The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-09-13
RANDOM RR ELECTIONS.


4 .Ex-C Congressman Nv q. Scott cold
from his farm in North champion county
last year $751;, 900 worth Of truck. The
farm expenses were $50, 600, 50 q net
profit Of 500, 900 was made Mr.. Scott
evidently, did not 60 to Washington for
the benefit OF his health.
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Chicago has a protective agency for
women and children. In the last three
years the agency has collected nearly
ST, 900 Of wages, due shop girls. seam
stresses, domestics and clerks If Chi
cago had site now for the Worlds
Fair it would be the happiest city in the
States.
sThe ladies of St. Louis make life 8
] burden to the gripmen on the cable cars
by punching them in the back with
! their parasols when they want the cars
stopped It cannot be that the st.
Louis gripmen are graduates Of the deaf
and dumb institutes Of that city? And
still ST. Louis is a Chicago rival.
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"A correspondent at Carlsbad names
| two Of the most extensive patent medi-
clue manufacturers in the world aa
among those who are there drinking the
waters and taking the cure generally.
They concluded to throw their own
physic to the dogs IT the dogs were
hungry all was we'll; il rot how did
they compromise matters With the health
department?
Great Britain has a continuous suhsA~
died line CT travel and transI ortation
from Liverpool to China. by means. Of
the Canadian Pacific railway and tteat
steamers on both the Atlantic and Paca~
fic oceans.' Yes! but what of the sub"
siaized press ia Great Britain. Ii John
Bull would subsidize less, and care toz
the poor more, there would be fewer
demonstrations in Trafalgar Square,
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s'The total number of stars, Of which,
some knowledge may be obtained by the
OPTICAL appliances now available. accord"
ing to PROF. Lockyer, is from 40, 0o0,0oN
to 10000, 600. Of These only about
6, 600 are visible to rhe naked eye, equal
Iy divided between she two hemlspheres.
IL was we'll that the professor divided
these considerations equally between The
hen,ispheres, otherwise there might
have been trouble.
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by covering bullets with 'sasellne
they may easily seen in their course
from the rife to the target. Their tra~
iectory course is marked bY beautiful
rings of smoke, caused by che vasel,ne
being ignited On leaving the muzzle OF
the gun, the smoke being suspended for
sorne time in the air, il not Zoo wlndv.7
This would be good thing for men 10
practice who carry guns, particularly it
the guns are loaded.
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1T transpizes that tbe fnghtfu2 aocl~
den on the Old Colony Railway YVES
rot an unavoidable occurrence. The
train was thrown from the track by q
Jack screw which one OF the workmen
who was engaged in making track re-
s}airs failed to remove from between the
ra1le.' There are too MANY "unayoiaa~
bic railroad accidents these times. and
the sooner Laws are passed making rail-
roads responsible for them the better.
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According TO the AIsahabal Pioneer,
the largest reservoir, Or artificial Lake,
in the world is the great tank Of Dhebar,
twenty miles southeast Of Udaipur, RIA
potana. which covers an area Of twenty"
one square miles. The masonry dam id
1000 feet long by IS feet high, 5Wfeet
vide at the base, and Is feee at the top.
It will be well It that masonry does not
give way as did the embankment of the
lake overlooking Johnstown.'
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THE dweller on the planet in the year
1000 will undoubtedly look back on
these times with good deal Of the same
feeling that we of the present. day Iave
for those who lived IN che days Of, the
stage-coach and weekly mail; it is quite
likely that the philosopher of that period
Will speak of ours as 'tthe good old
times" The times no doubt will be
spoken Of as ''the good old times, "but
what will be said Of those who lived in
those times?
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Something of the magnitude Of the
Vanderbilt system Of roads is suggested
by the fact that there are about u 900
employees ON the New York Central, and
over 60, 900 on other lines belonging to
the systam No wonder that a strike