Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 20, 1907, Page 5

Sra Rene Bara] Published Every Saturday. By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE in the Postoffice at Grand Rapid sota, as Second-Class Matter, Ent THE HERALD-REVIEW IS THE Paper of Itasca County. | Of Paper of Village of Grand Rapids. Official Paper of Village of Cohasset. Official Paper of Village of Keewatin. Oficial Paper of Village of Nashwauk. ial Paper of U.S. Dis- ct Court in Bankruptcy Proceedings. Designated by State and National Gfficials as the Of- f Paper for the publica- t of all legal notices to be made through their re- spective offices in Itasca Co. zed by Everybody as the ng Weekly Newspaper of Northeastern Minnesota. PROGRAM OF EXAMINATIONS The examination for teachers school certificates will be} in the office of the county ndendent of schools at the House on the dates giyen Monday July 29. Second Grade Studies. ) inrollment. Arithmetic. iology-Hygiene. glish Grammar. Reading. 3 Drawing and Music. need ay, Suly 30th. ade St Jontinued.) 8:00 Professional Test. Spelli bhy. ny on and Penmanship. U.S. History. Civics. July 3st. Grade Studies.) Geometry. Physics. Wednesday 1 or Gen. History.| covered a large snake coiled up in the N sis now required for | cage and all his birds gone. nited certificates. The snake, which had little diffi- . Boor, culty in entering the cage, was una- ty Superintendent, Mind; She Didn’t Care. made several ineffectu- to propose to the object of on each occasion his at the last moment. matter over he lecided to telephone, which he I Samantha?” he in- given the proper | “Yes, it’s me,” returned the | 7ill you marr; omens me quick? » L will,” | ly; “who's eee ections, bu t you, Unusual Revival. Knoy superintendent of | Providence, Captain the saving vice at R. L, kept his men working uninter- rupt for one hour and forty-five minutes in the effort to restore to life a man who had been under water nearly half an hour before the body aS I (and taken ashore, his The efforts were suc sessful, though the unfortunat’e limbs | stiff, teeth re clinched and body cold and purpl s a plum, show- | ing that there was no surface or local | tion. vat capsized were cire Explicit Directions. A tourist just returned from a holl- in Ireland tells of an inscription he saw on a stone at the edge r in County Cavan, says London Tribune. it read: “When his stone is out of sight it is not safe to ford the river.” T reminds one of a finger post erected by one of the surveyors of Kent roads some years ago, on which | was painted: “This is the bridle path to Faversham. If you cannot read this keep on the main road.” day whi of a small riv Peanuts as Food. The little peanut that only a few yea igo was considered by the phy- sicians as unfit to put into the stom- is now the basis of the food pred- me of the largest sanitariums antr analysis proves it to e times the nutriment of beef—hen: as it becomes _ better known and its value realized\ it enters the bill of fare in the shape of peanut butter, salted peanuts, soup, cakes, etc. Many vegetarians throughout the country use no other bread lubricant than peanut butter prepared from the roasted nut. ucts of in the ¢ contain Wiles of the Raft Spider. The raft spider gets its name from its habit of building a raft of dry leaves and other light materials, fas- tened together by threads of silk, im erder to pursue its prey in water. | | mystery. covered whi outside his feed the bir ble to get out the the reptile. of the kingfisher The Vision of | Tt is sae that insects are ordk: | narily unable to fiy through a net whose meshes are three or four times the size of their bodies. A bird would dart through such an aperture with- out hesitation. Several explanations have been offered for the conduct of insects inthis respect. An official of the Smithsonian Insti- tution not iong ago made experiments, reported to the institution, from which he concludes that the peculiar facetted structure of the eyes of insects is the cause of their difficulty in traversing nets. To an insect, he thinks, a net looks -like a’ continuous ‘ partially opaque surface, the separate lines be ing unnoticed, and accordingly, on ap- proaching @ net the insect alights be- fore seovering ight have continued its passed through. and Watch as a Compass. Few are aware of the fact that in a watch they have a very excellent compass. If ydu wish to use it as such all you have to do is to point the hour hand to the sun and the south is exactly half way between the hour and the figure XII on the face of the watch. Inasmuch as each min- ute is marked off there need be po difficulty in calculating this accu- rately. Made His Own Teeth. Charles Bennett, aged 60, a Frank- lin county convict serving five years in the Ohio penitentiary for burglary, not only pulls his own teeth but he makes new ones and puts them in him- self, says the Cleveland Plaindealer. He makes the teeth out of rosin beef bones obtained in the kitchen, using only a little saw and a penknife. He has been using two of the teeth several months and is now at work on others. He pulls his old teeth by means of a fiddle string and then makes the new teeth the shape-of the ones pulled out. They are groaved so they fit to the gum and also to the teeth on each side. Goppérnead Comes to Town. As Miss Anna Montgomery was de- scending the stone stairway of the Carnegie library in Beaver Falls, Pa., she almost stepped on a copperhead snake coiled on one of the steps. She screamed and ran out into the street. The snake was killed. It measured over three feet. How it got on the steps of a public building in the most frequented part of the town is a Snake in Bird Cage. A curious story of a snake which points an old time moral comes from the little village of Althorne, near Burnham on Crouch, Esse: A boy placed a cage, r with one-inch wire netting, h contained some: young birds, | house. When-he went to s in the morning he dis- ade of a box when it had eaten the A man who was attraeted by shouts quickly destroyea irds. boy’s Legends of the Kingfisher. Many and curious are the legends One of these is to the effect that the bird was originally a plain gray in color, but upon being let loose from the ark flew toward, the setting sun and had. its back stained blue by the sky and its lower plumage scorched by the sun to gor- geous hues. The dried body of the kingfisher was once used as charm against thunderbolt and moths, and it was hung up so that it might point with its bill to the winds quarter. “In Memory” of a Murder. An “In Memorium” notice in the Bath Herald run: “In memory of Elsie Adeline Luke, who was cruelly murdered on Hampton Down, August, 1891. Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord: I will repay.” Th advertisement is an echo of an unsolved mystery which disturbed Bath fifteen years ago. The remains of Elsie Adeline Luke, a little girl, were discovered by schoolboys in a cave in one of the hills overlooking the city. Slow Spelling Development. Dr. Edward Delevan Perry, profes- sor of Greek at Columbia university and president of the New York So- ciety, Archaeological institute of America, is of the opinion that it would take at least three or four gen- erations to bring about a reform in spelling, and that no fewer than twen- ty-five or thirty years must elapse be- fore the 300 words aiready simplified can become generally used. One Man's Many Titles. The duke of Wellington, who recent- ly celebrated his fifty-seventh birth, day, is prince of Waterloo in the Netherlands. He is duke of Ciudad Rodrigo and a grandee of the first class in Spain and duke of Vittoria, Marquese of Torres Vedras and Count of Vimiero in Portugal; also earl ce Mornington and Viscount Wellesley of Dangan castle, in the Irish peerage. Chinese and Sea Food: The Chinese will eat anything that comes out of the sea. All the fishes, are good@ to their taste and are caught with great skill. Seaweeds are used to thicken soups, gravies and pud- dings and‘ are highly prized because they give the relishing flavor of salt, which is a luxury. to most Chinese peasants. Earliest of Encyclopedias, Pliny’s history may be regarded 98 the first encyclodedia, sinee -it tained 30,000 facts compiled from 3; books by 100 ‘authors. catch the $10.00 Prize Bass {HOW TO CATCH BASS” pte) ART OF BAIT CASTING” Free Books “te, azt or parr ca We Offer $10.00 Outfit He FREE FISHING TACKLE ‘We make this offer for the best string of fish caught this year with any of the famous Shakespeare Baits. for particulars. _ Anglers are invited to call at our store and get the inter- esting free books “How to Catch Bass,” “The Art of Bait Casting,” and “Fine Fishing Tackle” which tell how to catch fish and the best tackle to use, W. J.& H. D. POWERS, 7923, Ravias, Having a Good Time. An uptown woman who is_benevo- : lently inclined has decided that most , of the so-called charity of the present day was not, strictly speaking, charity at all. Whoever gives, she has con- cluded, does so-for the pleasant sen- sation of seeing his or her name on subscription lists, and she does not agree with this ostentation. “Here, { my good man,” she said one day to a! man who had _ begged alms of her, | “here is 10 cents, and please to under- | stand that I do not give this becaus I hope to be rewarded for my charity ! some day, but because it gives me | pleasure to do so.” The burly beggar | looked dubiously at the tiny coin. “Juook here. mum,” he said, “In this ‘ere wicked world we don’t often get ' the chance to enjoy ourselve Why not make it a quarter and have a real geod time?” Much Decorated German. Court Augustus Eulenberg, grand marshal of the German emperor’s court, is believed to hold the record } in the matter of decorations. Of these coveted jewels he op. es about eighty, his broad ch too small to wear all of them at rdimg to recently compiled é there are 90,000 persons in the Fatherland wearing such decorations Where De Quincey Went to Church. St. Peter’s church, } Manchester, which is shortly to be ‘pulled down and in which the last services were held yesterday, is the church which De Quincey attended as a lad and to! which there are some entertaining references in “The Confessions of an | Opium Eater.” The first rector was De Quincey’s | tutor, and he possessed apparently | a stock of 330 sermons. which the pu- pil confessed became to him “a real instrument of improvement.’”” He only heard half of them, because he at- tended only the mornimg services; but he says “Those same 330-2 ser- mons (lasting only through sixteeff minutes each) for me became a per- fect pataestra of intellectual gymnas- tics, far better suited to my childish weakness than could have been the sermons of Isaac Barrow or Jeremy Taylor.” De Quincey gives his im- pressions of the opening of the church which took place when he was in his tenth year. That is now 111 years ago. | Woman Kills Big Rattler. Mrs. Fannie C. Thompson cf East Whittier, Cal., proved her pluck by despatching a three-foot rattlesnake which dared to dispute her way. Mrs. Thompson has a ranch the foothill country, and when the reptile coiled up in front of her, ob- structing her pathway, the woman procured a long-handled shovel and with one blow nearly severed the snake's head from its body. © , Afterward she measured her victim and found that he was nearly forty inches long and the possessor of seven big rattlers and a button. near A BIRD’S BALLROOM. Where the Cock o’ the Rock Performs Like the Whirling Dervish. Dancing is by no means confined to | quadruped A writer in Strand | Says that it is abe principal play of | many birds. Perhaps the finest of bird dancers e South American cock o’ the | Tkese birds have regular danc- | s, level spots w clear of sticks 3 A dozen or more of the birds assem- ble around this spot, and then a cock | bird, his scarlet crest erect, steps into | the center. Spreading his wings and tail, he begins to dance, at first with slow and stately steps, then gradually more and more rapidly until he is spinning like a mad thing. At last, tired out, he sinks down, ,hops out of the ring and another takes his place. Some of the quail tribe are great dancers, and so are the American sand hill cranes. It is a most ludic- rous sight to watch a crane dancing; he is,so desperately solemn over the whole performance. He looks like a shy young man who has just learned to waltz and is rather ashamed of ~ Proompianineet is. Ask ISTH ANNUAL TOURNAMENT NORTHERN } MINNESOTA FIRE- MEN’S TOURNAMENT ASSOCIATION | i | ELY, MINN, AUGUST 6, 7,8, 9. $2,000 FOR PRIZES AND ENTERTAINMENT Ely, Grand Rapids, Eveleth, Cass Lake, Aurora, i 0 COMPETING COMPANIES 10 Park Rapids, Sparta, Bemidji, Virginia, DeerRiver. Four Days of Enjoyment With the Best of music. Che Citizens of Ely Invite You All to be Pres- ent and Assist in the Merrymaking. REMEMBER, AUGUST 6TH, 7TH, 8TH, 9TH, WM. PERRINGTON BUYS AND SELLS LANDS IN ITASCA AND ADJOINING COUNTIES Mineral Pine ang Farming Lands Parties located on Homestead and Timber and Stone Claims. Some of the Choicest Lands in the vicinity of Grand Rapids or con- venientto other markets, under cultivation, for sale at Bargains WM. PERRINGTON Graud Rapids - Mintiesota Ice cream by the pint or quart at Miller’s confectionery store. Coal for a fast timer. Tremendous quantities of coal will be required to run the turbine liner Lusitania’s engines. The ship’s indi- cated horse power is 65,000, which will mean a consumption of not less than 435 tons of steam each hour and a'cor- responding consumption of fifty tons of coal in the same time. This would work out a total of 1,200 tons of coal a /REMNANT SALE) AT THE Pioneer Store| About 75 pieces of Dress Goods, from 2 to 7 yards in length, in Panamas, Voiles, Poplins and other popular fabrics in the predominating shades, to close out: At Less Than Cost This is your chance to get material for a Waist or Suit in the popular cloths ct a price that will surprise you .. .*. John Beckfelt Grand Rapids, - -