The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-01

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The Confederate veterans Of Virginia
are1going to erect ) monument 20 Je9s
son Davis, whom they refer rs ia "a 81 s.
ficial circular as sour late president and
true patriot" 4.
Japanese papers say that the oldest
married couple IN that country live in
Sawada, in the province OF Sado. The
man is 1913 years old, and his wife 1876.
or the family, numbering IA persons, the
eldest daughter is l0S years old and the
eldest son los.
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The 80 gunners on the active list OF
the navy include eight or ten grizzled
old boys who saw all or part of the civil
war and have outllved by 20 years the
type Of guns with which the navy did
it's last fighting. Two thirds OF the gun
ners on the retired list are veterans of
the civil war. Many Of the gunners have
q record for service Of from one to twelve
years as boys enlisted for one duty or
another. AS such they grew up to the
service of gunnery. The gunner ranks
as warrant officer, and draws frem $26
to $50 per month, with an increase tor
longevity service.
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The Rev. A. M. Hammer, of st. Anne's
Church, Newark, N. J president OF the
Catholic Club in that city, has publicly
announced that he will never perform
the marriage ceremony between Cath
Ole and non. Catholic. Called on by q
reporter in reference to his intention to
refuse to give personal approval to what
the Church seems to have declared
"Tolerari potest," he said as to mixed
marriages: "No good comes of them, he
said, ''if Catholic and Protestant call
on me and ask ne to marry them, I'll
send them to the bishop or the vicar
general. I'll marry no more of them.
I've been doing it for 25 years and have
seen enough of the results to make NE
come to this decision"
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The following affidavit was fled in the
court of common pleas in Dublin in 1922:
"And this deponent further sayeth that
on arriving at the house of the said de.
PENDANT, situate in the County OF Gal
way aforesaid, for the purpose of person
ally serving him with the said writ, he,
| the said deponent, knocked three sew
eral times at the outer, commonly called
| the hall door, but could not obtain ad-
mittance; wherenpon this deponent was
| proceeding to knock fourth time, when
! a man, to this deponent unknown, hold
ing in his hands musket or blunder-
buss, loaded with balls or slugs, as this
| deponent has since heard and verify be-
lieves, appeared at one of the upper
windows of the said house, and, present
ing SAID musket or blunderbuss at this
deponent, threatened chat if said de-
ponent did not instantly retire, he would
send his (the deponent's) soul to he'll
which this deponent verify believes he
would have done had not this deponant
precipitate]y escaped"
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How is it that the eyes of some por-
traits seem to follow spectator around
the room? It is thus explained: Sup
pose portrait have it's face and eyes d.
rected straight in front, so as to look at
the spectator. Let straight line be-
drawn through the tip Of the nose and
half way between the eyes. On each
side of this middle line there will be the
breadth of head, of cheek, Of chin and
Of neck, and each iris will be in the mid
die of the whole of the eye If one now
go to one side, the apparent horizontal
breadth of every part of the head and
face will be diminished, but the parts on
each side of the middle line will be di-
minished equally and at every position,
however, oblique, there will be the same
breadth of face on each side of the mid
die line, and the iris will remain in the
center of the eyeball, so that the por-
trait will preserve all the character of a.
figure looking at the spectator and must
necessarily do so wherever he stands.
In portraits the apparent motion of the
head is generally rendered indistinct by
the canvass being imperfectly stretched,
as the slightest -concavity or convexity
entirely deforms the face.
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Elk. Congressman Felix Campbell, Of
Brooklyn, president OF the Peoples Trust
|, Company, and the members of his family
who accompanied him on his recent Eu-
ropean trip are kept busy telling their
friends and acquaintance about their
audience with Pope Leo XIII. The
party attended mass in the Pope's pri-