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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-12-19
CANADIAN INDEPENDENCE.
Popular Sentiment Favors Separation
from, Great Britain.

Popular Sentiment Favors Separation
from Great Britain.
\ Many Americans will doubtless be
surprised to learn, says Walter Black
burn Harte in an article on canadian
Journalists and Journalism, - in the New
England Magazine, how many of the
leading editors of Canada express them
selves as being in favor Of the adoption
of continental commercial policy and
complete separation from Great Britain.
Nothing could show more distinctly the
drift Of the popular sentiment in the
dominion, for everybody is aware that
newspapers only echo public opinion,
and do not create it. nowadays.
A few years ago there was little toll
GRANGE in Canada for any man who
dared to speak of the possibility of sew
ering the sentimental tie binding the
country to Great Britain. Now Cana
dian independence is one of the strong
est of popular appeals
The strong opposition Of the conserv-
alive party to anything like free trade
with the United State is based upon the
contention that complete independence
Oh 0IcaU DEICdLu "Ou1u IeSui' Ill e1A
absorption Of Canada by the great re-
public. The leading journalists of the
dominion unite in urging the necessity
Of Canada belonging to this continent
economically, and some Of them are
willing to adrlit to their constituencies
that if such Identification of the COM
n1ercial interests of the two countries
involve political union, then political
union is desirable. Such an nndercur
rant in the newspapers cannot be mis-"
f.,l-
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-12-19
SAVED BY 4 SWOON.
An Unconscious Woman Shifted at by q
Llon, out Not INJURED.

An Unconscious Woman Shifted at by a
Lion, BUT Not injured.
The circus gave Tecumsell, Ala, ex-
element enough on a recent Sunday to
last it for q year, says the Atlanta Con-
stitution. Forepaugh's show Travelled
on four trains. AS it is against the
Georgia laws 20 run through this state
on Sunday it was decided to stop at Te~
cumseh and feed the animals and rest.
At all the stations there were large
crowds and at lacunseh there were
several hundred when the last train ap-
preached AS it was slowing down one
of the ferocious lions managed to tear
off the door Of it's cage. Hector, which
was the brutes name, thrust his head
out right in the faces of a. group of ne
groes who were standing on the plat
form. They could not have been worse
scared if the evil one had dropped down
among them. Hector made a leap, with
open mouth, into the crowd Such a.
scattering and such yelling were never
seen or heard in Alabama. Some of the
negroes fell down in abject fright, but
the most of them struck off for home
on a hard ran. A dozen tried to climb
telegraph poles. One man sprang down
a we'll Hector Lit on his feet, but rolled
over and over When he got up there
was hardly a man, woman or child
within fifty yards. One woman, though,
who had tainted was lying near the
lion. With one bound he was on her,
his ugly teeth showing and his tongue
rolling out. The people who were look
ing on were Mortified. The tanner was
a long way off and there was no one
near with pistol Or rifle. To attempt
to rescue her would be almost certain
death. To the establishment OF every
one the beast, instead of nangling the
woman, simply shifted the body, turned
it over with his paws, and after cycling
it suspiciousl.y walked off leisurely. He
thought that the woman was dead.
Hector was recaptured and recaged
without trouble.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-12-19
NO Use for Water,

A noted medical practitioner once
told newspaper man that there was
no need of bathing. "You might as
we'll grease yourself all over" said he.
"Look at the noble Comanche. Where
will you find a more 1.-the and lusty
specimen of agile, muscular manhood?
He never bathes. He hates the water
with as keen an antipathy as does q
mad dog. Take my advice, young man,
initiate the Comanche. What he knows
he knows by experience just as a bear
knows that his place is on dry land and
as a beaver knows he can live in the
wet -
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-12-19
vlCTOR!A'S FAMILY.
Her Numerous GrandchildreEl--Eorty of
Them in All,

Her Numerous Grandchildren-Norty OF
Them in All.
Queen Victoria has a large family.
There are, besides her own children,
forty grandchildren and a rapidly IN
creasing progeny of great grandchil-
dren Here are the grandchildren up
to date:
Emperor William, Princess Charlotte.
Prince Albert William Henry, Prince
Sigislnund, Princess Victoria, Prince
Walde1nar, Princess Frederika, Princess
Sophia and the Princess Margaret, all
belonging to the Empress Frederick.
The prince of Wales has five children,
Albert Victor, George, Louise Victoria.
Victoria and Maud.
The Princess Alice has seven, name
ly, Victoria, Elizabeth, Irene. Earnest,
Frederick. Alix and Mary.
The duke of Edin burgh is quite III
the shade, with only five, namely,
Alfred, Maria, Victoria, Alexandria and
Beatrice.
The Princess Christian has achieved
only five: They are named Christian,
Albert John, Victoria, Louise Augusta
and Harold.
The duke of Connaught has three,
Margaret, Arthur and Victoria,
Alice Mary and Leopold are children
of the duke Of Albany.
The Princess Beatrice, dearly be.
loved Of her mother, has four children,
Albert Alexander, Leopold Arthur,
<1ictoria and new little prince that
has just tapped it's wings above Bal
moral castle.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-12-19
The Silo Going Out.

Some Years ago there was sudden
fashion for the conversion Of green
stuffs into what is called ensilage. In
various parts of the country, and es.
pecially in some parts Of Scotland, ex
pensive silos were built into w hich the
green grass was thrown to be preserved
by fermentation. One hears less of en-.
silage now that six years ago. The
truth is that the silo has gone out Of
fashion again. Scores of them are
standing idle in Scotland, and the sys
tenn has man1festly failed to acclimatize
itself
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-12-19
HORRORS OF I EPROSY
Medical Science Bafaed bv the
Dread Scourge.
How the Disease Is Propagated In the
Holy Land-The Strange Treat
ment Of Lepers in the Fiji
Islands.

1t is rather remarkable thing that
medical science is still in such state
of deplorable ignorance with regard to
the disease of leprosy, says the st.
Louis Globe Democrat In all other all
ments the progress of the last twenty
five years has been such as to warrant
the hope that the time will come when
there is no complaint from which a
human being suffers which cannot be
diagnosed and treated with success.
But in leprosy the progress, if any, is
slow. In India to-day the leper is as
common as he was many years ago.
You meet him about the streets. you
see him begging under the verandas of
every house of the wealthy.
The lepers are isolated. cast out from
even their own family, and it has been
recorded that the government has had
to interfere to prevent a father burying
his own son alive in order to prevent
spread of the malady. In the Holy
Land the lepers are to be met with
roaming about and begging from every
visitor, and indeed in several other
parts of the world they are to be met
with in equal numbers. The English
government has sent out many COM
missions to India to inquire into the
subject, but 50 far little has been ac-
complished. There is not as yet suffic-
lent hospital accommodation, and so
the lepers wander about in some of the
out-of- the-way places, and the dis
ease is propagated. In connection with
the subject there is a curious thing as
to cure in the Fiji islands.
It is recorded, by a missionary who
has himself heard the tale from one
who actually experienced what he mar
rates. The cure is effected by the poi
sonous juice of the sinugaga and the
process is this: The victim is taken In
to house away from the center Of the
population. He is stripped of his
clothes and his body rubbed with green
leaves. Then small fire is lighted
and few pieces Of the sinugaga laid
on it. When the smoke begins to as
cend the man is bound hand and foot
and lifted over the fire until his head
reaches about fifteen inches above
the ground. There he is allowed to
writhe in his agony for sometimes
hours, till it is thought he has been suf-
fciently smoked Then the body is
gashed and allowed to bleed freely.
The man may live or die. For the
time he is left lying on the rough pal
let prepared for him. If he lives he
gets better. That at least was the case
with the man of whom the missionary
wrote.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-12-19
One of Natures Franks.

A monster three-legged steer was
lately discovered during a roundup on
the headwaters of Cheyenne river in
Wyoming. The animal is seven years
old. will weigh close on two thousand
pounds, has horns that will measure siz
feet from tip TO tip and has only three
legs. The hind legs arc perfect, but in
front there is only one leg, located in
the center of the body on the part Of
the body between where the front
limbs are on an ordinary steer and is
about the size of two ordinary legs.
The steer is wild and when discovered
took the lead of small herd Of NAV.
ericks and skipped out for a hiding
place. The herd was rounded up anG
branded and man left in charge OF
them
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-12-19
Weight of the Brain.

The average weight of the brain OF
man bears definite relation to the eli
mate in which be lives. higher brain
weight being found in cold than in
warm countries. In proportion to their
stature, the Lapps have the largest
heads in Europe, the Norwegians next,
then come the Swedes, Germans, French
and Italians. In the Arab the head is
found to be smaller than any of the
above, while in the far north there ex-
lists people called Chugatshes whose
heads are remarkab bly, large.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-12-19
Massachusetts Indians.

By intermarriage with colored people
the Marshpee Indians in Massachusetts
have increased to about four hundred.
They occupy a reservation on the shore
of the lake in Marshpee called Ma'shpi
by the Cape Cod folk. Catachnit, the
chief Of the tribe, is the postmaster,
and an Indian boy carries the mail to
and from Sandwich. Three islands in
the lake are owned by a fishing club,
Of which Grover Cleveland, Joe Jefer-
son, r. w Glider, Alexander Wood, of
Boston, and G. B jefferson are mem
bers MI u
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-12-19
& TRAVELLED TRAMP.
Seventy, Has Been Around the World and
Never Worked Nor Drank.


Never Worked Nor Drank.
81 never worked; I was never in q
poorhouse; am a professional tramp;
yes, gentlemen, a professional tramp;
but T never begged of anybody.
tramped over the world twice, yet there
is nobody who can say an i'll word Of
me. People took sympathy on me
that is how I got along; they fed and
clothed me and gave me shelter. This.
gentlemen, has been my life for fifty
eight years."
In this strain Joseph Clinton. an
emaciated and weather-scarred old man
of nearly seventy years, told his pa
thetic story to the officials at the Phi!a-
delphia hospital the other day, says the
Philadelphia Record. Despite his worn
and broken-down appearance he has
the refinement of one used to better
things. and one whom hard experience
has taught much.
When but eight years Old both of
Clintons parents died and left him
alone. He admits with candor that he
has never done a stroke of work in his
life. He has simply existed. In win
ter his sleep was snatched in barns,
with blankets plying neighbors gave
him to shield him from the cold. In
summer he sought rest on the grass.
1t was notifying evert to the Grip
pied old man to be compelled to enter a
workhouse. Unusually intelligent, he
asserts that he never touched drop of
liquor, while his language is easy and
fluent, and his general department. that
of man in easy circumstances.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-12-19
FACT AGAIN sir Fl 9 TIC n. h
The Misleading Character Of CirCumstan-
tial Evidence.

The NIisleading Character Of Circumstala.
tial Evidence.
There is no 6gment Of the imagina-s
tion-if it is all within the limits Of
ssibilities- more curious or strange
than some things that actually happen.
The following is an instance in proof Of
this:
A few years ago Frank Millet, the
weI-known artist, war correspondent
and story writer, published a short
story in leading magazine which had
as it's principal feature the mysterious
killing of Partisan artist in his own
studio, says the Detroit Free Press. A
web of circumstantial evidence led to
the arrest of a model who had been in
the habit of posing for him. But
through some chain of circumstances
which the writer Of this has now for
gotten the murder, if murder it can be
called, was found to have been caused
by the discharge of frearm through
the force of capillary attraction. The
firearm was used by the artist as a
studio accessory and was hung in such
a manner that he was directly in line
with it. It's discharge occurred when
he was alone in his studio.
The story was vivid and ingenious
fight Of the imagination Now for it's
parallel in fact:
A recent number of the Albany Law
Journal tells Of the arrest of a man
upon the charge of killing his cousin.
The dead man was found lying upon a
lounge about three o'clock in the after
noon with a thirtv-two caliber ball in
his brain. The cousin, who had an in
terest of one hundred thousand dollars
in his death, was alone with him in the
house at the time. The discovery of
the real cause of death was due to the
lawyer of the accused, who took the
rifle from which the ball had been fired,
loaded and hung it upon the wall
and then marked the form of a man
upon white sheet and placed it upon
the lounge where the man had been
found. Then a heavy cut-glass pitcher
of water was placed upon a shelf above.
The temperature was ninety degrees
in the shade. The pitcher of water
acted as Il sun glass, and the hot rays
of the sun shining through the water
were refracted directly upon the car
fridge chamber of the rifle. Eight
witnesses were in the room, and d few
minutes after three o'clock there was
d puff and report and the ball struck
the outlined forn back of the ear and
the theory Of circunstantial evidence
was exploded.
This is interesting, not only because
the real occurrence is quite as strange
as the imagined one, but because the
fact came after the fiction and paral-
leled it so closely.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-12-19
He Wanted to Say Good-By.

During the reign of Frederick the
Great one of the singers of the Berlin
opera left clandestinely, in order to re-
turn to Italy. The king Immediately
gave orders to pursue her, and she was
arrested on the border. The poor sing
er, under the guard of some hussars,
was obliged to return to Potsdam,
where she was conducted before the
king. AS soon as he saw her he said:
Madam, why did you leave me?" The
poor singer, half dead with fear, could
not answer, but threw herself at the
feet of the king. ''Do not fear any
thing, . said Frederick: II only wished
to take leave Of you. Now you can go
where you please. Good-by."
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-12-19
Her Firsr Presentation Speech.

From England there comes news Of q
birthday gift which was given to a wife
by her husband and three children.
The youngest, a little -ten-year-old, was
appointed to make the speech of pre-
sssentation She did it, after much prep
tions for the occasion, and this was
Hthe form il took; Dear mamma, this
y IS presented to you BY your three
III aren and your one husband. q
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-12-19
DOGS TURNED WILD.
A Pack Of Hounds Which Have Con
Back to Savagery.

A Pack Of Hounds Which Have Conc
Back to Savagery.
For some time there have been re-
ports of a strange band Of animals
which was depredating on the farmers
in the northwestern part Of Kansas. It
was supposed that it was new kind OF
wolf, but as the animals were very
wild and were only seen at long inter-
walls, no description could be had OF
them. 1t has developed, however, that
instead of being wolves it is a pack OF
wild hounds. They have evidently at
some time been left by man and have
returned to savage state A man
named Withers who had lost colt and
was searching for it had occasion to
camp out in that part of the country
where there were no settlers and while
in camp the band of wild animals sur
rounded his place and raised such a
noise that he shot and killed one OF
them.
The rest of the band ran off and he
brought the dead animal into camp to
save it's skin. He was much surprised
the next morning to find that he had a
dead dog instead of dead wolf. The
dog was evidently full-blooded fox
hound. Withers thought that this
might give clew to the strange noises
produced by the animals, and concluded
to stay and investigate. He stayed
around there all next day, and at night
was again visited by the animals. He
scared them off and noticed the direc-
ton they took, and next morning fol-
lowed their trail. He traced them to a
rocky hill, and there found that the an
imals made their home. He counted
sixteen dogs which were hiding in the
holes and clefts in the rocks, and
thinks they have evidently sprung from
dogs that have been deserted by their
master.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-12-19
Why HUMBUG THRlyEs.
Because Some People Don't Know What
to Do with Their Money.


to Do with Their Money.
The fact of the matter is, America is
famous place to make money in, but
wretched spot to spend itin. People
of great wealth and people of snail
fixed incomes gravitate to Europe as
the moth to the fame. There is an al
Turing radiance about a life abroad
which compels the rich and attracts
the poor. There is no city in the world
where one gets so poor a return fer a
lavish expenditure of money as New
York; there is no habitation on the
glove where the misery of living on q
small fixed income is so emphasized.
It has often been figured how much
families who maintain great establish
ments, like the Astors, the Vanderbilts,
the Belmonts, or Goelets, can spend in
a year. With incomes ranging any
where from $250,0o0 to 81, 100000, says
the Illustrated American, these people
find it wretched hard work to get rid
of $150,O00 a year, No wonder that
they invest in huge steam yachts and
diamond stomachers A box at the
opera, ball or two, horses and car
riages, and retinue of servants take
only dipperful out of the barrel; and
then the opera box is as often let as not,
the balls turn to ashes, the horses and
carriages are knocked about over the
worst pavements in the world, and q
multiplication OF domestics only means
so many more drunks and incompetents
below stairs. A man may belong to a
dozen different clubs and scarcely find
one that is agreeable. A woman will
patronize twenty different modistes and
be lucky to find two that fit her. The
mere fact that all the town insists upon
crowding into the uncomfortable con-
fines of Delmonicos when it wants to
give ball or eat luncheon proves
how utterly without resource New York
Is as dispenser of amusement and
comfort.
Our theaters, truly enough, compare
favorably with the best of Paris and
London, but they begin at an hour when
most people prefer to be at dinner; and
if a play succeeds at all, it is kept on
the boards until it dies of old age. Flow
er shows, horse shows and dog shows
all very we'll and pretty in their way,
but neither intellectual nor enduring
are seized upon by society with an alb
surd avidity born of ennui. A new sin
ger or pianist Or violinist is hunted like
a quarry, and made amused but happy
to find that he can command ridiculous
prices to go and amuse bored people at
their own houses. Men take to drink
or hunting, according as the. frost is
hard or soft; women band themselves
together into all sorts of classes and
cabals, to be imposed upon by posturers
and "Delsarteans, simply to kill time.
Every kind of humbug thrives and pros
pers in New York, simply because the
people who live there and have money
TO spend are crazy to be amused
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-12-19
A Queer Remedy.

It often occurs in the various gas
works of the city that men working in
the retort houses are overcome by the
fumes IF gas and are in danger of as
phyxiation, says the Philadelphia Rec
ord. There is a uniform remedy for all
such cases. and it never fails in nine
hundred and ninety-nine instances out
of one thousand. AS soon as man ex-
hibits symptoms of being affected by
the gas he is promptly given a Seidlitz
powder. This generates gas in the
stomach and as it is thrown off it car
ries with it the noxious coal gas which
the patient has inhaled. Large sup
plies of the powders are always kept on
hand at the different works for use in
such emergencies.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-12-19
r. A EeiiviouS Secession.

An entire commune in France, that of
Murat, recently went over TO PROTESTANT
ism. The bishop Of Cahors was asked
to grant the right to hear two masses
instead of one every Sunday III the par
ish church, as many had to go long
distance and it was often announcement
to set out early. He refused in what
seemed to them naughty terms, saying
that, as Christ submitted to be crcuci-
fed for their sakes, If they could not
get out of their beds early in the morn
ing to be in time for church they were
not worthy of the name Of Catholics.
This caused great offense. A public
meeting was held on the church green,
and petition was sent to the minister
of public worship to give the commu-
nifty Protestant pastor. A Protestant
clergyman was secured, who, when he
went to preach his first sermon in an
improvised temple, found there an en-
thusiastic congregation of a hundred
persons.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-12-19
friendship arded.

In England rich man died recently,
and four hundred invitations were is
sued to his intimate friends to attend
the funeral. Only twenty nine came.
Eight days aiterward these twenty
nine, faithful till death, received a let
ter to call on the deceased's lawyer.
They did SO, and each received, accord
ing to the will, $500 if lady, and s200
If a gentleman. The testator further
directed that the names of those who
received his requests should be pub
lished in the journals to punish thosss;
who had not put themselves out Of their
way to attend his funeral.