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Com fort Powder

Comfort Powder.
An evenings enjoyment has often beel
spoiled for a lady by a big pimple on tn
face. Comfort Powder would have prevent
ed 1t. All druggists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-09-30

THE GIRL OF THE FUTURE-MRS. RUTH c.
u HAVENS will deliver this lecture OCTOBER 4
pm, at Asbury NJ. E. Church. 18th and X
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The amount to he deducted for the expenses of
the associations during the past six months end
ing 31st July. 1898. provided for and establish
ed in the charter of the associa ton amounted TO
1896 SO. and was deducted In that amount and
applied in full to the payment of the expenses of
the association.
Before me. the undersigned authority personally
came Alexander Allison Assistant Secretary New
South Building and Loan Association to well
known. who, being daily sworn, saws the above and
foregoing is correct statement from the hooks of
the said association for the six months ending 3lst
July. 1898. HUNTER c. LEARY. Notary Public
ALEX. ALLISON. Assistant Secretary
v. BREVERD General Agent, 1920 New York ave I
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Comfort Powder

Furnished Rooms. Hotel Lawrence. $40 pc
month. se29-6ts
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| Men must have 'em. women all like them
| and children howl for Royal Headache
| Powders 1Oc. Druggists. jy29-S. m, tn
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-11-25
Legislative Intelligence.

The intelligence of a member OF the
Kentucky legislature has at times been
called into question, but it is hardly
fair to. that distinguished body OF
statesmen to have any doubt on this
subject In testimony whereof is this:
Two newspaper men reporting the pro-
ceedings at frankfort were disputing
over the spelling Of a members name.
BY George" contended one, Il tell
you it is spelled with an ..
''I'll bet you dollar it is an e." IN
sisted the other.
81 know better and well leave it to
him.
I The other gave long whistle.
Leave it to. him, nothing" he ex-
claimed; '.he doesn't know how to
spell his name, and I've seen him run
his tongue ont four inches trying te
write it. z z,
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-11-25
,r,cro,,e. Not All Dangerous.

A physician tells the Cincinnati
Times-Star that the widespread fear of
disease germs is entirely groundless.
''Everything,'' he says, lis full Of
germs or crusted with them, but every
germ is not harmful. Every disease
germ on the body does not produce q
disease. IF it did there would not be a
person on the face of the earth to-mor-
row. People lived before disease germs
were known and were as healthy as
they are to-day. They lived as care
fully as we doperhaps more so. We
cannot avoid contact with disease
germs, but we can do what is better
strengthen the body 50 that it resists
them as easily as . lion can 9 fea
Some scientists pretend to deplore .
lack OF precaution people take against
germs. II is simply because the people
zee, despite theories. that every germ
doesn't produce sickness any more
than every man is q murde Every
man may possibly be one. but we would
not be justified 81 going armed On TINT 8;
account. =
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-11-25
The OYSTERS ENEMY.
Great Destrr s,t.on In tho delaware ia,
Beds by the :. 3orer. Z

Great Destruction In tho delaware Bay
Beds ~ the .. Borer.' = ss
The .'borer, pest about the size OF
small strawb berry, is working great
havoc among the oyster beds in Della
ware bay and tributary streams, says
the Philadelphia Ledger.
Capt. Moses Veale, of the oyster
schooner White Lily, says shat the de-
structive powers Of the ''borer have
been known to oystermen only few
years. He had followed oyster digging
for nearly thirty five years, and the
first s.borer'' he saw was about ten
years ago, but their ravages in the oys-
ter beds were comparatively unnoticed
until last year.
Capt. Veale said that ''last year the
number of dead oysters with holes made
by borers in the shell became SO great
that oysternen were alarmed. This
year the work of the borers has become
a grave matter, and if it continues
many bays will be depopulated of oys-
ters. From one bed we dredged on this
trip we got twelve hundred baskets OF
oysters, but out of these only two hun
dred were good, the dead oysters hav-
ing been killed by borers. A peculiar
thing about the ravages Of the 'borers'
is their apparent selection of the best
oyster beds. We have found this to be
true several times this season. We
have found bed of small oysters al
most entirely free from 'borers.' This
bed will be separated from another
bed of larger oysters by two hundred
feet, but this latter bed will be SO badly
affected by the creatures that it will
hardly pay to work it.
From what can learn from oyster
men the destruction wrought by borers
is much more severe in Delaware hay
than in other places.
"The work Of the borer this year
makes a double misfortune, for the
oyster beds were badly damaged by the
big storm in August and September.
Very few people who are not in the
oyster dredging business know any
thing of the methods of the borer.
When first took notice of it's work
secured several oysters just after the
borer had fastened itself to the shell.
When the borer fastens itself it holds
on like a leech, and it is with difficulty
that it can be removed with the
fingers.
''Sometimes the borer fastens itself
to the oyster shell near the edge and
then the oyster is not killed. When
the hole of the borer is made near the
center of the shell the oyster is at
tackled in it's vital parts and dies in
three or four days after the hole is first
made"
Some of the bed-owners near Maurice
river have lost large sums of money
this year on account of the borer. All
oystermen say there can be no way of
taking away the borer without de-
stroying the oyster beds.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-11-25
Telephones In Sweden.

In no other country of the world is
the telephone in SO general use as in
Sweden, and In no other is the service
SO cheap and at the same time SO per-
feet. It is under government control
and the rates are fixed by the govern
ment. A few weeks ago q new line
was opened between Stockholm and
Christiania by King Oscar, who took
occasion to express the hope in the first
message to the Norwegians that the
line would tend to draw the two coun-.
tries into closer union and aid in over
coming the desire Of the Norwegian
radicals to break up the existing relar
tions. Il Is now proposed, BY means Of
q submarine cable, to connect the Nor
wegian and Swedish capitals with Co
penhaRen. ID
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-11-25
INDIANS AND COMETS.
A Belief That the Sun Caases stars and
Bites Them.

Belief That the Sun C1ases stars and
Bites Them.
When the last comet was streaming
in the sky was camping one night IN
a canyon near the foot OF Cooks peak.
In the party was an old and-tor an
Indian-fairly intelligent Ute, named
Sam. Sam had been attached to some
cavalry troop at Fort Cummings as a
scout. but his day of leaving the service
being, reached he attached himself to
me-for consideration-says writer
in the St. Lonis Dispatch.
Pointing to the comet ] asked Sam
what he could say in it's defense from
the standpoint of Ute. Sam was, UNI
like most Indians, great talker, and
could speak English very we'll. lie
was ambitious to perfect himself in
the language, and readily seized on
every chance for talk. Indeed:
discovered him on one or two occasions
all alone and talking vigorously at q
mark like savage Demosthenes.
Tell about that?" said Sam, point
ing toward the comet. ''Sa1n do 1T in
a heap easy. The sun is the man and
he have moon for squaw. The stars
big stars and little stars-are all their
children The sun don't like 'em. II
he catches one he eats it. This makes
the stars heap 'fraid, and when the
sun has his sleep over and comes out
the stars run and hide. When the sun
comes stars go-creep into holes and
hide. But the moon is good. She
loves her children-the stars-and
when the sun sleeps she comes out In
the sky, and the stars are glad, and
they come out of the places they hid
in, and forget to be 'fraid and play.
But when the sun wakes again they
run. He is always after them and he
catches them sometimes. This one, y
continued Sam, again pointing to the
comet, s'the sun catch one time. He
got away, though, but the sun hit him
and hurt him. That's why he bleed
so. Now he's heap scared and so keeps
his face always toward the place where
the sun is sleeping. .
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-11-25
! ACTIVE VOLCANOES.
/ Stunning Mountains Of south and Central
America That DO Deadly Work.

burning MOUNTAINS S1I E9OUCH SuO VSuSk1AA
America That Do Deadly Work.
The volcano of Abina, in Peru. which
for century and half had been con-
sidered extinct. suddenly awoke from
its long sleep the other day and began
pouring forth lava. smoke and ashes in
such quantities as to obscure the sun
up to the date of the last report. says q
Panama correspondent Of the Phila-
delphia Press.
Together with this news comes an
account of remarkably severe earth
qual1es in Ecuador that shook tho
whole Pacific slope and extended fa1
into the interior. A series of rapid.
violent shocks continued one minute
and some seconds. 1t created the
greatest terror in Guayaquil here at
every convulsion it appeared a., though
the pile-built structures must go over.
However, no damage to speak of oc-
Cured there. but several accounts OF
disasters had arrived from the in
terror At Canar seven families and
their homes are known to have been
swallowed up by the earth. One GU
rious incident at t4uayaquil was the
bursting open of the doors Of the peni-
Tertiary. Many convicts escaped be-
fore the demoralized guards could pull
themselves together to prevent it.
Then the guards fired Unfortunately
on the prisoners, those fleeing from
crumbling walls as we'll as those es-
Gaping. The city waterworas WIRE so
damagc I'd that water famine was inn
minent. This series of shocks was felt
over an area Of eighty thousand square
miles. At almost the same time Coto-
paxi and Turgurahua burst forth in
such a terrible activity as has not
characterized them during the last
two centuries. The South American
volcanoes frequently ravage their i'm
mediate neighborhood. but it is be-
lieved here is another instance that
they are safety valves that render the
continent ha bitable.
Reports of unusual volcanic activity
all along the line of the continental
backbone have been coming in since
the beginning of the year/and those
more recently to hand indicate a
steadily increasing disturbance. Alarm
ing accounts arrived last week
from Mexico Of the condition of
Colima. which pouring forth vast
volumes Of lava and a regular bonn
bardment of rocks and ashes, had sent
the people of Jalisco fleeing in terror
from their houses. Only few months
ago dispatches from Chilli and Peru
told of fierce outbursts among the
volcanoes of the southern Andes. and.
later yet, of the seismic disturbance in
the volcanic region of Cauca. in
Colombia, by which an entire mountain
ridge was swallowed up and q deep de-
preston left, while elsewhere in that
same region two rivers were buried by
the side of a mountain tumbling into
the valley.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-11-25
,I,E ,RIsI = ,lI,AI; SATURDAY., NOVEMBER 25l11g5
DEATH or n NOTED GIANT.
The Chinaman Chang, Who Was Not Less
Than Nine Feet IN Height.

ID 4aS
The Chinanaan Chang, who Was Not Less
Than Nine Feet IN Height.
The famous Chinese giant, Chang,
died st Bournemouth, England, No
rember5. Chang had beer seen several
times in America, says the New York
Herald. Because of prevailing super
stition among the Chinese people
his height was never measured, as
they believed that death would imme-
diately follow the measurement. But
there are none who have observed him
or who have stood up beside him who
estimated his stature at less than nine
feet. His physical proportions were
very symmetrical and his strength was
herculean. Hawks travelled and exhib-
tied throughout the civilized glo5e he
acquired and spoke with fuency five
different languages-English, Ger
man, French, italian and Spanish. He
was a very companionable man and
delighted to meet and converse with
intelligent men and women.
Chang was born in 1847 at Wang
Hue, near Pekin. China. His parents,
who are still living, are large tea and
silk growers, and are Independent.
There is nothing in their constitution
nor that of their progenitors to indi-
cate the possibility OF transmitting
gigantic proportions to their extraor-
binary son. On the contrary, Changes
parents are about the average size OF
Chinese people, who are well known
to be rather under the ordinary size.
At his birth there was nothing to in
dictate that he was to grow to his pres
ent stature, and up to the age of nearly
six years his height did not exceed
most children of his age. After short
illness he began to assume such gigan-
tic proportions that his parents were
much alarmed at the growth Of their
huge son. At the age of twelve he
was equal to the height of his father
and the generality of the neighboring
people, The phenomenon of his being
as tall ais man, and yet showing all
the habits and actions of a child,
caused him to become the wonder and
astonishment of the neighborhood. At
the same time he suffered great per-
sonal discomfort, for the men would
not associate with him and the chill
dren would not play with him. At the
age of eighteen he commenced to ex-
hibit himself in public.
Chang was here in 1880, in 1883, and
in 1885, After his last visit here he re-
turned to his native land to marry a
Chinese beauty. 1t was his intention
at that time to come back to America
and to settle down in the west. He
used to wear a watch given him by
Queen Victoria which weighed two
pounds and half, and had chain
nine feet long, which barely reached
around his neck and down to his vest
pocket. He had a large stock Of gloves
and jewelry presented to him by royal
and other distinguished personages.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-11-25
FUTURE OF ALUMINIUM.
Roofs for Houses and Hulis for Vessels
Sure to BE Made of 1t.

Roofs for Houses and HullS tor vessels
Sure to BE Made of 1t.
Aluminium, which itself possesses a.
high degree of specific heat. does not
really absorb heat itself, and thus is
not liable to the chief objection to iron
buildings in hot countries. But apart
from light decorative purposes, says
the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, such as
balconies, cupolas, finals and veran-
das, it is as a roofing material that
aluminium should he most welcome to
the builder. In plates or scales, two
thirds lighter than copper. uncorroded
by air and undimmed even by the sui
phur of London smoke, it should make
roof fit for palace of romance.
The humber elements of health and
comfort in the house hardly less inn
portant than it's external defenses
against the weather-pipes, cisterns,
taps and cutters, now made of iron
which rusts, or lead which poisons-
would be more enduring and far more
healthy if made of this light and clean
ly metal, which might also take the
place of all water-holding vessels now
made of heavy, brittle earthenwarc or
painted tin. An aluminium bath is
among the probable Injuries of the
next century. But it is not as mere
accessory to comfort and convenience
that real development of the new
metal should lie. 1t is for use at sea
that it's most marked quality of light
ness obviously fits it. e.
The marine engineer and the naval
architect, who are already looking in
this direction for reduction of the
weight which is inseparable from loss
of efficacy, whether in speed or cargo,
cannot neglect the possibilities of
metal, which, when mixed in the pro-
portion of one to fifty, gives to alum
inum-bronze a hardness and tough
ness which makes it almost as reliable
as steel, and which, if the proportions
could be reversed and the strength pre-
served, would reduce the weight OF
ships and machinery alike by two
thirds. That is problem which
awaits the metallurgist for solution.
The reduction in cost, judging by an
alogy, can only be question of time
and research.
The best steel now costs little more
than one-half penny per pound. while
aluminium is fifty times that price.
But aluminium exists in far greater
quantities than iron, is more widely
distributed, and neither the limits of
time nor the history of metallurgy for
bid us to conjecture that, as the world
has seen its age of stone, its age of
bronze and its age Of iron, SO it may
before long have embarked on new
and even more prosperous age OF alum
mum.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-11-25
He WARMED UP.
The Bank President Lost That Chilly
Feeling Very Suddenly.

The Bank President Lost That Chilly
Feeling Very Suddenly.
A well-known contractor walked
into a bank in this city the other day
to cash a check for forty dollars. says
the Washington Post. The paying teller
looked at the check a few minutes,
then counted out four hundred dollars.
and handed it to the contractor, who.
although he noticed the error, said not
a word, but rolled up the bills and
wadded them down into his pocket.
This happened in the morning, and
about two o'clock the same afternoon,
before the officials of the bank had an
opportunity to discover the error, the
contractor walked into the Office of the
president of the bank.
sis this bank responsible for the
errors of it's clerlzs?'' he asked the pres
ident.
eff it can be proved that any of our
clerks have erred replied the presi-
dent, in very chilly manner. I'VE will
make the correction.
''Well, nobody saw this error made
but myself continued the contractor,
''and my word ought to be sufficient
proof, think
81 am sorry, SIR said the bank pres
ident, ssbut we shall have to have ad-
ditional proof. We require this in order
to protect ourselves; that is ALL
Every well, sir" replied the con-
tractor, rising to leave. 81 am sorry
cannot furnish what you demand. The
error referred to was the payment OF
four hundred dollars for a check that
called for only forty dollars; but, as
no one saw me receive the extra three
hundred and sixty dollars, suppose
you will not want to correct the mis-
take. Good day, SIR
..Hold on! Come back" shouted the
bank president, who by this time was
very .wide-awake to the abyss to which
he had been led.
The matter was soon adjusted salts
factorily, and now when any person
reports an error at that bank the first
question asked is: "In whose favor?"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-11-25
MARIE ANTolNETTE's REFUGE.

Edgecomb, Me- Was to Have Been the
Home Of the Exi,ed Princess.
There is building in Edgecomb, an
old square, white house, concerning
which an interesting story is told,
says the Lewiston Journal. This ira
dition is that at the time of the French
revolution Capt. Samuel Clough, the
owner of the house, who sailed ship
between Maine and France, was en-
gagged to bring to this country no less
valuable treasure than the unfortu-
nate queen, Marie Antoinette, and
that quantities of rich stuffs. furni-
ture and silver were put aboard his
ship for the use Of the. exile, whose
destination was to have been this
same house, which then stood in West
port, it having been removed to the
main land on a raft sixty years ago: 1t
is yet occupied by Capt. Clough's de-
scendants
One circumstance which lends con-
firmation to this story is that 4 similar
legend attaches to a house in Dorches-
ter, Mass, the famous Swan mansion,
then owned by Col. Swan, who spent
much of his time in Paris, but who set
tied permanently in this country after
the French revolution, his house being
adorned in princely fashion. Now
Capt. Clough and Col. Swan had money
dealings together in Paris, Capt.
Clough in 1894 having had contract
to purchase fifty thousand dollars
worth of lumber for the colonel.
What more likely than that Col. Swan,
who was warm friend of Lafayette.
should have engaged the Maine cap
tain to aid him in plan of such great
Importance as the attempted rescue
Of the French queen, with which he is
credited
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-11-25
FAIR WAS A DRAIN.
Other Cities Grudge the Millions Spent
in Going to Chicago.

Other Cities Grudge the MILLIONS Spent
in Going to Chicago.
The close of the worlds fair must
have an important effect upon the
business condition of the country, says
the New York Post. For six months
there has been steady drain OF
money from all parts of the nation
into Chicago-money which but for
the exposition would have been ex-
pended in thousands of cities and
towns. Millions of people went to Chi
cago between the 1st of May and the
list of November, and spent on the
average large sum for the round
trip The st. Paul Pioneer Press esti-
mates that there must have been at
least 100. 600 visitors from Minnesota,
and that it cost them on an average
$40 apiece for the journey and $50 ex-
penses in Chicago. This would make
SIS. 600, 900 that was taken out.of Mime
sofa by the exposition. We believe
that this not an over-estimate. We
observed the other day a statement in
an Iowa paper that no fewer than $50
people had gone to Chicago during the
season from one county seat in that
state, and although a large proportion
of them went on cheap excursions,
their average expenditures were esti-
mated at $35 apiece. While there was
a great number of visitors from the
city and vicinity who paid but little,
the expense was heavy for people from
a distance, and there was a constant
stream to Chicago from the remoter
parts of the country.
If it be estimated that the 21,500,0
admissions represented no more than
1900, 900 separate individuals, and that
the average expenditures were as little
as 1926. this would mean the diversion
of 800, 600, 900 from the ordinary chan
nels of trade into the treasury of the
fair, the receipts of transportation
companies, the pockets of Chicago no.
tel and boarding house keepers, and
the other classes who levied toll upon
the travellers. It must be remembered,
too, that the large part of this money
came not from the wealthy, but from
people who were forced to save in
order to raise the necessary amount,
and who consequently refrained from
expenditures at home which they
would otherwise have made. In this
way the fair has aggravated the nor
NAL effect of the financial depression
in almost every community. Its close
will arrest the streams of money which
from thousands of points for half
year have been flowing toward Chica-
90, and will thus have very percepti-
BILE influence in improving the business
situation.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-11-25
Temperature Of Swiss Forests.

For twenty years the Swiss govern
ment has been making observations
through it's forestry stations on the
temperature of the air. of the trees and
the soil in the forests. These observa-
tions show that the temperature in the
forests is always below the tempera-
ture outside. The temperature also
varies according to the trees composing
the forests. A beech forest is always
cooler than forest of larch. As to
the trunks of the trees, they are
always cooler than the surrounding
air. Regarding the temperature OF the
soil, it is found that in the forest the
temperature is invariably below that
of the air. Outside the forest the soil
is always warmer than the air in sum
mer and colder in winter.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-11-25
saxacity Of wild Fowl.

Wild geese and wild ducks show
knowledge as to the resistance OF the
atmosphere and sagacity in overcom-
ing It. When docks Of them have 70.
20 long distances, they form q triangle
to cleave the air more easily, and the 4
most Courageous bird takes position, y Z G. q
the forward angle. AZ this rs q very
sfatiRuing post ssnot her lbiTa ere long
takes the place 81 the I'll led
81 Thus they place their aIl
IL the service t,e soE