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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 19, 6 February 1891, Page 31

Seldom is an Irish name found among those deliberate and stupendous rogues who are becoming too familiar in America's financial world. Here is a little story from Albion, N.Y., which illustrates the inherent honesty of the Celt. Twenty years ago Owen M'Carthy, a leading merchant of this place, suddenly disappeared. He was ia debt to different parties over 15,000 dols. Nothing wa9 ever heard from him until a few days ago, when he reappeared m town. He hunted up his creditors and paid each one in full, with interest for twenty years, which amounted to 3,000 dols. more tbau the principal. He had been struggling with ill fortune ever einc-J he left Albion until a year ago, when he made a lucky stnke in natural gas in western Pennsylvania, by which he cleared over 100,000 dols.— New York Freeman. Mr. Arnold Koch, president of the Redheffer and Koch Art Company of St. Louis, is a younger brother of Dr. Robert Koch of Berlin, and is naturally proud of the fame of the great specialist. " Robert," he says, "is the third of thirteen children; the first nine of whom were boys. Whilp the rest of us spent our time fishing and hunting, Robert devoted hia hours to study and observation. One of his favourite pastimes was to study lichens and mosses under the microscope. At seventeen he had completed hia course in the High School at Clanstbal, Hanover, but was unable to enter the University of Gottingen uniil he was eighteen. At the university he wrote a prize essay in his second year, taking it away from hundreds of students. His course as a physician at Posen. wbere he first began the study of bacteria, his service during the French Prussian, war, his investigation and establishment of the cholera geim, are all matters of record." The Pall Mall Gazette, October 23, commenting on the annual report of the Registrar of Births for ISB9 just published, says :— ln Ireland 107,841 children were born iv 1889. Of these 3,049, or 28 per 1,000, were illegitimate — Ulster, 44 per 1,000 ; Leinnter, 25 ; Munster, 22 ; and Connaught, only 7. But the most interesting feature is the discovery that in Ireland there is a clear connection between domestic virtue and political soundness. In Connaught, Munster, and Leinster, where the rates are probably the lowest k'.own to the world, Home Rule Members are returned to the House of Commons mostly without a contest. In Ulster, where most of the seats were contested, the relation of morality to Nationalism was as shown below :—: —

( Antrim ... Armagh Belfast ... Derry .. Down ... Tyrone ... Cavan ... Donegal Fermanagh Londonderry City M.onaghan Newry Town „, Con. and Lib. U. 4 2 n 2 3 2 I Nationalists. 1 1 1 2 2 4 2 1 2 1 Illegitimate births per 1,000. 60 45 48 41 45 37 20 10 54 24 34 35