PLAIN TALKING.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 12, 21 July 1893, Page 31

PLAIN TALKING.

We are so much in earnest abont this matter that we absolutely refuse to waste one moment of our time in planning and writing ont paragraphs of a catching character. There is just this question, if yoo want to stop drinking, smoking, or the use of opium you can do by the use of Golden Remedy No 1. If you suffer from dyspepsia, loss of energy, neuralgia, poverty of the blood, or poor appetite Golden Remedy No 2 will cure you. Now this is straight, it ala depends upon yourselves whether you are to go on dragging on a miserable existence, or be strong, free, and well. Send for circular of cures. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy hopes to be in London on Saturday, June 3. He will remain throughout the summer months, lecturing to the Irish Literary Society on the 17th of June. Before ho returns to Nice, the first volumes of the new Irish Library will be isaaed to the public. Tbe price of 272,100 francs— or nearly £11,000— just paid at the Meisaouier sale for the admirable little picture " Le Graveur 4 l'EauPorte," recently seen in London with the other pictures of the masters, at Messrs Tooth's gallery, ia, relatively to its dimensions, the largest sum ever paid for a modern picture ; the " 1814," for which M. Chanchard paid upwards of £3£,000, being very much more than three times the size of this work. As ii well known, the Dae d'Aumile paid 600.000 francs for Raphael's " Three Graces." from the Dudley collection, a panel which in dimensions does not exceed, if indeed it equals, the " Graveur 4 I'Eau-Fcrte." No Gerard Don, F. van Mierie. Pieter de Hooch, or even Vermaer of Delft has yet reached the price realised for this gem-like performance of their French follower. The death has occurred at Taunton of a somewhat distinguished resident in the person of Mr Norinnn William Mac Donald, who was a grand nephew of the famous Flora Mac Donald, and a descendant in a direct line from tbe Lord of the Islee. He was the Bon of Col. Archibald Mac Dona' !, and held a commission in the Bengal Cavalry, subsequently becoming Governor of Sierra Leone* The deceased was more than eighty years of age at the time of his death. Nothing has been left undone by Lady Aberdeen to make tbe Irish village at Chicago redolent of the Green Isle. On the opening day her ladyship drove up to the Irish village in an Irish jaunting car, which arrived from Dublin, a day or so previously. It is not difficult for one to fancy himself on the old sod as ho Btands in the village ani gazes on the thatched roof of the cottages, tbe Celtic cross, and Blarney Castle, with the rosy faces of Irian maidens looking from the windows.