The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-10-26
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without i thought that 81 and ~ with pleasure
they'll be done;
They kiss each bud and hover and they e. fiirt
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Their whole existence one brief hour OF happl-
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The while the wise, industrious ant is WORKING
with q will. .ss %.
AS day yday her winters store she strives 9
amply all:
And il we gain no wisdom from this lesson as
profound.
Wen regret it when the weather's cold and snow
is on the ground.
In summertime when work abounds ana every
things alive,
When all the bees are bringing in the honey 70
the hive, :,
With birds a-singing everywhere and flowers all
in bloom,
And beauty dancing in the air without shade
ofgloonl.
Then we forget that of our wealth we ought to
lay away
A little sinking fund with which to meet rainy
day
We spend our salary freely then and throw our
wealth around,
But it's different when the weather is cold and
snow is on the ground.
There is but one way Of obtaining
business, publicity; but one way OF
gaining Notwithstanding.
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The art Of putting the right men in
the right places is first in the science OF
government; but that Of finding places
for the discontinued is the most difficult.
The highest structure Of masonery in
the world is the national museum re.
Gently completed at Turin. The guilt
statue on the top Of the spire stands 538
feet from the ground.
We can not afford to suspect every
body because certain persons have de-
ce,ved us. There are such things as
honor and integrity IN the world, and it
is for us, intelligently ana reasonably, to
look for them and fnd them. When
men cease to trust each other the foun-
dations of society will be disturbed.
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In Hamilton, O., man died few
DAYS ago, who had $500 in money laid
up, and payment Of $3.50 was due to
save his home. His widow took the
money to buy fine casket, an expensive
lot in the cemetery. and to hire twenty
five hacks for the procession, and thus
used every dollar and let her home go
by default.
There is nothing purer, grander,
nobler in life than pure friendship, and
there is no prize greater than true
friend. Confidence is the offspring of
friendship, that confidence where each
is trusted implicitly and where each is
solicitous for the others interests. In
this world of ours true friends are
scarcer than hens teeth, so when you
have one he careful to keep him. 81
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Now doth the busy house fly come
r. sc,h Tom orCt
the bald spot on your head in a manner
most refined. You pooh at him, shoofy
at him, and vaiuly paw the air, and
when you think you've got him fast, the
sly chap isn't there. For high above
you now he sits, and all lfe's labors
lost, for nothing known will kill that fly
till the late October frost.
In order to detect counterfeit bill
take Uaited States bill of any denomi-
nation and hold it up to the light, and
you will see two lines running entirely
across it lengthwise. Upon examination
YOU Will uu0 OuCSC W VAu046t VI u 6llh
thread, q red one and blue one.
Every genuine bill has this mark of
genuineness. Without those marks a
bill may be put down as counterfeit no
matter how good the engraving on it.
No paper mill dare make that sort of
paper, and that rs the governments
only protection on it's currency.
The girl with the iron jaw is what the
friends of Miss Lillian Toban, of New
York City, have named the remarkable
girl Of seventeen. She has for long
time been the envy of gum chewing
chums But she not only chews gum