The Irish standard., 1892-09-10
PASSED / n, Y.


ular heart when after his defeat at New. !
Orleans he uttered these manly words:
81 am only glad that the championship
has been won by an American
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\ Miss Murphy edits the Melbourne
Punch, one of the funniest and most
hourishinR of colonial comic papers. She
joined the staff some years ago in a sub
ordinate capacity, and has attained to
her present position solely by her ability.
She is q great advocate of woman's rights,
and is exceedingly handsome.
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The following rebuke from the Quincy
Ledger is reproduced for Go Lightly
Morill's benefit: Several mountebanks
are delivering lectures on Christopher
Columbus, in which they endeavor to
sully the reputation and character of the
Genoese navigator. But for this man.
whom they endeavor to calumniate, they
probably would not be living in the
light Of liberty to-day. They are dis
grace to our country"
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The English people are commenting
upon the failure of the Queen to invite
Mrs. Gladstone to Osborne with her dis
tinguished husband. When the Duke of
Ruthland and Lord Salisbury have visited
the Queen their wives we're invariably
asked to accompany them, and there is
very strong feeling that the same cour-
tesy ought to have been extended to Mrs.
Gladstone. But then Victoria is Tory
who does not conceal her strong pre-
JUDGES against Liberal statesmen and
their wives, though as the British ruler
she ought to observe strictly neutral at
titude toward both great political parties
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Mr.. Gladstone shares one of the price
less endowments OF Sancho Panza, mas
much as he has great faculty for sleess'.
1t goes long way to explain that sus-
tanned vitality and power of work that is
the marvel of mankind. After the most
exciting debate in the House of Com
mons, or at crises of international import
ance, he has scarcely laid his head on his
pillow before he is asleep. He does not
habitually get more than seven hours
sleep, but would like eight, and admits
that he "could very well do with nine"
Mr.. Gladstone says that the only time
when sleep fails him is the period during
which he is engaged in forming an ad-
ministration.
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| An esteemed correspondent writing
from Grand Forks, n. D., urges the
necessity and importance Of revlving
Irish literature and of resuscitating the
Celtic language when Ireland gets Home
Rule. Such a movement is already on
foot in Ireland. Not long ago the Ma
tional Literary Society was inaugurated
in Dublin for that purpose. Addresses
were made by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy,
DR.. George Sigerson, John OLsary,
Miss Maude Come, and other Irish
Nationalist. The Weekly freeman
Journal containsin every ISSUE selections
in the Irish language with TRANSACTIONS
into English. In this country, too, such
papers as the Gael, the Irish~American
and Finerty's Citizen are rendering good
service in giving Irish literature and his
tory in the real Irish type.
Xxx
The hammer with which Mrs. Potter
Palmer will drive the last nail in the
woman's building at the Worlds Fair
will be furnished by the women of Ne.
L.braska. 1t will be typical claw-ham.
mer, with the, national flag draped in
folds about it. This will be wrought in
|gold. The staff of pearl will be sur.
mounted by the bird of liberty, the stars
are to be set with diamonds and the head
of the hammer is to be silver, on the face
of which will appear in gold leaf the sea-
of Nebraska. The handle will be com
posed of various woods Of the State, al
ternating light and dark, on which viii
appear, wrought in high relief, miniature
designs Of the state. A broad band Of
gold will encircle the handle, on one side
of which this inscription will be engraved
ssThe Women OF Nebraska
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DR.. Lauder Brunton has made dis
covery which ought to entitle him to tn
gratitude of all who live by intellectua
labor. It is nothing less than the secre
of how to have ideas at will. One night
after long days work, this eminen
physician was called upon to write al
article Immediately. He sat down will
pen, ink, and paper before him, but no
single idea came into his head, not
single word could he write. Lying back
he then soliloquised: 1.-THE brain is th.
same as it was yesterday, and it worked
then; why will it not work to-day
Then it occurred to him that the day be
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