The Irish standard., 1891-06-13
RANDOM REFLECTIONS.

ces the climate of Boston the best in the
world. Doctors like ministers, differ so
there is no use fretting over DR.. Hale's
opinion.
It is rumored that Blaine has con-
ceived plan by which be will undoubt.
eddy put an end to the seal controversy
with Great Britain. It is to have all the
seals killed this season and then there
will be nothing left to settle. This will
settle the question forever. That may
be true, but the people of the United
States do not intend to die this year..
They want some thing left for next year.,
*x* :.
The Unites States engineers have be-
gun to make the survey for the great
an-Amerlcan railroad. This will be
the greatest railroad enterprise ever
known. ard it's line will be an artery
through which the energy OF the people
of the United States will revolutionize
the social and political conditions OF
Latin America. The sooner it is COM
pleted the better.
~
Comoetition is sharp between rival
showmen for the cabin of Sitting Bull.
and his two widows, now IN possession
are holding off for good price. There
is no strife for the mortal tabernacle OF
his habitation which he ''shucked Off,
while resisting arrest. It wouldn't hold
water when the scouts last saw it.
There was little water in the Bad Lands
at that time, SO the experiment was not
tried.
*x*
Another set OF heirs has appeared-in
Chicago, this tlme-who claim to be the
inheritors of ''sixty five acres of land on
Broadway, in the heart OF New York
City," 1t seems strange that the pres
emit landlords of the metropolis can
sleep OF night, when the ''rightful
owners" of great tracts Of New York are
spring,ng up SO plentifully all over the
country. They are evidently Irish land
lords of the Smith-Barry type. who
want the earth.
The American hog was defeated IN the
German Reichstag by majority OF 80,
and will hereafter remain excluded from
that pork-loving empire. The American
papers which make the death Of an occa-
sional hog the basis for sensational art1-
cles about widespread disease, may be
thanked for this German dislike of our
pork, The Germans do not know what
is good for them. The pork is all right
if we'll cooked, and no more can be said
of German Pork.
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| Several ships have reached American
ports with yellow fever on board. The
New Orleans health department has
taken timely action and established
| quarantine. 1t is most sensible
! course New Orleans last year stopped
q number of cases at her quarantine sta
ton on the lonely island of Chandelier,
and effectuallY stopped the spread of
the malady. If New Orleans would
also stop others than those afflicted with
yellow fever, from entering, they would
| be doing well.
Although the Tories win an occasion
al victory at the polls in England, the
tide is still with Gladstone and it looks
like rising tide. In the South Leices-
tershire division of the Gladstonians
elected their candidate by 489 majority
though at the last election the same dis
trlct returned the Conservative candi-
date by 1888. No wonder the Conserve
tives are loath to enter upon trial OF,
strength in general election. Yes, but.
they will be forced one of these days to
go to the county and try their strength
*.*
A brutal conte g has been stopped in
San Francisco because one of the con-
testants went insane. It was an at
tempt to go more than six days without
sleep. There was similar exhibition
in Detroit not long ago, and then, too,
one of the men went crazy. 1t is strange,
what things men will do for money and
notoriety, and how many people wiE
pay money to see disgusting spectacles.
Such displays should not be permitted
when it can be forstalIed. Fools have
many ways for showing how foolish
they can be.
| IS
Members Of the Canadian Houses Of
Parliament are addressed by the Gov
ernor General as ssHonorable Gentle
men Of the Senate and Gentlemen Of the
House Of Commons" There is a dis
| tinctlon here. vet it would be hard to