Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 19, 1907, Page 7

ORIGIN OF WORD BONFIRE. Expression Most Probably Dates Back to Druidic Days. Was “bonfire” originally written “bone-fire” and were “bone-fires” an- ciently so called from the burning of the martyrs? This is one theory of the origin of the word. From ancient times bonfires have formed a striking part of the celebration of St. John’s eve, or Midsummer eve, June 24, which was observed with similar rites in every country in Europe. Fires were kindled in the streets and mar- ket places of the towns. The young people leaped over the flames or threw flowers and garlands into them with merry shoutings and songs and dances. A heathen origin is believed to be indicated by these acts. A writer says: “On the whole it seems prob- able that the druidic fires, round which it was considered lucky to leap and dance on the occasion of the sum- mer solstice, were built up of contri- butioris brought by every one who wanted to secure his luck for the com- ing year, and so bonfire is really a boon-fire.” Rode Too Fast for Tiger. Because he could ride a_ bicycle faster than a tiger could follow a priest in India recently escaped an unpleasant death. The Rev. Father Froger was riding quietly along the road when he saw what looked like a tiger sitting on a rock on the bare hillside above him. Says a report: ea e watched, the fact that it was er became apparent and to Father er’s horror it sudé@enly bounded raight down the hillside and made for him. There was a slight incline favor in the road and he cycled s life until the upward grade be too steep and he had to get off. arently the beast did not pursue after he had lost sight of the cyclist, but the unprovoked attack is in it self an unusual occurrence.” The Contented Man. Contented? What makes him contented? Tr comforts, the struggles have gained Which men discontented invented, The safety, that fighters obtained. Content in the mire would still wallow, With trogloc Or find in a tr The shelter craves. Content hinders progress and action es ignorant sloth, a sort of distraction, And pities the follies of both. Content maketh freemen dependent, And fast he shackles on slaves, Its motion descendent, To ditch: nd paupers’ sad gravea, But the reverent, hearty submission To Deity’s footstool men bring, after toiling with little fruition, ls a different, manlier thing. —-W. J. Herbert. 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 frances ($300) to St. George’s chapel for such repairs as it may need; to my sweet girl, who 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.” Digging for Fish. The natives of certain parts of Ins dia are in the habit every year, in the summer, of digging the dry river hanks for fish, which they dig out by hundreds, just as they would pota- toes. The mud lumps are broken open, and the fish, perhaps 8-in. or 10-in. long, will always be found alive, and often frisky, as if just removed from its supposedly native element—~ the water. Ingenious Plea Made by Rascal. “Nobody is worried nowadays by the fact that the twelfth month of the year is called the tenth—December,’ a writer, “and no doubt even the ancient Romans svon got used to the anomaly when the new year was shifted back from March to January, though the old names of the months were retained. But there was one of them who made ingenious use of it— Licinius, a rascally procurator at Lyons under Augustus. He insisted on having certain monthly payments made fourteen times a year, arguing, when December came round, that, as it was the tenth month of the year, and there ought to be twelve, there must be two more to be accounted for.” Her Method of Daring “The worst case of a_ hen- pelle man I ever saw,” said the traveling man, “is up in my little native place among the Berkshire hills. The hen in this case is a smart woman who runs a farm and keeps everything shipshape except her husband. She is content to let him get along in any old fashion, so long as he does not interfere with her work. One day he asked her apologetically if she wouldn’t darn at least one pair of his stockings, for every pair he owned had holes. She gave him a crushing glance, and said: ‘If every pair has holes, wear two pairs, and the good places in one will cover the holes in the other.’ And she made him do it, too.” they used to. PERIL IN COLLEGE TRAINING Medical Authority Points Out the Dan- gers to American Youth. It is wrong to put any one in train- ing at any time, to create a physio logic cardiac enlargement which re- mains to plague him in afterlife, put to place the growing boy under this regimen is nothing short of criminal. No college sport should require “train- ing,” no matter how much practice is needed, and no game should single out a few very abnormal men. Sports are necessary parts of youthful life, the essential of child’s education, in- deed, and every one must take part in them to educate the nerves, not to deaden them. Games are normal only when they cultivate perceptions to accuracy and quickness, but never should they put the tissues to their maximum allow- able strain. Play of animals and chil- dren is really a means of educating or exercising other parts of the nerv- ous system than the mere memory, which seems to be the main thing | drilled in our college youths. If some play is beneficial—and there does not seem to be any doubt on that point— then it must be utilized and encour- aged for every student and not so utterly ignored and allowed to degen- erate to a form which is injurious.— American Medicine. PRIZE ADDED TO LONDON ZOO Australian “Frogmouth” Rarely Seen in Captivity. Not the least Interesting of the birds recently added to the London zoo collection is a specimen of Cu vier’s pedargus, a curious Australian species familiarly known as the “frog: mouth,” says the Philadelphia Record. This remarkably owl-like bird is a member of a small family not far re- moved from the nightjars. It is a lazy bird, of nocturnal habits; al- though insects form its chief food, small birds, mice and such dainty morsels are incluéed in its bill of fare. In size it resembles a barn owl, for which, at first sight, it might easily be mistaken. Its dull plumage is in keeping with its natural environ- ment. Its favorite resting place is on the dead branch of some tree, and its resemblance to a withered stump is wonderful. The eggs of this bird, which is not often seen in captivity, are two in number, and white; they are usually laid in a nest of sticks placed in the fork of a tree, and both parents take turns on the nest. The frogmouth appears rather stupid by day and it is by no means easy te rouse it from its lethargy. Irish Idiom. We are told that “bedad” is not Irish at all, never has been Irish ex- cept in the mind of the English come- dian; and the mere Saxon is cheated of his best anecdotes. If the Irish- man does not say “bedad”—begorrah! what does he say? If you may not say “bedad” you may say at every op- portunity, “Is it destroyed that ye are?” A blind woman is a “dark” woman; you must say “whisht!” in- stead of “hush!” and if a direct ans- | wer is to be wrung from you—which | ean generally be avoided in Ireland— you just say “It is,” or “Ye are,” or “I do,” as the case may be, never the plain English “Yes.”—Lon- don Chronicle. The Artistic Temperament. Gilbert Keith Chesterton says in his “Heretics”: “The artistic tempera- ment is a disease that afflicts ama- teurs. It is a disease that arises from men not having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being. Ar- tists of a large and wholesome vital- ity, get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force the thing be- comes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the ar- tistic temperament. The great trag- edy of the artistic temperament is that it cannot produce any art.” Diseases Frightaned Away. When an Indian falls sick in Alaska the medicine man proceeds to adminis- ter all kinds of sacred rubbish and makes passes with secret rattles over the sickbed. One of these rattles looks like a small Indian club, with a double faced mask enclosing the rat- tles. A few shakes of this monstros- ity and the man with pneumonia is cured. Smallpox, diphtheria, lumbago, North Pole appendicitis and all such diseases are frightened out of the body when the medicine man flour- ishes his instruments of medicine above the sick man’s head, Frame House of Other Days. “I was down in South Brooklyn the other day, where they are putting up many frame houses,” said an old-time vuilder. “They don’t build houses as In my day all frame- work was mortised and pinned to gether, and nothing smaller than six- finch stuff would do for sills and cor- ner posts. Now the sills and corner posts are 2x4 scantlings nailed to gether, and a mortise is unheard of. Carpenters don’t carry mortising chis- els and mallets in their kits nowa- days.”—New York Sun. Removing Smell of Paint. Paint smell, so injurious to health, is easily removed from a room by standing im it a pail of cold water containing a large handful of hay or a cut-up enion or two. The water alone will answer the purpose, but not so quickly as with the addition of the hay or onions. Leave the pail in the room for several hours and then if the painty smell still lingers throw away its contents, fill it as before ang leave it to finish ts work. “but | | ster!’ the boss shouted. ! struck him: | opened into the nursery. 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 whis- 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 was 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 youny- 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 pcr friend,” he said. “See, even his relatives are able to restrain thelr grief more than yov are doing.” Then, as a new idea “Surely, you are no re- lation of M. de Rothscnild?” “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— a 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 wilawceg path, That wanders deep in a dell, Where silence sleeps and sunbeams fain we waken the slumber spell— Fer there the find the world again, Immortals of ancient lore, And time is gone, and a mad-glad faun Knows the glades of Greece once mor¢ —Thomas 8S. Jones, Jr. New Filter for Impure Water. MM. Miquez and Mouchet have de- vised a new filter for impure or sus- pected waters from lakes, rivers and springs. The water is directed over a layer of fine sand, a meter thick, with gravel underneath. The solid particles and bacteria in the water are filtered out by the upper layers of the fine sand, and the water escapes freely from the gravel underneath. The authors consider it well suited for the supply of pure alimentary water. -Eondon Globe. Proof That Dogs Can Think. The following facts, which I saw with my own eyes on repeated occa- sions, fully convinced me that ani- mals have the powers of memory and thought. I once had a_ three-parts bred black and tan terrier, which slept in a basket in my bedroom, that One of my children was, from ill health, very fractious, and whenever Tiny heard it cry she would go into the nursery, hunt about until she found a squeak: ing rag doll, take it to the side of the cot and sitting up, shake it to amuse the child. If in doing this shé did not display powers of memory, thought and reflection, I utterly fail to see to what her clever performance could be attributed.—Correspondence in London Globe. Truth Profoundly Expressed. The profound truth that to-morrow never comes, and yesterday, although it is always passing, has never been with us, has led a correspondent to throw off this little effort: “Although yesterday today was to-morrow, and to-morrow to-day will be yesterday, nevertheless yesterday to-morrow would be the day after to-morrow, be cause to-day would be to-morrow yes terday, and to-morrow will be to-day to-morrow, or would have been the day after tomorrow yesterday.” We thought as much.—London Answers. Regret. It’s lonesome whar de shadows fall Across de drifted snow. It_doesn’t seem de place at all pam tiene Thad ty days en's ad in days gone by, ‘Whah is dey keepin’ hia? F by. I misses Mistah Butterfly An’ ol’ Miss Katydid. It’s kind o’ sad when life grows cold An’ toilsome an’ severe, think about good times of old So far away f'um here. ey see med so wuthless as dey’d fly, ys it now I miss utter’ An’ ol’ Miss Katydid. —Washington Star. Experimental Expenses. ‘When I asked a young man how much his employer’s stockroom repre sented in the way of losses, he esti- mated that it would take a million @ollars to cover them, but during this million dollar period his employer made four million dollars, so that everything went on cheerfully. Those who make money are not afraid of a weasonable amount of experimenta! expense.—Ear! M. Pzatt. McHIBBEN CAP 3 Red School House Stes JOHN BECHFELT, Prop, CRW RE SRE EA aE ae Ea a ae ae ate ate ae ae a ae ae te ea aE a F-U-R-S I will pay $5.00 apiece for No. 1 Mink, other Fur according. Timber Wolves $5.00 each. WM. WEITZEL, ‘Grand Rapids, Minn ADE ADEA A ee He Hea ee ae ae ae a Hae ae ae ET SRE ARE AEE Ae ee A a a a ae ae ae He He ae ae a ea aE ME: A cchachachachacashaghathnaiadiel ee aE a H. E. GRAFFAM in fact all kinds of Bonds issued. and Notary Public Office opposite Post Office. Over Finnigan’s | WM. 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