The Irish standard., 1890-05-17
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RANDOM REfLE0 rI0 Hs. 4.
Vines that have three fingered leaves
are as rule POISONOUS; those that show
five. fingered leaves can Be handled with I.
safety Is that why some mon are
spoken II q the light fingered gentry =
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1t took Just enteen'days for George
Maoomb . Michigan man to bury his
wife, put up headstone. re-paint his
house, and marry . second time #
will take him seventeen weeks to settle
with the undertaken.
sAn English doctor reports over thirty
cases Of headache aud facial neuralgia
cured BY snuffing powdered salt mp the
nose.' If the same medicine. would cure
an enlargement of the Uranium, that
DOCTOR would make his fortune il he camo
to Minnesota.
The cheapest place IN Missouri to live
Is at the penitentiary. The daily cost of
maintaining convicts at that institution
is only seven and one-half cents per
CAPITA Notwithstanding John T.. Sui
Ivan would rather pay 81 day to .
Boston hotel for his pancakes than live
in Missouri for nothing.
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One Of Utah's inexplicable marvels is
q mountain Tricky covered with oyster
shells. 1t is s. miles northeast of Salt
Lake City, and is over 4, 900 feet higher
than the city, which is 1900 feet above
sea level. This would be . good place
tor the Mormons to 20 to escape tho
wrath of the Gentiles. This pointer
does not cost anything.
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lie Caron, the spy. has the remin-
iscences of his adventurous life almost
ready for publication. A great deal of
space will be devoted to the Fenian raid
on Canada IT he would add his con-
nection with the Parnell-letter forgeries,
and tell how mach money Walter of the
Tunes paid for these productions, the
write.up would be complete.
So
"A Massachusetts manufacturer, in
payment Of his 700 operatives, gave each
one crisp $40 bill. Each bill was
marked so that it could be recognized.
The Tuesday following 40 Of these bills
bad been deposited in the bank 10y the
saloonkeepers. And yet We hear SO
much about the good people of the East.
They evidently drink as much whiskey
there as in any other part of the country.
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Baron Rothchild. the Paris Banker,
lives in fear IF the commune. His cell
lars are, almost impregnabie, and his
pictures and jewels are protected in such
way shat toe most eraspipg mob could,
not reach them. he lives in state OF
constant fear.' This is fair example of
the comforts some rich men enjoy. A
poor man can go to bed without fear of
being molested and his wife is lucky if
she finds any loose change in his
clothes.
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There are in this country and Canada
645 miles of electric street. railway, Oh
which 1880 oars run. Ohio has tbs
greatest number of miles OF any State
93+, and runs 161 cars, while Pennsyl~
vania has but 314, and yet runs eighty
four cars. more than three times az many
in proportion When the author of this
little summary hears from Minneapolis
and st. Paul next summer Ohio will
drop notch.
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Samuel Cable, a farmer of Stark. o..
thought he was dying, and decided his
property, worth $50, 600 to five children.
He recovered and asked them to restore
1t. but they refused, and now he appeals
to the court on the plea that he was not
of sound mind when the deeds were
made This is warning to all men IF
property. They should make their wills
to read latter DEATH and not fright
away as evidently the case with Gable.
His name would suggest that he had
more rope than was good for him and
like the old adage ''give HIM enough
rope" etc.
AN English inventor claims to have =
system by which coal gas can be COM
pressed into eight per cent. of it's natural
bulk. and in that shape carried. about