Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 7, 1906, Page 5

Thus Explained. i 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 the Dark Ages again. 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 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 Frog 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 her, the doctor resorted to a strata- gem. He _procured a medium-sized frog, and ylaging it in his pocket. vis- ited the patient and informed her that he proposed to. remove the frog. He admi ered a powerful emetic. He then produced the frog, and she was very happy, and kept the frog as a souvenly. In less than a week he had an ur- gent call from the lady, who tearfully 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, you are mistaken; the frog is a he on Exchange. Thought Tom Was Near at Hand, She is a devoted mother, whose iov- 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, and 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 Icoked under the ta- ble and called out, “Now. Tom, come out of there and stop your noasense.” —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- duced 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 affairs ofs this world: “Our neighber, Abe Ingles, had six mortgages on his house and barn, and, as he 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, fell into a storm pit and broke his good leg and lost his wood- enone. 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 can tell which way the majority is going to vote.” 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 I was a very smali infant. In fact, tracition says that I could be put in a quart tankard and the cover replaced.” One old lady, who had | Sad rites.” ~ Exposure to Intense || Cold Is Fatal. — Klondike river is fed by numerous soda springs and even the winter’ cold fails to close them entirely. Walking on the edge of the ice near the shore, a miner one day slipped into six inches of water. In a mo ment he was out and hastening to the brush hard by to light a fire before his feet froze. Rapidly he cut a few fragments of wood with his heavy pocket knife. But .the unlighted match dropped from his already chill- ed fingers, for he had rashly removed his mittens in order to use the knite with more freedom. Then he lighted a second and a third, and finally sev- eral at one time, but either his haste or perhaps a sigh of the air caused them tu fall to the snow. All this time the frost was seizing his limbs, his body, his heart, his mind. He turned to the fatal mittens, which he never should have taken off, but his already frozen fingers could only lift them from the ice where they had visited him, but cannot discover the | fallen, and after a vain attempt he hurled them from him and strove once again to light a last match. But it was too late. DON'T WAIT TOO LONG. Time to Show Good Will and Sym- pathy Is Right Now. Too many people keep the flowers they have plucked for you until the day of your funeral. Their songs of praise are not heard until your pro- cession is passing their door. The mantle of charity does not become vublic property until put in use by the preacher who conducts the “last If a man has flowers for me, I want them while I am on earth and can smell their fragrarce. They wili do me no good sitting at the head of my coffin. The grass that is kept green about my last resting place will be of little avail to me on the other shore. Here is where I need the flowers and the smiles and the praise, not over there. If the fellow who is going round to the house after I am gone to see “if he can be of any help” will come round to-morrow, i can tell him how he can be a whole lot of help. Carry your flowers to the living and sing your songs of praise at the dinner table. Don’t wait for the funeral—I.iverpool (Eng.) Mer- cury. Where the Game Started. It was a beautiful spring morning early in the year 4004 B.C. (Ussher’s chronology). The ardent rays of the sun were diffracted and softened by the misty envelope which at that time protected the earth. Everywhere were signs of life und merriment. Suddenly there was a crescendo whist? tling sound as of a body moving rapid- ly through the atmosphere and some strange-shaped foreign object landed on the mossy turf with a dull, sicken- ing thud. Presently, however, Satan (for it w-s indeed he) sat up and rubbed’ himself.” He recovered his wind and said: “Alas, -my graft scheme wasn’t popular up there, but I'll eat my shirt if I don’t make it per- fectly respectable on earth.” Then he got busy in the garden and was doing nobly until the magazines got on his trail. Tale of Kanaka Brutality. This tale comes from New Cale- donia, where a ship was loading up with natives to work in Australia: “There was a man and a girl—a young couple, they seemed. She had a youngster, who began yelling at sight of the boat. ‘Can’t take that young- ster!’ the boss shouted. The woman said she wanted to come, too. ‘No, we can’t ship that squalling little beast. Leave him with his auntie.’ There was no auntie in sight. So the Kanaka man, after taking a look around, caught the kiddy by the heels, swung her around like a rabbit and dashed her head against a tree. ‘She was only a girl anyway,’ he said, and slung her body into the scrub. Then they both hopped into the boat and were shipped aboard.” Why He Wept. During, the funeral of one of the Rothschild family in Paris a beggar was noticed standing among the on- lookers sobbing bitterly. A bystander touched by the man’s grief, endeavor- ed to comfort him. “Do not weep so bitterly my poor friend,” he said. “See, even his relatives are able to restrain their grief more than yov are doing.” Then, as a new idea struck him: “Surely, you are no re- lation of M. de Rothschild?” “N—no,” sobbed the beggar. “That is just why I am so unhappy.”—T. P.’s Weekly. A Song of the Way. Give me the road, the great broad road, ‘That wanders over the hill; Give me a heart without a care And a free, unfettered will— Ah. thus to wander. thus to fare, With only the sky to frown, And happy I, if the ways but lie Away, away from the town. Give me the path. the wildwood path, ‘That wanders deep in a dell, Where silence sleeps and sunbeams fain Would waken the slumber spell— For there the find the world again, Im ancient lore, And time is gone, and a mad-glad faun Knows the glades of Greece once more. —Thomas S. Jones, Jr. Claim of Vege ~- ans. Vegetarians contend that fiesh-eat- ing is not only immoral—immoral be- | cause it necessitates the wanton tak- Ing of inoffensive life—but also ex- travagant, for whereas’ twelve acres of land, if used for the rearing of cat- tle for slaughter, will maintain one man feeding on the flesh produced, the same area under wheat will main- |tain twenty-three, and on a mixed “They are Laid. rte ment made by Prof. Metchnikoff of the Pasteur institute, in the witness box. The whites may contain disease-breed- ing microbes, These, when heated, survive in a vegetative state up to 60 degrees centigrade or 140 degre Fahrenheit. Consequently a raw or even partly cooked egg, however ‘resh, may alwzys be poisonous, owing to the poisonous presence of sively bacilli in the white and contain- 2d therein from the very beginning. they are laid,” is the cheerful th Paris correspondent of the London Telegraph, was given in a case be- fore the first chamber, in which a pastry cook is, being sued by twenty- ‘five persons who had been made very ill by eating some of his cream tarts, and by the heirs of a twenty-sixth |who died of it. Official experts, sup- ‘ported by M. Metchnikoff, stated at jthe first hearings of the case that it ‘is utterly impossible ever to make sure that whipped cream containing white of an egg unboiled shall be innocuous, however fresh the egg, for the above reasurs. FIRST TO ROLLER SKATE. Belgian Inventor Credited with Inven- pe tion of Pastime. Roller skating is older than most folk imagine. Joseph Merlin, a Bel- gian born in 1735, a clever, inventive fellow, came to London in 1760 and exhibited his novelties at a museum in Spring Gardens, and afterward in Prince’s street, Hanover square. Hay- ing made a pair of skates to run on wheels, he appeared with them at a masked ball given by Mrs. Cornelys in Carlisle House, Scho. He was duly invited to display his skill. Having put on the skates he took a violin and began whirling about to his own mu- sic. One thing he had not studied, however, and that was how to guide himself and to stop. quickly, and the result was that before the. perform- ance had lasted any time he dashed into an immense mirror valued at $2,500, smashed his fiddle to bits and seriously injured himself. That ap- pears to have dampened the spirit of inventors, for we hear nothing of other wheel skates for nearly half a century. Strong Men Together. Comrades, pour the wine to-night, For the parting is with dawn, Oh, the clink of caps together, ‘With the daylight coming on! e Greet the morn With a double horn, “ When strong men drink together! Comrades, gird your swords to-night, For the battle is with dawn. Oh. the clash of shields together, ‘With the triumph coming on! Greet the foe And lay him low, be When strong men fight together. Comrades, watch the tides to-night, For the sailing is with dawn. Oh, to face the spray’ together, With the tempest coming on! Greet the Sea With a shout of glee. When strong men roam together. Comrades, give a cheer to-night, For the dying is with dawn. Oh, to meet the stars together, With the silence coming on! Greet the end As a friend a friend When strong men die together. —Richard Hovey, in ‘‘Comrades.” Warranted a Speedy Cure. Dr. William Osler, in one of his Bal- timore lectures, recited a quaint old cure for the gout—a-cure, from a sev- enteenth century medical work, that was designed to show gout’s hopeless- ness. “First pick,” said this odd cure, “a handkerchief from the pocket of a spinster who never wished to wed; second, wash the handkerchief in an honest miller’s pond; third, dry it on the hedge of a person who never was covetous; fourth, send it to the shop of a physician who never killed a pa- tient; fifth, mark it with a lawyer’s ink who never cheated a client; and, sixth, apply it, hot, to the gout-tor- mented part. A speedy cure must fol- low.” Plant Drugs the “ish. A writer in the National Geograph: ical Magazine tells of a tree growing in the Malay archipelago, the Anda- man islands and Ceylon, which pro- duces a fruit used in fishing, with re- sults of a remarkable character. The fruit is pounded up into paste and leit in bags over night, after which it is sunk at low tide in deep holes along the reefs. The fish soon begin to ap- pear at the surface; some of them life- less, others attempting to swim or faintly struggling, with their ventral side uppermost. In this condition, the natives have no difficulty in picking them out of the water with their , hands. Origin of Birds’ Names. Certain birds get their names from St, Peter. According to a writer: “The petrel (in German ‘Petersvogel,’ Pe- ter’s bird), a bird that skims the waves, is named after the apostle who walked upon the waves of Galilee. But the parrot’s is a less simple case. In Spain and in Portugal, as in France, ; the word corresponding to ‘parrot’ al- most certainly represents ‘little Peter’ —a familiar name playfully applied because Peter was so common a Chris: tian name. Similarly a house sparrow is nicknamed ‘pierrot’ in France.” The Lover's Preference. “Your every tooth is a milk-white ' pearl,” tenderly whispered the lover |fond. And softly laughed the win- ; some girl when the moonlight caught {im her tresses blonde. His lips neared ‘hers, but before they met in a kiss, ‘the rest of the world forgetting, “You like pearls, then?” said the small co- “Eggs may be poisonous even before The professor’s evidence, writes the . Steps From Kitchen ‘ _ to Hall Mirfor.. : Mrs. Compton looked at her patient but bewildered husband with an ex- pression of good-natured superiority, “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 I 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 Egypt. The Egyptian Pharaoh, Rameses II, 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. NY He established a warrior class, which became the nucleus of an army numbering oyer 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 Powcrs. 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 consequently “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. 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 of light. Something of the same sort 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 pale purple tint. Parsee 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 | ing. ‘This ceremony is one of the | most interesting rites of the Orient, t 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, been listening attentively, then asked, | crop of fruit, pulse, grain and vege- quette. “Not so much,” he replied, | which is supposed to keep the soul sympathetically; "And did you live?” tables a still higher number. as I like the setting.” ' from evil. Von Siebold, Village Lots We have choice residen down and $5 per month the matter aver. 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He is not a fool.—Exchange, Development of the Soudan. The Soudan will be the great coun- try of the future. Already companies are being formed to acquire territory and build up industries on the banks of the White Nile. Several parties of Americans have already gone to Khartoum and chartered dahabeahs to take them to the great game coun- |try toward Fashoda. Lower Egypt | has been so overrun with sportsmen | that the game has been practically | exterminated or driven away. The Palace DAVE CHAMBERS, Proprietor, When you can’t get what you want to eat at Dave Chambers’ “Palace Res- taurant” it’s because the markets don’t keep it. Is always prepared with the idea of pleasing pat- rons who remember the good things at home on Feastdays.....- Ber ies Leland Ave., Grand Rapids. FOR SALE! I have about 2,500 acres of lan? in 55- 3 and 55-24 that I wil sell for $5.00 an acre. Write immediately to P. O. Box 211, Mankato, Minnesota hher marriage to him), brimful cf ar- | My pet, my darling, my | s; vers that she has J s; er was, and never will be anyone else Re Restaurant The Sunday Dinner DAVE CHAMBERS, Prop. Probate Notice--Order for i Claims. State of Minnesota | g County of Itasea. f 58+ _ In Probate Court—Special Term, March 19, In th Hearing on AS of the Estate of John Gendron, f administration on the estate of d being this day granted unto It Is Ordered mands of ull pe rn ted to this and de- ons against said estate be mination and in the village sca county, On Ata general term of rst (ist) day uf Oc- lock in the forenoon, ‘dered, That six (6) months nf be aliowed io creditors claims against said estate. ira nm ot which time al! claims ed to said court, or not proven to , shall be forever barred un- less for cxuse shown further time be allowed. d Furth That notice of the tine of hearing Xamination of s and demands shall be given by of this order for three successive prior to the day appointed for such tion in the Grand Rapids Herald- w. & Weekly newspaper vrinted and i published at. Grand Rapids, in said ty. like her in the world, and that impres- | "Dated at Grand Rapids Minn., the 19th day sion grows in strength the more he igs 3 Sree ae tee: krows her, she has him, as it were, ; (Seal) i li. 8. HUSON, with a rope round his neck. It will ; Judge of Probate. wear to a pack thread if she neglects Herald-Roview. Mur. 24. 31. Apr. 7. it. It wants daily ‘ooking to. As to LANDS. | Farm, ‘Timber nd Meadow Lands in : Crow Wing, Lake, ouis, Cook and all northern counties. Send for free map of Minnesota, with full list of lands aud descriptions of northern M ‘Sota. to #15 per acre. Easy terms, |} 6 per cent, || Wel exchange clear lands ror mortgaged or foreclosed Farms and Lands it Send in fall deseriptidns of your prop- erty, Will pay cash tor Pine and Hard- wood timber lands. Want good retail agents in all parts of the northwest. W. D. Washburn, Jr. 201 Guarantee Bia’g, Minneapolis, Minn, A. B. CLAIR, Mineral Pine ana Farming Lands Pine Stumpage Bought. 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