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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-10-07
UNCLE SANS SILVER.
Che Vaults Of the Government Overflow.
ing with the White Metal

ing with the White Metal
According to Washington letter in
the Philadelphia Times. there are 5000
tons of silver stored in the treasury
vaults. That means 10. COZ, 900 pounds.
And yet this METALS regarded as pre-
eious one, to be measured in value by
ounces and grains. Only coin is kept
| In the treasury vaults. Bars and bull
! lion are stored in the subtreasuries
and the minis. There are eight vaults
in the treasury used for the safe-keep-
ing and storage of money. The total
! value of the contents Of these vaults is
1868, 176, 900.
Only two of these vausts are used for
the storage of standard silver dollars.
| Vault No. 1 contains $101, 100000, while
the smaller vault, known as No. Q, has
in it only about $50, 100000. In addition
to this there is S53, 900 worth of fraction
al silver. The other vaults are used
for holding bank notes, bonds, money
for daily use, etc.
+! The total coinage of silver dollars
under the Bland act of 1878 was $780,
936, 347. The total coinage under the
man act, has amounted to $29. 455, 600.
There are 5e,917,O0o silver dollars in
circulation.
More than half of all the silver
owned by the United States is stored in
this city. At the minis and assay Of
fees there are $3.50. 231 900 worth of bar
silver. Altogether there is 1881, 000. 900
in standard silver dollars
The United States has been buying
silver ever since 1878, when the Bland
law went into effect. Until the Sher-
man law went into operation the treas
ury purchased S2,0OO,0oO worth of bull
lion every month for coinage. There
were purchased under the first law
3O6, 1873, 261.1 ounces of silver, for
which it paid 1929, G35. SIG. 19-an aver
age cost of $1.05 per ounce. On this
silver the government made profit of
great many million dollars by calling
every 3775 grains of fine silver a dollar,
no matter what the market value of
silver might be when paid for in gold.
! On the silver purchase under the
Sherman law the government has lost
already about $4,000, 900 by the depre-
citation in value of it's stock of bullion
on hand. Up to the LIST of July about
1877 100000 ounces had been purchased.
Four million five hundred thousand
dollars in silver amount to about 40
tons, and if the country still goes on
buying at that rate the problem of
! what to do with the metal promises to
become an even more serious one than
! it is now
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-10-07
POVERTY STRICKEN TURKS.
Their Condition Said to Be Going from
Bad to Worse.

Their Condition Said to BE Going from
Bad to Worse.
According to recent reports, matters
in eastern Turkey seem to be contin-
ually going from bad to worse, and
the sufferings of the povertystricken
popula tion are increased by the ras-
cality of the tax gatherers. All trade
was practically stopped for time by
cholera and the ensuing. quarantine.
In many cases the cost of food has been
doubled or trebled, and the difficulties
and cost of transportation have brought
ruin to many merchants A published
letter written in Bitlis in June says:
''Taxes are an ever increasing burden.
In one village near the city of Van the
sheep tax gatherer, O. Kurd, wrote
down all the flocks and their owners
so that those who had twenty-five
; sheep had seventy recorded against
them, and SO on. The tax gatherer
threatened to accuse the villages of
harboring political fugitives in case
they made any complaint. Every sheep
and lamb is taxed three and half
piasters a year, a sum which is all the
average villager can earn in day. In
another village three hundred sheep
had been stolen by the Kurds before
the arrival of the tax gatherer, but the
tax for them was demanded and col
lected just the same. In another viii
lage in the vilayet of Erzeroom last
November the harvested grain WAS left
to spoil in the field. The grain had
been piled up in the customary stacks
according to law, that when thrashed
the tax gatherer might come and take
his share, but he did not come. The
title of the wheat was to be sold to the
highest bidder, but not a single man
could raise the lowest sum which the
government demanded. In the mean
time rains came, and, as the villagers
were not allowed to touch the grain,
much of it spoiled in the stacks. In
many places the attitude of the gov
eminent towards it's Christian subjects
grows ever more and more severe. For
Christians to own firearms of any kind
is treason, though their Turkish and
Kurdish neighbors may be and gener-
ally are we'll armed. Christians are
often aroused at midnight and hurried
to prison or to exile without even be-
ing told the reason why. To have
| books in ones house is often deemed a
sufficient reason for the imprisonment
of the owner until the books can be ex-
amined. And it often happens that
the examination of the books is de-
layed for MONTHS
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Short Epitaphs.

In Worcester, England, is a stone
erected over the grave of a departed
auctioneer of that city on which Gone
is inscribed. In Sussex graveyard, in
addition to the initials Of the deceased
and the date of death, stone has
inscribed in large letters the words:
ssHe Was" Two of the strangest as
well as the shortest epitaphs are:
asleep Gas usual, on the tombstone
of q large individual by one who knew
him we'll, and ':Left Till Called For is
carved on gravestone in Cane Hill
cemetery. Belfast. Autobiography has
this inscription over his grave: 'Here
I Lie, Taken from Life On the tomb
of Charles the Great, first emperor of
Germany, are two words only: "Cara'o
MaOo -
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-10-07
France,s New Postal Card.

France is soon to adopt an interest
ing innovation in the postal card sys-
TEN. The cards will be issued in the
form of check books, with stubs. The
sender Of the postal card can make
memoranda of its contents on the
stub, and can have this stamped at the
post office before the card is detached,
so that verified record Of the CORE
spondence can be kept.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-10-07
IN SMALL PACKAGES.
Some Bottled Up Thunder In Our Little
Torpedo Boats.

! Some Bottled Up Thunder In Our Little
Torpedo Boats.
Considerable interest attaches to the
miniature torpedo boats which Will be
carried on the decks Of the battleships
Texas and Maine, now under construc-
ton by the government. They are ex-
| cellent specimens of modern engineer,
! ing skill. says the Washington STAR
/; The boat for the Texas will be OF
twelve tons displacement and the one
for the Maine will be of 1913 tons.
, They will be swung into water from
the top Of the superstrncture by great!
cranes. and will be used in midnight
attacks The little boats will be fitted
each with one propelling engine Of the
quadruple expansion type, working a
single screw. 1t is estimated that the
Indicated horse power of the Texas
boats engine will be 155, and that Of
the Maine boats engine 200, when the
! screw is making CTS revolutions. The
engine will be vertical inverted, with
the cylinders placed in order Of size
over the shaft, the high pressure:
cylinder being forward.
There will be one water tube boiler
on each boat, placed in a separator
compartment forward of the cngine.i
II will be constructed for workingf
pressure of $50 pounds per square inch
and have about twelve feet of crate
surface, with $50 feet Of heating
surface. Bulkheads and doors will be
fitted where necessary to make the
! fire room alright In the Texas boat
4 ,,1x T.,
Maine boat there will be two stacks,
) situated forward and placed far enough
apart on opposite sides of the ship to
allow the torpedo boom to rig between
them.
Two feet tanks will be provided in
each boat, that in the Texas having a
combined capacity of seventy gallons,
and that in the Names boat of ninety
gallons. The weight of all machinery
and boilers, including auxiliaries and
! water in the boilers, condensers and
| pipes, as we'll as the spare parts and
tools. must not exceed 5000 pounds on
! the Texas boat and 10000 pounds on
the Names boat.
Marine engineers take good deal OF
interest in these little boats, for they
| contain as much bottled-up energy as
| anything afoat The torpedo boat at
it's best appears to be nothing more
than combined vitality and destruc-
ton. Within thin and narrow she'll
there is an engine of remarkable force
and projectile of unusual deadliness.
The little torpedo boats Of the big bat
tleships are the best of their type, for
they are the latest and concentrate
what was before condensed.
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THE ScHOOLMA'AM OF TO-DAY.
Mr.. Jasper Tells How She Differs from
/, Her Predecessors.

Mr.. Jasper Tells How She Differs from
Her Predecessors.
New York employs 1861 schooltea CHI
ers. In this grand army of martyrs
there are S,O53 women.
Of this number 100 fill principalships;
each has a lieutenant; the rest of the
2,673 are assistants. Some of them
teach school and some of them fight
school, but they all earn the far from
large salaries paid by the wealthiest
city in the new world.
John Jasper, superintendent of pub
lie instruction, who has every one of
these tslearned ladies' on his list of ac-
quaintances, was asked by a New York
World reporter how the teachers of
1898 compared with their sisters of
1888.
.:They are BETTER he replied; much
better
''In what particularly
'In every particular
care they better looking?''
.sTheya are better trained, better man
nered, better dressed and better look
ing than the teachers of decade ago. %
Physically, Mr.. Jasper thought that
the young teacher was far superior to
her senior associate; that she was
abreast of the time; that physical cul-
ture had done as much for her as for
any other class of progressive women;
that she knows something besides book
learning; that she is sympathetic,
conscientious, and, best of all, wom-
anl IA 5$
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AND CLEOPAT RA.
Discovery of the Tolnhs OF Those Great
axalehritiea of AutiQuitY.

Discovery of the To1nbs OF Those Great
Celebrities of Antiquity.
/ wrote you from London, says cor
respondent of the Boston Advertiser, of
the discovery in Alexandria six weeks
ago of the tombs of Alexander and
Cleopatra. Here is the letter sent to
Aberdeen which describes the remark
able find:
1.-The tombs are intact and no doubt
as the excavations proceed the tombs
of all the Ptolemies will be brought to
light. There is no doubt about the
matter, as the names of the occupants
are over the doors. The doors are of
bronze and covered with Greek in
scriptions. Here and there the bronze
has corroded, so that with the aid of a
magnesium light they could see the
marble sarcophagi and lots of other
things in the rooms. Some of the
vaults seem to be full of rolls and
parchments, but this is mere guess
work on the part Of the observers. All
will be cleared up when the khedive
returns from Constantinople, as he is
to superintend the opening of Alexan~
der's and Cleopatra's tombs."
Dr. Grant Bey, the writer Of the let
ter, dated June II, goes on to say:
''Lots of beautiful vases and gold
things have been found, and a most
beautifully executed stella, in whose
tomb they found crown Of gold. My
information is at first hand, because
had long conversation with the pro-
prietor of the land and the manager Of
the digging this afternoon. In the
course of digging the Greek gentle
man came upon pit that led down to
series of vaults thirty feet below the
surface These are the tombs of the
Ptolemies and the one exposed to view
is that of Cleopatra. The others have
still to be excavated, but they are
there-only all the passages are filed
with earth. Twenty feet deeper, and
only six feet above sea level, is Alex
anders tomb, all by itself only there
are some chambers near it filed with
rolls and parchments-in other words,
library of ancient books"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-10-07
sex.r,tv Of Antarctic Regions.

It is remarkable fact that the eli
mate of the southern polar region is
much more severe than that OF cor
responding regions to the north II is
well known that race of human be-
ings live within the arctic circle with
some degree Of comfort, but at cor
responding degree Of latitude at the
south all is one. dreary waste, wholly
Suninhab itable. (. ss
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-10-07
Changing Chirography.

The changes in fashionable hand
writing during the past ten years have
been marked. Young girls of to-day
write in large and usually firm char
acters, while surprising number Of
young men, not trained to clerkliness
and struggling between several recog-
nized standards of a good masculine
handwriting, produce letters of a singu-
larly childish style of penmanship. But
leaving out these conditions of youth
and transition with their more or less
fascinating suggestions of equal
change in the intellectual fashions Of
young men and maidens, there is an
inexhaustible interest in the study
of mature handwriting, from the
point of view of the subtle
clairvoyant interviewer of other
peoples minds and methods. For
example, most literary men nova
days write small hand. The phrase
literary men is very sweeping in this
connection and is by no means limited
to the producers OF pure literature in
this country In that case there
would be next to nothing to say, es-
pecially if the literature produced was
restricted to that genuinely imbued
with style. Literary men in this
sense means also all men who have
the power and also a most surprising
knack in returning to others of the
craft their own ambitious productions.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-10-07

SONGS or YESTERDAY.
some OF the Popular Airs Which We
Have Sung and Tired OF.

Have Sung and Tired OF.
A western paper has compiled sort
of history of the catchy popular airs
which have been sung during our time
or when our parents were young. The
list is interesting.
A few weeks ago, says the writer,
the favorites in Che way of songs were
eta Ra-Ra- Boom e-A," Comrades"
and ''The Bogey Man" It is curious
fact in connection with ''Ta-Ra-Ra-
Boom-De-A" that some months ago
the writer sailed away from Liver
pool, England, and the last thing he
heard was that song, and on reaching
New York harbor the first thing to
greet him as welcome to his own
country was the same song, sung by a
coal HEAVIER on the dock. He might
have alluded here to the run of MY
Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon"
and :'After the Ball" ..a.
Prior to the advent of the before
mentioned songs, he continues, we had
a long siege of Little Annie Rooney
and Maggie Murphy's Home Then
we had before these lengthy attack
of ''Down Went McGinty," and before
this number of Harrigan & Harris
theater comique songs, such as ''Mulli-
gan Guards" "Maj. Gilfeather" and
others similar in style. Then proceed
ing this era we had ''Peek-a-Boo' and
''La-di-Dah' Before this whoa, EN-
mas champagne Charlie" Capt.
|Jinks," "Shoo Fly and ''Not for Joe, %
pretty we'll mixed up with sentimental
songs of the ''Put Me in Ny Little
Bed and ''Silver Threads Among the
Gold,' "Norah O'Neil," 'Lillie Dale
and ''Come Where My Love Lies Dream
ing" type. -
During the war of the rebellion how
we'll the writer remembers the songs
he heard, being then boy. He saw
the soldiers marching by the house
where he lived, and listened with
bated breath to the songs they sung, OF
Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are March
ing Rally Round the Flag" ''John
Browns Body and :'Marching Thro'
Georgia. and then the different style
of songs sung by the women folk at
home, such as ''Brave Boys Are They,
'tThe Vacant Chair" Mother, Dear,
Your Boy Is Wounded" or 'Tenting
Tonight" or :'When This Cruel War Is
Over or the mo1e humorous ones of
The Captain With His Whiskers Took
Slv Glance at Me- or THE Bold Sol
der Boy
The songs before that period were
different from any since. The names
of some of these were, Roll ON Silver
Moon.' ''Ben Bolt "'rhe Old Oaken
Bucket 1.-THE Indian Boys Lament, u
''The Irish Emigrant's Lament and
"Hard Times Come Again No More. .
These must have been rather dolefu]
times. There was another song quite
popular at that time, called ''Crue]
Barbara Allen,'' SO the writer has been
told. But this is about the extent OF
his knowledge on the song question.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-11-28
COLLAPSE or A FARMHOUSE.
Two OLD King Street dwellings In Ruins
The Night Waterman Missing.

Tho old four-story building at 73 and % King
street. which was occupied by James Fitzger-
nld as q storage place for Junk. collapsed Just
before L. o'clock last night and fell.
There had been curious creakings heard
from 1t by the people In the two adjoining
houses for twenty minutes or half an
hour before. Finally. with a sound like
an explosion. the whole front wall
fell into the street. the floors sank and then
the back wall fell into the yards OF the houses
facing on Houston street. Tho adjoining ton
emcnts had already been deserted.
The falling house crushed in tho party walls
OF those houses on their top floors. but hurt
no ono.
Tho house was very old and had originally
been two dwellings. Afterward 1t was occu-
pied for many years as furniture factory by
Bruner 4 Moore.
Hook and laddertruck 20 was called and its
mon put the ruins in q condition Of compare
tive safety but tho persons living at II and II
were not allowed to return to those houses
last night.
II was believed that an old man who acted as
night Waterman was in the building when 1t
fell. Ho was not seen afterward.
lie is q man OF about 60. short and gray
haired. No one In that neighborhood could be
found who knew his name or where he lived.
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OUR CONSULAR AGENT ARREsTEn.
Mr.. Robert Grant Confined by Admiral
MeIIo on IN War ship.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 27.-The Department OF
State is officially informed that Robert Grant.
United States consular agent at Desterro.
town on an island about 27O miles south OF
lilo, was taken prisoner 10y tho insurgents in
Brazil and confined on board man-ot-war.
Moreover, Mr. Grant is likely TO remain n pris-
oner for some time II the attainment OF his
liberty Is conditional upon any act Of this Cow
eminent The consular agent is not an Amer
lean citizen. so that 1t Is difficult to geo any
reasonable pretext for Interference by our
Government.
The immunites OF consular agent are even
less than those OF n Consul, which do not COM
pare with tho immunitics OF diplomatic OIL
GERS: and even were Mr.. Grant an American
citizen, IL would not DO easy To secure his re-
lease II 1t should appear that he had been
meddling without warrant and unoihcially in
brazilian affairs.
Ii further complicated the situation and
diminishes the consular agents chances Of
speedy release that any peaceful move made
by this Government in that direction might bs
regarded as recognition OF the h"lIlSerancy
OF MellO. while II the attempt We're made TO
deal fOrcihly with the rebel Admiral no must
first ha denounced As n pirate, ami 1t Is not ex-
pedient 10 commit the uItel states Govern
ment 10 either Of the~" courses Mt preSout
When the status IT affairs in Brazil becomes
more clearly defined, however. II Is probable
that our Government vii take some action in
Grants behalf II lie is not sooner released.
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DYNAMITE Nv DUBLfM.
A Revival OF Outrage- Causes Much AnSietT
in the CIV.

Dublin. Nov. PA tin hoV filled with some
thing resembling gunpowder was found yes
terduy morning inside tho Aldborough bar
racks fuse attached to a cap was connected
with the Powder This fuse had the appear.
nnce OF having been lit and extinCuished.
The BOX weighed n pound
An explosion supposed TO havo boon OF dyn-
amite occurred this morning in Tyrone street
No damage was DONE A compositor named
sheridan and Patrick Reid were arrested later
on suspicion. bulky object was seen pro-
truding from ono Of Sheridan's pockets. and.
upon examination. 1t was found that lie had In
his possession case containing six detonators
OF the thickness u quill.
Each was an inch long and had screw at
tachcd for ignition purposes. The case al so
contained n quantity Of illuminate OF mercury
Reid was released.
Tho police have received warning that at.
tcmpts will DO made to blow up public build
ings in Dublin and Belfast. 1t Is apparent that
the authorities are uneasy
Three men fought this evening in a lonely
street. One Of them drew n revolver and fired.
and Patrick Reid. who had boon arrested in
the morning. foil dead with n bullet in his
heart. The other two men ran away.
LONDON. Nov 2G-Thc general belief here IA
that the gang answcrablo for the dynamite
outrages feared that Reid might diyulge their
secrets.
LONDON, Nov. 2S-Despatches received early
this morning from Dublin say that tho police
guards have been doubled throughout the
city. Orders have boon photographed to the
police OF all irish and English ports to watch
for
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SORRY he PUNISHED HER.
VIII Let Hts seventeen-year-oid Dnusbter
Receive Company " she VIII Return.

Annie Bower a seventeen-ysar- old girl who
lived with her parents and FIVE brothers and
sisters at 204 Troutman street Brooklyn. left
her home n week ago last Sunday.
Her family are very much concerned as to
her whereabouts. She has blue eyes. n shape
ly figure. and winning manners. Her father.
John Bower. is q hard working mechanic and
strict man.
When. backed up by her mother. she asked
him II she might receive company on Sunday
evenings In the front parlor. he denied her re-
quest Annie is an independent girl. inherit
ing that trait from her father.
When her request was vetoed she said moth
ing and seemed to accept the situation re-
sRnedly.
She had always been dutiiul daughter. and
was usually in her room and In bed not later
than o'clock. one night however. she
stayed out after supper until near midnight.
Mr. Bower could hardly contain HIMSELF What
happened can be best related ia Mr. bowers
II was very angry, said he last evening. AS
been such dear. good girl that the sudden
turn In her actions puzzled me At nrst Then.
per. and thought / would have to teach
her a lesson when she did come home
asleep asleep, several times heard whispers at the
ter talking with u young man IL hastily babe
her good night when appeared and she on
tered the house. l did nothing rashly. and
Annie, you have rashly mlsbohaved. and
you will have to suffer n chastlsement.'
'She answered. as che stood in the centre OF
the room looking ike queen:
Father. / am a woman now and | will re-
celve the attention OF young men. and you
cannot prevent it,
do was too much. and. grabbing a small
leather strap that l have always had In the
house to punish the children with. | laid her
across my knee and gave her good old
fashioned spanking. She did not resist, but
said when took hold OF her:
Father. this is an insult that 1 cannot
II did not hurt my child; in deed did not.
The blows were light. | gave her a short lec-
ture when | was through. aud without saying
q word she retired. The next morning. when
we arose she had departed ! am con-
vinced now that the girl was right, and
wish she would come back. would willingly
allow her to receive company in our rarlOr.
and can see. now that 1t Is too late. that she
was right We have not heard anything OF
her. although we have hunted high and Tow,
and we are almost in despair OF ever seeing her
again
Mr. Bower said in conclusion. that he hoped
this would be an example Tor other severe
parents to profit by.