The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-10-07
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The ex-Empress Eugene IL god
mother to 1854 children, who were born
On March l6, 1856, the day Of the birth
Of her son, the Prince Imperial.
The first volume Of the Irish Library
has been issued in Dublin. 1t is en-
titled 1.-THE Patriot Parliament Of 1882
and was written by Thomas Davis with
q historical introduction by Sir Charles
Gavan Duffy.
Yelephonemeter is the new word nam.
ing an instrument to register the time
of each conversation at the telephone
from the time of ringing up the exchange
to the ringing off signal. Such system
would reduce rentals of telephones to q
scale according to service, instead of a
fixed charge to business firm or occa
sional user.
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Mr.. Thomas Tough, NJ. r., is one Of
the few 1rishmen who Sit for an English
constituency. Although an FISHERMAN,
he is an extreme Radical and Home
Ruler. The last thought that would
find an entrance into his head, he de-
claree, is to imagine for a moment that
religious aoimoslty would for al instant
tiud place in a self governed Ireland.
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The statue of General Shields by Volk,
now On exhibition in the Illinois State
Building at the Worlds Fair, has been
bought by the state to be gift to the
United States government. General
Shields once represented Illinois in the
Senate. the statue, which is of heroic
size, will be placed in Statuary Hall at
the Capitol. The prlcs paid the sculp-
tor was $4,000.
It has been announced that the pres
entation of the Passion Play at Eldor-
ado, on Jersey Heights, N. j., is again in
contemplation. It is scarcely probable
that it will be carried out, as the public
opinion which prevented Salmi Morse
from producing the same play in New
York city, even after all arrangements
for it had been made, is as pronounced
and as powerful to-day as ever.
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Sir Thomas Esmonde, the chief Ma
tionalist whip, has recently received
from gentleman, one of q hunting party
on the east coast of Africa, black buck,
with request that it might be presented
to MIR. Gladstone as from an admirer.
Accordingly, the young Irish baronet
forwarded couple of launches of veni-
son to the premier at Downing street,
and has received in return letter of ac-
acknowledgement expressing sincere thanks.
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Some of the positions held by Ameri-
can woman are indeed curious. For in
stance, in Buffalo woman runs q street.
cleaning bureau, in Kansas city d woman
is at the head of the fire department.,
Louisville lady makes special shopping
expeditions to Paris, another in New
York makes fat furnishing a business,
still another in New Hampshire is presi-
dent of the street railway company,
while Chicago hes a woman embalmer.
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The Earl OF Aberdeen, governor-gene-
raj of Canada, and President Cleveland,
both great fishermen, will be asked to
become honorary presidents of the In
ternational Anglers Association, which
was formed at Niagara during the re-
cent celebration of the birth of Izaak
Walton. At this celebration a COMPETE
ton in the telling of fish stores was
held, and the prize was awarded to
James Pringle, of Toronto, one of the
oldest and most skilled anglers in
Canada.
Another Biblical manuscript of great
interest to scholars has been brought to
this country by Rev. William Scott
Watson, Of Tower Hill, N. j. It is a.
codex of the Samaritan Pentateuch.
which he discovered in Palestine. It
gives the Hebrew text of the Eve books
of Moses in the old Samaritan character
on five hundred and thirty-eight pages
of parchment and eleven pages of paper.
This manuscript, which is unique in
America, is one hundred and twenty-four
years older than the earliest dated
Samaritan manuscript in the British
Museum.
Rev. Henry N. Field. editor Of the
New York Evangelist, paid the following
tribute at the parliament of religions
to the Catholic Church: 'When I went
across the ocean, I thought Roman
Catholic was terrible person. When I
came to know the Roman Catholics.
however, found that I was q very Door