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"STANDARD" BREVITIES.
How would it do to remove the Ro.cky
Mountains to the seaboard and use
them as coast defences?
The man who is anxious to become a
Vcrack shot" should practice with one
of these insect-powder guns.
Some young men are improved by
travel,
especially if thevdo not travel
on ocean steamers, and learn to gamble
in the smoking saloons.
A traveler who recently returned
from England and who witnessed Gil
bert and Sullivan's new opera says it
ought to be called "Bloody Bore."
A contemporary advertises for a sena
tor without a presidential bee in his
bonnet. Well, now, there's Warner
Miller. He might have had it, but he's
cured.
An Indian squaw is happiest when
she is wearing a man's tall hat and has
on corsets over her other clothes. It is
human nature. Some of these red sis
ters actually wear feathers and paint
their face3.
At the opera. "I can't explain the
success of that singer." "Neither can
I." "She sings through her nose most
atrociously." "Perhaps that is the rea
son why every one is waving a handker
chief at her."
The Marquise de Calinaux, who is still
somewhat giddy, wrote to one of her
friends recently, "My daughter has just
given birth to a son. Tell the news to
our friends but you needn't mention
the fact that I am a grandmother."
It is estimated that the beggars of
Rome receive $2,000,000 a year in alms,
and that 500 of them are worth from
$15,000 to $25,000 each. Henry George's
land theories would have very little
weight with this class of paupers.
A Chicago paper says, "Three hun
dred ladies and two thousand male
hunters joined in a fox chase in Pike
county." One is at a loss to guess
whether the two thousand male hunters
were men or dogs. Probably both were
included.
Scene—Kitchen. Lady of the house
—"Cook, the soup was excellent to-day.
Where did you get the receipt?" Cook
(180 pounds), proudly—"Ah 1 missus,
glad to hear yer say so. You know I
inwented it—'t is a fact—that is, it
come out o' my—hem—poeticle im
aginashun!"
A correspondent in the South sends
us this account of a prayer which a
lady overheard from the lips of an old
darkey in Charleston during the earth
quake period, "Do, Lord, come down
and help us. Don't send your Son. It's
no time to be sendin' de chillen. Do,
dear lord, come yourself
A well-known professional gentleman
said concerning the general assembly
"investigation" and its hang-fire devel
opments that it reminded him of a mo
tion made by a Connecticut legislator
on the famous "dard day." The mem
ber rose in his seat, and with quivering
voice exclaimed, "Mr. Speaker" I move
who's afraid!"
Artist—"What
on earth are they do­
ing? Raising the ceiling?" Janitor—
"Yes, sir the committee say they
haven't got room enough." "But the
pictures on the top row can hardly be
seen now?" "Well, I heard one of the
committeemen say that they were going
to hang one of your pictures and they
would need some place to put it."
When Hobbs returned to his country
home after his brief visit to the metro
polis, he was asked if he saw many
strange things in the city. Wal," re
plied Hobbs, "I dunno. I seen a lot a
cuius things, that's a fact but I guess,
by the way them city folks stared at
me, that I was about as big a curiosity
as there was in the hull city."
A young blue-stocking called on Au
relien School the other day, and at once
started a conversation about literary
work and its responsibilities. "Ah!"
sighed the lady, "my imagination often
runs away with me. Only the other
day I finished writing a romance in
which things were so strongly put that
mamma has forbidden me to read it."
"There's a man," he said, pointing to
a gentleman three or four seats ahead
of him in the car, "who picked up a
piece of pine land two years ago for
nothing, and has made $50,000 out of
it. "Ah^ yes. I happen to know the
case." "Lucky dog, eh?" "Very
lucky. It was government pine, and he
has just settled with Uncle Sam by pay
ing $55,000 and costs."
At the hospital. Physician—"1 con
gratulate you sincerely, my dear sir."
Patient
(joyfully)—"Then
I will re­
cover?" Physician—"No not exactly
but after consultation we have come to
the conclusion that your case is an en
tirely new one, and wo have decided to
give your name to the malady, provided
that our diagnosis is confirmed by—the
autopsy." (Patient immediately ex
pires from fright.)
Jupkins, Sr—"Well, Jack, you look
hearty, and I'm glad to see you safe and
sound. Those western men are lawless
folk, I hear." Jupkins, Jr. (just from
Montana)—"I never had any difficulty
with/ them." "Well, I'm sure I've
heard that they shoot a man whore
tuses
to drink with them. Did they
never ask you to drink?" "Um—yes."
"But they spared you, on account of
your youth?" "Er—no. I always
'dfrank'"
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There are three elevators in Waseca
and a foundry. A new city hall is about
to be erected, and a system of water
works for the city is another pro
ject in view for the coming summer.
For this latter purpose a bill was
passed at the late session of the Legis
lature allowing $12,000. In a business
way, coming directly under our obser
vation, we note the following gentle
men who are prospenng there: C. Mc
Kenna, the present county treasurer,
general store J. B. Hayden, express
agent McLoughlin Bros., general
store Jerome Madden, grocer P. J.
Dean, grocer Thomas Bohen, insur
ance, loan and real estate Thomas
Boucher, general hardware Collins
Bros., machinery B. C. Tierney, cigar
manufacturer: P. Bowe, plow shop and
feed mill, Elm street N. J. Breen,
blacksmith Patrick Moonan, Sheridan
House Thomas Colman, Waseca
House M. B. Keeley, grocer John Ma
loney, Minnesota House. J. P. McGov
ern, county attorney, and Dr. Christie,
both established on Main street, should
not be overlooked here. They are men
who have an extensive practice in their
professions. Messrs. James and Thos.
Lynch, wood and coal dealers, are
thorough Irishmen and excellent citi
zens of the city in which they live. So
it might be said of Henry Murphy, J. P.
Murphy, John McLin and a host of
others which lack of space forbids a
mention here.
To Mr. James Lynch, who extended
the representative of THE IRISH STAN
DARD many kindly favors while in Wa
seca, we return our sincere thanks for
favors bestowed also to John Madigan
for his voluntary services in behalf of
the paper.
In closing we have only to call the at
tention of our Waseca readers to the
fact that our young friend, John
Moonan, of the Sheridan House, has
kindly consented to become our agent
there. Subscriptions taken by that
gentleman for THE STANDARD will
be promptly acknowledged and re
ceipted by the management of this
journal.
NORTHWESTERN NOTES.
MINNESOTA.
Mayor Strait, of Shakopee, is ill.
Winona has a well-developed real es
tate boom.
Scott county has a balance of $36,000
in the treasury.
Mrs. Ursula L. Topliff sues Austin
for side-walk injuries.
There are 151 teachers at Wabasha
institute this week.
David Wentworth, of Newport,
bought Tuesday the Chafiin place for
$6,400.
Judge Martin, of Duluth, received a
gold headed cane from the attorneys
yesterday. He was 68.
If a citizens' meeting at St. Cloud
favors it, a special election to vote on
issuing $14,000 bonds for school pur
poses will beheld.
Mrs. A. Smith, aged 85, hung herself
at Pipestone Tuesday, at the home of
her danghter. A close watch had been
kept on her, but she evaded it.
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St. Oloud.
Correspondence of The Irish Standard.
Division No. 1, A. O. H., of this city,
is in .a prosperous condition, new mem
bers are coming in every meeting.
Most all of the-n have joined the A. O
H. L. I. F. I think that our division
will soon be the banner division in the
state. Old divisions look out.
J. E. West is going to build a large
addition to the West house, four stories
high, 48x128. solid brick with stone
basement, the full size of the building.
Wm. J. Murphy has the contract
of cutting and building all the stone
work and excavating.
First rain of the season today, snow
going fast, and the people are not sorry
to seee it disappear. O. O. B.
Correspondence of The Irish Standard.
Among the cities and towns along the
line of the Minneapolis & St. Louis
that deserve more than passing men
tion is that of Waseca. The population
at the present ti numbers about
3,000, about one-sixth of whom are of
Irish birth or parentage. There are a
goodly nuu.ber of Catholics in the city,
with Rev. Father Christie as parish
priest. In connection with the church
there is a temperance society of about
seventy members also Ladies' Altar
and Sodality societies. A branch of the
Catholic Knights of America will, in
all probability, be soon organized. The
select school, under the management of
the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus is
an institution that the people of Wa
seca take great pride in without regard
to sect or nationality. There are about
245 scholars in attendence at present,
45 of whom are Protestants. A fire de
partment of no uncommon proportions,
with M. V. Hunt as chief, is a protect
or of the city's interests, and as a vol
unteer department it is in every way an
unqualified success. Among the or
ganizations may also be mentioned that
ot the Knights of Labor,whose strength
in the city will compare favorably with
that of any other of its size and popu
lation in the State.
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DAKOTA.
Dakota fire insurance men are in ses
sion at Sioux Falls
Mayor McClure returned to Pierre
from Washington Wednesday. He be-
THE W0RLDAT LARGE.
The wife of OscarNeebe, the anarchist,
is dead.
A fire at Walla Walla, Washdid a
damage of $450,000.
W. F. Thompson's tub factory blew
up at Ithaca, Mich,, three men killed
Nina Van Zandt visited August Spies
Tuesday and chatted an hour with him.
A. mass meeting in memory of Logan
was held in Brooklyn last Tuesday
night.
George Brunswick, claiming to be
from St, Paul, shot himself in Central
Park, N Y.
A joint Republicau caucus of the New
York Legislature voted 54 to 4 against
bigh license.
A broken fly wheel in the North Chi
cago rolling mills, Tuesday, fatally. in
jured two men.
Eau Claire has decided to revise its
city charter. The wards are increased
from 8 to 18.
Humphry, Blake & Co., cotton com
mission merchants, of St. Louis, have
rigned. Libilities, $90,000 assets,
$65,000.
Mormons from Idaho in quod at De
troit, will probably be released because.
the cumulative sentance against them is
unconstutional.
Wall, Smith & Co., proprietors of the
Gilbert tobacco warehouse, Louisville,
have assigned. Liabilities $75,000
assets, $111,000.
Prison wardens from all parts of the
country met at Detroit last Tuesday to
form an association for the better man
agement and tracing of criminals.
The American Cattle Breeders' Asso
ciation and the commissioner of agricul
ture will co-operate in the supression of
pleuro-pneumonia.
Direct telegraphic communication has
been opened between Guatemala and
Mexico by the extension of the Mexican
land lines to Guatemala.
Richard W. Thompson, of Indiana,
formerly secretary of the navy is said
to receive the salary of $25,000 a year
from the promoters of the Panama
canal scheme, for the use of his name.
The breaking of the senatorial dead
lock in New Jersey, resulting in the
election of Mr. Blodgett and the ap
pointment of Finley and Lucas from
Florida and West Virginia, complete the
list of United States senators as it will
stand during., at least, a portion
of the time of the Fiftieth Con
gress. The outgoing senate stood. Rep
ublicans 41, Democrats 34, Riddleberger
Independent. The incoming body will
stand: Republicans 38, Democrats 37,
and Independent 1. The changes resal
from Democratic gains in four states,
California, Indiana, New Jersey and
Virginia, and a loss in Nevada where
Stewart, Republican succeeds Fair,
Democrat.
Flandrau fears floods.
SUBSCRIBE for THE IRISH STANDARD
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for a pure bottle of "Hennessy Brandy
113 Washington avenue south.
When you want to smoke the best 5
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Bros. "Parnell." 113 Washington ave
nue south.
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scriber for THE STANDARD. Extra
copies can.always be secured at this
Office..
A full line of gents', misses and
ladies' summer hosiery at O. T. Swett's,
228 Central avenue. Call and examine
goods and prices.
Mile. Louise Armaindo, the 'cyclist,
defeated Richard Hale, the heel-and
toe walker, at the East Side rink Mon
day night. Hale was to walk 8 miles
while the lady rode 15 miles.
Under the new order of things the
city is now divided into three justice
districts—north, south and east. Judge
J. B. Quinn has a strong Democratic
following in the south district and his
chances for a nomination are of a 'most
flattering nature.
THE IRISH STANDARD: SATURDAY, MABCH 12, 1887.
comes immigration commissioner on
April 1.
L. D. Lyon will publish a new weekly
at Watertown April 1.
"There is nothing new from the Turtle
Mountain trouble and no probability of
bloodshed.
Bony Dewey wao arrested at Egan
Tuesday, for robbing C. B, Boen, of La
Crosse, Wis., of $300.
Between its new university and the
connty seat change, which is imminent,
Aberdeen has a great boom.
An N. P. sleeper was derailed Tues
day morning near Jamestown by a
broken rail, but no one was hurt.
Sioux Falls doctors successfully re
moved a 30-pound ovarian tumor from
the wife of Sheriff Dickson last
Wednesday.
Deadwood's mayor has ordered the
arrest of all minors found on the street
after 9 o'clock p. m. The boys have
fitted up a room and will do their car
ousing indoors hereafter.
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GENERAL LABOR NOTES.
The number of unemployed people in
the United States is estimated at
2,000,000.
It is believed that a corporation will
soon be formed to run the Eagle mill at
Taunton
The printing business is dull in Phila
delphia and there is an overflow of
"subs" in the city.
There are about 12,000 stonecutters in
Paris. The averaye day's wages is $1.60
for thirteen hours.
The corn factoring industry is thriv
ing in Maine, and there is a prospect of
additional factories.
The employes on the Wolfboro(N. H.)
branch railroad have had their wages
raised fifteen per cent.
A bill requiring all employers to pay
wages weekly after July 1 has been in
troduced into the Ohio Legislature.
The locked out granite cutters of Bos
ton still hold out, and say theo will re
main as they are until the bosses give
in.
Pittsburg has' 857 puddling furnaces,
all but thirteen of which are running
night and day. They produce daily
1800 tons of iron ore.
The horse car striket of South Bos
ton found that the residents of that dis
rict were there consistent sympathizers
by a large majority.
It is reported at Marquette that 700
laborers at work on the Sault division
of the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic
struck Wednesday for $2 a day.
The engravers employed by the Photo
Engraving Company of New York
struck the other day because certain de
mands of their union were not complied
with.
W. H. Williams was last Sunday
elected delegate to represent Typo
graphical Union No. 42 at the forth
coming meeting of the International at
Buffalo.
Cardinal Gibbons said: "I am and
ever shall be an enemy of the plutocracy
of soulless corporations and men. The
Catholic Church will take the side of
the weaker against the stronger."
The printers of Milwaukee have lost
their strike for an advance iu wages.
The places of the striking printers were
filled by members of the "Protective"
fraternity. The qualifications required
to become a "Protective" man are nu
merous. A convict, drunkard, or thief,
is received with open arms. The citi
zens of Milwaukee will soon get tired of
paying extra policemen to watch this no
torious band of loathsome, poisonous
rodents.
There was a large attendance at the
semi-annual meeting of the Knights of
Labor Building Association last Tues
day night. Thomas A. Clark occupied
the chair. W. H. Grimshaw, the archi
tect, gave a detailed explanation of the
plans. He advised that the building
should not be made fire-proof on ac
count of the cost. He thought a "slow
burning" building would do quite as
well. The building committee's report
showed that the cellar and foundation
were completed, and that the brick and
stone was all on the ground. It was re
ported further that 3,093 shares at $5 per
share, amounting to $15,465, had been
taken bv 1,169 subscribers, thus giving
an average of 2§ shares to each one who
has already taken stock. The receipts
from
the stock amount to $5,000, $2,500
of which has already been expended.
George S. Boyd, C. A. S. Higley, C. W.
Palmenter, Frank Walker and G. G.
Fox were elected directors.
SPORTING NEWS.
Tom Eck is in the citv.
It is reported that a base ball league
will be organized in North Dakota.
Two female pugilists meet in a 10
round glove contest at the Olympic, St.
Paul, March 18.
It is said that Patrick Sheedy made
$15,000 by John L. Sullivan's trip to
the Pacific slope.
Harry Woodson has challenged Billy
Wilson to another fight of 15 rounds for
to $500 a side.
The American association adopted
schedule for the .coming season at
Cleveland last Monday.
Frank Glover has accepted Jack
Buike's challenge to fight to a finish
with skin gloves for $5,000 a side.
George Harris, the Black Pearl, has
been matched tofi.htthe Black Dia
mond to a finish at Duluth March 17.
J. C. Murnane wants to match Chas.
Gleason against'a 150-pound man in the
West, Hawkins or Jerry Murphy pre
ferred.
The St. Louis club Tuesday accepted
the offer of $12,000 for its franchise,
and the Iudianapolis club was then for
mally admitted into the National
League.
Definite arrangements haye been made
for a fight between Dick Crohin and
Jimmy Conley. The match will take
place some time the last of March, and
will be for $150.
At the annual meeting of the Mer
cury. Bicycle Club last Tuesday night
officers were elected as follows: Presi
dent and captain, S. F. Heath first
lieutenant, David Fuller second'lieu
tenant, Paul Achard secretary and
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treasurer, Theodore Slosson. The in
itiation fee was reduced from $5 to $2
and the yearly dues to $1.
Andrew Greenley and Joe Harris,
two blacksmiths of this city, Monday
broke the record made by two St. Paul
blacksmiths by turning out 24 shoes in
the short time of 38 minutes and 30 sec
onds.
John D. Morrisy, the owner of Mon
tana Regent, says he will match him
against Volante for a race of 2i miles
for $10,000 a side, the race to come off
at the spring meeting of the Memphis
Jockey Club.
Jomes Porter, employed at the West
Hotel, and Frank Shultzer, a black
smith's helper, both featherweights,
fought with two and one-half ounce
gloves early [.Tuesday morning in a
barn less than eight blocks from the
West hotel for a purse of of $100. Shul
tzer was knocked down in the third
round, and failing to respond to the
call of time, Porter was declared the
winner.
J.ike Kilrain and Joe Lannon fought
in private at Boston last Tuesday night
for a purse of $1,000. Kilrain had the
best of the fight from the beginning.
En the eleventh round he sent in six
stunning blows on Lannon's head in
quick succession, the last one closing
his eye and knocking him senseless to
the floor, where he lay twenty seconds
before he recovered consciousness. The
fight was given to Kilrain, who escaped
without a scratch.
THE SIEGE OF PARIS.
(wo Extrects from the Diary of Ex-Min
ister Elihu B. Washburne.
"PARIS, Sunday afternoon, Nov. 20,
1870.—Sixty-third day of the Siege.—
One of the features of the
siege is the thousand rumors
and reports that are constantly
flying about. The most absurd and
ridiculous canards are circulated every
hour in the day. These French people
are in a position to believe any thing,
even that the moon is made of green
cheese. Some of the editors are the
most deliberate and inventive liars of
modern times. One of the papers said
the other day it had received a number
of the London Standard of November
11, and went on to give various ex
tracts and news taken from it. Every
body wondered how so late a paper
could get into Paris, and when the mat
ter was investigated it was shown that
no such paper had ever been received,
and that the whole thing was a delib
erate and wilful fabrication. The
news that has come by 'pigeon tele
graph' in regard to the French success
at Orleans has had a great effect. Small
favors thankfully received and larger
ones in proportion.
"For three days it has been war,
war but now, when these long dreary
days are running out, nothing is accom-i
plished except every few days a letter
or a high sounding proclamation of
Trochu. It has been a dead calm since
the 31st of October, not excitement
enough to stir the blood of a cat.
These people, gay, light, frivolous as
they are, would endure wonders could
you convince them that anything was
to be gained. They are getting down
to what we called in Gelena lead-mines
•hard pan.' Fresh meat can not last
much longer, including horse and
mule. The vegetables really seem to
be holding out very well, but the prices
are so high that the poor can buy but
very little. Butter is selling for $4 a
pound turkeys, $16 apiece chickens,
$6 apiece rabbits, $4 each eggs, $1.50
a dozen, and so on. The price of
bread, however, fixed by the city, is
about as usual. Wine is also very
cheap. Bread and wine will soon be
about all the poorer classes will have
to eat and drink. What misery! what
suffering! what desolation!"
"CHRISTMAS, PARIS, Sunday, Dec.
25, 1870, 98th day of the Siege.—Never
has a sadder Christmas dawned on any
city. Cold, hunger, agony, grief and
despair sit enthroned at every habita
tion in Paris. It is the coldest day of
the season and the fuel is very short
and the government has had to take
hold of the fuel question, and the
magnificent shadetrees that have for
ages adorned the avenues of this city
are all likely to go in the vain struggle
to save France. So says the Official
Journal of this morning. The suffer
ings of the past week exceed by far
any thing we have seen. There is
scarcely any meat but horse-meat, and
the government is now rationing. 11
carries out its work with impartiality.
The omnibus-horse, the cab-horse, tire
work-horse and the fancy-horse, all go
alike in the mournful procession to the
butchery shops—the magnificent blood
ed steed of the Rothschilds by the side
of the old plug of the cabman. Fresh
beef, mutton, pork are out of the ques
tion. A little poultry yet remains at
fabulous prices. In walking through
the Rue St. Lazare I saw a middling
sized goose and chicken for sale in a
shop-window, and I had the curiosity
to step in and inquire the price (rash
man that I was). The price of the
goose was $25, and the chicken $7."-
CLEARANCE SALE
OF BOOTS AND SHOES
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Entire Stock to be Closed Out Call Early and Get your Footwear Cheap.
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NOTICE.
STATE
OF
MINNESOTA, county of Hennepin,
District Court, Fourth Judicial District.
In the matter of the assignment of Louis Fred
man, insolvent, to J. R. Corngan.
Notice is hereby given that in pursuance of an
order of the above-named Court, jnjde and filed
in the said Court on the 5th day of March, A. D.
1887,1 shall sell at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash, at my office, No. 112 Hennepin
avenue, in the city of Minneapolis, in said
county of Hennepin and State aforaeaid, on Satur
day, the 2nd day of April, A. D. 1887, at 10 clock
iu the forenoon of the. same day, all the uncol
lected accounts belonging to the estate of said in
solvent, amounting to about 2861.35, and de
scribed in the petition upon which said order
was granted, which said petition was filea_ with
the clerk of said district court on the 5th day of
March, A. D. 1887.
Dated March 7,1887. ...
J. R. CORRIGAN, Assignee.
M. J. LALLY. T. F. LALLY.
LALLY BEOS.
IMPORTERS,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
LIQUORS AND CIGARS,
113 WASHINGTON AVE. SOUTH,
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.
Branch house, corner Sibley anc* Seventh
Street, St. Paul.
The Nicollet Ave. Photographer.
THE FINEST FINISHED
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P. V. DWYER & BROS..
PLUMBERS,
And Dealers in Gas Fixtures,
96 East Third St., ST.
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WINE AND LIQUOR DEPOT
429 Washington Av. S., Oor. 5th Av.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.
Flasks and jugs filled at wholesale prices.
Positively the best goods in the city for the
money. Family trade
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A.
Manufactures Jewelry,
Repairs Watches.
and Loans Money
On Watches, Diamonds and
Jewelry.
NO. 8 WASHINGTON AVE. NORTH.
Ocean Passage
TICKETS
ABE SELLING AT
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Great
Britain
TO
NEW YORK.
If you intend to bring any
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General Northwestern Agents,,
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