Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 7, 1907, Page 9

In Mr. Walker Whiteside’s Great- est Comedy Success “WE ARE KING’ Money Value of Politeness. The attitude of too many public servitors seems to be one of hostility Manifest indispo- r perfectly proper questions is shown. Such defects of character are almost ¢ ain to bar the way to advancement in any call- ty may bring a-high ithout any grace or suavity of nner, but the maje of employes do not po: $$ excep! al talents and must rise by ene tegrity < pleasing pe’ This last-na uity more tk other explair ise of certain per- sons to } t Very ordinary ay to honors 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 readily- 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 stick of dynamite. | A small charge of powder is fired in this hole, which starts a horizontal crack or clea Charges increas- iendly per- | ng in size are exploded until the 1 nuch bet- | Cleavage has extended over a radius Hy so great is the | Of Seventy-five or one hundred feet. world sets upon good | Then a pipe is cemented into the bore and air is forced in under a pressure — of from eighty to one hundred pounds. 1 Kills Bia Rattler. sion of the air extends C. Thompson of East vage until it comes out at by | the surface on the slope of the hill. 1ake | A sheet of granite several acres in extent may thus be separated. toward t sition to uperi degree of vilit men son ter value v nature her pluck hree-feot rattle a ranch near —— and when the Made His Own Teeth. vont of her, ob- Charles Bennett, aged 60, a Frank- the woman | lin county convict serving five years d shevel and | in the Ohio penitentiary for burglary, y severed the | not only pulls his own teeth but he rom its body | makes new ones and puts them in him- Aft hey ured her victim | self, says the ¢ ‘land Plaindealer. and found th he w nearly forty | He makes the teeth out of rosin inches 1 sor of seven | beef bones obtained in the kitchen, saw and a penknife. two of the teeth and is now at work using only a little He has been usi several months on others. big rattle Peanuts as Food. The little peanut that only a few : years ago was considered by the phy- He pulls his old teeth by means of ans as unfit to put into the stom- | a fiddle string and then makes the new teeth the ve of the ones pulled out. ach now the basis of the food prod- | © be ucts of one of the t sanitariums | They are grooved so they fit to the in the country—ana proves it to | sum and also to the teeth on each contain three times the nutriment of | Side. beef—henc it somes _ better | Sct ais mina, : ‘ | Snake in Bird Cage. K and its valu lized, it enters | ae ait -e in the pe of Scant A curious story of a snake which Baten a ean soup, eakes, | Points an old time moral comes from ies a sees theouchont the | te little village of Althorne, near Burnham on Crouch, Essex. A boy placed a cage, made of a box covered with one-inch wire netting, which contained some young birds, e outside his house. When he went to :perintendent of | feed the birds in the morning he dis- v Providence, | covered a snake coiled up in the men working uninter- | cage and all birds gone. one hour and forty-five The snake, which had little diffi- the ort to restore to! culty in entering the cage, was una- been under water | ble to get out when it had eaten the before the body | birds. man who was attraeted by ashore, his | the boy shouts quickly destroyea were Suc; | *he reptile. tunat’e limbs | country us¢ r bread lubricant than peanut butter prepared from the roasted nut larg were si clinched and | “tn Memory” of a Murder. body cold ) . plum, show- | | An “In Memorium” notice in the ing 1 tface or Jocal | Bath Herald runs: “In memory of Adeline Luke, who was cruelly n Hampton Down, August, Elsie aon" | mu sher. | 1891 he legends | Lord: This advertisement is an echo of an unsolved m y which disturbed Bath fifteen years ago. The remains Adeline Luke, a little girl, e discovered by schoolboys in a fs in one of the hills overlooking the city. circulation. Legends of the Many and curious are of the kingfisher. One of these is to the effect tl the bird was 0: nally a plain y 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 | plum seorched by the sun to gor- The dried body of the Jiraene 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 coy with its bill to the winds quarter. tained 30,000 facts compiled #r Sue books by 100 authers. | | 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 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 morning services; but he says “Those same 330-2 ser- mons (lasting only through sixteef 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 tenth year. That is now 111 years ago. The Vision of Insects. It is known that insects are ordl- narily unable to fly 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 Instl- 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 locks 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- ute is marked off there need be po difficulty in calculating this accu- rately. For Rent—3 Room house, a well, a good barn, A fine appearing resi- dence. Enquire of H. S. Huson. SrrayED—Came to my place in section 54, township 24, about Aug. tst,bull calf, red, about six months old, small, Owner can have same by proving property and paying for no- tice, Joun JOHNSON Blackberry. Bank No. BANK STATEMENT. Statement of the condition of the First State Bank at Grand Rapids, Minnesota, at close of business December 3. 1907. RESOURCES Loans and discounts.. + $60,393.92 Other bonds stocks and securities. —_ 6,500 00 Banking house, furniture and fix- 3,500 00 3,360 29 Other resources Total. LIABILITIES Capital stock. Undivided prot Deposits subject to check Cashier's check: . Due to banks... Total immediate Habilities 54,461 95 Time certificates. + BB,628 50 Total deposits. Other Liabilit! 03,541 57 366 34 Total STATE OF MIN: » County of Itasca." {°* I, Leon M. Bolter, Cashier of the above named ane, go, Sclemaly. faer that the above ment is true to m; knowledge and belief. bs oR LEON M. pOLree ‘ashier. Subscribed and swi to bef e this 5th day of December, 1907. ee C.L, PRATT, Attest | A, ¢, Bossampe”y Pubs: Two Directors. { R, H. BOLTER. EY’ Dr. Larson, the eye special- ist, will be at Hotel Pokeg- ana, Grand Rapids, the 15th and 16th of each month. Failing eyesight properly cared for. 4-20 tf The Fair Store SECOND STREET SHERMAN YOST, Prop’r This is the place to get goods at low prices. SEE OUR 5,10 AND (5 CENT COUNTERS 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. 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