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ANN ST.. 1912 Pell's IIotclA few choice
rooms to let iOr gentlemen only: ulcrlv fur
nIshed; steam heated ~. 81 30, Sipcr week.
LEXINGTON AVE. 1j0 near 5irh st, Peasant
large. small rooms, heated; moderate price {;
also back parlOr,
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23D ST, ;I3s w.-Engiish family, ACCOMMODATE
or boarders: nice home: good board.
23D ST, $50 ". Finely furnished rooms, large
small excellent table: table boarders
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22D ST, 3I3 W. Chelsea House-Rooms, with
board, singy or en- suite permanent or transient.
23D TT. 400 With board, handsomely fur
nishei rooms, table & accommodations; terms
moderate: table boarlerS,
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Bath ST., l27 W., near Broadway-Double, 3
single sunny rooms: also doctors office; board
optiOnal table bOardprs desired. l. -
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18TH 3S9 ". Pleasant heated rooms; convent
ences good board: 81. 90 80: table board S3. 30
18TH 81. Bah W. Comfortable furnished rooms,
with or without board terms moderate.
3STH ST, 229 Uncomfortable rooms; profess
sionas children taken; day board reasonable;
transients 81 u day.
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Flats and Apartments to Let.
unfurnished West Side.

9TH AVE. 244 Elegant nnts for business or
residences; hot h rod water; rooms bnth.
10TH ST., 22S W. Elegant flats, I large light
rooms, newly papered; SlU TO SlS House.
keeper,
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Boarders Wanted.
East Side.

East Side. sFsE
4TH AVE, 102, accommodates working ladies'
| gents, with good board; home comforts good
| fires 81 btl to AJ ~ Z
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-22
BILL NYE's TEXAS RIVAL.
He II Env1ous and Wants to Write for
tho New York World.

He IN Env1ous and Wants to Write for
tho New York World.
This curious letter has been re-
ceived by the New York World from
an admirer who lives In Texas:
DR. Sr commenced reedn ur paper 10
years ago anain't red nary uthr senc;
yu orter Civ me a job rity furt. Tha
sa bill nj gifts pade fur his ritin? an l
consdr me hispear-I halt 2, ask for his
job but u nosewells Iddu tibet bills
pladout; hev got tn fnst mule TEEN
in Tarrant Co en- ken travlt les expenc
onu then bill? so let me no trounc fuel
hyr the foar cotton pickin. l am
postd on evrything an lik travlyn on
ritin, uall don't ject don't reckn fur
me to talk mi family long. I no I kin
du vel amt got colg egikashun an
u cud deduck suthn on akount Nv pure
spelyn, but Idres with more decenc
then bill nj hees fool to put his
picturn. the papr. l am the bst lukn
man Mt mite B help to put meen tn
papr. l viii farwd my foatygraf I
reckon ual neadnt he feardt sen my
salryn edvanc th Poast Mastyr hyrsmi
best friend: Right hymn bowt mi
honst. / leav til salry alltu as uall no
the valu nv Htratoor prodducks betr ur
iddu j kin rite potreto:
/ am th saim Sandy Sam Newark
Texas Tarrant Go.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-22
PERlER AT SCHOOL.
How the New President of france Once
'Flunkod."

How the New President Of France Once
"Flunked."
Once, during the school days Of the
new president of the French republic,
his professor in geography asked him:
"Perier, give us the exact position and
indicate the latitude of the Gambler
group" Casimir-Perier crossed his
arms tightly upon his chest, looking
very perplexed. One of his neighbors
whispered to him wrong answer;
whereupon the professor gave him the
exact position of this little group,
which belongs to the more important
French establishment Of Tahiti, and,
after short pause, and with little
point of irony, said: you ought to
know that, Perier, because it is thanks
to your grandfather that France ac-
quired the ascendency in these parts
of the world; it was through his efforts
and entreaties that the dusky queen
of these islands was induced to come
to France; and the men of my genera
ton still remember the comical songs
which celebrated the event. Perier
blushed considerably; but, holding his
head still higher, answer the professor
with his quick and peculiar diction:
81 will most certainly go over this les.
son again and try to be more proficient
at the next lecture; but, so far as the
deeds of my grandfather go, they are
30 numerous that / am not old enough
yet to know them all. ]" s
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-22
ALL EUROPE READY FOR WAR.
The Great Nations Prepared for = Decla-
ration Of Hostilities.

The Great Nations Prepared for Decla-
ration Of Hostilities.
After the dreadful Franco-German
war of ls7O-1s71 the principle Of pro-
longed military service and OF dimin-
ished annual contingents was given up,
says McClure's Magazine. The mon
strous principle of universal service
was adopted instead. BY this prin-
ciple the whole nation is under arms.
A country is no longer country, a
people is no longer people; nation is
now nothing but an army, and coun-
try is only barrack. Every body wears
the uniform. Everybody is sur lie qui
vive. If war breaks out to-day all pro-
LESSONS become deserted, all functions
Abandoned; the life of the nation stops
so that national activity may be said to
begin again only with the blood that is
shed. Moreover, before two hostile
armies, that is, two nations which are
enemies, join in combat, each OF the
two armies, that is, each of the two in
finite hordes which traverse their sew
the field OF. battle, will leave behind it
a country in famine, it's factories silent
and it's trade paralyzed. Again, enor-
nous stocks of food supplies must be
accumulated on the frontiers where the
two armies are likely to meet; but be-
fore reaching these inexhaustible mag
azines the armies must be fed while
crossing their own territories, and that
requires money. So, that, before even
the first gun is fred, each army will
have expended enormous sums and left
in it's train towns and villages stripped
of men and beasts, the cities in famine,
the country without q single tiller OF
the field.
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.Hy A FEAT OF ENGINEERING.
The Raising OF a Railroad Bridge With
out Interrupting Traffic.

The Raising OF q Railroad Bridge With
out Interrupting Traffic.
The raising of a bridge III Switzer-
land upon the line of the International
railway from Paris to Vienna has at
tracted considerable attention from the
methods pursued. The occasion for the
change, says Locomotive Engineering,
was that the river crossed-the Rhine
had lost in the sectional area of the
passage between the piers about IS per
cent. in thirteen years, owing to the
deposition Of gravel and sediment,
while the highwater level had risen to
such an extent as to pile ating de-
bris six feet deep On the bridge floor in
times of flood. The alterations in
cluded some reinforcements, besides
the raising of the whole structure
about five feet The bridge was con-
tinuous over a center pier, and had two
main vertical posts there and four ver-
tical end posts. To each of these posts
an inclined strut was attached in
transverse vertical plane. presenting a
surface for the top of q hydraulic jack
to act upon. Eight special hundred
ton jacks were used, with an eight-inch
stroke and a working pressure Of four
hundred atmospheres, the piston being
nearly or in diameter The fluid used
was a mixture of water, alcohol and
glycerine. Sixteen men operated the
jacks, their movements being synchro-
nized by code of signals, designed to
secure uniformity of action. The bridge
was Used foot or two by short lifts,
followed by thoroughly blocking and
then building under one course of cut
stone masonry. The total load was five
hundred and forty-six tons, and the max
i1num load on each jack was eighty
seven tons. The bridge was raised in
four stages during intervals between
trains. The longest interval between
trains was about two hours. The
weight of trains was rigidly restricted
during the time the bridge was under
going repairs and their speed was linn
tied to three miles an hour in crossing
the bridge In addition, special
block system was organized upon that
section of the line upon which the
bridge is located, so that operations
could be suspended and the track re-
stored five minutes before the arrival
Of a train at the site
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-22
oesE DANGER or SHOPPING.

Export Thieves Alwnys on tho Outlook
for Badly-Guarded Pocketbooks.
The fine parlors and waiting-rooms
which are now to be found in the big
dry goods stores have been put to a
peculiar use by the pickpockets and
sneak thieves that make the stores
their stamping ground, says the New
York Sun. Recently the porter in one
of the Fourteenth street stores found a
pocketbook in one of the waste baskets
in the ladies' parlor. When opened at
the.superintendent's desk it was found
to contain check for fifty dollars and
q number of little trinkets. The super
intendent hunted up the address of the
payable and wrote to her. She came
down the next day and proved her
ownership of the property. Hardly a.
day passes without our porters finding
rifed pocketbooks in the ladies' par
lor,'' said the superintendent of the
store, land, although we have a de-
tective on guard large part of the
time, it seems impossible to catch the
thieves The fact is that the really ex-
pert pickpocket and sneak thief who
works the dry goods stores will take
nothing except cash and valuable
jewelry. He will not take the risk Of
detection which the ordinary thief
does. Checks, trinkets and small arti-
cles of no special value the expert thief
throws away.
''They rarely examine their booty in
the same store in which they steal it.
Take the pocketbook of this woman,
for instance. She was not in our store
at all on the day that the pocketbook
was found here. The pocketbook was
taken from her at d swell store up
town. The thief evidently FASTENED
away as soon as the theft had been
committed. came down here and exam
ined the pocketbook, took out the cash,
which, believe, amounted to sixty or
seventy dollars and threw the rest
into the waste basket. OF course, all
these expert thieves are women. Under
their present system their operations
are very successful. The ordinary thief
gees around grabbing here and there,
and waits until he has collared all the
stealable things in sight. The chances
are nine out of ten that he will be de-
tected before he finishes. That shows
the superiority of the expert crooks
work. She makes no effort to steal
more than one pocketbook at time.
She pays no attention to goods on the
counter. because they are too bulky
and not easily negotiable. Unless she
is caught in the act of taking O. pocket
book there is practically no chance of
catching her. Having made her grab
she goes to some other store and in the
privacy OF the ladies' room gets rid of
any part of ller seizure which might be
compromising. 1 don't know of d single
case of this sort where the thief was
caught and the property recovered.
Of course, the detectives have learned
TO recognize some of the thieves who
work in this way, but that has only
enabled them to keep them out OF their
stores. In places where they are not
known yet they operate without him
drance."
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-22
TEA-HOUSES IN CHINA.
They Take the Place of che Club-Room
of the West.

They Take the Place Of che Club Room
Of the West.
The restaurant or tea-house IN China
takes the place of the western club
room, write Messrs. Allen and Sacht-
leben in the September Century, de-
scribing their bicycle tour in Asia. ALI
the current news and gossip is here
circula ted and discussed over their eat
ing and gambling, One of their games
of chance, which we have frequently
noticed, seems to consist in throwing
their fingers at one another, and shout
ing at the top of their voices. 1t is
really matching Of mum bers, for
which the Cinnamon make signs on
their fingers, up to the numeral ten.
The Chinese of all nations seem to
live in order to eat, and from this race
of epicures has developed a nation of
excellent cooks. Our fare in China,
outside the Cobb district, was far bet
ter than in Turkey or Persia, and, for
this reason. we are better able to en-
dure the increased hardships. A plate
of sliced meat stewed with vegeta bles,
and served with piquant sauce, sliced
radishes ard onions with vinegar, two
loaves Of Chinese mono. or steamed
bread, and pot of tea, would usually
costs us about three anda quarter cents
apiece. Everything in China is sliced
SO that it can be eaten with the chop
sticks. These we at length learned to
manipulate with sufficient dexterity to
pick up doves egg-the highest at
tainment in the chop-stick art. The
Chinese have rather q sour than a
sweet tooth. Sugar is rarely used in
anything, and never in tea. The
STEPPED tea-tiowers, which the higher
classes use, are really more tasty with
ont r.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-22
Relatives of Robespierrs.

The only male relatives Of Robespierre;
living in France, according to q Paris pa:
per, are Macmillan de Robespierre, who
owns tile mandatory, and his SON,
now eighteen years old. He appeared
in Paris court the other day sponsor,
of one of his employees, who had
run over boy, and announced that he
was granddaughter Of the notorious
bearer of his name. He is an intelli-
gent man, forty-fve years old, and 9
graduate Of school of mines. When
asked regarding his family papers he;
said that his uncle, Henri de Robes
pierre, had fed with them to Americas
at the time Of the Restoration and that
nothing had been heard Of him or th ssa'E
since then.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-22
sMALL-BoAT VOYAGES.
Stories OF Foolhardy Men who Hava
Crossed the ATLANTIC. u. !.


Crossed the Atlantic.
The record of adventurous persona
who have crossed the Atlantic in crafts
of small dimensions is, comparatively
speaking. long one, but nothing has
been accomplished beyond fame for q
few, and almost repulsive stories oA
rrivations of various kinds and failure.
The latest effort of adventure in this
direction is that of Capt. Freitsch, q
Finn, who is to try to cross the Atlantic
in a forty-six-foot fat bottomed schoon-
er-rigged skiff, constructed by himself
at Milwaukee, He started from that
city recently crossing the lake and
coming through the Erie canal to Troy,
thence down the Hudson to this city,,
saws the New York Tribune. He pro-
poses to start at an early day, goinE
first to Southampton, thence to ports
on the continent, and later return to
the United States. -;
Voyages of this kind in such s1nall
craft are evidently more remarkable
than those of clippers, yachts and
schooners, on account OF the perils or
the ocean, the paucity of the crew to-
manage the helm and sails during a
period measured by months and the
spirit and pluck OF the individual. But
1t cannot be said that such voyages
really accomplish anything for the
science of navigation In. July, 1885,.
Capt. Hudson and 4, E. Fitch, the
latter acting as mate, and dog, in q!
twenty -six-foot ifeboat called the Red,,
White and Blue, and rugged as a!
schooner, started from Sandy Hook on;
a voyage of unknown duration and un-
certain vicissitude across the Atlantic.
The boat had several narrow escapes
from capsizing, and thirty-seven days
after leaving New York she entered:
Margate harbor. The boat aud her
crew were exhi5 ited at the Crystal
Palace, where the story of the voyage
was oft-told. The hardy navigators
did not return in the same way-they}
had had enough of it," In the same
year small yacht of twenty-five tons
made the voyage from Liverpool to
New South Wales, reaching there in
one hundred and fifty days. distance
of sixteen thousand miles. In June,
1870. Alfred johnson started from;
Gloucester in small boat, manned
only by himself. and sixty-seven days
later he reached Liverpool. The voy-
age was perilous one, and when
about three hundred miles off the Irish
coast his boat was capsized, and he was
providentially assisted by huge wave
in righting it.
Another bold adventure was that OF
Capt. Thomas Grape, who, with his
wife, crossed the ocean in a twenty"
foot boat called the New Bedford. The
adventures sailed from New Bedford
in June, and dfty-four days later
reached Penzance and were right glad
to end the voyage. The experiences
were most bitter and heart-rendi4g.
in July, 1883, Capt Andrews sailed
from Boston and crossed the Atlantic.
The story of the voyage was like that
of many others-deprivation of COM
forts and food, loss Of sleep, hair
breadth escapes, dangerous hurricanes
and newspaper notoriety.
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FAD FOR ENGLISH MAIDS.
The Flirtatious and Pilfer;ng Pauline Be-
Ing Displaced by Siow-Going Susan.

The Flirtatious and Pilfer;ng Pauline Be-
Ing Displaced by Siow-Goins Susan.
The stern fat has been pronounced
against the Frcuch maid. Paulines>,
Suzettes and Sophies by the score are,
caressing voices and most pure OF.
Partisan accents, vainly searching for:
comforta BILE situations known of yore,
says Demorests Magazine, and wrath
fully discover they have been replaced,
by middle-ageo English women. No
one can exactly put her finger ON the,
cause of the revolution, but everyone,
hears rather black accounts Of the'
Partisan paragons. The New York.
mistress is mild and long-suHering, but
Pauline evidently went step too far:
in her quarrels below stairs, her f1irta~
lions with the butler and the pilfering
of petty trihes, and now her day is!
over. Her once devoted mistress vows:
she is glad and has at last found true.
treasure in Hollis, her English maid:
Hollis is quite all one ever read about!
in English novels She is a staid and
stately person, no longer in her first!
youth, and though she cannot cu-;
broider madam's flmy mouchoirs and
underlinen, tie the sweetest bow-knot
in trice, chatter the gayest gossip in.
the most faultless accent and pay
madam the neatest little compliments,
she is a remarkably capable person.
She has brought a recommendation
from some titled English lady, who at
firms that Hollis is d faultiess traveller
and does hair very well, also plain sew
ing. The American mistress finds all
that true. Hollis is not i'll a day at,
sea, she is something of a nlasseuse,
and she is worth an army of men on
Journeys She is stern but perfect
chaperon, she knows all about getting
tickets, checking luggage, booking at
hotels, tipping other servants and get
ting her rights. There is class Of
English maids in New York who only
attend ladies when travelling. Some. Of
them have been all over the world, up
the Nile, across Russia, and even to the
Chinese wall; and once in the hands OF
one of these women one can travel in
joy and peace They are engaged to-
accompany young ladies as chaperons
when trips are to be made, end rarely
ask for employment in settled posi-
ton. OF course they receive high
wages and all their expenses paid.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-22
CHINESE VEGETABLES.
Several Likely to he Useful introduced In
This Country.


In bulletin 81, just issued by the
Cornell agricultural experiment sta
tion, Prof. Bailey gives some account
OF several garden vegetables which
have been introduced into this country
by the Chinese. The most valuable
for American gardens, says Garden and
Forest, is the so-called Chinese cab
bage. pe-tsai. It is plant with a loose,
lettuce-like head of crisp leaves, which
may be used in all the ways in which
cabbage is served. 1t is an autumn
vegetable, and requires a cool and
moist soil. The same cultivation and
atten ton are demanded for the Chinese
mustard, which is an excellent plant
for greens, and produces an enormous
amount of heritage. California pepper
grass, which was brought prominently
into notice by John Lewis Childs in
1890. seems to be a finely cut leaved
form of mustard which has been long
known in old gardens in this country,
but has not been described either in
American botanies or gardening books.
1t is one of the best of all plants for
early spring greens. It is not known
how or when the plant first came to
this country, for, although it is cult
waited in China and japan, it does not
appear to have been Independently in
PRODUCED from either of these countries
in recent years. There are other mus
tard-like plants which have been intro
duced from China which possess less
merit than the foregoing species for
American gardens Among them are
the rak-choi. used as greens aud for
the thick white leaf-stalk; and the
tuberous-rooted mustard, grown for it's
small turnip-like root. OF the cucur-
bitaceous plants introduced by the Chi
nese the best is the wax gourd, zit-kwa,
the fruit of which is excellent for con-
serves. It is easily cultivated, but re-
quires a long season. The lal1wa, or
Momordica charantia, is not new to
the American city trade, but has more
merit as curiosity and an ornamental
vine than as an esculent for our taste.
The luffas, or dish-cloth go,1rds, are Of
two species, which differ chiefly in the
contour of their fruits. The one best
known has ribless cylindrical fruits,
but the one chiefly cultivated by the
Chinese in the neighhorhood of New
York has club-shaped ribbed fruit.
These fruits are chiefly interesting be-
cause they yield sponge-like fiber
which is useful for household pur-
poses. The tau-kok is bean of some
merit for late home use, but the Chi
nese pea has little to recommend it,
and the other vegetables named have
hardly any value for our gardens.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-22
p.tr,aed Wood for Chinese cofins.

A curious source of wealth is reported
bv the French consul at Mongtze, in
Upper Tonkin. 1t lies in wood mines
The wood was originally pine forest,
which the earth swallowed in some
cataclysm. Some of the trees are a
yard in diameter. They lie in a slanting
direction and in sandy soils, which cover
them to depth of about eight yards.
As the top branches are well preserved
it is thought the geological convulsion
which buried them cannot be OF very
great antiquity. TIE wood furnished
by these timber mines is imperishable,
and the Chinese gladly buy it for COT
fms
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-09-22
c.rnot and tho Figure Seven,


The French papers have been noting
the curious way in which the career
of President Carnot was connected
with the figure So" He was
born in is37, was admitted to
the Ecole polytechnique in 1857, was
elected by virtue of article Of the
constitution to the Office Of president Of
the republic in 1887, was assassinated
at the age Of 81 years, in the seventh
year of his presidency, in carriage
containing seven persons (four inside
and three outside, a coachman and two
footmen), on the seventh day Of the
week, by an Italian q word Of seven
letters) named Cesario (also formed OF
seven letters. Finally, he was borne
in triumph to the Pantheon on the first
day DC the seventh month Of the year,
seven days after his death. 5g3 I.