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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21
Effect of Color.

Few people seem to realize the real
1y strong effect that their color sur
roundings have on their temperament
1t is great mistake to live in rooms
papered with dark wall papers; they
may be economical from the point of
view of not showing the dirt, but they
are really most disastrous to the spir
it's. A warm yellow or a good rose
pink looks cheerful and reminds one
OF sunny days, while a pretty green,
not too vivid in tint, suggests the del
icate hues of spring. A paper covered
with large pattern in dark colorings
somehow seems to lend a gloomy ef
feet to even the largest room, while
there are certain schemes of coloring
that hurt the eyes and tire one to look
at. 1t may interest readers to know
that green papers have the reputation
OF fading sooner than any Others,
while blue becomes a dirty sort OF
green if exposed to the sun, pink a
terra Gotta and yellow sort Of
Whitley brown-none of them very at
tractive, perhaps, in this stage, but on
the whole faded pink is the least de-.
pressing shade.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21
EFFECT OF RAIN ON ANIMALS,
Some Wild Creatures, Notably Wolves,
Enjoy It.

Enjoy It.
"The effects of rainy day upon AMI
mails of zoo,' said a keeper the othe,
day, ARE as interesting to watch as
anything l know in connection with q
collection of beasts. Now, that biz
wolf over there just revels in a rain,
day, and skips about as gay as YOU
please. All the wolves are the same
Rain cheers them up. But the lions
are different. They fret and fume AND
groWl and snarl unless you give them
an extra allowance Of meat or biz
pan of warm milk. Then they will
sleep, but a rainy day seems to gel
on the nerves of lion or any of the
cat family. Snakes are kept in just a
certain temperature all the time. and
you would think that the damp all
would never reach them. Perhaps il
doesn't, but have always noticed that
all the reptiles are active and cheerful
when it rains. The deer family, the
bears, the various sorts of wild goats
and the like, don't seem to mind the
rain a bit. Birds, however, are the
most .disconsolate, dreary things in
the world on rainy day. They don't
sing. hardly chirp, but just settle down
to be as miserable as possible. Lon.
don Tit-Bits.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21
New Washing Machine.

There are several kinds of washing
machines, but the best of all, if the
woman who invented it could be
heard on the subject, is the one which
we show in the picture. 1t is easy to
operate, don't get out of order, don't
tear the clothes, etc., etc. Well, we
won't argue the matter, but take her
word for it, and tell how the mechan-
ism is operated. You simply put the
clothes and hot water in the machine
and turn the lever attached to the
driving wheel. This wheel has chain
partially surrounding it, the ends of
which are connected with the top and
bottom of vertical p]unger. 1t is
easy to understand how the movement
of the lever will cause the plunger
to rise and fall in its cylinder, and it
is this movement which is utilized to
keep the water agitated and force it
in small jets in and out among the
garments immersed in the machine.
The rapid movement of the water is
supposed to rinse the dirt out of the
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21
IN. A. p" ON "LABBY."
Tells of His SIavish Regard for the
Cigarette,

'ei'S OF tbs oIaViSn ne9dTu 'OT 1He
Cigarette.
Though enormously rich, Labou-
chere enjoys few of the ordinary
pleasures that are supposed to go with
riches" writes T. P. O'Connor. "He
eats the simplest fare; he never
touches wine except when he is bullied
into taking glass or two of mild
claret by medical advice, and then he
swallows it as though it were medi-
cine, He has two weaknesses. One
is his love of cigarette smoking, the
other a mania for changing houses and
redecoration and rebuilding. He is
rarely without a cigarette in his
mouth; indeed, this love of smoking
amounts to something like a passion.
Almost every half hour, even in the
midst of fierce debate or of great
speech, Labby may be seen rising from
his seat in his lazy, indolent manner;
he is going to one of the smokerooms
of the house to have his cigarette. It
is characteristic of him that he smokes
very inferior cigarettes. I asked him
once what kind he smoked. AS long
as there is quantity said Labby! with
his usual sardonic smile. Il really
don't much care about quality.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21
CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.
Secretary Shaw's Satire at Expense Of
Government Official.

Secretary shaw's Satire at Expense OF
Government Official.
Although Secretary Shaw is man
of diplomacy he enjoys loosing an &C.
casional shaft of satire. An official
who takes great pride in his dress but
who, in spite of elaborate toilets, is
not conspicuous for his beauty, re-
Gently attempted to grow whiskers.
Evidently his effort stirred up domes-
tic objection, for few days ago, after
three months of assiduous cultivation
of a black but somewhat reluctant
growth of beard, he appeared clean
shaver again, explaining to his col
leagues that it was his wife's birthday
and that in her honor he had removed
what she had bewailed as an unnec-
essary designation.
Forthwith he showed himself to
Secretary Shaw, craving commenda-
ton.
Eyes, I congratulate you," said the
secretary "Your case reminds me of
the good wife who, venturing on a
change in wearing her hair, timidly
asked her husband if he thought it
unbecoming.
"'Bless you, MOI he exclaimed, try
ing his best to be complimentary; ANY
change wo,Id be an Improvement in
you "-Phi]adelphia Post.
Wiping Out Accounts.
DR.. Morris Bailey of Titusville,
Penn, lately celebrated his eighty
fifth. birthday, and especially marked
the day by erasing from his books &C.
counts extending over half a century
and aggregating about $4,000. He
still has some $4,000 hard to collect
accounts, and may some day settle
these in the same way. But paying
patients have supplied him with a COM
potency.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

on which the saw reyolves. In this
case the field magnets are stationary
and secured to the handle directly be-
meath the saw, while the armatures
are clamped to the saw, and in their
revolution under the action of the
current in the magnets they carry the
say around it's central axis at a high
rate of speed. The laborer has then
but to connect the implement with the
switches provided at intervals along
the sides of the field, start the motor
running and present the saw to the
stalks, using little force to sever even
the heaviest growths of cane or corn.
Stephen J. Hylton Bravo of Haw-
thorn, Victoria, is the inventor Of this
implement.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21
The ella
monster
III |EXC9TI111maEImG

west they grow to enormous lengths.
San Antonio, Tex, has long been a
market for the skin of the rattlesnake,
and hides seven feet long and nine
inches wide at the widest part have
been brought in there. Purses and
curios are made of these skins in the
main, but from the larger skins hand
bags are made, finished in the luster-
less hues of the snake as it was in
life. The python of South America
and other snakes of the constructor
family are sought for their hides I'M
til their kinds also are threatened
with extinction.
Various members of the tortoise
family have been victims of fashion
and wealth for years. Nothing in the
cleverest limitations of the shell has
ever approached the projections of
the tortoise shell comb in it's various
shapes and styles, and as for terrapin
served upon the table, it holds it's own
with the rarest of wines and the cost
Hest of other delicacies of the world.
Aside from the suffering of the saur-
lans because Of their valuable skins,
and shell, and teeth, the table of the
pioneer in many sections of the Unit
ed States and it's possessions makes
demand upon certain species. In Death
Valley, in California, one of the most
repulsive looking of the lizard tribe
is considered delicacy of first rank.
This is the chuckwalla, chunky crea-
ture of notified black, weighing about
a pound, and feeding wholly upon the
vegetable creations of the scanty soil
in which it makes home.
The iguana is the other edible lizard
and many of them are found in the
Philippines, as we'll as in Cuba and in
South America. 1t is most revolving
creature IL form and color, and it fire.
quently is fouho measuring three feet
in length. It's de1icacy Of flavor and
its unexceptional diet, however, have
long made it an unquestior6d luxury
for the table of the pioneer.
The horned toad of the southwest
is passing. Really he is of the lizard
family, and has the characteristics OF
the lizard family in that he takes on
the general monotonous shade of the
soil upon which he lives. If he be
found in the black earth of Texas his
general tone will be black; if in the
yellow sand he will have a yellow
tone. But he is at all times harmless
and silent, and though denied trans
portation in the United States mail;
he may be found in the breeches peck
cts of thousands Of school boys in the
great southwest country.
The lizard family is going, steadily
| and surely, without the consideration
that was shown the bird when fashion
fixed upon him as one of it's martyrs
| Superstitious fear of saurian and Of
| reptile will hasten their going, in spite
| of the fact that few saurians are men
aces to man and in the face of the fac
that the rattlesnake. the water moe
casin, and the copperhead are the onl,
J poisonous snakes in North America.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21
Learned by Scientists.

Learned ny SCIENTISTS.
M. Curie, the discoverer Of radium,
has found that the rays Of radium
color glass violet blue.
We should think of shooting stars.
as solid shot about the size Of a cher
ry, or cherry stone, each of them fly
ing with 100 times the speed Of a.
bullet as far as the orbit Of Uranus
and returning to the earth's distance.
from the sun three times in a century,.
unless it strikes our atmosphere and
is burned up in a flash.
Two students of Cornell university
temperature and electrical currents in
the refining Of copper the cost, which
is now SIS ton, can be reduced by
half. About $S0,000O00 worth of cop.
per is refined in this country annually
and $12,000,000 worth of silver and
100000 worth of gold is recovered.
therefrom.
There have been unearthed in Aby--
dos, by Flinders Petrie. ten successive
temples ranging in age from 500 to
5000 years, which show the whole
history of Egypt. A globular vase of
green glaze with Menes' names inlaid
in purple shows that polychrome glaz--
ing is 1000 years older than has been.
surmised. Delicate carvings in
ivory are found which rival in excel
lence the finest Greek or Italian pro-
auctions.
More than 800 meteorites from out
er space are seen in the National
museum at Washington, their range
in weight being from a few ounces to-
5000 pounds. The monster one is
roughened from it's surface being
melted by friction with the earth's
atmosphere. One, weighing 1,400
pounds is almost pure iron. Precious
metals are not found in these aerial
excursionists, but microscopic dia-
monds are sometimes formed by CON-
bustion with the earth's atmosphere.
They are made up from iron, nickel.
sulphur, carbon, phosphorus, oxygen,
silicon, magnesium. aluminium, and
calcium, H>:a - - - q. :. -
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21
letter-Sealinu Machines,

It would surprise the majority of
people to know the amount of mail
which some of the large firms of this
country send out every business day
Of the year, many of them outranking
a large number of the minor postoffices
in their purchase of stamps and pay
ing at least one clerk to do nothing
but look after the mail. To enlighten
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

Uncle Sans income is over $4,000
600 day, which is somewhat larger
than Mr.. Rockefeller's income. But
Mr.. Rockefeller's percentage of profits
is greater than Uncle Sans. He has
less competition.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

The trouble with some wellmeaning
people is that they think religion
and loud professions Of piety synony.
nous. Religion is good conduct. Love
and justlce-this is the law and the
prophets. This will be great news to
some editors.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

If the late Mr.. Newton's theory of
gravitation is false we are at last re-
lieved to know that we haven't been
walking around like flies on a ceiling.
after all. It always seemed an undig-
nitied proceeding and wore glad to b
set right-and upright
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

An Eastern woman on the eve of
her wedding wanted the word "obey"
ruled out of the marriage service. But
why couldn't she accept the word in
a purely Pickwickian sense as the rest
Of 'em do?
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

Following his plan of commemorate
ing the army and navy in music, Mr..
Sousa's next composition should be a
spirited symphonic poem entitled
"Uncharted Rocks
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21
Heiqht and Depth.

The deepest depression in the earth,
ascertained by sounding, is five and
a. fourth miles; the greatest height,
the peak Of Mount Everest, fivd and
three-fourths miles.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

Recklessly discharging revolver at
a concert at Middletown, N. Y, a man
sent bullet through the bass horn
of a member of that band. Perhaps
you can imagine what the band was
playing
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

Capt. Wringe will make a first rate
American citizen, but there are three
or four available shippers between
him and the job of sailing a cup de-
fender.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21
Indian Baskets.

Collectors of Indian baskets agree
in conceding the greatest beauty in
form and design to .Ae products of
certain parts of California.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

A daring Frenchman is coming
across the Atlantic next May in an
airship. Prof Langley will meet him
on the banks Of the Potomac with an
automobile.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

rocks perhaps Sir Thomas Upton has
got a quarter Of the money that he
will need to pay his expert doctors
bills.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

When the United States army goes
up against the football players of this
country it will meet the fate that
sooner or later comes to every cham.
pion, '>'> "F~-'>-: >~.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

With the friendly help of Mr. Rookie
Teller and other well-known citizens,
young Cornelius Vanderbilt has lust
made S10,O000OO in the stock mar
ket. Who lost it?
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

After submitting to an interview the
sultan of Turkey has the nasty habit
Of turning the interviewer over to the
eXecutiOner
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

The assets of the S12,000,000 Ma
tional Salt company have been sold for
$4,000. Evidently the salt mines
We're sailed.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

A lack of expert management in the
present crisis in European affairs is
painfully evident Where is Core
spOndent Creelman?
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

Stuart Robson left s31,992, mostly
in cash in the bank-which is about
the most satisfactory possession, after
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

Now for a rush Of hunters to Alas
ka! DR.. Frizell government scientist,
reports seeing fresh mammoth tracks
up there.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

If Harry Lehr ever comes to grief
in a financial way he can soon re-
establish his fallen fortunes by start
ing man-milliner shop.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

We learn by telegraph that a bather
A. Asbury Park was arrested for wear
ing high hat into the water. If that
was all, no wonder.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

Another American word, nickel
has joined "biftek" and "rosbif' in the
French vocabulary. 1t is used in
speaking Of the new French five-cent
nickel coin.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21
Step in Advance,

The wagons of the London fire com
pany are to be supplied with bells so
that the firemen will no longer be
compelled to utter cries to cleaf the
streets. :: c*~:tI -
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

Perhaps Mrs. Peary was afraid that
after another dash for the pole there
would be no use trying to make Robert
toe the mark.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21
Secretaries to the Sultan,

The Sultan Of Turkey employs fit.
teen secretaries, whose duty it is to
translate foreign books for his delec.
tation.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

Connecticut will have to white its
cigars out of something else this year
It's tobacco crop is failure.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

A woman who knows how to make
good bread can lack lot of brains
and her family will never miss them.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

it. The stamps are wound on a reel
and at each depression of the lever a
new stamp is automatically fed be-
meath the cutter.
James N. Stacy of Portland, Ore, is.
the inventor.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

The Turks seem determined to keep
up the slaughter until they run out OF
MacedOnians.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

1t would be a great joke if Boston
should be obliged to send to the Phil
ipDines for Goldfish.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

Naturally the rural mail carriers
object to country roads out or WHICH
the bottoms have dropped.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

Secretary Chamberlain was all right
until he became so we'll known that
people called him "Joe."
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

After all, the corn crop is able to sit
up and notice things
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

Sir Thomas lost his pinnacle, but be
will take his vermiform appendix back
70 England with him.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-11-21

The intelligence of some men con-
warts than into positive haraA
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-18

fountains, carved pillars and wreathed
columns, he has worked out some re-
markably beautiful and effective bits Oc-
casionally ideal hands suggest copies OF
old paintings, yet seldom does one see
pose, a group or a composition but tnat
embocies an original idea.
Weddings in Rome are the signal for
the appearance of this enthusiastic ANA
teur with his ever present camera, ard
Count PIimoli laughingly admits that in
the last eight years scarcely any married
pair has escaped the aim of his lens.
In Italy everything that can be con-
ceived as offering Photographic interest
and opportunities has been snapped By
Kim. Five o'clock in the morning has
found him on the eyes. He is devoted
to the memory of his mother, who died
two yeras ago.
When speaking oh his plans. which will
cover the next two years. he said:
II am really not fond of travelling, but
I am forced into it. l cannot bear to
stay and see my old home torn to pieces.
so 1 shall wander around the world until
everything there is completed, and then
| shall resume the old life Of dispensing
and taking pictures. L meet
many Americans in Rome, and my friends
have given me altogether a hundred and
fifty letters to people here, but perhaps
shall not have time to present them all.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-18

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remain insensible, although their own
music sometimes produces the most ex-
traordinary effects, which are visible in
the movements they make.
Intelligence has nothing to do with mu-
sic. 1t is purely sensual in character.
The only element of intelligence lies in
the consciousness. The delicate percep-
tons of sounds and their elements. of
tones and their notifications, the ex-
quisite perceptibility in composition and
combination and of the least discord are
due to the perfection of the organ by
musical exercises. but these are not the
qualities which render the ear sensitive
TO music.
A sound prolonged to a certain intensity
causes variations Of the heart. Now. il
series Of sounds are interrupted bTusque-
~ there naturally follows an interruption
nthe cardiacal rhythm, producing there
also an interference in the continuation
Of pulsations. This brusque interruption
cannot be agreeable. because it disturbs
the agreeable tension which was pro-
duced in the arteries and the general
corresponding sensations.
oiAddC WOfh CAcSOtSu py lflc NOlCeS
of men and women and by instruments
of varied timbre, the effect becomes gran
dose because of the great number of
sounds which are combined harmoniously
and which are COMPOUNDED in their syn
chronic succession.
The sensations are extended, all the
vital organs are disturbed by the modi-
fication in the functions of circulation
and respiration; a wave of inexpiicable
sentiments. mysterious without precise
localization, invades US. We are COM
pletely enveloped in them, while the CT
gan of thought remains as If suspended
in its functions. paralyzed and capable
only of giving consciousness of the SEN
sations.
All the activity seems 10 be confined
TO sensations and nerves OF organic life.
These centers are excitd by the single
means of the auditory nerve, so fine, SO
waves and transmit the product of its
analysis and of the excitations to the
emotional center.
Thus the mystery OF musical impress
sions is solved not by its intellectually,
but simply by the sensual emotion evad-
ing the entire domain of life by means
Of the modification of the organic func-
Tribune.