IRISH STUDENTS' ANSWERS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9144, 1 July 1895, Page 4

IRISH STUDENTS' ANSWERS.

Dr. Mag'iire, reporting to the. later* mediate Education Board for Ireland, com* plains of the way in which some of the express themselves in the examl» nation. Oae etudonfc, who scored pretty high marks, said, "The Pautheon was* temple where all the gods were kept.' . The reader would imagine that it was ft menagerie. Another examiner objects to -such answers as " Nuuna Pompilios built churches and .nonaeteriea," as the result of a year's study of Roman history, it is ft little startling to find that eirla in the middle grade were examined about "Joseph Andrews," and the examiner complains of their reply to the question, " Who wrote 'Joseph Andrews? , What .work was it intended to satirise ?" Th 9 answer to this, ho says, should be , given in two words. " But many girls appeared to chink their answer would hod be complete except they gave the dates and plots of both works, the dates of the birth and death of both authors, and an account of the effect - that the publication" of the satire had oil their personal relations." Nod the whole* aomeac subject of inquiry, one would think, for a school of girls. Closely allied to k ah* surdity were some of the answers on " How to roast a sirloin of beef?" Nearly half the students rec 'inmencled thi meat to be " held " close to the fire for a few mioutei , before putting it into the oven. ' „ THE KALIPHA'S VENGEANCE. '*: A report in the Neueste Nachrichten o\ ■ Munich, cays that the merchant, Achinod VVotelegel, who helped blatin Pacha to •' escape, haa been haDged by order of the " Ka iplia. Achtned believed himself ~ from discovery, and when he had takes Slatin to Metammeh, immediately returned '' to Omdurman. But the Kaiipha'e pohce ' had had suspicions. The servants'of Slatio r were threatened ; red-hot pans were ready ' to be pressed upon tbeir heads, and in \KVf/j of this terrible tortnre they confessed; who.'" had last bacn in communication with tboic master before his flight. Achrned Wftt - executed, hie house burned down, and hii--wives and children made slaves. J& is, ' further stated that; the Kalipha hoe for* biddeo, on pain of death, all importation of written or uuwritten paper into feia dominions, oa it might be need' for, treacherous communications.