The Red Cloud chief., 1889-04-26
hiBERNlAN BULLS.
One Of the special Inseliectusi Qualities
Of The Irish.

There are people who have expressed
"A doub; whether the Irish bull ha. any
real place among intellectual fauna Of
these islands. and is not. as a matter
o! fact. "a, nun-existcnt as that earlier
product of the same soil. the Irish elk.
They do not. Of course. deny that GER
tain examples OF vcrba! condition or OF
incongruity between words and things
have obtained currency IA bulls"
but they decline To believe that any OF
them were really uttered in good faith.
and they prefer 10 regard them simply
~ the products of "a deliberately per
verted kind of Irish hunor. There
can no longer b. any doubt tha; there
Is something in the constitution OF the
Irish mind which predisposc- it TO
perceive acongruity between words aud
things whore no such congruiiy exists
in fact. aud 10 lose sight Of the incorn-
patibility Of two conceptions which NO
man .! any other rac would ever FOR
"a moment think Of as rcconcilable.
Why this peculiarly should form one
al the special intellectual qualities Of
the Irish, and 10 BE- absent from or
not found 20 any thing like the same
extent in other peoples. j. IA c%Uriou.
problem. It, most plausible cxplana-
;ion. however. il not otherwise than
Gathering To the bull-making race.
There can he little doubt. that is 10
say. tina; the bull is only possible In n
very quickly working intelligence and
"a "A power OF expression which re-
spends with exceptional rapldity 10
the thought. No man whose ideas are
slow of formation in the mind or Of
formation by the lips il capabl. of
committing "a bull, for the simple
reason that the relation Of hi. ideas IL
each other or Ia the world of external
lac have time To get themselves accur-
ately reviewed before any of these
ideas are translated into words. II IL
necessary. too. to distinguish. for there
are obviously bulls and balls. One
and perhaps the most fascinating.
because the most natural. OF AL
descriptions of the bull which i born.
81 10 speak. Of rhetorical emotion
the bull which betray- the speaker.
like Europa, bv the attractions 81
strength or grace. Mr.. keeue's Irish
mat who. in indignan; contradiction
of his English friends assertion that
Irish absentee landlords were less CON-
mon than formerly. ~exclain-: .'Yc're
wrong. me boy; me country swar-r-ms
with them" Dade the ideal bull OF
the class 10 which | refer. The sss.uc-
ton OF the phrase which he used was
so great. il i. 50 ~favoriie a rhetorical
commonplace FOR the description o!
a multitude OF objects. tina; even an
En~glishnan can here -ynpathize with
the b~ull-,naker and can feel that he.
too. in a moment o. unusual ~vivaci;y.
might have made the bull himself.
perhaps 81 common = variety ~
these mental stunbles. which has
nothing To do with the form o. .I-
precision. and which arises from sheer
"a va 'c% my f'tt ~ ~ y.
10 recognize the repugnancy 81
two mutually repugnani ideas The
b--;, though possibly rs; the b~s; al
th~.nticat.d. example 81 il j. o-.e In
which the misleading influence. o,
language are entirely eliminated. mas
much a. the bull - committed BY N.
mere at Of speaking. and no, by xha:
was said refer 20 The w~eii-kno~n
anec6o.. % the raan who. observing
overlooked in she act O. writ
ing 10 a friend ny the prying eyes o. .
re.ghbor in TIE par.or o. IN ina. zh-
closed hi. epi-;le with The
words: Il would write you NOR h..
that al !mperrbea; lri-hman = rad
ing every sord 81 this letter over ~
~ course the story go.
Ia relate ;ha; the words we're 20
sooner pa; on the paps- than the Irish |
nan b-oke csi into a r-athsul denial
~ the charge Il IL . story which di-
lacks confirmation" bot
should hesiis'e 10 pronounce /; !fspo~
-iese- and. though the rso-. sxxze.
IL nos the only INSTANCE q = bzil-io- !
acfioa- -Engtisa illustrated NaSn-iaa !
The neg Froch method ~ hyp.<>
for the cure Of pr-~oos addicted 30
the use Of alcoholic h4ocr~ 10 Sasd %
be u~on4ersnliy s~ncce>s.ul ne csrr
has excited % mach asses:ioa has !
Fresch specialists BOZ have . hospital |
1esosea % - trvatossa anA pshiiaA