The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-03-08
RANDOM REFLECTIONS. !.

RANDOM REFLECTIONS. ~
The Peoples Political Reform club
wants reform. From the spectacle It
made Of itself on Saturday night last I.
il armory hall il looks as # some public
spirited citizen should buy an axe and
chop it into shape. 10 geti t into Tecog-
nizable form Sam Johnson ideas should
be poured through . smelter. %
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in they year 100 there was but one
newspaper in the United States. In
1870 there we're 81, this year there
are 16,319, the tot IL for the United States
and Canada being 17.107. 1t is hard
to say how many papers there would be
in this country if such productions as
the Free Lance were counted IN.
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Prince Henry of Battenberg has
made peace with his wife and mother
in-law. and returned home after three
months Punishment Verify, Henry is
prince in the true sense of the word.
A man who can fall out with his wife
and mother-ln- law and make up again
in the same year is a good one. Henry
of course conceded everything and that
ended it.
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Lyman Trumbull. ex-governor, ex-
secretary of state, ex-supreme Judge,
ex-member of congress, and ex- United
States senator, is still practiclng law in
Chicago at the age of II. He is in good
health and his legal ability is as good as
ever Is it known If anyone axed him
If his Ak was sharp or his saw in sight?
James G. Blaine has got some wood to
saw.
! AN English paper says that syn
dictate is being formed in that country
for the purchase from this country OF
the forest lands of Alaska If Uocle
Sam is as careful of his forest lands as
he is of the surplus in the treasury the
English syndicate will find smaller
margin to their credit after the purchase
than they had VIXEN they invested in the
Minneapolis -four mills.
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i Marriage ought to be success among
the Chinese peasants. They need about
81 q month for food, and an economical
man or woman can get along whole
year with S. worth of clothes > The
writer of this little piece IS evidently not
q Benedict. when these are the causes
he advances for unhappy marriages.
Why did he not say something about
cold feet?
Bloomington, Conn.,, the other day had
snow storm, and morning glories in
bloom in the house yards along the
main borough street, and A. P. Squares
picked apple blossoms. pansies and
daudelions.' The man who wrote this
could read the Sunday papers and then
go to church and apparently take as
much in a sermon against the use Of
the Sunday paper as the preacher him
! self. Some people are queerly consti
tuted.
AN English scientist propounds
the theory that the grippe epidemic
arose from the contamination Of the all
by the decaying bodies of the million
Chinese drowned in the great Hood o.
1882 The disease sprung from the
dscayed booms of certain would-be pre-
sidents in the Republican side of the
house. and no wonder that it did sc
much damage. The present admins
tration will have similar effect on the
public credit before 1892.
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u sWhat is said to be the most powerful:
electric light in existence has recently
been put into operation in a lighthouse
at Householm. on the dangerous coast
Of Jurland. It is of 1900, 600 cahdle
power, and mounted on a tower about
200 feet high, and can be seen at a dis
lance of thirty-fve miles even in rainy
, weather. It will require lamp with
: twice the power Of this one to oe able
to see at the end of the year. what Min
: neapolis has gained by Republican
: administration. Old Sol himself if be
came down could not throw enough igh
on that particular.
Standing on the East end Of the stee
arch bridge one day during the weel
were two we'll dressed ladies looking q
the ruins of the Suspension Bridge
Each OF the ladies had little girl abou
Is years old with her. The little ones or
seeing two mon at work on The Wes