The Irish standard., 1892-02-27
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PASSED I'm RE VIEW.
Mrs. Gladstone is said to be hardly in
ferior to her husband in energy and In
dustry. She has always been interested
in charity aud church work and in poll
tics, and has at the same time maintained
close watch upon her household affairs
and her children. Mrs. Gladstone is an
ideal woman, and she could not be dupli
Gated just now.
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The suit Of Mrs. Florence Nash, of
London, against Ali Khan, son of an In
dian prince, for breach of promise, re-
suited disasterous]y to the lady. Ali
Khant be made to fulfill his promises,
although the testimony plainly showed
he made them. Women who are after
titles first and money next sometimes get
neither. American ladies take notice.
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The city council of Berlin, Germany, is
considering the advisability of closing the
halls for the lodgings and feeding of the
unemployed. Similar halls for women
were closed some time ago, as they were
frequented almost exclusively by dis
reputable persons, The mems halls are
said to shelter mostly tramps and thieves.
Yes, close 'em up, and give the tramps
something to do. IT,
In midsummer some hunlming birds
stray as far north as Canada, but after
November they are hardly ever seen any
where in the United States east of Cali
fornia Sierra, and probably pass the win
tor in Northern Mexico, in the evergreen
forests of Tamaulipas, for instance, where
the wild oranges and musk-lianas are
covered with their finest flowers at New
Year. There is where they show their
good sense.
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Advocates of cremation do not fnd
that their petidea is making rapid strides
toward popular favor, but they are
hopeful body and claim that some pro-
gross is being made. According to Lieut..
Totten. however, the time when crema-
ton will be universal is not so far off as
the skeptical may desire to believe.
Every man is entitled to his opinion, and
Lieut.. Totten is no exception.
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The late Randolph Rogers, the cele-
brated Amerlcan sculptor, was one of the
slack and portly men that Caesar liked to
have about him. His shoulders were
broad, his chest immense, and it was said
of him once that if his work had ever
been subjected to criticism he had
laughed and grown fat over it. He was
man Of simple habits, genial in manner
and entirely devoid of snobbery. What
pity he did not live to get acquainted
with Randolph Burgess.
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Newfoundland and Labrador are al
most at standstiu in the matter of pop
ulation. The census returns show pop
ulation 100000, the increase in seven
years being only 400, or about two and
a half per cent I'm the seven years pre-
ceding the increase was over twenty-five
per cent. Unwise trade restrictions seem
to have stimulated emigration. Canada
has not done any better, and still Sir
Charles Upper does not want annexation.
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It is tradition in Australia that has
more than the force of law, "that if an
unmarried man destroy the eye Of an un-
married woman, he must within two
twelve months make that woman his
bride,' or "mourn where'er he 20, his
days full of woe; in life or death he shall
know no rest, bis body accurst, his soul
unblest; woe to him on earth or air; woe
to him fore'er and e'er." Better that
man we're born without any eyes at all
than go through such trials as these.
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The committee appointed by the
American Newspaper Publishers Associ--
alton to investigate the plan 81 machine
composition has made report in which
typesetting bv machinery is declared to
be absolutely practicable and very much
cheaper than hand composition. For Or
binary newspaper work machine compo-
sition is strongly recommended. For the
present, however, the typos must remain.
They are all good fellows, and cannot be
spared just yet awhile.
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The earliest notice OF amber we find
occurs in the Odyssey of Homer, where
'the gold necklace hung with bits of am
ber'' is mentioned in the list of Jewels
offered by the Phonician traders to the
Queen Of Syria. In one of the Greek
fables accounting for the origin of amber
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