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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-01-27
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CLUMSY DANCERS.
The ksi0er Forced to Bar Them at lun-
porial Entertainments.

The Ksiser Forced 10 Bar T,em 1t I'M
psrial Entertainments. #
Clumsiness in dancing has for . long
time been regarded as most unpar-
donable SIN at the various royal and
imperial courts Of Europe, where the
highly-polished and parquetted floors
Of tho palaces and the spurs which
form part and parcel of every full
dress uniform render Waiting mat
ter Of some danger. At Berlin acci-
dents of this character are said by
Vogue to have been SO frequent until q
year ago that shortly after Christmas
Emperor William summoned the gen
eral commanding the various troops
stationed in and around Berlin and in
structed him to direct those officers
who were not able to dance properly to
abstain from attempting to do SO at
imperial entertainments. Since then
young officers are put through their
PAGES by their seniors and are obliged
to display certain proficiency in pas
souls around the messroom billiard
table before being allowed to dance at
court. On one occasion-a court ball
at Berlin-a young cavalry subaltern
incurred the anger Of the late Prince
Frederick Charles by tripping up
his partner. The prince assailed the
young officer so bitterly that the late
Emperor Frederick, then only crown
prince, was obliged to intervene. At
the Viennese court, young secretary
of the Roumanian legation once fell SO
unfortunately while dancing with one
of the archduchesses that he came
down in sitting position on her face,
causing her Hapsburg nose to bleed.
1t is scarcely necessary to add that he
left Vienna the next day, and, a
week later, obtained his transfer to,
another post. The duke of Apsta,
broke his ankle last winter while
waltzing at ball given at Rome by
the popular Nine. lie Glait, the wife of
the Belgian minister at Washington,
and, few weeks before the tragedy at
Meyerling, the now widowed Crown
Princess Stephanie had a nasty fall,
due to the gsucherie of a cavalry Off
Ger with whom she was Waiting. EN-
peror Francis Joseph was much an
noyed, and so, too, was the late Crown
Prince Rudolph, who spoke his mind
in no measured terms to the culprit
Far more polite was Emperor Ma
poleon I'LL, when at a Tuileries ball, a
middle-aged officer and his fair part
ner came to grief AS the mortified
lancer scrambled to his feet, the en-
peror kindly extended a hand to help
him and, turning to the lady, remarked:
Madam, this is the second time that I
have seen the colonel fall; the first
time it was on the battle field Of Ma
Penta''
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-01-27
Photographic q Train.

SAT way station the other day.
said a traveller. II saw an amateur
photographer photograph the train. I
dare say this has been done a million
times before, but had never happened
to see it. When the photographer was
through, he waved his hand as he
might have done to single sitter to
let him know that he could get up and
stretch his legs. In this case the en-
gineer was practically the sitter. and
when the photographer waved his
hand he opened the throttle and
snaked the train out of that big open
air studio almost before the photog-
rapher had had time to turn around. -
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-01-27
a GREAT BEAR HUNTER.
Five Hundred Of the Animals Slain By
Gen. Wade Hampton.

tive Hundred OF the Animals Sl8ln ~
Gen. Wade Hampton.
Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt, in his evil
derness Hunter" speaks OF Gen. Wade
Hampton, of South Carolina, as the
man who, with horse and hound, has
been the mightiest hunter America has
ever seen" His special game has been
bear and deer, but he has also had tho
fortune to kill some sixteen cougars
the panther of the east, the mountain
lion of the west. and the lion and puma
of South America. OF black beers, &C.
cording to Mr.. Roosevelt, he has prob
ably killed more than any other man
living in the United States. Thirty or
forty of these he has killed with the
knife.
His plan was, when he found that
the dogs had the bear at bay, to walk
up close and cheer them on. They
would Instantly seize the bear in g.
body, and he would then rush in and
stab it behind the shoulder, reaching
over so as to inflict the wound on the
opposite side from that where he stood
He escaped scathless from all these
encounters save one, in which he was
rather severely torn in the forearm.
Many other hunters have used the
knife, but perhaps none so frequently.
Gen. Hampton always hunted with
large packs of hounds, managed some
times by himself and sometimes by his
negro hunters. He occasionally took
out forty dogs at a time. He found
that all his dogs together could not
kill big, TAT bear, but they occasion
ally killed three-year-olds, or lean and
poor bears.
During the course Of his life he has
himself killed, or been in at the death
of, FIVE hundred bears, of which at
least two-thirds have fallen by his own
hands. In the years just before the
war he had on one occasion, in Missis-
sippi, killed sixty-eight bears in five
months. Once he killed four bears in
a day; at another time three, and fire.
quently two.
The two largest bears he himself
killed weighed respectively four hun
dred and eight and four hundred and
ten pounds. Most of his hunting for
bears was done in northern Mississippi,
where he had plantation.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-01-27
VARIETIES I, or CURRENCY.
-. Circulation Of Paper Money u This
country and In Europe.

- Circulation Of Paper Money U THIS
Country and In Europe.
Almost. If not quite, all civilized
:aountries use paper money to facilitate
inavments within their own jurisdic-
ZION. says the St. Louis Globe-D Demo
crat The United States use paper
money to a greater extent than any
other country. and in notes of smaller
denomination than any other country
of equal Importance.
All of our paper bills except the gold
certificates are in the denominations
of 81, 81, IS, $40, $40, $50, 800, $500 and
81 900; our gold certificates do not ap-
pear in denominations less than $40.
The Dominion Of Canada issues 81 and
50 notes, and various banks issue notes
varying from IS TO $1,000. Mexico is
sues paper money of 10 pesos and up
ward, and the South American states
issue paper, of similar denominations
. The Rank of England issues, all. Eng
lish notes in denominations of e5, e1o,
ego, ESQ, 4100, E20O, $500, e5OO and
1000. The banks of Scotland and Ire
land issue notes of 81 and upward.
The Bank Of France issues notes for
$50 francs, 100, 200, 500 and 1000 francs.
The Bank of Belgium issues notes of
20 francs and upward. Italian banks
issue notes of 1 lire and upward to
1000 lire. The Bank of Germany puts
cut notes for marks and upward to
1000 marks. Austria issues notes of
! gulden and upward.
Russia is the only European country
which issues government notes, it's pa
per money being of the denomination
OF ruble and upward. Sweden, Nor
way and Denmark issue by their banks
notes for krone, 10, rs, so and 100
krone. India does not issue paper
money, nor does China now. Japan
provides paper money of yen. O. S, 10,
20 and 100 yens, and the other coun-
tries, as rule, issue paper money, the
lowest denomination of which is usual
~ ten times the value of the coin unit
~ value
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-01-27
To California Without Change.

The Minneapolis & st. Louis Railway
has iuaugurated Tourist Pullman Car
service from st. Paul and Minneapolis
to San Francisco, Lathrop, Los Angeles,
and intermediate points, via Kansas
City, Denver, Salt Lake, Ogden and Sac
ramento. The car is attached to train
leaving st. Paul, $50, Minneapolis, 1925
q. M, each Thursday, and through car
will also start from Albert Lea, Mimi,
each Tuesday, via Des Moines and
Omaha. The berths are completely fur
nished, and the car is provided with
colored porter, who gives you the same
attention as though you were in palace
sleeper. There is also provided cook
ing range, which is at the service Of all
patrons. as we'll as two commodious Law
atories. These excursions are known as
the Phillips-Albert Lea Route personally
conducted excursions, and ere gaining
wide popularity. Second-class tickets
are accepted for transportation, and the
charge made for through accommoda'
tions is but $3.50 per double berth which
can be shared by two persons. should
they desire to occupy the same berth.
Reservations should be made several
days in advance, and communications
addressed to nearest ticket agent, or G.
M. Pratt, General Ticket and Passenger
Agent, "Albert Lea Route" Minneapo-
lis. MINI.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-01-27
Plastic Marble.

In one account of Rome the author
mentions five or six slabs of plastic
marble as being in the possession of
Prince Borghese, Being set on end,
they bend backward and forward;
when laid horizontally and raised at
one end they form curve; If placed
on table and a piece Of wood or
any other substance is laid under them
they fall into a kind of curve, each
end touching the table. Able Forts
was told that they were dug UP
near the town of Mondragon. in the
kingdom of Naples The grain is like
that of fine Carrara marble, or perhaps
of the finest Greek. They seem to
have suffered some attack Of fire. A
slab of marble similar in every respect
to those described, and highly pol
ished, has been exhibited for more
than twenty-five years at the British
museum. M. Fleuvian de Belvae sue.
ceeded in making common granular
limestone, granular quartz, COM
pletely flexible by exposing to
o certain degree Of heat. In Lincoln
cathedral, England, there is an arch
built of white marble which is quite
elastic, yielding to a heavy tread, and
returning or rebounding to it's original
position on true elastic principles.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-01-27
Cured by Being Poisoned.

The latest instance Of crime bring
ing its own punishment comes, on the
authority of DR.. Leonard Guthrie. from
italy. An Italian woman had hus-
band and the husband had the dropsy.
But the dropsy did not work quickly
enough. The woman put toad into
her husbands wine to poison him.
But the poison which the toad's skin
secretes has an active principle phry-
nin-which much resembles digitalis,
which is the best possible remedy for
dropsy pending on heart disease. So,
instead Of killing her husband. she re-
stored him TO health.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-01-27
THE KIsH STAND ARD: SATURDAY, JANUARY n, z17zH
348gf9 ~ 4R4G1Ff7
NILESIAN .so'sn AND MACS"

MILEs1AN .'o'sn AND MACS
These Ancient Titles are Still Held in High
Respect Throughout Ireland.
The title .The,' still borne BY many
Irish gentlemen, 10 claimed 70 be the old
est one in Europe, meaning the chief
man Of the chief family Of the name, IL
though only . minority Of the present
ohieftsins are rich mon, says writer in
.Pearson's Weekly" The title does not
Of necessity 60 by primogeniture, q
younger brother being, on occasions Of
death in tho family, sometimes elected to
succeed to it.
The Right Hon. The O'Connor Don
dun, or brown) 10 large land owner
and Privy Councillor; The O'Donnsllan
Blske.F Foster (who assumed 'tBlake-Fos-
tor" on succeeding to property is one OF
the gentry Of Limerick, like The O Grady,
Of Kilballyowen (the church Of the town
of Eugene); The O'Donoughue (of the
Glens) owns 10000 year since the re-
cent death Of his father, The O'Donoug-
hue, ex. M. P. for Tralee.
The O'Gorman Mahon, NJ. p, de-
ceased, is succeeded by granddaughter;
The MacDermott, @. G., is bigwig Of
the Irish bar, and is entitled the Prince
of Coolsvin; The MscD ermott Roe (Red)
is Sligo landlord; and The MacGili-
cuddy of the Reeks is Kerry county
gentleman. Besides these, one Ivor
Guinness, of Points Pass, county
Armagh, looks with disdain at Lord
Ivesgh enjoying his lIvor MacGuinness)
title from Saxon sovereign.
But the Irish chieftains of minor es-
tates are almost as numerous rs the 9th
ers-The O'Kennedy, The Mclaughlin,
and the O'Cleary, ex-M. P. for Wexford,
being journalists. The McNamara is an
artisan in Philadelphia; The Mac Car
thy Nor (Grest) is newer in skibber-
cen, county Cork; The O'Hea is solioi-
tor; The O'Doherty is law-giver; and
The O'Reilly is young gentleman, who
unconscious of the wrath to come, is de-
liberately qualifying to be a journalist
Lord Viscount O'Neill, who owns Shane's
Castle county, Antrim, the keep OF Shan
O'Neill the Proud, who so utterly de-
feated Queen Elizabeth, claims to be the
O'Neill, the proudest of the Irish Ties;
The O'Connor Kerry is gentleman Of
private means; Sir Richard O'Donnell,
Bart. lays claim to be The O'Donnoll;
and the late Art (Arthur) MacMurrough
Kavanaugh, the armless and legless M.
P. and Privy Councillor, was the O'Kav-
anagh. On the other hand. Mr.. r. D.
Sullivan Bere, like many Of the chief
tains, never asserts the title; and several
OF the poorer chiefs are go democratic
that they sink their titles, save some
times in private letters.
1t is great discourtesy to address an
Irish chief as MIR" the mode of address
being the seemingly abrupt surname,
such as Eyes, O'Connor," "No, O'Don-
oughue." and so on. The signature is
the same as peers, "O'Reilly." eMacDer-
mott" etc. The description in lawyers
deeds is as thus: "Hugh MacDermott,
of Fitzwilliam Square, in the county of
the city of Dublin, Esq, @. c., COM
monty called The MacDermott, Prince
Of Coolavin, chief Of his race" Marshal
MacMahon, just deceased, was The Mac
Mahon, and very proud of the fact was
the veteran last Marshal of France.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-01-27
Privacy Of european Homes.

The Spaniard, however courteous he
may be, never invites . guest to din
ner; in Italy, too, the privacy Of the
family is seldom invaded ct the dinner
hour; the Frenchman is delighted to
entertain, but prefers to do it at his
club, while the Englishman Is never
20 genial ~ when seated at his own
tAbls III ~ az him.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-01-27
Good Thing for Wssps.

Mr.. Lawson TAFT, the wellknown
English surgeon, says that the sugar
in certain fruits becomes changed into
alcohol during the process of decay
and that wasps sometimes get very
drunk thereon. On grapes and GER
tain plums, he says, ''you will see them
get very drunk, crawl away in semi
somnolent condition, and repose in the
grass for some tine till they get over
the bout and then they will go at it
again" Moreover, Mr.. TAFT declares
''that they do their worst in singing,
both in the virulent nature of the
stroke and the utterly unprovoked as
saults of which they are guilty. I was
stung last year by drunken wasp and
suffered severely from symptoms of
nerve poison for several days. 1nsuch
drunken peculiarities they resemble
their human contemporaries"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-01-27
Habits or snipe.

Newspaper naturalists report q
change of habit among snipe in that
they no longer follow the Atlantic
coast indentations in their southern
fights, but, departing from the British
provinces, fly out at sea, barely skirt
ing the extreme end Of Cape Cod or
Nantucket, unless driven shoreward
by stress of weather. From Nantucket
they pass out of sight Of land until
they reach their feeding grounds on
the North Carolina sounds, where
snipe shooting is still enjoyed in its
pristine yiror. %
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-01-27
Fish as = Fertilizer.

1t was novel object lesson on the
effects Of stimulants that New Yorker
sojourning in Maine last summer dis
covered. Beside the house where he
boarded was field that had once been
cultivated, but now was as barren as
Sahara 'sWhat is the matter with the
land that nothing will grow on itr'
he asked the fisherman, his host. "Fish
did it" was the laconic answer.
"How?" s'Why, it was manured with
fish. You know farmers near the sea-
shore use porgies, dog1ish, and other
fish worthless to eat to fertilize the
land. And don't the fish just make
the crops grow for few seasons! Look
at that patch now. For years it
yielded the finest corn, potatoes and
garden sass you ever heard of. You
see the fish acts on land just as alco-
hol acts on man. 1t stimulates it up
to the highest notch, and as long as
there is any productive power left in
the soil it goes into the crops But
there came the time when that field
gave out all at once, and all the fish
you could heap on it wouldn't make
it bear so much as weeds or grass. The
only thing is to let it lie fallow until
the soil gains strength by rest. Farm
ers round the seashore have found out
that though fish fertilizers give them
tempting crops to start with, they
must be handled as carefully as man
ought to handle rum or brandy"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-01-27
Bruin Was Knowing and Bold.

Bruin Was Knowing and Bold.
'sWhen was in the Yellowstone
park last summer said Wyoming
valley man, zone of the gamekeepers
told me about bear that worried q
camp of government soldiers almost to
desperation for several weeks. Late
one night a bear waddled into camp,
tipped open a tent, put the soldiers
to fight, got what he wanted to eat,
and went away. The next night the
bear came around again, smashed
down tent and stole smoked ham.
Under the park rules the soldiers were
prohibited from firing at the thievish
brute, as well as from jabbing bay
onet into him, and the only thing they
could do when the bear appeared and
went to helping himself to rations was
to get out Of his way. Night after
night the bold beast made raid on
the camp and ruined a tent or two.
NY informant said that the bear acted
as If he knew that the soldiers daren't
fire on him, and that on each visit he
became more saucy and destructive
than before. When the bears raids
had become unbearable the command
ant sent the facts to the secretary of
the interior and asked what to do.
Word came back to shoot the bear, and
that night, when Bruin strobe boldly
into camp, the soldiers put an end to
his career by riddling him with bull
let's IN. Y. Sun.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-01-27
NIackerel Fisheries in Kerry.

A Kerry CORES pondentofU United Ire
land writes: Dingle, on the extreme
western coast of Kerry, is now the
center of very active operations in the
mackerel fishery industry. Large
takes of mackerel have been taken off
the coast, and the recent trade which
has sprung up in the curing Of mack
erel during the autumn season for the
American market has brought employ
ment and money to the doors of the
the Kerry peasant and shopkeeper.
Dingle is, in fact, hive of industry at
the present moment, owing to the cur
ing and packing of mackere1 for the
American market. Every man, woman
and child is employed, and thousands
of cases are dispatched weekly to Liv-
erpool and Glasgow for conveyance to
American ports. The mackerel are
found off the coast in great shoals, and
q fleet of boats is engaged in capturing
them, landing the fish in Dingle. where
they are cured and prepared.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1894-02-10
VALLEY STREET BLAZE.
Building In Rear of The Eagle
warehouse Burned.

The fire department was called out
last night about 1880 by an alarm from
box 462. The fire was in the building in
rear Of the Eagle warehouse on Valley
street. Thehouse was we'll nigh destroyed
when the companies reached the scene,
and attention was turned to the saving
of the big warehouse This building
caught, but the blaze was put out before
a great amount of damage had been
done. Many of the skylights in the
warehouse, made of ai-inch glass, were
cracked by the heat, some of these being
'n.re than 100 feet from the burning
building.
The house destroyed belonged to c. c..
McCarty. 1t was two. story structure
and had been used as dwelling and
storehouse, although at the time of the
fire it had no occupant. 1t is believed
ny some that the fire was caused by a
grounded electric wire. There were sew
eral wires in the bu lding.
81 300 with Branch & Gash-$1 900 in
the Scottish Union and $500 in the I'm
perial. The warehouse is insured tor
So 900 with Aston. Rawls 4 Co. The
damage to this building will amount to
ab tut $500. A quantity OF tobacco be-
longing to the American Tobacco com
pany and Smith, Bard & Co. was in
>ured with Branch & Cash, but this was
not hurt.
The warehouse belongs to the Astc-
vile Tobacco and Improvement com.
pany, and T Z. Gordon. secretary and
treasurer of the Company. asks THE
CITIZEN to thank the tiremen for their
heroic work in protecting the building.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1894-02-10
BRING THE EDITORS!
Col H. c. Hunt In ~. Louis Talk
Ing Ashe Vile.

The St. Louis Chronicle, referring to
the meeting of the executive committee
of the National Editorial association in
that city. says:
"Col. ii. c. Hunt of Asheville, n c., a
member of the committee on Invitation
TOR Ashevllle, is already on the ground
at the Southern, and is working upon
the sympathies OF the California editors.
ha ing already pledged Mr.. Grain, or
"Scip," as he pleiers to be called, to
Asheville.'
The coming of the editors to Ashevlle
has been thing very near to Col.
Hunts heart since the subject first came
up. While not one o! the "protrsh," he
loves the newspaper man and Asheville,
and he has lost no opportunity to in
duce the association to meet here. AS.
nury Park, N j., won over Ashevile at
he last meeting, but on account of the
difficulties attending the securing Of
transportation. the meeting will proba.
blv be held elsewhere. Ashe lille and
Jacksonville are the other points men
toned. The next meeting will be held
IN May or June this year. Asheville
already has or her books the national
council OF the Junior Order OF United
Am, rican Mechanics and the American
Pharmaceutical associations annual
meeting for this year. And what's the
matter with adding the National Editor
ial association to the list?
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1894-02-10
COTTON FIGURES.
Proportion of Crop Marketed
Lint and seed,

WASHINGTON. Feb. 10.-The returns to
the department of agriculture for the
month of February which relate to cot
ton give estimates of the product com
pared with last year, the proportions
sent to market damaged bv insects,
average bale on which picking closed,
etc, Following are state averages of
comparative crop: Virginia, 81; North
Carolina. 81; South Carolina, SO; Geor-
gia, 90; Florida, log; Alabama, sc; Mis-
sissippi. 1O4; Louisiana, 90; Texas, So;
Arkansas, "a; Tennessee, 81; Missouri,
81. The gen, raj average for the country
is 81 1. The proportion of the crop
which has been sent from the planta-
tions ard therefore is in the hands OF
Others than producers, as shown by
the consolidated returns OF correspond
ents, is 92.2 per ceut., leaving I 8 per cent
of the crop still unlnark, ted.
Correspondents OF departments assign
as a Cause Tor the unusually large pro-
portion marketed that the producers
owing to the stiingency of the times,
nave been compelled to part with their
holdings to pay debts.
Per centagr by States is as follows
Virginia, IS; North Carolina, IS; South
Carolina. 90; Georgia, 90 5; Florida, 81;
Alabama. 93; Mississippi, 90 4; Louis-
lana, "a; Texas, 90; Arkansas. "a; Ten
nessee, 90; Missouri, 80. The losses
from insects have been small. Texas,
Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and
Alabama being the only States reported
damaged from that cause. The proper
,i'n OF lint to seed ranges from 81 to
33 per cent average 32.2. The price OF
Seed varies from 1876 to 1877 cents per
bushel.