The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-05-11
THE OMNIBUS.


ming and sometimes flushed with drink-harridans of fifty
their wrnkled cheeks boched with their impudent
CARDS closely scanning each passebyyoung evidently
fresh from the country quite able Danish shame
sewing with poverty and urgent need betrayed in
of their hreadbre garments in every glance of their
ous children here and there with blows
perhaps by drunken and desperate with ho
low cheeks and brows who have better days.
and who have Infants may be- at home waiting Tor bread
troops of chattering French girls to whom all is matter OF
course and whom London fog make other than
ga-these and of other rush crowds noisiy
about the pau shouting laughing and scodg each other
keeping the whr of excitement with plentiful draughts of
gin and beer dashng to and fro from lane and with
their streaming nery their bold of every stranger
their hord rbad when repused their mngng OF screams
entreates and curses until it if second Pandemon
had been let loose i'll the Haymake of which women only
were the fends
WATER EIGHTEEN HUNDRED YEARS OLD.-Whlst at Vesu-
yus may well look in upon Pompe and in truth there
is good Tor doing On last Friday there
walton the of the Minister of the Royal Household
when wonderful discovery was made 1t was kitchen that
dsnterred and of the ornsmall square holes
freace uch in in the present day. and fed
with chacoawas found copper vessel supported by tr
pod The vessel Dramatically closed and in
crusted al with h, that it required considerable
force to open it, But how great the surprise OF those
present to find that nearly full of water The interior
of the vessel presented signs of oxidation that
hestated in tasting the water when it found perfectly
and good Pompei them which has enriched after
the lapse of nearly 20O0 years. with Jewels and paintings and
scuptued marbles which has almost supplied our tables
bread and honey eggs and figs and variety of other luxu
es has saked thirst with deposited in
far back the reign of Titus and by of the victims
eatons of the inner life of people long since moudered into
ashes And what frghu picture do they give of that
Dies @ of the hundengs and the ghnings aud the smok
ing mountain and the thick storm of ashes and of pumiee
which enveoped the aed city, mothering the sentinel
IN his box protrang in their agony whole families one OF
which have lively relic yet leaving cauldron SIM
merng with preparations for the dinner of the dying and the
dead This ia which has just been discovered To the
is nothing but copper vessel value much the
pound; but look at it with the minds eye what story 1t
tells
QUEEN V1croRAs INsANIrY-A London correspondent of
the Boston u, tells curious stories of the
which Queen Victoria has conducted since the death of Prince
Albert She will 1--we in the palace London On her hu
bands death she bad Buckingham Palace dmaned and it
remains TO this day. all except private rooms The Queen
will drive t ough the Royal gateway of the palace
has she since her husband died she will ride through the
ROYAL to the House of Lords but goes in through the
Peers She will the royal robes and when
she opens Parliament the robes thrown the
back OF the throne which is glded chair unounted with
gilt and sits them She to London when duty
calls seldom passes night in her capital ard has passed less
than dozen four years She has company but what her
official position imposes her. The State apartments Wind
all dismanted The room in which the Prince Con-
sort breathed his last is kept with scupuous the
Prince left it, The ladies say that each night the dressing
gown and slippers put their accustomed place. The
Queens confidential attendant is Highlander by the of
Brown He takes all the orders from the Queen-and
legged messenger from the Queens Apartments
Windsor when Her Majesty is be This Brown has
been the occasion OF world of talk He is about fta
spare-wh assurance attends the Queen to
from London. Great attempts have been made dslodge
him, but all in van The Queen has will of her own.
FENIANs IRELANDRED SOLD BY AN OLD
WoMANThe Dublin correspondent of the New York San, in
his last letter. relates the following incident of the late Fenian
outbreak. 1t is Irish through and through
Two young men, fugitive Fenians, hiding in the
tans when the mother of of them taken sick
death She wanted her boy more and faithful
messenger summoned him from the hills His companion went
with him. and he had the melancholy satisfaction of seeing his
mother alive. As the vital spark had fed, the tugi
Vts made for the friendly Businesses of the mountains They
started alter DUSK old going before them look
for police and military They had travelled about three miles,
when the sceech OF the woman warned them OF
danger flying column had upon the old woman and
pretending to be frightened she screamed The Spenday
Magistrate began to examine her. when the following dialogue
detailed to by Government official who
the conversation took place Her object delay and out
wit the pursues The Magistrates object find if she
a native of the locality and knew all the nhabitants
What's your name?"
~ forgot to bring it wud mo; it's at home"
Come tel nam