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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-01-24
SMALL ALMANAC NOT PRICED
Literary curio, Sold by Auction at
London, Went at RIdlcuIousIy
Small Price.

A copy of the English Bijou Alma.
mac, published in 1888, has just been
sold by auction in London. This tiny
volume, which measures three-quarters
of an inch by five-eighths and is one
eighth of an inch thick, is certainly
one Of the smallest, If not actually the
smallest, ever published. It is in
closed in a morocco case with a mag
nifying glass to enable the purchaser
to read 1t.
This curious little book fetched
only $50 when put up for bids at Soth-
eby's auction rooms. The Bijou Alma
mac was published annually in London
from 1885 to 1853 and was a wonder
full little storehouse of information, in
terspersed with pictures of famous
people. The volume for 1888 contains
portraits Of William w., Queen Vic
toria,. Grise, Mozart and Sir Walter
Scott, with verses following each pic
ture.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-01-24
Recipes for Long Life.

A Germantown woman, whose "old
age serene and bright and lovely as a
Lapland night" has reached the cen
fury mark, gives her recipe for
longevity, records the Philadelphia
Record. It is simple one. She re.
fuses to worry, and she keeps abreast
of the times. She likes young people.
To all the gracious and hallowed mem
cries of the past her years are not al
lowed to keep her from adding keen
and sympathetic interest in the living
present. She refuses to let the cal
endar give the authentic clue to her
age. She is as young as she feels. She
AYERS, with Oliver Wendell Holmes,
"Old Time is liar; we're twenty to.
night" Recipes for perpetual youth.
whose fountain Ponce de Leon sought
in vain, are many and various. But
there is no doubt that comparative
juvenility Of senility depends to a
great extent upon the heart. To lose
interest in all that goes on is the short
cut to superannuation; to be keenly
cognizant of all that is of inspiring
current interest is to feel the rejuve.
nation of the winter-bound tree when
the sap mounts in the spring.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-01-24
FOUND COCA LEAF A CURE
Endorsed by a Travelling
Sufferer.

On my journey through the cold up.
lands of the South American noun
tains, I came upon the natives chew.
ing coca leaves, Peter MacQuee1
writes in the National Magazine. The
habit is almost universal in the val.
leys Of the high Andes. Seeing the
people look SO happy with coca leaves
in their mouths, tried to chew some
leaves myself. found them tasteless,
just like hay. But when I swallowed
some of the juice from them l found
it most delightful stiihulant to the
stomach. For long time had been
suffering from an ulcer of the stom.
ach which was very painful. The coca
leaves reduced the pain at once and
left no i'll effect. I continued this for
a month, and it did more for the
cure of the ulcer of the stomach than
any medicine that I had taken in
Europe or America for this trouble. !
mention this particularly. The doctors
Of Bolivia and Peru last summer were
in hot dispute about the evil effects
that chewing coca leaves had had
upon the natives. One-half of the medi.
cal fraternity avowed that the habit
was not injurious, while the other half
maintained that the coca leaves had
such bad effect upon the natives
that it held them back from civilizing
influence. What shall q layman do
when doctors disagree?
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-01-24
FISHERMAN TELLS THIS ONE
Giant Sturgeon Tows Austrian to Camp
and 10 Later Served to Crew OF
Hungry Men.

Lashing a 100-pound sturgeon to a
raft, when he found the fish too heavy
to carry, forcing the big member Of
the finny tribe to haul him into camp
where later the sturgeon was served
up to a crew of hungry men, is the
latest fish story that has reached
Boise. It was brought to Boise, Ida
no, by Frank Maxwell, an engineer
of the forest service with headquar-
ters in Boise.
A large crew of men is stationed at
the Ok Bow tunnel, on the Snake riv-
er, between Idaho and Oregon. A
rancher named Mcpherson notified the
foreman in charge of the camp that
If he would send some Of his men up
he would give them fish. Thinking
that one man could manage a single
fish without trouble, the foreman sent
one of his Austrian laborers after it..
When he arrived at the Mcpherson
ranch, however. the Austrian found
the sturgeon.
AS the fish was still alive the Aus
TRAN built a raft from logs. leaving
an opening in the middle for the fish
to swim, and then dashed the stur.
geon securely to the raft. Pushing
the craft from the shore he allowed
the fish to propel him into camp, sew.
eral miles below. A fish menu was
served at the camp that night.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-01-24
THOUGHT ONLY OF ARTHUR
Telegraph Clerk Amounted to NOTHING
\ When Sweet Innocence Wac
Sending Message.

She sailed into the telegraph office
and raped on the counter. The clerk
remembered that she had been there
about ten minutes before as he came
forward to meet her. He wondered
what she wanted this time.
"Oh," she said, "let me have that
telegram wrote just now; I forgot
something very important. I wanted
to underscore perfectly lovely in
acknowledging the receipt of that
bracelet. Will it cost anything ex-
tra?"
mo. ma'am." said the clerk as he
handed her the message.
The young lady drew two heavy
lines beneath the words and said:
TITS awfully good of you to let me
do that. It will please Arthur ever
so much"
Don't mention It," said the clerk.
IF you would like it I will put few
drops of violet extract on the tele-
gram at the same rates."
"Oh, thank you, sir! You don't
know how much would appreciate
1t. I'm going to send all my tele-
grams through this Office. You are
SO obliging."
And the smile she gave him would
have done any one good with the pos
sible exception of Arthur.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-01-24
ALLOYS OF HIGHEST VALUE
Remarkable Products That Will Add
Greatly to the Commercial Wealth
Of the World.

Two new alloys that are in many
respects remarkable are described by
the American Machinist. One, called
and produced by the inventor
of the McAdamite alloy, is COM
pound of silver and aluminium. 1t
has been put out to compete with sill
yer, over which many superiorities are
claimed for it, for industrial purposes.
1t can be cast rolled, spun, drawn into
wire, takes a good polish and has
greater strength than either aluminium
or silver. 1t resembles silver in ap-
pearance, is not affected by nitric acid
and does not tarnish on exposure to
the air. Its specific gravity Is only
one-third that of silver.
The other alloy is a blend of CO.
bait and tin of about 40 to 60. This
is said by the official chemist Of the
American Institute of Metals to be
especially resistant to acids, but owing
to it's brittleness it has little CONNER.
cial value. Experiments, however.
tend to show that when this Is mixed
with other metals, such as copper, for
instance, it produces a series of al
Toys which may be turned, forged and
machined and have a high degree Of
chemical resistance.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-01-24
Tea DrInkinu Facts.

Nearly 5000 cups of tea are annual
~ drunk by each individual in Great
Britain, for the estimate per head IL
six and one-half pounds. New Zea-
landers enjoy fully seven and one-half
pounds per head. while less than one
pound per head is credited to Russia.
In 1912 165,000.o00 pounds of Indian
tea were consumed rs against 148.000.-
600 pounds ten years ago.
A comparison might easily be made
between the pot that stews all day
on the hob and the morning teapot of
the middle-class household American
women of taste will not even pour wa
ter on tea to make second brew out
Of the same leaves. They habitually
use the finest quality of tea, generally
putting forth China and Indian on the
table, and after one pouring of the in.
fused beverage, the leaves are thrown
away and second supply put into the
receptacle. :,
Unfortunately, in Britain the same
kind of teapot does service every
morning The mistress of the average
home does not take the trouble to note
new systems of producing better re-
suits than those already known.
Where the cult Of tea is really prac.
ticed the same mixture is not served
every morning.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-01-24
Apples Now a Luxury.

Everywhere among the dealers one
can read three apples for a dime" and
in many places the rosy fruit is marked
with nickel apiece" How changed
this is from those old days when one
could buy a peck of apples for ten
cents or a barrel for SLIPS. Not many
years ago an orange was worth four OF
five apples, but now it is cheaper and
1t is not worth one. There was once a
time when an ordinary family would
have several barrels of apples in the
cellar, or bin in the garnet, for win.
ter use. But those days are gone, and
even good apple pie has reached the
altitude of luxury. And then the way
they are sold-in boxes in rows OF
each apple wrapped in paper to attest
its value. We don't know that these
are really days of progress when a
barrel of apples belongs to the arts
tocracy.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-01-24
MUST HAVE FAITH IN WORK
"MentaI Pepper" as Necessary as the
condiment Used to Give Spice
to the Everyday Foods.

"since pepper gives spice to most
everything in the gastronomic line,
isn't it reasonable to suppose that a
little cayenne injected into everyday
business life will have the same ef-
fect?" asks an employer of much Ia
Dor. This all means that enthusiasm
is the great thing that makes for sue
cess. Without it, no man ever got far
along the financial pathway to com.
potency.
"a salesman can go out single-hand-
ed and overcome the greatest OBJ
stacles If he has the pepper If his
enthusiasm is sufficient and his belief
strong enough in his brand of goods,
he can overcome the most deep-rooted
prejudice and build up a market for
his wares that will remain indefinitely.
"All it takes is enthusiasm, and
that is gained by constant work and
an interest in your business. If you've
whole-souled like for the commodi-
ties you are selling your success is
assured"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-01-24
NOTE IN PROGRESS
With Advancement In Medical Science
Has Come the Passing Of the
Family Physician.

Specialization, whichfs sign Of the
zines, threatens some old customs.
Among the MOST significant changes
Of today is the lessening field of the
family doctor. To him, as immortal
ICED by Balzac, were confided the Sc
crets. hopes and woes Of many q
household.
Modern medicine with Its many
branches, its specialties and sub-spe-
cialties, has perceptibly reduced the
scope of operation of this old standby.
Each ailment now suggests its own
specialist. One might almost divide
life into the "seven ages of medical
treatment" from the obstetrician at
birth, the pediatrist of early infancy,
the orthopedic surgeon to correct tie
natural deformities of childhood, the
oculist to prescribe the glasses Of adol.
escence, the surgeon for the trauma-
Tins of manhood, the metabolist for
the digestive troubles of middle life.
the aurist for the deafness of old
age.
And though the change brings with
1t a higher degree of efficiency, there
is much to regret in the loss Of con.
tinuity of the friendship and counsel
Of the family doctor. His interest in
the patient was personal. He knew
the physical weaknesses, as we'll aa
the disposition of each member Of
the family. He had followed them
from birth. He was more than ply
stefan. He was a guide, philosopher
and friend.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-01-24
Enolish Greetings.

Erasmus, coming to England in Hen
ry Wills time, was struck with the
deep heartiness of our wishes-good,
ay, and bad, too; but he most admired
the good ones. Other nations ask in
their greetings how man carries
himself, or how doth he stand with
the world, or how doth he find him
self; but the English greet with a
pious wish that God may give one a
good morning or good evening, good
day or "god'den," as the old writer's
have it; and when we part we wish
that God may be with you," though
we now clip it into "good-by.'-Fris-
we'll.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-01-24
Enamel Chin. In sau.aae..

Enamel Cnlp8 IN SauSa0e0.
M. Martel, chief of the veterinary
department of the Paris board of
health, has just made report on
sausage manufacturing which con.
tains some interesting revelations.
He was specifically interested in as.
pertaining to what extent chips of
the enamel coating of the meat grind.
ers got into the finished sausages.
His microscope showed him in a large
number of sausages minute particles
of enamel with sharp points, capable
Of producing erosions of the intes.
tines.
Doctor Martel found few sausage
machines in perfect condition, and
learned that after very brief use the
enamel Of such grinders almost al
ways chips of. He has asked the
project of the Seine to forbid the use
Of enameled machines. Some manu-
facturers had discovered this defect
themselves and had already put in ma.
chimes in which nothing but polished
steel comes in contact with the meat.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-01-24
WITH THE AID OF S0RCERY
Women Of Sardinia Thought They
Had a Chance to Recover
Buried Treasure.

An old Sandman woman named
Anna Romano has been arrested at
Sassari charged with obtaining money
under false pretensions.
The Italian penal code has no pro.
vision dealing with magic and conse-
quently when Anna Romano was sur.
prised at midnight by the police sur.
rounded by several women holding
torches over hole she had excavated
in the courtyard of house, despite
the fact that the women was openly
engaged in magical practices, she was
accused of swindling money from the
credulous torch bearers.
The women admitted that they had
given the sorceress money and all op
posed her arrest, as they were con-
vinced she was on the point of disccv
ering great treasure. The police do
not believe in treasures. however. and
very likely Anna Romano will be SEN
fenced to long term of imprisonment.
Strange as it may seem, the exist
ence of the treasure is corroborated by
fact. Anna Romano Is in possession
of document written In the sixteenth
century in which it is related that a
wealthy woman of Sassari, fearing a
French invasion, hid all the money,
jewels and plate she owned in se'
cluded place.
This woman was subsequently muir
dered and her body was buried in the
courtyard of her house. A faithful
servant knew that her mistress wore
around her neck a locket containing
the document, with the description OF
the place where the treasure had been
hidden.
When Anna Romano was arrested
she had just discovered the corpse of
the murdered woman and the locket
with the secret document. The police
found the locket but not the document
New York Sun.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-01-24
HE MADE HIS OWN PLACE
Successful and Highly Praised Writer
Virtually a Graduate From the
"Ranks."

II was mechanic, and there wasn't
much Of any kind of machinery I
wasn't good at from cutting screws to
q thousandth of an inch to working at
locomotive building. But l was an
uneducated man until took myself in
hand and educated myself in the last
three years. Even now l haven't read
more than one-third of Shakespeare
and not much Browning, and not very
much else on poetry. But biology l
am keen on" This, according to the
Kansas City Star, is the way in which
John Helston, the author of "Aphro-
dite and Other Poems" describes him
self.
Helston. whose discovery seems to
be disputed point between Lady Mar
garet Sackville and the English Re-
view, since his sudden recognition last
March, has done other manual tasks
besides screw cutting and locomotive
building. OF long list there might
be mentioned electrician, engineering,
sword making and work in a motor car
factory; he was discharged from the
latter for smashing lever or some
thing. Then being fond of betting. he
followed the horses as business and
wrote for racing papers. Finally he
showed some verses he had written
to Lady Margaret Sackville. Now he
is poet, a remarkable poet, and has
been duly lionized by London society.
He rode on bicycle to banquet CIV
en- in his honor and arrived SO late
that, as the report has it, there was
nothing left but cold chicken and Ezra
Pound, the American poet.
Reading "Aphrodite and Other Pc.
ems" and finding as you will many a
line of exquisite workmanship, it may
well prove difficult to reconcile the
authors command of meter and the
music Of the time to the tale of his
untutOred past
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-01-24
Eat Honey.

"Feed that child honey; 1t is the
best thing to stop It's cold," said q
matronly woman to a young woman,
whose little girl was coughing violent
ly. Honey is the extracted sweet of
flowers obtained by bees during the
busy summer for their own subste-
nance during the winter. It is, to
certain extent, natural food for man
kind, since a wild honey tree is con-
sidered great find among all ma
lions. If more people would eat
honey, there would be fewer colds.
There is something about it that
seems strengthening to the lungs. One
must use care in eating honey, how
ever, for sometimes bees sip from
poisonous although fragrant beautiful
flowers, and the honey has been
known to cause illness. Indeed, there
are some people who cannot eat hon
ey without i'll results, But for those
who can, it is grateful appetizing
and healthy food.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-01-24
"pevilIsh Dances" a Century Old.


Whatever may be said against the
tango. in the matter of nomenclature,
at all events, it compares favorably
with some dances in vogue a hundred
years ago. Harriet Beecher Stowe
records that in her girlhood she and
her friends used to dance jig en-
titled, go to the Devil and Shake
Yourself" This dance must have en-
joyed long spell of popularity.
The first Duke Of buckingham was
highly indignant when, having deigned
to attend an assembly ball at Aires
ford, his request for dance. address
ed to local rector's wife. met with
the reply: Go to the Devil and Shake
YOURSELF" He complained to the rec
tor, and it then TRANSFERRED that the
lady, who was somewhat deaf, thought
his grace had asked her what dance
was then being played. This incident
occurred in 1895, and twenty years
later Brabbe. in his Tales animad-
verts on a bookseller for stocking the
music of a dance with such a profane
title.-Manchester Courier.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-01-24
Some Mushroom.

Epicures in the United States, who
love mushrooms will long for time
in the Austrian Tyrol, where real
mushrooms grow. A traveller writing
Of the region says: Bordering the
road that led up the mountain were
Italian chestnut trees. so large that
1t took from three to five of US to
span the trunks of most of them. I'm
der one of these one evening l saw
crouching what l took to be a small,
dark gray kitten. STOPPING, l found
that it was not a kitten, but a mush-
room. Our good peasant neighbor,
hurrying toward me, begged that
would not disturb it. saying that she
depended on this every year. After
q few days of rain, what had seemed
a kitten now looked stately cat, and
when it reached the weight of six
pounds it was gathered and eaten.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-01-24
Somehow Good.

"A lecture by that brilliant crafts
man and poet, William Morris, was
not always season Of rare enjoy.
ment Sometimes, according to Nor
ris' recent biographer, Mr.. Compton
Rickett, his lectures were dull, as on
that occasion when he turned to one
of the ladies in his audience, and
asked her how she had liked the lee.
ture.
mot at ALL" was the unexpected
reply. But I thought the color Of
your blue shirt charming"
Morris was delighted, for he had
taken great pains to find the right
dye. His love Of color, particularly
indigo blue, was as keen as his de-
light in Gothic Art.-Yeuth's Com
panion. rM
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-01-24
Radium in the Arts.

While the most important use Of ra-
dunn is undoubtedly that of a cura-
tive agent for cancer and skin dis
eases, it is also of great value in 9TH
er ways. A disk carrying a minute
quantity of radium is attached to a
special voltmeter and used for meas
uring at distance the electric po-
tential Of a conductor, which it does
at a distance of so centimeters in
the case of a current of not more than
300 volts and at distance Of three
meters in high voltage.
Another use is the prevention of
the electrification of machines and
t1bers in the textile industry, espe-
pecially in silk mills. This is ef-
fected by dipping the textile into
bath containing very small quantity
of radium and by applying radio-ac.
tive matter to the cylinders.
Besides these applications, radium
is incorporated in manures, to which
1t gives a highly stimulating effect
upon vegetation.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-01-24
Life Of Wooden Ships,

The old wooden ships, though they
often enjoyed very long life, usually
began to decline in utility quickly
enough. The Betsy Cairns. for in
stance, which began life as British
royal yacht, had gradually slipped
down the social scale to the status of
a coasting collier when she was
wrecked. and all the other centenarian
vessels met similar fate. The old
East India company reckoned the life
of its vessels as four voyages, which
occupied eight years. and 1t was very
rare indeed for one to leave port more
than six times under the company's
flag. The vessels Of the navy, too, in
the eighteenth century were not ex-
pected to do duty for more than 20
years at the most.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-01-24
rheater 2,4oo Years Old to Reopen

Theater 2,4oo Years Old to Reopen.
Much interest in social and archaeo-
logical circles centers around the pro.
gram arranged by the Marquis Lentini
calling for the production Of a number
of tragedies by historic Greek poets
at the old theater Of Syracuse, Italy.
Among these is the "Agamemnon" of
Aeschylus, of which a new translation
is being prepared by Professor Remag-
noli. we'll known and distinguished
Greek scholar. Aeschylus himself su-
perintended the representation of this
play in the famous theater of SYRIA
cuse 2.400 years ago.
After much negotiations the marquis
has obtained the permit to open the
theater next spring. In Cicero's day
the theater seated 10000. It 10 cut in
the rock q little way above the town
and the various tiers are wonderfully
well preserved.