The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-08-30
RANDOM REF ELECTIONS

..5 RANDOM RRFLEOT IOHs. I
Gen. +. p. Spinner, ex-tt asurer s.
the United States, is now alnott entirely
blind & The sight Of 90 much public
money doing nothing was even too much
for Mr.. Spinner. u y
Mrs. Leland Stanford recently paid
$85 for fifty menu cards Tor one ot her
swell dinners IF she had given this
money to the poor, she would have done
a meritor1ous act; as it was she wasted
the money for a poor purpose.
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'Blacksmiths can start q fire BY pound
ing violently rod of soft iron. first
spreading on the anvil layer Of powder
ed coal dust. This is good illustration
of the conversion of force into heat.
Pugllists can make things very not too
when they get into the ring. Verify
science is on the march.
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James Fraser was excused from jury
duty q. Philadelph1a the other day. on
the ground that he was over IS years Of
age and had shaken hands with La
fayette.'' Such an excuse would hardly
excuse him with Judge Emery, e
would be liable to make his summons
more binding. s
The senate committee Oh postofaces
has reported bill, which will almost
certainly pass, for further extension OF
the free delivery system so as to include
all towns of not less than 5000 inhab-
itants and $1,000 year Of postoA6ce
receipts The senate Is making an effort
to do something before it adjourns,
Their pluck is commendable.:
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.The school board of Shippensburg,
Pa. has determined to furnish for
scholars this year free text books. stations
ery and other articles For this purpose
l mill has been added to the school tax.
Perhaps the Minneapolis board of educa-
ton could copy from bhippensburg it
they tired. Let 'em make the effort
anyway.
1t is said to be not unlikely that the
house in which President Lincoln died
will follow Libby prison to Chicago, q
western syndicate having made an offer
for it. The intention is to put it on
exhibition during the worlds fair Ii
the West continues to bring things this
way much longer there will be nothing
left IN the East.
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1T is estimated that citizens Of Eng
land hold about 81, 000, 600, 900 or ST ,200,-
600 900 of Argentine securities, and the
financial COLLAPSE pretty nearly brought
on panic in England. The English
losses WILL run up into the hundreds OF
Millions England should pay her own
debt first, cut down army expenses. wipe
out nobility and give the working classes
chance to live.
sThe Australians have at last found
the solution of the rabbit-pest problem.
They are canning the nnischievous little
rodents, and find ready sale for them in
Europe. One cannery alone puts up
"A. 600 rabbits week, and there are sew
eral others as large, with more contem-
plated The difficulty is in getting hold
of the rabbits and not in the canning OF
them.
sThe first elephant ever seen IN Eng
land was sent as present to Henry Ill
by the king of France about the year
1926. Numbers OF people crowded to
see the curiosity, and special building
was erected for it at the tower. It i!
not strange then that England has had
an elephant on her hands ever since.
That accounts for SO much trouble
among the upper ten. y
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There has just been finished and
placed in the cathedral of Charkoy,
Russia, clock Of solid silver weighing
600 pounds: It Is in memory Of the:
czar's escape from death in the railroad
accident at Borki, and is so arranged
that upon Oct. Is in each year-the an
n1versary of that event-it will ring a
peal of BELLS The car will not hear
it ring very often.
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"A planter at Alpharetta, Ga, has an
acre of cotton, every STALK Of which is of
q deep red color, leaf, boil and bloom.
This novel crop Is the product Of seed:
derived three years ago from two stalks.
of red cotton found in acotton field.
There is fortune in this new variety if
it can be perpetuated.' There will be