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The Irish standard., 1895-03-09
TRAVEL IN OLD TIMES.

How Some showdown Coachers Eeguiled
the Time with Cock Fights.
OF course the railways have done
away with much of the diff culties OF
travel in snow time. When a train is
showed up now there are no such in
conveniences as happened in the case
of the mail coaches. There is delay,
but there is generally enough to eat
and drink, plenty of companionship, and
a much larger area to live and breathe
in. A friend of mine, much my senior,
however, once told me what occurred
to him in snowstorm between Edin-
burgh and London. He was rner-
chant of great position and quite above
the temptation to exaggerate matters,
like mere story teller, and his nara
tive impressed me the more according
". Three times on their way south
both outside and inside passengers had
to get off the coach and push the wheels
through the drifted snow, and when
crossing Shap Fells (the bleakest spot
on the road) they got stuck, James Payn
writes in the London Illustrated. After
fruitless endeavor to move the coach
the guard rode off with the mailbags
and the passengers were left to their
fate. There was known to be an inn at
Shap if they could only get there, and
after many hours they contrived to do
SO. Fortunately there were no women
passengers, or it is possible they would
have succnmbed. They were shut up
at that inn for eight days, during which
they had no communication, either
north or south, with the outside world
''And suppose" said, .'you had no
books?" ''Books! Think Of books at
shap in those daysl No, not even q
pack of cards" ''Wlat did you do with
yourselvesp" Well said my respect
able friend, st seems queer to say so at
this time Of day, but the place was ia
nous for its game cocks and we had
cock fighting from morning to night. !"
That is what they did for eight days
instead of telling stories to one another,
as would have been the case in a Christ
mas number pa
The Irish standard., 1895-03-09
ART OF REMEMBERING.
The Mind II Like a Great Library, Each
Volume In Its Place.

The Mind II Like Great Library, Each
Volume In Its Place.
A noted medical writer Hkens the
brain to a vast library and each idea, or
name, or incident, to the volumes COM
posing it, says the New York CONNER
cial Advertiser. The memory, he says,
acts as librarian and tucks away each
volume in some peculiar niche of it's
own. Now, when we call on Librarian
Memory for one of these volumes, he
usually knows where it is and hands it
to us instanter; but occasionally he,
like other officeholders, forgets his du-
ties We call on him suddenly, waking
him from his nap, perhaps, and he can
not remember where he put the name
of Smith or Jones, or the little fact re-
garding the tariff or Agamemnon'a
wives or something or other. Some
times he finds it after moments
search, and sometimes not for days.
But he keeps up still-hunt for the
missing volume, even while you forget
all about it; and some time when you
are least expecting it, prestol there is
the very thing you are trying to re-
member.
For instance, somebody asked the
writer of this paragraph the other day
suddenly for the name Of a lady and
her daughter staying at one Of the
beaches near Boston. The name was
perfectly familiar one, being that of
an acquaintance; but with the question
it suddenly vanished. 1t was impossi-
BILE to answer. Librarian Memory
was asked for it three or four times
during the evening, but it eluded his
efforts completely and for day or two
the event was. forgotten. Finally, COM
ing down town on the electric car, with
the mind absorbed in other things, the
little librarian joggled our elbow.
"Here he is Smithson, volume Al, 1913,
shelf 217," he whispered. AS usual,
when one ceases to want the thing it
turns up. All, if one could only change
librarians when the old one shows signs
IF weak KENNEL
The Irish standard., 1895-03-09
STANDARD YARD AND POUND.
Sealed In the Walls of Parliament and
Opened Every Twenty Years.

Sealed In the Walls of Parliament and
Opened Every Twenty Years.
The originals of our yard measure
and pound weight - otherwise, the
British standard weights and meas
ures-are sealed Or walled up in the
sides of the house of parliament at Lon
don. The cavity IN the wall in which
these precious standards are preserved
somewhat resembles a tomb and can be
opened only by tearing away the wall.
The two articles which are therein so
safely cased are both of metal. The
yard measure is of bronze, in the shape
of a bar, thirty eight inches in length,
thirty -six sections, or one yard, having
been marked off upon it with some
finely scaled instrument. The weight
ing exactly sixteen ounces. Weighty
as it is it is scarcely more than an inch
in extent on either side, and, if sold for
the metal there is in it, would bring
nearly two hundred dollars.
Once every twenty years the walls
inclosing these standards are torn
away for the purpose of removing the
two pieces of metal and conlaring their
length and weight with the official
standards in use by the bureaus of
weights and measures. These com.
parsons are made under the supervi-
sion of the president of the London
board of trade and several other officials
appointed by the different branches of
the queens government.
Extremely delicate and elaborate ap-
paratus for making these comparisons
are used, and if the units in use by the
bureau referred to have been changed,
or deviate the least from the standards
with which they were compared twenty
years before, they are Immediately
changed, SO as to conform with the
original bronze and platinum types
The ceremony Of comparing the
standards was last made in April, 1892
After the comparisons had been made
and no variations detected, they were
again walled up with the understand
ing that they would not be again dis
tI1rbed until April. 1872
The Irish standard., 1895-03-09
TOBACCO in HAVANA.
Smoking Ii Done in All Places and
All Times.

Smoking Is Done in All Places and ut
All Times.
/ have never seen a Havana man
smoking in church, writes a correspon-
dent of the Washington Star. It's
about the only place where he does not
smoke. He smokes in the street cars,
he smokes at the public dining-table,
he smokes everywhere. The presence
of women is not considered ct all.
When coffee is brought on the table,
the Spaniard or Cuban lights his cigar
or cigarette and begins to send up
clouds of smoke. He never even thinks
of saying to the ladies: "By your leave"
for the custom Of the country is to
smoke everywhere. On the railway
trains there is no smoking compart-
ment, for man is privileged, and, I'M
fact, expected, to smoke everywhere;
II he is not smoking, his neighbor win
offer him q cigarette. The driver Of
your coach will smoke and very likely
offer you cheroot. At the opera thei
man will walk and smoke between tho
acts in the spaces behind the boxes and
balconies. You will see finely dressed,
seemingly well-bred men, with ladies'
in full evening toilet, entering tho
theater and smoking as they 60. You(
never see pipe il Cuba. II u the.
country Of the cigar and the cigarette, I
One Of the odd sights to d stranger lsi
that afforded by the negro women, who
smoke big, long and black cigars u thel
street. II was here that the smokingt
habit, which has spread around the|
world, had it's start, and the Cubans araE
still more devoted to their cigars THANH
sny other people. The cigar in1ustryl
and tho tobacco trade give oyrnent4
Is alarRs portion Of
Havana II every ll 8
across small d ests
from two to telI
ynmen eng aII;s|
The Irish standard., 1895-03-09
FOUL Air AS ~ GERM GARDEN.

GOOD E0n1CAt1On . Ef1m0 N0C0eNtuy - -
Defense a Kainst Disease Germs.
& The development Of the germs 50 ia
tai e. humanity when taken into the
system isan effort Of nature to destroy
and really eat up effete matter. The
grub and maggot, disgusting as they
are, are true scavengers, and II sufH-
Gent time be allowed them they will
reduce to lnnocuous dust the most pois-
onous Of animal and vegetable matter.
We regard the creatures with abhor-
renee because Of their occupation; but
they are laboring, albeit unconscious
". In the interest Of higher forms OF
life. When disease-generating matter
has passed through the digestive canal
of the pupa it is no longer Infectious.
In the undrained and filthy portions OF
city the foul matter is constantly &C
cumulating far beyond the corrective
powers of unaided nature. Deadly
gases are cast off from fostering heaps,
vapors charged with microscopic germs
which hatch fearful ailments in that
weak mechanism, mans Lody. But
even where the system is not directly
affected by germ diseases, the influence
of the foul gases why, we do not fully
understand as yet--tends to lower vi
tally to such degree that the subject
is always in good condition to take
fever Of the typhoid class, scaraltina,
diphtheria, etc, Prof. Alessis experi-
ments, says an exchange, show that q
person who has lived IN foul air for a
considerable time will get any one OF
the fatal germ diseases much more
readily than one who has breathed
pure air and only absorbs the germs by
accident. Prof Alessi has proved that
the same is true with animals. He
placed number of dogs, pigs, ETC., in
such situation that they were COM
PEELED to live, for some weeks, in an at
mosphere saturated with the noxious
vapors from garbage heaps These he
inoculated with the typhoid bacillus,
at the same time inoculating similar
number of animals which had been
brought direct from the pure air of the
rural district. The first lot died, some
of them in thirty-six hours, with un-
mistakable typhoid symptoms, while
not one of the second lot was affected.
It was observed, however, that when
the rural animals began to breathe the
infected air they began at once to show
signs of weakness and lassitude. They
lost their iveliness and grew CLASSY
eyed, and though they continued to
eat, they became poor in flesh. There
is a grim significance in these facts
which should teach us a lesson that
good sanitation is prime necessity,
not only as a defense against direct
assaults of germ disease, but also
against the lowering of the physical
powers which opens the system not
only to the bacillus but to all the other
foes which lie in wait to destroy life.
The Irish standard., 1895-03-09
HUNTING THE JAck RABsIT.


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The Irish standard., 1895-03-09
NOT DISCRIMINATING.
Mankind in No Danger of Becoming q
* Race of Dwarfs

/
c Race of Dwarfs.
It appears from the results of scien-
tific measurements recently made in
France that the average stature OF
man is neither increasing nor decreas-
ing. The skeletons of the men who
inhabited France at a period when Eu-
rope was the home of lions, elephants,
rhinoceroses, hyenas and reindeer are
of very nearly the same size as those OF
the French people of to-day.
Yet, says Youths Companion, the
surroundings amid which these early
men lived were remarkably different
from those enjoyed by their sue
cessors. Their best abodes were caves,
and to hold possession Of them they
had to wage warfare upon such fierce
beasts as the saber-toothed tiger and
the cave bear.
Without our modern weapons it
would seem that they should have pos.
sessed superior bodily powers, but
there is no evidence that they did.
They had human cunning, however,
which always prevails over brute
strength.
f Later came the ancestors Of the
Gauls and Franks, and they seem to
have slightly exceeded the cave men u
stature, and also to have been tribe
taller than their modern descendants.
One interesting fact shown by the
measurements Is that there has been 9
perceptible gain IN the stature ct
women as comparedwith that Of men
since the days Of the tiger fighters IN
France.
Taken as 3 whole, this evidence
shows that there is no danger that
mankind viii become race Of dwarfs,
and no likelihood Of their developing
si1f1 giants 85 s E 55 5#s
The Irish standard., 1895-03-09
Origin Or ci<ET s. CABLING. I

81 RiGtN OF#ssI iC'l<EsI7 n CiALP q.
stArted i wheslinx, ". va. ! anars.r Il
. Century Ago. ss55
Campbell Hubbard, . nail traveller, of
Wheeling, recently said to. . Globe
Democrat man: 81 have just been!
reading the decision Of Judge Nash, at
Dallas, in the ticket broker case under
he new Texas law, intended to do
away with the scaipers' business. IT
strikes me as being an exceedingly
clear and q forcefnl exposition Of the
subject matter involved in the Trailer
prosecution It is closely in line with
decisions in favor of the scalpers in
Minnesota, Illinois and Pennsylvania.
The gravamen Of these decisions is that.
an unused railway ticket, or'an unused
portion of q ticket, is legitimate prop
erty, and any law which interferes with
its disposition by sale is contrary to.
public policy, if not in direct conflict
with the constitution of the United
States This decision Of Judge Nash
will help the scalpers, not only down
in Texas, but all over the country.
The extent to which the ticket brokers'
help the weak roads against the strongI
ones is but little realized, and without.
their aid many of the lines would go
under. 1t is their method OF cutting
rates secretly to stimulate business.
and the brokers are really regular,
agents of these companies. BY the bye,
perhaps you don't know that the scalper
business originated in my town
Wheeling. 1t was about twenty-five
years ago. We had a couple of bright
young fellows there-Upton w. Dorsey
and another chap named Frank They
took notion to speculate on a small
scale in tickets of the Baltimore g.
Ohio, and the first scalping transaction
that ever occurred in the history Of
railroading took place there in Wheel
ing. The Baltimore & Ohio company
made big fight upon it, and the case
went to the supreme court of the
United States. The result was that the
supreme court handed down it's famous
decision to the effect that when man
buys ticket for SO many miles of
transportation he is entitled to travel
those miles, regardless of the limit
dates stamped upon the ticket by the
company's agents. From that time on
the scalper's business fourished, and
spread with amazing rapidity all over.
the country. It is now as safe and as
legitimate a line of business as banking
or insurance or manufacturing, and is,
moreover, mighty help to the travel
ing public"
The Irish standard., 1895-03-09
3sonnds TOO IFine "a Hear.,


Sir John Lubbock believes from his
study Of ants that they cannot hear
many Of the noises which are audible
to men, and It is inferentially believed
that there are some sounds too fine and
others too loud for the ears of men.
The London Spectator thinks that IS
light IS vibration there q no reason II
should not he audible to finer ears than
oura BY the & same rule music ought
to slime to eyes which are capable 81
appreci atiing the, same viibrat tiions which
impress thenselve res on the drum q tho
-. -. however, s. post:
The Irish standard., 1895-03-09
!. An Extraordinary Ointment

The Irish salve was an
ointment supposed to possess the most
extra binary virtues "a keeping with
its most ex dinary Ingredients
one 81 these was . powder made from
the moss which had grown On skulls = !, 4
lying exposed Oh battle fields Unllle IS,
the skull vas az 3 person who died 9
violent death the powder opposed
toIlose its m
The Irish standard., 1895-03-09
" EIGHT O Il b WORLD D.
How It Is Calculated BY an Eng
lish Professor. .is
Figures which Are BewildsrinE In Their
Immensjty Tho Scientific Gentle
man ID Doubtless Safe from
5% M fs 53 Contradiction.

Z When Newton set himself to find the
law By which an apple falls to the
earth and the planets revolve at vary
ing speeds along their orbits he con-
structed formula which would ex-
plain these phenomena, says the Lon
don Graphic. He laid it down as 9 law
that the force with which the earth att
tracts the apple or the apple the earth,
or the planets one another, is equal to
the, mass Of the one multiplied by the
mass of the other, and divided by the
square of the distance between them
the whole multiplied by a constant
called G. 6 is the Newtonian constant
Of gravitation. It is of all the con-
stants the most important to physical
science; it is constant for the more
accurate determination OF which Prof.
Boys, who lectured upon it recently at
the London institute, has been willing
to spend five years of the most arduous
and minute observation. tbs one hum
dred years since Rev. Mr.. Mitchell first
devised an instrument by which it
would be possible to obtain, by actual
observation, the attraction which two
bodies have for one another
Cavendish improved upon Mitchell's
observations, Cornu carried it on. Prof.
Boys has, so to speak, carried it two
decimal places further. Now let us
consider how it would be possible to as
certain, by observation, the attraction
which two bodies have for one an
other. If Prof. Boys were to hang a
couple Of fifty-pound lead balls by two
fbers he would find it as impossible to
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-19

policeman turned to the jury and said; They claim that this is the place, gentlemen, where the body of Blanche Lamont was found
 Everybody but Durrant involun- tarily shaddered and drew back step or two. He stood there impsssively, without even the tremor of an eyelash, and then looked around him, as if he had never seen the place before.
 "The trial is now drawing to q close, but the excitement of the people does not abate. They believe that there is not doubt as to Durrant's B guilt. He does not seem to care what anybody thinks. His father and mother are like him, and show no feeling of concern as to their sons fate, although it is said that they love him passiopately."
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-19

The question of the legality of the county classification act has again been raised, this time in Cochise. The grounds of contest are "that under the Harrison act the legislature is pro. hibited from creating, increasing or decreasing the fees or salaries of off cers during the term of the officer elected. That the taking of an office from an officer duly elected and con ferring the same upon another officer, as in the case of the Assessor aud Clerk of the Board, after election, is In viola ton of the Constitution. It was also shown that the classification act fails to repeal any act in conflict with said act, and fails to state when it shall take effect. There were also several other points of minor importance raised
 The Board of Supervisors were so profoundly impressed by the able" argument of the attorney for the county officers, they passed resolution that in their opinion the act does not take effect until January lst next, aud, therefore, the salaries of the various officers were restored as under the old law. The District Attorney prepared a writ of certiorari restraining the Board from issuing warrants fer sala- ries in excess of amounts allowed by the classification act, and forwarded the same to Judge Bethune, and no action will be taken by the county until re- turn is made.
 We are of the opinion that the ex captions to the law are not we'll taken and that Judge Bethune will decide the classification act valid The liar rison act does not prohibit territorial legislatures from passing a general law changing the fees and allowances of officers The classification act is q general law, affecting the officers of all the counties in Arizona. The statute provides that where no date is specified when law shall take effect, it will be Tn force thirty days after it's enactment. Although the law is unjust. we think it will stand.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-19

One of the immense guns for the United States battleship Oregon has arrived at the Union Works on a special car constructed for the purpose by the Pennsylvania Railroad. The car is similar in construction to the one used for transporting the KruPp gun to Chicago during the Worlds Fair. The car will,be returned immediately for the purpose of transporting the other three guns of the same size. The gun is Q thirteen-inch riAed piece, weighs l57, ,50O pounds and is 40 feet in length. The car is so constructed Rs to distribute this weight as evenly as possible over the numerous wheels of the trucks. It is expected that all the guns will be in place upon the Oregon before winter.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-19
DURRINT's NERVE.

William Clark, Under Sheriff of San Francisco, in an interview at New York, says of Theodore Durrant:
 ''He is the most indifferent and callous man in existence. Under tie most trying circumstances he remains cold, calm and absolutely fearless. He is peculiar looking fellow. His forehead is fairly developed and his eyes are full, clear and intelligent.
 "He never gives any trouble, never asks any questions, never exhibits any symptoms of feeling, and has never referred in any way to Blanche Lamont or Minnie Williams. He acts as if he had never known them. He seems to be made of steel, and is the same Theodore Durrant today as he was before the discovery of the bodies in the belfry of Emanuel Baptist Church.
 "When the jury and Durrant were taken to the place of the tragedy in the belfry of the church, it was who escorted them. When we were climbing the rickety stairs to tho old bzAry we came to laudipg, and
Arizona silver belt., 1895-10-19

It wlll probably be many years be- fore such important changes as have taken place in the last few weeks in army commands occur again. Major General \. A. Miles, the new com manding General, will not retire from the army until eight years hence, and by that time the last of the present general officers win have been retired, if they live until then. Not only this, but in 1903 the names of most of the present survivors of the days of the civil war will have disappeared from the active list If General Miles con tinues at the head of the army until he reaches the retiring age, his period of service as commanding General will ex- csed that of his eighteen predecessors, except Washington, Wilkinson, Dear. born, Macomb, Scott and Sherman.