The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-02-13
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The death of Prot. Lowering removes.
one Of Hrrvard's oldest, ablest and most
esteemed instructors. There is not q
Harvard graduate of the last half century
who will not mourn the loss Of 9 trusted
guide, philosopher and friend. That is
true indeed. Such mon are scarce, and
they should not be forgotten.
Sam Lewis is the general banker of the
London nobility in distress It is said
that the capital at his disposal is put up
by two mon, one of whom is peer and
the other a man we'll known on the turf,
and who, for some time at any rate,
formed part of the Marlborough House
coterie. It is safe to presume that Sam
is not in want.
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Tennyeon was 1irst moved to write
verses, according to some special infor-
nation which the Boston Globe has OBJ
tanned, when Is years of age, and upon q
Sunday while staying home from church.
The attempt was suggested by some one
else, as means of occupying his spare
time. The task was undertaken, so the
story goes, and with such success that
the youth was encouraged to try further.
His success rested in his distaste for
spring poetry.
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The New York city government is q
pretty large sized plum for those who
control it. Mr.. WINS directs attention
to the impressive fact that the pay rolls
of New York city, leaving out the em-
ployes OF the city contractors, are more
than one-forth of the amounts paid to all
the civil servants in the United States
government, and this includes every one
except officers of the army and navy.
That is proof enough that New York is a
large city. Will Chicago dispute that?
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Gladstone has never used tobacco.
He drinks very little-so little, indeed,
for British statesman, as to amount al {.
most to abstinence. A glass of bitter:
beer at luncheon, and glass of claret or.
port at dinner form the limit of his indul-'
gence in stimulants. What an anchorite
they would have thought him in the days
of Pitt and Fox and the three bottle
Prime Ministers! And still the Mime
apolis w. G. T. G. would be unkind
enough to deny him even this small con-
ISOLATION. u.
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Sufferers from the grip in London are
in wretched plight, if they happen to
be destitute. 1t appears that the hospi-
tails are already crowded, and the resi-
dent physicians of many of them refuse
to take such patients under any condi-
ton. The Governor of the London Hos
pital calls the grip highly infectious
disease, but in this he is contradicted bv
several of his brethren. Lady Henry
Somerset should get back to London as
quickly as possible and help the influenza
victims. America can got along without
her pretty we'll.
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There is an attempt on the part of the
Edinburgh ladies to raise money for the
erection of a statue to Mary Queen of
Scots. Some time ago the Duchess De
Roman endeavored to give statue of
Queen Mary to the municipality of Paris,
but it was-.declined. It is suggested that
the Edinburgh ladies' try to obtain the
statue from the Duchess instead of hay-
ing new one, and possibly a less artistic
one. A few dollars distributed among
the poor of Scotland's capital might do
more good than the erection of such 2
costly monument.
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Miss Eleanor Ormerod is the most dis
tinguished entomologist of England.
Her first object in taking up the science
was to save the farmers grain from de-:
structlon, and in order to render herself
familiar with the habits of insect life she
often spends hours stretched upon the
ground studying them. She has been
appointed Consulting Entomologist to
the Royal British Agricultural Society.
She has not yet made any report on the
best means of tanning mice so that the
bravest (?) lady in the land will not jump
out of her shoes when she sees mouse,
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The German Emperor has, through
Colonel Giese, signifed his intention of
spending portion of the summer at AK
la Chapelle, and the municipal author
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