The Irish standard., 1890-08-23
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clares that the human hog spemesis nm
known in the Scotch capital. This
tourist found every body sweet tempered
and well behaved. That visitor evil
IDENTIFY saw the Scotch capital By gas
light.
Nearly $40, 900. 600 is the sum which
the people Of the United States pay an
nually to the railroads tor carrying the
mails And still it takes three days
and as many nights for Minneapolis
young man to GET letter to his girl, in
st. Paul, and vice versa.
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The fashion for young New Workers.
to 20 to London TO have the wedding
ceremony, where it will be conveniel +
for dukes aud countesses to run IN and
honor them, is the height Of Anglo
mania ridiculosa.' That is the effect Of
bad EXAMPLE. But it is all right. as It
is 'quite English, ye know.
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after fruitless experiment the st.
Joseph News man remarks that if there
is one thing a man cannot do, it is to
put fourteen-1nch collar on fourteen
and a half inch shirt and use society
language about it. There is very little
society language used in st. Joe, any
way. The task on that account is still
greater.
An obstinate farmer in New Jersey
who refused to paw toll because the road
was in bad condition, saw his folly. after
wards, when, on being sued, he had to
pay costs amounting to SIS. The toll
was few cents Minneapolis and st.
Paul have got few men just like that
farmer, but they may leave wher the
census recount of both cities is COM
pleted.
Mrs. Page, of Ingersoll, Tex, gave
birth to four children the other day that
weighed respectively six, five. four and
tour and one-haif pounds. Mrs. Page
had previously presented her husband
with three pair of twins. She is the
patron saint of the census takers What
q position of honor she would hold in
the Northwest if she were here now dur
ing the census recount. .
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The British museum has among it's
treasures an almanac 5000 years old.
The days are written in red ink on pap
yrus, in columns, and under each is q !.
figure, followed by three characters,
slguifying the probable state Of the
weather for that day. The age of that
almanac fairly represents the number.ef
years that Eogland is behind the United
States in modern improvements.
Edward Wakefield, IN his history Of
New Zealand, estimates that the intro
duction of humble bees into that coun-
try has already profted the farmers to
the extent of $4,000, Coo. Before their
introduction it was impossible to grow
red clover seed for lack of tert1lizlng
agents. The humble bees pay better
IN the end than the political bee, and
whenever they buzz they do not effect
ones head so much.
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John Hope, we'll known and rich
gentleman of Edinburg, has executed q
trust deed conveying e84, 459 to the
trustees, of which he himself is one, for
advancing the cause of total abstinence
at home and abroad, from liquor, opium
and tobacco If the trustees will now
buy up the weed in America fur the
benefit of those who cannot Afford it,
they would be doing merltorious act.
John, did you say cigars?
The farmers along the Niagara river
have held to their places with a good
deal of persistence, but they are now
letting the old homes go to rich men
from Buffalo and other cities, who are
building summer villages along the
shores of the river There is where
the farmers are wise. BY building on
and finally selling to rich man they
have something for their pains. There
Is no use in selling farm to poor
man, any way.
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"A woman at Summit, Pa, who was
bit by dog, was SO mucn afraid that
she would die of hYdrophobia that she
killed herself with revolver. Now she
will never know whether or not she had
the disease she dreaded, and in that re-
gard she is much worse off than those
who killed the dogs which bit them
This woman probably shos at the dog
aud hit herself. The dog was the more
fortunate of the two.