The Irish standard., 1891-08-29
RANDOM REFLECTIONS.

RANDOM REFLRO1IONs.
Miss Cora V. Diehl was elected reg
lister of deeds IN Logan county, Okla
bona. Her opponents carried the case
into the courts. The choice Of the peo-
pie was sustained, and now the pretty
alliance girl takes the Office and large
section of accrued salary, She will do
we'll if some Republican does not marry
her to get her out of office.
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Noting the fact that another heiress
has married her fathers coachman. the
Kansas City Times remarks: cater all,
the father of manageable girls would
better ride bicycle and let the women
folks take the street carr But street
cars often have good looking conductors
with eyes peeled for the main chance.
Yes, there are many places where liquor
can be had without going into the sa-
loon on the corner for it.
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Twenty years ago married couple in
Pittsburg had quarrel and separated,
the husband going West. The wife and
children took up home in Ohio with
her parents. The couple didn't AFTER
wards communicate with one another;
in fact neither knew where the other
was. A few days ago the husband Wis
tied Pittsburg on business, and, hear
ing that his wife was living in Ohio he
visited her. They made up. were mar
ried again and are now on a wedding
trip. There is chrome IN sight for the
person who will say when they will sep.
arate again .a..
A New York steamship agent says
that SO far 10000 people have sailed for
Europe since the first of May. The
total number will reach 100000 and
80, 600 more will go before the season
ends. A great many more people are
staying IN England this year than ever
before, and less are going over the old
lines of travel on the continent. Scot
land, Ireland and Wales are the favorite
tourist grounds this year, and the hotels
in these countries are reaping the har-
vest that those in France and Switzer-
land used to garner. IF these people
would patron)ze their own country as
as we'll as they do Europe, there would
better times here.
An idea Of the depression of values
in country real estate IN England may
be gathered from the sales wired by Ed
mund Yates to New York paper: The
small agricultural estate of Higher
Week, North Devon, which cost E5, 300
just thirteen years ago, sold the other
day for G3,400. There is, however,
nothing exceptional IN this ruinous de-
cline OF value. ! heard recently of prop
erty in Lincolnshire which cost $4,000
about twenty years ago, mortgagea for
8, 900 pounds, and the mortgages, in
utter dispair, offered the property
for I, 500 pounds, but there was no bid.
There will be several landlords for sale
soon, too, unless times change.
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A friend, who at one time enjoyed the
intimate acquaintance of William Ross
Wallace, the author Of that popular
song, .'The Sword of Bunker HILL"
writes that Mr.. Wallace once told him
that he vas paid just $40 for that piece
Of composition. He said. further, tnat
Mr.. Wallace encountered upon the plat
form of the Cooper Institute, at later
day, Lowell Mason, who wrote the
music for this song, and had the curlos-
1ty to ask Mr.. Mason what he was paid
for his share of the production. The
latter answered that he received $40
also. Thus author and composer were
placed on terms of strict equality. The
piece Melted many thousands OF dollars
to it's publishers. >.s4.