WHY THE IRISH LIKE GREEN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2224, 9 October 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

WHY THE IRISH LIKE GREEN.

Some old Greek tndihous tell how Kadrnus, a nullity leader ,md a wi-e man in all the .11 ts and -uie.'iees, c.iuio o\er from Asia and t irnrhr, the 15a 1 )ti \ns letters. In Pluyui ;i<iti the woi-l iv idnnn mems the X sr-mau while the \\ utl Kuiope, which sv.is applied fo a visr extent of land, a continent, at hist belonged only to U>e land ,] i-t acro-s from the IsUml of JLubitJi, <>n th-> <irh'i side of the narrow atrait calK d j^iuipns, and means in Pluenician the Wo-tLmd So when you lead of Kulm'n eorn'iur to Emope, it is tho E.i*jt:am tonuuj; r > \Ve>rl iml Over and over a^.nn in l.i^tory we find n^rnei, to which all sort ot t mcifiil derivations hive been jjnen and b< dutiful legends a. d myths' huv been attach t d, turning out to be thf >-imj>!e^t kind of words. Thus, lid. Hid ;i!so ine.iiH the mil it (;oini i fto'u tlu C'tdtic word iar <tnd ■ •ur w.nd 1 in ) ; lrir ineaninir the we*t. I.ir, befoie benu' i.-td to denote the we.-t, infant the ba«Jc, and that iact lets u-. into »n import mt Meet concerning the leImion of th. C If- who tit -.t came over the In-'h Sei to th" Emerald I«le. It tclU us tlictT, tho-f cirl}- men named th> point-, of the (Miii|i i>-> .i (oiditiir to the -»ther direcriou > wlu-n tlio oi.-erver fai ed towards the e.i>-t >o ;li (>h f w a nimni tiom front, or for.yard, 'he \\<.-* fiom b tek or behind, r lie noitli fn.r.M kft hat-d and the .south from li.ht 'Mud. Ti^t me ai-> tin 1 : the ■ illy C'i'rf noi^hippe I the diwn an 1 thr •.imiHe. An 1 taithfully have th- old ti.idition^ rem.uind 'n m' s n'«. mi!'du> th.it bij: west p;n i>! md 0' 'h. Bnti-h Empire fh.it, to tin- d i\ , theeruolem on the coat of j inns of It eland i-> i >«uubui«t, or rising sun. An ther ein us th n? i^ th it it is moro fh.iTi piuuib't fiiC the iti^h preference of tho colour^ iri^e- for Mi. ir rl tjr and the'r Irishes aro^e fiotn a mi^raUe amouir those who had 10-t <i thiou^h knowledge of the old lii-h 1 miT'i lire. The *un, in Iri*h, l- called by i woid pionouneed like our word "irreiMi' ; and it i^ likely th.it the Eiish fondue> f>i tli it luloiii arose from the woid\ e\ ii t hkt ne--s in sound to luir word for the mid. In the same way, when we talk aVout grei nhouses, we ihmk thi y aie c illed so b''cau>e the plants ire kept in them during winter. Yet it, n far jh <re pmbable that, "fireen " heie, is Ihe Itis'i word meaning, not the colour, but the -uh ; because gteeuhou.se are built & > as u> oiteh the sun's nys and store them up while it is hiddpn by oloud<* ; as h ippens moie thau half the time in showei.v Ireb»nJ.— St. Nicholas i')r June,

AirFtTiON" wh'ca i-> never reciprocated — Nouialg-ic affection Tut: King 01 Si-uns Huntsmen.— Some of the new appointment* ai icing out of tho bath of the little King of Spain are perplexing. To pass o\er the sixty t>even majoidonios and niastfis at arms equerries, eh unberlaius >'-nd keepers of the archives, what cm the vims monaich want with a whole tioupe i>f Ro\,vl huntsmen '! If a Master of tho Hoi se— even provided the hui&e weie ot the i«>cLins hpecies —is a Mnncuie. -mvl\ m> i» the tmupe of huntsmen. Tin 1 question, What .ue they emit: to hunt 9 natr.: illy -utr^e-ts it>elf. Their youiifrh'id md ni.i>tei- cannot, we fear, be expected oven to "nde a cock-hor^e" as3 r et, and is hiuely too young: to pursue the domestic slipjier. Lord Chesterfield's celebiated ad\ice to his son was, "hunt e\eiythiiig, ii>>m the elephant in the forest to tho Hi i in the blanket." Wo fear tho lvwy.il huutMi en, a^ <>lephants are not plentiful m Spam, will ha\e to content u.ieuiMl\ e> f"i s liiio *, ars will) tracking dow'i tin; ether traiiif, which we cannot e\en '■■ >po will be plentiful. —St. J.imes's G.t/ett' 1 . It u.ikfs ono Mil to .s^e how very little wi • r th 1 n* xv wcr'il i thai '\p y \ Hfie .no tho Ails' Lilians (says Truth) iricin<; > "fr an oxpoditii n in M«arch of 'le Smith P <h\ Now, -uprose they discover die South Poh- .mil hoist th, Uuion Jack on it, or oth^rwiso t ke it rndt-r their protec«itMi, th^y know as well as I do that 1 ot a .soul on the globe will be any the Utter ten tlu' achievement. From what I can hear the soene v of that • art ia uninteiesting 1 , and the commercial valuft iof th« country nil. But the Australians hive seen ourselves a>' •c Americana foolintr .iway lires and money at one .n i of tho t'h>h* and h« i y m ist n».il- start a record of iheir own at the I uther,