The Irish standard., 1894-08-11
PASSED ri VIE !.


r AssEDE IN RE VIEW
a man walks three miles "a hour; q
horse trots seven; Z horse runs twenty;
slow rivers flow four; rapid rivers seven;
8 moderate wind blows seven;a storm
moves thirty-six; hurricane moves
eighty; rife ball moves one thousand;
sound moves seven hundred and forty
three;,ight moves one hundred and nine
ty-two millions; and electricity moves
two hundred and eighty EIGHT millions.
Of miles.
Il IS
There are moro boys than girls attend
ing the schools Of the United States.
The total number Of children enrolled in
all schools by the last census was H.
373 GO, Of whom 1895, 1853 were white
and l,4l6,2O2 colored. OF the white chill
dren, 6,6l2,648 were boys and 6,2&. 800
girls. or the oolored children 683.4O7
were boys, and 732,695 girls. In the:
common schools the boys Largely out
number. the girls, but in the private
schools this proportion is not 50 great
and IN the church schools there are more
girls than boys.
4 quaok in the days of Edward VII.
was punished by being placed on scat
fold, with apaper on his breast, on which
bis deceitful practices were written,
after which he was set on plllory. He
was next put on horses back-hie face
to the horses tail--the tail placed in his
hands, collar was put about his neck,
milestone on his breast, and he was
led through the streets of London at the
ringing of basins. He was afterwards.
banlshed. If the quacks of our day were
punished according to their deserts, what
futter there would be!
tx
Hon. Chas. s. Thomas, in an address
at Denver, Colorado, asked the A. P. A.:
ibid you ever stop to think that the
American colonies to gain their liberty
engaged in war with the most power.
full Protestant nation in the world? And
that at times the balance Of power was
against them? And that it was the fore
most Catholic nation of the world that
came to their relief? And that had it
not been for the brave sons of that ma
ton different story Of orktown would
probably inscfibe the pa % OF ahistory
than the one which We are so proud to
| read?"
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The general term of the supreme court
of New York has affirmed the conviction
and sentence of John Y. McKane for con-
spiracy to conceal the Gravessnd registry
lists. He will stay in prison, aud serve
out the six years sentence he so richly
merited. Court after court has affirmed
the justice of the penalty inflicted on
this bold and deliberate corrupter of the
franchise. The friends of good govern.
ment aud honest politics will rejoice that
| judicial lessons are thus set in warning
before the evil doors for all time. Hon
esty pays best in politics. McKane and
all the dethroned bosses and intriguers
that went before him are telling exam
pies o. this.
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| In college of autograph letters and
historical documents, to be sold soon in
London, is an interesting and curious
letter from O'Connell, dated February,
1881, and addressed to Jeremy Bentham.
Discussing his position in the House
Of Commons, O'Connell says: MY first
mistake consisted in entertaining high
opinion of the moral worth and INTEL
lectual power of the House of Commons,
and shaped my course mildly and gent
ly in order to propitiate the opinions of
men whom I respected. You have q
right to despise more than pity me for
this gross mistake. The consequences
are shipwreck of my Parliamentary
fame, and the great difficulty now have
to assert q power which perhaps would
have been conceded to me had asserted
myself strong in the first instance"
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Those ear-splitting, blood-curdling
horrors which masquerade under the
name of '.syren" are now counted indis-
pensible to steam craft. They are valu-
able not so much for the awful night
mare of noise they make as for echoes
they evolve. The pilots quick ear waits
for the echo from the screech which the
steam causes, as he is able to calculate
to nicely how close to shore Ills craft
may he or whether there are any other
vessels about him, even in the densest
fog. If there is no echo then there is no
shore and no craft to bother about, for
the sound waves have an unobstructed
passage into space A large steamer re-
Gently worked her way into the capes
amid dense fog and her pilot located
several vessels at anchor, which he was
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