The Irish standard., 1886-05-01

Warmer and brighter,
Or has been lying some
GOssippy writer?
Chicago Tribune.
A paragraph is going the rounds to
the effect that Frank r. Stockton die
tates his f,,nuJ stories and novels to his
wife. who acts as his alnanuensls, and III
this way, by working only three hours a
dav, he did 'tMrs. Null III ten months,
besides debating nine magazine articles.
The paragrapher might have added that
Mr.. Stockton is almost blind.
An epistle Of novel character passed
through the Portland, Oregon, post
office. The novelty consisted in the ma
terial upon which it was written, which
was a gentIeman's linen cuff. There
was nothing unusual in the contents,
which were simply dun, couched in
the following language: "Please call
around and pay your wash bill. Your
I4aundrynlan The cuff was adorned
with q two~cent stamp.
The poetical name Of Galveston is the
Oleander City, but, according to the
Galveston News, the trees which gave
the city that title have been destroyed
by the extraordinary frosts Of last Will
ter. Says the News: ut 1s not exag-
gerating the case whatever in asserting
that there will not be q solitary oleand-
er III bloom this summer and perhaps
for many summers to come.
A PROPER DEFINTTJON.
t>Dear sir, he said, I'd like TO ask,
Unless the aucs lions rude,
What ,naans those strange and mystic words,
'Innocuo,is dcsuetuue?
',Df course the question is not rude,
The other man replies;
'':They mean, you see, the business man
Who does not ADVERTISE
Tn tyle latest chapter OF s:Praeterita,"
Mr.. Ruskin has this to say about girls:
:tIiterally to please them is: indeed, my
hope with I'll girls, in spite Of what I
have above related of my mistaken ways
Of recommending myself. My primary
thought is how TO serve them, and make
them happy aud if they could use me
for plank-brilge over d stream, OF set
me for post to tie q swing to, or any
thing Of the sort not requiring me to
talk, I should be always quite happy in
such promotion. This sincere devotion
to them, with intense delight IN what
ever beauty or grace they chance to
have, and in most cases perceptive sym
pathy, heightened by faith il, their right
feelings, for the most part gives me con-
siderable power with the girls. But all
this prevents me from ever being in the
least at ease with them. ] like oval
faces, crystalline blonde, with straight
ish, at the utmost wagy (or in length,
wreathed) hair, and the form elastic and
foot firm
Prof. Tyndall is another Irishman
without sympathy with the majority of
his countrymen in politics He was
born in Carlow sixty-six years ago, Of
parents SO poor that 1t was with the
greatest difficulty they procured elemsn-
tfry training for him. An apt pupil. he
eked out at home the small instruction
he acquired at school and was preco-
ious in mathematics. Though the KIND
Offices of friend he obtained a minor
position in the ordnance survey and his
talents secured early and frequent pro-
motion. His first private employment
was in modest capacity in Manchester
as an engineer. He never studied in
college or university. All his life has
been spent out of Ireland, and he pro-
badly has no more consciousness Of
being Irish than he would have of being
all Indian had be happened to be born
in India and been carried in childhood
to England His wife is the daughter
of Lord Claud Hamilton. In private
life Tyndall has the characteristic jov-
iality Of an Irishman. He is as fond Of
a jest as of q problem in physics, and is
very conpanionable with all classes of
people. Indifferent to conventionality,
he frequently defes social regulations
with impunity, being so much in de-
mand on account Of his position, as we'll
as for his lively spirits, that nobody is
anxious to quarrel with him. He made
more money by his lecture tour few
years ago in this country than he had
previously made on his numerous books,
and has the reputation of being acquisi-
tive and thrifty in money matters.
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