The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-19
IRELAND SAID ID HAVE MANY INSANE Anthracite Coal Is Very Strawberries
 in the Winter

Dublin, December S.-(Specal.) )-1re1and has been getting the questionable credit of having a greater percentage of insane than she is entitled to and steps will be taken to correct an evil which not only does an injustice to the country, but works a real hardship on many unfor- tunate and innocent people. Dr. Reding- ton, acting medical superintendent in a report to the Richmond Asylum (Dublin), points out that the practice of sending broken down, aged people from worK houses to asylums in Ireland inflated the figures of lunacy with the result that the public were naturally alarmed at what they considered was an abnormal increase of insanity in Ireland in contrast with England. In English work houses, he said, there was special provisions for this class of physical breakdown with the re- suit that they never appeared in the lun- acy statistics. The lunacy figures in Ire land were thoroughly untrustworthy.
 We have plenty of anthracite coal in Ireland, near the surface and easily and inexpensively mined. It is actually mined in Castlecomer, Argna, Kanturk and other centers, but up to the present has come into little more than local use. Irish manufacturers have not yet learned to use anthracite in their industries Last year Swansea exported to the city of Bar eelona 44,000 tons of anthracite coal, and We learn from the official returns that the average export from the Jelsh port to the Mediterranean city is 10000 tons. Barcel- ona is the most important manufacturing center in Spain. The anthracite from Swansea is one-tenth of the coal imported into Barcelona from Great Britain. It IS suitable for the industries of Barcelona, 1 whose manufacturers pay the oversea freight in addition to the price of the coal. Irish manufacturers could get inc coal almost at the pits mouth, and it's carriage from the mines in the north. the west and the south to the seat of any Irish industry would be small in milea ge and ought to be small in cost.
 As an instance of the recent mildness of the weather. MT. c. A. Walsh. Condr,,n, house. Macroom, County Cork. has within the past few days picked strawberries in 1 the open in his garden.
 Some months ago a Dublin Gael. Mich. ael O'Foghludha. refused as a nrotes, i against a constable spelling his nam, l Foley instead of "OFoghludha :" tr attend court on summons for cvclins i without a light, and spent two days ir prison in lieu of paying the los. fine i'm 1 posed. A curious sequel occurred recent, when he was again summoned bv tb, same policeman for a similar offence an
 his name being spelled "O'Foghludha,, n,
 this occasion, he attended court and palc l the 2s. Gd fine. p'''
 The death has just taken place at Duna
 more mountain district near CooJ<stown l Inf f1fe rl.ra,,
 markable age of 110 years. The decease,
 centenarian, who resided with the unmar
 ried daughter, was a small farmer. an, had been In receipt of the old age pension | since it's inception.
 The number of boats employed in th fisheries around our coasts is decreasinp land so is the number of hands employed
 but the last year the quantity of fisi | landed was greater than that Of any o
 the previous Il years It amounted t
 more than 52,0oo tons, of the estimate,
 value to the fishermen of s1,580OO0.