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The Irish standard., 1891-11-21
TITLED lMPECUN.OSlTY.
Penniless Lords and Ladies Who Manage
to Live in Grand Style.

to Live in Grand Style.
Speaking of English peculiarities,
there is no place on earth where the
fnancier becomes so puzzled to know
how the great folks manage to live. 10
prove this fact the Illustrated American
cites the fat, genial, witty old duchess
of Teclx, penniless, as everyone knows,
bankrupt, in debt, and yet money flows
through her plump hands like water,
and no strawberry leaves rest on
more unfurrowed brow. She-the ro-
trnd duchess---is said to be the brightest
talker in Great Britain, and strings her
enormously stout neck and arms with
glorious jewels, worth q kings ransom.
1t is we'll enough to believe that dense
~ dull or over-ambitious tradespeople
are willing to supply q ducal establish
ment for the prestige such patronage
bestows, but surely with so lavish a
lady as her grace of Teck the price
would be too high for any one estah-
lishment to bear {; great length Of time.
But then titled English people thrive on
debt. Men and women are scarcely
counted fashionable who pay as they
go; and as all of ones acquaintance
and friends are in the same condition,
there is nothing to be ashamed of or to
worry over in owing twice the value OF
ones entire property.
The Irish standard., 1891-11-21
Aluminium Eeer Mugs.

Aluminium is to depose not only the
beer glasses, but even the adored beer
mug of the south Germans. DR..
Schultze, Of Vienna, alarmed the beer
drinkers about a year ago by his declar-
alton that beer not only deteriorated in
d few minutes by being kept in a glass
but that the glazed earthenware
''krug," with it's metal top, afforded no
protection to the evanescent qualities OF
the liquor King Gambrinu. and John
Barleycorn. Pewter pots, says DR..
Schultze, are good and silver pots are
better; but best Of all is the aluminium
mug. So the doctor advises the manu-
facture of aluminium pots, which would
be forty times cheaper than silver, and
half the weight of pewter.
The Irish standard., 1891-11-21
a NOTORIOUS TAR.
But He Told . Half Truth When He Was


n Dying. s-3ss
8S Burrows was, without doubt, the
/ most notorious liar Nevada will ever
shelter, says the New York Sun. His
fame as liar spread for a hundred
miles around, and men used to stop at
our camp to get look at him. He
wasn't wicked man, and he had
no malice about him, but he was
natural born liar. He lied about
his father, his mother, his wife, broth
ers, sisters and everybody else, and for
every hour in the day he had a new
falsehood.
One day a lot of earth and rock caved
in on him and inflicted fatal injuries.
and a number of us knocked off work
to be with him in his last moments.
Lying there with only a hour of life
left to him, he told us that he had been
a pirate on the Pacific and where he
had buried large amount of plumber,
We all knew that he was from Ohio and
had never seen an ocean.
One of the men finally felt it his duty
to say:
Burrows, you have only short
in preparing for eternity"
''I've allus been good he quietly re-
Piled.
eyes, but you are an awful Liar, you
know
II suppose So I've told a million,
haven't I?''
mo doubt of it.
'And every one has been laid up
agin' me?"
VERY likely"
well, boys, it's my way, and can't
change at this late day. Just as that
cavern came I struck a nugget as big
as my head. It would value up clean
fifteen thousand dollars. If you'll be
kind enough to pull it out and sell it
and send the cash to my wife I'll die
feeling better"
He went off soon after that, and we
said to each other that he had given us
the greatest yarn Of all. No one took
his claim, which was accounted a poor
one, and it lay for three months before
one of the boys dug into it one day for
the pichax buried and forgotten. He
hadn't got the pick when he came
across a lump of gold which balanced
thirteen thousand two hundred and
eighty dollars in coin, and every shi]-
ling of the money was sent on to the
widow
It got to Ohio to find there was no
widow. $50
In his dying hour Burrows told the
truth about his find, but repented Of it,
and lied about having a wife.
The Irish standard., 1891-11-21
A Nihilistic Trick.

The Odessa police force was put in
great commotion recently by singular
Incident Before the house of the
Natchalnik Of the city, the chief Of the
police, was a big gun, fred every day
at noon. The gun was fastened with
heavy chain to the granite base Of a
pillar before the house of the official
When the artillerymen came to fire the
gun they did not find il A search was
Immediately instituted, but pothing
could be discovered. One week later
parts OF the gun and Of the heavy chain
were found before the residences Of the
highest officials IN town. It Is supposed
that the revolutionists or nihilists re-
moved the. gun to show the government
officials their power and craft. There Is
no doubt but that many persons must
have labored at this feat. Still, not Is
trace OF the perpetra tors can BE discov-s
cred
The Irish standard., 1891-11-21
The Words We Use.

Dr. Bumbaugh says in his ''G1eanings
for the Curious Dictionary English
is something very different, not only
from common colloquial English, but
even from that of ordinary written COM
position Instead of about 100000 words
there is probably no single author in
the language from whose works, how
ever voluminous, so many as 10000
words could be collected. Of the 100000
words there are certainly many more
than one-half that are only employed,
if they are employed at all, on the
rarest occasions We should be sur
prised to find. if we counted them, with
how small a number of words we man
age to express all that we have to say,
either with our lips or pen. Our com
mon literary English probably hardly
amounts to 10000 words; our common
spoken English hardly to 5000"
The Irish standard., 1891-11-21
Photographic a Dogs Jamp.

The Photographic analysis OF rapid
movements has made great progress.
In a recent series of instantaneous pho
tographs, Absolute, Of LISA, has Sc
cured twenty four successive impress
sions of a dog in the act of making a
single jump over a low bush, and each
impression is not mere silhouette, as
was the case with Muy bridges first at
tempts Of this kind, but a little picture
showing half tone and detail. Some OF
the attitudes, never caught by the eye,
seem quite amusing This is true at the
commencement Of the jump ,When the
dogs hind toes only touch the ground q,
ana 1at the end Of the jump when his
legs are gathered toget her "a . heap.
The Irish standard., 1891-11-21
A CURIOUS BULLET.
The Queer Missile Found in an Old Sol
dier's Leg.

The Queer Missile Found in an Old Sol
dier's Leg.
A curious missile was recently cut out
of the limb of a prominent citizen OF
Mount Sterling, who was wounded in
that member in the first battle of
Manassas, says letter in the Philadel-
phia Times. This citizen, Maj. James
Morrison, has suffered from periodical
breaking out of the wound, which was
situated in the calf, but, though probed
for several times, all attempts to find
the ball proved unsuccessful. However
the doctors succeeded in recoverin
and removing the irritating body, when
it was found to be no bullet, but a
small gold button. This was cleaned
and was found to be inscribed with the
legend: ''E. to r. Mizpah," in small
German lettering.
The button was perfectly round and
about the size of a buckshot, having a
slnan link attached, by which it was
caught to a garment or watch chain, on
which it was in all probability worn as
a charm. In all likelihood it was hastily
crammed into the owners musket
emergency. Maj. Morrison naturally
prizes this memento which he has car
ried thirty-one years, but says he will
return it to the man who fired it it he
still lives and can relate the circu1n-
stances under which he made use of it,
which circumstances were such as to
impress the major, and cannot have
failed to have remained in the mind Of
his assailant.
The button was in all probability the
loving gift of some fair young sweet
heart or faithful wife to her beloved
boy in blue, who will be glad to recover
the pretty tride, which is none the
worse for it's long hiding in the majors
leg, though the latter is decidedly bet
ter for its removal, and is rapidly heal
ing since the operation.
The Irish standard., 1891-11-21
HE WAS MUCH INSURED.
The Graveyard Business Not Unknown i
1EnUland.

Ehe Graveyard Business Not Unknown la
ENGLAND.
The Late MIR. James Singleton, occasion
Slassistant ostler and general hanger-on
in the yard of the Wheat Sheaf hotel in
Blackburn, must, one would think
have long grown weary of being asked
to insure his life, according to the Lon
don News. Mr. Singleton was @ poor
man and an illiterate; he had no par:
ticnlar desire to insure his life; he had
no money to pay premiums, and as to
flling up d ''proposal'' with it's custom
~ schedule he had not q glimmering
an idea Of how to do it. But ali this
as Of no consequence in the eyes Oh
ais friends and acquaintance. They
were wont apparently to accost him in
some such way Us this: ''l7ood mcrninr'
Jenny. Any objection to my insuri
your life?" Jenny, who probably S;
in the suggestion pleasing visions Of
freshments at the bar, doubtless {
swered, like Mr.. Barlis, that he "
''willing,'' and forthwith the friend p
ceeded to fill up the form. a..
So the thing went on till no few
than twenty distinct policies, represe3
ing total of seventeen hundred pount
had been effected on the life of ''tl
little old ostler who knocked about
the yard of this public house"
James Singleton sleep at ease wi
these twenty persons all around H.
listening to his coughs and watch
day by day to see if his gait gre
feebler and his hands more tremulo
than they were? Apparently he &C
cerned himself little about such N:
tiers. But now he is dead and burr
and one Of the policy holders has be
prosecuting his claim at the Manches
assizes. Need we say that Mr.. just,
Smith has read him a lesson on ga
bling in policies and that the jury ha, =
not looked with q too kindly eye on the
too favorable description Of Mr.. Single
ton in the vicariously filled-'-o propo.
sal? Counsel, in brief, threw up the
case at a. point and the jury at once re-
turned verdict by the consent of the
, insurance com pany.
The Irish standard., 1891-11-21
YOUR HORSES COLOR.
Long Existing Belief That 1t Has Mucl


to- Do With itis speed. w..
Among the cherished superstitions OF
sportsnen is the belief that the color of
horses has much to do with their chances
of victory III races and exhibitions OF
power Whence came the superstition
it is difficult to say. It has existed, ac-
cording to the New York Tribune, for
centuries, not only among Europeans,
but among Arabs, those kings of the
DESERT whose knowledge Of the horse
is proverbial.
In an ancient Arabian manuscript,
according so I1Echo de Paris, recently
discovered, is a passage proving that
the belief in the relations between
horses color, power and speed has long
existed in Arabia.
great sheik of the Sahara, SO runs
She tale, Ben Dyab by name, was ono
day pursued by Saadel Zenatis, his
most deadly enemy In the fight Be
Dyab turned suddenly to his son.
fsTel] me-" he commanded, "wha"
horses are at the head of our enemiesp
''The whites, father" replied the
son.
"Tha5 is WE'LL" came Ben Dyab's
answer. I'VE shall allow the sun to it's
work, The power Of the white horses
will disappear before it's rays as butter
melts when they fall upon II"
After a time the sheilS spoke again:
"My son. what horses are now near
est our heels?"
'"The blacks, father" came the boys
answer.
"Excellent,' cried the old man. 1.-THE
stony ground will overcome the powers
of the black animals. Even the negro
of the Soudan becomes tired at the
ankles when be walks over stony
ground"
On went the flight. A third time Ben
Dyab turned to his companion.
(Which ones are now ahead?''
''1,he browns and the chestnut
browns, father" came the boys an
swer.
"Then," cried the sheik, 1--WE must
ay faster, or we are lost. There is no
time to lose. These horses can overtake
SIG ,,
The Irish standard., 1891-11-21
HISTORICAL oRsE RAclNs

Fabulous sr,ins won ~ some Old Time
& Plungers. q q .S2
It is quite probable that; there are
just now no men who gamble quite so
heavily, except in stocks, as did the
s'plungers'' in the early part Of this CEN l
fury, says W. B. Curtis, in Forum. There
were in England a dozen men who made
$25O,OOO books on the Derby alone,
and as late as 1856 ssbookmaker" bet
$500, 600 to $1,000 against each Of three
horses in one race. In 1843 the owner
of the Derby favorite backed" him
publicly to win $780, 200, besides the:
amount of his private bets. The ring
of s'bookmakers'' paid to one circle OF
bettors million dollars when Lee
turer won the Cesarewitch. The owner
of more than one Derby winner col
lected $500, 900 on the next settling day,
and in several other years would have
pocketed million if their colts had
been ssfrst past the post Most
men who now have the money
and the NERVE to make such enor-
nous bets have given up horse
racing in favor of game which has
stl11 AlSuef pOSSlDllltlcS, e1Au AaooSoA VI
wagering 100000 on horse and call
ing it gambling, they deposit the same
amount as margin" in a stock specular
ton and call it business. Although in
dividuals do not lay such heavy wagers
as were sometimes made by the ''plung-
ers' of old, much more money is wagered
now than was risked fifty years ago.
The difference is, that while then one
man bet 100000, now ten men each bet
800, 900, and the total amount wagered
is doubled. Of single bets made on
American horse races the following in
stances are taken from the records:
::Haughton bet Walton $4,000 to $1,000
against Girofe; Haughton bet Kelly
$4,000 to $1,000 against Henlopen; APP
'pleby & johnson bet P. Lorillard $11, 900
to $40, 900 against Pizarro and $4,000 to
$1,000 against Leo in the same race. In
each Of these cases it is probable that
the owners risked ten times these
amounts on each of the races, as the
bets above stated were only made with
one bookmaker.
The Irish standard., 1891-11-21
Where the Value Was.

Once at brilliant assemblage in
Paris, an inquisitive duchess asked q
wen-known savant and prominent
member Of the French Academy Of
Science: what are the rings of Saturn
composed of, professor" 81 don't
know, your grace was the reply.
what is the value of being so re-
nowned member of the academy Il
you cannot tell me SO simple a thing
about one Of our largest planets?" in-
CURED the duchess. 1.-THE value Isl" he
replied, sit enables me to say to such q
question: don't know"
The Irish standard., 1891-11-21
A Fireuan.s Feat.

The firemen Of Caribou, Me-, were
called upon to perform a feat rather out
of the usual line Of duty. The bridge
across the Aroostook river, connecting
the two sections of the village, burned,
and although the adjacent buildings in
the main village were saved. those on
the opposite side Of the river near the
end Of the bridge took fire and were
threatened with destruction. All1of the
fire apparatus was in the main village.
the bridge was destroyed, and there
were no boats at hand. Accordingly,
the best swimmers in the FIRE company
were selected to swim the river with a
line of hose. They accomplished the
feat, and got across just IN time to pre-
vent the destruction of f fly thousand
dollars worth Of property
The Irish standard., 1891-11-21
An Electric Thief Catcher.

The inventions for preventing thefts
from show cases are numerous, and
electricity is now being brought into
use in connection with them. A Mime
sofa man has in the bottom of his show
case number of metallic slips, and the
tray has spring clips for holding the ar
lcles to be exhibited, the clips being
connected electrically and held open by
the articles. The tray has contact
points bearing on the metallic strips,
which are in the circuit of battery and
an alarm bell. When an article is re-
moved from any one of the clips the
contact points come together, close the
circuit and give an alarm. If an article
be removed when the tray is out of the
case the alarm is sounded when the tray
is put back.
The Irish standard., 1891-11-21
Character Reading.

Those learned in palmistry and kim
bred sciences tell us that when we
grasp a SO to speak homeless hand, u
hand which appears to crumple up ID
your own, 9 hand with no apparent W.
tally in it, to beware Of its ownel3
and that the soft and frm-te -the-toneh
hand is only possessed By an honest
man. They also assert that thick,
hard hand IS 8 sure sign Of obsttinacY
and eonceit a it's .oNner. They tell
you that long double tented
people cannot 2sincers Il Il they,
The Irish standard., 1891-11-21
Explosive Medicine.

In the June number of the Therar
oeutic Gazette reference is made to an
article which appeared in La Pratique
Medicale for May 5, calling attention
TO an accident that had happened from
carrying chlorate Of potassium tablets
in the pocket The tablets had been
prescribed for patient who was suffer
ing from Lucrative stomatitis, and he
was in the habit Of carrying the medi-
cine about with him. One day, as he
sat down, a defamation was heard, and
before he could remove his clothes he
was seriously burned. The tablets,
wrapped in piece of paper, were car
:ied in his pocket together with a pen.
knife, and it is supposed they detonated
under the. influence of conclusion and
set fire to his garments.
The Irish standard., 1891-11-21
EASY-GQINl6 sE VIENNESE
How They Enjoy themselves With White
Wine and Rolls. s59ss


How They Enjoy Themselves With White
Wine and Rolls. ssss
The Viennese are an going,
pleasnre-lovi people, rather out Of
the running in the present go-ahead
age. Their aspirations are limited to a
desire that a suff Gent mum Der Of them
should learn to play the fiddle, SO that
music may never fail them, says a
writer in the London Truth. In the
daytime they never are in a hurry and
stroll about the streets. In the sum-
mer evenings they go to gardens, listen
to the music and take light refresh
ments. One of these drinks l would
recommend consists Of long glass
filed half full of light whitc wine and
the other half with mineral water.
This is sold for a few pence already
mixed.
Another drink is what they call a me-
lange. It is cafe au lait, and is served
in a glass. Then they have boys walk
ing about the gardens with loaves of
bread and cheese. A person wishing to
eat and drink at one of these establish
ments calls for drink of some sort.
- LAS IL o10ASAV w Vic "oiUCA' 4AASA
he stops one of the boys, buys a roll Of
him, and from another boy he gets the
exact amount of cheese that he re-
quires.
Personally l do not like alcoholic
liquors, but I have always thought that
the way to put an end to the vast
amount of drunkenness among us would
be to provide the people everywhere
with drink con Gaining so small
quantity of alcohol that no amc unit of
1t would intoxicate; for it must be adj
mitted that the Notwithstanding bever-
ages are neither very exhilarating nor
very pleasant to the taste. In the wine
drinking districts of France there is no
drunkenness, nor is there among the
south Germans and Austri ans where the
staple beverage is either the mildest of
beers or the mildest of wines.
The Irish standard., 1891-11-21
''lsl;;lREELEl Il'I



ne Told theE lIsa
might .tF'ire Avn
81 Horace Greeley dreaded the camera
more than any man lever saw, writes
Bogardus Ia the Ladies' Home Journal.
He was brought st to my studio ~ White
law Reid, now minister to France, and
Sam Sinclair, famous in his day as one
of the great workers on the Tribune
The great editor had just been norni-
mated for the presidency Of the United
States. f3s
n He came into my studio with an arm
full Of papers, threw himself carelessly
in the chair, adjusted his glasses,
turned to the editorial page of the Trib-
.une, began reading one Of his own
articles, and, without raising his eyes
to me, said: ''Fire away!'' He had q
great armfnl of papers which he threw
on the floor at his feet
When was ready to take the picture
posed him properly and made a very
good impression. took him in several
positions and noticed that every time
there was moments delay with the
camera he picked up his papers and be-
gan reading with avidity.
At the same time took a group por-
trait Of Greeley, with Whitelaw Reid on
one side and Sinclair on the other. T
doubt if any of those pictures are in ex-
istence.
But the photograph then made at the
first sitting of Greeley alone is the one
generally accepted as the best likeness.
have in my possession q letter from
him acknowledging the receipt of the
pictures-at least suppose that's what
it does, for it has taxed the ability OF
experts in chirography to. decipher it.
l regard it, however, as a pleasant me-
mento of the great journalist and states
The Irish standard., 1891-11-21
JAPANEsE q IN g CRAB.
He Il Eighty Years Old and Has
Stretch or EieYen Feet.

SUE6GCA Oh Eleven HO6CsssSg
The king Of crabs ornaments The
cabin of the British steamship
.Euphrates, which arrived from Japan
recently with a cargo Of tea, says the
New Y ork Recorder. He is the biggest
specimen of his kind ever seen in New
York, and is known as lion crab
Capt. James Edwards, the commander
of the Euphrates. and his crew had a
lively time in capturing the crustacean
He was seen when the vessel was at
Hakodate, Yezzo. Efforts were made
to capture him alive, but he fought SC
valiantly that he lost his life in his
struggle to escape. He was pulled
aboard and stuffed as curiosity and
now occupies a place against the wall
of Capt. Edwards cabin, with an in.
scription in Japanese above, which,
translated, means "a thousand miles in
thousand minutes" He will be taken
to the London Geological gardens. He
is valued at two hundred and fiftv
dollars.
In his native element the crab was of
a deep green color, but in death he be-
came red. The body is round, re-
sembling that of a turtle, and is seven
inches thick and forty inches in circum-
ference. There are ten legs, the for
ward ones measuring sixteen inches in
length and the hindmost pair twenty
five inches. The pinchers of the for
ward legs are each six inches in length;
the first joint is twenty-five inches, the
second eight inches, and the third
twenty-five inches in length. The dis
tance from claw to claw measures
eleven feet
His appearance indicated that he
might have made a fierce battle for his
captors and afforded food enough when
killed for the entire ships company.
One of the sailors, a Japanese named
Karena, explained that the lion crab is
very rare specimen and difficult to
capture. He is supposed to move at
Che rate of mile minute, and is held
in reverence by many of the religious
sects in Japan. He grows an inch every
year, and this particular crab is sup
posed to have been nearly eighty years
old at the time of his decease.
The Irish standard., 1891-11-21
AN UNHAPPY LOT.
Hard Times of Policemen Where Proh1-
bition Is Supposed to Be in Force.

Hard Times of Policemen Where PrOh1-
bition Is Supposed to Be in Force.
t'I'll tell you of a curious device or
two for evading the law that would
make you feel creepy if you were to put
on my badge and go into some grog
shops in Lewiston with the purpose OF
raiding them,'' said an officer to a Lew
iston Journal reporter.
s'The other day an Auburn man told me
he had gone into a. place to get a drink,
and the bartender had taken a bottle
up from somewhere behind the counter,
then put it back and defed him to find
il. And he couldn't, either.
eff we go into a place and tear up
the floor or tear down the ceiling, what
ever damage we do we have got to pay
for. If we knock down door, why OF
course we don't have to pay for that,
but if we do any damage after we are
in we must pay the bills. So it is not
profitable to do any wreckage unless
we are sure of getting some liquors.
*'There is one place where the officer,
as he enters, is pitched down trap
door into the cellar, and while he is
coming up again the stuff is poured into
the sink and ammonia kills all traces
of it.
ssThen there is another way. Fout
doors with concealed spring locks lead
the officer, as he enters, into a room
in the back of the house, and the door
shutting after him locks him in until
he breaks out and the liquor has disap-
peared. tell you I'm always nervous
when go into such place. It makes
me feel as though perhaps the next step
would plunge me into a well or some
where elSe''