The Irish standard., 1886-05-29
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member of the Irish bar:
THE FINDING Or MOSES.
On Egypt's banks, contagious to the Vile,
Great Pharcal1's daughter went to the bath in
style;
And an she ran about to dry her royal skin,
She kicked the bulrush that had little Moses in.
AT that event surprised, awhile she stud
In silence. gazing on the sacred tiud;
Then turning to her maids, she said in accents
mild.
t.Blood an ages, girls, which av yez owns the
child %
It is estimated that there are forty
bars of soap i'll dog.
M. .Drummont asserts that the Jews
in Paris. now 80, 900, have doubled dur
ing the last years.
The proprietor Of 81 noted coffee and
cake saloon in New York has been boy
ootted for riding in /, boycotted Third
avenue car.
A Catskill lady possesses a lace cap
which was recovered from the bottom OF
the ocean after having gone down in the
steamer Oregon.
# President Cleveland woald do as he'd
He'd marry the mother instead Of the daugh-
ter.
The Norristown Herald has pune
tured another Of the blissfnl legends OF
the past 1t says that the busy little
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There is report going the rounds
that the Java coffee crop this year will
be comparative failure. Java hear
such disagreeable news? But chicory
still holds out.
ssl'apa. who are these anarchists
Of whom SO much ssnld z?
''They're men, my boy, who shake their fists
And howl for gore to shed,
Eut, when the cops ccme i'll the lists,
Crawl underneath bed"
Chicago priCles herself on the tact that
she has lately put q lot of her telegraph
wires under ground. The fact still re-
mains. however,, that there are lots OF
more dangerous things than telegraph
wires above ground in Chicago.
The San Francisco courts are to intro
duce the Chinese oath, which consists III
the WITNESSES cutting off the head OF a
silicken as he repeats a formula promis-
ing 60 tell the truth, i'll the hope OF re-
forming Mongolian 1nendacity.
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A Minneapolis young lady on being
reprimanded by her parents for remain
ne out after o'clock, explained her re-
sition by stating that she had been
:sbcy''-" "cottel." The old man intended
10 make it "a sslock~out.' -
A man i'll Bear Valley, CAL. started &
fire in a chimney that had not been used
for year. There appeared to be some
obstruction, and he understood what it
was when 200 pounds Of honey melted
and ran down. The bees had been
using it Tor hive.
A. Chicago girl exasperated at the
scarcity and high price Of leather, re-
Gently cut off hex little toe.and the market
became easier.-Carl Pretzel's National
Weekly. Tt is toe bad, Carl, that such
5, corner should have existed, but
leather go.
Robinson Crnsoe's island has been
leased Of the ChiIian Government by
Swiss named Rodt, who has colony
there which he manages much in the
way Crusoe directed his community
after immigration gave him one. This
almost seems like q case Of history re~
peating itself.
General Sherman owes his middle
name. Tecumseh, to the admiration
which his father had for the old Shaw
nee chief. He wanted to name his first
gon after him, but had TO wait until each
OF his wife's brothers had been honored
with y namesake. Then she ran out of
names, and Judge Sherman had his way.
A s'lat'' sheet called the Non Union
list, published in Jacksonville, Fla, says
il will furnish newspaper publishers
with rat printers and it won't cost them
{the publishers) $40, either, From
what we know OF the notorious "Rat'
Cole, publisher Of the Non -Unionist,
and his rodent followers, we can as
sure newspaper publishers that the men
will not be worth 1910, either.''
DIR. w. f. Carver, the well-known
rifle shot, says: 1T is not generally
known that an orange hit in The exact
centre by rifle ball will vanish
at once from sight. Such, however, is
the fact, and that is my way Of making
an. orange disappear shooting it i
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