The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-04-21
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Bismarck's eyebrows are an inch high
and are trimmed every few weeks.to pre-
vent their becoming unpleasantly heavy.
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Has any honest, earnest attempt been
made to secure the capture Of Menage
or is all this talk in that direction farce
used to project the 1ascal7
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Queen Victoria has wholesome dread
Of fire. Whenever she goes abroad she
always has couple Of fire extinguishers
sent out in advance and fitted up in the
house where she will reside.
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Senators German, of Maryland, and
Irby, Of South Carolina, are the base bali
cranks Of the Senate Both are old play
ers and both won great reputation at the
game. German used to be pitcher and
Irby was first base and captain of a team
that never lost game. .-
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In Kingman, Kan, there is local Or,
dinance forbidding minors to appear on
the street after eight p. m. unless they
can furnish satisfactory excuse for SC
doing. It is riRidly enforced, too, and
all the growing youths are up in arme
about it. (
Father Walter, who died in Washing
ton last week, recently spoke in bitter
denunciation Of ~Apaism, declaring thas
although his grandfather fought in the
revolution, ':When am stirred over thif
bigotry, I sometimes wish he hadn'.
fred shot
Insects generally breathe through
special pores in various parts OF theiz
body, and it these pores are closed by
oil, they are suffocated. Any one may
test this by dropping sweet oil on the
thorax or back OF wasp; it very soon
dies. For this reason oil has been founo
one Of the best things to use for the de-
struction of insects.
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The Irish language still fingers in the
Bahamas among the mixed descendant t.
of the Hibernian slaves banished by
Cromwell to the West Indies. One cal
occasionally hear, it is said, black sailors
in the London docks who cannot speak &
word of English talking IRISH to the old
apple women whom they meet and thus
making themselves intelligibly under
stood without knowledge of the Saxon
t ngue.
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A railroad through Mexico, Central
America and South America, to Terra de-
Fuego, is projected. The beginning OF
the line will be at point In Mexico
which will make the new line continuous
with the existing system in that country
and the United States. Thus the com
pletion of the road will enable passenger
to go by rail all the way from Canada al
most TO the very borders of the vast and.
bare South American region known al
Patagonia.
A hunter in Michigan who discovdFe<5
bee-tree recently and removed from il
four barrels of honey in which there was
no comb, had remarkable experience
but it did not equal that Of some n es;
who were digging we'll at Live Oak.
Fla, and found about ten feet below thu
surface of the ground tree that wa
petrifed only on the outside. The trdnl
was split open and the inside was founo
to be filed with honey, which had been
shut up in the tree for many years.
When an asphyxiated patient, who hat2
been overcome by escaping gas, was dy
ing recently at the Long island College
Hospital, and it was known that only: az,
immediate TRANSMISSION of blood woulc
save her, DR.. Franklin Kemp, the house
surgeon, at once barred his arm that his
blood might immediately be putinto thu
veins Of the humble woman. Older ply
sicians warned him against possible,
risk of life, but he would not be dissua~
ded. His sacrifice prolonged life only
twelve hours, but that circumstance d..
minished not q whit the credit due T.,
heroism.
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The oldest Christian fan in existence,
dates, it is claimed, from the sixth cen~
fury, having belonged to Queen Theods-
linda, the princess who possessed ma.
of the holy cross, which afterwards We
set in the iron crown Of Lombardy. TIE
fan is preserved in the castle of Mon7a:
near Milan, and shown to the tourist OF
a relic. 1t is folded fan made in two
leaves, which shut on each other by
means of q spring. It is gilded and, Or
namented with pearls and rubies, ans
bears traces of a Latin prayer. The han~
die is of solid gold, inlaid with gems