The Irish standard., 1889-11-02
4 mon !.
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The leaves have lost the emerald green they
wore in yernal days. $50 a H
The frost IL kissing forest bouahs into scar
let blaze, 55 @
The grapes are purplng il the sun upon the
woodland vine,
The airs invigorating like = draught Of rich red
The earth is fair as clover fields bedecked With
dew at morn, 55.s
And autumn welcomes With smile the husk
ing Of the corn. BIZ
Ny mind goes back to other days, and better, if
| yeu please,
When boys and girls were wont to meet at jolly
| husking bees
Girls who it really seemed to me were handsomer
by far
Than II the artificial ones the tailors make
us are.
Those were delightful evenings when we mixed
our toll with bliss,
For every red ear which we found secured the
cherished kiss.
1t isn't strange that now feel so lonesome and
Since all my friends are absent at the husking
of the corn.
Silence as to man and his deeds will
do mora to extinguish him than columns
of abuse.
xFxss
Rich people who are covetous are like
the cypress tree, they may appear we'll,
but are fruitless.
A man without a fixed purpose in life
becomes an easy prey to the tempta-
lions that lead to crime.
~
Whilst you are prosperous you can
number many fr,-'n but when the
storm comes you are left alone.
There are twenty-s seven women in
English prisons, undergoing penal ser.
vitude for infantlcide, all of whom were
originally sentenced to die.
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Queen Victoria thinks of bestowlng
the Order of the Bath on Thomas A.
Edison. In order to make him feel per-
fectlY at home she will probably make
it an electric oath.
4*x
Humility is to make right estimate
of ones self. 1t IS no humility tor, a
man to think less of himself than he
onght, though it might rather puzzle
him a little to do that.
q.
Perhaps truer words than these were
never written: eff wisdom's ways
you'd wisely seek, five things observe
with care: of whom YOU speak, to whom
you speak, and how, and when, and
where.
w. X Vanderbilts' steam yacht Alva.
which is easily the handsomest and
most perfectly appointed pleasure boat
in the world, cost $500, 0oo, and the ex-
pense of running her is said to be about
$3.50, 900 year.
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1t is the glorious prerogative of the
empire of knowledge that what it gains
1T never loses. On the contrary, it in
creases by the multiple of its own
power; all it's ends become means; all
it's attachments help to new conquests
A slight bow is all that courtesy re-
quires after an introduction. Shaking
hands is optional, and 1t should rest
with the older or superior in social
standing to make the advances. 1t is,
quite customary nowadays to say on
such occasions: Happy to meet your
in which case the ,ls,n' reply is: eft
gives me equal pleasure
The newspaper trust is the most ex-
tensive and universal trust in this coun-
try, and, instead of making monopolists
and mlllionaires of publishers, it makes
them dependent paupers. To trust a
thousand subscribers from one to five
years each, is virtually lending thou
sand dollars year to Tom, Dick and
Harry without security and with no
prospect Of ever getting it back again.
J. 0os VAuoG0 0LO Onss CullXo.
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A remarkable feat has just been CON-
pleted by Julius A. Eillinger, a cooper
Of Allegan, Mich, making 10000 bar
rels in 40 weeks, working eight hours
per day, which beats all records Of bar
rel making in the United States. Every
stave, head. hoop and nail must be
handled separately, and some slaves
from one to three times. In making
10000 barrels it takes 10000 slaves,
81, 600 pieces Of heading, 10000 hoops
and $50, 900 nails. It would require 10
box cars to carry the timber and 50 to
carry the finished barrels,
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The royal family of England is not
walking we'll at present. The queens
knee joint is still swollen and she can
not walk without stick. The prince