The Irish standard., 1891-05-23
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flObHe0! lOOtS0 UP @OsOUUsVUV8A eR5e9s III 1871
than ii 1889 The steady progress il
fre-proof arran gements Is sfre q tell ii
the long run, though bad luck admits 81
no accounting tor. and knows no law.
But the Insurance. rates remain the same.
How is that? 81 So 3 s IL.
South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama.
report that they have planted 35 600
acres Of watermelons this year. The
public will not rest entirely &c ease,
however, until accurate advices are re-
ceiyed concerning this season output Of
Jamaica ginger. The colored immigla.
ton from that locality to Minnesota will
not therefore be very high this year.
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Carl Schurz prophesies that the time
of passage across the Atlantic will be re-
duced to five days within the next few
years. Mr.. Sohurz evidently is not
stakeholder in the Mount Carmel Air
Navigation company, or he would reduce
his limit to fifteen hours. Carl prophe-
sled Blaine's election when he ran
against Cleveland. Carl is no good as
prophet.
Dom Pedro, ex- emperor of Brazil,
does not believe in reciprocity. But the
people who rendered BIN permanent
furlough and compelled him to accept it,
rather like the plain Mr.. Pedro now and
his opinions are worth Just about as
much as those Of any other average man,
and 10 more. That will be the upshot
in England when collars and cufs''
ascends the throne.
TX
Page Mcpherson, the Ward McAllis-
ter of ST. Louis, has disappeared leaving
his creditors in distressed state. Mr..
Mr.. Mcpherson originated the famous
Cinderella Club, and it appears that the
enhancing glass slipper of speculation
pinched him so tight that be fed from
the mad'ning throng between days. If
he will only write and let his friends
know how he is, all will be we'll.
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Isabelle Urquhart, Lillian Russell and
two or three other stage beauties have
secured an injunction in the United
States circuit court at Philadelphia to
restrain some tobacco dealers there from
adjoining cigar boxes with their pictures.
The natural inference is that the cigars
are not so good as they ought to be. IT
is to be hoped they will succeed, 1t
should be a crime to put inferior cigars
in such boxes
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Chicago has the largest foreign popu~
lation in proportion to it's size of any city
in the country, but the native born vote
is still in the ascendant there. OF the
$4,000 qualified voters at the recent
municipal election there 84,247 were
natives, $4,000 Germans, 2O.253 Irish,
and the balance were distributed among
a dozen other nationalities. No wonder
that Chicago is going to the front. It
will soon be the leading city of the Unit
ed States.
TX
Reports from Ecuador are to the effect
that the year 1890 was very prosperous
one, owing principally to the large cocoa
harvest, which was the richest ever gath
cred. Other products have also shown
favorable results, the coffee crop being
larger than any previous year. and the
prices very much higher than the aver
age. Increased attention has been paid
during the last year to the cultivation of
the sugar cane. Butter should be cheap
now if the milk in the cocoa nut is any
good.
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A queer genius has recently invented
plan for the esta blishment of system
of cir gardens on the Brooklyn bridge.
He would like to erect namber of little
summer houses on the wire network
which stretches from the banks of the
river on either side above the car tracks.
His air gardens are practicable enough.
but they would very soon be monopoliz-
ed by tramps aud vagabonds, so there is
no possibility Of succelsfo this scheme.
Well supposlng they would; tramps as
we'll as other people want lots of air.
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MRS. Grover Cleveland is said to be
liberal purchaser of rare books. She
has = passion for unique binding. and
knows genuine article from an imita-
t1on. She has very finely bound and
complete collection of Spanish authors
and a Barcelona addition (1662) Of Ger
vantes is included among it. It is the
only one Of this edition in the United
States. Mrs, Cleveland still leads. The
country would be born anew If abe c,ot