The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-03-10
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The average Mexican laborer supports
his family on ten cents per diem. invested
in corn and beans.
DURING the last year and Il half the cot
ton manufacturing power of Japan has IN
creased more than $50 per cent.
WIEN a London lady urges friend:
'sDo take off your skin,'' she merely means
for her to lay aside her sealskin cloak.
The Sultan of Turkey has decreed pro
hibition for Constantinople and ordered
the police 10 close all the liquor shops in
that city.
PROMINENT women of Paris are signing a
petition for the suppression or restriction
of impure literature, and a League of Pub
lie Morals has been formed.
AN Esouimau woman tells US that the
people Of her country never wash or battle,
have no rulers or form Of government, and
every one does exactly as he pleases.
EVERY THING in the Cars kitchen is kept
strictly unler lock and key, and no one
can serve him any thing except the maitre
hotel, q Frenchman named Brenger, who
alone attends the Gar at table
TIE Swedish Government has declared
against the importation Of pork from the
United States, unless it is well suited. The
order is founded on a report that q hog
pestllence is raging in the United States.
NEAR the town OF Soleure, in Switzerland,
Il birds nest WAS recently found which was
cols ructed entirely of the imperfect watch
springs thrown out from the workshops.
1t has been deposited in the local museum.
AMERICAN authors are more read than the
English il Japan. Last year IS ,000 English
and 10000 American books were imported
into that country, SO that the old question:
! 'sWhO reads an American bool1?" was fairly
answered.
|. FRANCES Victoria ALEXANDRA is the name
bestowed upon child recently born to a
Sioux mother in Buffalo Bill's camp. It is
the first Indian child born in England, and
is nan1ea for Mrs. Cleveland, the Queen
and the Princess of Wales.
THERE was q queer exhibition in the high
est law court in England q few days ago.
The tables in front Of the bench were COW
cred With wonlcn's bustles. A patent was
involved, and the various styles of bustlcs
were examined with curious interest by the
learned judges.
THERE is a great store Of gold as well as
OF coal III Corea, but entire lack of proper
mechanical devices for mining The pro
duction Of gold Last year was s5O0o,000.
The main object of the Corean Embassy
to this Government is understood to be to
interest the citizens Of this country III the
development OF Corean resources.
a CURIOUS, lucrative trade i'll Paris is
that Of l1not-maker," or "tier Of cravats.'.
The trade flourishes chiefly in the season
when there are dinners, balls, soirees and
receptions i'll every corner of the capital.
The good I" ]znot-lnaker' jumps into his cab,
and is whirled around to his customers,
doing his business in an Incredibly brief.
space Of time.
TnE Museum of Religions at Paris, which
is to contain collections OF idols, paintings
and other objects having to do with the
various religions Of the world, will cost
about 100000. It is rising near tho
Trocadero. and will house the collections
made by NJ. Guimet and also afford rooms
and library Tor savan5s and those who
translate Oriental languages.
THERE has recently been discovered in
the high Alps, near the summit Of the great.
st. Bernard. five large granite affairs and
numerous other relics of the stone age,
used in pagan epochs for sacrifices. Swiss
scientists consider this discovery d proof
that Mount ST. Bernard was q place G. sac
ritice in pagan times, and that the Canton
of Valais must have been inhabited by
human beings as far back as the stone ago.
THE French peasants, rather than trust
to savings banks, generally carry their
money i'll their stocking legs, and q nlisery
Old woman who died lately left quite a
fortune In this way. She had lived in {.
ycritable pig5styc, and her emaciated body
was found on q heap Of rags and rubbish.
In her cos. on stockings and sabots were
found notes and gold amounting to nearly
10000. numerous; trinkcts of considerable
value and securities worth more than $751;
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