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New Zealand Tablet, 18 May 1916, Page 31

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The Wrong Address

It is related that - a Western bookseller recently wrote to a house in Chicago, asking that a dozen copies of Canon Farrar's Seekers After God be shipped to him at once. Within two days he received this reply by telegraph: 'No seekers after God in Chicago or New York; try Philadelphia.'

Concerning Ulster

A correspondent has asked us for particulars regarding the population of Ulster, county by county, and as these figures have a bearing on the recruiting question, as well as on Irish movements generally, we give the desired information herewith. The figures are taken from the census returns for 1901, and they show precisely to what extent Ulster is a 1 Protestant ’ province: Percent!

Total 1,582,826 699,202 883,624 44.1 Minus Belfast 349,180 84,992 264,188 24.3

T'l (minus Belfast) 1,233,646 614,210 619,436 49.7

Some American Quips

The Americans, who are doing well out of the war, are perhaps the only people who can afford to treat it as a joke; and they certainly do get home in some of their quips. Here is an assorted lot from American papers: A German professor announces that Moses was a German, and we do seem to remember that he broke all the Ten Commandments.— Columbia State.

Mr. Wilson, it is said, ' shares his fiancee's love for the works of Dickens.' But he didn't take Tony Weller's advice.— Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. Russia says that she ' draws the sword on Bulgaria with a bleeding heart.' This sounds like stealing the Kaiser's stuff. Nashville Southern Lumberman. Sir Edward Carson is .out in the cold, but luckily for him he has his Ulster.— Brooklyn Eagle. What the people of Greece seem to want to know is whether their King married the whole Hohenzoller'n family.—N.Y. Morning Telegraph. Mr. Bryan seems to have his dates mixed. This isn't the. millennium.— Kansas City Star. Japan agrees not to conclude a separate peace. She has it already.— Philadelphia American.

County. Population. Catholic. Protestant. age o. Cath Antrim . 196,090 40,381 155,709 20.5 Antrim (Belfast) .. .. 349,180 84,992 264,188 24.3 Down . 205,889 64,467 141,422 31.3 Armagh .. 125,392 56,652 68,740 45.1 Derry . 144,404 65,296 79,108 45.2 Tyrone . 150,567 82,404 68,163 54.7 Fermanagh ... 65,430 36,198 29,232 55.3 Monaghan ... 74,611 54,757 19,854 73.3 Donegal .. 173,722 135,029 3.8,693 17.7 Cavan ... .. . 97,541 79,026 18,515 81.0