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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-07-06

| The court house commission Tues
day referred bids for the granite, cut
stone and brick work in the new build
ing to a committee which will report
at to-day's meeting.
Sergt. Leonard left for Montana
Tuesday night for his health. He will
visit the sulphur springs while he is
gone. Patrolman Kirkham is acting
sergeant in his absence.
Agnes, the 2-year- old daughter of
Richard DunlavY, residing at 1916 Sec
ond street south east, who was run over
by street car Wednesday night OF last
week, died Monday morning.
a two-year note, to take the place of
the thirty-day note for the $4,000 sent
to Johnstown, is being circulated for
signatures. The relief committee will
hold another meeting Manday.
The supreme court adjourned at IL
O'Clock Wednesday morning until next
Monday. The case Of Ed A. Stevens,
appellant, VS.. the City of Minneapolis,
was continued until next term.
Among the marriages of tie near fu-
ture at the Church Of the Immaculate
Conception will be that Of Miss Anna
Kelly, daughter of Anthony Kelly, to
James Blaine, Young attorney of st.
Paul, and a nephew of Secretary of
State Blaine.
About 500 children of the Immacu.
late Conception parochial school and
Catholic orphans home picnicked at
Lake Park Wednesday. The little
folks were in charge of Father McGol
rick and the sisters. Their dav of
pleasure included a ride on the lake
and the usual picnic festivities.
A coroner's jury investigated the ac
cident at Frank Cooks quarry by which
Herman 1saacs0n was killed Friday,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-19
New Chemical Discoveries.

1t will be long time before The far
mcr finds himself supplanted by the
chemical laboratory in the production
of such commodities rs sugar, tea al O.
hol, drugs and dye stuifs, though san
guine chemists tell us that the recent tri
umphs of their len indicate the
probability that these and other articles
will some day be probably produced
from purely inorganic materials. Syn.
thctic chemistry, or the forming of com
pounds by rccombinations of chemical
elements, Is making steady progress, aud
has already IL cctcd agriculture, says the
London Til Bits
Attention was recently called to the fact
TINT the cultivation of madden has been
almost destroyed by tho chemical dis
covery that its identical coloring matter
can be chcaply procured from coal tar.
The production of indigo is also threat
ened by an artificial production which
the chemists have discovered. A while
ago 1t was found the cinchona tree could
be protitably planted in India, and fine
new field of industry was believed to
have opened for the farmers of thai
country.
Scores OF chemists. however, have beer
ct work upon tho syuthe:is OF quinine
and their researches huve advan ed SO
far that the prediction is now confident
ly mado that the manufacture of the
principle of quininc will soon be on
mercial success, and that cinehona
planting will he ono thing of the
past. These ommer- ial rcprodu ,tions
OF the valuable principles inherent in
natural products are often easier to han
die and utilize than the products from
which they have hitherto been derived,
and thus tho tcndcn OF manufactures
is to substitute artificial for natural
sources of supply
The problem of sugar making from
inorgani materials has engaged some
chemists for number of years. The
synthcsis of glucose by Fischer and Tafel
is said to promise an ample supply of
this commodity without tho aid of
grapes or star h. Two years ago some
German chemists nnnoun ed that they
had produced saccheroso, the equivalent
of anc sugar, by passing nm ele trio
current Though mixture of star, III, sui
phuric id and water. Nothing has
yet been heard of the CONNER ial value
oil this new product, and there is no rea-.
son 10 think it will prove O dangciols
rival to the sweets we derive from the
cane and the beet.
Some sugar growers, however, have
been prophesying for years that some
thing wonld happen to ruin the sugar
industry, and their alarm re Gives
fresh impetus at every new discovery
like that of Remscn's saccharine, IN OK
ceedingly sweet article produced from
coal tar. The day may come when pro-
tesses of sugar making by the use of in
organic materials will seriously affect
the sugar planter, but there is no reason
US yet to believe that his industry will
soon be impcriled.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-19
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

An electric cigar lighter is about being
generally introduced.
A. new astcrold has been discovered at
the Nice observatory.
An electric tree. telling machine is be.
ing introduced in Europe.
Nitro glycerine is now nm important
remedy in heart troubles.
Water gas is used in place of coal to
drive tho machinery of tho forge works,
ut Leeds, England.
In Munich an apparatus has been in.
vented which greatly facilitates directing
the course Of balloons
An electric mining hoist is being sue.
cessfuily used at tbs Aspen Mining and
Smelling Companies works.
Two European surgeons have found
helleborinc superior to cocaine as u local
anFsthetic III eye operations.
America still depends upon foreign
mnkers io7 supply of commercial
electrical measuring instruments.
Electricity during storm, according
to sohnckc's theory, results from the
friction Of drops OF ice aud water.
The Lighting of the Hoosac Tunnel by
electricity makes the track visible when
there is no fog mile ahead of the train.
Alex. Bell has been able, without the
OF wires and with but few cells of
bnttery, to signal between two boats q
mile apart.
Snowilakes are said to be tho result oil
low-lying air currents whose tempera.
lures were much lower than those of the
earth's surfucc
Ore stamping by electricity is con.
sidcrcd the only sufficiently economical
system to permit of lower class ores
being treated at profit.
Microscopic examination OF emmcn.
site, the pew explosive, tends to con-
firm the foe. that 1t is chemical com.
pound aud not mere mixture.
French scientist holds that the
human race has greatly diminished in
size since tho creation of man, and gives
the height of Adam Us aga feet and Eve
us 11s.
Lead shoppers TO soda water siphons.
ginger beer bottles, etc, are condemned
by medical authorities. Block tin only
should be used in contact with carbon.
atcd waters.
Among the heaviest locomotives ever
built aro those recently put on its mount.
ain division by the Philadelphia and
Heading Railroad. Their actual weight
in working order Is 1853, Ot0 pounds, and
10y, $40 pounds is on the drivers. They
have tractivc force OF 211 pounds per
pound average pressure to the cylinder
Their cylinders are % inches in diameter
by 2s inches stroke; driving wheels, 80
inches diameter; boiler, 6 feet in diam
etcr aud II feet g inches long over tube
sheets. The tubes arc 270 In number
and 2t inches in diameter The fire box
Is over | feet long inside by ~ inches
wide, and is placed above tho frames,
but not above the wheels. The heating
surface IN the fire box is lS5 square feet,
and the total heating surface 2345 square
feet. The engine is designed to burn
anthracite, but not like the Wootten en-
gincs, buckwheat or refuse coal.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-19

The "most recent and most internal
triumph of American ingenuity" tho
dynamite cruiser Vesuvius, which re-
Gently made n speed of moro than
twenty-six knots over two mile course,
is not cruiser in the sense that some
believe she is intended to be. She is
simply floating gun carriage of high
speed and light draught. Her chief
junction will be that of rapidly convey
ing her novel battery to the point where
it can best be used. But England, the
New York Tribune thinks is not going to
allow the United States to take the lead
In war projectiles. She is about to build
several vessels, each to have single tur-
ret for very big gun capable of crack
ing, if not piercing, the armor of the best
protected sea going iron clad.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-19
Tic Knnnlking Dance

The colorcd people of the South must
have received the koonking dance from
their African ancestors.
When child lived in the western
part of Africa. says contributor to tho
Detroit FIRES Press. At the koonking,
seated on tho ground, the musician
holds the TOM tom (drum) between his
knees and strikes tho sonorous skin with
the palm, first of one hand and then of
the other. The dancing women range
themselves in wide circle. One com.
mcnces singing song of meagcr poetry,
but rich with humor and personal allu-
sion and, Mt due intervals, tho whole
gathering join in chorus. The entire
assemblage swing their arms backward
and forward and clap their hands regu-
larly to mark the time One or two
quit the circle, or ''got out" as they
term In, and, entering tho open space in
tho midst, commence the koonking.
The gestures are most singular Nor
did ever find the white man who, with
the greatest practice, could initiate
them. The young maiden gides round
within tho circle Of her singing and
hand-clappinR friends, waving her arms
and scarcely moving her feet, but at
every Deat OF tho tune Jerking up the
hip, or ''voondo," in ludicrous manner
others drop in and initiate her; each is
eager to dance; excitement arises, #
becomes contagious. Another and an.
other starts from tho ranks; tho hands
are clapped more vigorously, tho flood OF
song swclls high, the tom-tom beats
more rapidly asa the group arc in
elysium.
The shrill voices proclaim the Joy fol
and wide; maidens at q distance heal
the song, hasten to take part, and before
midnight few spots OF earth witness suct
highly wrought madness of pleasure al
that favored by the koonking. The
growing excitement is amusingly do
veloped. At first the "voondo" il
jerked at lazy intervals. BY degrees
however, the ngitated hip acquires per
petual fitful motion. The dancers sciz,
on the bystnndcrs and whirl them will
ing or unwilling into the spinning maze
meanwhile the song changes to the live
liest, the moonlight streams on the happ,
party; and the air breathes of tho orang
flower, thickly covering the surrounding
trees. This occurs in Sierra Leone, an(
possibly in other Parts of West Africa
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-19

Benncr, the Western business prophet.
whose predictions for some years have
been closely verified, now prophcsics
great boom in business during 1889 and
1890. These arc the years in his ostima.
tion in which to reap fortune, for then
wonderful activity WILL he says, be fol-
lowed by panic in 1891. ~ predict
ne says. Chat the price of iron will ad.
vance, and the average price for the year
1882 will be higher than the average of
1889, aud also predict that there will
be wonderful advance in prices for
iron, stocks and all products and com.
modes in the year 1890. All business
will be prosperous: it will be year Of
good crops-the boom year in the period
OF activity. In the beginning of the
year 1891 business will be mt its heigth-
o great business in1ation-pig iron $50
per ton i'll the markets of our country.
l predict that there will be panic in
the year 1891. The ovcrtrading and
general imitation of business and cxpan
sion of credit and confidence will pro-
duce the result"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-19
The Shamrock.

The emblem of Ireland is not known
by its flower, but by it's leaves. The
tradition rms that st. Patrick, when
preaching in Ireland, gathered the leaves
Of tn S plant, which contains three lobes,
or leaves, and thus illustrates the Holy
Trinity. Bentham, in his British Flora,
says that oxalis acetocella or wood sorrel,
is the original shamrock, having pale
pink, or nearly white flowers. This is
quito plentiful in the woods, and In n
climate like Ireland, easy enough to OBJ
tam on the seventeenth of March, the
day that oil Irishmon like to have few
sprigs for their button hole, or on the cap
or bonnet. Others contented that tho
original plant is clover, and the COM
mon white or Dutch clover is tho plant
that at present, at least, is the commonly
accepted plant, called shamrock. There
are varieties of this plant that have larger
leaves than the common clover; one with
dark brown, tho other with purplish
leaves, with zone in each leaf. This
appears the kind most acceptable for the
nurnoeo - p,.di,.if Hdryn<r
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-19
Flood Versus Steam.

Some years ago remarkable incident
happened on the railroad running from
Canon City to- Silver Gift, in Colorado.
Tho railroads run through Grape Creek
canon, narrow gorge dividing two high
perpendicular cliffs of roc :. In the bot
tom of this canon II stream of water ran
b istcrously, Mt one side of which, and
but fow feet above it, was the railroad
track. Every year in tho spring floods
occurred in that region, and great bodies
of water, in trying to find on outlet
from tho mountains above, rushed
through tho canon in such vast quaint.
tics as to ill it to n depth of many feet
above tho ordinary lcvo. This was n
cause Of great expense to tho railroad
company, whose trnci was often de.
stroycd, and whose trains wcro more
than once detained for days ut n time by
the floods
Ono day train entered the canon, and
was running along between the two tow
cring cliffs, when the engineer became
alarmed by certain signs, and brought
his locomotive to halt. Then, listen
ing attcntively, he heard roaring noise
ahead A food was coming. Farther
up the canon wall of water reaching
from cllr to cliIr was moving toward the
train with irresistible force Retreat
alone could save the passengers lives. 1t
might even now be too late for that.
Springing to tho throttle, tho engineer
started backward Slowly moved the
cars at first; faster came the ovcrwhclm
ing wave. The rails lay in an almost
constant succession of curves, and there
was danger in running at n high rnte OF
speed, particularly as the train WAS gong
wrong end first. But thcre was no heir
for it; fee they must.
I he passengers had learned their peril.
With pale faces thsy leaned out to catch
n glimpse of their pursuer, or besought
the conductor to order more speed
Round curve after curve glided tho cars,
but no less swiftly came the dclugc be
hind. Already rose the stream along
side. If anything should break or
wheel leave the trac',, scores of live
must be lost. Will the canon never end
That dull roar above drives women fran
tic and deadens hope. But there!
CLEAN of daylight ahead shows the can
on's gate. A little additional pressure,
few minutes moro Of anxiety, md witt
wild scream of victory from the loco
motives whistle the train rushes to safct
upon stretch of straight track laid OF
the mesa. -Urr0ey's YOunO Pdople.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-19
Mans ID nj Denth.

According to the Medical News, there
aro two kinds of death, somatic and
cellular, aud both must occur before a
man is completely dead. When the
former takos place without the latter
there is chance of rcviving the patient.
A man has been resuscitated after re.
naming half an hour ut tho bottom of 6
stream. A man who died from Indian
hemp poisoning wns recalled to life after
many hours hard and apparently hope
less work. These cases of rcsuscitatior
occurred in warm weather or in warm
room where cellular life m ght reasonably
be expected to continue some time nftel
somatlo death. Tho inference Is tina
many deaths occur that might be pre-
vented by extra work on the part of thu
physicians,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-19
Living Cheerrally on Two Cents a Dny.

DR.. T. r. Allison has been trying the
experiment of living on meal and water
for month. His daily allowance was
one pound of whole meal, made into a
cake with distilled water His account
of his condition after week is cheering.
In the first few days he felt hungry, but
about the fourth day this disappeared
and he had no craving for other food
His brain was clear, his lung capacity
had increased five inches, and both HE
sight and hearing had improved. he
had lost seven pounds weight, but seems
to regard this as rather an advantage.
Altogether he feels thoroughly satisfied
with his experiment. 1t is very econ
omical one, the wheat for seven days hay
ing cost only sixteen cents. This, ho
says, is living on almost two cents day,
and enjoying it.-London Hospital
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-19

The vault in which the body of the
Austrian Crown Prince Rudolph has
been inferred is under tho old Church Of
the Order of tho Capucius, in Vienna.
The collins of eighty members of the
House of IIapsburg lie there, some Of
them, notably those of the famous
Empress Maria Theresa, and of her hus-
band, Francis, being of pure silver.
Among Others are those of the ill-fated
MaSimilian, Of Mexico, and also of M
poleon H., Duke of Rcichstadt, the son
of Napoleon l., and OF his Austrian
wife. Empress Marie Louise.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-19
omNIA vANIrAs.

What write shall live forever said tas
poet in his pride,
And he wrote with the blood Of his bosom
song that straightway died.
will make my name immortal" said the
artist with sob.
With his soul for brush he painted what
the critics called daub
" My words shall startle nations" tho state
mans blood was strred),
Thon he from the rostrum Numbered q
speech that no one heard.
" Tho world shall wake with wonder ut tn
conquests Ishall make"
And the soldier led his army to fatal.
black mistake
" I'll overwhelm tho scholars when show
how Nature acts"
And the scientific doctor rehashed up an
cient facts.
In time each strong desire shall strike upon
some reef,
In time each high ambition shall surely
come to griet.
Susie " Best.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-19

Shall the noble remnants OF the ma
TONS primeval forests, which furnish our
timber and guard the sources of our
great rivers be preserved2 A compre-
hensive and seemingly practical plan for
this vastly important contamination is
outlined in the latest issue of the Garden
and Forest. The propositions OF this
plan are, briefly, the withdrawal from
sale of all forest lands still belonging to
the Government; the committal of such
lands, at least temporarily, to the care
and guardianship Of the United States
army, and the appointment, by the
President of commission to examine
thoroughly into the condition of all the
nations forests, and thcir relation to the
agricultural regions Nutered by the
streams having their sources there with
a view to preparing report on which
the Government authorities could work.
The idea also includes System of train
ing, under Government auspices, which
should in time provide sulfi-
cient number Of thoroughly equipped
foresterslfor the service. All this, Frank
,LSslie's ayers, seems eminently fitting
and practicable, and the plan is certaip
at least of careful consideration. France
ana Germany have excellent armies OF
forestcrs, but comparably no forests to
speak of. Portions of Asia have been
denudcd into deserts In the United
States, If the proper steps are taken in
timo, the national forests at least may be
preserved, and so managed as to perpot
.ualiy reproduce and flourish, while at the
samo time furnishing M abundant supply
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-19
An Army In Miniature.

A gentleman by the name of Lawrence,
living at West Salem, Ill, has produced
remarkable piece of mechanism. II
represents an army, and consists of 400
pieces. Horses, men, cannon, cavalry,
artillery, infantry, and band of fifty.
two men, each holding an instrument,
arc representedin this wonderful mechan.
ism. Many Of the figures move auto.
matically, the power being obtained
from miniature windmill, propelled by
the heat of candles. Galileo's cowled
monk was not more strange in structure.
Most Of the work, strange to say, was
done with pocket knife, and although
Mr.. Lawrence exercised his ingenuity for
year In the construction of the marvel.
GUS mechanism, yet he disposed of 1t fol
nero nominal sum.-Indianapoli Jour
nal.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-19

Says the Now York Voice: "Strikos
arc not so numerous as formerly. In
1883 there were less than one-half as
many such conflicts between employers
and employees rs there were in 1886. The
parties are coming to respect each others
risht and might. There has been q
steady growth of sympathy with the Ia
boring men, but at the same time q
deeper determination to uphold the laws.
The people are determined to SEQ fair
play whoever gets hurt"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-19
A Novel WasI, Basin.

Charlton Fletcher, of Hinesvillc, Ga. +,
has novel basin, which is tho admlra
tion of all who visit him. The water
shelf is a huge block of solid pine, and
in it is scooped out basin near the
water bucket with hole in tho bottom,
in which is n stopper of black gum root.
This basin is smooth and clean, and the
water shelf, supported by large pillars,
stands under the shadow of large oak
and Is very inviting place, He says
thereis no danger of his basin being