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at this time about 25o frogs in the pond, of various sizes and conditions.

at this time about 250 frogs in the pond, of various sizes and conditions
 They are not like the ordinary ditch frog, wild and vicious, but sit upon the banks of the pond and croak in an altogether friend ly and social way, apparently delighted with their surroundings. Early in the spring, when frogs first begin to make their appearance in the ditches, two men are sent out to catch all the medium-sized frogs that can be found. These are then brought to the pond and carefully exam ined to see that there are no diseased ones among them. This process is continued un- til the pond is well stocked. Then begins a hunt for the food upon which the frog fattens and grows.
 frog will not eat a dead creature of any sort. They must have live food, and q, en then the food must be in motion be- fo,e the frog will take it. Tadpoles, very smal, frogs and insects are the principal food upon which they live. The frog is a cannibal and devours his food at one gulp.
 The demand made upon MT. Fontz for the frogs is far in excess of the supply. For several years he has been supplying the Johns Hopkins university with medium sized frogs for experimental purposes in the biological laboratory. He takes great pride in being the possessor of the skeleton of large frog which was prepared for him at the Johns Hopkins laboratory.
 During the winter season the frogs bury themselves in the mud. and in order to get them for market large nets are dragged under the mud of the ponds. The catch has been very small this summer, and some of the prices realized are fancy.
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ECONOMY COST TOO MUCH.
Two Women Who Tried to Save Money
 and the Disastrous Results.
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
 Her right wrist was in a sling. and not even the bewinged that she was buying sufficed to make her look quite happy.
 That's a fearful expensive hat" she said, 'but I'm buying it to celebrate the turning over of a new leaf, and for a cele- bration it's rather cheap. For years I've been led away by the women's magazines. I've spoiled more good furniture with white paint that never dried, and brass tacks that never went in quite straight than would fit out a whole house. I've spent more money trying to be economical! And I'm going to quit. This fall, you know, we moved, and the floors of the new place had to be oiled. They were nice, clean-looking, light wood, but wanted them dark. A man offered to do them for me for $S75 but I wanted to save money for this hat. and I said him nay. I bought great big bottle of something with an awful smell. and a lot of varnish and brushes, and be- gan on the library. went all round and round the room, till finally found myself in a little unstained island in the middle of 1t, with a sea of shining dark. imitation mahogany standing between me and the next dry spot You see. hadn't thought about how was to get out. I grabbed up the big bottle. and-you know how agile
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from still ones. By the wavy lines in the picture, he claims that he will in time be able to point out the exact location of the cities in Mars. This Is saying great deal. but one can pardon the enthusiasm of an extremist by recalling that all great in- ventors were at one time "extremists." Edison was "crazy man" for years, and Nicola Tesla. who spends fraction of his time signaling to Mars. is called peculiar" by nine scientists out of ten But out of scientific pecullarity comes scientific per- lection.
 A long time ago a picture was taken of the sun in which the photographer showed great ragged bodies apparently being hurl- ed from the general body of the sun. To the observer they looked like big pieces of hot lava. fiower-shaped, ragged and ugly. But to the astronomer who took the pho- tograph they were new planets, and he spread the rumor that a new earth was be- ing born.
 The telephoto operator discovers this same condition of things, but he attributes
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the peculiar forms to vapor-nothing more nor less than clouds. Great patches of mist lie between us and the sun, and these, com ing before the camera, obstruct 1t, and be- came taken" by the lens. This would ac- count for the annual scares about sun spots.
 The eclipses predicted with such absolute certainty often baffie scientists by their vagueness, leading the layman to doubt their occurrence. But this, the telephoto- ists say, is explained by the cloud matter that can always be found in greater or less quantity between the earth and the sun.
 Photographs of the moon show it to be mountainous, the celebrated "face" being only the arrangements of the mountains upon the moon.
 The telephoto is by no means complete. As it now stands 1t Is cylinder only few inches long that Is applied to the camera. It consists of a negative lens, which is at- tached to the rear. of an ordinary recti- linear photograph lens. One great advan- tage of this arrangement Is that with a
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MARS LOOKS PLEASANT''
 AT THE ARTISTS CAMERA

claimed by the inventor that the instrument could picture inaccessible mountain peaks so accurately that the explorer could pick his paths by the aid of the revelations the pictures contained.
 But in many respects the instrument fail- ed to come up to expectations Elmendorf took 300 pictures with it with tremendous success. The pictures were afterwards ex- hibited at the Museum of Natural History in New York to large audiences, but, tried by the average photographer 1t was a fail- ure. The lack of result was attributed to the necessity for very careful handling. The least inaccuracy, carelessness or vi- bration resulted in total loss of the nega- tive.
 Yet in careful hands it was possible, the photographer proved. to take photographs with this camera in a highly magnified form, so that distant objects became more than lfe-sized.
 For years the telephoto has lain aside or been used as an instrument of amuse- ment. but now a genius formerly connected with the Yerkes Observatory claims to have photographed the sun, moon and stars with
 its aid so accurately that one can view them at a very close range. His photo of Mars differs very little from one successfully taken in 1864. It shows planet that somehow reminds one of Africa in shape; and, looking at it. one is forced to believe 1t is inhabited-whatever the very latest science may have discovered to the contrary. It's light spots might to
 brilliant imagination be cities. or great civ-
 ilzed districts illumined by the Edison of
 Mars However the telephoto does not of fer any such suggestion. It merely gives
 the picture and leaves you to solve the
 riddle of it's ruggedness.
 Another photo of Mars gives quite diff ferent aspect. But this. the same vivid im- aginationists claim, might be Mars revolv- ing upon it's twenty-four hour axis and
 showing at the time of the photo only it's watery side.
 The telephoto experimenter promises that his instrument shall be perfected so that in time it will reveal the mysteries fully: and he further asserts that he can reach such high plane of perfection with it that moving bodies will be distinguished with 1t
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peaks would have disappeared altogether. A camera fully four feet long was neces- sary for the work.
 With the telephoto. on the other hand, pr. Elmendorf got photographs that were in perfect proportion, so that the landscape looked in the pictures as though drawn by the hand of an artist from life." The in- strument was extremely small. Many of the pictures were taken at a distance of twenty-four miles. He also took pictures in Trinidad, Mexico, Colorado and the windward Islands, and always with the best results.
 The telephoto. which was invented in London in 1891, was originally intended to play an important part in scientific pho- tography. It was supposed that it would he utilized in kite photography and in bal loon work. On terra firma 1t was to take pictures of birds In flight, of animals miles away-as in their native lairs. It was also
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that its progress is watched with wonder like electricity. The so-called "instantane- ous,'' once so startling. is now common place, and the f1ash-light is no longer wonder. Lenses are made every day to &C., complish new results, and in everyday life the man who formerly had his photograph taken once a generation now stops in once a season to be snapped at. Will not, then, the long distance instrument be perfected. and will it be impossible soon to get those promised pictures of Mars in which "still life can be distinguished from moving?"
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out the different work done by the camera and the telephoto in the Alps. Dr. Elmen-
 dorf, the well-known picture taker, jour neyed recently to the Jungfrau, and, while there, photographed the mountain, first with the camera and afterwards with the telephoto. With the former he produced a mountain view that was sadly out of per- spective. The mountains in the foreground were greatly magnified. while those in the distance infiinitesimal. If he could have placed the camera still closer the distant
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Progress

From Harper's Bazar.
 How are you getting along in your siege of Miss Scadds' heart?" said Hojak to Tomdik. T understand that she has great many suitors.'
 "She has," replied Tomdik, "but am making fair progress"
 "I am glad to hear that What sort of progress have you made?"
 "She got into water beyond her depth and rescued her. In recognition of my heroism she has advanced me six num- bers."
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Astronomers are greatly interested in the telephoto, an instrument by which those spheres which mortais call the heavenly bodies can be brought to earth in the form of photographs upon paper.
 The telephoto can do this. its manipula- tors claim. with greater accuracy than the simple camera could hope to do, even though the camera were located only few feet from the bodies it was to take"
 To prove this latter assertion they point
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sssl r-.sts the effect of a lens of forty-inch focus' Another advantage is that the lens can be increased almost indefinitely
 There is an instrument in ordinary pno- tography of this name which differs rom the telephoto in many important ways.
 Photography has become so me all ai'
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A BULL-FROG FARM.
A Place Where They Are Fattened for the
 Market and Laboratory.

From the Baltimore Sun.
 Jacob Fontz. of St. Michaers, Md, is en- gagged in raising frogs for the market. He has q. frog pond just on the suburbs of St. Michaels about quarter of mile square, and here he is engaged in this novel 'ndus- try. MT. Fontz has heen in the business for . number of years. and says it is more profitable one than oystering. There are
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An Argument

From the Indianapolis Journal.
 "But how can ycY have the heart to de- prive the poor heather of their land7''
 '"rhey would never learn the dignity of labor # we didn't"
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Once Too Often

From the Chicago Tribune.
 "What's all this excitement about?"
 "Nothing worth mentioning. Man got knocked down."
 "Accident?"
 'Not exactly. One of these men who al- ways catch hold of you and push you out of their way when you happen to meet them at crowded corner grabbed the wrong man just now. That's all"
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Informal

From Judy.
 Charles-Why will you girls lace SO? Blanche-It's only a matter of form.
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 GEhIT0 URINARY DISEASES. 26 YEARS IN PRAG1IcE. L k ii YEARS N BiRMiNaHAM. < <

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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-10-22

powers of Europe, among whom it now
stands by reason OF its bad faith abso-
lutely isolated. Consequently. as friends
of America, we. the members of this
convention, hope that the republic will
not allow itself to be embroied in Eu-
ropean squabbles. from which, however
these may result it cannot derive any
corresponding advantage for American
interests" Commenting on this rcsolu-
ton, the Minneapolis Journal says there
is no immediate prospect for such an
alliance. "but if there was. should This
nation be guided by what John L. Red
mond and his friends in Ireland dictate
to this country, Or by its own conceptions
of national INTEREST,"" John r. Redmond
and his friends are safer guides to follow
than Joe Chamberlain and the members
of the Anglo-American league of Great
Britain. Irish dictation is preferable to
English dictation any time.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-10-22

The Progressive Age, of this city, crit
icises the opening address of William H.
Eustis in a clever manner, and says,
among other things: "He seems to think
that he can divert public attention by
setting up cheap patriotic appeal in be
half of a conquest which, to say the
least, is entirely foreign to the issue of a
great state campaign, and decidedly out
of place at the present stage of affairs.
His speech is cheap. 1t is the speech of
a fervent politician; it is the pronuncia-
mento of man who believes the people
are ignorant and selfish, and can be
fooled by the tawdry talk Of the con-
quest of foreign people. If Mr.. Eustis
is treated as he ought to be treated by
his political antagonists, he will be a
defeated man next November. They
should camp on his trail and expose the
cheap rhetoric and the misleading state
ments that he utilities in every platform
effort. That can be done with vim and
a verve which should awaken the people
of Minnesota to a consciousness of the
real issues at stake in this campaign"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-10-22

hold upon the land, and this has always
proved fatal to race. They We're al
ways ingeniously discouraged. and When
ever they made an effort for freedom
they naturally acted with more en-
thusiasm than prudence. They have
been met always by English phlegm and
English prudence, and have been as
children in the iron grasp of their
shre"d and self-collected rulers.
Over 600 years have gone since the
intestine quarrels of Ireland gave Nor
man invaders their first opportunity.
Since that time there has been really
nothing like Irish independence. AS it
is often talked of, it is mere myth and
/, historical dream. 1t is impossible to
consider the country as other than an in
tegral portion of the British empire, and
the problem of it's political government
must be solved by the British parlia-
ment Certainly it cannot be ruled by
continued suspensions of the habeas
corpus, by the quartcring of soldiers, by
hand-to-mouth legislation. Surely home
rule could make no more plumbers than
English rule has made, nor without
something of the former can we be sure
of moderate continuance of the latter.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-10-22

plains the transaction alluded to by the
partisan bank examiner. He shows con-
clusiveiy that there was nothing illegal
done and that Kenyon had expressed ap-
prevail of his action. 1t would have re-
bounded more to the credit of this Re-
publican official if during the campaign
he would preserve the mastery silence
and inactivity that characterized him
during the period when the citizens of
the state suffered through his negligence
or incompetency and allowed the banks
to receive the money of the people when
they were in state of insolvency. But
he has a good job, and probably William
Henry has promised to appoint him as
his successor if the party Of plutocracy
carries the state.
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to expose abuse and remedy existing in.

to expose abuse and remedy existing in
justice"
The brave words of Samuel Gompers
strike a responsive chord in the breast
of every true and unselfish American,
and Mckinley and his evil advisers ought
to heed his utterances If they wish well
to the republic, whose destinies are tenn
porarily in their keeping. We heartily
indorse the patriotic words of the labor
leader, and consider him the right man
in the right place, in the midst of selfish
and dishonest spectators who ignore the
divine command, Thou shalt not covet
thy neighbours goods.
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STAND BY YOUR PRINCIPLES.

William Henry Eustis, nutncraric can
didate for governor is reported to have
said around this city that lie is sure of
the Irish vote" let us Inform the
elouuent gentleman that there is no slch
thing as an irish vote" i'll this country,
and if there was he would not receive it,
because he is i'll favor Of an AEglo-Amer-
lean alliance. Mr.. Eustis ought to get
the English vote" il there are any
Johnny Bulls in this state WHO have re-
nounced heir allegiance to Queen Vic
toria and perfected their naturalization
He is the son of an Englishman and
thinks the greatest blessing for this re-
public Is to become an ally Of the British
empire and initiate the Mother Coun-
try" in her piratical career of conquest
and spoliation. He is booming Cush
Davis, the biggest Anglomaniac in the
United States senate. If he imagines
are going to sacrifice their lifelong prin-
ciples in return for so-called Friendship
and philanthropy" from ex-Mayor Eustis
he will get his eyes opened after the bal
lots are counted in November and elo-
quently complain that the Irish are
ungrateful to him. Personally M. Eustis
may be all right, but politically he is all
wrong. Irish-Amerioans favor reforms in
state government and are determined to
elect their own candidate-JOhn Lind, Of
New Ulm. He is their standard bearer
and they will follow him to victory. Mr..
Lind is strong opponent of any al
lance with European nations. When in
congress he spoke against any entangling
relations with the monarchies of the
old world and in his opening speech Of
this campaign he ridiculed the idea that
this giant republic needs the aid of any
foreign country OH earth. Mr.. Eustis
entertains contrary opinions and hence
it is that he is laboring under a delusion
when he boasts of having the Irish vote"
for governor.
The Irish Standard has been the advo-
cate of sound American principles in re-
lation to foreign alliances of any kind
1t has frequently shown the absurdity of
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-10-22

The Pioneer Press is solicitous for the
reelection of Judge Mitchell, of the s,,-
preme bench. and says of him: "Origi-
nally appointed by Republican COVER
nor, twice nominated and renominated
by the Republican party, Judge Mitch
ellis long term of eminent and stainless
judicial service left the Republican party
without excuse for it's refusal to retain
on the supreme bench it's ablest and
most distinguished member" Judge
Canty ranks with Judge Mitchell in jn-
licial integrity and ability, but. like his
colleague. he is a Democrat and was not
Endorsed by the Republicans. The peo-
pie want non partisan judiciary as
much as possible, and they will see to it
that Mitchell and Canty will retain their
seats for many years to come.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-10-22

AS an illustration of freedom OF
speech in ireland it may be mentioned
that two members of the british parlia-
ment, Michael Davitt and William
OBrien. We're prevented from address
ing mass meeting OF farmers in tho
west of Ireland the other day. The edict
went forth from Dublin castle that the
people cannot assemble to discuss their
grievances, Or listen to the advice and
is specimen OF English law in Ireland
at the end Of the Nineteenth century.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-10-22

the claim that this is an Anglo-Saxon
country, and 1t would consider its plead
ings in vain If its patrons would be
swerved from theii allegiance to prin-
ciple by artful Republican demagogucs
who entertain opposite views and are the
representatives and exponenrs of Anglo
Saxon Qualification. Stand steady, men
Of the Irish race, and don't allow yeur-
selves to be bamboozled and humbugged
by the sophistical argume s.s of political
aspirants, who hold opinions and prin-
ciples that should not prevail in the
American republic. Be true to your
selves and you will be respected. Stick
to the party that has always been the
champion of human rights from the days
of Jefferson to the days Of William j.
Bryan. Vote for John Lind and all the
worthy candidates on the fusion ticket
and redeem this state, county and city
from the misrule and corruption of the
Republican party of which William
Henry Eustis is the chief spokesman,
eulogist and apologist in this campaign.
This is battle of honesty against dis
honesty, of right against wrong, Of the
citizens against the corporations, of the
democracy against the plutocracy and
every voter of every nationality should
do his duty fearlessly and conscientious
ly on election day.
ko1,o +.
Gus to be endangered through indiffer-
ence, ignorance or prejudice. The fabu-
lous wealth of the state must not be
squandered through the manipulations Of
corrupt men in the interests of soulless
and grasping corporations. One-third of
the rich lands Of the state have been
given away to railroads by Republican
legislators, and these lands escape tax
alton. Think of it! A territory equal
to the entire area of Ireland-20.00 900
acres is in the possession Of railroad
companies, the stockholders of which
are largely foreigners. The mineral and
timber lanAs of the state have beeen
decided away to wealthy corporations and
individuals and they still cry for more
and will get more if the Republican
party is not driven out of power this
year. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil
magnate, is monarch of all he surveys
in the iron regions Of Lake Superior by
the grace of party, which, according to
Knute Nelson, is composed of Goods peo-
ple." 1t is high time to rebuke the bias
phemous utterance of this knight-errant
of plutocracy and hurl from power by a
wave of popular Indignation the party
that has been recreant to the peoples in
terests during its forty years reign in
this magnificent commonwealth. Turn
the rascals out and consign them to poll
tical oblivion. Rescue the state from
their foul contamination and replace
them with upright, capable, honest men.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-10-22

The Parncllite convention which re-
Gently met in Dublin passed the follow
ing resolution against the proposal of an
AnglO-American alliance: This con-
vention denounces the project of an alli-
bnce between Great Britain and the
United States as a selfish attempt on the
part of England to drag the American
people to its aid in its struggles with the