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The Irish standard., 1889-02-02
THE STATE LEGISLATURE.
The Jury System Considered on Thursday
Last.

1u6 jury 0yStou oOuS1uoI6u vi AuuISuay
Last.
When the hour of II O'Clock was
reached on Thursday, H. E. Stevens
bill, submitting constitutional amend
mert, making the verdict of three
fourths of jury sufficient in civil cases
was considered. MIR. McKusick, OF
Pine, was in the chair. Mr.. Searle, of
Stearns, spoke in favor of the bill Mr.
Hoyt, of Goodhue, said that he would
favor the measure because it submitted
the question to the people, and did not
attempt to decide it by a vote of the
legislature.
Mr. Fleming-I think this is as wise
a measure as could be adopted. The
jury system should be maintained as
one of the bulwarks Of life and proper
ty, but it will increase its efficacy to
amend it as proposed.
Mr.. Morgan-If this measure were
hostile 70 the jury system [ should be
opposed to it. AS it is favor the sub
mission to the people Of this amend
ment. 1t is beneficial in it's object.
Mr. Brush-The time has come when
we should make a change in our jury
system. 1t is. however, in the way of
improvement, and tends to increase the
benefits of our jury system. However
we do not submit our amendments In a
proper way.
Mr.. Brush offered an amendment
adding to the bill the provision that the
ballots be printed separately. and haye
no other words upon them.
Mr.. Forbes-The majority rule OBJ
The Irish standard., 1889-02-02

81 can only he sister to you, George
nothing more. (" ''I'm afraid that won't
do, Miss Clara. have five grown sis
ters already, and, to tell you the truth,
they are not very tavorably disposed to-
ward you; they think match with you
would be the mistake of my life." Gin
that case, George said the girl, draw
ing herself up with naughty grace.
You may name the day."
The Irish standard., 1889-02-02
GRAINS OF TRUTH,

The darker the night the more bril-
liantly do the stars shine. So the heav-
emily promises of our holy faith never
appear more consoling to the heart than
in the night and darkness of earthly
trials and miseries.-Rev. F.. K. Wen
niger.
For what is time? TIE shadow on the
The Irish standard., 1889-02-02

great numbers over half high guimpes
of crepe hsse or silk muslin.
A tuft of silver tipped white ostrich
feathers is a favorite hair ornament
with ladies anywhere in that debataDle
land of age between thirty and hfty.
Striking toilets for very young wo-
man are made Of red cloth OF red l.idia
camel's hair combined with white cloth
and white bengaline along with much
gold or copper cord and braid.
The hair may be high or low at pleas
ure. Care must be taken, however, to
have it pronouncedly high or low, as
the s'middle extreme is just now Sc
yerely sat upon by Dame Fashion.
A favorite combination for a tea gown
is velvet of two colors, say black and
emerald green, or gray and coral red,
with rich gold passementeries for the
collar. yoke. cuffs aud pockets.
Necklaces ale worn even with high
bodices. Jewelled combs, great or
small. tangle in beauty's hair. AT balls
aud dinners Of ceremony small aigret
tes with jewels so set as to fall below
them, are the head ornaments most
preferred.
Marquise lace appears this winter
with edges so sharply pointed that they
are often called Vandykes. A very
beautiful sort has one point of Chantillv
and the next of Spanish. To get the
full effect it must be shown over some
very bright color.
This is the garb of magnificent
matron; Princess robe of green Lyons
velvet, opening in front over a bodice
and pet1icoat Of old rose India silk en-
broidel.d in pink and green, pointed
slippers, green fan and green tips for
the hair,
The hustle grows smaller by degrees
and beautifully less. With belted bod
ices for evening it is now conspicuouslY
absent. Position basques require the
support Of small cushion. Draped
skirts of clinging stuff are best held IN
place oy petticoat founcee around the
bottom and all the way up tbs back.
The empire corsage of Partisan cut is
fitted with a single dart and two curved
seams, which start at the shoulder and
curve to the point in trout. There are
two side forms in the back, which must
be laced up, not hooked or buttoned;
tina neck is low and round with en-
broidery about it. This is repeated
around the bottom Of the waist. ORA
perry CT the same stuff is graduated down
the seams that come from the shoulder.
To freshen gown whose collar is
partly worn, says the New York Com
mercial Advertiser, take good ribbon,
two and one-half inches wide, of the
color Of the gown Or of trimming,
put seven rows of gathers through the
middle Of 1T, leaving a narrow ruflo at
each edge. Put it around outside the
collar, tapping 1t at the left side, and
fasten under a Dough of many loops.
Another garniture is made of narrow
ribbon very fully pleated and set inside
the collar so as to show barely a quarter
iuch of frill. At each end five inches
of ribbon are left plain and tied III a
tiny bow after the collarette is in place,
The Irish standard., 1889-02-02

A RECENT issue of the Cork Examiner
contains an announcement of the death
at Ballymacoda, County Cork, on De-
cember 18th last Of Miss O'Neill Grow.
The Irish standard., 1889-02-02
RANDOM REFLEOI'IONs,

We don't know which is most to be
complimented for having pooled their
issues at the Eighth Ward Relief hall
last Wednesday evening-the Orange
men or Revs. Morrill, and Mabie.
*x*
There IS but one ray Of hope for the
Barrett boys now. that Of communication
of sentence to imprisonment for life.
The day of their execution has not been
set. What Gov. Merriam will do in the
case can only be conjectured.
*
Alderman Gray will impose license,
if his colleagues will allow him to do so,
of $50 upon owners of ulldogs here
after. Under a high license only dogs
who will fight unto death will enter the
arena under such circumstances.
what's the matter with prohibition
here?
~
1t has been announced positively
again that James G. Blaine has been Of
fered and has accepted the position Of
secretary of state under Harrison. This
will be rung down as the champion
chestnut Of the present century. Com.
mence early next week with it-there IL
3 little more time left.
The Irish standard., 1889-02-02
EDITORIAL BREWTIES.

THE grangers Of Virginia have asked
for bounty Of IS per cent on the value
of the farm produce they export to off,
sat the protection to manufacturers.
The Irish standard., 1889-02-02
FOR THE LADIES

Corselets, with shoulder straps, or
else narrow baby sleeves, are worn in
great numbers over half high guimpes
of crepe llsse or silk muslin.
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28
Useful Anes.

Professor Romanes has been teaching
chimpanzee in the London Geological
garden to count. She succeeded in
learning to obey the order to pick up
one, two or more straws accurately as
far as five. Above that number she was
generally accurate as far as seven,
though she sometimes made mistakes.
This learned chimpanzee understood
spoken language ''to deg1 ee which is
fully equal to that present. ID by an in
FAINT few months before en- crying from
infancy" This, Professor Re ,manes says,
is higher intelligence thu n is mani
tested by any. other brute, SD far as he
has been able to discover.
The ape was indeed almos able to ar
ticulate words. She had thu zee distinct
sounds to express three diff ;erent emo
tions One kind of grunt meant yes,
another 10, while third sou nd meant
to say "thank you. for gifts or favors
cat times@she sings strange bowling
note, interrupted at regular in tervals. .
The creature nanifests great docility
and affection for her keepers, v no arc
very kind to her. .a#
If civilized man inhabited the wa DIS in
which these, animals are found, he w ould
long ago have had them trained , be
his slaves. Man subjugated to his err
vice the horse, far stronger, less int. j.
q -
why not the chimpanzee and it's fierce
cousin, the gorilla, which grows to
mans size in the wilds Of western
Africa? The negroes there have, indeed,
occasionally broken in the gorilla to
pluck cocoanuts and carry water for
them. Why could they not be trained
to systematic service? There is: no sin
in making slaves of gorillas ar ID chin
parzees There Is story that a pes have
been,trained TODD very useful woi X in to-
baceo fields.
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28
Facts About Life.

The statistics recently published by a
leading life insurance company contain
many interesting points.
Americans ivelonger than our foreign
born citizens.
Among foreigners next to the Ameri-
cans stand the Irish, English and Ger
mans, in the order named.
Few Germans or Englishmen die Of
spoplexy.
Germans furnish the highest percent
age of suicide.
Native Americans are comparatively
free from diseases of the liver.
Typhoid fever has the most victims in
the northwest and the fewest in the
south, but in the latter section there is
large mortality from other zymotic dis
eases and more liver disease, but less kid
ney disease.-Atlanta Constitution.
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28
What Are "Norranatic" Marriages.


The term "morganatic, applied to
marriages, had its origin in an ancient
custom by which the bridegroom on the
day after the wedding gave his bride a
morning gift-morganabe. In the case
of a nobleman welded to wife Of low
estate this morning gift constituted the
wife's portion, or endowment, and from
this gift such marriages took the name
morganatica The German law, continu-
ing this tradition, allows the members of
the reigning house and certain noble
families to contract marriages in all re-
spect legal and valid, except that it gives
to the partner Of lower birth and to the
children no share in the rank. titles and
distinctions of the privileged house.
Such marriages have often been eminent
~ happy ones. london Life.
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28
Some FactS About Tea.

Tea came into use almost by accident.
Some Buddhist priests, going on mis-
sionary expedition from northern India
to China, took with them the dried
leaves and also some cuttings of an in
digenous shrub which was said to have
the power of correcting any injurious
properties in the brackish water they
might meet with on the way. The de-
coction thus made pleased the mission
aries so we'll that they continued, as
matter of taste, to drink it after they
had reached China, and introduced it to
their converts. They also set about
planting the precious shrub, and although
it did not thrive so well in China as in its
native Assam, becoming smaller both in
stem and leaf, it was So we'll liked that
it soon formed the foundation of the
favorite beverage of al! China. Thence
it was brought to Europe, to be drunk
and desired by Englishmen of every de-
gree. And it is only of late years that
Assam tea has come into the European
market, to be looked upon rather sus-
piciously as the rival OF its own degen-
Grated Chinese daughter-London Stand
ard
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28
The Book of Divorce.

Mr.. A. Parlett Lloyd has perhaps made
it easier for his fellow countrymen to
settle their matrimonial woes. He has
gathered into one volume the divorce
laws of the different states and terri
tories and published them under the
name of GA Treatise on the Law of Di-
vorce." It is queer assortment. Causes
for divorce range from almost nothing
in one state to the gravest crimes in an
other. In Washington territory, Con-
necticut, Utah and Kentucky the
grounds for divorce are almost left to
the discretion of the judge, while in
South Carolina no divorce is granted at
all on any ground. From this book a
sufferer can find out on what plea he
may get divorce in the state in which
he lives or elsewhere. Mr.. Parlett Lloyd
thinks the strange tumble of laws shows
the utter futilfty of attempting to pass
a general United States divorce law.
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28
A Case of Mind Cure.

A correspondent of The Fairfield (Me.)
Journal gives the following instance of
mind cure in the early days of that
town: DR.. Thayer, who lived near what
was called the Back Meeting House, was
one of the best physicians in the county,
but his skill was no avail in the case of
his wife, who kept her bed for more
than two years. One day there was no
grown person about the house and her
little boy came running in with a bad
cut on his finger or hand, bleeding pro-
fusely. With true motherly forgetful-
ness of self, she sprung UP, found band
ages and properly dressed the wound;
then, sitting down to rest, she looked
around; everything seemed so pleasant
and she felt so nicely, she decided not to
take her bed again, and she did not.
She lived several years in the enjoyment
of comfortable health.
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28
Stand Up.

A wise physician has lately called
attention to the injurious effects of too
much sitting. The American people are
VIGOROUSLY q nation of sitters. The re-
suit is that the lower limbs grow weak
and spindling, while the body gives
down and doubles up and grows at once
thick and fabby. The internal organs
are cramped and weakened. The stom-
ach becomes dyspeptic, the kidneys de-
bilitated and diseased.
These sedentary people could stand or
walk about at their work twice as much
as they do. Then the chest would ex-
pand and the trunk grow erect, slim
and graceful, particularly if attention
was paid to deep breathing. Admiral
Porter, rs years old, engaged constantly
in literary work, always stands up at
his desk to write. He is a splendid
specimen of health and vigor. Stand up
to read and write, at least part of the
time,
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28

eled by two shots. This mean shot is
called by artillerists the Jubilee shot"
Capt. Ingalls, figures came within 166
yards of the jubilee shot, and within II
yards of one of the shots. z..
The altitude reached and the actual
distance travelled by the shots are, how
ever, matters that directly interest the
public. The fact that the journey of the
mean shot was 10 miles and IS yards is
rather startling, The projectile also shot
upward into the air to a height of 81
miles. Shots can be safely fred from a
ship at an angle of IS dogs. Suppose
we should quarrel with some of the des-
potisms of Europe, and some fine morn
ing one of their ships should stop seven
or eight miles outside of New York or
Boston and begin to pepper those ports
with little $50 pound shots?
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28
Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The merry old boy who wrote the
"One Horse Shay" reached his S0th
birthday this Goth of August. He him
self wrote to Julia Ward Howe few
months ago, on her roth birthday: sit is
better to be 20 years young than 40 years
old" DR.. Holmes himself, though one
Of the most industrious men of his cen
fury, shows us how to be 80 years
young. In fact, it is this eternally
youthful quality in the famous author
that attracts us so. 1t is like the sparkle
of champagne. The greatest blessing an
old man or woman can pray for and
strive for is this unfading youthfulness
of soul.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes was born
in that year prolific of famous men, 1909,
in an old gambrel rooted revolutionary
house which is still standing. 1t took
several years for the young poet to find
out what he did not want to be. His
family designed him for the church. He
rebelled against it with all the force of a
poetic imagination, chiefly because of
the general diSmalness of the preacher
of his childhood-''a clerical visitor with
IL sad face and wailing voice." He also
studied law for year and finally settled
down to medicine, The medical profess
sion know him as marvellous anato-
mist and microscopic. We outside know
him as the Autocrat of the Breakfast
Table and the man who wrote the weird
and terrible novel, elsie Venner," but
most of all as the author for youth,
whose work is full of humor and Joy
and brightness, as well as sweetness. AS
writer of poetry for special occasions
he certainly has not his equal in the
English language. One of his sayings
which especially tickled the fancy Of our
British cousins is this: "Give me the
luxuries of life and will dispense with
its necessities.
DR.. Holmes became famous when he
was 81, and has staid so ever since, May
he live ID be hundred years old!
An old inhabitant, not so very old
either, remembers New York city when
it had not a single tenement house, and
when the daughters of well-to-do citi-
zens swept their own sidewalks and the
street itself out nearly to the middle
Now two-thirds of New York's million
and half of people live in tenement
houses, and if the daughter of well-to-
do citizen should be seen sweeping a
sidewalk she would be thought to be a
candidate for the insane asylum. Then
the population of the city were nearly
all Americans. Now there are whole
streets whose inhabitants can scarcely
speak word of English. But the change
which strikes the old New Yorker most
is what he calls ''the rise of squalor
line;;'' that is, the increase of poverty.
He says: "The squalor line is rising in
New York as surely and as mercilessly
as the tide rises in the rivers that sur
round it. I only hope way may be
found to force it to recede."
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28
Birds and Telecranh Wires.

1t has been supposed that birds become
accustomed to the presence of telegraph
wires, and are careful to avoid them in
flying, but it would seem either that this
is a mistake, or that the birds on the
Scotch and English moors are less intelli-
gent than their fellows. Systematic OBJ
servation there along line of telegraph
wires has shown that great destruction
of bird life goes on throughout the year,
and that at certain seasons the roadside
is literally strewn with the remains of
unfortunate grouse, black game par
fridge, snipe and other birds. Every
morning at dawn marauding bands of
rocks come from the lowland woods
to feast on the dead and dying, and
the farmers and shepherds in the re-
gion declare that more grouse are killed
annually by the telegraph wires than by
all the sportsmen.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28

nered selfishness. He had not been
taught respect for age or sympathy for
helplessness. Therefore, he failed to ex-
ercise either. Would it not be worth
while for parents and teachers, while
teaching the boys a good many other
things, to teach them manners, too? II
they can't be induced to do 1t from a
love of good manners on their own part
they should do it for very shame, for
every exhibition of selfish boorishness
like the one above mentioned is an adj
vertisement to the world that all the
world reads of lack of proper home
training. The boorish boy gives away
his boOrish parents or teachers 's~'-
In the same car, before it became quite
so crowded, was another boor-the fell
low who folds and unfolds his newspa-
per, digging his elbows into the passen-
gers Oh each side of him while doing so.
This fellow is in almost every morning
and evening car. His elbows are worn
sharp by constant practice, as thousands
of his fellow riders can testify from pain
full experience. He is worse than the
boy who hasn't been taught good man
ners and isn't old enough to have learned
himself, for the newspaper boor is usu-
ally q full grown and often a middle
aged man. There is another type of the
newspaper boor found in most street
cars He is the fellow who gets in soon
otter the car starts and becomes SO alb
sorbed in his newspaper that he can't see
other people standing, while he and his
newspaper occupy the space of two or
more seats.
Really, it is hardly to be wondered at
that half grown boys sit in supreme and
unconscious selfishness while crippled
age stands, when they are furnished SO
many examples of boorish selfishness by
those that should be their teachers and
e2empiars in courtesy. Can't some kind
hearted and wealthy philanthropist be
induced to find an institution for the re-
formation of the various adult street car
Doors, including, besides those just men
toned, the cross legged boor, the fellow
whose cane or umbrella is stuck out to
trip other passengers, and all the other
examples of the genus boor? If these i'll
hammered fellows were reformed, per-
haps the half grown lads might learn
street car courtesy by the process of imi-
tation.- Philadelphia Times.
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28
Goods i)rljN-crcd Free to
any pa,.; OF s'lc city.
FOUR NEW STATES.
South Dakota, N orth Dakota, Mon
tana, Washington.

On February -, !rS). the President signed
ti., !,..i crrm!jIi- !>,'n'n Dakota, North DakO-
ia, M"ntana and Warrington states of the
Union.
sour! DAKorA.--'Chr great prairie state, to
which the ST. Paul, Minneapolis Il Manitoba
railway has three main lines, reaching Ellen;
dale Aberdeen, Huron, WatertOwn, and
Sioux Falls. Go to South Dakota via the st.
Paul, Minneapolis Il Manitoba railway and
pass through st. Paul and Minneapolis en-
route.
NORTH DAKOTA.-Thcre is grown the No.
hard Scotch fife wheat; hose healthful ell
mate nurtures the most vigorous and brainy
civilization on earth; where single counties
raise more wheat, oats and barley than entire
states; the soil of whose fertile prairies is
richer than the valley of the Nile; where the
Turtle mountain, MinOt and Devils lake land
districts invite the home seeker TO secure
free home. Magnificent daily train service
to Fargo, Grafton, Devils Lake, Bottineau
and all other important places.
MONTANA.-TreaSureS in its mines of pre-
cious metals; wealth i'll its 100000 head Of
live stock; profit in its fertile fields, produc-
ing a larger yield of crops than any other
state or territory; the richest country per
inhabitant on earth; where prosperity Is
UNIVERSAL; which has the best paid labor in
the world; balmy winter climate, caused
by warm winds from the Pacific. The St.
Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba railway is the
only railroad passing through continuous
agricultural country from St. Paul and Min
ncapolis to the Rocky mountains. 1t runs
through the great reservation of 18,0O0, 900
acres of land, free to settlers, in the Milk
dance: no irrigation required; the only line
passing through Great Falls, with its 1000 600
horse power cataractS; immense coal veins,
and surrounding farming country of free
land; through Helena, the capital city and
commercial center of Montana, and Butte,
the richest mining camp on earth, to San
Francisco by the Columbia river valley,
Portland and Shasta Route, or Ogden, Utah,
to California points. Remember this is the
only line running dining cars, sleeping cars
and free colonist sleepers of its own from St.
Paul and Minneapolis to Great Falls Helena
and Butte. 1t is also the shortest line to
Butte.
WAsHINGTON.-The country of tall timber,
fndented by Puget Sound. the Mediterranean
of the Pacific. Do not forget that the St.
Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba railway is the
only line which offers choice of three routes
to the Pacific coast. The Manitoba Pacific
route is the only line by which passengers en-
route for Tacoma, Portland and San Frencisco
can pass through Fort Townsend and Seattle.
Free colonist sleepers run through without
change or delay. Distance to the Pacific
coast is same as by other lines, but prices of
tickets are five and ten dollars less. Take the
Seattle route.
For further information, MAPS rates and
publications in regard to the resources of the
four new states, write to F. I. Whitney,
gen. pass. and ticket agent, st. P, M. NJ.
Ry., St. Paul, Mimi.