The Washington herald., 1907-10-27

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himself viii allow that his friends, tn,
Liberals. for whose triumphant return tC
power he worked last year with sucl
magnificent devotion, have improved upor
IT, They make 10 the Irish nation for
NAL. explicit, unequivocal promises, and
then. when occasion serves. repudiate
them with the ease with which they
would brush aside cobweb One is IN
clined 10 curse the fatal trustfulness OF
the national character. which no number
OF deceptiOns can ever destroy. WE
might have taken our time before throw
Ing up our caps FOR the Liberals, OF
whose political methods this country has
had some experience"
The Irish crop and live stock returns
FOR 1867 are Instructive and suggestive.
In the first place. the crop returns show
that there was this year. az compared
with last year, a decrease In the acreage
under corn Of A. 900 acres. and a decrease
In green crops OF 30 100 acres. The in
creases were fax, a mere 451o acres;
fruit, 500 acres. and let this be parUcl-
larly noted, pasture. I24350 acres. TnlaEt.
as viii be seen. is yearly decreasing in
Ireland, and pasturage IS Increasing. And
just as our population is decreasing. 50
is the live stock increasing. and bullocks
taking the place Of men The number Of
horses. it is true. decreased by S.40a. O.
asses by 5000, and goats by 3s9. but
we had an increase Of IS 90 cattle. 10000
sheep. 7Z5o1 pigs, and upward OF 900 Gd0
poultry
The decrease in tilage, strange To say,
is taking place chiefly in Ulster, that v as
always noted for tiulge There are. this
year $500 acres of tiuage less than iast
year. That is a decrease Of 26 per cent
iu the t.liage area. IN Leinster and Nun
ster there was bat little change in the
area under crops. Leinster has a. zoo
head OF cattle more than last year. Mum
ster. 1870 more. and Connaught. za050
more. Ulster has 1850 head of cattle
less than last year In Ulster. also. pigs
decreased by IZ0Jo whereas IN Teust-r.
Munster. and Connaught they increased
nearly 4705
Mr. Louis Brennan, the Irish inventor
Of the monoraH gyr0scope carriage. has.
says the Daily Chronicle. Just been grant
ed the sum Of $500 by the Indian gov
eIment toward the cost Of his expert
meIts in connection with the design Of
the IuG-siZed. mOnoraH vehicle, which he
is building for the government. Several
very valuable Improvements in connec-
tiOn with the gyrCScOpic action OF the
model have lately been perfected by Mr.
Brennan. and on Wednesday. at dem
onstrati0n az bis place at Gllingham. the
little vehicle, without the slightest tend
ency TO sway. easily carried round the
miniature track IN the grounds. with its
many curves. q fun grown man. The
performances of the model have been
watched with interest by the Australian
and Cape governments, and several rep
resentatives of the latter were at GiIing-
ham. The question whether the motive
power Of the first full-sized carriage shall
be steam or electricity generated by petrol
engines has get 20 be decided by the
Col. Arthur Lynch. OF the Second Irish
Brigade in the Transvaal, was. It VIII be
remembered. condemned TO be hanged a
few years since. then Teprieved and COM
mitted to prison-and released a few
months ago. Before his arrest he had
forfeited the esteem in which Irishmen
held him by an unmanful letter Of apol-
Ogy for eSpousing the cause Of freedom,
which he wrote from France to the
speaker of the house Of commons. be
fore he came over to English soil ana
=
been studying medicine. ii seems. and
pracUcing journalism in London. Some
Of the London papers are now telling us
that Col. Lynch is another Admirable
Crichton, having secured the degree Of
the Royal College of Physicians. Lon
don. the other day The papers tell US
that he now possesses diplomas covering
the whole range of sciences. He is a civil
engineer, a master of arts, doctor of
and a doctor of medicine
while in few months he will have taken
a diploma in surgery. He has written
a novel in French, which has won nigh
praise in France. His command of Ger
man is equally perfect; his work in hts
own tongue, both I'm poetry and prose. is
well known: and he has been a contribu
tor Of literary criticism TO some Of the
0est-known English and French periodf-
Gals. Journalism. however, appears To be
his favorite vocation.
The Oireachtas, the great annual festf-
val Of the Gaelic League, held in Dublin
N August of each year, is notable fes-
-ival, marching every year into greater
lotoriety. The King of Portugal has ex-
pressed his intention Of Offering a prize
1t next years Oireachtas for an Irish
tune King Carlos has been in
.erested in Irish affairs by his exceIlency
D'Neill. Of Lisbon. who has for years
past been n generous friend of the Irish
language, and who is. we understand, the
Kings secretary. The particular shape
which the Kings interest takes is due to
Dr.. W. H. Grattan Flood. whom. by the
way, Gaels have been congratulating on
he degree, honoris causa. recently con-
.erred upon him by the Royal University.
Irish Is now on. the examination pro-
yramme for clerkshipS OF the four princi-
pal lines Of railways in Ireland, viz: The
treat Southern and Western, the Great
Northern, the Midland Great Western,
and the Dublin and Southeastern.
4 remarkable instance Of mistaken
IDENTIFY was, says the Daily Chronicle.
revealed at Norwich recently, when Mi
'hael Dolan. an Irish farm labOrer. on
whom an inquest was presumed to have
been held a fortnight ago, appeared in
he flesh hearty and well. on September
S body found in the River Weaver was
Identified by William Dolan farm laborer.
Is that Of HIS brother Michael. and the
nan was buried under that name. Will
am was resting in a country lane one
lay this week when Michael walked up.
md was greeted with the startling ex-
Good God. am glad to see