The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-11-24
PASSED IN REVIEW.
A recent estimate places the amount
of standing timber in the state Of Wash
lngton at SOC, 600 OO0, 900 feet.


lngton at SOC, 600 OO0, 900 feet.
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The people of the United States pay
more taxes than the people of any other
nation on the globe. The estimated to-
tai of national and local taxation is
$3.50, 100000.
There are large number of sovereiRns
now living who have never taken the
trouble to be crowned. Among them
are the Emperor Of Germany, King of
Italy, the present and late Kings of
SPAN, the Queen of Holland, the King
of Bavaria, aud the King of Saxony.
Andrew j. Brush, of No. las Hayward
street, Williamsburg, N. Y, is an uncom-
promising Democrat. He gave express
sion to his belief that the country bad
"gone to the dogs by flying the Stars
and Stripes at half mast and union down
in front of his house on election day.
There is bell in old School No. l,
Paterson, N. J., which has an interna-
tional history. Tradition says that when
Napoleon was on a campaign in Switzer-
land his soldiers destroyed convent
and carried eff the bell which had rung
the canonical hours of worship for no.
body knows how long. 1T was then re-
puted to be several hundred years old.
The silver in it had been contributed by
the pious people of the canton.
An original sentence was given lately
by Magistrate in Missouri. A man who
did not know how to read ard write,
convicted of slight ofense, was sem
fenced to imprisonment until he had
learned to read. Another offender, who
had good education, was sentenced to
keep him company until he had taught
him to read. After three weeks they were
discharged, as they had fulfilled their
task to the satisfaction of the magistrate.
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Estimate regarded as reliable places
the aggregate wealth of leading coun-
tries at the following figures: United
States. $60,475,00o00o; Great Britain,
$43, soc, 100000; France, $4,000, 100000;
Germany, $1,000, 900, 600; Russia, $2l,
7l5yOo0 900; Austria, Sis, 065, 100000; Italy,
$l1,755,00O,O0O. No other nation is cred
tied with more than $4,000, 100000. The
next in rank to Italy is Spain, with ST.
965,00O.OO0, while Greece, the last and
lowest Of this classification, is given but
81 100000.
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An application was prepared in Chi
cago the other day and forwarded to
Secretary Henrichsen asking that char
ter be granted an organization to be
known as the Independent American
Citizens Party, The incorporators are
Walter Sims, formerly rational lecturer
for the A. p A William j.. Seervis and
Arthur w. Slaught. The new associa
tion is the outgrowth of internal <'issen-
sions IN the American Protective Associ
alton and will have tho same objects,
ambitions and theories as the old organiz-
alton.
Shakespears's vocabulary is said to
have been the largest used by auy Eng
lish writer; and he had not % 600, but
$4,000, and Of these 500 were used only
once Millions vocabulary comprised
about 5000 words; that OF the average
educated writer is said to include about
5000 words, while the average business
man includes about 1000 words. The
average English laborer has about 400
words at his command These estimates
are of British origin, and are not recent.
It is probable that the business man and
the mechanic in this country have rather
more extensive vocabularles than these
estimates suggest
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The coal supplies Of Great Britain are,
for all practical purposes, much larger
than they were fifty years ago, when
great geologist persuaded a great minis
ter to stave off prospective danger by
imposing an export duty on coal. Since
that time new coal fields have been dis
covered, new mines have been opened,
old mines have been worked at depths
which would have been declared in.prac-
ticable then and the stock Of available
coal, though hundreds Of millions of tons
have been consumed in the interval, is
actually larger than it was at the COM
mencement of the present reign. Just
the same thing may be said of the great
countries in the western and southern
henispheres, which are becoming the
new homes of the Teutonic race.
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The appointment Of Miss L ouise 1mo-
gen Quincy, the Catholic authoress to
the position of postmistress at Auburn
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