Page 4 Advertisements Column 1

Evening Star, Issue 8715, 6 January 1892, Page 4

In the early days of the Home Rule movement, when Mr Butt was leader, there was in the Irish party more than one member claiming to use the distinguished appellation “ The,” as indicating headship of a clan. Sometimes the title was assumed without much justification; and one evening, during a debate on Irish matters, The O’Gorman Mahon slowly and majestically raised his massive figure from the bench, and announced to a delighted House that there were only three personages who had beyond all doubt a title to the “The,” and they were “The Pope, The Devil, and The O’Gorman Mahon.” Mr Lakeside: “ I believe it was an Englishman who called Boston the Athens of America, was it not, Mrs Bean?” Mrs Browning Beau: “You are mistaken, sir. It was the Greeks who called Athene the Boston of Greece.”