IRISHMEN


A Peoria merchant deals in "Irish confetti." We take it that he runs a

brick-yard.--_Chicago Tribune_.





Here are some words, concerning the Hibernian spoken by a New England

preacher, Nathaniel Ward, in the sober year of sixteen hundred--a spark

of humor struck from flint. "These Irish, anciently called

'Anthropophagi,' man-eaters, have a tradition among them that when the

devil showed Our Savior all the kingdoms of the earth and their glory,

he would not show Him Ireland, but reserved it for himself; it is

probably true, for he hath kept it ever since for his own peculiar."





An Irishman once lined up his family of seven giant-like sons and

invited his caller to take a look at them.



"Ain't they fine boys?" inquired the father.



"They are," agreed the visitor.



"The finest in the world!" exclaimed the father. "An' I nivver laid

violent hands on any one of 'em except in silf-difince."--_Popular

Magazine_.





_See also_ Fighting; Irish bulls.



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