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The Irish standard., 1892-01-30
ENGLISH TAClTuRN,TY.
Loud Lament Over the Destruction of tE
British Veil of Privacy.

Loud Lament Over tine Destruction of the
British Veil of Privacy.
The loss of our character for taciturn
ity means much more than the world
thinks, asserts writer in the Specta-
tor. Bit by bit the veil of our privacy
is being dragged from us, until soon not
rag will be left. For long time GER
tain Journals have arrogated to them
selves the right of inquisition into the
inuernnost cham bers of our houses, and
Of detailing to the world at large the
most private and intimate affairs of any
one who has the misfortune of attract
ing public attention, Now even the
chance stranger fancies that he pos
sesses the right to question and cross
examine an unoffending mortal who
crosses his path, and if the reluctance
or the Impotence Of the latter betrays
him into any brusqueness OF answer
to punch his head. Possibly the evil
will some day bring about its own rem"
edy.
In the meantime we are left to mourn
the loss Of our privacy, and a very seri-
Gus loss it is. The individual seems to
have no rights to-day, not even that OF
remaining silent if he chooses: appar-
emily ne is liable to be heckled by the
first chance conner on the subject Of his
political opinions, his health or his do
nestle affairs, and he must answer or
suffer the penalty Of personal violence.
Moreover. it is to be feared that the
laws will not support him if he takes
the law into his own hands and an
swers Interrogation with abuse; and
yet what other refuge is there left to
him? He cannot bring an action
against the man who robs; him Of an
hours peace by silly and futile CONVEX
sation. Taciturnity and reserve will nc
longer serve hi1n--if he takes refuge in
them he is regarded as an insolent fel-
low and bad citizen. He must not
only march with his age, but he must
also shout with it. 1t is grand age,
no doubt, but we would that it were
not so full Of speech or so loud of voice.
The Irish standard., 1892-01-30
He obeyed Orders.

An East Dover (Me.) farmer had a
superannuated mare and not thinking
it advisable to winter her, spoke to
some boys to take her out, shoot her
and bury her for a money considera-
ton. Boys Nos. and 2 did the job all
right, but No. 8, not knowing the mare
had been killed, went the following
day to the farmers barn, and, finding an
animal in the stable, took him out and
led him down to piece of woods, shot
and buried him. Imagine the farmers
surprise on coming home to find out
that boy No. 8 had shot and buried a
nice fve-year-old worth in the neigh.
hnrhnna Of two hundred dollars.
The Irish standard., 1892-01-30
RAILWA Z PASSES.
People Who Ask for Them and
How They Are Treated.
The Unenviabie Task That Railway Of
acials Have to Perform In Dealing
with Importunato Pass
Fiends.

''COngressmen seldom ask US for free
passes" said railway man to Wash
ington Star reporter ION. the other
hand the clerks attached to committee
rooms and the private secretaries of
prominent men are most frequent
among our petitioners. Do they get
them? Not usually You see, in dis
pensing such favors we consider chiefly
the question whether the applicant is
able to do the road any service,
at is very funny to observe how gen.
eral the impression seems to be among
applicants for passes that they are able
to be Of service to US. You would
imagine from the way they talk that
most of them are the very pillars of the
road. They declare very often that
they individually throw into our hand
thousands of dollars worth of passen-
ger traffic, and on the strength of that
plea they demand free transportation
for themselves. Such persons as these
are to be found lurking by dozens
around the hotel corridors.
I'VE find very many applicants of this
sort among the people in the depart
ments. Once having got a pass they
have acquired taste for travelling free
OF charge, and they do not like the no.
ton of paying their way any more. It
is astonishing how the habit of journey
ing by rail gratis grows upon the indi-
vidual | knew a Philadelphia man
once upon time who had an annual
pass between Philadelphia and Harris
burg Having little occasion to travel
he did not use his privilege at all until
the week before his document expired,
but during that week he did nothing
but travel back and forth between Har-
risburg and Philadelphia, just for the
sake of the feeling that he was getting
something for nothing.
'Tramps used to apply to us very
often, but our way to get rid Of them
has always been to send them to the
sanitary Office. That Office, as you are
aware, has an arrangement with the
railways for sending out Of the district
any persons who desire to get away,
preferring to do this rather than permit
them to become a charge upon the COM
munity Such people we grant half
rates. Among the irnpecunious I'M
fortunates who ask for passes are nu-
merous candidates for situations in the
government service who have failed to
secure places They have come re
perhaps comfortably supplied with
money, but have gradually expended
it while vainly pursuing the official
will-o'the-wisp Finally they get dead
broke and make a plea for transporta-
ton on the ground of the presumptive
benevolence of the corporation. To
show them that this is mistake on
their part, we steer them to the channel
afforded all penniless strangers for get
ting out of town.
The Irish standard., 1892-01-30
SOME ODD DuELs.
Four Combats That Took Place Under
Peculiar Circumstances.

Peculiar Circumstances.
A desperate duel was fought one day
In August, 1886, By two girls about
eighteen years Of age-Senoritas Es-
pinoza and Morena-employed at the
tobacco factory in Seville, that work
shop in front of which tie first act of
the opera of Carmen is supposed to
eventuate. says the Chicago Herald.
Their seconds were men, who fur
nished each girl with adirk, after which
they were blindfolded and placed in an
commanded to "Fightr' Then the room
was locked and the seconds joined the
other employees at dinner, after which
they opened the door and found both
girls alive, but mortally wounded. One
Of the combatants was cut in twenty
seven different places, and was bleeding
to death, while the other received Sc
we're wounds in ten and fatal ones in
two places The two seconds attempted
to escape but were arrested and sent
to prison for six months. The girls
never spoke after the door was opened,
but one of them lived in great agony
for several hours.
Near Madrid, December 10, 1890,
Capt. Romero and Capt. Murillo fought
with sabers, and both were frightfully
injured and manned for life Suisse
quently the principals and their seconds
TALL oficers) were arrested, and the for
mer were dismissed from the army and
the latter fined. One of the latter, after
paying his fine, challenged the magis-
trate who fined him, who accepted and
received three wounds. He again fined
the officer, and was again challenged,
and fought with pistols, killing the Off
Ger at the first fire.
1t is a fact, although cannot present
names or dates, that Partisan scribe
grossly insulted an army officer in the
morning edition of his paper, fought
and killed him at noon, and published
graphic description of the whole affair
in his evening issue.
Quite as good little story is that in
which, at an aristocratic party in
Vienna lady dropped bouquet and
gentleman following in a waltz kicked
it to one side so that it would not be
stepped upon, and was challenged and
wounded by the escort of the lady who
dropped the flowers, and was afterward
nursed by and married to the lady her
self
The Irish standard., 1892-01-30
A Bishops Fee.

The following circumstance concern
ing Bishop Pierce was told us by a min
lister recently, who was speaking of the
peculiar fees sometimes received by
preachers for tying matrimonial knots.
On one occasion the bishop married a
couple and after the ceremony was per-
formed the happy groom presented him
with a handsome pair Of gloves. The
bishop seldom wore fine gloves and
stuck these away in a trunk, where
they remained long time-perhaps
years. One day in looking through his
trunk he espied the gloves and, trying
them on, found a crisp ten-dollar bill
folded up in the fingers Of each glove.
The Irish standard., 1892-01-30
The Land of the Olive and Pig.

Some parts Of Australia seem to be
admirably suited for the growth of the
olive MIR. Principal Thompson, of
DoolSie, says in a recent report that
seven hundred olive trees planted in
that district are robust and healthy,
and that they produce splendid OIL He
strongly recommends the planting Of
the olive around the. vineyards and
ho1nesteads for shade and shelter and
to give picturesque appearance to the
rural home. Apart from the making Of
oil he believes it would pay handsomely
to grow olive berries to feed pigs alone.
Last winter the pigs at Dookie (about
eighty head) were allowed to eat up
the fallen berries in the olive grove:
they had no other food for upward of
two months, and throve: amazingly,
their skins having peculiar shining
appearance, characteristic Of animals
being well fed.
The Irish standard., 1892-01-30
LORD LYTToN's PROPHECY.

He Predicted That France and America
Would Eventually Invade England.
A curious letter from the late Lord
Lytton, then E. L. Bulwer, will be
found in the memoirs of Miss Catherine
Hutton, just published under the title
of "Reminiscences of Gentlewoman
of the Last Century" It's date is April,
1912, the period of Sir Robert Peel's
first income tax budget, and the author
of 'Pelham" appears by this letter to
have regarded that measure with mel
ancholy forebodings. He considers that
such a step ought to- be the last re-
source of a nation" reserved for the
contingency Of a European war. "And
who,'' he asks, ''can say when that may
take place, seeing the almost universal
hostility of France against us, which
believe the death of Louis Philippe will
at once release from restraint.
eff, like Zanoni, might venture to
predict, would hazard two assertions
that now would be considered prepos-
terous--frst, that England will be in
vaded and overrun by America and
France, our navy conquered and Lon
don taken; secondly, that we should
drive back the enemy, and that the
time will come when the preservation
of Europe will force the great powers
to destroy France as a nation and to
parcel it out ruthlessly and to Polandize
it. France must ultimately engulf
Europe, or Europe crush France; Of this
last am certain The vanity of po-
litical prophecy could not be better ex-
emplifed than by the facts that, while
happily no one of these grave contin-
gencies has arisen, the writer of the
above lines became, only sixteen years
later, a cabinet minister in a govern
1nent on the best Of terms with France,
and his son was until his death English
embassad@r to the French republic.
The Irish standard., 1892-01-30
"a cANARY's KINDNESS.
,layfnR the Part Of q Good Samaritan
Preventing Another Bird from Dying.

PLAYING the Part Of Good Samaritan
Preventing Another Bird from Dying.
Ny canary bird, Noah, is singing over
my head an unusually beautiful and
cheering song, and I fancy that his
clear notes are due to the clever trick
he performed the other morning, says a
writer in the Philadelphia Times. The
night before had been very cold, but
the sun rose warm and the chill wind
had departed, so that when Noah, in
his pretty, clever way, begged me to
let him have little dy around the gar
den, opened the window and bade
him go.
On these rare occasions he waits for
my whistle to tell him 'stime's up" but
on this occasion / had not more than
seated myself at my work when saw
Noah at the window pane. was sur
prised, but concluded he had found the
air unpleasant cold, SO raised the
sash to admit him.
But as put out my hand to take him
he flew back into the garden. I laughed
at his play, for took it to be that, and
went back to my seat. In another
wings once more against the glass and
saw Noah there again. Calling to him
that I was not to be fooled again, /
kept my seat, but he continued to
throw himself SO violently against the
pane that l was afraid he would kill
himself, so l once more opened the
window.
As soon as did so he few away as
before, but this time it dawned on me
that he might mean something by his
conduct. stepped out into the garden,
where he greeted me with a burst of
Joyful song and few away just few
feet ahead OF me, looking back as he
futtered on. followed, and he led me
to rose bush at the other end of the
garden, but could not see what
brought him, until, with a series of
loud, staccato notes, he flew down be-
side heap of yellow leaves.
Then saw lying there what took
to be dead canary, but when I
stopped and took it in my hand it fee
bly, stirred. The poor little creature
had evidently been out all night in the
cold and was nearly frozen, but on
placing it near the stove in spool
basket On soft bed of cotton it gradu.
ally revived.
Noah was delighted and would fly
from me back to the invalid twenty
times a minute, thrilling his prettiest
songs and hopping about the other can
airy with his saucy head on ore side
and chipping: ''How are you feeling
now. brother?'' as plainly as if he said
it.
have advertised for the lost bird s
owner, but no one has appeared as yet,
and in the meanwhile the stranger ap-
preciates the dainty lunches offered
him, though he still wears, as he listens
to Noah's joyous trilling, rather Ian
r,,;1 oir
The Irish standard., 1892-01-30
QUEER VOTING.
Original Methods of Voting Employed by
the Uninitated.
coffin -

tho Uninitiated.
In many of the provinces of old Japan
it was the custom to elect the chiefs OF
the village by ballot Certain of the
large landl1olders were privileged to
choose, and when positions became va
can't they assembled on a certain day
and handed in their votes, written on
paper and placed in sealed envelope.
"But if the ballot of those days was
something like our own" says a writer
in ScribDer's Magazine, 1.-The times are
changed, and the new ideas are none
the less strange to old heads.
even at the election of last year, we
saw one good old soul for whom the
ballet seemed to have many my steries.
After d series Of interviews with vari-
Gus election otfcials--in which the mu-
tual politeness was at once painful and
delightful to behold-he was finally
guided to the ballot box, and there, in
spired by what associations it is impos-
sible to tell, he carefully reached under
the table on which the box stood, and
dropped his ballot on the floor. The
unbrolzen soberness with which both he
and the officials regarded his blunder
was Enthusiastically Japanese.
''The incident need not be taken,
however, as indicating any peculiarly
Japanese rusticity; a year or two ago,
in New England town well known as
a seat of learning, an election was held,
at which many women voted for the
first time. One lady, painfully conscious
of the pewness of her privilege, APP
preached the ballot box and proceeded
to insert her ballot with it's face upward
and open to the sight, contrary to the
law Of the state. But the vigilant
official prevented her, and said, firmly:
"'Face down, madam, face down.
whereupon the inexperienced elector,
in simplicity, bowed her head reverent-
~, and continued to tumble blindly at
the box with the ballot still facing up
ward"
The Irish standard., 1892-01-30
THE WORLDS BIC RIVERS.
There Are Twenty-Five Over One Thou
sand Miles in Length.

There Are Twenty-Five Over Ono Thou
sand Miles in Length.
Geographers claim that there are
twenty-five rivers on the globe which
have a total length of over 1000 miles,
says the St. Louis Republic. OF these,
two-the Mississippi, from the source
of the Missouri in the Rocky mountains
to the Eads jetties and the Amazon,
from the source of the Benz to the isle
of Mara o-are over 1000 miles in
length; to be exact, the former is 1890
and the latter 1929 from the source to
the places where their waters are min
gled with those of the ocean. Four
claim a total length of over 5000 and
under 1000 They are the Yenesei in
Asia, length, $3.50 miles; the Kiang,
also in Asia, 5000 miles; the Nile,
Africa, S,240; and the uoang-Ho, the
third monster Asian stream, which is
5000 miles from source to mouth.
Seven streams on the globe are under
5000 and over 1000 miles in length--the
Volga, in Russia, and the Amoor, in
Asia, each being 1850 miles in length;
two are $500 miles long, viz, the
Mackenzie, in British America, and the
Platte. in South America. The Rio
Bravo, in North America; the Rio Ma
deira, in South America, and the Niger,
in Africa, are each 1890 miles from end
to end. The Arkansas river just comes
inside of this 2.0o0-mile limit, with a
lengtho of $3.50 miles Ten of the great
rivers of the world are over 1000 and
under 1000 miles in length. Three of
these are in North America, viz, the
Red river, 1890; the Ohio, 1,4s0, and the
St. Lawrence. 1850 South America
has also three in this list-the Rio
Negro, l,G50, the Orinoco, 1000, and the
Uruguay, LOO miles long. Asia has
three in the same list-the Euphrates,
1900 miles in length, and the Tigris
and the Ganges, each of which is about
1900 miles in length. In the group of
great rivers the st. Lawrence is the
most remarkable. It constitutes by far
the largest body of fresh water in the
world. Including lakes and streams,
the st. Lawrence covers about $4,000
square miles; the aggregate, it is esti
mated, represents not less than 5000
solid miles of water. The unthinkable
size of this mass may be better compre-
hended, if not fully realized, when we
consider the figures of Prof. Cyrus c.
Dinwiddie, who says that it would take
over forty years for the aggregate of
this entire mass to pour over Niagara
at the computed rate of 100000 cubic
feet per second!
The Irish standard., 1892-01-30
Development of the Tomato.

No vegetable has undergone greater
development in the last generation than
the tomato. Persons who esteem them
selves young well remember the time
when the only tomatoes to be seen
were the small round or oval ones
called love apples and deemed inedible.
They seemed to have been appropriated
for table use first in this country, for
an old European traveller tells how he
astonished his fellow diners at a conti-
mental table d'hote by eating the to-
matoes placed on the table purely -.
garniture, sss@ sse .ssss
The Irish standard., 1892-01-30
HARD TO EXPLAIN.
There Is Always q Rus, for Employment
in Dangerous Occa pations.

mere is Always ~ lNuS-l iOI a1AAPioS AAAoAAo
in Dangerous Occupations.
One of the curious features of mod
ern life is the extent to which the most
hazardous trades are ovcrrun by ap-
plicants for work. The electric light
companies never find any difficulty in
obtaining all the inenen they need,
Notwithstanding the fact that the dam
gers of that kind of business have been
demonstrated times without number.
The men who work in factories where
wall paper is made frequently joke one
another over the tradition that mans
life, in this shade, is shortened ten
years, says the Medical Age.
A similar belief is prevalent in fac
tories where leather papers are made,
and among men who have to handle
them, and whose lungs are said to be-
come impeded by inhaling the dust
arising from such papers. In certain
other factories where brass ornaments
and fittings are made the air is laden
with very fine brazen particles, which
are. when inhaled, especially irritating
to the lungs. But one of the most
singular advertised calls for employees
that was ever printed appeared recent
ly in Connecticut newspaper, signed
by a. firm engaged in the business of
building towers.
It called for applicants only among
those who are young, strong and cour-
ageous, and closed by saying: eve
warn all seekers for this job that it is
OF the most dangerous nature, and that
few men continue in it more than few
years. In fact, it is almost certain
death to the workman who follows this
occupation. .
The Irish standard., 1892-01-30
Tho Asteroids.

The asteroids that lie between the
orbits of Mars and Jupiter have become
SO difficult to keep track of, since they
have been discovered at the rate of
about twenty year, that astronomers
have recently decided to reject them,
excepting the nearest and the most dis
tant. The latter are important In OBJ
servations Of Jupiter, while the nearer
ones are useful in more accurate calcu-
lations Of the earth's distance from the
sun.
The Irish standard., 1892-01-30
Only n Shinbone.

In quaint little churchyard in Maine
Is handsome headstone with the cpl
yaph, Gone, but Not Forgotten. !"
Years ago man went off fishing and
never returned. Finally, one morning,
there was cast upon the shore OF the
lake where he had fshed a shin bone,
covered with q piece of red sock. His
wife vowed that she had knitted this
sock with her own fingers. In spite OF
opposition, the town hearse was brought
out, the shinbone, sock and all, was
carefully placed in box, with due
ceremony it was buried. prayers were
prayed over It, hymns were sung over
IL and above il was placed the head
atone bearing the inscription, ''Gone,
hut Net ForR !" ....
The Irish standard., 1892-01-30
Syn, bnlic Language.
parSu1ent.

Some years ago white man was cap
Eured in the course Of 4 raid made by
xhe Amazon warriors of Dahomey upon
missionary settlement. A few weeks
iater his anxious wife received from him
q message, which consisted simply Of a
pebble, d piece of charcoal pepper, a
grain Of parched corn and g rag. There
was no difficulty in TRANSMITTING it by the
native code. The pebble said: II am
in good health" i. e.. hard in body; the
piece Of charcoal signified: But my
prospects are very black and gloomy"
the pepper meant: 81 am very anxious
about the future. lest I be killed Or sold
into slavery; the grain OF parched
corn Indicated Il haze become very
thin" and the scrap Of rag added: 'My
clothing is in tatters.'
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-08-11
From Camp Holt.

WRIGHTsvILLE, n. G. Aug. 9, 1892.
DEAR GOLD LEAF:-We have been
looking anxiously for the GOLD LEAF
since our arrival here. Co. G. Vance
Guards) are greatly enjoying the en-
campment, the fishing, sailing and
surf bathing of Wrightsville. AS Chap
lain of the company it gives me great
pleasure to witness and testify to their
gentlemanly and courteous behavior.
[ am sure that no company which an
old Confederate veteran has seen
ever surpassed them in these respects.
They will stand guard night and day
and are soldier representatives OF
Vance of which the authorities, State
and county, need not be ashamed.
Many of them attended religious ser
vice on Sunday.
The Y. NJ. C. A. of North Caro-
lima has done a noble work in provi-
ding a delightful tent with pleasant
seats, books, writing materials and
religious exercises for the sons and
husbands of our ladies Of the State.
Messrs. Coulter and Gales, Of the State
Association, have both been faithful
and assiduous in their efforts to reach
the soldiers with christian influences
Rev. DR.. Pritchard, Of the Baptist
church, Wilmington, aided Mr.. Coul-
ter and myself in a service Sunday
night. The audience was very large
and attentive and one of several in
quirer confessed his faith in Christ. Dr..
Pritchard who is warm Y. M. G. A.
worker and sympathizer, made telling
and earnest address on the Prodigal
son.
The Governor is expected this morn
ing and the most interesting features
of the encampment begin. About the
18th Capt. Perry and Lieut.. Jones
expect to bring the Vance Guards back.
They are faithful to their duties and
watch over the men with much care
and solicituds.
Yours,
w. D. NJ.