The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-02-01

when mother came down the cellar steps, used rembngy
to speculate on her feet having good or an look
ON her kneeson her was-unt finally her face came into
view and settled the question From this it will be seen that
was timd and that the cear-seps steep and that
the doorway very low Mother had the grip and Gluten
OF poverty upon her face upon her figure and not least OF
all upon her voice. Her sharp and hghptched WORDS were
squeezed out of her, by the compression of bony fingers
leahen bag and she had way of rolling her eyes
about and about the cellar she scolded that gant
and hungry Father with his shoulders rounded would sit
quiet on threelegged STOOL looking at the empty CRATE
him go bring some money home Then he would dismay
ascend the steps, and holding ragged shirt and rowsers
together with hand (my only braces) would fent and
dodge from mothers pursuing grasp at my hair worldly
little devil mothers usual name for Whether cried
for that in the dark for that it cold for
that hungry, whether l squeezed myself into
warm corner when there a fire, ate voracously
when there food she would still say, Oh worldly
little devilw And the sting of it was that quite well
the wanting to be housed and warmed, worldly to the
wanting to be fed worldly to the greed with which
with how much father and mother got when rarely those
good things going Sometimes they both went
seeking work. and then would be locked up in the cellar
for day two at time. 1 my worldest then.
Left alone yielded myself up to worldly yearning for
enough OF anything Except msey and for the death OF
mothers father who machine maker at Birmingham
and on whose decease had heard mother say she would
come into whole courtul of houses elf she had her
Worldly little devil would stand about musingly fitting
cod bare feet into cracked bricks and crevces of the
damp cellar foorwakng my grandfahers body, to
speak, into the couru of houses and selling them for meat
and drink and clothes to wear At last change came down
low thatso will mount to any height which human
creature perchand brought other changes with it. We
had heap of don't know what foul litter in the darkest
corner, which called the bed For three days mother
lay upon it without getting up and then began at times to
laugh If had ever heard her laugh before had been
SO seldom that the strange sound frightened 1t fright
ened father too and took it by turns to give her water
Then she began to her head from side to side and
sing After that she getting BETTER father fell laughing
and singing and then there only to give them both
water and then both died.
LITERARY DEGREES IN CHNA.-There are in China four
Literary degrees which May be considered to correspond to
European of bachelor centiae and DOCTOR the
fourth being that of academcian The two first degrees may
be taken in the provnces the two latter Pekn only The
examinations for centates degree take place every
three years in the capitals of the provinces In September
last the number of candidates who presented themselves at
Nankin was 10000, amongst whom there old men.
There many privileges attached to the literary degrees
AS soon student has obtained his bachelors degree he
cannot be subjected to torture any corporal punishment
without being FIRST degraded Every district obliged to
provide its icentaes with certain number of of
rice licenate may also obtain vacant mandarinshp,
or make much money as public letter writer and of
business generally During the period of the examinations
each candidate shut in separate CELL where he has
barely enough to sit and write; he lie down.
and cannot leave for six days and nights the time the
examination lasts His food is brought him in his CELL
The of examination consist in passages of Concus
to be commented on writing piece of poetry replying
five questions the history and political economy of China
and oral examination the geography of that country
Before being admitted to the examination the candidate
must prove that he exercises low trade and find five
bachelors and two other persons surees for his respect
ability.
THE MOST REMARKABLY FEAT OF PEDEsTRIANsM ON
REcoRD.-The. Illinois StaatsZetunq published Chicago,
that the pedestrian feat of Weston is not the greatest
feat of the kind that has been performed before and
that it is the mere childs play in comparison with that
which done by Norwegian named Menseu Ernst This
born at Bergen in Norway in 1899 First sailor,
then pilot he began his pedestrian England
at the age of twenty and walked from London Portsmouth,
distance of sevenytwo English miles, in nine hoursat
the rate of hundred miles in twelve hours and thirty
minutes The distance from London to Liverpool, one
hundred and fifty miles, he walked in thry-two hours or
the rate of hundred miles in twenty hours and forty
minutes But these remarkable performances were only an
of his future pedestrian feas According to the terms
of bet of 100000 francs ($2O00Oof which, in case of
he only to receive 1000 francs $8O0-he agreed
to walk in fifteen days. from Paris to Moscow At noon on
the 18th of june 1922 he started from Place Vendome Paris
and the morning of the 25h of June stood before the