Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 24, 1906, Page 4

Grand Rapids BeraiaReview Published Every Saturday. By E. C. KILEY. YEAR IN ADVANCE TWD DOLLARS A Entered in the Postoffice at Grand liapid Minnesota, as Second-Class Matter, IN NAPOLEON'S LAST EFFORT. Six Battalions of French Guard Made Final Attack at Waterloo. Further light on the battle of Water- loo is shed by Prof. C. Oman of Eng- land. From the archives of the French war offices he has obtained informa- tion—never before made public— which is in the form of a return, sign- ed by Deriot, on the morning of the battles of Ligny and Quartre Bras. It will be recollected that M. Houssaye has stated—and it has been generally accepted—that only five battalions of the French Guard were engaged in Ney’s final attack on the British light center at Waterloo. He says that the Fourth Chasseurs was a small regt- originally, and suffered so severe- ly Ligny that it was consolidated into a sin battalion on June 18. These assertions, Prof. Oman remarks, radicted (1) by the fact that nly had 1,041 bayonets—two ns—on the morning of Lig- s shown by the new return which been discovered, and (2) by the les of M. Martinien, which dem- that the regiment lost not gle officer killed or wounded at Lign} It cannot possibly have had than twenty or thirty casualties ink and file, probably less. At therefore, it must have 1,000 strong, and form- sattalions. Ney’s attack, was delivered by six, not € lions, supported, as we be- ve, by two more of the Second Chas- seurs somewhere to the rear of the elon formed by the others.—Brook- n Eagle. WON WAGER BY BAITING VICTIM. Much Provocation Conductor Was Caught Napping. Some time in the seventies a party friends en route to Boston from nd on the Boston & Maine rail- with Payson Tucker as conduc- hatched up a plot, and made a pr of a quart bottle of wine that er couldn't be caught napping. e of the party said that he would take the bet. He seperated from the others, and, the conductor came along, asked what station they were then passing, and on receiving the reply he an swered, “That’s what I thought.” This act was repeated several times, and finally “Conductor Payson” became very indignant, and said: “Do you take for a d——d fool?” ha what I thought,” replied the other, who now owned a quart of the finest wine.—Boston Herald. After The Baron Himself. A great Turkish player at a big hotel in Constantinople had been beating everybody within a wide ra- dius at che One day a mean-look- ing stranger watched the game. He quietly offered to play. The Turk re- marked, “I'll play you for a hundred sequins!” The stranger said: “Very well.” An unusual “gambit” was of- fered by the stranger. Its acceptance Turk caused the latter to lose the game. He said: “Sir, I thought there was only one man in Europe who understood how to take advan- tage of that move—Baron von Moltke.” ” retorted the stranger, “I am Baron von Moltke, at your service.” The Late Stranger. An attorney in Philadelphia, who es a specialty of prosecuting suits against railway companies growing out of injuries due to accidents on the line, tells of the trouble experi- enced in the cross-examination of an Irish witness. This witness had evi- dently been carefully coached by coun- sel for the company, for, when the question was put to him: “Was the man found on the track a total stranger?” the wary Celt replied: “I should say not, sir. Seein’ that his left leg was gone, I should say, sir, that he were a partial stranger.” —Woman’s Home Companion. Thief Remembered Companions. Aimerigos Tetenoire, an old French thief, had a band of 500 men under him and owned two castles in Limou- sin and Auvergne and bequeathed a fortune in the following terms: “I give and bequeath 1,500 francs ($300) to St. George’s chapel for such repairs as it may need; to my sweet girl, wno has so loyally loved me, 2,500 francs ($500), and the surplus I give to my companions. Let them scramble for it and may the devil seize the hind- most!" Too Late With His Offer. Mrs. White, a widow who lives in Natick, Mass., tells of an old deacon who had recently lost his wife. Com- ing to her one day, he said: “Han- nah, something told me to come here and ask you to be my wife. I think it must have been the Lord.” “Oh, no,” the widow replied quickly, “it couldn’t have been the Lord, deacon, for he got here before you, and told me not to have you.” WanTeD.— Men 1m each state to travel, post signs, advertise and leave samples of our goods. Salary $75 per month; $3 per day for expenses. Kuhlman Co, Dept. S, Chicago. MERE MATTER OF EVOLUTION. Successive Steps From Kitchen Table to Hall Mirror. Mrs. Compton looked at her patient but bewildered husband with an ex- pression of good-natured sureriority. “Dear me, George,” she said, cheerful- ly, “I don’t see the use of my trying to explain to you, but I’m perfectly willing to do it, of course. “I did intend, as you say, to buy a kitchen table, and I came home with a hall mirror. ‘But it was an abso- ; lutely natural change. “First I looked at kitchen tables. Then the clerk called my attention to the kitchen cabinets, with drawers and everything. Then I said how much they looked like bureaus, except that they had no glass. Then he showed me one with a glass, and then he said he had such a pretty bureau, if 1 cared to look at it. “So I looked at that, and it was pretty, but the glass was rather small. So then he showed me a dressing case with a nice glass mirror, and I said what nice glass it was. And then he said, ‘If you want to see a fine piece of glass, let me show you one of our new hall mirrors.’ “And of course, George, you can un- derstand that when I saw that beau- tiful mirror I had to have it; and you know you don’t like me to run up bills in new places, and I hadn’t enough to buy a kitchen table, too, so—now isn’t it clear?”—Youth’s Com- panion. HAD FIRST DISCIPLINED ARMY. Egyptian King Credited With Much Military Foresight. Disciplined armies are to be traced in the records of all the great nations of antiquity through Rome, Greece, Persia, Assyria and Beypt. The Egyptian Pharaoh, Rameses I, about 1400 B. C., is credited with the pos- session of the first disciplined army. Early in life his military experiences with the Arabians taught him the necessity of having troops drilled in the art of war. He established a warrior class, which became the nucleus of an army numbering over 100,000 men, includ- ing infantry, cavalry and war chari- ots. With this army he is said to have made great conquests in Asia from the Ganges to the Caspian, and it seems certain that at any rate it was he who gave Egypt its earliest mili- tary organization and established the first regularly disciplined army known to history.—Chicago American. Task Beyond Artist’s Powers. An artist who found it difficult to get pictures of Arabs in Morocco writes: “I once tried to sketch some Arabs in Algiers; they constantly evaded me and at last an old Moor— with whom we were on the friendly terms, produced by constant bargain- ing for embroidered rags—spoke to me on the matter like a father, for my good. ‘It is not,’ he said, ‘that any harm will ensue to those whose picture you make; it is you yourself will suffer inconvenience in the next world. Allah will say to you: “Fol- lowing your own will and pleasure, you have made these figures. I now command you give them souls.” And where, my friend, will you be then?’” “Hard” Water Harmful. A physician who has practiced for thirty years in a California valley says the hillside upon which he lives is of granite formation, and the wat- er the people drink is conseguenily “soft.” The other side of the hill is composed of limestone, and the water from the springs and well is “hard.” The doctor has been struck with the fact that his practice is enormously greater in the limestone district. He finds that the hard water drinkers die of Bright’s disease and are crippled with chronic rheumatism, while the soft water imbibers generally live longer and are free from these dis- eases.—Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette. Chinese Eyes Are Straight. Chinese eyes are straight in the skull, according to E. Lemaire in La Nature. They appear oblique, but they are not really so. Von Siebold, Abeldsdorff and Schlegel, the great authorities, all agree that the eyes of the Chinese are straight. The reason the eye appears oblique is that the upper eyelid and the general direc- tions of the eyebrow are oblique; the upper’ eyelid at the side of the nose froms a special fold which covers en- tirely the angle where the lachrymal gland is found. In addition the lids are generally very thin and the eye less open. Changes in Color of Glass. In most old glass roofs you may perceive different tints, caused by the action of the sun and atmosphere. Changes in the color of glass are caused by subjecting it to the action of what are known as ultraviolet rays | Something of the same sort | of light. may be observed on high mountains, where old glass from bottles original- | ly green, after exposure to the light of a great elevation in the regions of perpetual snow, attains a beautiful i pale purple tint. Paraee Christening Ceremony. A grandchild of Sir Dunshan Petit, who lives in Bombay, India, recently | was invested with the Sudrah Kusti, which is the Parsee form of christen- ing. his ceremony is one ofthe most interesting rites of the Orient, and consists of placing upon the child the sudrah, a shirt believed to pro- tect the body from harm, and the ty- ing on of the kusti, a thread girdle, which is supposed 2 keep the soul , "! trom evtl. fete BOTH ELOQUENT AND TOUCHSNG Appeal Made by Gov. Andrew to Sec- retary of War Stanton. John A. Andrew, the war governor of Massachusetts, wrote a letter to Edwin M. Stanton, President Lincoln’s secretary of war, in behalf of a cou- ple of lovers, one on the field in the Twelfth Massachusetts volunteers, and the other a young woman at the home of her parents, not many miles from Newton. Military necessity separated the young people, and prevented them from joining hands in marriage. The soldier had four times asked for a fur- lough, each time to be refused. The war department refused the young woman permission to go to the front, even in company with her brother, to solemnize the betrothal, and to per- mit the wife to share the lot of the husband. The young woman then wrote an appeal to the governor, which he forwarded to the secretary of war, with this indorsement: “This case appeals to all our sym- pathies as patriots and gentlemen, and I appeal to the chivalry of the department of war, which presides over more heroes than Homer ever dreamed of, and better and braver men than his muse ever sung. I pray you to grant this request of my fair correspondent, and generations will rise up and call us blessed.”—Boston Herald. MANY YEARS OF LABOR Lost. | & Odd Experience of a Man Who Once Wrote a Book. “I have been told,” said a man of experiences, “that it is not unusual for men to spend much thought and toil over inventions of one sort and another, only to find when they took these things to Washington to be pat- ented that the same ideas had long before been worked out by somebody else and that patents had already been issued on them. I had that ex- perience, once, with a book. “I spent fourteen years, once, writ- ing a book and I had it all but com- pleted. And then one day, stopping at a second-hand book stall, I picked up from among a lot of books offered at five cents each one that bore a title in the very words that I had decided upon for the title of my book; and the opening sentence in this book was al- most identical with that in my own. “Somebody else had had the same idea that I had worked over so long, and had written and published a book about it fifty years before.” Hopping From World to World. Few children’ reach the age of 8 years without having worked out a cosmology of their own and their own system of metaphysics. A group of youngsters of that mature age were going home from school the other day when one began to instruct the others what to do in case of a certain crisis. “When the end of the world comes do you know what you want to do?” asked the manikin. “Well, you want to give a little jump like this. The world will slip out from under you and you’ll light on the one a followin’ it and be all right.” Then the young- sters began practicing the sort of jump that was necessary to give them im- mortality—Kansas City Times. Dull Days on the Willamette. Brisk news and chances for scrap- py comment are on the bum. Won't some fashionable lady or gentleman please scandalize herself or himself, or some holier-than-thou crank stick his nose into someone else’s business and help to while dull time away in Portland? Lighten the gloom, some- body. Doesn’t anybody feel like run- ning away from his wife or taking a mint julep after 2 o’clock in the morn- ing or smoking a cigarette or some- thing moderately debauching? We're getting too geod and the sun is shin- ing too serenely on the banks of the willowy Willamette——Portland Ore- gonian. Vagaries of Weather on Ocean. It will take an expert to account for some of the vagaries of the weather conditions on the ocean. Certain spots are shunned because of their known wickedness, from an unknown cause, and certain routes, like the northern lanes of the Atlantic, with its blows and bergs, and the great cir- cle of the Pacific, are known to be “nasty.” It is this consistency of cussedness, the reliability that may be placed on blows, that used to en- able the old sailing masters to make time. But in these days of steamships the passengers are not expected to re- joice in such conditions. “Eagle’s Cruel Sport. The golden eagle sometimes cap- tures ptarmigan almost, it seems, for the mere pleasure of doing so, and then has a little game with its luck- less prey. Soaring-to a great height, it drops the ptarmigan from its tal- ons and soars away as if paying no at- tention to it; then, suddenly swoop- ‘ing earthwards with terrific speed, it seizes the bird before it has time to fall to ground, and soars upwards to repeat the operation until tired— Country Life. Young Lapp’s Start in Life. As soon as a Lapp baby is born a reindeer is presented to him. This reindeer is literally his start in life, for. not only that deer, but all its young—and as they grow up all their young deer—belong to the child. When he is of age he has quite a herd of his own. This custom is of much greater use to him than if every aunt, uncle and cousin he had in the world presented him with the heaviest ' silver spoon they could find. THE ‘COMFORTABLE WAY. Local Time Table. West East Bound Bound ‘Train 36 Train, 35 |e 8:2 348) 10:10}11;10| p.m i: 214} 12: 14]. i8wan River... . Grand Raplds - Cohasset . Cass Lake. 7:15) ....Crookston.. 8:15|Ar.Grand Fks. Lv C. L. FRYE, Agent, Grand Rapids, Minn. 3 Wer mort com ON See ee S 325 Duluth Branch Lake Shore Engine Works Marquette, Mich. 330 West Superior St., DULUTH, MINN. We build boats all sizes, and en- gines 1 to 40 H. P. Let us figure with you on your re- quirements. We can save you money. Write for catalogue. OUR 1906 LEADER: 18-ft Launch complete, 3 II. P. Engin $200. ITASCA COUNTY ABSTRACT OFFICE ABSTRACTS, REAL ESTATE, FIRE INSURANCE, Conveyances Drawn. Taxes Paid for Non-Residents, KREMEK & KING, Proprietors. GRAND RAPIDS. a an MISN RHE EAE AE AE ae ee eae ae a a a G. C. SMITH DEALER IN Fruits, Confectionery, Ice Cream Soda, Ice Cream, Drinks, Tobaccos, Choice Lines of Cigars Grand Rapids, - Minn. ELAND AVENUE. NOE A AE Ae a A ee ee ae ae ee ae a ae ae ee ae ae pr rrrrrrir Perr irrrrrrer ory A EB Ha EA Ee A a a O. W. HaAsTINGs. President. OC. E. AIKEN, Cashier. First National Bank, Grand Rapids, Minn. Transacts a General Banking Business erane F. PRICE LAWLER Office inthe First National Bank building. GRANDJRAPIDS— - MINN pecs M. STORCH, PHYSIS(AN AV) SJtra) N Office and Residence carner Leland avenue and Fourth street. GRAND RAPIDS. ey LUPTON, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. 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