OUR TRAWL NET.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12772, 19 April 1910, Page 1

OUR TRAWL NET.

I Tha bull of the election has been ut* ! tered by Mr. Tim Healy in North Louth. We quote from a Dublin report of a recent speech : "Concluding, Mt. Healy said thai out of evil, as he believed, good would come ; and out of theso contests th< still, small voice of conscience woulc prick the thick hides of some of thes* gentlemen." Also it is true that so long as the voice of Irish suffering is dumb, the ; ear of English sympathy is deaf to it. I Thp late Lord Russell once went to Scotland to help the Liberals in a campaign. He purposely began his speech • with a few sentences of bad Scotch, and then, whon the confusion caused by the blunder had subsided, ho said : I fr' 'Gentlemen, I do not speak Scotch, I but I vote' Scotch, and-' I, of ten drinlI Scotch." Ho was greeted with trej mendons applause. I A visitor in a small village, watching an old rustic fishing in a shallow stream, noticed that for half-an-hour the hook was never drawn from the water. "Are there any fish in. that stream?" asked the visitor at last. "No, sir I don't think so," replied the old man. "But you seem to be fishing." "Yes, sir. "Them, what is yotir object?" was the next question. | "My object, sir, is to show the wife that I've no time to peel the potatoes." Terence O'Grady had been married only a week, but his bride was already making things lively in the little house in Ballybunion. He had been working for three hours in his little gardon when Bridget came to tlie <loor and called out in strident tones : "Terence, me bhoj'. come in to tay, toast; and five eggs.' Terence dropped 'his spado in astonishment ana ran ihto the kitohen. "Shore, Bridget, allanah, ye're only coddin' me," he said. "Bedad, Terence, me bhoy," said Bridget, "it's not ye— it's the naybors Oi'm coddin' !" , X ; / A man offered recently in a London paper to forward, on receipt of postage stamps, 'sound practical advice that would be applicable at any time and to all persons and conditions of life.' On receipt of the stamps he sent his numerous victims the follow- - ing : "Nevi.r' give a boy a penny to hold your shadow while you climb a tree- to look into the middle of next week."