Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-03-10
IRISH BULLS.
They Have a Flavor All Their
Own, A4he Effect Of Climate"
BRANDS FROM OTHER LANDS.

The Best Of the French Bulls Are
Acted, Not epoksn-sems proIl Elk
ampiss 81 the ~ItaIian, Portuguese
Dutch and German.
Sir Richard Steele explained why bis
countrymen made bulls: TITS the ef-
feet of tho climate, sir. II an English
man were born In Ireland he would
make as many" said he. 1t is not ev-
cry one who knows a bull when he
sees her. 1t may be no bull, but
merely a blunder "a betise, as the
French have 1t. To make sure that
we have the true criterion let us FIRST
set down a few of the genuine, ortho-
dox Irish kind:
He built the wall wider than It was
high, 30 that when 1t fell down 1t
should be higher than it was wide.
Two weary and footsore Irishmen
come to q milestone. ten miles to Dub
lin. "Arrah," says one, "'tis but FIVE
miles apiece"
Disputing Of the date Of st. Patrick's
birthday, "He couldn't have had two
unless he was twins"
An Irish sailor reported that IN Phil
adelphia they copper bottomed the tops
Of the houses with sheet lead.
Give ms the loan Of a Ratchet to saw
an empty barrel Of nour In two to
make the dog a pigpen.
His estate is divided b. impenetra-
BILE furze bitches made OF quarried
stones set on edge.
An Irishman, describing q glorious
fight, said, There was only n whole
| nose In the house, and that was the
taypot's."
In these and In hundreds like. them
we have tho true flavor Of the Irish
bull.
There are genuine bulls In French,
but they are rare. The genius OF
language does not lend itself to any
thing less than neat precision. A
French bull is usually nothing more
than a betise. Stll. French bulls exist.
Leon, Bishop and Count of Lisieux
wrote to the Duchess of Brissac as fol-
lows: r eefe
Madame, knowing how fond you
are of red partridges. I send you here
with half q dozen. Three of them are
gray, and one is a woodcock. You will
and this letter in the bottom of the
basket"
A Frenchman used a large stone jar
for a pillow, explaining that 1t was not
hard because he had stuffed 1t full OF
hay.
The very best French bulls are acted,
not spoken. The Duke de st. Simon
relates that a lady, lying I'll, was much
disturbed by the ringing Of the church
bells. To deaden the noise her lover
had the street In front Of her house
aid with straw.
A spoken bull in French is apt to be
something different from the Irish ya-
fety, something more like a betise. as
las been saiA. And It ~ difhcult to
,efafn the flavor I'M transla zion. 0s
ont t~oujours les memes soldats qui Sc
ont tuer," says Marshal Bugeaud OF
lis army. This loses a little when one
translates, sit is always the same sol
liers who get themselves killed"
"En fait d'inutilites IL ne faut que lie
a~ecessaire'' Is more highly colored In
The French than in Its translation,
Only so many useless things arr ~
Quired as are strictly necessary"
Here is the translation Of part OF IN
letter:
we have had a most famous earth
quake. II by the mercy of God 1t had
lasted for another half hour we should
all have gone to paradise, from which
may God deliver US. Whether you re-
ceive this letter or not, please advise
me In either case"
Here Is a Portuguese bull. In offer
ing a reward for tho recovery of the
corpse of a drowned man his relatives
remarked that the deceased might be
identified, If found. by a slight impedi-
ment In his speech.
After much research 1t has been so
far impossible to discover a genuine
| Spanish bull, but here Is a Dutch bull:
1.-THE pig had no marks on his ears
except a short TAIL" sa 5ss ~
And here Ii q German bull:
der zahn der Zeit. der ale Thranen
trocknet, wird auch uber desc Sache
Gras wachsen lassen''' CAThe tooth of
time, that wipes away all tears, win
permit grass to grow over this mat
ter also''). sga
Blunders in English speech are not
uncommon. The orthodox bull Of Ire
land has scarcely crossed the channel,
A fellow of the Royal society speaks
Of "the earthquake that had had the
honor to be noticed by the Royal so
ciety." AK h qas i
tsThe West Indies will now have 8
future which they have never had IL
the past" sounds promising until one
sees that Its bul1ish quality is a mere
blunder by which the word "opportuni
tyt was omitted. There Is none of tht
navor of the famous definition of sal
by the Irish schoolboy, salt Is thai
which makes your potatoes taste mast,
II you don't put 1t In"
Even the best OF the foreign bulls II
Latin tongues evoke the suspicion tina
they are mere TRANSACTIONS from Irisl
originals. The Dutch, the Germans
and perhaps the English may have tn
ranyJup article af tfma4. No dfgtiHc