Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 7, 1907, Page 7

In Mr. Walker Whiteside’s Great- est Comedy Success “WE ARE KING’ Morey Value of Politeness. The attitude of too many public | servitors scems to be one of hostility toward the public. Manifest indispo- sition to answer perfectly proper »wh. Such defects of almost certain to bar ncement in any call- SPLITTING ROCK WITH AIR. Several Acres of Granite Separated From its Bed by One Charge. The expansive force of compressed air is employed in an interesting way by a North Carolina granite company. On a sloping hillside, composed of granite which shows no bad planes, but splits lily in any direction when started. a three-inch bore is sunk about eight feet deep and the bottom is enlarged by the exploding of half a st: of dynamite. A small charge of powder is fired Very ordinary | in this hole, which starts a horizontal y to honors | crack or cleavage. Charges increas- ndly per- | ing in s e exploded until the mach bet- | Cleavage has extended over a radius | of seventy-five or one hundred feet. | Then a pipe is cemented into the bore and air is forced in under a pressure | of from eighty to one hundred pounds. | The expansion of the air extends the cleavage until it comes out at the surf: on the slope of the hill. questions is s without any but the majority ess exception- by ener ing personality. ity more than he rise of certain pe or suaviiy 0 of employes al talent other ex] sons to } men have and fortune son may pa ter th value which the worid nature wa really is, attler. pson of Whittle proved her pluck by | despatciing eefoot rattlesnake | A sheet of granite several acres in which dar » ¢ her way. | extent may thus be separated. Mrs. Thompson has a ranch near | Made His Cwn Teeth. Charles Bennett, aged 60, a Frank- lin county convict serving five years in the Ohio penitentiary for burglary, own teeth but he nd puts them in him- sveland Plaindealer. He makes the ‘teeth out of rosin sor of seven | 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 grooved so they fit to the gum and also to the teeth on each side. the foothill country id when the up in front of her, ob- vay, the woman udled shovel and | ered the | not only pulls h body. | new ones sured her victim was nearly forty | reptile coiled } her arc and found th inches long and the pos big rattle uD button. Peanuts as Food. The little peanut that only a few year’ » was considered by the phy- sicians as unfit to put into the stom- ach is now t of the food prod- ucts of one ¢ st sanitariums in the country proves it to contain three times the nutriment of beef—henc si becomes _ better known ¢ ized, it enters the bill of pe of peanut | the lar Snake in Bird Cage. A curious story of a snake which points an old time moral comes from butter, salte soup, cakes, | A eae ian etc. W : throughout the the little village of Althorne, near Burnham on Crouch, Essex. A boy placed ge, made of a box | covered with ne-inch wire netting, | which contained some young birds, Unusual Revival. | outsiGe his house. When he went to | feed the birds in the morning he dis- <e coiled up in the read lubricant pared from the | country use than peanut butte roasted nut. Captain Kr the lif service at Providence, | covered a lz a R. 1. kept men ing uninter- | cage and : birds gone. ruptedly for one hour and forty-five The sna ch had little diffi- minutes ir fort to restore to! culty in entering the cage, was una- life id been under water | ble to get out when it had eaten the nearly before the body | birds. A man who was attracted by was rescued mn ashore, his; the boy’s shouts quickly destroyea capsized Ss were sucg *he reptile. ce , though tl inat’e limbs | we stiff, teeth » clinched and | body cold and m s a plum, show- An “In no surface or Jocal | Bath the bo: “In Memory” of a Murder. Memortum” notice in the “In memory of leline Luke, who was cruelly tered on Hampton Down, August, Vengeance is mine, saith the Legends of the King Many and curious are the legends | Lord: I will 7 of the kingfisher. One of these is to | This adver the effect that the bird was originally | jan unsolved m a plain gray in cc but upon being | Bath fifteen ye: ago. The remains let loose from the ark flew toward,| of Elsie Adeline Luke, a little girl, the setting sun and had its back | we discovered by schoolboys in a stained blue by the sky and its lower | cave in one of the hills overlooking plumage scorched by the sun to gor- the city. geous hues. The dried body of the king! s once used as charm Earliest of Encyclopedias, against thunderbolt and moths, and Pliny’s history may be regarded as it was hung up so that it might point | the first encyclodedia, sinee it with its bill to the winds quarter. tained 30,000 facts compiled frome! uae books by 100 authors. nt is an echo of which disturbed ‘tenth year. A BIRD'S BALLROO! Where the Cock o’ the Rock Performs Like the Whirling Dervish. Dancing is by no means confined to quadrupeds. A writer In the Strand says thet it is the principal play of many birds. Perhaps the finest of bird dancers is the South American cock o’ the rock. These birds have regular danc- ing places, level spots which they keep clear of sticks and stones. 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 the accomplishment. Where De Quincey Went to Church. St. Peter’s church, Manchester, which is shortly to be pulled down and in which thé 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 morning services; but he says “Those same 330-2 ser- mons (lasting only through sixteelf minutes each) for me became a per- fect palaestra 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 That is now 111 years ago. The Vision of Insects. It is known that insects are ordl- 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 in this 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 a net the insect alights be- fore discovering that it might have continued its flight and passed through. Watch as a Compass. Few are aware of the fact that in a watch they have a very excellent compass. If you 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- The Fair Store SECOND STREET SHERMAN YOST, Prop’r This is the place to get goods at low prices. SEE OUR 5,10 AND 15 CENT COUNTERS ee a eT Everthing imaginable in the mercantile line. GLASSWARE, CHINAWARE, TIN- WARE, NOTIONS, WRITING TAB- LETS, Household Utensils of every description, Gloves, Mittens, Socks, Men’s Furnishings, Etc. THESE GOODS AND PRICES MUST BE SEEN To be Appreciated NEW ARRIVALS IN School Togs AT THE PIONEER McKIBBEN CAP Boys’ Bring your boy to “The Pioneer” and dress him Dark brown strpied and dark | Pretty, dark gray vatunna, with gray checked chiviots in Knick- | an in ble plaid of brown and erbockers, and dark blue, all | black, and a very dark gray clay worsted Knicker bocker. Sizes 10 to 14, at. . 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