The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-10-21
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After the Worlds Fair is over Mrs.
Potter Palmer is to have thimble which
looks hardly practical. It Is OF gold,
made and set with forty dia-
monds around the rim. The thimble
bears design OF Machinery Hall and an
inscription in relief.
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A person who took 1000 notes Of the
conversation of young women which be
overheard in cars, on the streets and IN
various public places, reports that no less
than $50 began with either "And said
to him." or "He said to me-" or ''She told
me that he said;" $50 referred to dresses
or hats that were perfectly lovely" or
'.just splendid" and the remainder were
pretty evenly divided between comments
on other girls, who were "horrid" or
.stuck up and hateful" new novels,
studies, the summer holidays and the
latest scientific discoveries.
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William Waldorf Aston is about to
build in London the largest and most
costly hotel in the world, which, it 49,
estimated, will cost more than 81, Oo0,0CO-.,
The grandson of John Jacob Aston, who /
made the foundation of his great fortune
by dealing in the pelts of wild animals, is
now an Anglo-American Tory and the
proprietor of the Pail Mall Gazette, in
which he upholds the British aristocracy
in their gigantic wrongs against the
democracy of Great Britain and Ireland
There is too much republicanism in the
United States for this aristocratic up
start, and he has made the modern Baby
Ion his permanent abode.
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Dr.. w. Fl. Russell, the famous Irish
war correspondent of the London I1mesz
Is engaged in writing his "reminiscences
1t will be remembered that Russell first
made his name by providing the Times
with the result of O'Connell's trial, in
1874, a day earlier than it's contempt
raries. By the aid of special train and
special steamer he out distanced all his
colleagues. He made an additional name
during the Crimean War but, when he
came TO America, his innate Toryism got
the better of him; and he made bad
s'smash-up" by his garbled and -prela-
diced account of the first battle of Bull
Run, which he had only surveyed from
the convenient distance of fifteen miles
from that field of fight.
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Lady Aberdeen intends as soon as she,
is settled in Canada to have classes OF
young girls taught to weave Limerick
lace. Since 1886 she has used her inttu-
ence and energies to develop home indus
tries in Ireland, and as president of the
Irish Industrial Association has induced
many prominent women and men OF title
to help the work along. The work ac-
complished has been two-fold the adj
vancement of commercial interests and
helping individuals to be self-supporting-
BY means of one branch women are edu-
Gated in making lace, embroideries and
homespun goods. This work has, doubt
less, been strengthened by the display ut
the Fair, where Irish peasants, experts in
their dainty craft, demonstrate daily the
art of weaving.
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Just now there is sojourning, over in
Ireland, a woman who has been literary
success, and who began her literary work
''for fun AS ambitious young writer's
who have tolled painfully over their work
say, ''she wrote it entirely for her own
amusement during her idle hours" She
is Mrs. Croker, the author of "Diana
Darlington" "A Bird OF Passage" and
several other stories. She was an Irish
girl, and married, when very young,
Lieut.. Croker. He was promptly sent
to India, where most of his life has been
passed since. There Mrs. Croker gained
reputation as charming hostess, and
a pretty, brilliant woman; but no one
suspected her of literary leanings. Eleven
years ago when she was finding an Indian
summer very dull, she wrote proper
Pride" to relieve the tedium, and sent it.
to England. After two years of lying
idle among manuscripts it was published
Then, one night, during heated debate
in the House of Commons, Mr.. Glad
stone was seen reading it; and rthwith
Mrs. Croker became famous.
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The results of the intermediate Exam
nations in Ireland this year show that
the Catholic colleges and students have
achieved even higher success than last
year. The Christian Brothers Schools,
Cork, come first on the list, with 80 ex-
hibitions; the Christian Brothers,
Schools, Dublin, second, with IT.; Olon-
gowes Wood College, third, with H.;
Christian Brothers' Schools, Newry, fifth,
with IL, and the Dublin High School