta? expense.—Earl M. Pratt. | too sensitive. | than VICTIM OF MANY DEATHS. Verdict ef Coroner’s Jury“on Body of Wrecked Sailor. » Records of the ancient city Gorge ana, founded in 1640, better known at the present time as York Harbor, Me., eontain many quaint and unusual ste ries of the early life of the town. At the entrance to York Harbor a bold promontory known as Stage Neck | extends some distance into the sea, | from which formerly in ctormy weath- er a temporary light in the form of a | lantern hoisted upon an upright pole was displayed gs a warning to mari ners. One dark winter night a sloop was wrecked on these rocks. A survivor, on being questioned about the catas- trophe. said: “The vessel struck, turned aver on her side, and the skipper and another barrel of whiskey relled overboard.” , The local coroner was summoned, and this somewhat, startling verdict was returned: “We find that the deceased fell from the masthead and was killed; he roll- ed overboard and was drowned; he floated ashore and froze to death and the rats eat him up alive!’—Harper’s Weekly. , GOCD ADVICE FOR ALL. Cultivate Calmness if Yeu Health and Happiness. A beautiful woman gave the follow- ing advice to a girl admirer: “Shicid your nerves and dan’t let them become Make yourself take life ealmly. If you lose 2 train don't pace the platform wildly, but inquire when the next comes in, and sit down calm- ly to wait for it. That’s just what most women dcen’t de; they sit down, perhaps, but they tap the fleor with their feet, clinch and unelinch their hands, and are apparently in a fever heat of exeitement over the arrival of every train that comes in, even though they have heen assured that theirs is nat due for another half hour. That half hour of waiting means to them a frightful wear and tear of nerves and they are practically weeks old for it. if you cannot do that all at once, you ean keep your face still.” . Wish * “Dég Trot” a Misnomer. “Dogs have a variety of gaits,” said the boss of the kennels, “therefore | can't understand why it is that peo- ple who describe a certain style of Iecomotion always call it a dog trot. | Judging by the universality of that expression, @ body would think that @ dog never moves any other way than on a trot. But he does. All the | gaits belonging to ether four-fcoted animals are also his. He rus, he lepes, he even racks and paces, so when a person in a hurry fails into a | peculiar kind of canter, there would be just as much sense in speaking of his gait as a dog run‘or a dog gal- lop; once in a while, as always to call | it a dog trot.” ‘ Forest of Dwarf Trees. The most extraardinary forest in the world is’ ene discovered by Dr. Welwitsch, whieh occupies a table- land some six miles broad, at a height of 200 feet or 400 feet above the sea, near the West Ccast of Africa. The trunks ef the trees.of this peculiar | forest are 4 feet in diameter, and yet they only attain a height of 1 foot, | giving the tree the appearance of a round table. There are never more two leaves, which attain a lergth of 6 feet and a breadth of 2 feet, the flowers .forming crimson clusters. Stay, Stay at Home. y, stay at home, my heart. and rest: e-keeping hear happiest; ker those Whe wander they know not where Are iull of trouble and full of care; To stay at Rome is Lest. Weary and homesick and distressed. ‘hey wander east, they wander west, And are baffled and beaten and blown about By the doubt; To stay at ‘home is best. winds of the wilderness of Then stay at home. my heart. and rest; The bird is safest in its nest; O'er all that flutter their wings and fly A hawk is hoveiing in the sky; To stay at home is best. —Longfellow. Rest for the Bedridden. In cases where absolute rest of the body is necessary, and the patient gets very weary of lying still, a most welcome rest and change to the limbs can be managed by the nurse raising ! the knees of the patient well up in bed, and then putting a good, substan- | tial pillow or bolster well packed un- derneath them. In time, of course, the patient wearies of this position, then the support should be with- drawn, and fresh relief is afforded. This would also give great comfort to pecple partly paralyzed. Happiness a Great Force. A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a £5 note, writes Stevenson. He or she is a radiating force of good will, and their entrance into a room as though another candie had been lighted. We need not care whether they could prove the forty- seventh proposition. They do a bet- ter thing than that. They practically demonstrate the great theorism cf the liveableness of life. Try to cultivate calmness, but, | Sea et A French Custom. In France a newly married couple. @o not have the ordinary. bridal calls made upon them. Instead, garbed in their best, the bride and groom pay visits to all their married friends. Imagine a shy woman's embarrass- ment when she must call upon total strangers—especially if she marries away from her own neighborhood, or por husband has a country house in @ diferent cuarter. i Grand Prix, Paris, 1938. 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