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The Irish standard., 1891-12-26
CorDered by Her Majesty.

Few people, writes lady from Lon
don, are, perhaps, aware how thor
oughly Queen Victoria, of England, en-
joys joke. A gentleman-in-waiting,
distinguished for his initiative powers
and dramatic talent. is not unfrequent-
" called upon to trip the light, fantas-
tic toe, iguratively speaking, when in
attendance at Windsor and Balmoral
One day the great lady, looking with a
certain austerity straight into the face
of the gentleman, demanded: "Now,
MIR. n, am perfectly well aware that
when my back is turned you initiate
me. wish to see you do it now, this
minute Poor Mr.. N. fell straightway
into the royal trap, crimsoned, faltered,
utterly lost his countenanee. "Ah, ex-
claimed the queen. Il see was rightP'
and then added, laughing as heartily as
any schoolgirl, ''but don't do it againl'
The Irish standard., 1891-12-26
the GREAT NORTH,N EST.

The States OF Montana and Washington are
very fully described in two folders issued by
he Northern Pacific tIroad, Titled Golden
Montana and Fruitful Washington. This
folders contain good county maps of the states
named, and Information in reference to Gil
mate, lands. resources. and other subjects of
inter ct to capitalists, business men or settlers
Holders of second class tickets to North Pa
cifc Coast points, via Northern Pacific Rail
road, are allowed the privilege of stopping over
at Spokane, Washington. and points west there
of, for the purpose of examining all sections of
this magnificent state before locating. North
ern Pacific through express trains carry free
colonist sleeping cars from the St. Paul, and
Pullman tourist sleepers from Chicago (via
Wisconsin Central Line) to Montana and Pacific
Coast points daily.
California tourists, and travellers to Montana
and the North Pacific Coast can purchase round
trip excursion tickets at rates which amount to
but little more than the one way fare. Choice
of routes is allowed On these tickets, which are
good for three Or six months, according to des-
tination, and permit of stop overs.
The elegant equipment on the Northern Pa
clfc Railroad; the dining car service; the
through first class sleeping cars from Chicago
(via both Wisconsin Central Line and C. M. &
St. P. Ry.) to Pacific Coast points, and the most
magnificent scenery Of seven states, are among
the advantages and attractions offered to travel
ers by this line.
The wonderland" book issued by the North
ern Pacific Railroad describes the country be-
tween the Great Lakes and Pacific Ocean, with
maps and i'll lstrations.
For any of the above publ cations, and rates.
maps, time tables, write to any General or Dis
trict Passenger Agent. or Chas. s. Fee, G.. P. &,
T. A., N. p. R. R., St. Paul. Mimi.
The Irish standard., 1891-12-26
THE CANNiBAL PLANT.

1t Furnishes a Striking Figure in &
French Writer'S Story.
Some years ago g. striking story was
published in France, describing won
derful hesh-eating plant, discovered by
great botanist. If we remember right
~, the story recounted how a certain
collector discovered a plant of the fly
trap species of SO gigantic a size that it
could consume huge masses OF raw meat,
says the London Spectator. just as the
hy~catclling plant snaps up fly and
draws nutriment from the hy's dead
body, so this one fed itself on the
legs of mutton and sirloins of beef
which We're thrown into it's ravening
NAV. The botanist in the story, for
some reason-possibly fear Of having
his plant destroyed as dangerous topub-
lie safety-keeps the existence Of the
plant secret, and preserves it in a
lockedup conservatory. His wife, how
ever, who is made miserable by his alb
sorption of nind--he thinks of nothing
but how to feed and improve his won
derful and fascinating plant-deter-
mines to follow him. This she does,
accompanied by an old school friend of
the husband. When the pail: reach the
inner conservatory they see, to their
horror the infatuated botanist tossing
bleeding joints of raw meat into the
huge jaws of a giant fly trap. They are
at first petrifed with horror. At last,
however, the wife throws herself into
the arms of her husband and implores
him to give up dwelling upon the horrible
carnivorous monstrosity which he has
discovered and reared. Unfortunately,
however, the wife, in appealing to her
husband, goes too close to the plant.
It's huge tentacles surround her and
then proceed to drag her in, and the
two stupefed men see the plant begin
to devour it's victim. Fortunately,
however, the friend catches sight of an
Az lying near, and selling this he
strikes at the roots of the plant. A few
frenzicd blows do the necessary work,
and the flesh eating plant tumbles to
the ground and releases from it's
clutches the terrified woman. The bot
anist. however, cannot survive his most
cherished discovery, and with the ex-
clamation: 'sYou have killed my plant!"
he falls back dead.
The Irish standard., 1891-12-26
8 s<PE<s1l{ l)Fs MINES.
slEAny Arc Prevented, HIT This
~ We NAyar Hear. Ah0uf &g%

8 llAny ctdentss Ars Prevented, But This
28ss#8 We Never Hear About.
II Is not Singular that in view Of the
many fatalities that yearly occur in
mines, even where inspection laws are
most stringent and inspectors are nu-
merous, thatth layman should inquire:
Does state supervision protect, after
alp" An affirmative answer, well for
titled with facts, may readily be given,
but must here be stated only in brief
fashion, says the Engineering Magazine.
Since the work is based upon the
maxim that to prevent is better than to
cure, its utility cannot readily be per-
ceived by the superficial observer. Ere
quently recurring or great disasters are
widely advertised, but we do not, nor
could we we'll expect to, hear of the in
Vulnerable instances of budding disas-
ter that have been prevented from ma
turing; nor, when disaster has come, do
Z we learn to what extent state interven-
ton has reduced the dangerous condi-
tions SO that the event was confined to
narrower limits than would otherwise
have been the case. How many Of the
smaller accidents occur which are, in
fact, purely accidental, while relieving
the high tension that would surely con-
duce to greater casualties, we have no
means of knowing. But if we turn to
the history of fatalities in countries
and states where the inspection laws
are good an1 the inspection force suff-
Gent we find a gratifying story. For
England the Colliery Guardian says:
''The ratios Of the fatal accidents and
the; deaths to the number of persons
employed in and about the mines under
the present and former coal mines acts
show that the occupation of the miner is
now more than twice as safe as it was at
the commencement of the inspection"
The average ratio for the first act was
one death for every 233 persons en-
ployed; for 1890 it was one death for
every $50. In this country Pennsylva~
MIA has in every respect the most COM
prehensive and the strongest law, and
yet more fatal accidents are reported
from that state than from any other
section of the union. Still the Colliery
Engineer asserts that ''there is no
doubt that two tons of coal are mined
now per life lost in the mines to one ton
mined before the mine law was passed.
In the region under the writer's imme-
date care. the fatalities have been re-
duced from one to every $50 persons en-
ployed underground in 1883 to one for
every 4O1 in 1889 and one for every 60A
in 1890
The Irish standard., 1891-12-26
Continental Currency.

Along in the latter part of the last
century the continental money issued
to the extent of s240, 100000 had been
sinking out of sight. just before the final
collapse a desperate effort was made to
hold up the currency, but notwithstand-
ing all that the government. aided by the
leading men Of that period, could do, q
dozen eggs sold for $1,000 in continent
al paper money, and a silk hat OF the
period, which would be worth 81, cost
$40, 900 ii continental currency. The
word was burned into the language,
and then, as now, the utter ruthless
ness of q thing was conveyed BY the
p,ar.ession: 5 S not worth q sconti-
The Irish standard., 1891-12-26
LIN

between these principal Cities the Chicago d
North Western system of lines, composed of the
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, Chi
cago & North Western, and Fremont. Elkhorn
& Mo. Valley R'ys Cali advertised as 1.-THE North
Western Line''), offers the quickest means of
reaching all cities and towns in the territory In
tersected by it. In connection with the Union Pa
citic the c.. st, p. M. & o. Ry. sleo forms new
system, the only through car line to the Pacific
coast. All particulars. with maps and time
tables may be obtained at any station, or at fol-
lowing principal Offices:
ST. PAUL: l59 East Third Street.
MINNEAPoLIs: Ii Nicollet House Block,
nULUTH: 1892 Hotel st. Louis Block.
CHICtaO: 2O6 South Clark Street.
or, address,
r, w. TEASDAIE
General Passenger Agent. st. Paul.
The Irish standard., 1891-12-26
PROBATE NOTICE.
CHAs. II. HOWARD,
Attorney for Mortgages !.

TATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Henne-
y pin-Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Michael Shea,
diseased.
Hearing on petition for letters of adninistra-
tion.
On reading and fling the petition of Morgan
Shea, representing that Michael Shea, has lately
died intestate, resident and inhabitant of the
County of Hennepin and state of Minnesota.
leaving goods, chattels and estate within tn 8
County, and praying that administration of his
estate be to homes 5. Gray granted;
It is ordered, That said petition be heard at g
general term Of this Court. to be held at the
Court House in the City Of Minneapolis, in said
County, on Monday, the 4th day of January,
1892, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon: and that
notice of such hearing be given to all persons
interested. by publishing this order at least
in each week for three successive weeks prior to
said day of hearing. In The Irish Standard, q
newspaper printed and published in said County.
Dated at Minneapolis, this 18th day Of Decem-
Der. 1891. 3.
BY the Court: ]. =. CORR1QAN. 81
sssf 81 judge Of Probepe.
The Irish standard., 1891-12-26

Physicians Couldn't Cure Him.
SEDAMsv1Llr, Hamil on CO., O., June. 1889.
r,led me entirely, after PHYSICIANS had tried it
for months to relieve me Of ner-
Vous debility. w. HUENNEFELD.
The Irish standard., 1891-12-26
People can hardly Beneve it.

utlStCCGSSt uOIlIlS 10 icHcfG me Oh HEEs
vous debility. W. AUENNEFELD.
People can hardly Belleve it.
,JeasEYv1LLE, ILL, May soth, 1883.
take pleasure to let You known that my boy is
still all right, he has not had any of the spasms
since about March Doth The people can hardly
believe it from the fact that he had many as Ii
q day or more. / believe he was very nervous
child all his life but did not show any signs OF
spasns until last December, after which they
came in regular succession, and had 3 doctors
attending who could do nothing for him, nor
even tell us what was the matter. had despalred
of his ever getting we'll, until I got Koenig's
Nerve Tonic. After taking not quite bottleful
he got quite well and has not had the least sign OF
spasms since. Respectfully Yours, =
MES. E. LEYTON.
testify to the facts as stated above to be
strictly true. JAS. HARTY. Pastor.
Our PAMPHLET for sufferers of nervous dis
eases will be sent FREE to any address, and
POOR patients can also obtain this medicine
FREE of charge from us
This remedy has been prepared by the Kever-
end Pastor Koenig, Of Fort Wayne, Ind, for the
past ten years, and is now prepared under his
direction by the
3K0ENiG MEDICINE CO...
Chicago, Ill.
Sold By Druggists,
Price 81 per Bottle. Bottles for IS.
The Irish standard., 1891-12-26
THE;

Twin Cities and Chicago take this line-particu-
larly favoring the ''Vesnbule Limited" which
carries the finest sleeping cars and coaches ever
bnilt, and also ali classes of passengers. without
extra fares. On the Lake Superior portion of
the line. between Minneapolis st. Paul and Du-
luth. and st Paul and Ashland. Pullman sleep
ers are run on night trains. and reclining chair
cars on day trains
The Irish standard., 1891-12-26
NORTHWESTERN

fast through trains with Pullman Sleeping cars
are also run between Minneapolis. st. Paul and
Kansas City, via Sioux City. Day trains between
St. Paul and Sioux City have elegant parlor
cars. Dining cars are run on all through trains
over this line between Minneapolis, st. Pau
and Chicago. Besides being the best
The Irish standard., 1891-12-26
Always On Tine.

There is no line go handsomely equipped Tor
Through Passenger Service as .'rhe North
Western Line. &C, st. p, NJ. d @. BY
All well posted travellers between
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q q . 9 . 9 9 9
POINTERS.

MONTANA, Washington, Oregon
M and California reached quickly
and cheaply via Great Northern
ri Railway Line.
Ask YOUR local ticket agent for
= round trip tickets to any point in
the West or Pacific Coast via the
= Great Northern.
THE leading pleasure, fishing and
] hunting resorts of the Park
= Region of Minnesota, of Lake SUI
perior and the Rocky Mountains
reached easiest on the various lines
of the Great Northern from St.
Paul.
| FARMERS, stock rajsers and busi.
J ness men will find choice loca-
tions in the Red River, Milk River
81 and Sun River valleys, at Great
Falls, and in Belt mining towns.
Fl Ihe oWeet TfaSs Hills, and along
the Pacific extension of the Great
=" Northern in the Flathead and
other valleys Of Montana.
FL THE Great Northern reaches more
] points in Minnesota and North
II Dakota than any other railway
It is the main route to Lake Min
= netonka and Hotel Lafayette.
MAPS and other publications
Na sent free, and letters of inquiry
answered, by +. l. Whitney. G.. P.
II & T. A., G. N. Ry., st. Paul, MINI.
The Irish standard., 1891-12-26

the direct route to and from Milwaukee, Chi
cago and all points East and South Two
through fast trains with Pullman Vestibuled
Drawing Room Sleepers and the Centraps fam
GUS Dining Cars attached each way daily, be-
tween Minneapolis and St. Paul and Milwaukee
and Chicago.
For tickets, sleeping car reservations. time
tables and other information apply at city Offices
corner Washington and Nicollet avenues, Min
neapois or at 162 East Srd st. st. Paul, OR to r.
81. Aanson. General Northwestern Passenger
Agent, Minneapolis.
Evening journal., 1891-07-10
weLL-kNowN PERSONS.

Ex Senator Mcdonald, always insisted
that Vanity Fair was the greatest novel
ever written.
Only $4,000 Of the proposed fund of
$50, 900 for the benefit of General N. P.
Banks has been raised
Senator Edmunds has not been fishing
IN Canada, as some papers declared. but
has been at home all the time.
Brste Harte's value seems to hays been
enhsnced by remaining In England, where
bis pm blishers paid lin last year total
Of $15, 600
Horace E. Scudder has sufficiently
recovered from his lorg illness to resume
his duties as editor of the Atlantic
Monthly
Dan Lamont is making money so fast
that he is in danger Of becoming a mil.
lionaire before Mr. Cleveland can possibly
need his services again
Chief Justice Fuller is way down in
Maine, and when he wants to have &
prohibition chat with Mr.. blaine he can
mount bis blackboard and trot over to
see him.
report has been circulated in Brus-
sells that Princess Clementine, the Young.
est daughter of the King, has decided to
become nun In the cloister of Tette
Saint Pierre, near the capital. to which
only members Of the aIistocracy are
admitted
The strong speech of Rev. DR.. Pal
mer OF New Orleans. at the recent anti
lottery meeting in that city has infuriated
his antagonists to remarkable degree.
Out OF revenge they dug up the curious
fact that, in 1922, his church, the First
Presbyterian, obtained lottery charter
from the State Legislature
Jules Verne published his first novel
when be was thirty five years old. Since
then he has written an average of two
books year and Is now the author of
sixty volumes of more or less fascinating
interest. He prepares material, makes
maps, lays out routes, and reflects upon
bis work for months Then when the
story has been written he corrects it at
least ten times before giving the proofs
to the printer.
Evening journal., 1891-07-10

as they must foot the bills for labor,
whether done by imported Hungsrians,
Poles and Italians, or by native negroes.
If the materials should be imported
and taxed the check from the Treasury
Of the United States would be circulated
among various collectors and finally be
covered into the Treasury again. Thus
the money would be lifted from one tray
and deposited again in another tray. All
in Uncle sam's-she people's-yaults.
That's all.
As matter Of taste, Mrs Harrison
might well prefer native materials to
foreign. but as q matter Of economy the
United States Government should buy
where the best goods can be bought for
the least money That is the best econ
omy for the people because as the people
pay both cost and the tax it would be
the same In either case.
This IS very simple, yet even the
great economist Of the proteotionist
party. Mckinley, committed the error Of
telling the people OF Ohio that the gov
ernment should pay duty like any other
purchaser. That is an error Of which a
babs ia political economy should not be
guilty. It is Stiffness that Mckinley
would be easily cured Of II Senator Car
lisle could corner him and ask him to
explain how the people could realize any
benefit BY taxing their own goods i'm
ported for the use Of the government.
The tran saction is precisely the same
as when the husband who earns the
money, gives his wife $3.50 to buy him
a watch as a birthday present.
II Mckinley is guilty Of such nonsense
II is not expected that Mrs Harrison
would know any better She did not
know that it was grossly improper for
the President OF the United States TO
accept cottage reputed to be worth
SIC, 900 as present from men who might
wish to influence his political conduct.
Evening journal., 1891-07-10

VINO is kindly eoough or who so full
Of superHuous and all 9ervading charity
as to ascribe the profound silence of the
Every Evening on the subject Of the in
crease Of Sheriff Simmons's feed bills to
virtue, to innoceneeg Suppose Sheriff
Allen were still in office and the
Every Evening were not being
persuaded into discreet silence
how it would rave and foam at
the mouth over the excessive cost OF
food. But how like q cooiug dove the
blatant old money lover simpers along
while Sheriff Simmons is urging higher
pay than the Every Evening wanted
Sheriff Allen to have. Sheriff Allen
and the old Levy Court had the
displeasure and frequently the unfair
abuse Of the Every Evening
The Every Evening failed to collect Its
81, 600 gamblers bill' from the Levy
Court and to get the sheriff's printing
from MIR Allen. Sheriff simmons got the
votes Of the people about the Every
Eveningofiice and enjoys the favor and the
silence Of the paper in editorial and local
columns in return for the hush money
printing. Il Is very agreeable and com
Portable arrangement, but ID it moral
and honorableg
Evening journal., 1891-07-10
IN IN ASYLUM, NOT INSANE.

Joseph A. Donnelly says His CONTINENT
Was Illegai-N Commitment signed.
Joseph A. Donnelly, who was arrested
yesterday by Officer Brown for escaping
from the Delaware Hospital for the
Insane at Farnhurst is still at the pelice
station, and 1t is probable that an in
vestigation of his case will be made
before he is recommitted to the institu.
tion from which he made his escape.
Donnelly asserts that he is not nor never
was insane, and that the whole proceed
ings connected with his committal to the
hospital were illegal from beginning to
end
An EVENING JOURNAL reporter talked
with Donne,ly to-day and found him per.
fectly rational and intelligent. II was
arrested, he said. ION January 5. 1890.
by Officers Heal and Crawford for drunk.
enness and brought to the police station.
No physician examined me, nor was !
taken before any tribunal, but on the
following day placed in a barouche and
conveyed by Officer Chairs, to the insar {
asylum, where have been kept since.
although my commitment was moi
signed, nor was there any authority fol
sending me there at all. Drs ogle, Pyle
Springer ard Hughes examined me !
dszen times afterward and always agreed
that was all right mentally, but nc
effort was ever made to have me re.
leased
What motive could there have beer
for sending you there?'
One was to keep me from drinking
whiskey. and the other to prevent m,
from spending the price Of some rea
estate which had sold had Just
served five months in jail before being
committed, two for drunkenness anC
thres FOR contempt of court, and mi
friends, no doubt thought it the best way
or keeping me from drinking"
1T kept your
''Yes, for did not have nv money
but that is not the question. It Is, VIII
had q right to send nae theref | wa
over 2f years old and could do as
| pleased. It may have been a generous
act, but it was Illegal all the same
Several parties who are acquainte'
with the case, aesert that Donnelly'
commitment was illegal, that he wa
not insane, and that III he chooses he cal
make trouble for the parties who con
6ned him
Evening journal., 1891-07-10
IA MILK AND HONEY MILLENNIUM

A MILK AND HONEY MILLENNIUM.
The condition Of Secretary Blaines
heslih worries the Republicans almost as
much as the tin plate industry illusion.
Both are great campaign issues with
the party Of great moral ideas and
both are treated with the most Aagrant
immortality Both cause as many frac
lures and assures In the beautiful fabric
Of truth as would appear in silk top
sail Of schooner after "roundlng Cape
Horn
First it is announced that Secretary
Blaine is In perfectly gorgeous
and uncomfortable state Of spec
tacular heath, then before we can
settle down quietly to contemplate the
supeIhuous buoyancy Of the great Amerl.
can adjective singers prospective explc-
siveness the announcement is amended
to the effect that Secretary Blaine is
improving"
We did not know-from the organs-
that he was sick. We had been notified
that he was healthy aud robust even tc
vulgarity.
Il is just the same with the tIh plat,
industry First. they tell us that it /.
here; that we have an era of prosperity
and money getting ia which everybsdy
will become itch and happy and feed OF
the thin solution OF the milk and honey
spread over Pennsylvania, and the world
by the tin plate industry.
Anybody can make tin plate. There II
nothing to hinder everybody from "goinr
into tin plate and realizing an inde
pendent fortune
Then, as In the case Of the Blain,
campaign cauard somebody comes along
to apologize for the price Of tin and Il
cheer US with the sweet promise IRE
quently given before, that the tin plat,
millennium is not quite upon us, but it il
coming
The price Of tin is still three or foul
times higher than its natural price anC
like all the other industries which have
been protected" for 10 these thirty op
pressive years; 1t is not likely to de
crease while these men who make none,
out Of the tariff legislation can prevent
They are likely to defer the tia plate
millennium just as the sinners are likely
TO defer the free salvation" millennium
They hate cheapness as they lore th,
devil
The great Secretary's health lis i'm
proving but on the dead quiet, he Il
still al Bar Harbor and sick--very sick
The tin plat industrial era Of milk an,
honey lis coming" What more could W
ask for2
Evening journal., 1891-07-10

Apparently this is the present situation
in Pennsylvania, and even the Philadel-
phia Press, which last year supported
the obnoxious rule which it now agrees
brought disaster to the party, now says
also, that the leadership must be changed
or the party will be defeated contin-
uously. It ia the purpose Of certain
citizens Of Philadelphis who have always
until last autumn voted for the Repub.
liean candidates to vote against them
again this year II la themselves, or as
the agents Of others, they are unfit for
the public service. If party can be re
formed, that Is the only way to reform
1t But the condition even Of the chance
OF re form is the certainty of defeat.