The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-12-15
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century, unless, through some enron
illogical freak the century comes in with
q leap year with the first day OF Febru-
airy a Sunday. The five Sund y Febru
arys of this century have been those OF
1924, 1852 and 1880. The next time this
oddity will occur will be in the year 1920.
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When Sir Arthur Gordon was governor
of New Zealand he was probably, says
the Bulletin" about the best-hated man
in the province. When any common
man" spoke to Gordon without being
first addressed by that dignitary, the
conseq uences were dreadful. Once, on
board Union boat, the captain so Tar
forgot himself rs to make an unauthor-
lied remark to the great man concerning
the weather. Gordon looked at him
with an aetonished expression for mo-
ment, and then turned to lis aide de
camp and said slowly, "What does he
say?" The same evening at dinner the
Guvnah thawed sufficiently to ask the
captain what time they would arrive.
"Steward," said the captain, pointing at
his passenger with fork, "what did he
say" Then the Governor went on deck
and probably told his aide that these
demned ,lonials needed TO be sup
pressed by British troops.
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The oldest republic in the world is San
Marino, arocky patch of land on the Adrl-
attic, nineteen miles in circumference
surrounded on all sides but the sea by
Italian territory. It's constitution is the
sole surviving specimen left to show us
what the Italian republics of the middle
ages we're like. Tue italian government
pays San Marine fixed sum every year,
calculated at so much per head of their
population of 5000 inhabitants, on condi-
ton that they have no Custom House.
In order to avoid difficult questions of
copyright, they print no books, and there
is no newspaper in the whole country.
Perhaps that is the reason why they have
only had one war in their whole history.
But they have admirably executed coins
of their own, and their stamps and post
cards are the delight of all philate)ists,
and, therefore, considerable source of
revenue to the State. Their budget is q
marvel of business like care. Every
thing, even to the sum expended on boots
for the little army OF twenty eight men,
and an item for a new cloak for Bigi, the
beadle, is carefully noted down, and, un-
like their great neighbor and ally, they
have balance at their bankers only
1872, it is true, but still balance.
About three years ago large wooden
cross was erected on the spot where
! bishop Seghers was killed in Alaska.
Concerning it Father William 81. Judge,
S. j. now stationed at. the mission of
Nulato, rty miles below whore it WAS
planted, has weird incident to relate.
He reports that the last winter was un.
commonly severe and protracted on the
Yukon river, that the spring thaw began
| only about the middle of May, and that
| on che 9th of that month the ice began
to go out. The next day, while the whole
river was one mass of broken ice forcir 6
it's way towards the ocean, the CROSS came
down on a foe in the middle of the
mighty stream, standing perfectly erect
! and facing the bank. 1T was fine
sight," so he writes, ''to see it moving
along in the bright sunlight amidst the
roaring of tibet immense body of ice and
water. We to}led the bell while it was
passing" What became of the cross the
| missionary cannot tell. Whether it was
| cast on shore or carried out to sea the
angels and the spirit Of the murdered
bishop know, but the last that was seen
of it by mortal man was, so far as we
are aware, when Father Judge watched
it as it disappeared from his view down
J the Yukon river
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Edison confesses he is at work on q
telephatic machine. When he perfects il
| we shah be able at any time to converse
with friend in any part of the world
without telegraph or telephone. Ed
son g theory is that man can think hard
enough to produce an electrical current
and move the index of a deli.ately ad.
1usted thought sender. The machine
looks like q watch, with letters Of the
alphabet around it's face instead OF fig.
ures. An index moves readily over ite
surface, pointing to one letter after an.
| other, as desired. The needle of your
thought sender and your friends must
be magnetised so as to revolve to the
same number of thought vibrations OF
some multiple thereof. Then when you
sit down, look at your machine and think
very hard, the needle on the dial will
move according to the words you frame
in your mind. An alarm is fixed to your
friends thought sender. When you con
contrate your will powerfully itproducea