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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-02-09
. AZ RUSSIAN SUPERSTITION.

Which Dbliges the New Czarina to Dress
for Her Wedding Before Historic Table.
Russians are noted for their super
stitions and for the numerous legends
they have handed down from father to
SON. A curious legend is related in an
English paper concerning the Russian
custom which prescribes that the new
czarina must dress on her wedding
morn before the historical wedding
table which belonged to Czarina Maria
Ivanowna This precious piece of furnti-
ture was the gift from her imperial
fiance, and the legend relates it is the
most wonderful nuptial gift known.
The young Princess Maria was very
pleased and proud of it; she was also
very beautiful, loved and was adored
BY her future husband On her we'd
ding day, while her ladies were dress
ing her before this table, all at once
the precious mirror did not reflect the
superb beauty of Maria Ivanowna nor
her magnificent dress nor her magnif-
cent gems Instead Of that rapid
vision passed over it's clear surface,
scenes Of bloodshed, struggles, mis-
fortunes, IN when appeared tne ngures
of her husband and of sons and grand
children destined to wear the heavy
crown of the Muscovite succession.
The poor girl was terribly frightened
and tainted at the sight of these dread
full scenes, and to which future events
gave tragic confirmation. Maria
Ivanowna, to whom this revelation was
one of advice and instruction, expressed
the desire that the golden toilet table
should be used by each successive
czarina on the day of her bridal, with
the intention, perhaps, that if the
vision should again reveal the mys-
teries of the future to another bride it
would serve. as an admonition that
earthly happiness is not to be attained
here below, even on the steps of a
throne
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-02-09
A Singular Adventure.

The pupils of the Polytechnic school
in Paris are, like opr naval and army
cadets at Annapolis and West Point, re-
nowned for their learning and disci-
pine; but also, like our own cadets, oc-
casionally they become FESTIVE and
break bounds Recently some Of the
pupils met with a singular adventure.
They were sentenced to remain within
the school limits for some misdemeanor,
and of course were then more eager to
get outside. One of their number hit
upon the idea of escaping by way of a
subterranean trap-door which led into
the sewers. The foolish boys eagerly
followed their leader, thinking it a good
joke; but, to their terror, they soon lost
their way, and for two days and nights
wandered through a labyrinth, without
eating, drinking or sleeping. Fortu-
nately, at the end of that time, they
met some scavengers and were rescued.
The school authorities concluded that
the truants had been punished enough,
and the pupils agreed with them.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-02-09
TRAINING NATURE.
How the Japanese Mako Marvels for tho
Market.

How the Japanese Mako Marvels Tor tho
Market. M
At Jamrach's, in London, the other
day, some one asked the great animal
catcher and importer eff he had run
out of mermaids?"
1--WE used to keep them," he an
swered. 'when they fetched four
pounds apiece, but now we can't get
more than one pound for them. Frank
auckland burst up the trade when he
exposed the method of their manufac-
ture by the japanese from fish and a
monkey skin cleverly united; so we no
longer make them leading article, y
he smilingly added.
''The Japanese are remarkably in
ger.ious."
s'!Not only that, but they possess inf
mite patience. The telescope fish is a
cake.in point. 1t is fish of immense
length. with double, fanlike tail, and
produced by breeding on the principle
at artificial selection. However, they
are quite common in Germany now"
'sAnd do you know how they get
white Java sparrows?"
s'They select a pair of grayish birds
and keep them in a white cage in q
white room, and they are attended by
a person dressed in white. The mental
effect on a series of generations of birds
results in completely white birds. They
breed the domestic cock with enor-
mously long tails after the same princi-
Pile. They first select bird with .
good tail, giving him very high perch
to stand on; then with weights they
drag the tail downward, carrying on
the same system with the finest speci-
mems of his descendants till q tail al
most as long as peacock's is produced
at last. And how marvellous they are
IN the fertilization of plants! Did you
ever see one Of their dwarf trees, per-
haps fifty years old, and yet not more
than an inch or two high?"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-02-09
RED CROSS IN JAPAN.
That Government Has Signed the Gonevs
Compact But China Never Has.


Compact But China Never Has.
Some forty governm nts in all are
bound together by the compact known
as the red cross or the international
convention of Geneva of 1864
The one word neutral signifies the
whole essence of this treaty; it defines
the condition of all sick and wounded
soldiers. all surgeons, nurses and at
tendants, all hospitals, ambulances,
and other appliances, while they dis
play the red cross arm badge or flag
duly authorized and inscribed by the
military power of the army to which
they are attached; and furthermore, all
inha bitants Of country in the vicinity
of where the battle is raging, as well as
their buildings, are sacredly regarded
as neutral while they are administer
ing to the wants of the wounded and
disabled, or being employed for hos
pital purposes.
Wounded soldiers falling into the
enemys hands are neutral, and must
be sent to the frontier for delivery to
their own army as soon as possible,
provided, of course, that the country
to which they belong is an adherent to
the red cross treaty.
/ BY applying the foregoing principles
one will readily grasp the idea why
Japan is doing such effective and COM
mendable work as humanitarian ma
ton. She is carrying out to the letter,
according to Harper's Weekly, the
spirit and the obligations of the Geneva
red cross treaty, to which she gave her
adhesion in 1886, while her emperor
stands at the head of her civil red cross
society.
In six great wars the red cross has
been conspicuous. Written history re-
cords the benefcent work it has done,
but only unwritten history can relate
the prevention of untold misery and
suffering on every field.
In the present war Japan, as red
cross nation, meets difficulties and dan
gers unknown in any former war where
the red cross has worked, from the fact
that her enemy, China, is not a nation
signatory to the treaty of Geneva,
hence humanity is shown on one side
in the treatment of sick and wounded,
while inhumanity runs riot on the
other
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-02-09
ARR DOES NOT KILL.
The Wind Preceding Shot Found Co Be
Harmless.

Tho Wind Preceding a Shot Found co Be
Harmless.
The old belief that proiectiles some
times kill men in battle without hitting
them must be abandoned in view of re-
cent scientific experiments. twas for
merly supposed that the air compressed
and driven before the projectile, and
technically called 1.-THE wind OF the
shot, was capable of striking fatal
blow, and even army surgeons have as
sented to this theory.
But, says Youths Companion, ex-
periments have shown that the air
driven by projectile, while capable OF
being instantaneously photographed in
the form of wave, does not possess
sufficient energy to produce any de-
structive effect.
Another theory which recent investi-
cations have overturned is that the ex-
plosive effect sometimes exhibited by
bullets is due to compressed air driven
into the wound.
Experience shows that the appear
ance of explosion arises from the ma
ture of the substance penetrated by the
bullet. If this substance is plastic or
watery, the impulse of the projectile is
distributed laterally in all directions
among it's particles, and they are driven
asunder.
Such an effect has been noticed in
battle when bullets have entered the
brain, and accusations of using explo-
sive projectiles, contrary to the comfy
of nations, have been based upon them,
BY firing bullets into wet dough, every
indication Of an explosion has been pro-
duced, although the same bullets, fired
with identical velocity, into solid sub
stances like bone, made only round,
clean-cut boles.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-02-09
PARENTS IN j IAN. !
rhsy Are Beloved Far above Husband q

Y60y9Are Beloved Far Above HUSBAND q
5s Wife.
The moral and social law Of Japan is:
Thou shalt love thy father and mother
with all thy heart, mind and strength. z
The japanese wife loves her own par
ents more than she does her Husband,
and a Japanese husband loves his wife
with an affection far weaker than that
which he bestows on his own father
and mother. Mr.. Hearn, in 'sGlimpses
of Unfamiliar Japan" quotes this con-
versation, in a schoolroom, between
the English teacher and a japanese
pupil:
ssTeacher, have been told that if a
European and his father and his wife
were all to fall into the sea together,
and that he only could swim, he would
try to save his wife first. Would he,
reany?''
BLY, replied the teacher.
''But why?"
Gone reason is that Europeans con-
slider it mans duty to help the weak
er frst-especially women and chill
dren."
s''And does European love his wife
more than his father and mother?"
''Not always-but generally, per-
haps, he does"
"Why teacher, according to our ideas
that is very immoral"
A lad of sixteen wrote composition
on European and japanese Customs, "
in which he gave expression to his
ideas about the relation of husband and
wife as held in Europe:
"What we think very strange is that
in Europe every wife loves her husband
more than her parents. In Nippon
there is no wife who more loves not
her parents than her husband. And
Europeans walk out in the road with
their wives, which we utterly refuse
to, except at the festival of Hachiman.
''The Japanese woman is treated by
man as servant while the European
woman is respected as a master.
think these customs are both bad. We
think it is very much trouble to treat
European ladies; and we do not know
why ladies are so much respected by
Europeans"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-02-09
A GOOD APPE TlTE.
,ea it Indicate Perfectly Clear Co
sciAnca or q Troubled llne1

Does It Indicate Perfectly Clear Co04
science or q Troubled One?
is the appetite, as the doctors says,
the test Of quiet or troubled cont
science? The former owner of the Barr
reau restaurant at the Palnis de Jus1
tice, in Paris, has been questioned on
this point, says correspondent OF the,
London Daily News. He remembers
many accused persons who triumph
antly proved their innocence to be so
much upset by the mere fact of being
in detention as to have lost all power
for days to take food. Prince Pierre
Bonaparte and the due d Orleans NOT
only kept their appetite when in con-
finement in the Palais de Justice, but
ate more heartily than in ordinary
times. The minister of the interior un1
der NJ Olivier gave orders that no res
strictions were to be placed on the culi@
nary supplies Prince Pierre might de-
mand. NJ. Constans was not less indul-I
gent to the young Pretender, who is
now nicknamed ''Le Prince Gamellle. y
Prince Pierre asked avery day for a
dish of carp's milt truff1ed. This was,;
as he said, to wllet his appetite.
The due d. Orleans did the fullest JUS
tice to every dish prepared for him. He!
sent his friend, the due de Luynes, to-
thank the restaurateur for having pro-,
vided him with tempting, delicious and
nutritive food The due had done
nothing to trouble his conscience
nor had Prince Pierre. M. Rochefort
always lost appetite in detention Dr.
Lapommeraye, who poisoned Nine. de-
Pave to get insurance money, was very,
agitated in detention. but he enJoyed|
his meals and was particular in whao|
he ate. Gabrielle Bompard, who was
charged with having helped Eyraud to
hang the process-server, Goutfe, longed
for bavaroises or chocolate au lait, with:
delicate rolls of bread and fresh butter.I
The owner of the Barreau restaurant Isl
obliged to serve meals according to a
tariff which is low.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-02-09
QUEER MATERIAL FOR ROADS.
Cotton Cloth Employed In the Construc-
ton OF Highways.

Cotton Cloth Employed In the Construc-
tion OF Highways.
One of the materials used by tha
Massachusetts highway commission In:
making roads at Martha's Vineyard is
cotton cloth, says the New York Post.
In localities where the soil is sandy;
much stone has hitherto been wasted,i
the sand forming Il loose and shifting.
bed ON which the stone made very little
impression. Gravel spread to depth
of three or four inches over the sand
was found to afford stable mediumi
between sand and stone, but at Marthas'
Vineyard gravel was not obta1nable';
hence the experiment with cotton cloth. :
This material is even better for the pur-:
pose than the gravel, as none of the
sand works through to the stone. The,
following information about road con-
struction in Massachusetts, has BEEN:
furnished tdshc National Agricultural
Board by TIE commission: Before the
Massachusetts, highway commission was
stablished many towns were obliged
to maintain long stretches OF highways
of little Importance to them. but used
as ways of Communication between:
large centers Outside of the cities;
there are little more than twenty
thousand miles of roads in Massachu",
setts 1t is estimated that from ten to-
fifteen per cent. Of this number are
roads directly connecting the towns and
large centcrs, and such as might reason
ably be asked for as state highways,
fully fifty per cent of the annual ap|
preparation for highways is expended
for the maintenance Of these intertown
roads. which should go for town ways.
At all angles III the road are being
placed mon uments, six feet long, six
inches square on top, and dressed twelve
inches from the top. On one side are
cut the letters, M. II. b., standing for
Massachusetts, highway board. The
monuments are set five feet under
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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-02-09
Growth, Of the Hair.

The influence of diet on the growth
of hair has often been discussed. III
has been shown that starchy mixtures,
milk, and many other foods recognized|
as being highly nutritious are, In fact,
sure death to hair growth. Chemical
analysis proves that the hair Is CONF
posed Of five per cent. Of sulphur and
it's ash, Of twenty per cent. OF silicon
and ten per cent. Of iron and manga
nese. The foods which contain thei
larger per cent. Of the above named
elements are meat, oatmeal and graf
ham. Henry pointedly q. a 'ti'E Y \
which eat most meat have the NO
hair.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-02-09
WHAT DARWIN OVERLOOKED.
Self-Sacriflce Held to Be q Factor In the
Evolution of Plant Life.

self-Sacriflce Held to Be q Factor In the
Evolution of Plant Life.
Some objection has been made, and
apparently with some weight, that the
modern doctrine of the evolution of
plants, based on selfshness, is not by
any means the rule prevailing in vege-
tation--fowers, as well as members Of
the animal world, seem to be governed
in quite as great PARTLY self-sacrifice
as by selfshness, says Meehan's Month
~. Though the struggle for life, as it
is called, and the survival Of the fttest"
must have something to do with the
evolution of form, and must be neces-
sary to the existence of plants individ-
ually, yet it is evidently not so to all.
In human nature selfishness is q trait
which cannot be left uncultivated. At
the same time large part of human
nature finds just as much pleasure in
little deeds which must come under the
class OF self-sacrifice as in the pursuit
of anything that may have relation to
the struggle for existence. AS an il
Illustration of this point in plants, the
production of turpentine by the south
ern pine trees comes in. If the pine
trees are left alone the production of
turpentine is comparatively small, but
when tapped and made to produce the
turpentine for the benefit of man it
goes on producing without the tree in
the least suffering. The annual prod
uct Of turpentine by the southern pine
trees is some ten million dollars, which
It seems to hand over to the uses of
man without the slightest injury to it
self In no way can it be shown that
the production of turpentine is a benefit
to the pine tree
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-02-09
WOMEN MAKE POOR SPIES.

secret-seryice Maj Says the Fair SEX
Do Not Succeed as Detectives.
"Women are not good detectives y
said an experienced secret service man,;
on being asked his opinion by a New
York Herald man. ''To begin with,
there are many places to which a wom-
an cannot go without exciting suspicion.
and this defeats her object at the out
set, but beyond this a woman is untitled
by nature for detective work.
"1n the first place, she Jumps at a
conclusion and acts on it in opposition
to all human probabilities, possibilities
and reason AS a rule, woman does
not reason. She looks on thing as She
wants it to be or thinks it ought to be
and will follow that theory. She is led
by prejudices, favors or sympathies, re-
gardless of facts.
<'As detective she is sometimes q
success in entrapping a man, but her
work generally ends in a blunder which
betrays her. She is persevering only
when moved by passion. She does not
look at case dispassionately. She at
once decides that he or she is guilty or
innocent and works on that theory.
"a woman enjoys the mysterious, and
she is SO elated at her position as
detective that she is unable to conceal
her identity, or the secret investigation
of case.
women are even failures in running.
down criminals of their own sex. A
woman criminal will mislead a woman
detective by working on her vanity,
creduhty or sympathy, and worst Of ALL
if the detective be attractive and the.
man cpininal handsome-well, a man is:
better for detective work, and, besides,
woman will sell out case and cheap,
~ at that, relying upon her sex to es-l
cape punishment if detected"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-02-09
BIRTH OF THE KING OF ROME.
The Excitement In Paris Over That Mo-
mentous Event.

mentous Event.
March came in that eventful year Of
1911; and when the morning of the
goth dawned all Paris was in the streets.
For like wildfre spread the rumor;
there is baby at the Tuileries! Every
hour the crowd grew denser. At open
windows, along the streets, in the great
garden of the Tuileries, people waited
expectant, listening for the voice of the
cannons of the Invalid soldiers home
to tell whether the baby was boy or a
girl. Of course everyone hoped it was g
boy, for that meant an heir to the throne
of France-their future emperor.
At the first boom, says St. Nicholas,
a mighty silence fell upon the listening
city. Every one stopped, intent, anx-
ious. One-two-three, they counted.
Boom, boom! went the guns up to nine
teen - twenty - twenty-one. The ST.
lence was intense, the anxiety pro-
found. Twenty-Five! There came a
mighty cheer, roar from thousands
and thousands of Threats. Hats were
flung aloft; people cried with joy, and
danced and Rugged each other, and
cared DO more to count, though the
guns doomed away until the full salute
of one hundred and one was fred. For
that twenty second boom told the story
the baby at the Tuileries was boy.
Then, out of the cheering, came q
mighty shout: Long live the emperor!
Long live the empress! Long live the
king of Rome!'' For that was to be the
title of this baby prince, whose mother
was an empress, whose father was
greater than king.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-02-09
Hard to Remember.

''It has always seemed curious to me, =
said an old sailor, 'sthat there are some
men who never by any possibility can
learn anything about 9 ship. I've
known men Of great Intelligence and
learning who simply couldn't remem-,
Der, no matter how hard they tried,
which was the starboard and which
the port side Of. 9 ship. But then I've
known, too, men on shore who never
could remember which was the nigh
horse and which was the Of horse Of .
team. q
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-02-09
Angry Faces.

japanese, unused to visitors from the
western world, speak Of their angry
faces" because they do not smile. Jap
anese children have been known to run
shrieking from an American or Eng
lish lady, frightened by what seem to
them her huge size, fierce face, staring
blue eyes and white, uncanny skin.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-02-09
Germ.ny,s War Treasure.

The largest permanent store Of
coined money in the world is in the Inn
perial war treasure Of Germauy-a
portion saved for emergencies from the
one billion dollars paid by France after
the Franco-Prussian war and locked up
IN the Julius tower Of the fortress Of
Spandau. It amounts to the valuo ct
thirty million dollarA
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-02-09
Sea-tsoinr Crocodiles

The alligator never leaves fresh water,
while the crocodile frequently travels
long distances by sea. It has been seen
one thousand miles from land, and it is
possible that these sea-going crocodiles
have given rise to the sea serpent
stories.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-02-09
what the Car Wanted.

The first mot of the new car was de-
ivered upon the occasion OF N. de
Giers' official visit to the emperor, who
received him with the greatest DEM
onstration Of friendship, at the same
time expressing the hope that notwith-
standing NJ. de Giers' reported wish
to retire from Office he would still con-
tinue to work with him for many years.
'sBut, your majesty, It is scarcely pos
sible; look at my feet, they will hardly
carry me- The car replied: Il am
very sorry for you; but as far as 4 am
concerned, do not want your feet, !
Yant your head. =
Decorah-posten., 1895-03-22

Meb Seuipu til Gruins9rSfter nua bet ~ia9'faJss' al
gunOen / famine bpr siBres iau iepn Icnt innlist % peili
nrsO en- buluruuO 6Oru, iaa of 8tsrens fan l'S9e paa lalf %
IuliS Grunb. Gr life @rgftebunoen fat, bpr man oo
Sialp uf en- etrber af famine 6Ornl iont Nsret lp9e al
aisre ben iOlib. SSert Bars Gnber ntaa n0'a9tls passes
mob binaHOeu, iuu at bet belle banner en- tat lan'me"9ah'
aen0e OtenOe. Spsrt Sch battes for SOrOfplOn'n9'n ,ter
ueb etroa, for at life Sorbpartitler ital funne bane lt9
gei til &sreues Snbre. Man maa o8'aa ie efter, at lanIt'
Iiae Ger er belle Og ubsitabisebe, iaa of lntet br9ttss un0ef
SOrOpaufpGOninssn, tbi sners pl NenOer f~OritprreS' 'oet
@rsftebunOen s~oelG9ses.
Suur man bar Nulebuing til for biai9 Detailing euer
gratis at erbulbe SmiOis1nt, iaa fan O9Iaa bette nso Dof'
bel beupttcs iOm 6plb lutfebe @rsfter, eiterat oet nefe
af 5initOffet er ubitilet fra %iamn1e. Oct benptfss % paa
famine Niaabe iUm Stsn, ibet man bespnoer at tplos @fsI'
ten fra iammes bsisite guntt Og fOrtiRttsr neooOsr'
9ilfht buff paa, at aft grsfturbeice alorts mao fano'
ies paa 5alUOeien, men titenbsbrinsss iuIoitenoi9' 9o'S
man enoan9 bar bs9bnot bet.