The Irish standard., 1891-04-25
RANDOM REFLECTIONS.

A Denver pa. woman recently swal-
lowed fish hook while eating strawberry
preserves. and curiosity is expressed as
to how it got in the preserved, Perhaps
it was accidentally dropped lntoa quart
strawberry box by the person who was,
fishing for the berry. IN
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With Lawrence Barrett forever with
drawn from the footlight; with Edwin
Booth not in the best of health; and
with Mary Anderson devoted to domes-
tic lite the American stage is sufferer.
These three names have for years been.
fayorite ones Yes: and it will be long
time before their equals are seen on the
| stage again.
An advertisement in a leading newspa~
per travels hundreds of thousands Of
miles between sunrise and sunset, and
all the railways, rivers, roads an cross
roads north, east, south and west. It is
up and away before the commercial
traveller has breakfasted. 1t is adver-
Using that pays the merchants, and the
more they advertise the more they sell
~
| Herschel Paris, nail bag robber, got
out of prison in Atlanta a few days ago.
by dressing up so as to be in costume
with number of members Of the Young
Mems Christian Association, who had
gone into the jail to hold Sunday serv-
ice. AS all the young men carried
Bibles in their hands Paris also armed
himself with one. By this time he is
probably armed with something more
dangerous.
Italy does not care fig for the lives Of
| the members of tae Malta, and indeed,
would have been glad of an excuse to
execute most of them before they were.
dumped upon this country, but the mat
ter of national dignity may be involved
and the issue will obscure the character
of the pretext Italy has lost all her
dignity IL understanding to listen to the
Malta here. She has planted thistles
where roses ought to bloom.
TX
American ship building is rapidly
coming to the front. One of the most
noted naval architects in Great Britain
praises in unsJinted terms the vessels Of
the new navy of the United States. This
is pleasant proof that the American
talent for ship building. which for long
time gave this country the fastest vessels
in the world, has by no means been LOST
since the days of the splendid clipper
ships of a generation since. 4 Little
more work, and less talk about our navy
would be in order.
Among large number OF small racing
yachts now beng built on The Clyde
there are number of centerboard
yachts more after the pattern of the
American model than Watson's center.
board deep-draught cutters. The build
ers of the centerboarders are DESTROYS OF
taking the laurels Of victory from very
| fleet cutter of last year, production. If
they succeed the centerboard boom in
foreign Yachting circles will receive new
| impetus. Americans are the great lead
ers IN everything. What happy world
| it viii! be when 1t becomes Amerioanized,
TX
It Is related of General, Joseph y.
Johnston that soon after the close of the
war he met young Southern dandy on
the streets of Baltimore, who, deferens-
tally raising his hat, said: 'tWell, Gen
eral, We are forced to submission, but
we are not subdued." ''Were you in the
army?" inquired the General. "No,"
the young man replied. "WelI," re-
sponded the skilIful. obstinate opponent
of Sherman. 'then perhaps you're not
whipped, but I am" The Southern
dandy was like many of our modern
dudes who do not know enough to get
them free lunch without putting up
for it.
TX
Dispensing the ardent seems to be e
highly aristocratic occupation in Great
Britain, it we may judge from the num-
Der of British peers who own dram
shops. The Earl of Derby owns no less
than seventY-two, and the holdings of
other earls and dukes run up to 1889.
The number of brewers WHO have been
raised to the peerage after having ac-
cumulated enormous wealth in the pro-
ductlon OF malt liquors is by no means
small. The noble Briton appears to have
almost as great q fondness for the LIQUOR
business as he has for his nightcap.
Notwithstanding all this, the noble
BritOn is charitable enough nm all occa