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

lately the manuscripts OF Tue
N Earl Of Egmont, under date June To-
1881. The following record of an order
4 Of the Court of Castle Chamber, Dub
u lin, Is found: John Beaghan, of Car
/ hallway, County Kildare, husbandman
ito stand three market days on the pill
81 Tory in Dublin, with both ears nailed
and cut off, to be whipped throughout
the city, to forfeit all his goods, and to
+ be imprisoned at pleasure, for very
detestable and most disloyal speeches
OF her sacred Majesty, calling Her
Highness Bean-reoghan DOM in Irish,
the which are not otherwise conNen-
tent for the hatefulness of the words
to be published.'' The very detestaoie
and loyal appellation given to her vir-
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
4 found reverence for Queen Bess, the
Great and Good!
{ ! Alderman Cole (of Dublin) has been
t again prosecuted for daring to print
his name upon his carts in his own
language-prosccute and fined. The
alderman will not pay the fine, and,
as a consequence, his goods will be
! seized and auctionea 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
s land, and made the teaching OF the
Polish language compulsory in the
primary schools of Poland. The ty-
rannical Russian government has
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. short
time ago, produced Il successful book
of Irish sketches, entitled Under the
Shadow of Croagh- Patrick" has begun
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 we'll 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
using Jewish money bags for the pur-
pose of forwarding the cause of per-
sonal politics. The home of Mr.. and
Mrs. O'Brien is at Westport, in Con-
paught.
From Connaught occasionally come
some curious commodities. The other
lay case coming from Connaught
and marked "shell-hsh" and addressed
to prominent landed proprietor in
England, was being shipped for it's
destination, at the North Wall, Dublin,
when it unfortunately fell upon its
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 q shore where grew such she'll
fish as this case from Connaught con-
tanned.
This weeks letter of mine might
we'll be headed Fash nable Fax, or
The Doings and Dyings of Nobility y
Lady Stewart tried to do: but was did
Lady Florence Dixie has died. AS was
of course, perfectly allowable in one In
Lazy tIOFellCe SldllOI Ol lle, Slic VILE
misunderstanding to herself the at
tention of the world. She was daugh-
ter Of the seventh Marquis Of Queens
Y 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
vs. Irish Land League. At least, 1t mus
have been desperate. for she was con-
fined to bed with nervous prostratiol
81 for twenty-four hours after; and TIL.
press of the world was loud with re-
81 ports Of the outrage. The doctors, /
III iss true, failed to find where the points
s$iss Of the daggers went in. This was ex
planned by the fact that the whalebon'
In one article of womans attire t,
!. which she still chung, turned aside tn,
8 dagger points. The press, for tw'
as days rang loud with reports Of thi
ruffianly outrage by Irish wouldb
assassins;-on the third day mo