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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-12-08
QUEER FISH.

An East Indian Species That Goes About
on Dry Land.
During my military career, said Col
g. L. Fourtney, an ex-oficer OF the
British army" according to the St.
Louis Globe Democrat, II frequently
visited the East Indies and many
curious animal have / seen.
'sOf all these strange animals think
the most peculiar / ever came across
was fish which belonged to the perch
species and which is quite common in
that locality. These fish are in the
habit Of leaving the water for hours
at a time They wander about through
the grass and can live for a week in the
open air. Jugglers make use Of them
In the performance Of some Of their
curious exhibitions, which appeared to
be beyond the hope of a reasonable ex-
PLANTATION till science demonstrated
that these fishes have provision in
their structure for carrying water
enough to meet the demands of the cir
cnlation several days in succession
yvhill'e out Of the water. While wan
dering about on land they subsiEt on
the, Insects and worms which happen to
thin their reach b, = = 555
* 5S
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-12-08
What lis Electricity?

An anonymous writer in New Science
Review offers the following definition
for criticism: 1t would appear that
electricity is simply form or mani
festation that the one force better
spoken of as energy may assume I'M
der given conditions and generally
it is a mere transitory stage between
the mechanical form and the heat form.
In most operations mechanical force
passes to the heat form, but whenever
magnetism is brought into play as q re-
sistance that must be overcome, then
mechanical power applied to overcome
this resistance always becomes cleo
tricity, if only momentarily, in it's pas
sage from the mechanical to the heat
form. Can we not answer in a fairly
satisfactory way the question: What
is electricity" by saying that it is sim
ply form that energy may assume
while undergoing transformation from
the mechanical or the chemical form to
the heat form, or the reverse?
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-12-08
THE BEST MAN.

He Said He Was and Pat Came to the
Conclusion That He Was Right.
An Irish teamster asked for a half
holiday for the purpose OF attending
his sisters wedding, and the request
was granted, says the New York Mail
and Express. When he made his APP
pearance the next morning his right
arm was in sling, there was plaster
across his nose, and a raw oyster in q
poultice against his eye His left ear
looked like caulifower. "Why, Pat
said his employer, II thought yon were
going to your sisters wedding. You
look as though you had gone to a.
cyclone festival"
Il wor at tn weddin', sor,'' said Pat.
'''Twas tn thruth tould yez.'
"Well, now did you get bunged mp
this way?' inquired the merchant.
I'll tell yez, sor, replied Pat. Dye
see, wh1n ! got there and wint in tn
people were standin forninst the
priest. an be the side O thin WOE q
man in pintail coat: and 81 big, sphlat-:
term white shirt. tucked at I'M an
ne tucked at me- oh, no. SEE / TILL
myself, SEE /, an ye think yer jewd.
N'uth thot got wee bit closer an
tucked at UNI vance moore. He gave
{. twist till his lip like, an turned his
back. No Gallagher. ever took that
SCI I till myself agin, an taps me lad
diebuck ON the showlder. 4
"'An' who may yez be, me bould
buclzoo? SEE I, feelin' that the blood Of
the Ga]laghers had been insulted, !
s''I'ln the best mon,' seq he.
9TH best nlon?' seq !.
""rhot's what I said says he, the
best n1on,' and, sor," said Pat as he
shifted the oyster on his eye, ''he
,vuz'
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-12-08
SAVED HIS BURNING SHIP.
An American Captains Novel Plan FOR
Saving Vessel and Cargo.

An american Captains Novel Plan for
Saving Vessel and Cargo.
One of the most brilliant pieces of
communicating seamanship OH record,
whereby the vessel, far out in the At
lantic, with her cargo on fire, was
saved and brought safely to port, was
performed on board the American ship
John Jay, commanded by Capt Samuel
Jackson, says Harper's Young People.
When two weeks out the cargo was
discovered to be on fire. The captain
determined upon his course Of action.
He had the carpenter lowered over the
rail and instructed him to bore several
holes low down by the water line. The
vessel was then put on the other tack
so that she would be heelcd over on
the sides where the holes had been
made. The water shot through these
openings, and after the ship had been
allowed to sink almost to the level of
the deck she was put around on the
other tack again. SO that the holes
came within two Or three feet of the
top of the water. Several OF the sail
ors, with lines made fast under their
arms, and holding long wooden pegs
and hammers, slid down along the side,
steadying themselves by ropes. that had
been passed under the vessel and
hauled taut, so that they came along
side of the holes. The tapering pins
were thrust into the openings and
knocked tight, then the vessel was put
before the wind to get an even keel,
and the crew turned to and pumped
her ont
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-12-08
/. LAND VACCINATION.
Interesting Experiments Made In Traces
and Germany.

Interesting Experiments Made In Traces
and Germany.
One of the strangest things in recent
science has to do with the vaccine
ton of land. Everyone knows, says
the Philadelphia Press. that itenriches,
instead of impoverishes, a field to plant
clover or lucerne, the roots of which
have a power Of absorbing and retains
ing more nitrogen than they take from
the ground. But where the nitrogen
comes from is another matter The
air suggested itself at once when peo-
pie began to study the problem: and
Messrs. Lawes and Gilbert, among
others, spent many months IN f1'ultiess
endeayors to trace the source to the
air, coming at last to negative cor-
clusion The discovery was eventually
made by Herren Hellriegel and Wilt
fart1, of Germany, that the absorb
ton was due to minute organisms "a
sort of disease) in the roots, which.
when the supply of nitrogen
in the soil began to fail, ap-
peared in the form of small ex-
crescences, drew nitrogen from the
air, and SO caused the enrichment.
When this had once been settled.
it became a matter of Importance to
foster, and, if possible, hasten the
growth of the disease in the fields
sown with ]eguminousae, and extern
sive experiments have been made in
France and Germany with this object.
Fields have been literally ''vaccinated";
by sprinkling over them soil in which
tuberculous crops have been grown, OF
even water in which they have been;
soaked. In 1890 tract Of old peaty,
land was sown with clover, and vae~i
cinated with about one and a half tons
to the acre Of an old clover field.
Scarcely any other manure at all was
used. A more convincing experiment.;
still was performed in Prussia, whereI
a large field was sown with lupins and
divided, one part being treated i'll the
ordinary fashion, the other inocu]ated:
from an old lupin crop. The yield in
the latter part was five and a half times.
as great as that under the normal
treatment. A remarkable point in;
these operations is that each variety OF
the leQuminousae has its characteristic
microbe, and that it is no use inoculat~i
ing field Of clover, for instance, with:
lucerne, or Of lupin with clover.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-12-08
A Fatal Ring.

Queen Christina of Spain recently
presented to Our Lady of Almudeada a
valuable opal ring that belonged to her
late husband, Alfonso XII. Alfonso
gave the ring to his first wife, Queen
Mercedes, just before her sudden death;
1t then went to the kings grandmother,
old Queen Christina, the mother OF
Isabella H. She died two months after
receiving the ring and left It to Mer-
cedes' sister, Maria del Pillar, daughter
of the Duke Of Montpensier, who also
died after few months, as did also her
sister Christina, who inherited the ring
from her. Alfonso then determined
that no one else should wear the fatal
opal, and took It himself; within two
months he was buried. This story is
believed in Spain; SO to prevent fur
ther harm the queen has given It to 81 the
Virgin. Il i. 3s$
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-12-08
A HISTORIC ACWpAH.
The Indian Government Reducing the
Nn,nhar az It's Trained EIenhanta.

The Indian Government Reducing the
Number OF Its Trained Elephants
The order has gone forth to break up
known as the "Howdah Khana' AL
ready the roll Of government elephants
in all India has been reduced to be-
tween two hundred and three hundred
instead of one thousand at which it
lately stood in North India alone, says
the Westminster Budget
AS railways penetrate the great
fighting frontier districts, elephants,
which still, as in the days of Alexander
the Great, are scared in battle, are be-
ing less and less used to drag the
heavy batteries. Mules are preferred
for mountain warfare. Even native
princes are content with one elephant
or SO, where formerly they kept q
score. The Scotsman remarks that
state ceremonials and professions are
no longer what they were up to John
Lawrence's time, when even that sim
plicity-loving viceroy held the grandest
of all dunbars at Agra, around and
near the Tai Mahal, ...
Only the governor generals silver
howdah is to be kept there, and one or
two state elephants That historic
howdah was furnished up under the
artistic arrangements Of Lady Canning
for her husbands viceregal progress
after the mutiny. It has been used by
almost every British ruler in India
since the first Warren Hastings.
Around it circle the memoirs Of more
than q century's wars and pageants;
but even that has become q victim to
the deprecated rupee and the irresist-
ible railway.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-12-08
A TINY MOONS INHABITANTS,
AS Viewed in Comparison with the Beings
of This World.

AS Viewed in Comparison with the Beings
of This World.
In an installment of this department,
says writer in the St. Louis Republic,
during the first half of the past year
gave some curious figures on the prob
able height and weight of the inhab-
itants of the larger planets, basing the
calcula tions on ratios deduced from
comparison with the representative
specimens of the human family>on this
earth. Taking some of the smaller
planets and satellites and using SINH
lar ratios, we get an equally interest
ing set of figures.
Let us take the inner moon OF Mars
as All illustration of this point. 1t is
named Phobos, and is a tiny satellite
only eight miles in diameter. Let us
suppose that everything on our earth
(which is nearly 1000 times larger than
the little Phobian planet) is to be
found on the surface Of this miniature
moon. reduced proportionately. We
find, to begin with, that q terrestrial
man Of feet, if transferred to Pho]oos,
would be .O72 of an inch in height. A
good microscope would be necessary to
determine the true shape and form of
this speck Of humanity, and it would
be wholly invisible to the unaided eye
at distance of three feet. A ship of
the dimensions of the Great Eastern
would be but ~ inches in length if re-
duced to the Phobian standard, and a
duck pond would be "fathomless
ocean" to the liliputian Inhabitants Of
this Marsian satellite. A whale would
be as small as a cheese mite, and q real
sea serpent, which would be terror to
the Phobian mariner, would be like a
section of a hair worm fve-eighthsof an
inch in length. The largest rivers cam
not be more than a. few feet in breadth
and not more than two inches III depth
A railway train like the "Chicago
flyer could be carried in an earthly
card case, and city the size of New
York could be covered with blankets!
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-12-08
QUEEN WiL.HELMiNA'S JOKE.
Her Majesty OF Holland Has Some Fun
the Expense OF Her Governcss.

Her Majesty OF Holland Has Some Fun ah.
the Expense OF Her Governcss.
The Figaro tells a rather amusing
story about the twclve-y ear-old young
Queen Wilhelmina Of Holland, preface
ing it's narration by the statement that
the alarming news which was circu~
lated concerning the health Of her
majesty in August last is quite uncon-
frned, and saying that the story in
question is proof Of the good spirits of
the young queen.
The governess % her majesty, an
English lady, Miss Saxton Winter, had
given the little queen, as an extra task,
the drawing and coloring Of a map OF,
Europe because she had not known her!
lesson in Turkish and Chinese geogra~i
ply as well as the governess dee1nedl
she ought to have done. The queen,
agreed to do the extra task imposedl
upon her, saying: VERY we'll; will
do the map, because meant to be obe-!
dent But--you will see"
In due course the map was drawn1
and colored and handed to the COVER!
ness. The young queen had made the
British Isles very small about the SIZE
of the Balearic islands, and had COW
cred them with ,''London fog" colored'
paint But Holland, on the contrary,
was of enormous size, occupying a,
large part Of that space which IN ordi-
nary maps is sea- This immense tract
of land was glorifed in the most bril-
liant colors. Miss Saxton Winter!
laughed. The young queen was de-,
lighted with her joke and the map was
nassad ro11nd the court
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-12-08
YANKEE VILLAGERS
Deluded by Rascaiiy Travelling Dentists
into Buying Sets Of False MoAars.

into Buying Sets OF False Molars.
'There is many New England viii
lage in which you will hardly find a
natural TOOTH said q dental surgeon
to a Washington Star writer, THAT
is to say, not an adult inhabjtant will
possess any teeth Of his own. All Of
the grown-up people wear false teeth.
This rather odd state of affairs is due
TO the operations OF certain unscrupu-
lous persons who go about the country
with false ueeth for sale. One of these
fellows will 60 through village and
literally pull every tooth III the place.
To take the places of the teeth ex~
tracted he offers artificial sets at eight
dollars. In rural parts, for obvious
reasons, people very commonly suffer
from toothache. The malady is dis
tressing, and the customary way TO get
rid of it is to have the tooth drawn.
No dentist is at hand to restore the al
hicted grinder to q healthy condition
by filling. The peripatetic quach comes
along with his forceps and offers to
give final and permanent relief from
all such suffering in future. For the
small sum Of eight dollars he will re-
move all the natural teeth from GUS
TONER'S head and substitute for chem
an artificial set Of much better appear
ance, which will never cause any pain
to the wearer. BY this attractive offer
the people are deluded into parting
with the chewing apparatus with
which nature has furnished them, and
the result is toothless population
AS you are probably aware, tooth pull
ing is rarely resorted to by good dem
fist, inasmuch as it must be an ex-
traordinarily bad tooth that cannot be
fixed up so as to be better than any
false one"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-12-08
Hard to Say.

Even in the present age of enlight-
enment and progress, there are al.
ways people who are not as fully in
formed as they desire to be. An
American who had spent much Of his
time among the Indians Of this coun.
try, found himself, during visit to
England, seated at table next a
genial and talkative woman, who
seemed thirsting to hear Of al his
thrilling experiences. "And now
about wigwams," she said, anxiously,
at one point of the narrative with
which he was endeavoring to entertain
her; ''are they SO cery venomous, or
have read exaggerated reports?" 81
have never known" the traveller says,
what she thought she was talking
about, or what in my confusion l said
in rep1y."-Youth's Companion.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-12-08
Eminent Men Partially Blind.

Four Of the most eminent men in
Europe are at the present time suffer
ing from partial blindness. In all cases
the nature Of the ailment is the same,
namely, cataract. Mr.. Gladstone has
had several operations performed upon
one of his eyes. The other eye is still
sound enough to enable him to read
and write. Sir William Harcourt's eyes
are both much obscured, and must
soon have relief or be altogether dark
ened. M. Jules Simon is in like
plight, and Sig. Crispi. in whose case
the ailment has not proceeded quite 90
far as in the others, has already sought
the services Of 8 skilled oculist.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-12-08
a STUFFED EMPEROR.
valerian. Conquered by the Persians, Was
Put to Queer Use In Diplomacy.

Valerian, Conquered by the Persians, was
Put to Queer Use In Diplomacy.
The art of taxidermy is now prac-
ticed by thousands Of naturalists and
ornithologists, and many sportsmen
have become so adept at it that they
are no longer obliged to send the
specimens which they wish to have
preserved to professional, but can
prepare and mount them themselves in
che way they wish to have them, and
in this way many amateurs have Sc
cured most valuable collections, serv-
ing as excellent souvenirs of many a
delightful days shooting, and many an
exciting hunting adventure.
One of the most remarkable stuffed
skins on record was that of Valerian,
emperor of Rome, who was taken pris-
oner and afterward kept in chains by
Sapo-, king of Persia. He was either
killed in tunlult, or by order of his
conqueror, who was perhaps fearful OF
losing his valuable living trophy. in the
year 369. The body of the dead Roman
emperor was treated with no more
delicacy than when it had held the inn
mortal spark Of a living one. 1t was
skinned the hide, after being tanned,
was stuffed, painted red and suspended
in the chief temple Of the capital. 1t
remained here for many years, and
was the popular spectacle for holiday
makers and visitors from the country.
But it was put TO more important
ends than this; it was made a diplomat
ic engine of much significance and
efficiency. In after times it often hap
pened that the Roman ENJOYS at the
Persian court had Misunderstanding
more or less serious, with the govern
ment to which they were temporarily
accredited. When these ambassadors
FROM Rome grew arrogant in their de-
mands it was the custom to conduct
them into the presence of the stuffed
skin of the old ex-emperor Of Rome,
where they were asked if humility did
not become them at sight of such a
spectacle,
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-12-08
4 FAHYAH MAGICIAN.
He Walks Straight Up the Air for Some
Hundreds Of Feet.

He Walks Straight Up the Air FOR Some
Hundreds Of Feet.
A theatrical manager and actor, who
has travelled all over Asia, Africa and
Europe, tells tie following wonderful
story of Fahyah magician, who
walked straight up through the air to
height of several hundred feet
The Fahyahs are the greatest NEGRO
mancers, hypnotists and nagicians OF
the world, and arelsupposed to be de-
scendants of the old mijas Of Biblical
lore.
Zone of their principal feats is that
of walking upward through the air to
a considerable height. The Fahyah
who performs this startling feat first
lies fat on the earth, face downward,
for minute or minute and half.
He then rises quickly, and, placing
his arms tightly against his sides, de-
liberately walks right up into the air as
high as his powers Of endurance will
permit. When his strength is exhaust
ed by treading thin ether, he simply
stops usually at height Of two hum
dred and fifty to four hundred feet,
waves his arms wildly time or two
and then begins to descend. One who
sees this startling feat performed will
agree with me that it is q difficult
matter to believe ones eyes, and shake
off the idea that miracle has not
been enacted.
Zone who is not satisfied with the
'air-walking feat may hold coin IN
his hand while Fahyah mutters over It
and then open his fingers and find the
coin gone and a Shiny serpent in Its
s,Iane''
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-12-08
Deriding Terms.

'Wojen," the opprobrious epithet;
which the Chinese apply to the Japs,:
belongs to an interesting class OF names
bestowed upon nations by.m or less
unfriendly neighbors. Such names
are found in all parts of Europe. The
name Welsh is merely the Teutonic for
foreign people, and in America the
people who called themselves DakotahlsI
were known to their neighbors, the|
|Ojibways, as Sioux or enemies. : e u
said that the word Esquimaux is a|
French corruption Of the Chippewa or11
Cree phrase Ushkiumoog, Or raW-t y y
eaters. z sss
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-12-08
Bothersome Names.

In the course of an address recently
Gen. Lee told very funny anecdote OF
himself. He said that New York tele-
graph operator spoke to Washington
operator over the wire. asking if Fitz
Low was in the city. The operator at
the national capital did not know
whom the metropolitan was talking
about, but after puzzllng his brains
said: There's no one here named
Fitz Low, but Fitz Lee is in town. :
The Gotham key manipulation promptly
photographed back: BLAST those China
men; / never could keep their names ''
straight"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-12-08
PuNs FROM THE PEN.
Joy Not UDconfined, Hut 1t Hath . Merry
Ring Nevertheless.


Ring Nevertheless.
Conyicts in the Illinois penitentiary
publish paper called Up to Date, and
that its editors have the faculty Of be-
ing jolly under adverse circumstances
the following paragraphs will attest:
Excuse haste and a bad PEN as the
convict said when he escaped by aid OF
a loose stone in the wall
No Annie! the fact that nearly every
prove that most Of the prisoners are
Irish.
''Great Scott!:' exclaimed the new ar
rival as he sat in his cell the first night,
seven the flies in the penitentiary wear
stripes
Prisoners are hereby notified that,
although winter is coming, they are
still prohibited from getting on
''skates."
Glow do you feel?' asked the old
timer of the new man, as he entered
the cell after his first days work in
the stoneyard,
every rocky, was the relevant an
swer.
S-s-s-tl Rah! Boombardedee!
We are the boys of the l. S. P.
Every educational institution in the
world has it's yell and we're not go
ing to be left out; we'll have yell"
even if we can't use it.
The members Of the pioneer club for
women in London, to which all the lad
vanced" women belong, are known by
numbers instead of names.-Cincinnat
Enquirer. We don't wish to rob the
Pioneer club Of any of it's laurels, but
there are sixty advanced" women not
more than four flights from our Office
who are associa ting under similar coz
ditions.
Misses Ara and Mollie KEGS, young
ladies aged eighteen and twenty, have
started paper at Grayson, KY. It is
called the Eastern Kentucky Repub-
ican. and as the young ladies state that
they ''can set up the paper each week, !"
they feel justified in their venture.
Jokes about making up the form being
barred, we will simply remark that
having the Kees they are out for the
quoin. We wish the girls success.
we trust the older members OF the
fraternity will not deem us too insig-
nifcant to exchange with. We know
that we are young, we were born that
way, but we are striving daily to over
come this fault, and not without ap-
parent success. We fully appreciate
the fact that, as yet, we are simply
skirmishing around the outskirts of
newspaperdom, but if earnest work and
fair play can accomplish it, we mean to
push on until we fling our banner to
the winds from. the acropolis.