The Irish standard., 1891-02-14
I RANDOM BE OlIONs.

The venerable Neal Dow has been
thinking il over, and concludes that the
world on the whole is growing better.
Sensible optimism like this is an adorn-
ment to old age. He must have heard
from the Minneapolis city council re-
Gently. That in itself is consolation.
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A Dakota woman has been making
syrup for her own family and for her
neighbors, out OF Sugar beets She has
no machinery for the purpose, but
simply boils them. Here is an opening
for some inventive genius to patent
machine with which every family may
be enabled to make not only syrup but
sugar from beets. There is no doubt
but it can be done.
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Many man who has been shown
drop of water through microscope has
taken to drink under the influence OF
his fear of the aqueous animalcnles. ana
yet water is not generally harmful un-
less 1t browns people. If that Michigan
rat that died after drinking some Duluth
water had viewed it through a micro
scope before imbibing, it is safe to say
that there would be one rat more IN
Michigan to-day than there is.
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A few years ago it was thought that
the best ironclad men-of-war were ~
destructable. Now the dynamite gun
put the strongest of them at the mercy
Of tair marksman. On the whole isn't
this good time to put in practice the
teachings of rhe prince of peace, and
abolish war altogether? England thinks
that no war is the best medicine to be
used III the Behring seq controversy.
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It is with frontier settlements pretty
much as it is with raising children. In
families where the mother wears SLIP
pers. one of which she can easily remove
and promptly apply to the slippery boy
| where it will do the most good, the
children cannot help growing up to be
good and dut,ful cit1zens. IT this
ubiquitous slipper were applied III inland
settlements occasionally there would be
fewer young men in state prisons.
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There Is not harder working. more
faithful set OF men than the life-saving
crews in the public service, and yet it
is difficult to get Congress to listen to
their appeal for better pay. The reason
is apparent enough-there is very little
politics in the life-saving service. The
vote-making service is What counts with
the great Republican majority in Wash"
ington just now. But things will r..
different when Car Reed goes back =
private life where he belongs.
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Quite persistent effort IS being made
to break up gambling, which has be-
come an apparently permanent lnstitu~
ton in most of the larger places. The
| judges have charged the grand jury TO
indict even such officials as neglect to
perform their whole duty in breaking
up gambling establishments. The
judges may be Of the opinion that they
know 1T all, but until the supreme.
court aAirms that decision, the people
generally will believe that the police
authorities can wrestle more efectudlly
with gambling than grand junes.
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The scientists are threatening to driv D.
a useful and deserving animal out Of
business. They say that soap can be
made out of corn without the introduc-
ton of the hog, and that eventually
processes will be discovered for making
other hog products directly from the
grain. A company has already COM
menced the manufacture of soap in
Iowa, but the process is not fully de-
monstrated TO be complete success.
! The Prohibitiontsts think the article is
intended especially for them and they
refuse to go into the soap business.
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| A street Car company in indianapolis
has placed smoking cars on it's electric
motor trains, each car bearing sign
designating its character. But 1t is said
the women invaded those cars the first
day there were in use and glared as
f1eroely as ever at the men who did not
throw their cigars out of the windows
Minneapolis peope, who patronage the
street cars, are not yet educated up to
the standard of demanding the luxury Of
a smoking car. They would be satisfied
with seat in car with 'sno smoking
marked on every window in the car
What fine thing it is to live in Indiana,
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| Last years sugar crop Of Louisiana
was the largest ever raised in the state.
and it is supposed the sugar yield from