The Irish standard., 1889-10-12
RANDOM REFLECTIONS.
THE LAZY MAN.

THE LAZY NAN.
The baseball season at an end.
The small boys nine disbands.
And now the lazy man finds time
Hangs heavy on his hands
The seasons close he doth deplore-
And thinks it is a shame
That he can sit upon fence
No more and watch the game.
But winter days are coming fast
When artic breezes blow.
And he can watch his wife while she
"a sshovIing off the snow.
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The United States sent ten million
dollars worth of machinery to Mexico
last year.
Uncle Sam should have a care lest
soma Of these British capitalists buy up
Corporal Tanner and put him in Brit
ish museum.
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Since Mr.. Edison departure from
Paris It has become known that during
his stay there he dopated 10000 francs
lOl kHE UOUl VI IIdL Cltf
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There are 20 1893 locomotives in SER
vice Oh American lines, 28,252 Dassep-
ger cars and 1,005,ll freight cars.
Canada has 1857 locomotives. 1,9l2
passenger cars, and Al .0O9 freight cars.
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a down eastern man has just invented
a nail machine which be says can turn
out IL 600 nails per minute. Small dies
are imbedded in two narrow cylindrical
rollers and strips Of iron and steel are
fed between the rollers aud dies.
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Corporal Tanner and Private Dalzell
will never try to raise another mau
from the dunghill to the throne Of
power" It is always pest, when man
Is doing reasonably well in the fertili-
zing business, to permit him to remain
where he is.
Last fall an unusually severe winter
was predicted. The winter was un-
usually mild. This fall an open winter
is predicted Look out for winter
unusually severe. Weather prophets
are really useful when their predictions
are understood.
The idea Of making Queen Victoria a
Colonel of German Dragoous has STRUCK
good MANY people as rather odd; bnl
it is said female officers were quite
common in the British army about a
hundred and fifty years ago. At that
time, it is said, persons who had a pull
on the Government were IN the habit
Of christening their daughters by mas
culine names, getting them commits
sions III the army, and drawing the pay
for the service which the girls did not
perform.
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At one tune a woman could hardly
walk through the streets of San Fran
cisco without having every one pause
and gaze on her, and a child was so rare
that once in theater in the same city
where a woman had taken her infant
when it began to cry just as the orches-
ira began TO play, a man in the pil
cried out: stop those iddles and LEI
the baby CRY. haven't heard such .
sound for ten years. The audienc,
applauded this sentiment, the orchestr;
stopped, and the baby continued it
performance amid unbounded enthu.
| slasm.
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About nine-ttnthS of the members d
the present city council rode into offic
and power through the cry Of reform
and no party ever kept it's pledge s,
| we'll. lG has been reform with a ven
geaDce-of sort that has certainly los
all connection with retrenchment. Th
i recent award of the contract for fue
| supply OF the water works to the Lehipl
Coal and Iron Company in the face D
the-fact that bid Of twenty cents pe
ton less had been made by another firn
for the same kind of coal, was only i
repeat, in small way, what has bee
made a general practice from the begin
ling. This reform council ia fas
burying Minneapolis beneath an ava
ianche Of indebtedness.
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\ WHAT relief 1t Is to an editor to Sc
his paper launched on publication day
! The small cares necessary in the max
| up OF paDer. which culminate toward
the close, have ceased tor daY only I
be renewed with increased tension o,
the morrow. What has been written
would that 1T were worthier cannot b
recalled, and II the work passes muster
nothing more therefrom viii hp heard
/ but unfortunately If ii contains a phras
or sentence which can be construe
! into an offence; or If some error has u
capped the vision Of the proof reader. 3
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