Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1898-11-05
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1t is prophecied that the bell-phono-
graph will eventually supersede short
hand, in that it gives us accurately word
for word the desired information, which
can be Immediately transmitted to paper
by means of the type-writing machine.
There is no fear of errors of judgment or
diction with the bell photograph recently
perfected by Edison talking to the type.
writer and coming direct as the informa-
ton does from the speaker This will
make another notch in the post of change
and progress, and will doubtless give
rise to still other changes and improve
ments.
There is much talk Of introducing the
huge bee of the Philippine Islands into
this country. This little giant is third
larger than the bee of our country and
has long tongue, which it folds up UNI
der its body. 1t is an incessant worker,
so busy, in fact, that it does not have
time to use its sting, consequently many
have thought that it had no sting. 1t
builds a comb six feet long by four feet
high and from seven-eighths to an inch
and half wide The tongue of this bee
is so constructed that it can sip honey
from flowers that our American bee can
not reach. Should this remarkable worker
be introduced into our country wax will
become more plentiful, and this may ulti-
mately result in the disuse of common
oil for lighting purposes and give us once
more the old-time mellow light of beanti-
full wax candles.
The latest miracle of science is liquid
affair compressed to an SO0th part of its
bulk. It's properties are remarkable, and
as an explosive it has the power of dyna-
mite. Every decade and every year brings
its own discoveries, but never before was
it dreamed that the air we breathe could
be compressed to such an extent as to
assume liquid form and be a most pow
full explosive.
The lengths to which certain form of
naughty dignity will go are at times in
tensely ludicrous. AT a fire the other
day in New York clearinghouse, while
all was confusion and haste, a man very
collectedly walked down the stairway
with his new suit in one hand and his
bicycle i'll the other. He was dressed like
a Sandwich Islander.
The alarming condition of the natives
OF India under the present system of
English government is being commented
on by the ablest journals of the country.
Evictiors, famine, murder, each and all
following i'll turn, have desoated that
land once teeming with life and made of
it a sickening, blood-stained area, from
whose bosom the walls of her children
cry aloud for vengeance. And yet this is
the Government that our Anglo-rnaniacs
want us to be friendly" with; in other
words, to court and cajole, and for WHAT
That she might be able to get us to help
her when she is left out in the cold bv
the other powers. The old jade appre-
ciates the strength of the Young giant
that she tried to strange in its infancy,
but failed. Honor and independence is
emblazoned on the American escutcheon.
while on that of England is written in
letters of blood Treachery, perfidy.
Living III Cuba is enormously high. A
comfortable house that rents here for saw
S25 will demand $75 there. Wages TO
servants are in exactly the same ratio.
The house-girl will not do cooking, nor
will the laundress do housework, and
vice versa; so that to live in any comfort
or style whatever one is required to keep
a retinue of servants. Beef is not killed
as a rule until the day it is needed, and
to get pork or fowls the housewife must
order her pigs or poultry alive, squealing
or quacking as the case may be, to the
kitchen quarters. Fish are seen SWIM
ming in pools, and you order your salmon
or trout or red snapper just as you please.
But OF all lands Cuba is the one par ex-
cellence for fruits. Rich and luscious as
they are, the different kinds and their
names bewilder any American. A mans
room and board outside of hotel costs
him S25. Hotels are proportionately
high. The Spaniards are remarkably
courteous. Their salutation, when you
enter the house, is "Seignor my house
IS at your disposal" If traveller loses
MS way on the public streets they will
not only direct him Alright, but will vol
inteer to go with him to the place. The
Cuban women have most beautiful COM
olexions, and the officers of the Spanish
lrmy are a remarkably fne-looking body
If men and models of kindness and