... her sons justified her love. A very interesting book is waiting for somebody to write. It would describe the fortunes of Irishmen on the Continent in the same spirit as Hill Burton dealt with his own countrymen in that entertaining book, The Scot Abroad ...

... from India. If names mean anything, the whole British Infantry force in the land of the Pharaohs consists of Scotchmen and Irishmen, with a large preponderance of the Highlanders. Besides the Gordons, there are the 1st Seaforths, the 1st G'amerons, and ...

... mentioned. The correspondent's irritation leads him astray when he concludes, The fact is that two-thirds of the Highlanders are Irishmen. He is, too, mistaken us to the services of the English regiments receiving no mention. Still, there is no doubt that the ...

... hundred more than that total. The Peninsular War and Waterloo saw many so-called English regiments almost entirely composed of Irishmen, and long after the Crimea many English regiments got most of their recruits from the Sister Isle, but each year in spite ...

... respectively while Bolton Wanderers, though lucky, did well to draw with Derby County at Derby. Great interest was taken in the United League match between Woolwich Arsenal and Millwall Athletic at Plumstead. The Arsenal did most of the pressing, and the visitors ...

... STANHOPE. Photo by Carlton and Son, Ilorncastle. The coming to Europe of President Yglesias, of Costa Rica, after his stay in the United States, is a matter in which both London and Paris are interested. One of the President's main purposes in coining to this ...

... Rose to hope for victory; but at no time did the visitors look like holding their own. Play in the first half was fast, the Irishmen showing any amount of dash and quite out playing their opponents in the loose. In the serums, however, the English forwards ...

... daughter of Sir James Clolland Burns, late of Glenlee, Hamilton. By the time this appears, Mr. Choate, the new Ambassador for the United States to the Court of St. James s, will have landed, for he left New York early last week. He may expect a hearty welcome ...

... number of Jocks in the Guards, Artillery, and Departmental corps can scarcely provide for their needs, though the 20,500 Irishmen more than suffice for the sixteen battalions and four cavalry regiments distinctively Irish. Whatever merits the territorial ...

... by reading the advertisements. There is a little dispute going on as to which club really introduced bicycle-polo into the United Kingdom. 1 here is no doubt, however, that the real introducers were the members of the Oline Hast Cycling Club, Dublin, who ...

... cast over high Society by the gallant death of Lord and Lady Roberts' only son. Lieutenant Roberts was such a soldier as Irishmen love, gay, good-tempered, generous-hearted, and possessing the fine breeding which makes a young man as courteously kind ...

... England. If there is a weak spot, it is A. D. Meares (Wanderers), who has not been showing good form of late; and whom many Irishmen would like to have seen sup planted by T. Little. The full back is Lieut. Pierce O'B. Butler, who is at present stationed ...