The Irish standard., 1905-12-16

n published lately the manuscripts OF the
4 Earl Of Egmont, under date June 16,
1881. The following record of an order
\ OF the Court of Castle Chamber, Dub
4 lin, Is found: John Beaghan, of Car
y hallway, County Kildare, husbandman
Y to stand three market days on the pill
/ Tory in Dublin, with both ears nailed
\; and cut off, to be whipped throughout
the city, to forfeit all his goods, and to
E be imprisoned at pleasure, for very
detestable and most disloyal speeches
Of her sacred Majesty, calling Her
4 Hixhness Bean-reoghan DOM in Irish,
the which are not otherwise conven-
4 tent for the hatefulness of the words
!. to be published The very detestable
N and loyal appelation given to her vir-
n ginal majesty, means, when put into
English, brownhaired queen. When
John Beaghan, Carnalway, walked off,
minus his ears and minus his worldly
Z possessions. we will hope that he had
found reverence for Queen Bess, the
& Great and Good!
Alderman Cole (of Dublin) has been
again prosecuted for daring to print
his name upon his carts in his own
language-prosccuted and fined. The
alderman will not pay the fine, and
as a consequence, his goods will be
seized and auctioned as satisfaction.
Only few weeks ago the tyrannlcal
Russian government, against whlch
the London Times and the other Eng
+ 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
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 OBrien, who, 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. OBrien, 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 O'Brien with
using Jewish money bags for the pur-
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
day case coming from Connaught
and marked 'shell-tish" and addressed
to a 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
trickle from 1t. 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 Il shore where grew such she'll
fish as this case from Connaught con-
tanned.
This weeks letter of mine might
we'll be headed "INash- nable Fax, OF
The Doings and Dyings of Nobility
Lady Stewart tried to do; but was did
Lady Florence Dixie has died AS was
of course, perfectly allowable in one i,
Lady Florence's 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 thu
Irish Land League. At least, it mus
have been desperate, for she was con
fined to bed with nervous prostratiol
for twenty-four hours after; and tn
press of the world was loud with re
ports of the outrage. The DOCTORS |
Is true. failed to find where the point
of the daggers went in. This was eX
planned by the fact that the whalebon
in one article of woman's attire I
|. which she still chung, turned aside tn
dagger points. The press, for tw
days, rang loud with reports Of thi
ruff1anly outrage by Irish would-b
~.,s, III.