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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-01-09
THE BASkiNG SHARK.
A. Specimen Thirty-Four Feet Long
Stranded i'm New Zealand.

A. Specimen Thirty -four Feet Long
Stranded in New Zealand.
The ''basking shark (Selache maxi
ma, L. is apparently no very nncom-
mon visitor in New Zealand waters.
In the new volume Of the transactions
and proceedings Of the New Zealand
institute, Mr.. T. f. Cheeseman, curator
of the Auckland museum, describes a.
specimen, over thirty-fonr feet long,
which was stranded near the mouth OF
the Wade river. Mr.. r. Fl. SHAKESPEARE,
of Whangaparaoa, who saw the speci-
men very shortly after it was stranded,
has informed Mr.. Cheeseman that
very spring several individuals of the
same species can be seen near the en-
trance of the Wade river, and along the
shores of Whangaparaoa peninsula. he
believes that they visit these localities
in search of their food, which he thinks
is composed of small Medusee and other
pelagic organisms. They can be easily
recognized from their habit OF swim
ming on the surface Of the water, por-
ton of the back and the huge dorsal fin
| being usually exposed. 1t is from this
circumstance, taken with the fact that
their motions are very slow and slug
gish, that they have received the name
of the ''basking shark They are
easily approached and harpooned, and
on the west coast of Ireland as many as
five hundred have been taken in q sin
gle season. The liver often weighs as
much as two tons, yielding six to eight
barrels of oil.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-01-09
CHARMING ANIMALS.

An Explanation of the Power-It Is Due
to Mesmerism.
Kahn mentions having seen a rattle
snake ''lying at the bottom Of a tree on
which 81 squirrel Was seated, fixing its
eyes on the little animal, which from
that moment cannot move or escape,
but begins doleful cutlery, comes
toward the snake, runs a little bit
away, comes nearer, and is finally swal-
lowed"
But, as if to show that this result Of
bewilderment is not all to be put down
to the eye alone, DR.. Andrew Smith
says: II have heard of cases in which
antelopes and other quadrupeds have
been so bewildered by the sudden ap-
pearance of crocodiles, by the grirnaces
and contortions they practiced, as to be
unable to fly or move from the spot
toward which the crocodiles were APP
preaching to seize them
This power is ia the human animal
often developed to a very great extent,
and the part the eyeplays in fascinat-
ing fellow creature by nlesmerism-
thus opening the way to almost infinite
physical results and unwilling unknown
depths of possibility decidedly great
in proportion to the magnetic force OF
the system. or rather the mind, for
which it acts.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-01-09
Big Spiders of Yucatan.

A sailor in coasting vessel
which plies between ports on the
gulf has some very interesting
specimens which he secured while
on the coast of Yucatan. Among
them is a large jar filled with enormous
spiders which. he says, are looked upon
with greatest fear by the Indians of the
central portion of that country, and
which are undoubtedly the largest ever
seen. The body Of one of these spiders
is fully five inches in diameter and the
legs are short and thick, being espe-
cially adapted to running and climb bling.
They are about two inches long and are
as big around as an ordinary lead pencil.
The spider makes it's home among the
rocks and when anything approaches it
rushes boldly out and makes an attack
SO fercely that tits almost impossible
to escape it. It runs with great rapid
ity and climbs sticks and trees as easily
as if it was on the ground.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-01-09
The Originator of q Crime.

A man has just died in England who
was personally associated with events
that gave to the language a new word
the verb to burke. DR.. Wharton Jones,
now dead in his eighty-fourth year,
was assistant in 1927 to Sir William
Ferguson, of inburgh. In that year
an old pensioner died in the house of
man named Hare, owing him some four
p unds sterling. At Hare's instance a
man named Burke sold the body for
dissection, receiving seven pounds ten
shillings. Then Hare and Burke COM
mitted q shocking series of murders for
the sake of disposing of the bodies.
They were found out, and the phys.
icians were suspected. The Lancet
reproduces some of Burke's confession,
declaring that the doctors had not Gin
coureged him, nither taught nor in
coredged him to murder any person,
neither that worthy gentleman, Mr..
Fergeson, was the only man that ever
mentioned anything about the bodies. -
So S'buz'&Sing" came into use to desig-
nate killing from pec11niary motives,
and later was extended hguratively to
embrace political assaults upon char
acter.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-01-09
A Promising Product.

The manufacture of new disinfec-
tant and deo1orant called Sauridon has
been commenced at Maryhill, Eng. 1t
is residual product Of an uncommon
kind of blackstone shale, which is COM
posed of animal and vegetable remains,
is remarkably light, and yields a large
proportion of a heavy volatile Oil. The
Oil is extracted by distillation, and the
residual product is reduced to grains OF
different sizes, varying from a fine
powder to the size of pea. The pow
der is claimed to have an instantaneous
effect upon obnoxious matter, while
also being tasteless and colorless and
/ harmless to all animal life. In the
formulated form the substance acts
powerffu July for fltering and sweetening
Il water. The oil, mixed with other sub
stances, is used as 2 manure, which com
Nbines the qualities Of . fertilizer and 9
powerful insecticidle. 4. ..s
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-01-09
WHAT HE COULD AFFORD.
A Timely Rebuke That One Harvard
Student Gave Another.

A Timely Rebuke That One Harvard
Student Gave Another.
There is q moral worth needing in
bit of talk which passed not long ago
between two Harvard students, says an
eastern paper. One of them inherited
much money and gives the best ener-
gies of his life to spending it in some
what ostentatious fashion.
The second student, his townsman
and cousin, is a steady, straightforward
fellow, manly and gifted, and not in
tie least ashamed Of the fact that he
is poor.
The talk on the train, when the boys
were starting together for Cambridge
this fall happened to turn upon the
subject of winter clothing, and the
wealthy youth said, with a little air OF
patronage:
II always have my clothes made by
Blank 1t is true he is the most expen.
sive tailor in Boston, but he is the best.
suppose, ~ he added, with unconscious
| rudeness, THAT you can hardly afford
to patronize Blank"
s'No,' the other answered, quietly,
'sbut then can afford not to patronize
him.,
His cousin was not too dull to see the
point and the subject was dropped.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-01-09
piSOBEDlENCE TO RULES.
A Case Where TT Saved Life-A Maine
Boys Escape.

A Case Where TT Saved Life--A Maine
Boys Escape.
sit isn't often that an operator stops
to think of the message he receives Or
SENDS" said an old operator to De-
troit Free Press reporter. "They are
all of size to hir:. But remem Der one
night during the late war felt my eyes
moisten IS I read the following to Sen
tor Feassenden:
:'sMy son is sentenced to be shot to-
morrow morning at six o'clock Tor
sleeping at his post, Will you kindly
see President Lincoln at one and inter-
cede till can reach Washington to pre-
sent evidence which will clearly prove
my sons innocence?
II knew that if the message was
compelled to wait it's turn it would not
reach Senator Fessenden till too late
for any hope of reaching the president,
to say nothing of getting a reprieve
sent to the line of battle where the son
was. said to myself: Here is a human
life hanging by thread. Shall cut
the thread by letting the message take
it's turn? No, couldn't. violated the
rules and telegraphed the solemn mes
sage to all the hotels in Washington till
the senator was found and the message
safe in his hands. Word came back
that Senator Fessenden had obtained
the reprieve, and l telegraphed the
glad news to the poor old man up in
M,;na -
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-01-09
THE NAME OF MOSES.
The Leader Of the Israelites Had Eight
Different Names.

Different Names.
It is curious fact, unknown, perhaps
to a majority of readers. says the ST..
Louis Republic, that Moses Of Scriptural
fame was called by eight different
names in various places in the Bible.
Bathia, the daughter Of Pharaoh, called
him Moses, because she drew him out
of the water. Jochebed, his mother,
called him Jekuthiel, says: 81 had hoped
for him" Miriam, his sister: called
him Jared, because she had descended
after him into the water to see what
his end would be. Aaron called his
brother Abb Zanuch, because his father
had deserted their mother. Amram,
the father Of Moses, called the boy
Chabar, because he was again reunited
to the mother Of the lad. Kehath, the
grandfather Of Moses, called him Abig-
dor, because God had repaired the
breach in the house of Jacob. The
nurse of the grandfather of Moses called
him Abb Socho, because he was once
hidden three months in the Tabernacle.
ALI Israel called him Shemaiah, because
''in his days God heard their cries and
rescued them from their oppressors. F"
Summing up the whole we find that this
great lawgiver was known at various
times and by various people as: Moses
Jared ~ Zanuch = Chabar-Abigdor-
Socho- Shemaiak.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-01-09
ADMIRED BY DOCTORS.
A Work of Art That Was Anatomically
Perfect.


In Pittsburgh (Pa.) jewelry store is
a piece of bronze statuary that is called
''Crushing by Brute Force says the
Dispatch of that city. 1t represents
giant crushing the life out OF a weaker
man. Every detail has been carefully
worked out, and the marks in the vic
TINS sides where the brute's fingers
are sinking into his flesh can be plainly
seen. The look of agony and terror
OH the young mans face as he Wildly
and vainly clutches the hair OF his an
tagonist has been portrayed in the
bronze with so much truth to nature
that nobody can look at the picture
without being thrilled.
A group of doctors was gathered
around the piece Of bronze the other
day studying the statuary in detail.
Physicians are not cruel, but men who
are accustomed to cutting up bodies are
not so sensitive as other mortals. They
were much interested in the scientific
way in which the giant had grasped his
victim One hand was clasped on the
right side above the hip and the other
arm Tapped over it. The young man
was lifted off the ground and the
gladiator was slowly crushing out his
life by pressing his body against his
own. From the position of the internal
organs the doctors concluded that the
artist had studied anatomy.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-01-09
A PHILOSOPHICAL ARTIST.
Was Willing His Creditor Should Sell Him
Out

Out.
"A few days ago I met with the
toughest case in my whole experience, y
said the agent of a very successful debt
collecting firm to a London Tid-Bits
man. II tackled my man for three
pounds he owes to a restaurant. He's
an artist. i am sorry said he, leav-
ing off work on the picture and push
ing his velvet smolzing-cap on the back
of his head, while he looked lazily at the
bill, but cannot pay this for q few
months yet why not?' said l. Be
cause have more pressing liability
More pressing than bill of this kind?'
said +, sarcastically. Yes, good deal,
said he Tim buying pair OF shoes on
the installment plan, and the second
shoe is to be delivered to-day if l can
make partial payment. The coin is
here said he, tapping his waistcoat
pocket. All right I said, but you
just give that coin TO me on account or
I'll sell you up Sell what up? he
dzawled out why, these pictures,
said l, sweeping my arm in a co1np1'e-
hensive way round the studio. These
pictures? AL right, my boy, go ahead.
If YOU car sell them I'll be much obliged
to you. It's more than can do With
that he lighted his pipe and went on
painting as tranquil as a summers day.
I admired him and asked him out to
have drop of something. Excuse me,
he said, standing back and regarding
his picture with one eye closed, but not
even glancing at me. L never have So
cial relations with my tradespeople.' l
was faint when I got down to the
.l~
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-01-09
AN AFRICAN MYSTERY.
Ehe Actions Of Ennin Pasha Since
Stanley's Visit.
Turning His Back Upon Civilization, He
Has Buried Himself In the I'm
a. pcnetrab1e Wilds of the
Dark Continent.

The latest African mystery is Emin
Pasha, says the New York Tribune.
Ever since the time when he SO ener-
getically protested against being found
and rescued, he has been invested with
romance and shrouded in uncertainty.
When Mr.. Stanley brought him out to
Zanzibar the world was at a loss wheth-
err to reckon him a peevish Migrate or
an in-used hero, and its doubts regard
ing him have only been intensified by
the course Of subsequent events. When
he turned his. back on civilization again
most people thought him moved by
anger or chagrin, it not by actual I'M
soundness of mind. Yet. remembering
his former high achievements, there
were those who saw much method in
his madness, and confidently locked for
doings worthy of his fame. Since the
forest shadows closed behind him we
have had some definite news of him,
and much more that is indefinite.
What he is known to nave done is
great work. What rumor attributes to
him is colossal And while it may not
be safe to accept as yet those rnmors as
facts, the weight Of evidence is so far
In their favor, and no explicit danials of
them or significant argument against
their truth have been adduced In
deed. the recapture of Wadelai and a
march On Khartou1n itself would only
be a. natural sequel to what E1nin has
already certainly achieved.
It was April IS, 1890, that, having
been landed at Bagamoyo by Mr.. STAN
ley, Emin Pasha set out on his present
expedition. With him were Lieut..
Iangheld, DR.. Stuhlmann. Father
Schynse, one hundred soldiers (negroes)
and four hundred porters. August
following he occupied Tabora, the head
quarters Of the Arabs in central Africa,
and raised the German flag. Septem-
her 81 found him at Bukumbi. the
southern shore Of Victoria lake. Thence
ne proceeded up the west shore, and
October 81 founded the station of Blu
koba, at the mouth of the river Kagera,
the stream which divides the German
and British territories. There he spent
the winter, building a town and form
inc extarsiva ->'~~t~+;>~- = = "
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-01-09
CULTIVATION OF BEAUTY.
It Depends Upon Hygiene, Education and
Physical Exercise.

1t Depends Upon Hygiene, Education ana
Physical Exercise.
Beauty is not altogether an accident,
says writer in the Leisure Hour. It
may be cultivated. We have been Gull
tivating it, more or less unconsciously
and by a variety of methods, this long
time past. In comparison with any
earlier age ours may be fairly described
as hygienic one. Now, the relations
between hygiene (the science OF healthy
living) and physical beauty need not, /
think, be greatly insisted upon. Let us
step into the school-room. Beauty OF
the higher order is very closely connect
ed with brains. Brains seem too much
wanting in earlier feminine portraiture,
because education has made US con-
scious of that defect. We are no long
err quite satisfied with beautiful face
gin to perceive that it is a mere exquis-
tie mask. But the higher kind of
beauty is becoming much more general
among our women, because we are be-
coming much more careful of their men
tai training. The wealthy tradesman
who is wise sends his girls to be gently
and politely taught. The RESULTS that
he himself is scarcely to be recognized
as the grandfather of his grandchil-
dren.
Physical beauty may be made in the
school-room. Then let us turn to the
playing fields. Never were our girls SO
active or so varied in their pastimes as
they are to-day. They are good at the
oar, they are great cyclists, they are
not easily beaten in the tennis court
and they begin to be skilled at the
wicket. Athletics make physical beau
ty in an almost incalculable degree.
There is more beauty now than ever
before, and there are reasons for it.
And because there is more beauty than
ever, there is, perhaps, not quite so
much enthusiasm about it. And,
again, the beauties of the next genera
ton will probably be much more beau
tiful than ours.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-01-09
TOO MUCH KISSING.

So Says a Woman Whose Cheeks Have
Lost Their Peach Bloom.
sSpinster of forty five" writes to Lon
don Tid-Bits:
In my young days there was not half
so much kissing as there is nova
days. Young persons who were
supposed to be ''courting.'' as it
is called, always met in the pres
ence Of their elders, and expressed
sentiments of esteem with regard to
one another in we'll chosen and appro-
pirate language. There WAS none Of
the ostentatious kissing and embracing
SO prevalent at present, nor was there
allowed any of the exaggerated Ian
guage of affection which is now thought
necessary-in fact, "courtship'' was re-
garded as serious prelude to the most
solemn and 1nomentous undertaking in
life, and the contracting parties acted
in accordance with this notion.
lam vastly annoyed when see bits
of boys and girls kissing one another
and vowing never-ending love, while
they are as yet not able to understand
what a sea of troubles they are embark
ing upon.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-01-09
HOW WE HAVE GROWN.
A Gradual Development from Thirteen to
Fortv-Four States.

A Gradual Development from Thirteen to
Forty-Four States.
Since the declaration Of independence
when the. united colonies declared
themselves to be free and independent
states, says the Chautauquan, the
United States has acquired territory in
the three following ways;
l. By cessions to. the general govern
ment from the thirteen original states.
O. BY purchase in treaties.
3. By annexation and conquest in
war.
In the beginning there we're thirteen
states with an area Of about 100000
square miles, containing about 3,00o,-
900 people. Now there are forty-four
states and five remaining territories,
not counting Alaska, with an area of
s,O26, 900 square miles, and population,
in 1890, of 81 ,622, 900.
Of the thirty-one new states which
have been admitted to the union since
the adoption of the constitution, one
had already formed itself into a state
before the convention of 1857 had pro-
vided way for its admission into the
union; one, like q clone STAR" came
from position of a free and indie
pendent republic; one was made out of
another state without the others con-
sent by an extra-constitutional process
in civil war; and twenty-eight by en-
abling acts of congress in the ordinary
way were erected into states from the
common domain of our national terri
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-01-09
BoAsTFuL MEN.
Fond of Relating Their Successes with
the Fair Sex.

Fond of Relating Their Successes with
the Fair Sex.
It is the mistake of lifetime to give
a man any liberty which you would not
want known, and to expect him to keep
the matter secret, says Ella Wheeler
Wilcox in the Ladies' Home Journal
The exceptional man will sometimes
hide the indiscretion of young girl
whom he believes spoke or acted from
ignorance; but the average man, in the
highest the same as the lowest walks OF
life, boasts of his successes with foolish
women, and the rendezvous, the letter,
the embrace or the souvenir which she
has given him, thinking it will never be
known to others than themselves, is
shortly the matter of gossip among
dozen people,
Women hide their secrets far better
than men do They fear the censure OF
the world too much to share their errors
or indiscretions with conhdante. But
men are almost invariably vain and
proud of their conquests, and relate
their achievements with the fair sex tc
one or two adniring friends. They
may not use names, but let the incl
dents once be told, it is an easy matter
to discover the personages if ono 's at
all curious to do SO. i
The only way to keep men from be-
traying our indiscretions is not to COM
nit them. once made these remarks
in the presence Of several ladies, and
one of them replied ''that she was glad
she had never been acquainted with the
class of men I knew" At the same time
that lady's name had been used lightly
in club room not a week previous,
and her indiscreet actions had been
commented on by ''the class OF men,
she did know.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-01-09
THE TRADE RATS OF ARIZONA.
How They Transfer Goods from One Place


- 49, 49, -@-O~
to Another.
A miner near the Senator recently
had rather singular. experience with
trade rats. known also as mountain
rats. AS the nights were cold the miner
took his ore sack to replenish his rath-
er hard bed. Having neglected to come
to town for several weeks his supply
of beans had given out and he had come
down to diet of straight bacon. Con-
siderably out of humor he started in to
pull his bed to pieces one morning and
in removing the sacks was agreeabey
surprised to find three pounds OF beans,
with little coffee mixed, which the
trade rats had brought from the Senator
and stored in his bed.
The rats. says the Prescott Courier,
are native Americans and very different
from their imported Norway cousins.
They are called trade rats because they
generally leave some article in exchange
for what they take away.
The miner states that he never killed
trade rat; that these rodents habitual-
ly steal from one cabin and carry their
plumber into an adjoining one; that on
one occasion he spilled a couple OF
quarts of corn on the floor of his
cabin and the next morning found
the rats had stored away every grain OF
it in a pair of saddle-bags hanging upon
the wall.
He also states that the rats have thick
caudal appendages about three inches
in length, which they keep constantly
throwing up and down, striking the
floor with each downward movement
with the regular measured stroke of a
musical professor marking time. They
carry off plugs of tobacco, tooth brush
es, combs and brushes, in fact anything
which they can manage to move.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-01-09
NOT ON THE MAP.
A Card of Thanks Sent to Herr A. Happy
Christmas,

Christmas.
They were two old people living in a
little German village. Their daughter
had gone to the United States, or, as
they said, to America, to seek her for
tune some months before. They had
waited in patience to hear from her,
and at last at Weihnachts (Christmas)
time they received a pretty card bear
ing the words: "a Happy Christmas"
On the back of the card the sender had
signed her name with q loving word or
two, but gave no address:
To the minds Of the simple old couple,
however, she had given address enough.
They took the card for an ADVERTISE
ment or notice Of their daughters en-
ployer in this country, and forthwith
sent a card Of thanks-not to be out
done in politeness by an American
which they directed to ssHerr A. Happy
Christmas, America
1t is needless to say that the card
never reached this country. Its pre-
served in a German city among the ecu
riosities of the past