The Irish standard., 1890-02-01
RANDOM R6fL EOTIONs.

RANDOM REFLECTIONS.
Ohio girls can aft ord to put on airs.
Statistics show that there are IN Ohio
81 900 more boys than girls. Ten to one
that the girls will have more to say than
the boys.
The garden next to the little cottage
in which Edgar Allen Poe lived at Ford
ham has been covered with ugly tene-
ment houses. Rented houses pay better
there than vacant lots, The same is the
case in most all places. u.
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It is estimated that Santa Barbara
county, CAL, contains 80 bee farms, with
z, $50 hives. The output Of honey this
year was 10000 pounds. That would be
a good country to catch flies in, but q
very poor one for dog fight.
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The new king of Portugal is not very
strong physically. This Is not strange,
as he employs nine doctors. If he wants
10 get we'll he had better discharge the
doctors at once. The wonder is that he
has lived so long under such circum-
stances.
Leland Stanford, who is worth $780,
100000, always orders the same lun-
cheon week in and week out. His order
is calves liver and bacon and bottle Of
beer. He will no doubt soon write 9
book on ''How to live on bacon and beer
and still keep up appearances"
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The unwelcome news comes from
Northern Maine that the spruce gum
supply is giving out, and that in regions
usually prolific it can not now be bought
at any price. What a pity The young
lady in the street car must hereafter toy
with her glove buttoner instead OF her
chewing gum.
A family at West Bethel, Me-, con-
sists of couple IS and 80 years Of age
respectively, who live alone and do most
Of their work. But they do not lack for
music or excitement they keep fifteen
pet cats. Their ha ppiness is complete
if they have fence convenient for the
Toms to perch on.
There is queerly matched couple III
Atlanta. The husband weighs 100
pounds and the wife 300 pounds. When
they were married the man weighed $50
and the woman 100. Heis evidently Of
a nervous, fretful disposition and she
takes life easy. That is the way with
the average American woman.
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1t is proposed by the Jews residing in
Rome, who are numerous, and in many
cases extremely wealthy to erect syna-
gogue TO cost awards Of $4,000. 900, They
had better worship in q common frame
building and divide that So 900, 600 be-
tween their creed in other countries who
are not as we'll fixed financially as they.
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"A horse weighing 1000 pounds, and
owned by man in Dover, N. H., got
hungry III the night, left his stall and
climbed a long, steep and narrow pair Of
stairs into the hay loft, where he was
found the next morning. The horse
knew more than its master. The latter
did not know enough to give the animal
anything to eat, and so the animal
helped itself. .9.
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The inner circles Of the literary world
are pulling over the knottY intellectual
problems offered BIZ the new literary
sportent, Hero sal lem The Vision Of
Peace. = A north Minneap polls married
man has tried 70 unrayel the came lpuz-
zle, bat without eject He says his
peace has been thing but q vision, and
be will soon ask fora divorce.
!. !. III
~ Mich gan man bur RED his wife. put
up 4 headstone, repainted bic house.,
married s second WI and dug I've
acres 81 potatoes NJ thin seven esn III,
and yet he rays he can begin rs hustle
III w. ~ IsHg
sas nst1e,r in tht, true sense ef Tue
word, buts 81 is not known whether III
married his second laif 81 so %
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