The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-12-01

Mcbride for president of the American
Federation Of Labor against Samuel
Gompers is very strong and it is sup
posed that the selection Of Mcbride as
leader will be an Indication that the pro-
posed policy of national strike will be
carried out next spring. NJ thy other
important questions will bs brouz ht up
for discussion.
Golf was fashionable game among the
nobility at the beginning of the seven
teenth century. 1t was prohibited at an
earlier date (l45O by James II. of Scot.
land, as it interfered with archery, which
the King encouraged, that his mon might
vie the better with the English bowmen.
1t was also prohibited by James Nv.
Charles of England was fond of golf,
and Was playing when the news of the
Irish rebellion reached him. Ia the
reign Of Edward I'LL, golf was known
under the name OF "cambuca,'' late
Latin word, and today "cammack" in
Scotland is the name of game played
with a hockey stick. The Irish and
Gaelic for golf club is "camsn" AS
for "caddie," the golf players attendant,
the word comes from the French ''cadet,'
the younger son or brother, the phonetic
term of which, "cadee," was used in Eng.
land Q6S9 1881 to defns "a gentleman
who entered the army without commits
sion, to learn the military profession and
find career for himself
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The career of John W. Goff, elected
Recorder Of New York by $4,000 maj ority
over Judge Smyth, is almost as romantic
as that of John Boyle O'Reilly. Like
the poet, Golf, native OF Ireland, be-
longed to the Fenian organization. More
fortunate than O'Rsilly, who was con-
demned to life sentence Of penal ssrvi-
tude in Australia, Golf m 70 aged to escape
free man to the Uaited States about
the time OReilley was preparing to be-
come felon. COTS political sentiments
underwent no change while he was work
ing his way up at the bar of the United
States. He was one of the chief instru-
ments in sending ont the whaling vessel,
the Catalpa, in 1875 to rescue the British
political prisoners still remaining at the
penal colony, from which O'Reilly had
managed to escape in 1869. His work in
the Lexow committee, exposing the cor
ruption of the Tammany ring, was the
chief cause of his popularity. He is an
incorporating Democrat.
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At the beginning of the last century
the only church bell at Grosslaswitz,
Germany, was so small that it's tones
were not sufficient to penetrate to the
ends of the village. A. second bell was
badly wanted, but the village was poor,
aud where was the money to come from?
One Sunday when the schoolma ster,
Gottfried Hayn, was going to church; he
noticed growing out Of the ch7rchyhrd
wall t1ourishing green stalk of corn, the
seed of which must have been dropped
by passing bird. The idea suddenly
struck him that perhaps this one stalk
OF corn could be made the means Of pro-
curing the second bell they wanted so
! much. He waited until the corn was
ripe, and then he pluoked the six cara
on it aud sowed them in his own garden.
The next year he gathered the little crop
thus produced and sowed it again, till at
last he had not enough room id his gar
den for the crop, SO he divided among
certain number of farmers who went on
sowing the ears until, in the eight year,
the crop was so large that when it was
put together and sold they found that
they had money enough to buy beauti-
full bell.
The banks are considering the adoption
of a new form of check, to be used in
cases of transacting business with banks
of distant cities, and where Identification
on an ordinary check is sometimes next
to impossible. The check in question
presents fat surface and resembles in
form the ordinary business check. 1t is
really in two parts, however, and is sep
arated after being made out by the bank
in favor of the individual who wishes to
present it in another city for collection.
The left half of the check contains all
the important items, including the first
half of the name Of the payee, the amount
for which the check is drawn and the sig
nature across the face Of the individual
for whom drawn. This half is sent by
the local bank to the bank in the distant
city on which it is drawn. The other half
is given to the owner. which he presents
on arriving at his destination. It he is