Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 10, 1906, Page 9

“EREIN 18 CHARM OF CHINA, sauty of Its Landscapes, the Tea- houses and Its Landscapes, ith all the offensive sights and ls there is no denying a myster- > and alluring fascination in China sll who come in contact with her le under their native conditions, 5 M. Walker in the Chautau- Niven the recollection of the mforts of travel by the native cannot blot out the beauty of dseape, the terraced mountain the persimmon groves, the’ tea 3, the diminutive gardens, the patches of ripening grain, and at toiling throng always cheer- contented in spite of their un- tasks. ‘o have been visitors to China resistibly drawn back to the They hear the call of the never cease to look forward ime when they shall return to who have once lived in China ver satisfied to live anywhere Soothing and insinuating, the fa- n of the Chinese creeps upon and they, too, learn to accept Ss as they come. Other land- °s lose their interest. the oldest of other climes seem cheap and while the bustle and haste of oc- | life with its harsh customs nt manners bruise their’spirit ong for the peace of Cathay. “OMS OF THE CANNIBALS s of Savages Observe Traditions Among Themselves. n among the savages of-French who eat human flesh, there fferences,” said Paul Pucci, a ian traveler, at the Ra- ome while ago, “~when ex- that country, I learned a good ut the ways of the various In a majority of them can- n is indulged only when the are those of prisoners taken in It is all right to eat persons ong to hostile clans,.but it a gross violation of tradition tom of the land to feast fricnds or even upon members + ome tribe. This delicacy of ent, however, is not universal, 2 one tribe in particular, where d the absence of any old per- I learned that it was the proper to add the aged inhabitants » local food supply. This, con- ‘the Dark Ages again. he population to the young and for ai the first signs of decrepi- » boiling pot was called into ion.”—Washington Post. ortrait cf Arthur Hallam. recently published portrait of Hallam, immortalized by Ten- “In Memoriam,” a_ writer It daies from the prephoto- days, of course, but it does v signs of the flattery so com- nortraits of that time. The bore those ‘azure orbits wise,’ those ‘ethereal eyes.’ 1 as rather gloomy, rather that of a somewhat heavy This head was Tennyson’s vo heaven throughout the f philosophic doubt, and was century later, when the aged 1 in the faith that his boy as ‘not dead but alive.’” Recurrence of Digits, st remarkable arrangement ‘s that I know of,” said a ,ess college man who takes t in solving curious problems g up mathematical oddities, ubination of the six figures Multiply this number by answer is 285,714, by 3 and is 428,571, by 4 and the an- 1,428, by 5 and the answer y 6 and the answer is h answer contains ex- alae digits as the original , to cap the climax, multi- ober by 7 and up comes the 9,999.” . Widow of Experience. years ago, at the funeral of the prominent men of Oxford, che minister forgot to mention- orayer the widow, who, was the ife of the deceased. His oticing the fact, sent his*lit- after the service, to. re- - ed clergyman of his’ omis-., » ninister apologized to the saying: “I trust the Lord will you in this great trial; Mrs. uve no reason to doubt him, for yeen with me twice before,” Subtle Poison of Java. ves of Java have a natural aid them in avenging them- .geinst their enemies. It is a (uid found in the bark of the o. The bark is over an inch 1 is very spongy. A drop of on the skin causes intense ] on. A private revenge is satis- ng a cup of this fluid in the enemy and then the ‘or well he knows that ning his vietim Will ‘have the high divide. The fluid stupor, which finally ends in Fresh Water in the Ocean. 4 water in the ocean, though iksnown, is a rarity. The Gulf ' course, a salt current, eal causes operate to pro- se Pacific the Kuro Shiwo, ck current” of the Japanese. is only half that of the Gulf eam, and before it reaches the n continent it. is: merged in. peral Pacific drift eastward. Its] vw ~vell established that it is..with. - ze upon the climate of our: 4 is, .been listening attentively, then -* gympathetically: IN POSSESSION OF THE DEVIL; Peculiar Antics of Italian Boy Are Thus Explained. A most wonderful medieval story is now -occupying the attention of the south of Italy. In a small village there is a family of the name of Pan- sini, and if all be true that is writ- ten of it we may think ourselves in There are two boys in: this family, and they disap- pear Occasionally in a most mysteri- vous manner. In fact, a few minutes after they disappear they are found miles away. How they get there no one can tell. They say they are car- ried from place to place by the Holy Ghost. Spirits are also said to in- habit the house where they live; plates and glasses are broken before the eyes of all, and cakes and sweets are showered over the boys’ beds when they are asleep. One of the boys falls in trances, when he speaks dif- ferent languages (even Latin and Greek) in a strange voice. He also ‘spouts passages from Dante, and pro- “phesies. Doctors and priests have visited him, but cannot discover the machinery which is evidently at work somewhere, The last who visited him was a Jesuit father. At his approach the boy began to curse and swear and ‘kicked him. The Jesuit says the boy is possessed by the devil!--Vanity Fair: PROOF. POSITIVE OF MISTAKE Freg Was There to Back Up Assertion of Doctor. Many years ago Dr. Woodward, founder of the Woodward institute at Quincy, Mass., was much annoyed by a wealthy maiden lady who was very positive she had _ swal- lowed a young frog and_ that it was growing in her stomach. After many attempts to disillusion ber, the doctor resorted .to a strata- gem. He procured a medium-sized frog, and placing it in his pocket, vis- ited the patient and informed her that he proposed to remove the frog. He administered a powerful emetic. He then produced the frog, and she was very happy, and kept the frog as a souvenir. In less than a week he had an ur- gent call from the lady, who t€arfully informed him.that the frog had left one of its family in her stomach He took the frog, placed him on a table, and with his microscope examined him long and attentively. At last, with a sigh of relief, he exclaimed: “Madam, ju are mistaken; the frog is a he one.”—Exchange. Thought Tom Was Near at Hand. - She is a devoted mother, whose lIov- ing attentions to her family have giv- en her little opportunity for keeping abreast of the world’s advancement. The eldest son had ~been. absent from home for the first time, atid the elder members of the family planned a surprise by placing her in telephone communication with him, After ‘hear- ing the voice of her boy through ‘the receiver she could not believe that‘he was far away in Atlanta, Ga., as ke assured her he was. Dropping the instrument, she looked under the ta- ble and called out, “Now, Tom, come out of. there and stop your nonsense.” ‘Baltimore Sun. Wrong Time of Year to Die. Some forty or more years ago there resided in West Gloucester, Mass., the parents of a member of one of Boston’s large jewelry firms, After much solicitation the son finally in- dueed his mother to abandon her hum- | ble home for his palatial one, but no “amount of persuasion could make the father come. Not long after the change the old lady died, in the month of July, and word was sent to her husband. The old gentleman took the letter to a neighbor, saying: “Wife’s dead; can’t go anyway: right in haying time. Why couldn’t she have gone in January?” A Providential Fire. » Here is a new view of providential interference in the “ae of this world: + “Our neighbor, -Abe Ingles, had six modrtgages on ‘his house and barn, and, ashe couldn't pay up,his creditors de- cided to foreclose him; but just before the bailiff arrived with papers a prov-~ idential fire broke out in the kitchen, and the house was burned to the ground. Then the bailiff, hastening to the scene, fe!l into a storm pit and broke his good leg and lost his wood- en one. How mysterious are the ways of Providence!”—Atlanta Constitution Avon Was Hard to Represent. Some years ago W. L. Wilson, a na- tive of Avon, Conn., was elected to represent his town in the state legis- lature.. Avon, being at the head of the list of towns alphabetically, was always called first when a yea and nay vote was taken, and consequently Mr Wil- son, as its representative, was obliged to go on record first. Of this fact he used to complain bitterly, saying: “Avon is the hardest town in the state to represent, because you never tell which way the majority is to votg” e Louisa Alcott Survived it. Miss Louisa M. Alcott was once visiting in a small town in Connecti- cut in which only a few days before an exceedingly small child had been born. In the course of conversation the child was spoken of, and Miss Al- cott laughingly said: “I have heard that | was a-very small infant. In fact, tradition says that I could be put in.a quart tankard and the cover replaced.” ne old lady, who had: “And did you live —_— a ene ANCIENT BEDS TOO SUMPTUOUS. Beautiful and Imposing They Were, But Not Comfortable. In olden times beds were very sump- tuous articles of furniture, and the many cases a. large sum of money, the bedstead with its fittings frequent- ly having cost several hundred pounds. In Elizabeth’s ‘time and | earlier, bedsteads were imposing crea- tions of oak, richly carved in all man- ner of quaint device, with, perhaps, a grinning saiyr peering from behind a pillar, sufficiently ‘grotesque to mur- der the slumbers of the most somno- lent. Those were the days, too, of heavy silken hangings, valances and quilts, all richly embroitered in silk and gold and silver thread with heavy bullion fringes to add weight and ma- jesty. Such beds may be seen in some of the valuable collections at the museums and at English ‘country seats,’ such as Warwick castle and other notable old places. To modern eyes they compare very unfavorably, despite their intrinsic value, with the DREW ADMIRATION OF RUSKIN. Alpine Bird Compelied Thought of Writer and Philosopher. While among the dark, piney prect- Dices of the Chartreuse hills, one day, the famous John Ruskin saw for the third time what he thought the most wonderful of all Alpine birds—a gray, fluttering, stealthy creature, about the size of a sparrow, but of colder gray and more graceful, which haunts the sides of the fiercest torrents. He wrote: “There is something more strange in it than in the sea-gull— that seems a powerful creature, and the power of the sea not of a kind so adverse, so_ hopelessly _ destructive. But this smail creature, silent, tender and light, almost like a moth in its Jow and irregular flight, almost touch- ing with its wings the crests of waves that would overthrow a granite wall, and haunting the hollows of the black, cold, herbless rocks that are continu- ally shaken by their spray, has per- haps the nearest approach to the look of a spiritual existence I know in ani- mal life.” The Humming Bird. Seientifically humming birds are “trochilidae,” and those who make a special study of them are “trochi- diste’—although the birds are not identical with the old Greek “trochi- lus” or “runner” bird, which, accord- ing to Herodotus; entersd the laws of the sleep{ng crocodile and obliged its | big friend by picking leeches from his throat. The Spanish name for the humming bird is “‘tominejo”—meaning a third of a dram, and referring, of course, to the bird’s minuteness.. But i. prettiest - names are those, e French “‘froufrou,” tothe humming noise sometimes “pro- ducéd by the almost incredibly rapid vibration of the wings. “Purring with her wings” is. the expression of Thomas, Morton (1632), the first Eng- lish writer to mention the humming bird. Arctic Expedition Amusements. In the British arctic expedition of 1875 one of the chaplains had a file of the London Times twenty years old containing the Crimean war reports. One copy was given out to each ship daily; the officers had it first, then it went to the forecastle, and soon every one was as.keen about the news as if the war had been proceeding. The clergyman in control of the press was bésought’ to issue an evening edition, and when Sebastopol was about to be taken excitement ran so high that the newspaper office, a locker, was almost stormed. - The editor, however, was firm, and continued with his daily is- sue, the interest being kept up to the end of the expedition. American Safety Devices. In spite.of the fact that the United States lead the world in the invention of safety devices it has béen shown accidents. killed here is mearly three :imes as great as in France and about double that in other European’ countries. For every five men killed by accident in this country there are only three in all the nations of Europe combined. It is claimed that with all our quick- ness in inventing the things that make for safety we are slow to adopt them, and that many American inventions of this kind find their first recognition in Europe.—Hartford, Conn., Times. Mistakes of Authors. “I do wish,” said the Omnivorous Reader, “that these fiction producers would be a little more careful in their descriptions of people. I have become hardened to a girl with eyes like vio- lets, lips like cherries and hair like spun gold; though such a one must be a creature fit only for a dime mu- seum. But here is Ponson de Ter- rail, my favorite French feuilletonist, who says, ‘The man’s hands were cold and clammy, like those of a serpent,’ and ‘The count walked up and down the garden reading the newspaper with his hands behind his back.* Now, wouldn't that jar you?” Would Kill What He Could. | The following anecdote is told con- cerning Edward Sharpe, a shoemaker by trade, who resided at East Bridge- water, Mass. At the outbreak of the ivil way-he was called upon to defend his country in the army. At the time of enlistment and examination he was asked if hé preferred the “infantry. “Well,” he replied, “I hain’t much of a gunner, but I'll go and kill what I tan.” gift of one in a will represented in’ simple, dainty beds of modern times.’ one refer fs that we stand first in the record of” The proportion of miners [ Pioneer Store. Sou | John Beckfelt. | $00000000006000006000000000000000008 4 Off With the Old! On With the New This has so far been a compara- Pioneer Store. tively mild winter, and you may Copyright 1902 by tun, Wathan @ Fischer. ~‘ $9905.99 50555 0S SS G0 G0G SS SS GG OGSGOOGOOGOOOOOD as Job Printing--The Herald-Rev Grand Rapids Village i the matter over. SeeeHgeseseseooaes eoeceeaReoes save 9 Cabinet Rye Whiskey Rapids. Season served eoneuetesensescene: ee SHMHHSAHKSE SHSSSH See: K.N.E€F. SACK SUIT John Becktfelt The Pioneer Store. - Grand Rapids, Minn. 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