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| THE TAIL OF A COMET. Its Ever Changing Mass and Why It Flees From the Sun, The tail of a comet is not formed of | the same particles which composed it yesterday or even an hour or a moment | ago. It is constantly being renewed at! the expense of the nucleus. As the long! stream of black smoke from the neigh- | boring factory or mill is being continu- | ally renewed by fresh particles of car- bon rele <1 by the combustion going’ on in the furnace below, so is the won- derful luminous train of cometary bod- ies being constantly replenished by particles flying from or rather driven from the nucleus by the intense heat of the sun. Then, again, how infinitely small and how intensely luminous must these par-' ticies that go to make up the tail of a comet be! This thought is suggested by the fact that it has been proved that in some cases the nuclews of comets which are only a few hundred miles in diame- ter will have enormous fanlike tails stretching across space for a distance exceeding 200,000,000 miles and having a bulk exceeding that of the sun by more than 10,000 times! Professor E. E. Barnard beautifully illustrates the formation of a comet’s tail by “suppos- ing” thus: “Suppose, for example, that the nucleus of a comet is composed of ice. Then suppose the heat of the sun to be so intense as to rapidly melt that portion of the ice globe exposed to the action of its rays, which are strong enough to immediately convert it into 1, which ascends toward the sun. | ‘Imagine now a fierce wind blowing out from the sun, causing the vapor which meets it to be whirled out into behind the comet. This will ly illustrate the theory of the for- mation of a comet’s tail, only that the nucleus of the comet is not ice and the por is not water vapor, neither is the force which drives it away from the sun a fierce wind.” The unknown force hinted at by the astronomer above quoted readily ex- plains why a comet's tail, as a rule, points in an opposite direction to the sun. The Russian astronomer Bredie- chen distinguis! three different types space el of cometary tails—those composed of particles having the specific gravity of hydrogen, those having the specific gravity of hydrocarbon gas and a third class having all the peculiarities of an equal mixture of hydrogen and iron vapor. BEAUTY SPOTS. apanese women gild their teeth. In Greenland women paint their faces blue and yellow. ‘fhe ladies of Arabia stain their fin- gers and toes red. In India the women of three high stes paint their teeth black. Borneo women dye the hair in fantas- tie colors—pink, green, blue and scarlet. A Hindoo bride is anointed from head to foot with grease and saffron. In New Holland sears made carefully with shells form elaborate patterns on! the ladies’ faces. South American tribes the women draw the front teeth, esteeming @¢ an ornament the black gap thus made. Tn some in New Guinea the ladies wear nose rings, piercing the nose in the same fiendish way that civilized women pierce the ea Philadelphia Bulletin. His Working Clothes, Lord Ellenborough once reproved a bricklayer for coming to be sworn in, his usual habiliments. “When you have to appear before this court it is your bounden duty to be clean and decent in your appearance.” “Upon my life, if it comes to that,” said the bricklayer, “I'm every bit as well dressed as your, ship.” “How do you mean, sir? imed the chief justice angrily. “Well, it's just this. You come here in| your working clothes, and I come in mine.” It was very seldom, however, that | anybody got the better of Lord Ellen- A witness dressed in a fan- 11 manner and who had given dis- able evidence was asked in cross ; examination what he was. “I employ | myself,” he said, “as a surgeon.” “But does any one else,” inquired the chief | justice, “employ you as a surgeon?” jor He Stooped to Conquer. English newspapers tell of a young eabman in Birmingham who by his re- semblance to her dead son attracted the fancy of a wealthy old woman. She be- queathed him a fortune on condition | that he became an educated gentleman, The cabman studied the classics enough | to fit himself for Oxford or Cambridge, but doubted whether he knew enough of the manners of young gentlemen to conduct himself properly in their soci- ety. So, putting pride in his pocket, he obtained a place as “scout,” or servant, t one of those seats of learning and profited so much by what he saw and observed in this humble position that when he erentually proceeded to the other university as a student he was able to pass creditably. Cast Iron, Cast iron is extended the five thou- sand five hundredth part of its length for every ton of direct strain per square ‘> ch of its section. Its elasticity is fully excited when extended the one-thou- sandth part, and the Hmit of its elas- ticity is estimated to be found at the time when it is extended the one thou- sand two hundredth part of its length. The tensile strength of the longest piece of cost iron ever tested was 45,970 youcds to the square inch. * Breaking Her In. Aus and (newly married)—Don’t you t ink. love, if I were to smoke it would spuil the curtains? Wife—Ah, you are really the most unselfish and thought- ful busband to be found anywhere. Certainly it would. Husband—Well, then, take the curtains down. | In a voyage from Philadelphia to Lon- $24,000, at 144 per cent premium, and | trious a statesman should be buried at | who says so? Man.—Gavarni. LIFE INSURANCE. Its Early Struggles and Reverses In This Country. The origin of insurance in this coun- try dates from 1752 and had its first beginning in Philadelphia. The first company was the Philadel- phia Contributionship For the Insur- ance of Houses From Losses by Tire, and its insignia was four clasped hands, which was its house badge. This maz may still be seen throughout eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey on old time houses. The company survived till 1847. In 1792 the first life insur- ance company was founded in the same city. It was called the Universal Tontine. The next year similar com- panies were started in Boston and in New York. Its avowed aim was “for the purpose of raising a fund upon lives to be applied to charitable and other uses.” Its subscription books were opened on March 29, and five general agents were appointed. Some business was done during the summer, but in November of that year a general meeting of the subscribers was called, and the idea of a general insurance company was suggested and met with approval. The proposition was referred to a committee, and at an adjourned meeting held at the state- house on Nov. 12 it was resolved that “the Universal Tontine association be and is hereby changed from its original object and converted into a society to be called the Insurance Company of North America.” Its first policy was issued to John Maxwell Nesbitt, its president, for $5,333.33. It wrote both fire and life insurance, but paid atten- tion chiefly to the former and gradual- ly dropped life insurance altogether. In January, 1794, it considered the policy of insuring persons: against cap- ture by the Algerians and insured Cap- tain John Collet “on his person against Algerians and other Barbary corsairs don in the ship George Barclay, him- self master, valuing himself at $5,000.” The premium charged was 2 per cent.*} Two similar policies were issued, but the premium was increased to 5 per cent. Two similar policies were is- sued, approved, one on the life of John Holker, from June 6 to Sept. 19, for one on the life of Albert Briois de Beau- mez, for eighteen calendar months, in the sum of $5,000. The demand for insurance on life was light, and the business, which was finally abandoned by the first company, was not revived until 1820, when Hartford men took it up and kept it running till it gained the great prosperity of modern times. Value of the Average Man. Genius is a phenomenon; the average man is a law. He has seen Shake- speares and Goethes and Napoleons and Wagners rise and fall, and he goes on calmly, knowing that it is he, and not they who are the race. Despise him, kick him as you will, the last word is with him. He is nature's fa- yorite. Like a true mother, she loves her dull boy best. A Shakespeare was too much for her, but she saw to it that his faculty perished with him. He died, a wonder among men, and his family reverted to the average. Lest the abhorred thing should reappear in the course of generations the family presently died out. The case is typical. It is almost a commonplace of the sci- ence of heredity that the appearance of extraordinary talent in any branch of a family means the extinction of that branch.—London Standard. “Robbing Peter to Pay Paul.” This saying had its origin in the rivalry between St. Peter’s cathedral, now Westminster abbey, and St. Paul's, when, in 1550, an appropria- tion was made from St. Peter’s to make good a deficiency in the accounts of St. Paul’s. Much opposition was shown to this, and it was for the time} a popular outery, “Why rob Peter to} pay Paul?” The saying was revived | as a proverb upon the death of Wil- liam Pitt, carl of Chatham, in 1778. The city of London argued that so illus- St. Paul’s, while parliament held that the remains of so great a leader should | be placed with the dust of kings and | that to bury him away from the Abbey of Westminster would be again a rob- bing of Peter to pay Paul. One Sure Method. There is a story of a medical student before a board of examiners to whom | the question was put again and again | of how he would produce perspiration | in a patient. He propased all sorts of | things, to which one importunate ex- | aminer always replied: “Well. and if that would not do?” At last the poor young man, driven to | s: his wits’ end, exclaimed, “I would send | him before this board to be examined, | and I warrant that would make him | perspire.” i The Obstacle. “I came near eloping once,” said the | sweet young thing. “Indeed!” “Yes. We had quite made up our) minds.” “Who?” “Papa and I, but I could not find a man who would elope with me.” Appropriate. | Charles—I don’t see how Blank can | make any money out of that tobac- | conist business of his. He’s always smoking the best cigars himself. Fred Oh, that’s his method of advertising! Charles—How so? Fred—Why, puffin: his goods. if | Safety. He—Why. does this theater have its orchestra concealed? She—Why? Just ‘wait until you hear it play. >. Man is creation’s masterpiece. But j | leon.” jof Febroary. A. D. 1 | | Visiting His Grandfather. This happened in Paris: An artist was talking to‘an old model. “I shall want you on Sunday morning for the final sitting,” said the artist. “Impos- sible, monsieur,” said the model. “I am going to take the children to visit my grandfather.” ‘Your grandfather! Why, how old are you?” “Sixty-seven, monsieur.” “And you still have a grandfather?” “Oh, yes, at the Jardin des Plantes. He’s a skeleton. I take my own grandchildren to see him once a month. The keepers know us very well. They always say: ‘Ah, you have come to see your grandpapa. All right; you'll find him in his usual place. He can’t walk very comfort- ably now, so he’s still there!’”” Benny on the Mosquito. The mosquito is a small but power ful insect with a sharp jigger at the end of his snoot. It amuses itself by singing, and lives on blood. When it stops singing you feel a pain some- where about you, and then you slap where the pain is. The mosquito will bite animals, but prefers the human race. It never does any good to swear when a mosquito bites you. It doesn’t help you a bit, and it irritates the mosquito. There was a man in South Chicago who was bitten by a mos- quito seven years ago while he was working in his garden, and he has never worked in -a garden since— Chicago Tribune. One Virtue in Napoleon. The after-dinner orator is born, not made; the artificial product takes hints and copies in vain. All agree, however, that the unexnected “goes’" best. Lord Chancellor Campbeii knew this when at dinner of authors he sud- denly rose, asked that glasses might be charged, and. submitted “Napo. There were cries of dissent, but Campbell went on undisturbed: “We as authors must feel that the name of Napoleon should he held in honor, for let us never forget that he once shot a publisher.” That toast was drunk with enthusiasm.---Black and White. eee. pores ae COPS In the city of Bayonne in France lives a great barber. His name is Perron. He is a barber, a musician, a poet and a journalist. He edits a journal called the Bayonne Razor. “To barbers,” he says, “belongs the head of man, that head which the Deity has made in his own image and which we are spiritually ordained to remod- el. Two infinities stretch across the ages; one of them is the creative pow- er, the other is the barber.” M. Per- ron is a knight of the Order of Isa- bella, the leader of the orchestra at the masked balls of Bayonne, musical, eritic of various journals, the com- poser of a hundred pieces of music, director of the Perron academy of hairdressing and the father of six children. Probate Notic:—Order to Examine Account, State of. Minnesota } .. County of Itasca f° In Probate Court, H. S. Huson, Esq., Judge of Probate. Inthe matter of the estate of Sumner A. Pc meroy, deceased. On reading and filing the petition of Thomas F, Thompson, administrator of the estate of Sumner A, Pomeroy, deceased, representing. among other things, that he has fu'ly administered said estate, and preying th: ta time and place be fixed for examining lowing the final account of his istration, and for the assignment of tl s due of said estate to the parties entitled thereto by law: It Is Ordered, That said account be exam- ined and petition heard by this court on Mon- " th day of March, A. D. 1906. at m at the probate office, in the rand Rapids, in said county. urther ordered, That notice village of And it thereof be given to all persons interested by publishing a copy of this order once in cach week f ive weeks. prior Grand Rapids Herald-Review. a weekly newspaper printed und published at Grand Rapids, in said | conn Dted at Grand Rapids the 2ith day of Februrary, A. D., 1906. By the Court. H. 8. HUSON. Judge of Probate. | Probate Court Seal | Herald-Review March. 2, 10, 17. Prubate Notice—Order for Ilearing Appli- cation for Appointment of Administrator. State of Minnesota / County of Itasca. 58+ In Probate Court—Speciai Term, February b, 1906 In the Matter of the Estate of John Gendron, Deceased. On receiving and filing the petition of Wal- ter Gendron, of the County of Itasca, repre- senting. umong other things that John Gend- ron, late of the County of I Scate of Minnesota. ou the tenth tember, A. D. 1905, at the County died intestate. and being an inh: this Count at the time of his dea goods, chattels and estate within th and that the said petitioner is a son of suid deceased, and praying that administration of id estate be to Georga F, Kremer granted; Tt Is Ordered, That said petition be heard, before said court on Monday, the 19th day of March, A. D. 1906, at 10 o'clock a, m.. at the Probate office. in the court house in Grand Rapids, in said county, Ordered Further, That notice thereof be given to the heirs’ of said deceased. and to all. persons interested, by publish! 4 order once in cach week for three successi weeks prior to said day of hearing in the of Se; Itasc itant , leaving County. Grand Rapids Herald-Revi a weekly newsp: printed and published at Grand | Rapid: id county. Dated at Grand Rapids. Minnesota, the 20th day of F 1. 1906, ‘ebruary, A. . By the Court, H. 8. HUSON, Judge of Probate. Herald-Review, Feb. 24. Mar. 3, 10. Notice af First Meeting of Creditors, In the District Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. Fifth Division.— In Bankruptey. In the Matter of Richard Robinson, Bank- rupt. To the Creditors of Richard Robinson. of Deer River. in Itasca County and District Afore- id, a Bankrupt: ice is hereby_given that on the 19th day and that the first meeting of the creditors will be held at Room 604 Palladio Builcing, in the City of Duluth, on the 19th day of March, A. 1). 1906. at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, at which time the a may attend. prove i Ppoint a trustee. examine the A.D. 1! WILLIAM O. PEALER, ? Referee in Bankruptey Rerald-Review, Murch 3, . in the | 906, the suid Richard | Robinson was duly adjudicated bankrupt, | Pioneer Store. ep Set plo ote clo hp he choco e Sole ee ope oe OOOO SOS The Pioneer S BR Notice of Application to Vacate the Plat ef | the Townsite of Wushburn, in the County of Ijasca, Minnesota. Notice Is Hereby Given, That on the 27th day of March, A. D. 1906, at ten (10) o'clock in the forenoon of said day, or so soon there- after as applicant can be heard, an upplicu- tion will be made to the District Court. of the Fifteenth Judicial District, Minnesota. at the Court House, in the Village of Grand Rapids, in suid County, by the undersigned owner and proprietor ‘ofall the lund em- braced within the plat of the townsite of Washburn. in said County, and the owner of said townsite and pee for an Order, Judg- ment and Decree tobe made and entered in said Court. in the matter of said application. to vacate, and vacating such plat and ad- judging and declaring the title to all the Streets, alleys und public places. therein. within said townsite of Washburn, to be in such persons as xre entitled thereto, ‘The said plat-of the townsite of Washburn was filed in the office of the Register of Deeds for said County of Itasca, Minnesotu, on the 14th day of Jutie. A. D. 1904, at five (5) o'clock p. m, of said day, and is now on file in said office of said Register of Deeds. : ‘ Notice Is Further Given, That said appli- cation will be made to said Court, in open court at the adjonrned session of the General December Term thereof, for said County, to be held in said Court touse at said time and place hereinbefore stated. z Notice Is Further Given, That the petition on which said applicution will be made is now on file in the office of we Clerk of said District Court, in the Court House in the Vil- Inge of Grand Rapids, in suid County of | Itasca, Minnesota, ‘Dated this Zist day of February, A. D. 1906. HOVE IRUN MINING COMPANY. By Wic1AM J. OLcort, Ita Vice President. Josepn B. Corron, orn 's for Applicant FRANK D. ADAMS, Grand Rapids, Itasca | C. C. MeUaRTHY, County, Minnesota. | H d-Review, Feb. 24, Mur. 3, 10, 17, 24. Seen eee eee ee eT Se ———— Notice of Mortgage Foreclosure Sule. Notice is hereby given. that default has been made in the conditions of a mortgaze executed and delivered by Mabel Luktue and R. L. LaRue, her husband, mortgagors. to Slocum-Bergren Co., a cor) Seager] Ceo gee, bearing Gate the 1:t n day of May, 1905. | {nd duly recorded in the office of the Register f Deeds in and for the County of Itasca, and State of Minn u, on the 26th day of May, 5, at2o'clock P. M.. in Book F of Mort- gages, on page 3%, and which mortgage was signed by said Mabel Lattue by the name Mabel Teare Paliue. and by said R. L. LaRue y the name R. LaRue; byt ‘that there is now claimed to be due. and there is due, on the mortgage aforesaid the sum of ninety-four and fifty-six one-hun- | dredths dollars (394.56) ; ‘And that no action or proceeding at law or otherwise has been instituted to recover the debt now remaining secured by the suid mort- gage, or any part thereof: ‘And that by virtue of a power of sale in said mortgage contained, and pursuant to | the statute in such case provided, taid mort. gage will be foreclosed by a sale of the land and premises therein described. to-wit: The southeast quarter of section fourteen (14), in township one hundre- and fifty (150) north, range twenty-eight (28) west, in the County | of Itasca and State of Minnesota; which sale | will be made by the Sheriff of said County of | Itasca, at the front doorof the Court House, in the City of Grand Rapids. In said Vounty and State, on Tuesday, the third day of April, 1906. at 10 o'clock A. M., to pay the amount then due on said mortgage. together with the -costs of sueh foreclosure, including tWenty-five dollars attorney's fees, as pro- vided in said mortgage, and ‘the disburse- ments mye by ets fete aged eat SUM-BERGREN Co. lor Gro. ConwaAY. Attorney for Mortgagee. ! Minneapolis. Minn. 425 Temple Court. ave a shine? Joe Craft At the Northern Sample Rooms is there all the time with gilt-edge work —Sundays iocluded ante SEEN DE REMY SERS ABE LITE | John Beckfelt. | Pioneer Store. New and Exclusive .1906.. tore. = ing the the CHCOMOHSSLKSS SSeS SOSH SHES noes Cee seeeset Shas A a RE aE EE AEE REE EA A EE OM ORS EOS Eee B Favorite Resort for refreshments and where may be seen and heard one of the largest phonog ae ee ee ae bd ‘4 hd 22 es a % 2 7 Rapids. RAL CHG OS: AE ERE Rese eeeenecenenees Grand Rapids, Minn. te ta te a tte ee a tet on such easy te down and $5 per month is certai matter over, NORTHERN In connection—Open Day and Night. Dress Goods and Wash Goods. We will take great pleasure in show- ing advance shipments of exclusive patterns of Wool Dress Goods, Silk Waistings, and a large variety of Wash Goods, Laces & Embroideries. Spring line Ladies’ “Queen Quality” and “Julia Marlowe” Shoes are now on our shelves for inspection, Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s this winter’s left-over Coats will be closed out regardless of cost. John Beckfelt $9 prime that ‘es ‘aphs in the world is at THE Seasun served at all hours. OTTO RANFRANZE Chef, SE EO ete ES ORE Oe. Down and $5 per month They REISHUS-REMER LAND COMPANY, GNSRP AAP GAGEHSSNS SHO SHAT STAI SOHO TIO SSeS RS NORTHERN SAMPLE ROOM Cabinet Rye Whiskey & most delightful beverage always 1n stock—we are Agent for it Wehundle tho finest whiskeys ever distilied. ©" (°F + Grand CAFE All Delicacies of the ie Job Printing --The Herald-Review RADE AEE ae ee eae a a ae a a ae ae ae Ea ae ee a aa SOOO TS Grand Rapids Village Lots We have choice residence lots all over town and we are sell- anybody ean buy. $5 easy. Come in and talk D A house and three lots for sale cheap. We also have some choice business lots on our jis are for sale on easy terms. 2 = * * 2 * a * = * 2 a * 2 = & 2 * = * = = * 2 2 2 2 OO OHO OD Fe bpsesfesbefodededed- abd POSS KHESEH EO RERSSS: td Taxes Paid for Non- Proprietors, eae A. ROSSMAN. Attorney At Law. Office in First Natiopal Bank Building. GRAND RAPIDS. - ‘Dr. costetto : DENTIST, GRAND RAPIDS, - - ITASCA, COUNTY ABSTRACT OFFIGE ABSTRACTS, REAL ESTATE, FIRE INSURANCE. 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