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New-York tribune., 1895-12-22

CINAkD LINE.
r. TO LIVERPOOL By QUEENSTOWN.
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s:.D lAuraria. Jan. 10. y a. m
From pier 10 North Rve-. foot ot C'a-kS"n-., -.
rshin upward. Second cabin. 30 $40. s&
according q steamer and mnlndatons
seerage tickets from s parts cf Europe at very
low passage apply at the Corr~
uany's oNrce Nc Bowling Green, Nev-fork
' VERNON n. BROWN & CO. General Agents
New-York tribune., 1895-12-22
financial.
"IT0LD YOU SO."
tinanrial.

We don't like q brae must call aitrn...tv oNE
fact that arm has the FIRST ana JILL rrtces
10 advise sales the last months ana thae
for artificial and unwarranted ny tns par,
We glad didn't ask Widows and orph,s ;rves IN
Guardians send their money " -"
ST. PAUL. 20. BURLINGTON at NJ or e'en who
LAND. etc. G2 Didn't we tell you tha' hI.ft make
had made any for themselves ~ nfortu-
We would think OF critclslhs ~.
nate connection hut unwarranted urs and ridculous L.
tensions annoy especially when you nav 80, con-
draw her money and leave because you couH ~ -,
scientiousy advise buying GRANGER stocks on o was
q per rise and deposit II with the Mo'E' VIZ
to lead everybody Of the wilderness 90, =, os,ion
expected, hut tne -. ,hot at
was sure 20 up. and experience tausnt u" r.aIn
least once year break occurs am !. rn We
after n rise such had. would snow ~,
even named Christmas the time for bear na irL ~
our SATURDAYS LETTER tells you what W W. ~, our
the situation Ii suggests what to buy ana What NV ~
ideas
ARE WORTH SJtDIlNG .,.h 90.
Don't Won think YOU better an account na,s
and rut Yourself I'm touch firm who Tor year. @
given the people benefit Of Judgment that
erred and who lose business In preference 10 "'''7
people buying falling market
.-cor.f L. thn ntArLar
New-York tribune., 1895-12-22
BONDS AND MONEY

Sales Of Government bonds confined to
$4,000 registered As of 1907 at 10. Final quota
tlOns follow:
The Irish standard., 1895-02-02
Humor ar tho Altar.

Some funny stories are told about the
marriage service. One of them relates
how an old man brought rather un-
willingly to the altar could not be in
duced to repeat the responses. ''My
good man." at length exclaimed the
clergyman, II really cannot marry you
unless you do as you are told" But
the man still remained silent. At this
unexpected hitch the bride lost all pa
thence with her future spouse and burst
out with: go on. you old toot! Say
it after him, just the same as If you was
mockin' him" The same difficulty oc-
Cured in another case. The clergy
man, after explaining what was neces-
sary and going over the responses sew
eral times without the smallest effect,
stopped in dismay, whereupon the
bridegroom encouraged him with: ''Go
ahead, pass'n, go ahead! thou'rt dom
bravely." Upon another occasion It
was, strangely enough, the woman
who could not be prevailed upon to
speak. When the clergyman remon-
strated with her she Indignantly re-
Piled: Your father married me twice
before and he wasn't akin me any Of
them imperent questions at. all. Z
The Irish standard., 1895-02-02
Result Of a Meat Diet.

Mrs. Hart, who has covered the globe
with her notebook, declares the Eng
lish people to be the most garrulous
and quarrelsome of any she has en-
countered. She says there is more
pickering and distemper in the English
mans family and more homes are made
unhappy by domestic squabbles than
in any of the other nations she has Wis
tied. This condition she attributes
chiefly to the Anglo-Saxon's fondness
for a meat diet. She says the great
desh-eating people are notably ILL
tempered We are only animals, and
the sequence of meat and fits, as demon
strated in the animal kingdom, has
significance in relation to the human
animal Mrs. Hart has gone further
than this, and hos studied the gentle
japanese, the mild Mongolian and
other hght-living races, which research
confirms her ideas touching fesh-eating
and family jars.
The Irish standard., 1895-02-02
Making Up Lost Time.

In regard to the difficulty of making
up lost time on railways, a writer in q
foreign paper says: Thus, to take q
case, ten miles to be run at sixty miles
an hour, average line, suppose the en-
gineer is couple of minutes late when
he comes to this length of ten miles,
which he generally runs in ten min
utes. If he runs it at sixty-five miles
an hour, he is then only making up one
minute in every thirteen miles; and If
he runs it at seventy miles an hour, he
makes up one minute in every seven
miles. He is probably timed to make
it necessary to do the ten miles about
as fast as he can every day, 50 that try
ing to gain even a couple Of minutes
in this length is out ofsthe question.
Again, if he relaxes the speed ten miles,
say to fifty, he is losing time at the rate
gof one minute in every five miles. Thus,
from aspeed Of sixty an increase Of ten
miles only gains one minute IN every
seven miles; but 3 decrease Of ten miles
slloses one minute IA every Ave miles
The Irish standard., 1895-02-02
SECRETS OF HER SUCCESS.

Boarding House Keeper Lets Light on
an Interesting Subject.
A very successful boarding house
keeper was telling q writer for the New
York Recorder some secrets of her good
fortune.
above ALL" said she, Il try to keep
every part Of my two houses just as
clean as l possibly can, but am not
the only one in this business who does
that, though it's great point. Then
have always hired large houses. You
cannot possibly make money in a small
one. have chung to a neighborhood
and made my house distinctive by hav-
ing at some expense vines trained from
j basement to roof Those vines are my
trademark. When folks forget the
number they say the house with the
vines Moreover, they give the place
such shady, cool look in summer that
people are not 80 anxious to get off to
the country. The green effect takes
away the hot, stuffy look, and some
thing of the feeling. Then l make
point of being very liberal with towels
and napkins. This item costs me per-
haps twenty-five dollars more in year
than it would the usual boarding house
keeper in my place but it brings me in
the outlay multiplied many times. OF
course set as good table as I can,
and my rooms are we'll furnished, but
as good as can be had elsewhere. Ny
luck in letting rooms have always be-
lieved to be due to the fact that have
piano in nearly every large apart
ment. 1t is really odd to see how a
piano will attract person. Why, 1
can get five or six dollars more week
for suite with piano, which doesn't
cost that much month. If people
don't want the instrument, it can be
moved out. One other point: Iuse the
same kind of carpet in every room in
the house as far as I can,.so when it
wears shabby, all the good may be
brought together and made use Of, l
find there's great economy in this.
Lastly, have no helpless, lazy relatives
such as usually cripple q woman in my
line, eating her out of house and home
and disgruntling the boarders. If I
had, think should provide for them
elsewhere, for in boarding house their
room is generally worth more than
their company, or their half-hearted at
tempts athelping."
The Irish standard., 1895-02-02
A Wise Tailor.

The leading paper in provincial
town recently published the following
matrimonial advertisement: "A young
lady of enormous wealth, who is pre-
pared to pay off all the debts Of her in
tended husband, desires to form the ac-
quaintance of a respectable young gen.
tleman, with view to matrimony.
Each reply to be accompanied by a
photo Of the sender and addressed to j.
p, at the office Of this paper" The
delicate hand which drew up the above
lines and thereby secured very large
number of offers belonged to no less a
parsonage than Herr Itzig Schlaucheles,
who had lately opened q clothing es-
Establishment in the town. By means Of
the photos sent in he was enabled to
ascertain which of his would-be Gus
toners were In the habit Of leaving
their debts unpaid.
The Irish standard., 1895-02-02
Tho Dublin Broeue.

Frances Power Cobbe, in her Life, !"
gives amusing illustrations of the Dub
lin brogue in which Irish Protestant
clergymen, educated at Trinity college,
used to preach fifty years ago. One,
concluding sermon on the Fear Of
DEATH" exclaimed: ''Me brethren, the
doying Christian lepps into the arrums
Of death, and makes his hollow jaws
ring with eternal hallelujahsl" There
was chapter In the Acts which Miss
Cobbe dreaded to hear read by q Ger
tain clergyman, so difficult was It to
help laughing when told Of 'Pertheans
and Mades, and the jewellers In Meso-
potemia and the part Of Libya about Cy-
raine, streengers Of Roum, Jews. Pros
elytes, Crates and Arabians. =
The Irish standard., 1895-02-02
A Hungry People.

The Australians pass the greater part
of their time at the table. At Z they
take tea and bread and butter. At 500
they breakfast on cold meats, chops or
steaks, eggs and bacon and tea. At IL
most of them take light lunch Of beer
and biscuit, or tea and bread and butt
ter, according to their sex. At 1, or
1870, they dine, and again the teapot
comes into requisi tion. At afternoons
tea is served and swallowed. From q
to all Australia, broadly speaking, g
taking its third meal, and again drink4
Ing tea Those who stay up &c all late
sometimes pplement tthis with 1ight
scollation Ut 10. :s
The Irish standard., 1895-02-02
HISTORY OF ALMANACS.
They Had Their Origin Eefcre the Coming
of Christ.

They Had Their Origin Eefcre the Coming
of Christ.
The history Of written almanacs dates
back to the second century of the Chris
tan era The Alexandrian Greeks in
the time of Ptolemy, A. D. 1oo-160, used
a1manacs. Prior to the written alma
macs of the Greeks there were calendars
of primitive almanacs. The Roman
fasti sacri were similar to modern al
MANAGES. knowledge of the calendar
was at first confn ed to the priests,
whom the people had to consult, not
only about the dates of festivals, but
also concerning the proper time for in
shutting various legal proceedings.
About 800 3. c. one Genius Flavius,
the secretary of Appius Claudius,
learned the secret, either by the
stealthy use of the documents in his
masters possession, or, according to
Pliny, by repeatedly consulting the au-
thorities and by collating the infor1na-
ton he obtained. 1t was really pub
fishing an almanac when, as Livy re-
lates, he exhibited the fasti on white
tablets round the forum. From this
GluC VbpAVSS SOAC0AAlAB VIC S0ACAucAS
the festivals, astronomical phenomena,
and sometimes historical notices seem
to have sheen common. Research has
brought to light numerous calendars
cut on stone. One was found at Pom
peu, cut upon a square block of marble,
upon each side of which three months
were registered in perpendicular col
umns, each headed by the proper sign
of the zodiac.
whether the word almanac be from
al and manah, to count, or al and men,
months, is not agreed; some authori-
ties give it Teutonic etymology, from
the words al and mono, the moon. Each
of these conjectures is plausible. Ia
bles representing almanacs were used
by the Arabs at an early date, mainly
as astronomical guides, and it is highly
probable that both the thing and the
name originated with them"
The Irish standard., 1895-02-02
AN ARAPAhOE'S MEAL.
The Indians Appetite Held Out a. Long
as tho Meat Lasted.

The Indians Appetite Held Out a. Long
as tho Meat Lasted.
For feats of downright big eating I'll
back the North American Indian
against the world, said Colorado
man. recall in par ticular an Arapa-
hoe Indian who visited our camp by
the Fontaine qui Bouille river one
night. We had killed a buffalo calf
that day a good-sized, fat calf,
four or five months old-and having
skinned and dressed the carcass, had
hung it up On a wagon pole. We had
carved enough off one shoulder to go
along with mountain trout, bacon.
bread and coffee for our party of four
at supper; the rest Of the meat was all
there. The Indian came riding up after
we had eaten and he looked pretty
tired and empty. He had evidently
travelled long way with little to eat,
for he was dusty, haggard and thin as
a shoestring, and there was no doubt
when he asked by signs for food that
he wanted it badly. We pointed to the
buffalo calf, and with his knife he cut
off some slices of meat, laid them on
the embers, and as soon as they. were a
little scorched ate them ravenously
and began again with the calf.
He was still cutting and cooking
meat and eating when we went off to
sleep, and SO far as we could tell he
spent the entire night in that occupa-
ton, for whenever one or another Of us
woke up enough to look around the In
dian was either cutting at the calf or
eating by the fire. When we turned
out in the morning we found that all
that was left of that buffalo calf was
its skeleton hanging from the pole:
The Indian had not carved away it's
joints and ribs Us a white man would
have done, but had hacked the meat off
in small pieces till all was gone.
The Indian looked like another per-
son. His all-night feed had fattened
him up so that he looked we'll filed
out, and he moved about with a differ
ent air. He greeted our rising with a
'How," and sat stolidly by the fire un
til one of us gave him a tin cup of cof-
fee, which he took with another
Glow" While we were at breakfast
he mounted his horse and slipped away
SO silently that we scarcely noticed his
going.
The Irish standard., 1895-02-02
BERLIN a SUNLESS CITY.
Its Streets asphalted and Kept cisas

It's Streets Asphalted and Kept Clea0
Even in the Poorest Quarters.
A foreigner coming to Berlin will be
impressed almost at once by the excel
lent streets, and further by the exccp-
tional manner in which they are taken
care Of. Almost everywhere they are
asphalted, even where they are narrow-
est, and not only in the middle of the
city, but far out into the suburbs. This
work has been done in the most sub
stantial manner. This department Of
city affairs is intrusted to skillful off,
GERS, who perform their duty according
to the latest scientific principles. In
the center of the city large tract Of
street is now being torn up for new
horse car tracks, and it is an instructive:
sight to see the fine scale upon which,
the work is done The foundation is at
least foot in depth of the hardest pos
sible mixture of small stones and CO.
ment. Upon this, by means of mon
strous rollers and other machinery, ii
placed the asphalt, which is not more
than half an inch in thickness, but
which, on account of the strong sub
work, wears like the everlasting rock.
It seldom needs repair, says the Phila-
delphia Telegraph; it does not run:
away in hot weather, and does not rut
under the heaviest kind of traffic. This
adds materially, of course, to the
beauty of Berlin, and facilitates the
work of cleansing the streets, an
other department of municipal admins
tretion which is attended to in the most
effective manner. Cleansers in uniform
are constantly at work in all parts OF
the city, who with broom and brush
heap up the refuse before the curbs, to
be hauled of to the city farms during
the night. At intervals each day wa
ter carts are driven over the streets,
and boys follow after with squeegees
which they propel by long handles
washing every particle of filth away.
The excellent condition of the streets
of Berlin is one Of the reasons why the
city has none of those districts which
have come to be called "slums." While
London and Paris not to mention the
Italian and Spanish cities and some
cases nearer home, suffer in a notable
manner from the congestion of the
poor at certain points, where they live
crowded together under the most un-
healthy surroundings, this is not to
any extent true of Berlin. There are
districts in the east and north where
the poor live together, but in nothing
like the misery and squalor which one
will find elsewhere. The streets, as al,
ready remarked, are asphalted, and
they are clean. They are nearly every
where wide There are none of those
little dark alleys which exist in other
cities. The houses are well built and
sound. One could pass through these
districts time and again, and did he
not see the children on the sidewalk
and the women with their heads out of
the windows it might scarcely occur to
him that he was among the poor peo~.
pie. The fronts of the houses are OF
very handsome masonry, harmonious.
in architecture and in no important re-
spect different from the houses in many
weather. sections Of the city.
The Irish standard., 1895-02-02
Density OF mohorany.

There is a remarkable difference in
the density Of mahogany as it comes to
the cabinetmaker. A square foot Of
Cuban mahogany, one inch thick,
weighs on the average six pounds; .
like piece Of Santo Domingo mahogany
weighs four pounds, and q like piece Of
Mexican mahogany weighs two and q
half pounds. The difference in weight
between old pieces Of Santo Domingo
mahogany taken from the wreck Of
antique furniture and q piece Of sea-
soned new Santo Domingo mahogany IS
much less than might be expected.
The Irish standard., 1895-02-02
MET A BAD MAN.
An Army Ofhcer's Experience In the State
of Texas.

Oh 1e1aSs
"Only on one occasion in my life
have I felt the need of q weapon" said
an officer of the United States army to-
Washington Star writer. II have
never carried a gun, but it has some
times occurred to me that no man ought
ever to be without one. One cannot
be sure but that some time the weapon
would save ones life. For instance, L
will recite to you a little experience Of
region Of Texas. was riding along
lonely path, mounted On a government
mule. Not thing did have on my
person which could have been regarded
by the most impoverished citizen as Of
value Whistling as l went, ap-
preached large rock about which the
path ran to avoid a sharp ascent.
Just as I reached it fierce-looking,
man rose out of the bushes and cried:
'Halt!'
"What could do? Perhaps you will
say that ought to have charged upon
him with my government mule, over
powered him. taken away his arms, and
demanded why he should thus obstruct
what was the best substitute available
for public highway. I did nothing of
the kind. The only reason can allege
is that was afraid. Such method Of
dealing with highwaymen does we'll
enough in story books, blu t in real life
it is dangerous. Accordingly, ! obeyed
the suggestion of the bold bandit and
halted. For moment my heart jumped
into my throat as saw him thrust a.
hand into his hip pocket. He drew
from it something and pointed it at mo
point blank. I perceived that the some
thing was not pistol; it was a bottle
8 large. black bottle. Said the high
wayman:
"'Drink!'
II held out my hand and grasped the
bottle with more than ordinary eager
ness. T drank. It was the worst
whisky have ever tasted; and that is
saying good deal, for have lived I'M
the wilds of the west for a number OF
years. But to me at that moment IT,
was grateful draught. II ended the
bottle back to the highwayman, and, as
he went his way with benevolent
smile upon his corntenance, resumed
with thankful heart my journey upon
nv government mule. had meant to
offer him that mule, but would hardly
have had the nerve, perhaps, for he.
might have regarded the prefer of suchi
an obviously valueless gift as an In
suit"
The Irish standard., 1895-02-02
RELIEF DOGS.
Canine Red Cross Service In the German
Army.

Canine Red Cross Service In the German
Army.
For several years experiments have
been made in the German army in the
training of dogs for service in the hos
pital department. Not long ago, says
the Detroit Free Press, the well-known
animal painter, Jean Bungartz, was
commissioned to take up the matter, and
his recent report occasioned high praise
from the emperor and the army The
first important step was the selection
of breed Of dogs possessing all the
qualities necessary for the purpose,
viz: Obedience, watchfulness, intelli-
gence, fidelity and perseverance. These
qualities were found in the Scotch col
lie in the highest degree, and this breed
was, therefore, selected by Bungartz.
The equipment of the dog consists of
a strong collar with small leather
pocketbook for letters, small water
proof blanket for his rest at night and
two pockets containing small sur
geon's outfit, linen, medicines and a
small amount of dog biscuit. The en-
tire load is less than ten pounds and
can be easily carried by the dog for
days.
His services are most important in
the search for the wounded or dead; he
often brings first help to soldier
fallen in brush or underbrush and COM
pletely hidden from sight; he makes an
excellent courier, and runs from hos
pital to command or vice versa, faith
fully delivering messages intrusted to
his core as fast as cavalryman, with
much less danger to both courier and
message. A large red cross marks each
side pocket, and designates his connec-
ton with the sanitary and relief corps.
He also carries a small lantern on his
back, to enable the litter bearer to fol-
low him in his search for the wounded
or dead at night.
The Irish standard., 1895-02-02
ON THE ANGLE or THE JAW.
Why m Ordinary Blow Delivered Thoro
10 Likely to Prove Fatal.

why m Ordinary Blow Delivered There
% Likely to Provo Fatal
.'Why isa blow upon the angle Of q
mans jaw-the Knockout blow Of
pugilists-so effective, and what Is the
immediate result of such blow?"
In view of the recent death Of Con
Riordan after boxing bout with
Champion Fitzsimmons, this question
was put by Baltimore Sun reporter to
Dr.. b. Merrill Hopkinson, himself an
athlete and the president of the Balti-
more Athletic club. DIR. Hopkinson has
given study to anatomy and physiology
in their relation to athletic exercises.
He said:
''It is somewhat difficult without en-
tering into technicalities to describe
properly the Knockout blow. The
skull rests upon the ATLAS the first of
the bones or vertebra of the neck.
The articulation or joint is simply by
means of q contact of the condyles or
protuberances at the base of the skull
with two facets on the atlas. The ar
rangement is most favorable for move
ments of the head, but is susceptible to
dislocation. Immediately at the base
of the skull is the foramen magnum-a
great hole-which forms the passage
why between the skull cavity and the
spinal Canal. Through this pass the
spinal portion of the central nervous
system and svertehra arteries.
IA blow delivered upon the angle Of
the jaw is, of course, given directly at
right angles to the passage-way be-
tween the body and brain, through
which passage run the wonderfully
delicate structures. Now, owing to
the slender joint of the skull with the
spinal column, resistance must neces-
sarily be very weak, and blow, even
though light one, is capable of pro-
ducing so great shock that a man can
readily be rendered unconscious by its
effect. An experiment is very simple.
Let anyone strike himself quick blow
Just at the angle of the jaw, and he
will find that he is dazed just in pro-
portion to the amount of the force ap-
piled. That it is possible to kill man
by such blow has been demonstrated
more than once, and more is the pity
that such a thing can be recorded in
the recital of the so-called amusements.
II do not believe that a man in good
physical training, with healthy heart
and arteries and well-nourished nerv-
GUS system, could be destroyed by such
blow from another man who is his
physical equal, but it would not take a
sledge-hammer blow delivered upon
the angle of the jaw to produce q
thrombus or blood clot at the base Of
the brain of man whose heart, arte-
ries and nervous system had been weak
ened by alcoholic or other excuses.
Temporary knock-outs occur daily and
fatal cases are of rare occurrence; in
deed, the proportion of deaths as COM
pared with horses racing or football is
ridiculously small. Any man entering
the pugilistic ring is liable to receive a
blow which will put him to Sleep and
the duration of Inconsistencies is alto
gether proportional to the science Of
the delivered blow, the position of the
man struck and the amount of force
used"