The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-12-16

8 Historical Manuscripts commission
published lately the manuscripts of the
4 Earl Of Egmont, under date June IT,
II 1881. The following record of an order
& OF the Court of Castle Chamber, Dub
lin, is found: John Beaghan, of Car
hallway, County Kildare, husbandman,
\ to stand three market days on the pill
4 Tory in Dublin, with both ears nailed
sand cut off, to be whipped throughout
Il the city, to forfeit all his goods, and to
] be imprisoned at pleasure, for very
detestable and most dsloyal speeches
4 or her sacred Majesty, calling Her
Z HiEhness Bean-reoghan DOM in Irish,
Il the which are not otherwise conven-
4 Tent for the hatefulness of the words
to be published The very detestable
and loyal appellation given to her viz
4 ginal majesty, means, when put into
English, brown-haired queen. When
John Beaghan, Carnalway, walked off,
minus his ears and minus his worldly
possessions, we will hope that he had
found reverence for Queen Bess, the
4 Great and Good!
Alderman Cole (of Dublim has been
again prosecuted for daring to print
his name upon his carts in his own
language--prosccuted and fined. Inc
alderman will not pay the fine. and,
as a consequence, his goods will be
seized and auctioned as satisfaction.
Only a few weeks ago the tyrannical
Russian government, against which
the London Times and the other Eng
fish papers are crying out, made
knowledge of the Finnish language
compulsory upon the officials of Fin
land, and made the teaching Of the
Polish language compulsory in the
primary schools of Poland. The ty-
rannical Russian government has a
r long way to travel yet before it reaches
the shrine of enlightened liberty where
kneels John Bull, humping his breast
and thanking God he is not as other
men.
Mrs William O'Brien, who, Il short
time ago, produced Il successful book
of Irish sketches, entitled Under the
Shadow of Croagh- Patrick" has begun
a second series of these sketches in
her husbands new paper, the Irish
People. Mrs. O'Brien writes very
pleasingly and very sympathetically of
her humble neighbors at the foot of
Croagh- Patrick. Mrs. O'Brien, who is
a Franco Russian Of Jewish family.
has become thoroughly imbued with
the Irish spirit, and loves Ireland
probably even as well as does her
husband-who certainly loves Ireland
passionately. Mrs. O'Brien was pos
sessed of great wealth, and former
comrades have unbecomingly and I'M
justly tainted William OBrien with
pose of forwarding the cause Of per-
sonal politics. The home of Mr.. and
Mrs. OBrien is at Westport, in Con-
paught.
From Connaught occasionally come
some curious commodities The other
lay a case coming from Connaught
and marked shell-nsh" and addressed
to a prominent landed proprietor in
England. was being shipped for it's
destination, at the North Wall. Dublin,
corner with a crash. and. Immediately
after, suspicious liquid began to
tricklc from it, The quay laborers'
teeth watered to see good Connaught
poteen run to waste: and they sigh
that fate did not decree them to labor
upon a shore where grew such she'll
fish as this case from Connaught con-
tanned.
This weeks letter of mine might
well be headed Fash nable Fax, or
AS 1JOlus3S anu by VI MUMMY.
Lady Stewart tried to do: but was did
Lady Florence Dixie has died. AS was,
of course, perfectly allowable in one in
Lady Florences station of life, she was
misunderstanding to herself the at
tention of the world. She was daugh-
ter of the seventh Marquis of Queens
berry. But she couldn't help this. She
wore trousers. She carried her gun
She stood upon women's rights. She
lived upon vegetables. She explored
Patagonia. She was war correspond
ent in the first Boer war. desper-
ate attack was made on her by men
armed with knives. in the days of tho
Irish Land League. At least, 1t mus
have been desperate, for sac was con-
fined to bed with nervous prostratior
for twenty four hours after; and the
press of the world was loud with re.
ports Of the outrage. The doctors. /
Is true failed to find where the point:
Il Of the daggers went in. This was ex
planned by the fact that the whulebon,
VI in one article of woman's attire t,
. which she still chung, turned aside tn,