ON IRELAND.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1259, 12 August 1872, Page 3

ON IRELAND.

[ZOZIMVB.] Ireland is an island. It is partly in the Atlantic Ocean and partly in three or four seas. The portions of Ireland which tonch the Atlantic Ocean and the other seas are wet and uninhabited save by barnacles and dilisk women. The portions of Ireland which do not tonch the ocean or seas are damp, but they are inhabited by people and policemen. Ireland is not as large as Africa or other foreign places ; but then there are a great number of hills and mountains in it, and it would be much larger if these were all spread out flat. A man once told me that if all the hills and mountains were spread out as thin as gold leaf they would cover the earth and most of the small stars. Of course this could never be done : but even if it could be done, it would spoil all the fine scenery of Killarney, and ruin all the hotelkeepers of that place. The country nearest to Ireland is called England. It is much larger than Ireland, and has much more people and factorychimneys and members of Parliament. A man once told me that people tried long ago to join Ireland and England together by making a great causeway in the sea which lies between the two ; but as often as they put one stone upon another it got washed down by the waters. After this they tried to tie the two countries together with telegraph wires knotted in a true lover's knot, but somehow the knot always slipped, and never could be got to hold firm. Did you ever hear anything

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half so absurd ? Why they might as 'well try to stick the two countries together with sealing-wax and parchment. Ireland was discovered long before Dublin was built, or before the invention of chimney-pot hat*; It was first found out by the English between the- years eleven and twelve hundred. The English were then vert poor, but after they found out Ireland they were so good to the people of this country, and took such great care of the people's money, and, cattle, and lands, that they grew very rich and powerful. In exchange for ' the money, and the cattle, and the lands, they gave the Irish laws, and soldiers who had all their cartridges wrapped up in Acts of Parliament. This made the people love the laws exceedingly. Very often, however, when the English had not time to make the laws, or when they ran short of paper to print them on, they did not wrap up the powder and balls in Acts of Parliament at all. A man once told me a strange thing. He said the Government would not allow any piers to be built on the west side of Ireland, because the Government thought Ireland was already too near to America.

Ireland is divided into four provinces and thirty- two counties. It was formerly divided into two great parts by the English. One of these was Connaught, and and the other has a name which I cannot find on the map. All these divisions are what are called artificial, divisions. There are also electoral divisions. Ireland is naturally divided into land, water, and bogs. Land is what people living out of the country get rent for ; water is what people living out of the country won't allow any one to fish in ; and bogs are What people living out of the country won't allow anyone to cut. So that the rent is the only good that comes out of Ireland, and that is taken away, lest^it should get into the hands of the people and make them proud. A man once told me that the people get a thing called existence out of the country, but where it conies from no one knows. ' He said it falls like the bread which fell in the desert long ago, and which the Egyptians could not come and take away. The people of Ireland are divided into bailiffs, tenants, and hangers-on. Bailiffs are tall, simple-looking men, who walk about the country with blue papers in their pockets and straws in their mouths. They sometimes carry these blue papers into the houses of the tenants, and leave them there. When this happens the tenatfts go out of their houses, and take with them their wives, their infants, and their household goods ; and the infants die of 'cold ; and sometimes strong men fall ill, too, and die ; but sometimes they go over the sea to a distant land ; but they do not take th^eir household goods with them, A man once told me they take gall with them instead and sow it broadcast in the foreign land. There was a law made lately against bailiffs going into the houses of tenants ; but they often steal out in the dead of the night, and finding the people who made the laws asleep with their eyes closed, creep into the houses and leave the blue papers a? of old. ' Tenants are the men who plough the land and reap the corn in autumn. They want to live and be honest, and pay their way in the world. The people who live out of the country and receive the rents are very fond of cows and sheep, and don't care much for tenants, except at election times. A man once told me that the reason the people who got the rents prefer cows to tenants is, because cows can be sold to the English for money, but tenants cannot be sold. He said his words had two meanings. I can only see one. Hangers-on are men with thick lips and shining eyes. They have nothing to sell that is worth money, though they boast of their honor. They have noisy voices, and yet can be very mute. They would gives great deal to be thought honest for a little time, in order that they might have some small thing for barter. Is it not » pity that they cannot be honest for a short while ? They hold on by t%» carriages of th» great, and impovtmie for alms, until the footman spurns them with his boot on the mouth. T&ey lie in the gutter of the Castle Yaud hoping that the carriage may crush, tnea*, and that they may not then plead i» vain. When they died they are baried, and there is no more about them ; for though they have the form of man, they have the souls of beasts. ________ The Eve is one of the most delicate organs of» nature From the fear of appearing ancient, many persons will refrain from artificial aid when really needf uL It is absurd, and only aggravates the defect and causes disease of the optic nerve, which may become « chronic, and finally result in premature blindness. The optometeic treatment r^t only remedies defective vision, but it has frequently restored the eyes to their pr.oper functions from a state of comparative\lind. ness. It is the only accurate method known to modern science for detecting tha Several affections of the eyesighti oon.pris»' MYOPIA, PRESBYOPIA, DiVJMFU^ HlldKAl.. on A, and Chbomatopsecdopsis^ The van* ous eye dieases, such is Au'jcctoais, Cataract, OPHTHALMIA, StAPHSuJbsA, SpKCS, or Films on the emandan^other defects, can only be detectedby Mr SOIiWON'S com* bination of Optomktwo and Ophthalmoscopic observations. TWe exists an erro. neouf idea, that when once classes are adopted, they ca»H fe> discontinued. Such is only a fact wlwm non-professionals are ?^*5 te t to -_?? RMBS ' who " acknowledged to be the highest authority on the science of optics, says in his treatise on the refraction of thfreye;— "Sofarfromshort-sii-hted-ness improving in advanced life, as is pbpvlady believed, it is too frequently a progrW sive affection, ana every progressive MYOBDfe is threatening with respect to the fntaMy inasmuch that if not checked in due seaeen by the aid of Suitable Glasses, tte-msws will be irrevocaWy lost. Spectacle on eyeglass**, if injudiciously selected usually aggravate the evil they are intended to remedy. Therefore, an oculist o f repotation should always, if possiblp, be. consulted as to the choice of them." 1 He further states, in reference to long-sighted' people, "that Presbyopia, or weakness of sight, is as natural a concomitant off advanced life as &*y h . a j« or WflnlUeSi It is bcca»itoally met with m y,onng persons, and may be the P i? e Tr? °* Am aitbosis, hence such cases I J }S^S tmr watcned » and the advice H of an oculist regarding the choice of specfades w well worth his fee." Mr S. wiU ft^y ««« » «S»U faeatiw on Te ! different defects aad diseases of the eva. Mr 80L0M0N, the inventor it thk ' Optometric apparatus, is the only] man in existence of whom the war- > ranted pure Bkaziuan Pebble Spectacles and Eye GkUses, optometjiically guaranteed to the premie focus of Bight; "are obtainable. Mr SOLOMON 1 * Consulting Booms are at Johnson's Private Family Hotel, Macluy^reet,— Anvt. - - '