The Irish standard., 1891-07-25
RANDOM REEL EOIIONs.

Foreign papers announce that an en-
gagement has been arranged between
the young King Of Servia and Princess
Xenia, the daughter of the Prince Of
Montenegro. The young lady is only
eleven years of Of age. tt has long been
known that the Gear favored such
match. It shows how little sense the
Ozar has.
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T Russia has formally accepted this gov
ernment's invitation to make an exhibit .
at the fair. We will, therefore, proba-
bly, have much-needed opportunity of
learning that there is something in Rus
sia worth knowing about other than the
SHERMAN exile system. The Gear will
probably come himself. He would
learn something if he did.
*x*
Mrs. Annie Besant announces that
she will devote her life to Theosophy on
the lines laid down by the late Nine.
Blavatsky. This is equivalent to saying
that hereafter she will make her living
by working upon the credulity of peo-
pie who like to be connected with mys-
tical fads and humbug. There are lots
of women in the United States Just like
Mrs. Besant.
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Ex-Empress Eugene of France, says,
with an air of great conviction and an
assumption that she ought to know all
about it, that the gay female who sets
up claim to being her daughter is mis-
taken-that she kept accurate tab on all
the children she ever had, and the fe-
male is not in it. Her experience is
worth money and some American moth
ers would do we'll to consult her.
*x*
Lieut.. Peary's arctic expedition has
temporarily collapsed, owing to the fact
that his crew of negro sailors were para
lYzed by the cold before the expedition
was two weeks out OF New York. If
Lieut.. Peary earnestly desires to find
the north pole he will do well to ship a
crew that doesn't want to take New
York's summer climate with them.
Rather let the North pole stay where it
is. Minnesota knows enough about it
already.
A Little Rock (Ark.) girl who was
neglected by her lover rode to his house
and bushwhacked him through the win
dow with pistol. He will die, aud in
his death let faithless and vacillating
swains learn lesson. A 'swoman
scorned," if she be an Arkansas woman,
knocks the spots off the furies of the in
fernal regions for Immediate and effect
ual vengeance. Men should not trihe
with women's affections, and whenever
they do they should be punished.
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The ex-Empress Eugene was recently
called upon to fill up census blank.
There is some pathos and more history
in what she wrote: ''Countess de
Pierrefond (Marie Eugenia) age sixty
four; born at Grenada, Spain; natural
lied French, widow, had one ch1ld-a
son; lives On her income. of no profess
sion or business; a sojourner in France;
lives usually in England; is travelling
with two friends and four servants. If
she was in the United States she would
be termed vagrant.
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The Queen Regent of the Netherlands
and her daughter declined the offer Of
public reception during their recent
visit to Amsterdam. They requested
the city officials to use the money COL
lected for the reception in feeding the
poor. Consequently more than 10000
poverty stricken creatures received pres
ents of food and money, and $4,000
school children were provided with q
breakfast. Each child received also a
photograph of the young Queen. That
queen has some sense.
*x*
One of the African envoys OF King
Gungunhama, in London, recently was
nearly frightened to death by phono-
graph. He talked into the instrument,
and when it repeated his words to him
he fell on the floor in swoon. It was
some time before he gained courage to
ask questions, as he thought witch
doctor was in the photograph. He pro-
posed to silence the witch by stuhing
dried frogs leg into the instrument.
along with some other charms he had
with him. Having been dissuaded from
this and the matter explained, he said it
was no use for him to tell hes-all his
words were recorded. It is to be hoped
that Hia narkneaa will do hattar in tho