The population oE Ireland continues to decline, and appears to have dropped some 50,000 in number during the past year. The lowest point in the present century has nowbeen reached; its zenith was in 1845, when there were 8,250,000. The estimate for to-day is 3,500,000, It’ is the peculiar faculty of the German Emperor to do whatever he does do so as to set people talking. The love of theatrical effecc, which has appeared more than once in hia ancestors is very strong within him. Jubt fiftyyears ago, or in >IB4O, William F. Andrews, a master mason,©! Providence, R.L, stamped his initials oh a copper cent and put it in circulation. Recently, in taking some change, he found his coin. After fifty years of wandering it had returned, and he would not take hundreds of dollars for it. .
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 9168, 30 July 1890, Page 6
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138Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 9168, 30 July 1890, Page 6
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