The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-06-30
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Although Queen Victoria rules over, ~
empire thai embraces possessions J. il /
every part spf the world J, che has never
Travelled outside Europe, and even there
her trips havs been short ones to France,
Holland, Germany and Italy only.
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When nephew Of Jay Gould was born
he asked hill father TO name him jay
Gould Jr. aud said he would do some
thing handsome for him. The father did
not like the WORD Junior and named
him Jay Frederick Gould, and 60 Mr..
Gould left the boy nothing in his will.
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Senator John Sherman has now served
in the senate as long as Senator Benton,
of Missouri, or twenty mine years and
three months, only he has not served
that period continuously, as Benton did.
But Sherman has received six elections
to the senate, and William r. King, Of
Alabama, is the only other member OF
that body in the past who scored so
many times.
Oscar Wilde's taste in dress, especially
in the use Of jewelry, is still that OF an
exquisite. He wears three rings on hie
left hand and one on his right, while his
wrist is ornamented with chain brace
let of solid gold, to which 9 heart-shaped
locket is attached. He wears red, yellow
and blue ties of great size and his gene
raj appearance makes him one Of the
most conspicuous men seen on the streets
Of London.
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Conan Doyle's aptitude for telling
stories began to show itself when he was
very young, and his school-bov friends
used to offer him rewards in the way Of
tarts to relate romances. The author is
very fine specimen Of manhood. He is
big and blonde, six feet tall, athletic, and
weighs 225 pounds. He is only IS. DR..
Doyle is due in the United States in .Oc-
lober to lecture on George Meredith and
'sThe Younger Influences in English
Literature"
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Among the Sioux Indians q common
custom exists. When one family Dor
rows kettle from another it is expected
that, when the kettle is returned, a small
portion of the food that had been cooked
in it will be left in the bottom. Should
this custom bs disregarded by any one
that person would never be able to Dor
row agar, Jas he owner must always know
what was cooked in her kettle. A white
woman on one occasion returned
secured kettle, intending to teach les
son in cleanliness, but her act became
the talk of the camp as fresh example
of the meanness of the whites.
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It costs close upon $4,000, 600 q year
to police Loudon. There are in the
metropolitan police force 5000 mon Of
all ranks, and their pay, clothing and
equipment alone costs the taxpayers Of
the big city 91 ,343,759 year. Then
there is the pay of the commissioners,
doctors, clerical staff and workmen gen.
orally; the maintenance of stations and
Offices, and the thousand and one miscel-
laneous items of cost in the operation Of
the department, which brings the total
cost of the machinery for guarding the
peace ofethe British metropolis to- few
pounds short of e. 600 900 year. There
are 1885 ordinary policemen on the
force.
Threats of certain New York million
aires to expatriate themselves and go to
London if the income tax provision of
the tariff bill becomes law need not
alarm anyone. In the first place We
could perhaps struggle along without
the indignant tax dodgers, and in the
second place these gentlemen will dis
cover, if they investigate the matter, that
they will be jumping from the frying
pan into the fire by going from New
York to England. A system of taxation
which has been devised to catch wealthy
colonists who have returned to the
mother country applies equally to any
Disguised American plutocrats who may
seek her majesty's protection, and as the
English tax gatherer can neither be
brlhed nor lodged, no doubt the New
Workers. will reconsider their hasty de-