The Irish standard., 1889-09-07
RANDOM Refill BOTTOMS.

RANDOM REF IONS.
Wild geese are already migrating
southwark on the Pacific coast. This
is said to indicate great snow storms in
the arctic regions. d (
The Shah of Persia considers The
Duchess Of Marlboro the handsomest
woman in England. and she's an Amer
lean. Take the American and Irish
woman out of England and the hand
some women left would be very few.
That IS no fault Of theirs however.
Victoria Morosini, the daughter of
the New York millionaire, who married
her fathers coachman several years
ago and starred on the stage, has done
satisfactory penance for her social sin,
and is again with her father as modest
but attractive belle at Saratoga. The
whereabouts of the husband are un-
known to the outside world and the old
man has not even asked Victoria yet if
her husband was out of chewing to-
bacco the last time she saw him.
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Minneapolis is going to have good
system of cables, and several lines of
the same, if the Street Railway Com
parry is allowed to 20 ahead. The
recent proposition from that generous
|(?) company is to build a cable line
down Riverside avenue to Twenty
sixth avenue south, and out Twenty
sixth avenue to Twenty-sixth street; it
also asks for permission to operate an
electric line in the city. Minneapolis
will yet have a good street cur system
Competition, the city IS much obliged
to you.
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Cornelius Mulvehill, farmer living
six miles south of Leroy, Olmsted
county, died from the effects Of a snake
bite. The victim was in comatOse
condition for several hours previous to
his death, all attempts to restore him to
consciousness proving fruitless. DR..
Kilvington has written the coroner of
Olmsted county to forward him the
snake at once as he wants to send it to
Jacob Hanson, believing it is the only
thing that can kill him which the Lake
Amelia wild cat and N ew York whiskey
failed to do.
The municipality of Paris gave a
banquet to $4,000 people the other day
IN the Palais d'Industrie. There we're
IL 900 provincial mayors, and the other
1000 were Senators, Deputies. town
councillors and journalists. The pro-
visions included 600 gallons of soup, 125
! of sauce, $500 pounds of fish, {, 400 of
beef. 600 ducks and 1900 geese. There
were 1000 walters and 40 buffers. They
served $4,000 plates, Is 900 bottles claret,
1900 Of Madeira, $500 of pomard and
1900 of champagne. It was pity
Boulanger was not present. He could
have been in the soup and no one would
have known it.
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The Signal Service officer on Pixies
Peak recently sprung the following on
a newspaper correspondent, who had
more time than money or his hands:
"Sometimes stand at the window with
my telescope. can see the houses of
Colorado Springs, twenty miles away,
the men sitting in their shirt-sleeves,
slipping iced drinks to keep cool, the
ladies walking around in white summer
robes. [ lower the glass. The summer
scene is gone. Green trees, animal
life, men and women fade away like
creatures in dream, and 1 am the
only living thing in world of eternal
snow and ice and silence
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A Bo stOn matchmaker recently had
rare task. 1t was the putting in order
of two watches, each of which had cost
$4,000. The case of each of these
watches is OF pure gold and it's works
number fully 400 pieces. On the larger
dial there are four smaller dials: one
showing by diagram of the sky the
changes of the moon, a second dial
each month, a third dial the day of the
month, and fourth dial the day of the
week. After be had examined them
thorouhgly. he was so much puzzled
that he did not know what time it was,
and was obliged to solicit the desired
information from q friend who was
present.
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Recently an Ulster county, New York
farmer cut an acre or two OF trees on an
elevated portion of his farm with the
following result: my nrst loss was
the driving up Of a beautiful brook which
had it's source in my grove, and which
ran through number of fields, furnish
ing water for cattle while grazing.
Five times the value of the wood I sold
would have been refused for this