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Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-02-09

Special order of the house Tuesday
at 10 a. M. to consider the third
reading of the apportionment bill
dividing the state into two congress
sional districts.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-02-09

In the honse Monday afternoon
Blum dell brought in the bill by the
Com on education for printing state
series of text books.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-02-09

Give us more good railway legisla-
ton, with a railroad commission
having power to enforce the laws.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-02-09

Senat or Beakman was excused
from attendance in senate on Mon
day afternoon on account of sick
ness.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-02-09

Monday afternoon the battle in
the house on the Simon primary law
was begun.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-02-09

Is this legislature going to keep
its pledges to the laboring men of
Oregon?
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-02-09
VALUABLE FINn


asO, r.. .A Co.. Feb. "A proml.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-02-09
CURE

Sick Headache and relieve all the troubles Incl
dent % a bilious state Of the system, such a.
Dizziness, Nausea. DrOWsiness, Distress after
eating, Pain IN the Side. &c While their most
success has been shown IN curing
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-02-09

What has become of the unani-
nous demand in all state platforms
for an S-hour law?
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-02-28
Queer Things About HOLSTERS.

What Maine men don't know about
Holsters is not worth telling. Here is
their latest information on the subject
as given by the Lewiston Journal:
''Who Of our readers ever heard of a
lobster getting mad and shooting off
one Of his claws? If we may rely upon
the veracity of the old lobster man,
this popular c1ustacean, like the mem
bers Of the human family, is capable of
biting his own nose to spite his face
He says that when lobster gets ex-
cited in any way he sometimes shoots
off one Of his big claws. It'comes out
as clean as whistle and leaves hole
clean cut and with no jagged edges In
the course Of few days new claw
will grow, and his lobstership can keep
up that interesting operation as long as
he chooses. The lobster is the only
creature that scientists have been able
to discover having the power OF doing
such thing. But, according to the old
fisherman, the funniest part Of it is n
the lobster loses his claw by any other
force than his own it will not grow
again. # you pull the claw off the
lobster will GO around for the rest Of
his life minus one claw. #
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-02-28
A Relic of MilIerisYn.

The ninety-foot tower built by Lie
wellyn Haskell on his property in
Kearney, N, j., in 1s43, from the top Of
which he expected that he and his fam
lily would ascend to Heaven, is about to
be removed to make way for a street
that is to run through the once hand
some grounds, says the New York Her
aid. On the top Of the tower is built
out from the briclxworh a wooden box
like platform, about eight feet square
and four feet high. Mr. Haskell was a
man of great wealth and when the tow
er was built it was generally supposed
that it was intended as an observatory.
Shortly before May IS, 1843, Mr..
Haskell, who was a strong Millerite,
announced that, according to the proph-
ecies of Daniel, the world would come
TO an end on that day. Then it was
that his neighbors knew why the tower
was erected, On the day mentioned,
Mr.. Haskell and his family arrayed
themselves in white robes and ascend
ed to the top of the tower to await the
coming of the Lord. There had also as
sernbled in the woods near by large
number of Millerites, who patiently
awaited the fulfllment Of the prophe-
cies. But their hopes were doomed to
disappointment and they finally dis
perSed to their homes.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-02-28
Riding tho Camel.

DR.. Nachtigal, the celebrated African
explorer, was once the guest Of rich
Hamburg merchant, says London It'd
Bits. The merchants son, young
man of somewhat sentimental tempera-
ment, said that his dearest wish was to
ride across the desert on the back of a
camel. He thought such ride must be
very poetical indeed. ''My dear young
friend, replied the explorer, Il can tell
you how you can get q partial idea Of
what riding a camel on the desert of
Africa is like. Take an Office stool,
screw it up as high as possible, and put
it into a wagon without any springs;
then seat yourself upon the stool and
have it driven over uneven and rocky
ground during the hottest weather Of
July or August after you have had
nothing to eat or drink for twenty-four
hours, and then you will get q faint idea
OF how delightfully."- poetic it is to ride
on q camel in the wilds Of Africa
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-02-28
NEWSPAPER TRAINING.

One Who Has Had Experience Says 1t Is
Very Beneficial.
Ibelieve have done every thing which
an edito2. OF publisher ever has to do,
from directing wrappers to writing the
biogr. ply Of President within an hour
after his death, writes Edward Everett
Hale in the Forum. This means, II the
training be continued through many
years of life. and if one be under a good
chief. that one gains. of necessity, the
ready use, at least, Of his own language.
We newspaper men may write English
very i'll, but we write it easily and
quickly. So that to us, who have been
in this business, there is something
amazing to hear clergyman say that
he occupied a week in composing SER
mon, which was, at the outside, thirty
five hundred words in length. One can
understand absolute inability to do it at
all: but NO newspaper man understands
how a man who can do it can spend
tl,irty-six hours in doing it.
If you have to send ''copy'' upstairs
hour after hour with a boy taking the
slips from you one by one as they are
written and you know that you are
never to see what you write until you
read it the next day in the paper your
copy will be punctuated carefully, writ
ten carefully, and it will he easily read.
That is one thing. Another thing goes
with it. You will form the habit of de-
termining what you mean to say before
you say it, how far you want to 60 and
where you want to STOP And this will
bring you to d valuable habit Of life
to stand by what has been decided.
Napoleon gave the same advice when
he said: ''If you set out to take Vienna,
take Vienna"
For these reasons I am apt to recon-
mend young men to write for the press
early in life, being we'll aware that the
habit of doing this has been of use to
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-02-28
Il Few "Briticis ms"

The use of the adverb ''directly'' for
the conjunction ''as soon as'' is distinct
ly a criticism, says Eugene Field in the
Chicago News, but it is not slang. On
the contrary, knocked up for weary
or tired out" and ''seedy'' for Ealing
these are fair examples Of British
slang-not of the thieves slang, but of
the slang that obtains in polite circles
throughout the United Kingdom.
Certain English words which the
British use are much more desirable
than the corresponding words used gen.
orally in this country. For example:
The word s'lift'' is better than the word
Elevator" for the reason that cliff" is
English and Elevator is Latin. On
the other hand, our British cousins rare
ly "begin;" they commence. They
seldom ':end;'' they "fnish"-that is,
they say they do, but they don't, for to
say that thing is finished is equivalent
to saying that it is finally elaborated
and polished to the degree of which the
creator is possible. Very little in human
life is finished.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-02-28
!. PAWN q 0R5 IS ADD m
,Geor In Planters who lid Not scsn Their
#5sag Bills Carefally

9140I Xt8 AJAS1 -
IN Bills Carefally.
4 "a story occurs to me, y he said .to 9
writer IN the New York riibul1e, 'sof
the slipshod way in which the planters
used to do business in the South before
the war A few p1lfs at his cigar, and
he had his anecdote drawn up IN proper
form. s'There used to be 9 man who
kept a general store in Georgia at some
distance from any large town. His GUS
TONERS were chiefly the planters, who
had their big estates in the nelghbor-
hood. One time the stoTe-keeper
bought a dozen saddles, and two months
later, when he made out his annual
bills, he could account for only eleven
Of them. He had five on hand, but his
books contained entries of the sales Of
only six of the others. He or his clerk
had undoubtedly sold one and forgot to
charge it.
"Here was dilemma Being thrift
ty man, he did not wish to lose the price
Of saddle, yet how could he find out
who had bought the article? An idea
struck him, however. He would charge
each of his wealthy customers who
had bought one of the six other
saddles with the seventh one.
Those who had not bought the
saddle would at once say so, and the
purchaser would be he who did not OBJ
feet to paying for it. After making out
the bills and sending them to his custom
ers, the store-heeper was compelled to
visit city at some distance. He told
his clerk what he had done, and in
structed him to beg the pardon OF every
customer who said he had bought
no saddle, and to tell him that the item
had been put ON his bill by mistake.
s"The proprietor of the store made his
trip. and when he returned home,
several days after starting, he asked his
clerk who had really bought the saddle
in question. The clerk was evidently
worried, and said: Eleven of those,
about whom we were in doubt, have
been here to pay their bills. Nine OF
them paid for the one saddle; one man
wasn't quite certain whether he had
bought saddle Or not, but would let
us know in day Or two, and the other
planter was sure that we had made a
mistake, because he bought two new
saddles last year, and didn't need any
more
ssThe store-keeper was somewhat
taken aback at the overwhelming sue
cess of his little scheme; but as there
was nothing else TO do, he quietly
pocketed the money and kept his mouth
Shut
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-02-28
CHARACTER AND POKER.
A. Good Way to Learn d Mans Dispeaai-
tiOnx

4 Good Way to Learn Mans DIspeaai-
ton.
It is an easy matter to read rnan's
character by the way he plays an ordi-
nary game of poker says the New York
Herald A man without any nerve, or,
to speak plainly, d coward, is the most
easy of all to detect. He will play
mean, contemplate game, and will pre-
fer to win dollar Or two on full hand
to taking the least risk in raising his
opponents. He will never bet more than
the blind unless he has sure thing,
and even if he has four of a kind his
manner will be undecided, because he is
fearful that some one else might hold
straight flush.
Next comes the man who plays to win,
or who in story book would be re-
ferred to as an avaricious miser This
gentleman will show his true colors by
the niggardly way he has OF putting up
his money and by the longing looks
with which he regards his neighbours
pile of chips. He is not cowardly, yet
he won't bet unless he is sure to win. It
is easy to distinguish this gentleman
frem the coward by the way he will bet
on a good hand when he has it. No
subterfuge is too mean for him, and he
Will resort to all kinds of tricks to throw
his opponents Off their guard If he
holds two pairs he is sure to make some
remark about trying to fill a straight.
If he has three Of kind he will make
an offhand statement that he has a
small pair and is going to bet on them
Just for fun When he wins a few
dollars he will make some excuse ami
get out of the game. Watch the next
time you play and see if what / say is
not true.
An ordinary man will come down
squarely with his money. He may bluff.
but he will play his hand for what it is
worth, and quit when he thinks he has
gone far enough.
An aggressive fellow shows fight in
every movement. If he has been losing
it won't affect his play in the least.
He will bluff and bet away until he
loses all his money or turns the tide of
his luck and comes out winner. Some
men, however, can't stand this, and as
there is an exception to every rule, there
must be one to this. Continued bad
luck will make coward Of a good man,
and he will play warily. So do not con-
found him with the man who is a COW
ard by nature.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-02-28
THE DEADLY PIE.
1t Is the Great American Depopulatol:
Says This Authority.

1t L. the Great American Depopulat0I:
Says This Authority.
'"The risks which New York men take
with their Digestion" said the proprie-
tor Of group Of well-known restau-
rants to New York Sun man, ''is a
constant source of surprise to me.
Heavy pie and pulpy pudding are
bolted at the very time when careful
eating should be vigorously attended to.
I sit and look on at times in my differ
ent restaurants with absolute amaze
ment at the Judgment, or rather lack of
Judgment, which men exhibit at the
table. We have two throngs of custom
ers. The first rush comes about 9:30 in
the morning. 1t is composed Of brokers,
business men, clerks and office EN-
ployes, who have grown into the habit Of
rising late and rushing down to the Office
without breakfast, so as to start the
work OF the day on time. They could
easily get their breakfast at their board
ing houses or at home if they would
rise a, half hour earlier, but most of them
are mp late at night, and the te1npta-
sion of q longer nap in the morning is
too alluring to resist. So they hurry
downtown, open the mail, start things
a going and then rush to the nearest
restaurant for breakfast. 1t does not
hurt any man to take little exercise
before he eats in the morning, and I'M
doubtedly delay in the first meal Of
the day would not do them any partic-
ular harm if they would be care
full about the character of their
food. But after working two hours
on an empty stomach they come in in vio~
lent haste, order q cocktail and then eat
pastry and sweets enough to ruin the
digestion of an ostrich. They usually
start in with roast beef Or some other
dish that is ready, and wind up with
mince pie or a. boiled apple dumpling.
[ know many business man who
comes in and consumes three or four
dishes and is out Of the place again in
less than fifteen minutes. At lunch
time they come III again and load up
with an oyster patty or beefsteak pie,
or some other dish in which rich pastry
is an important factor. This second
rush of trade is even more interesting
than the first, because it shows how the
habit of eating pastry grows. It is no
unusual thing to see man forty years
Of age take wheat cakes, sausages
and mince pie for his luncheon. BE
bolts the sausage, covers his cakes with
rich sirup and has his pie served hot
and sprinkled an inch deep with pow
dered sugar. He is invariably an ad-
vanced dyspeptic in appearance, and
for some unaccountable reason he
seems to succeed in business. Itdoes not
do any good to sheer at the pie-eaters
Of New York because half the railroad
presidents, telegraph superintendent
and influential men OF affairs Of this
town eat things which cause man Of
gastronomical intelligence to shudder.
Most Of the absorbed and nervous finan-
ciers and business men die at fifty. and
everybody says II is due to oyerwork.
All mistake. Pie is the fell destroyer. =
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-02-28
CHA 9TH, II I'm GRIPS.
An Interesting Study Of Human
Nature.
1ou Can Gauge the Character Of Your
heighbor In the street-Car by the
Way He or She Holds on
to the Sfran

1t is the boast of experts ia palmistry
that an index of personal character and
disposition as clear and convincing as
that furnished by the expression of the
eye, the set of the mouth, the contour of
the head. Or any Of the numerous mystic
crlterions by which the imaginative man
strives to judge his chance acquaintance
is furnished by the hand, There is a
good deal more truth than hum bug in the
claim. But you don't have to go through
the tomfoolery Of studying the lines OF
the palm to find the fact out. All that
is necessary, says the San Francisco
Examiner, is to get on a street-car that
is run by o. careless Or playful driver
I and you'll be able to read character by
watching the hands of your fellow pas
sengers.
Who, for example, has not seen the
man Of aggressive character, who pushes
his way over all obstacles with the ag-
gressive hold Of the strap that defes all
the tricks of the driver to upset him?
Next him, perhaps, is the passive man,
satisfied To move along in the calm
peacefulness Of a gentle nature. He
hecls half around. treads on the toe of
the choleIic man, who imagines himself
safely slowed away in corner, and
grabs the strap with forefinger and
thumb, and utters mild rebulse on the
uncomfortable methods Of the driver.
Whenever the jolt comes, and
wherever you chance to be, you will al
ways notice, with satisfaction, the man
Of frmness, whose grip Of the strap has
all the characteristics Of his sure-footed
method Of going through business and
life. He is always prepared for emerg~
encies, and go oyer-jubilant driver or
engineer can catch him mapping.
The awkward man is everywhere.
He is the butt of ridicule and the target
of all naledictions that an outrageous
and disturbed public pours out when its
comfort is interfered with. Look at
the awkward hand and, in your minds
e,-n Won see the helpless struggle
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-02-28
SAL 4 ON THE STREETS.
IndiscriminatelyS Scattered About # L. Apt
s5 to Produce Disease.


a to Produce Disease.
Few people understand what dan
gerons agent salt is when scattered
about the streets" said a prominent
physician to Philadelphia Inquirer re-
porter in discussing the wholesale man
ner in which the pavements and high
ways have been sailed during the past
two days in efforts to get rid of the
snow. II indulge in no sensational
prophecy he continued, when as
sert that much suffering, and doubtless
cases of death, will ensue in this city in
consequence Of this pernicions practice
the last few days. Salt is so innocent a
thing by itself that people fail to un-
derstand what havoc it can play with
those inclined to contract colds when it
is mixed with snow or ice, and If the
danger was more generally known far
less salt would be used. AS it is now
tons of it have been sprinkled about the
city since yesterday morning. How
does it affect health? Why, when it
comes in contact with frozen substances
it produces chemical change the effect
of which is to create an artificial tenn
perature, reducing the temperature OF
the slush of thawing snow to q point
equivalent to several degrees below
zero. So instead of walking through
slush of temperature around freezing
point, our feet are subjected to the in
huence Of zero atmosphere heavily
charged with penetrating and chilling
moisture. Once the salt is placed on
the streets it is quickly carried by the
feet of pedestrians and the movements
of cars and other vehicles until it is so
widely scattered that almost the entire
surface has this artificial temperature.
Then the warmer atmosphere coming
in contact with the chill below, conde1-
sation takes place, making a damp,
raw, unhealthy air, exposing people to-
the dangers of diphtheria, pneum mia
and other kindred affe ctions. You see
now how it can affect the air in the
streets of {. city"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-02-28
A Fatal Year for Alpine Guides.

The climbing season OF 1889 was more
fertile of accidents than any since the
fatal year of 1882. Only one English
man, Mr.. Arthur Mcnamara, was
among the slain; but the number Of
guides who lost their lives during the
summers work was exceptionally
large. Of the nine guides and two
porters thus killed no less than nine
died literally in harness, with the rope
round them and their sacks on their
shoulders. Except in 1870, when three
travellers and eight guides persisted in
one storm at Mont Blanc, there has never
been il one year such 9 tale Of s1augh-
ter among those who earn their bread
by helping men from the lowlands to
climb mountains, #
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-02-28

unfriandly fortune when she gets bad
tempered.
The weak, uncertain, pulpy and un-
profitable type of man can be read in
stantly in the manner in which the
strap is grasped weakly, just lis surely
as the timid and shrinking disposition
reveals itself in a grasp of the leather
that is insecure and easily dislodged by
jolt.
!. What the expert at hand-reading
would call the conversation grip" is
another interesting and peculiar feat
IRE of the strap-using traveller. Glance
at the grip, It is easy to imagine the
owner Of that hand STOPPING over and
chatting with some one who has the
greater fortune of a seat. Your con-
versational traveller always holds a
strap that way. It is as sure an indica~
ton that the owner is passionately
fond of talking as the confident grip of
his next-door neighbor shows that that
neighhor is a man who goes through
life with the conviction that he can
take care Of himself, no matter what
happens. He is the happy mean be-
tween the aggressive and the passive
man, and doubtless a very companion
able and decent fellow.
! Who that has travelled much in the
bustling town, especially when the
crush is greatest on ears and train. has
not longed for the avenging pin to stick
into the wishy-washy, altogether use
less dude or languid man? He is con
stantly throwing the burden OF himself
upon somebody else, and the extraor~
binary and aggravating manner in
which he holds on to the car-strap is q
proof of insipid and backboneless per"
sonality that manly men detest. The
virile grip of the bony hand OF the man
of plenty of sand is pleasing contrast.
This type Of man uses but one finger for
support, as a rule, but he holds on just
the same.
The dainty hold is that Of the gloved
hand Of young woman who is stand
ing there holding a strap because the
men in the seats are apparently too in
tent reading the evening newspaper, or
because their eyes are shut and they
seem TO be asleep. It is an attraction
that always wins, although it may take
some time. Somebody gets interested
In the bracelets Or the eyes Of their
owner and gives up a. seat to the fair
one.
| What contemplate proof Of repre-
hensible and disagreeable character is
told in the selfish grip! 1t grabs twice
as much as it is entitled to every time
and holds on as long as it can.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-02-28
Valuable Carp.

The Census Bureau, with all the rest
of its work, has been attempting to as
certain the value Of the carp which have
been introduced into American waters.
A writer in the Boston Transcript says:
Zone man to whom schedule was sub
mitted replied that the carp in his pond
had been worth a thousand dollars to
him in the past six months. His wife
had been sick, and he had fed her ex-
clusively upon carp, to Which,diet he at
tributed her recovery. She was worth
q thousand dollars, ct least, therefore
he estimated his gatn On his investment
at that sum.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-02-28
Souvenir for an Ex-Oueen.

The Queen of Roumania, during her
recent sojourn in England, say foreign
papers, visited a needle factory. While
watching the work one Of the men
aked her Majesty for q single hair from
her head. The Queen granted his re-
quest with smile. The man, who was
Engaged in cutting the eyes in the
needles, placed the hair under the
needle Of his machine, bored 9 hole in
/ It, drew fne silk thread through the
the hole, then presented i to the aston
ished Queen. II 81 q 5s55
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-02-28
Never Geta Over II.

The Indian is born suspicious, and he
never gets over it. One may chum with
9 white hunter for ten years; and yet he
will never fully trust him. An, Apache
may be starving for food, and yet he
will suspect the white child who offers
him bread Of having poisoned Il to 40
complish his death.