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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-10-02

"Ihis train runs tri.wscky leaving Lancaster
az 1890 N on Mondays. Wednesdays and Fri
days and leaving Madison at 700 . m on sun
days tuesdays and Thursdays Carries passen
| gers between madison aud DodRerille,
J. 81. SANDS, Agent, b0dgeyille.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-25
TATTOO MARKS.
Nothing Yet Discovered Which Will:
Eradicate Them.

Nothing Yet Discovered Which WILL
Eradicate Them.
It has often been claimed that tattoo
marks may be removed by pricking
over them goats milk. This is mis-
taken idea, says the Boston Bulletin.
Chemists and others have for years ex-
perimented with various preparations,
In the hope of discovering some agent
to wholly remove india ink-marks from
the human skin. Nothing, however,
has as yet been found that will remove
a portion even of the Objectionable
marks, unless, possibly, the attempt DO
made Immediately following the tattoo
ing process. At Mount Washington
university hospital, Baltimore, an ex-
pertinent was some years ago made in
presence of the writer upon the forearm
of a noted character of that city who
granted permission to the students Of
the university to experiment as they
saw fit with his dead body. One Of
these students, curious to learn every
thing possible connected with the prac-
tice Of tattooing, cut from the dead
mans arm a strip of skin upon which a
coat of arms appeared. Beneath the
skin the design remained visible. By
degrees the flesh was removed, the de-
sign in india ink still remaining in
sight until finally the bone was reached.
After a thorough sponging for the pur-
pose of removing the blood and pieces
Of flesh remaining, it was found that
the representation still appeared. At
ter cutting away q small section Of the.
bone, the india ink mark was found to
have not penetrated beyond.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-25
Cold Greenhouses.

A German horticultural journal says
Shat one OF the latest inventions in
medicine is the use Of cold greenhouses
In tropical countries as of conf
batting yellow fever. This disease, It
states, can be conquered If one removes
to those elevated regions In which oaks
will grow. This fact says Garden and
Forest, recently inspired celebrated
Cuban physician with the idea OF reduc-
ing the temperature Of sick roonss by
artificial means, and wonderful cures
resulted. Now 1t is proposed that, IN
districts liable to the epidemic, each
Gown shall erect great glass house In
which plants of cold and temperate
regions may be grown, the temperature
being artihcially cooled instead, of heat
ed, AS in o1r greenhouses, andthat they
shall be- devoted to the treatment OF
patients suffering from the fever.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-25
THEosoPHY IN MISSOURI.

A Pair Of Star-Gazers, Dilate on Low,
Poetry and the Pole Star. !.
He was an eavesdropper, but oneupon;
whom the office had been thrust, say
the Kansas City Star. He had en-.
sconced himself in corner Of the vino,
clad yeranda to smoke the cigar Of r.,
Election when these theosophical lovepN
strolled out to sniff the evening air.
They seated themselves on: the topmost?
step and while his arm encircled her
waist she remarked:
II particularly love that STAR
(which one?'' /.
'sThat one,'' said she, pointing to the
outermost lower star, Of the dipper's'.
bowl.
"A very natural preferences"
''Why?" ..4,
s'Two thousand years ago that was'
the north STAR said he, land doubtless
in your life that you then lived you
were won't to refer to it as you now re-
fer to Polaris, the present north star.
Who knows" continued he in his grow
ing enthusiasm, "but that you were an
Egyptian trader, and that as your cara
van wendell it's long-drawn way across
the traclzless desert you looked to that
star for guidance, and that the habit
thus formed has penetrated your pres
ent life in the form of an indefnable
preference?'
''But where were you them" she
TREMENDOUSLY inquired as she seized his
disengaged hand, she being but recent
convert to the doctrines of Karma, and
her feminine soul, with it's pleasant
dreams of wedding fnery, suffering
slight shock at the thought Of any con-
dition in life in which there was neither
prospect nor propriety of husband fig
uring.
But the lover was now lost in the as
tronomer He was a teacher, and, true
to his pedagogic instinct, he. proceeded,
while he looked rehectively toward the
east:
eyes. indeed, and in twelve thousand
years that star Lyra, In the constella'
ton of the harp, that you may see just
rising through the trees, will be the.
north star. for the earth's motions, you
must know, are precisely like those OF O.
top. It revolves OH it's axis, and at the
same time this axis describes wide
circle of it's own It is this latter mo-
tion that causes the change in the NORTH
star. since the orb so named is always
the one toward which the earth's pole
is then pointing
She sighed, and after little pause
said in discouraged tone:
II wonder what you and win be do
ing when Lyra is the north star?''
Promptly the professor quoted:
ST vex me not with brooding on the years
That were ere drew BREATH why should Ifhon
D1strust the darkness that may fall again
When life is done? Perchance IN othars
Spheres
ssPoetry and theosophic poetry at
that!'' muttered the eavesdropper-'
s"This is too much.''
There was a loud rustling among the!
vines. The professors quotation ceased
abruptly, and his arm took a more con-
ventiOnal posture.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-25
HAD READ MARC ANTONY.

Comical Incident in the Receiving hoo"
of Chicago Hospital
Now and then some cOmlch Things.
happen in the receiving room out az
the county hospital. DR.. Hector was
on DUTY one night and had fallen asleep
on the little cot provided for physicians
on duty, when he was aroused oy the
rattle of the patrol wagon at the front
entrance, says the Chicago Herald. He
listened to the shutting footsteps IN the
hall and knew it was case OF drunk
with more or less elaborate trimmings.
Finally two policemen struggled 1noo
the room assisting one OF the most
wretched and dilapidated specimens OF
humanity that ever lay on stretcher.
The fellow had become intoxicated,
had fallen into a quarrel ana mao
suffered a terrible beating: His face
was badly cut in dozen places. It's
lips were swollen and bleeding, ms
ewes were blackened and half shut, ms
cheeks were lacerated and his teeth
were loose, and over all was the
raggedest, muddiest, most d1sheveleo
suit of clothes possible to imagine.
They laid him on the operating table,
and one of the attendants assisted the
doctor to remove the garments ana
bathe him, while the policemen bade
good night and went back to tneir
beats. In spite of his liquor and his
terrible drubbing the fellow was game,
and a sort of grim humor welled up
every moment of the operation that
was necessary to fit him for recovery.
He ioked about the stitches in his
cheek, and told the doctor the needle
must have been case hardened. He
protested against the plaster, and
claimed he had always heard porous
plaster recommended. He finally
pulled out loosened tooth and offered
it to the attendant for a paper weight
At last the patching was completed,
and he stood mp in an unsteady fashion,
his single garment being the sheet with
which he had been covered after his
bath. and while the doctor had been at
work upon him. A tall mirror at the
end of the office attracted his attention,
and he walked toward it, wrapping his
sheet about his shoulders as it it had
been IL Roman toga, struck the most
heroic of attitudes, and delivered him
self to the sewed and cemented figure
in the glass:
O. pardon nae, thou bleeding piece Of earth,
That am meek and gentle with these butch"
ersl
Thou art the ruins OF the nOblest man
That ever lived in ali Chicago.
Woe to the hands that shed this costly blood!
Over thv wounds do now propheSy-
a rv1a tn
claim
TO beg the voice and utterance of my tongue
A. curse shall rest upon the fends OF Halsted
street
Who oastod me with brickbats.
s'Good night, doctor; I'll go to bed"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-25
HOW TO WEAR SHOES.
A Dealer Gives q Recipe for Prolonging
Their Usefulness.

A Dealer Gives q Recipe for Prolonging
Their Usefulness.
People who feel that their shoes wear
out Toe, quickly should heed the words
of a dealer in Chicago, who tells the
Mail: 80 you know there isn't one
man in five hundred who knows how to- :
wear shoes? The average man buys
pair of shoes, wears them until they are
no longer presentable, and then throws
them away and buys another pair. A
man ought to have at least two pairs Of
shoes for everyday wear, and no pair
should be worn two days in succession.
At first thought this may strike you as
a scheme 20 benefit the shoe dealer, but
it is nothing Of the kind. In fact, such
plan would iniure the shoe business.
Two pairs Of shoes worn alternately
will last three times as long as a single
pair. The saving, of course, is made in
the wearing Of the leather. A pair of
shoes worn every day goes to pieces
more than twice as fast as a pair worD!
every second day, No two pair fit your
feet in exactly the same way. In one
pair the strain and wear of the leather,
falls heaviest upon one particular part
of the shoe and in another the greatest i,
wear and tear falls upon another part.
altogether. I took ), trip through Eu- /;
rope last summer and in several places
I was surprised to find the shoes worn;
by peasants have no right and left
distinctions, but are worn ON either
foot. was told that such shoes were
preferred to those which more closely
conform to the shape of the foot, be-
cause they last longer, since the strain
upon any part of the shoe to-day is
changed to another part tomorrow" ::
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-25
How Names Grow.

II. il currently related in New Bed
,8ord that several generations ago ship
was wrecked near there and only one
soy saved. AS they did not know his
name, they called himJ ohnny Crapaud,
and the descendant Of this boy was con-
gresham from Massachusetts,, Hon.
!Mr. Grape. To these may be added,
says American Notes and Queries, the
case of Judge Poland, Of Vermont, OF
whom the. story is told that his family
were Poles aud bore an unpronounce-
able surname; they were called the
.shuass'' and che ':Polanderay sothat
The name gradually oryatallized into
s;laoland." THERE'S also the name.com-
men IN the south, ''Dabney. !" which is
ppposedAhy the aristacratfc OWNERSHIP
rs : eosa111ltt1Dn e the French ''D'Au'
$500, and at3sst imported w
y 4 i 81 ! s la13D
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-25
An Assorted Load.

There is farmer who once a week
drives into this place, says the Provi-
dence Or. ~ Journal, with a market
wagon loaded down with produce.
Over the back Of the load is thrown a
buffalo robe. Under this, packed in at
ono end-the front end-are jugs and
kegs of cider: under the back end are
apples (russets), eggs. vegetables, etc.
When this willy old granger drives up to
prohibition families houses he whips
up the back end of the robe and ex-
hibits his temperance goods on sale, al
ways saying: Eve got the feed for my
boss packed in the forrerds;" when he
stops before house where they s'like
a little cider for mince pies" he slyly
tits up the ''forrerd' end of the robe
and draws the cider for the pies. But
when his hobbling old nag brings up at
other houses the granger gives the robe
jerk, swings it clear off the whole
load of salables and remarks: s'Whafu
you have this mornin'. Mr.. Brown?''
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-25
a POINTED REBUKE.

The Pretty Girl, the Impudent Masher
ard the Pin,
4 young lady gave a Chicago masher
"a lesson the other day which was worth
seeing.
She was a pretty and well-dressed
girl of rather pronounced style of
blonde beauty, says a writer in the
Chicago News. On her fluffy hair was
perched one of the new spring hsts,-a
'screation'' in black and gold. She sat
next to me in the street car.
The masher, who was also immac11-
late-on the outside-stood directly in
front of her, and now and then leaned
forward ever SO slightly and pressed his
knees against hers.
She got as far away from him AS she
could, but the car was very crowded,
and she sat there, her cheeks getting
pinker every minute.
The third time he did it she lifted her
eyes, stared him in the face End seemed
about to speak: then, recollecting prob
ably how the inmates of the car would
stare at her II she did, she sank back
again in her seat, keeping her indignant
eyes fixed on his face.
He raised the paper which he was
pretending to read before his eyes.
Now was her chance. Unseen by him
she raised her hand and drew from the
dainty bonnet a long, gilt-headed hat
pin. She placed it under her muff in
her lap, ready for action.
The nasher waited awhile, then low
cred his paper, snlelled the violets in
his bottonhole, smiled caressingly and
leaned forward again to touch her.
With gladstone smile and quick as
lightning she jabbed the hatpin through
one knee of those beautiful trousers.
There was suppressed yell and
quick reaction,
It took him about six seconds to
leave the car, and as he passed me [
know from the expression on his face
that if ever man cursed himself for a
Ae>o1 he did
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-25
New Rules of Poiteness.

In certain private schools Of Brooklyn
new rules Of politeness are enforced.
It is no longer proper for the little
pupils to say eyes, SIR" No, sir, eyes
maa1n'' and s'No, a'an:' to their elders.
Now the correct thing is Eyes, Mr..
Brown :'No, Miss Smith, % and SO on.
If the child happens to be addressed by
strange lady or gentleman the child
is instructed to reply: Eyes, mister
or eyes, lady" At first this strikes the
uninitiated as an unpleasant innova'
ton, but it has obtained a stronghold
on the children, and they are rapidly
making their parents converts to the
new system
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-25
RAISING SNAKES.
a. Genuine Reptile Farm on Very Large
Scale.

Genuine Reptile Farm on a Very Large
Scale.
A Mr.. Childs is probably the only
bona fde snake charmer in America,
saws a writer in the New York Sun. He
has been in town seeing about placing
his fall snake crop. It seems very odd
to hear him talk Of my crop of snakes"
but he means every word of it, for he
has genuine snake farm in the south
west.
The farm proper consists of pen
some twenty-five feet in diameter. In
the center of this pen is a raised plat
form, accessible in safety from the out
side, on which visitors can promenade
out of reach of the deadly fangs. In the
woods and wild swamps surrounding
the place legions Of moccasins, cotton
mouths, rattlesnakes and copperheads
are found. These wilds are the seed
bins from which at times Mr.. Childs
draws to replenish his farm. At one
side of the Enclosure is a rabbit warren
in which live some fifty or sixty bun
MES. Their number, however, is con-
stantly changing. They never die of
old age. They are the food of the
snakes.
Between five hundred and six hundred
reptiles are in the farm at q time. Only
the larger ones are used as they yield a
greater amount Of oil. skin and rattles
than the small ones. Mr.. Childs expects
to harvest eight hundred ounces OF oil a
season and has made his price two dol
lars per ounce. Aside from the OIL be
will have handsome crop Of rattles
and tanned skins.
When an ounce or so of fresh oil is de-
sired Mr.. Childs enters the pen and
either whistles with his lips or uses a
flute. The snakes at once glide out of
their holes and gather round him, max
ing a peculiar purring sound with
their rattles to denote their pleasure.
Selecting the largest ard fattest, childs
picks its1p and cuts its head of with
his pocketknife.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-25
AN EXPENSIVE STOVE.
How 1t Cost Carter Harrison Sixteen
Thousand Dollars.

Thousand Dollars.
''SoIne twenty-five or thirty years
ago. said a Chicago man to repre-
sentative of the Post, ''Mr. Harrison
owned eighty acres of land which is
now on the line of the Burlington rail
way, between Chicago and Riverside. l
saw that the property was bound to IN
crease in value and so made up my
mind to offer Mr.. Harrison two hundred
dollars an acre for it. I found him in
his Office, seated on rickety old sofa
beside dilapidated desk and warming
himself before the fire contained in dis
reputable-looking, rusty, begrimed old
stove. Well, made my offer and he
promptly rejected it. He said he wanted
two hundred and fifty dollars. saw
that he meant what he said and the con-
versation soon drifted to other topics.
Presently remarked the ancient and
hardly creditable appearance OF the
stove.
eyes Carter said, it is pretty
tough but it holds the coal and that's
all that's necessary
"'You ought to be asha med Of your
SELF returned. I'll tell you what I'll
do. III just go out and buy you stove
as d present.
"sYou will?' he eagerly asked.
Honest? Well, then, if you do that
I'n tell you what I'll do. I'll let you
have those eighty acres for two hum
dred dollars
$50 went out and bought a stove
and had it put up in Carriers office. The
whole thing cost me fourteen dollars
and fifteen cents. AS soon as the fire
was burning brightly IN it demanded
the deed to the land, paid the money
and walked out Of the Office the abso-
lutte owner of those eighty acres.
':Within twelvemonth was offered
four hundred dollars an acre for the Ian
and refused it.
'sThe next time / saw Carter after
| This offer had been made I told him
about it.
"'The -~--. you say!' he exclaimed.
Come up to my Office
s'We went. Carter took down his
books and in my presence made the
entry:
ITO one Office stove, sixteen thou
sand dollars
t'And he carried it right through his
books, too. Afterward sold the land
for two hundred thousand dollars
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-25
THE TRAFFIC IN TITLES.
Addle-Pated Americans Whc Ape English
AriatOCrS&g,

Addle-Pated Americans Whc Ape English
Aristocrsts.
s'Thousands Of American young men,
Of fair education and excellent posi-
bilities, captivated by the pictures OF
English aristocratic life drawn in Eng
fish novels, are learning to despise the
simple, rational, useful life. of the
worthy American citizen, and to court
consideration and vulgar popularity by
adopting the habits, and leading the
useless lives of English lords. AS is
usual in such cases." writes Thomas Da-
wilson, in the Forum, ''the copy is g. car
feature of the original. The untitled
American lord proves usually to be
vulgar creature, having to assert his
self-conferred lordship by all that is
most unattractive, most inhumane, and
most un-American-and it is a good
leal--in the English aristocrat. In
England aristocracy has no need to
display or to obtrude itself; in America
it can exist only by display and obtru-
sion. For this reason the American
would-be nobleman must necessarily
court attention and try to strike the
vulgar imagination by the mere acct
dentals of aristocracy, such as any
boorish Dives can ,command-houses,
horses, turnouts, yachts, opera boxes,
and the like. And the vulgar are I'M
pressed by such things, bow down in
servile reverence before them, and do
their best to make a similar display"
eft all the sacrifices which degener-
ate American fathers and mothers have
made to buy titled husbands for their
daughters were recorded, they would
form a revelation so ignominious that
it would not be believed; and, after
such a revelation, patriotic Americans
would hardly dare to look: foreigners in
the face. But even without such q
revelation the conduct Of many Of our
countrywomen abroad, andespecially in
England, is enough to make every self
respecting American hide his head for
shame"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-25
An Old English word.

There are certain survivals. in the
English language, says the Detroit
Free Press, that are entitled to some
notice, as, for example, the use of the
word 'tsailorman" to describe the per-
son whom ordinary persons designate
as sailor. This word is as old as the
British naval and mercantile marine
and clings along the margins Of the
wharves with tenacity that defes all
efforts to uproot it.. One never sees it
in print or hears it used far away from
navigable waters, but it is universal
where sailors gather and their doings
are reported.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-25
,a,lsT RULE OF 4 WOMAN.
How a Feminine Superintendent of a Coal
Mime Manages Affairs.

How a Feminine Superintendent OF a Coal
Mime Manages Affairs.
Mrs. Francis Woodring is the super
intendent of coal mine at Ashland,
Pa. She has occupied the position since
the death of her husband several years
ago. The woman is liked by all her
employees, some one hundred and eighty
in number. She is the first on deck in
the morning. She remains at the head
of tbs shaft until all of the employees
have gone to work.
: Not a. single accident, says the Ma
honey City Tribune, has occurred in the
mine since Mrs. Woodring took charge.
She is so careful that she will not al
low a man to enter the shaft until the
air pressure is just SO. If there is a
chad spot in the roof Mrs. Woodring
insists that it must be propped up at
once When the miners stop to prop"
they lose a little time. One day Mrs.
Woodring happened INTO miners
@sbreast'' which was in bad condition.
''Prop that up at once" was the
woman superintendent order.
The man took his time. Mrs. Wood"
ring then got mad and said:
''Ta1xe .your tools out Of here. / will
have no man in my employ carried
home dead to his wife; women have to
suffer enough without being made
widows"
The man begged off and Mrs. Wood
ring allowed him to remain. He at
once started to repair the roof over his
head. He didn't start any too soon.
The next minute a large piece of coal
fell on his toe and smashed it. Had he
neglected the work of repair few min
utes later he would have been killed by
the fall of coal. The miner was ever
thankful after that for the prompt adj
vice of the woman.
Directly after Mrs. Woodring took
charge of the mine the men insisted on
more pay for propptng. The woman
called a meeting of the men and ex-
planned to them that her coliery had to
compete with other mines and that if
they didn't pay the increase she
couldn't. The men were obdurate,
however. Mrs. Woodring then said:
Call right; will give you the increase
out of my own salary" She never paid
it; she was never asked.
Her men wouldn't leave her now for
anything. They say she is an ideal
employer. If any of the employees or
the members of their family get sick
Mrs. Woodring never fails to visit them
and offer consolation. She is so liked
by everybody that she is styled ''the
angel IN workingman's Clothes"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-25
A Sliding Piano Desk.

A new patent pianoforte desk has
been issued. The desk is SO made that
while the frame is rested upon the lid
of the pianoforte sliding arrangement
permits of the music being brought
to a level with the eye Of the singer, OF
raised or lowered according to the wish
of the performer. The desk is neatly
made, is light in weight, and strong.
The advantagesar are Of such service that
the patent will doubtless come into
general use.