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The Irish standard., 1891-09-26
KlssERs or CANNES.
What Sensible People Think Of Their Re
pulsive Practice.

what Sensible People Think Of Their Re-
pulsive Practice.
A scientist has discovered new dis
ease which he calls by the name OF
echinoocccus, and which he says is
"bred in man by the kiss of a dog"
This is a blunder, writes the Woman
About Town, in the New York Evening
Sun. Men are not in the habit OF let
ting dogs kiss them. Nor are women.
But there is a certain hybrid creature
that is given to it. This creature has
the appearance of a woman without one
of the healchy instincts of her sex. In
stead of baby she cuddles frowsy, fat,
wheeling, vicious dog, and instead OF
the kisses of a child's sweet, wholesome
mouth she coaxes for the kisses OF this
nasty little beast. Upon her soul, The
Woman does not know more repelhng
thing than this! A few days ago she
was the unwilling witness to this scene.
An awfully pretty girl sat IN wicker
chair on the. veranSa Of her summer
home. Near her on the step sat an aw-
fully nice boy just OLD enough to be Sc
riously disguised with her behavior. On
her lapshe had mite of toy spaniel
on N9fh she lavished an extravaganza
of affection that would have Hooded
the soul of six-foot man with bliss,
with some left over. She kissed the
wretched scrap of dogenelty over and
over and begged Bonbon to kiss her.
holding his muzzle up to her pretty lips
and kissing it again and again. Now,
if that nice boy had offered himself as
a substitute for the dog the girl would
have been highly scandalized and would
very likely have walked off and told
her brother and have made several peo-
pie very unhappy. Fortunately the boy
had better taste and better sense than
the girl. II wouldn't kiss that poodle
girl for one hundred dollars" he said,
afterward, in supreme disgust. Neither
would any other man who had any
sense of his own dignity.
But the point Of this isn't that no man
will want to kiss a woman who kisses
her dog. The point is that no fastidious,
right-min Hed woman would want to kiss
dog any more than she would want to
kiss cat or rat or chicken. There
is a. sense Of sanct;ty in herself that
makes the true woman. In the case Of
this young girl she probably thought
that she was being coquettish and
piq11ing the young fellow with care
less display Of 'endearment in which he
had no share. But she was only repel-
ling him and teaching him that some
girls weren't half as fastidious about
some things as some boys.
The Irish standard., 1891-09-26
A t.nrious Collection.

In the library Of the Moravian school
for boys at Nazareth, Pa, which was
founded in 1741, and whose sessions
since were interrupted only for a briei
period by the revolution, is series OF
! quaint old volumes containing the com.
positions, graduating colloquies and
essays, together with sketches in pen
Gil, made by scholars whose hands be.
came dust half century ago. The
main building of the school on the aca-
demic green is the stone Pomeranian
.castle'' erected by Count Zinzendorf IN
what was then the wilderness of Penn
sylvania, and which attracted manT Gu.
rious visitors in the last century. ;.
The Irish standard., 1891-09-26
SMALLPOX ON SHlPROARD.
Trying Times for the Captain, Requ irine
Nerve and Presence Of Mind.

Trying Times for the Captain, Requ ring
Nerve and Presence Of Mind.
There is nothing more formidable,
saws Sir James Poole in the London
Daily News, than for a captain of
vessel to find himself on the surface OF
the broad ocean face to face with a ter
rible outbreak of infection. Happily
there are captains who are equal to the
duties which that sorrowful position
imposes on them. The Mercantile Ma
rine Service association at Liverpool, of
which Sir James was the spokesman,
has presented to Capt. Dugald Lyon,
master Of the ship Sierra Pedrosa,
owned by Messrs. Anderson & Co., a
gold watch and chain Sin recognition Of
his devotion and energy in personally
attending to the members of his crew
attacked by smallpox on the voyage
from Chittagong to London" 1t was
shortly after leaving the former port
that this loathsome disease broke out
aboard; it spread and,scontinued until
the vessel reached the Cape of Good
Hope, just ffty-fve days out. Short
handed and bound by the rules of the
service to consider the interests Of own
ers and underwriters as well as those OF
the crew and officers, Capt. Lyon
nevertheless took the first sufferers into
his cabin. Three men subsequently
falling victims to the disc ase, he was
compelled to take stringent measures
for shielding other members of the crew
from contamination; but throughout the
voyage the humane and indomitable
captain of the Sierra Pedrosa "attended
his patients like a hospital nurse, and
washed them and gave them relief three
or four times day."
The Irish standard., 1891-09-26
Fond Of His Frau.

The German emperor is said to be ex.
trenely fond Of his big, knd-hearted
blonde frau, and is reported as saying:
II could wish no better to the men Of
my nation than that the girls would
follow the example Of their empress in
'devoting their lives as she does to the
cultivation Of the three K's-die hirche,
die kinder and die kuche" (the church,
the children and the cuisine).
The Irish standard., 1891-09-26
QUEER RESULTS.
Some very Odd Facts About tho Nu!nerS
ais Three and Seven. 81 3}


ais Three and Seven. 81
John w. Kirk, the white haired vet.
eran who was with Morse when the first
working telegraph line was stretched
and who stood beside the great inventor
when the ,,st message was transmitted
from Annapolis Junction to Washing
ton, has made during his life a great
many interesting calculations in 4um-
bers, says the Boston Transcript The
two most remarkable numbers in the
world are 3 and Z.
s'The numeral seven," says Mr.. Kirk,
ssthe Arabians got from India. and all
following have taken it from the Ara
bans. 1t is conspicuous in Biblical lore,
being mentioned over 500 times in, the
Scriptures, either alone or compounded
with other words. It seems favorite
numeral with the Divine mind, outside
as well as inside the Bible, as nature
demonstrates in many ways, and all the
other numerals bow to it. There is also
another Divine favorite, the number
three, the trinity. This is brought out
by d combination Of figures that is
somewhat remarkable. 1t is the six
figures 142,857.
s'Multiply this by 2, the answer is
2s5,714.
multiply this by 8. the answer is
42s,571.
''Multiply this by 4, the answer ia
ST., 1873.
'Multiply this by s, the answer is
714,2s5,
multiply this by 6, the answer is
s57,142.
"Each answer contains the same fig.
ures as the original sum, and no others,
and three of the figures of the sum re-
main together in each answer, thus
showing that figures preserve the trinity.
''Thus 265 appears in the first and
second numbers, ST. in the second end
third, 1928 in the third and fourth, and
14S in the fourth and fifth.
ssIt is also interesting to note thar
taking out of any two Of these sums the
group Of three common to both, the
other three, read in the usual order. froro
left to right, will also be in the same
order in both sums.
''Take the first and second sums, for;
example. The group Of 2s5 is common
W ECEA. 4AosAIE&5 IG<1N4 HGc ouu Va o@AS
second sum, read right along and bring
in the first figure of the thousands last;
It will read TIA. ALI the others will
read in the same way.
again, note that the two groups Of
three in the first sum are the same as
the two groups of three in the fourth
reversed in order, and the same, thing is
truesof the second and third. The LASH
multiplication has it's groups Of three
the same as those Of the ori :yinal num-
Der, reversed again.
Examine these results again, and
you will see that in these calculations
all the numerals have appeared save
the nine. Now multiply the original
SUM by the mighty THE divine favor.
tie of the Bible and of crea5ion-aud
behold the answer! The last Of the nu-,
merals. and that one only in groups Of
three--again the trinityl
142,657
The Irish standard., 1891-09-26
MANY THINGS IN CIGARETTES.
But None of Them Poisonous with the
Execution of Nicotine.

But None of Them Poisonous with the
Exception of Nicotine.
Cigarette mokers and opponents OF
the noxlous little rolls as well will be in
terested in some researches recently
made by State Chemist Payne, of Geor-
gia, who has discovered that cigarettes
are pure tobacco and paper, and nothing
else. The scene when the chemist met
a temperance committee of the legisla-
ture the other day is thus reported in
the Atlanta Constitution:
The chemist stated that cigarettes
were composed of tobacco wrapped in
rice paper, and there was no poison in
them with the exception of nicotine.
Then the gathering looked surprised,
and members of the committee began
firing cross-questions. They were anx-
ious to prove all about cigarettes, and
DR.. Payne told them clearly and in a
manner that plainly showed he had
done his work well
Briefly the doctor explained what he
had done. He had taken cigarettes OF
nearly every brand and carefully
analysed them.
The contents, without the papers, of
eighty cigarettes were mixed. In this
mixture was not trace of poison, not
in tobacco, such as is used for chewing
and in cigars. He examined for NOR
phine, but found none for opium, and
found none; for <'hasheesh'' or Indian
hemp, and found none.
Then, as surety, he mixed one-quar~
ter of grain Of morphine with the con-
tents of eighty other cigarettes This
he examined by the same process as the
other and the poison was clearly shown.
This was only one-three-hundred-and-
twentieth of grain to cigarette, but
the presence Of the morphine was
easily found.
TIE papers Of eighty were then an
alvzed and nc arsenic or other poison
was found.
Besides the paper there are in Gig"
arettes:
Nicotine.
Oil of tobacco.
Bitter extractive.
Gum.
Chlorophyll.
"What sort Of thing is that?" broke
In mem Der. SIT sounds like poison"
. The doctor laughed and told him it
was merely the coloring matter in all
plants.
Celulose.
Potash.
Chlorine.
Silica.
Water.
The Irish standard., 1891-09-26
Eels as Currency.


Teacher Justesen, of Voel, Denmark,
sold pipe to a neighbor for twenty
yards of eel. Another farmer bought
it the same night for twenty-five yards,
and still another got it later on
for thirty. The scores were settled
by recourse to the near Lake
sminge, where cells abound, and all
parties We're paid off to their satisfac-
ton. The teachers share was forty
seven eel, which together measured up
the requisite twenty yards. In Jut-
land, where cells thus pass as currency,
distance is measured by ''smokes, :"
not by miles. It is $50 many pipes OF
tobacco from one town to another, not
SO many miles. The Jutlanders smoke
as they act, slowly. About two mile
are reckoned to the pipe.
The Irish standard., 1891-09-26
CuBA'S BALEFUL NOON

The Story OF q woman VINO was Cn8nSo0
from . Beauty to Hideous Creature.
s'The ugliest woman ever saw, !"
said the raconteur to New York Com
mercial reporter, was a Cuban, and
she was so ugly that it was really pain
full to look at her."
cit takes the exception to prove the
rule" said his vis-a-vis. "Tel us about
her"
.sShe was woman of the humblest
class, and it was at Havana that I
first saw her, tethered to goat that
she was herd4ng among the stubble Of
the sugar cane. Her husband was a
charcoal burner, and when l first saw
Estella wondered how any man living
could have married stAh character"
Glove goes where it is sent,'' said one
of the after-dinner crowd.
'sYes, and the charcoal burner mar
ried for love. But he never would have
won Estella if dreadful providence
had.not favored him. The Guiana had
once been the moss beautiful girl in
Havana, and as good as she was beau
tiful. Her eyes were big and black,
her skin a glowing olive and her hair a
mass of blue-black silk. That is what
an old dame told me with much lingo.
Her father was bodigero-a man who
kept wine cellar. The girls mother
was dead. One night her father went
home drunken than usual and turned
her out of DOORS"
':Brute,'' exclaimed one of the party,
with that quick sympathy that the sor-
rows of beauty always arouses.
ttShe did not so to her lover, nor did
she fly to the refuge Of some roof where
she had friends. She simply pillowed
her head upon the gray donkey that had
been her friend and playmate from
childhood, where she slept against the
trnnbled-in matched roof of the pen in
the chaparal, prayed to the black ma
donna and slept soundly like al child in
the moonlight.
"And the brigands came and carried
her off to their fastness,'' suggested one
OF the party.
''Nothing Of the kind. When her pill
low, the little donkey, rolled over in
the morning she arose another person.
She ran into the house and her father
screamed sSancta Maria!' and drove
her out as stranger. She had slept in
the Cuban moonlight, the fairest moon"
light in the world, but as deadly as the
shadow Of the upas tree. Her face was
drawn out of the shape resembling a
human being. It was the horrible, dis"
torted mask that I saw, with the fea-
lures of an imbecile. Her father drove
her from him with curses, but the lover
with whom she had coquetted married
her at once, and they told me he had
made her a good husband.
'*But you will hear the Cuban mother
calling her young daughter in the house
when the full moonlight is flooding the
balconies with it's silver light and the
light seems made for lovers to wander
in, for everybody there knows the story
Of Estella."
There was Long silence, then one OF
the listeners said:
s'I don't believe in that theory of the
moon. 1t makes pretty story, but it's
too romantic. :"
cts matter of history, take it or
leave it, said the raconteur, blowing
blue rings of smoke upward, a sign
that he had finished his postprandial
The Irish standard., 1891-09-26
D9g.40a

'tNo other combination OF number
will produce the same results. Does
not this show the imperial .nultipotenA
numeral and it's divinity?"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-09

Globular lightning can be produced
with so called statical electricity, OBJ.
tanned from an influence machine. Two
thin brass wire points from the poles OF
a powerful machine being held at a Ger.
tain distance from the opposite sides OF
an insulated plate of mica, ebonite,
glass or the like, there appear small red
luminous balls, which move about, now
quickly, now slowly, and are sometimes
still. Even better effects were had with
a glass or paper disk which had been
sprayed with parafine. Small quanti-
ties Of liquid or dust seem to be the car
riers of the light. A slight air current
makes the spherules disappear with hiss
ing noise.-New York Journal.
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HOW He FIXED TIE PIPE.



fIr, Eisscidorf Decides to Save a Plumb
er's Bill and Gets Wet.
".4ans, dot water pipe gifts no water al
retIy, und you vos peter sent oop dot
/ blumber 10 vix id vonce more"
This remark was addressed to n highly
respected German citizen as he sat in front
of his coy CRATE. He received the an
nouncement with evident disfavor.
''Not, Dot water pipe again, I vas shoost
congratulatin' neinself dot de ice wagon
comes no more, und dot new hat vos paid
for, und dot Christmas vas ofrr, und now
Won or dose plumbers, Nein gracious.
Gretchen, l got no money for plumbers.
] viXes id myself. Joe, addressing his 10
yoar-old son, were vOo dot leaks'
Then Joe proc eedeJ 20 explain that the
leak was under the house, " here the stout
frame Of his worthy ancestor could hard
ly go.
"NefTer mind. nefTer mind. You gets
me some pipe and monkey wrench, and
| save dot plumbers bin"
so the next day jockey got the pipe and
the monkey wrench, and his father. hav-
ing divested himself Of all surplus gar
ments. entered the hole pulling the pipe
after him. Il was a tight squeeze, and
after lying on his back TO convenience his
position he proceeded to discover the leak.
Very little water was now coming from IL.
as he had taken the Qrecaution 70 turn of
the tap. He hadn't turned it quite light
enough, md yelled:
'Turn Off De water.
All right. iader. replied Joe
joe didn't know his right hand from his
left. nor the philosophy Of screws, and
turned il on.
The old Centlemsn's mouth was under
the leak. He was wedged in. lie splGr-
tered and swore sld swo7e and spluttered.
but his wild yellS 20 joe were mufled by
the sound OF deluging water, and Joe was
intent on a dog fight across the way. as lie
sat on an empty nal keg and chewei gum
he looked over his shoulder aud saw the
old man. with face Of mud s-attered red.
shining angriIy. creeping from the hole
His clothes clung Imply 10 him aud
trickling streams meanJered down his
neck
Joe a7prehendei danger. and sped away
az a pace that left his co-pUient father far
IN the rear As the bov sped ont Of sight
Mr. Eis>eldorf gathered himself with =
supreme effort and sailed the rnonkey
wrench Al the fleeing form, crying Nine
. Gracious. Go you dlnk VS. duck
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-09
ST. JACKSON'S DAY.

the moral attributes of political doctrine,
l believe that if these features OF the prln'
ciple5 of true Democracy are perslstently
advocated, the time will speedily come
when. as in a day, the patriotic hearts
of the people of your great com
monwealth will be stirred to the support
OF our cause.
1t remains to say that in the midst OF
our rejoicing and in the time OF party nope
and expectation, we should remember that
the way of right and justice should be fol
lowed as matter of duty and regardless
of immediate success. Above all things
let us not for a moment forget that grave
responsibilities await the party which the
people trust: and let us look for guidance
to the principles of true Democracy which
''are enduring because they are right, ana
invincible because they are just.
Other speakers were Governor Pattlson,
Congressman Breckinridge, Hon. j. T..
Russell, of Massachusetts, and y. L. NC
Cullen, of Philadelphia.
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WEATHER BULLETIN.

SIGNAL SERVICE OFFICE, WICHITA, Kan,
Jan S.-The highest temperature was S2',
the lowest temperature So, and the
mean temperature, SO, with slightly
decreasing pressure. Total precipitation
ut s a. m, L3O inches. From a. IN. TO
p, m, 20
Last year, on Jan. s. the highest tenn
perature was 47o, the lowest 23s, and the
mean, $50, and two years ago the cores
ponding temperatures were 39', 26' and
500. FRED. /. JOHNSON, Observer.
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, ID. c.,
Jan. s, Sp. m.-Forecast until S p. m.
Friday.
For Kansas Threatening weather, with
snow, northerly winds, stationary temper
ature.
For Missouri - Threatening weather,
with snow, northerly winds, stationary
temperature
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THE WEATHERIN FuROPF

BRUSSELS, Jan. S. - Extremely cold
weather has prevailed throughout Belgium
for some time past. Many vessels are
drifting about in the ice in perilous posi-
tiOnS.
PARIS, Jan. S.-Bitterly cold weather
prevails here. There is much distress
among the poorer classes Three persons
were frozen to death last night and their
bodies were picked up on the streets this
morning.
HAMBURG. Jan. S.-The severe weather
in northern Germany IS causing much dis
tress \ number of sailing vessels are ice
bound in the lower Elbe Twenty ships
are drifting about i'll the ice, helpless.
MADRID, Jan. S.-A furious gale pre-
walls along the coast of Valencia, and sew
eral wrecks are reported. At Granada
yesterday violent earthquake shock was
experienced. There was panic among
the citizens.
LONDON, Jan. S-A furious blizzard
prevails at Trieste. The street cars have
stopped running and the streets are de-
serted The storm is so fierce that il is
dangerous to venture out.
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Cure for -Bradycrotine



blew across the Brooklyn bridge one
night and wondered at my own temer.
ity.
In those breezy spaces 1t was as cold
as mans lngrat1tude. 1t seemed TO me
as if my spine were the tube of =
thermometer, and that the pith and
marrow thereof was a very frozen mer.
curry. l marked time at the doubl,
quick, let me tell you, in an attempt tc
get away from my chills, and decided
that aerial promensdes were far more
seasonable in June than in December.
In the dark recesses Of the New YorE
pier l beheld them sitting in a corner.
She was very dear TO him apparent.
", for he held her closer than a hapjacs
to an ungreased griddle, and l surmised
that masculine propinquity was very
much TO her taste also from the way she
cuddled and snuggled and rubbed heI
red lips against MS mustaches- The
wind cUrled and swirled around them.
but did not appear 70 touch them. and
they were 50 warm and comfortable in
their corner that they almost seemed
70 Tadiate the heat, and was tempted
to stop and warm ny hands at them.
Il never see the like. said the gray
coated defender OF the bridge, stamping
his feet to keep them warm 1T don't
make no odds how bad the night. they're
always here from 10 y. They seem &C
pleased and comfortable ike that hain'i
the heart 70 tell them 20 move on. In
fact. Il kinder seems 70 take the chill Of
70 watch EN-. But how they keep s.
warm Is a mystery 10 me. Ah. love.
love. yer as queer As Boston beans
There's no fathomin' ye. i nag and
KS Is better nor a coUfagrati0u.
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a pic Pl AYE

PARIS, Jan. S-A piano-forte warehouse
in the Boulevard Saint Martin, which
took fire tonight is still burning. Four
stories of the building have already been
gutted. The firemen are hampered by the
scarcity of water Strong efforts are being
made TO confine the flames TO the estab-
lishment where they originated, but ii
seems likely that several other buildings
will be destroyed. 4 great amount of
damage has already been done. An eX-
cited mob has gathered AT the scene of the
fire. The general office of the Paris Lyons
and Mediterranean Railroad company Is
on fire, and the flames are spreading.
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THE EIOlR OuTpnT.

MINNEAPoLIS, MINI. Jan S-The
Northwestern Miller says. The mills ran
rather stronger last week. and the acgre-
gate output was ll4.321 barrels. averaging
l9.053 barrels daily, against l02 $50 barrels
the week before, and 1890 the same
week last year. On Wednesday there
were twelve mills In operation. but they
were grinding only 1000 barrels per dav.
on account OF limited water power Mil
lers differ in descriptions of the market for
the past week. 4 majority have had a
very good export trade. especially in pat
entS. Prices have not been high Others
say the export trade has been very duh
The domestic market is dull. but prices
are rather firmer than p few DAYS back
Exports for the present will probably show
an increase
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-09
A Time for Everything.

A Bucks county man drifted into a
Market street eating house and ordered
fried eggs. The waiter promptly formed
a speaking tube of his hands and bawled
to the dim distance, Adam an Eve wild
de sunny side up" Rapping with his
fork handle on the table the patron said
emphatically, II don't want any of that
Sunday school kiddin'; want a meal ="
A neighbor's explanation averted tiff.
Philadelphia Record.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-09

Alice Z. Ives. the author Of the much
discussed article on The Domestic Purse
Strings" has taken up her residence II
this city. She is bright lItle woman,
with ideas and opinions Of her OWL about
social and political economics and other
topics which are too knOtty for most q
our women. She Is a rapid talker, talk
well. and delivers az opinion with al
the dignity Of an august judge upon the
woolsack- Miss Ives : a DeToiter. and
won her literary spur as a Contributor
70 The Free Press and Journal q tina;
city.-New York World