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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-01-05
BOTH CAT HOME"

A Scotch Professor Quantity Answers |.
Society Invitation.
A story has been current among the
students at Aberdeen which showed
that, up to comparatively recent date,
ancient prejudices were retained by
the old Scotch professors. It related,
says Tit-Bits, to the late Principal
Prize, who had a weakness for the re-
6nements Of life.
Just after sat home cards became
fashionable one of the dryest speci-
mems of the old professional regime
was surprised to receive missive
which read as follows:
principal and Mrs. Prize present
their compliments to Prof. t, and
hope he is we'll. Principal and Mrs.
Prize will be at home on Thursday
evening at eight o'clock
This was something which evidently
required an answer, but the recipient
of it was quite equal to the occasion.
He wrote:
.sProf. T returns the compliments
of Principal and Mrs. Prize, and informs
them that he is very well. Prot. tt
is glad to hear that Principal. and Mrs.
Prize will be at home on Thursday
evening at eight o'clock. Prot. T
will also be at home.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-01-05
PEARLS ARE MANUFACTURED.

And Oysters for the Purpose Are Extern
siveiy Cultivated in Chinese Waterss
The cultivation OF the pearl oyster
has for wears been carried on with
great success in the bay of Ago, in
Japan, under direction and restric ton
of governmental supervision. The proc
ess of nature is, however, too slow for
modern requirements. A Frenchman
has been boring holes in the shells OF
pearl oysters and introducing therein
small glass beads and stopping up the
holes with cork. In six months he has
pure surface pearls with a glass founda~
tion. The nacre of the pearl 1olluslzs
varies in color, according to it's Local
ton, and almost any color of pearl, as
white, black, pink, or gray, can read
lily be produced by lodging the nucleus
on the appropriate part Of the mol
lusk's body. The Chinese are wonder
fully expert in the manufacture of
pearls: They introduce small balls Of
earth inside the pearl .mussel by very
delicately opening the shell and plac-
ing the nuclei under the mouth of the
animal and allowing the she'll to close.
This initial process occurs in May or
June; the mussels are then deposited
in canals or pools and in November the
mollusks are opened, the pearls re-
moved, holes bored therein, the nuclei
extracted, the hollow pearl filed with
melted resin and the orifce slzillfu]ly
filled with mother of pearl. These
Chinese pearls are fat on the bottom
and are nearly hemispherical in shape.
Pearls can be made of almost any de-
sired shade Or color by chemical means.
The black pearl, for instance, is indeli-
bly, colored in a bath of nitrate of
silver.
Pearls being partly of animal sub
stance are subject to deterioration and
decay. and none of the famous pearls
of to-day can be traced back many
generations.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-01-05
THE DoMlNlCAL LETTER.
Learned Lore on tho Chronology OF Cycles
Abstrusely Set Forth.

Learned Lore on tho Chronology of Cycles
Abstrusely Set Forth.
Take down your 1894 almanac and
after wading through eclipse tables,
rules for finding the greatest elonga-
ton OF polaris, table of ember days,
etc, you will find double column OF
four lines each entitled chronological
Cycles" says an exchange. The first
thing in that table is this; 90 Domin-
ical or Sunday letter, c. That tells
you very little, to be sure, but it is
really something valuable in the way
of keeping track Of chronology, pro-
viding you know how to use it. Find
ing the dominica letter will enable
one to tell what day Of the week any
given date in the year is; and, further,
the dominica letter being known for
any one year, can be found for any
other by simply remembering that an
ordinary year has fftytwo weeks and
one day: leap year ffty-two weeks
and two days.
The rule is that the letter which falls
against the first Sunday in January
falls against every Sunday in that year,
unless it be a leap year, in which case
there are always two dominica LETT
tiers. The whole problem reverts to a
simple calculation in arithmetic. To
the number Of the year add one-quar-
ter of itself (neglecting fractions) and
divide the same by seven, then, for the
nineteenth century, subtract the re-
mainder from eight. Or if it is 0, from
+ha ind nr.
cate the place of the dominica letter
in the alphabet.
For the eighteenth century subtract
from seven; for she seventeenth, and
on back to 1882, the year the Gregorian
calendar was adopted, subtract from
six, or if the remainder be six, from
thirteen. For dates previous to 1882
subtract from three, Or if the remain
der be three, from ten. But the do
ninical letter thus obtained for a leap
year belongs only to the time follow
ing February 20, and for the previous
two months it will be for the succeed
ing letter in the alphabet This new
remainder is also the date OF the first
Sunday in January for that year.
The same date in February will fall
on Wednesday; in March on Wednes-
day; in April on Saturday, etc.; as may
be seen from the fact that the first
days Of the twelve months have an
nexed to them in the calendar the in
itials of the words: AT Dover dwells
George Brown, Esquire, Good Chris
topher finch and David Friar."
Take this as sample example; The
day OF the week upon which New York
was incorporated, June IL. 1865, is thus
found: 1865 added to 416, one-quarter
Of itself, divided by seven, equals 297,
with remainder of two; and it being
in the seventeenth century, six minus
two equals four, which shows that the
dominical letter for that year was the
fourth in the alphabet, or D. Then, as
June begins with E, June 1, 1865. was
Mon day, and June IL was Friday.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-01-05
a DASHlNG COUNTESS.
She Jumps Her Horse over = Di'1in Z
T.aIl

She Jumps Tier Horse over = Diuin
Table.
A late sensation in Paris was the re-
suit of a novel bet made between two
leading lights CT the fashionable jockey
club N that city. 1t came about in this
way. During a dinner given in honor
of the winner of the grand autumn
races, the guests began to tell stories
of fine horsemanship. An. elderly Of
fcer present said that he thought the
young men Of the generation did not
ride SO we'll as they did in the good old
days. This led to an animated dispute,
which ended by Max Lebaudy offering
to bet that he knew lady rider that
could do anything with a horse that
any man of this OR any other genera
ton had done.
The old officer accepted the bet, stip~
ulating that the lady should ride her
horse into the banquet hall, and take a
flying leap over the table without dis
turbing or touching the wine bottles,
flowers or anything else ON the table.
; Nobody dreamed that the bet would
be accepted.
ing, when the same party was gathered
around the festive board, the event
took place. The world famous eques~
! trienne, Camilla Won Wahlburg mounted
on her favorite full-blooded Arabian
horse, and attired in the regular rid
ing habit, suddenly appeared in the
door of the diningcoom. With a CHEEKY
Good evening, gentlemen" she gave
the spur to her animal, and, before the
thoroughly surprised and amazed din
ers had time to collect their thoughts,
she had been carried over the table
in the most graceful and approved
fashion by her spirited horse. Not
even the filed wine glasses were Jared,
and Max won his bet, and the crowd
did homage to and toasted the dashing
eqnestrienne.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-01-05
Paid for Their Joke.

While Bowdoin college professor
was holding a recitation, some mis-
3chievous students induced hand
organ man to come up the hall near
the classroom and play Sweet Marie, :
the boys all joining IN the chorus The
professor imme diately came out, hat In
hand, and passed it to everyone OF the
students, exhorting them to be gener-
Gus, Taking the money collected, he
gave it to the organ-grinder, and then
told hin, in Italian, TIC, leave. Than he
returned to his recitation, leaving the
students to realize that they were tho
real victims Of the Joke. ..
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-01-05
DUMMIES HISTORY.
How Its Use Supplanted the Oid-Time
Practice Of Bleeding.

How Its Use Supplanted the Old-Time
Practice of Bleeding.
An important epoch in the career OF
DR.. Maillot, a distinguished French
physician, who died in Paris lately at
the age of ninety-nine years, illus
trated the great timidity of medical
science in taking up new method OF
treatment or abandoning an old one.
DR.. Maillot is known to the medical
world as the practical introducer into
French practice Of the use Of quinine
in the treatment of malarial and other
fevers.
In 1882, when the French were con-
Quoting campaign of conquest
in Algeria, the mortality among
the troops and colonists there was
frightful, says Pearsons Weekly.
France was being continually called
upon for fresh levies Of men and youths
to supply this terrible loss, chiefly
through fever incidental to the eli
mate and the life the French in AL
geria were leading. At that time the
practice of bleeding still prevailed.
"Bleed them until they are white, - was
the injunction which Broussals, the
medical master of the French, gave to
his followers when the condition of the
soldier was reported to him. At Bone,
in one year, out of an effective force OF
ifty-five hundred men, eleven hundred
died of illness in the hospital.
At that time the effects of sulphate
of quinine were known, but few ply
sicians ventured to employ it. Maillot
had interested himself in the new
remedy, and, going to Bone in the
medical service of the government, he
| resolved to see if it would not reduce
the frightful mortality, which was one
to every three and half men WHO en-
tered the hospital At first he en-
ployed the quinine merely as an adj
junct to the bleeding. He soon found
that bleeding was killing the men and
that quinine was saving them. Little
by olittle he left off bleeding, to the
great scandal of the medical profess
sion. Exactly in proportion as the
bleeding ceased the deaths in the hos
pital decreased. In two years THE
deaths fell off from one in three and a
half of all who entered the hospital tC
one in twenty-six, and finally to one in
forty-six.
Maillot quite naturally enough grew
to be the opponent of bleeding, but he
was so ceaselessly villifed by members
of the medical profession that he be-
came embittered toward his colleagues
Nearly thirty years passed before Mail
lot saw the complete triumph of his
ideas. Doctors continued to bleed their
patients heartily for all manner OF ills
But in 1860 Maillot was made com
mapder of the Legion of Honor and
chief Of the medical staff of the French
army, and his influence, with others,
in bringing about a virtual revolution
in the practice Of medicine was fully
recognized.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-01-05
vAnDAL TOURISTS IN EGYPT.

Priceless Relics OF Vanished Civilization
Rein. Ruthlessly Destroyed.
A correspondent of the London Times.
bewails the destruction of monuments,
and historical records which lis going
on continually in Egypt He says that
t'every season sees buildings ruthlessly'
destroyed for the sake of materials, and;
&, host Of objects plundered by the ma
tives from towns and cemeteries, in
order that they may be scattered WITH
out name or record among the tourist,
flock. Even those objects which pass
into museums have lost most OF their,
Importance and Of their value in losingt
all record of their original place and
circumstances. The laws Of Egypt may
be excellent in theory, but in practicei
it is perfectly we'll known that hun
dreds Of persons join in this destruc-
tion--yet 10 man is punished for it.
There is, then. the most urgent need Of
saving all that is possible by complete
and careful excavation, in whlc, the
history and meaning Of every object|
sl1all be traced and recorded as it is
found. TO any person not acquainted
WlCil LlIIs pItCLkIGl WtIh Va E.At1F dtlciLE
it might seem that SO long DIS things areI
not actually destroyed it does not mat
ter whether it be an Arab Or d traincdI
observer that may find them But theraI
is generally more history involved I'M
the position and details Of discovery
than in the object found Fossils are
worth but little if their strata are u,,~'
known More scientific material has
been destroyed than preserved III many
or most, excavatio1,:-even by Euro!
peans and psychologists" He then,
proceeds to solicit for the Egyptian re-
search account, which, he says, has
been established IN OF to undertake
great clearances or exploits in the
country. but TO fit men for work Of tba
highest class archuologically, and att
the same time benefit our knowledge
and our museums, as far as may be. by
means of their excavations.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-01-05
NEW WORK FOR THE HORSE,
The Doctors Have Taken Him In Hand fol-
yufiC 3.

The Doctors Have Taken Him In Hand fol
Medical Uses.
Between the steam engine. the bi.
cycle, the trolley car and the storage
battery it began to look as if the HORSE
would lose his job. Just in the nick Of
time, however, when scientists were,
wondering whether the friend of man
would be allowed to relapse into Wild
ness. or whether he would be turned
over to the western packers and made
into extract of beef, a new occupation
rises up before him, says the Buffalo.
Express This is the manufacture dh
serum for the treatment of diphtheria.t
There ought to be quite d field Cd
usefulness for the horse IN this capacity
The manufacture Of serum is Il slow
process, and it is likely good many
horses will be needed for it. Consult
General de Kay writes from Berlin
that : the establishment at Scherine
has forty horses under treatment, yet
the demand for the serum has been so
great that the hospitals ran out of ID
in September, The remedy takes q
long time to prepare and must o.
comparatively fresh. At least nine
months, and sometimes year, are re-.
quired to get the animals into condi-'
ton One animal does not furnish.
much blood at a tine-only two quarts.
The horse must be carefully fed be-
tween the dates of tapping, and, as in
time the strength of the blood as q
means of cure gives out it is necessary
to repeat the process of cultivating the
bacillus
! Altogether the i1ldicatio are THAI
this new field of usefulness for the
horse will be a wide one. Whether he,
will like his new occupation is doubt-
full. Even hauling a heavy stage is
preferable in some respects to being
fed high for a time, only to have your
blood then drawn OFF for medicine.
There is something ogreish about it,:
and the horse may we'll object. But it
is hardly likely that humanity Will
spare him. The benefits of the serum
treatment appear to be too evident TO
allow of any computations. Thus an
other change is impending in the status
of the horse. and the image OF the
proud animal which was once idealiZed!
as Pegasus and bore poets flying
through the air, may yet be seen
adorned with spectacl IS and holding
out bottle in his hoof, upon the label
of Il medicine bottle
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ABLE TO TRANSFER LUNACY.
Uncanny Result of Experiment In
5.ya

Uncanny Result of an Experiment In
'Hypnotis,n Made by Paris Doctor.
A series of very wonderful expert
ments which have just been concluded
by DIR. Luys, of Paris. whose observa-
tions and discoveries in connection
with magnetism and electricity in re-
lation to hypnotisEu made profou nd
impression upon the scientific world
some time ago, has led to Il reularlza~
BILE result. The latest discovery, says
the London Telegraph, esta blishes the
fact that q cerebral activity can be-
transferred to a crown Of magnetizedi
iron, in which the activity can be re-
tanned and subsequently passed on to
a second person. Incredible as this
may seem, DR.. Luys has proved its pos
sibility by the experiments just re-,
ferred to. he placed the crown. which,
in reality is only circular band Of
magnetized iron, On the head Of a fe-
male patient suffering from melan-
cholia, with a mania for self-destruc-
ton, and with such success was The.
experiment attended that within al
fortnight the patient could be allowed
to go free without danger, the CROWN
having absorbed all her marked ten,
denotes. About two weeks ssfterward,
he put the same crown, which mean
while had been carefully kept free|
from contact with anything else, on|
the head Of q male patient suffering
from hysteria, complicated by frequent
recurrent periods Of lsthargy. The
patient was Their notified and INNER
diately conducted himself after the
manner of the woman who had pres
viously worn the crown. Indeed, he.
practically assumed her personality
and uttered exactly the same COM
plants as she had done. Similar pilerI'
,nomena haye,,it is reported, Deen obi
served in the case Of every patiesnt g.
3perimented Another expert
ment showed the crown retainedtl
the impresafo red until it
made. red 2gsS
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-01-05
Took 1t for 4 sample.

AS Burton, the comedian, was travel
ing on q steamboat down the Hudson,
he seated himself at the table and
called for some beefsteak. The waiter
furnished him with a small strip Of the
article, such as travellers are usually
put off with. Taking it upon his fork
and turning It over and examining Il
with one Of his peculiar 'seriou. looks,
the comedian cool1y remarked: S. es,
that's il; bring me some. :
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-01-05
They Had the Ammunition.

A Detroit man, the other day, re-
ceived a sudden invitation from Ken
lucky friend, says the Free Press, to
come down and join hunting party
about to start for the mountains. The
Detroit man wanted to go, but he did
not know what kind Of game was to be
the object, SO he sent this telegram for
ctions: AL right. What shall !
bring?'' a few hours later he received
this reply: Corkscrews; we have the
rest. 8
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-01-05
ONLY A DIME.
One Calculator's Mistake of Ten Cents
Created q Peck Of Trouble.

One Calculator's Mistake of Ten Cents
Created Peck of Trouble.
Once in a great while one of the
thirty odd bank clerks who are daily
delegated to render into the Proyi.
dence clearing house the accounts OF
their respective banks makes an error
in his triggers" Usually the session is
over in twenty minutes, but one day
recently it required an extra hour for
the finding of a 10-cent mistake in ST.
1872, 100, says the Providence Journal.
AS there is q money fine, which gath
ers double compound comminuted in
terest, so to speak, as the minutes are
piled up by the clock, each young gen
tleman Of the thirty odd is on pins and
needles until the fellow who is to
blame is discovered.
At noon the clearing house tele-
phone, which is that of the Roger
Williams bank, began to ring, and
from that time until the session was
concluded bank after bank called up
to know if its emissary had gone to
Canada and had left everything but q
balance against the bank. Officials
and clerks, who go to dinner in rota-
ton, stood with watches in hand and
saw their cars go by and felt an in
crea sing and aching void at the belt. !"
About l2:45 O'Clock the 81, 152, 100 had
been squared up to a cent and the 10
cent fellow who had shaken the bank
ing community to the pit Of its stom-
ach was laden with crop Of fines 90
thick as flies at the bunghole Of mo
lasses barrel.
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A Dimc-1lt sum.


Kate Sanborn tells, in Abandoning
an Adopted Farm a story Of a big boy
in country school. who was clever
enough in some studies, but hopelessly
deficient in mathematics. The teacher,
q man who had little mercy fora stupid
pupil, one day lost patience with him
entirely. The boy had failed to do a
simple sum in subtraction, and the
teacher rubbed out the figures on his
slate, put down six ciphers and six
more under them He drew line,
handed the slate back to the dullard,
and said, gravely: There! seefif you
can subtract that" The poor boy.
gazed stolidly at the new sum. It
looked queer and hard. He tackled it
aloud, making hideous grimaces as he
progressed. ''Nawthin from nawthin
leaves nawthin. Nawthin from naac-|
than leaves nawthir. Nawthin from
nawthin leaves nawthin. Nawthin
from nawthin kapes -nawthin. NaWt
s1rom naWt thin leaves aaaot tig. Z There
ne paused !, con fused, but lying all
DIS brain power he claimed Iff I'm
ever goin' I've got "a carry
500 NaNth leaves
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-14
THE FISDIANAo COMPLETED.
Ii Will BE the First Battleship to Go
Into Actual Service.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov. 13.-The
battleship Indiana has been completed,
so far as the builders are concerned
She lies at the dock at Cramps all ready
to be transferred to the Navy Depart
ment.
The indiana is expected to 90 into
commission at League Island Navy Yard
next week Commander Robley Evans,
famlliarIy known as Fighting Bob, :"
who has been ordered to the command
of the vessel, has been in the city for
some weeks past hurrying along the final
stages of the work.
The X diana viii be first of the battle
ships to go into actual service. The
late accident to the Texas, in the re-
ported stralning of her frar es, again
delays her from ing into commission.
The Indiana will, therefore, take first
rank in the priority of her commission
and Commander Evans views this with
p.ide after bis untiriDg efforts to get the
ship ready.
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CRISP FOR FREE SILVER.
He Addresses the General A. sem bly, of
Georgia on Finances.

ATLANTA, Nov. 13.-The House of
Representatives to-day unanimously
adopted a resolution inviting Secreta-
ry of the Interior Smith to address the
General Assembly on the issues of the
day at such date as he may find con-
venient. Ex-Speaker Crisp spoke in
the hall of the House tonight in res
ponse to similar invitation extended
last week.
Mr.. Crisp confined himself almost OK
clnsively to the financial quest ion and N
the course OF his remaI ks declared himself
unequivocaily in favor of free, nr4in
tied and independent coinage of silver,
at ratio of 10 to /. His argument was
confined to contradiction of the state
ments made by the advocates of gold
standard to the effect that free coinage
would result in silver monometallism,
and that values would be dl creased.
He advised an exposition from the
Democrats of Georgia on the question,
a. d said they should insist that their
representatives in the next Cor gress
should insist upon the making of plat
form by those who elected The President,
and not by these who lived IN States that
did not furnish the electoral vote. He
said that there were many good Demo
Gratis who favored single gold standard,
but that their views were as much at va
rance with party principles as were
those of high tariff Democrats
In view of the fact that the speech to
night is considered the opening ore
of the campaign for the United States
Senatorship which will be made vacant
upon the expiration of Senator Gordon s
term, and that Mr.. Crisp is regarded as
probable candidate, his utterances are
taken as significant of the platform upon
which he will offer himself as a Senate
rial candidate.