We have received the 50th Anni¬
versary number of the Scientific A¬
merican, published by Munn & Co.,
361 Broadway, New York. Our space
is too limited to enumerate a moiety
of the excellent parts of this scientific
weekly journal; we shall not attempt
it. The publishers claim that it is
"The most popular scientific paper in
the world," and, from its evident pros¬
perity, which is shown by the excel¬
ence of its general make up and the
superiority of its numerous scientific
cuts, we question if their claim can
be successfully controverted.
We have a lot of Gaelic matter in
prose and poetry, for next issue, inclu¬
ding an t-Sean Ḃean Ḃoċt, by John
O'Sullivan, and re-written and sent to
us by Mr. John O'Daly of Boston; al¬
so, a poem by Mr. Gorham; prose by
Mr Walsh, and, patriotic poems by
the Gaḃardonn.
All the Gaelic societies have taken
the usual Summer vacation, and will
resume their exercises on the first
Sunday in September.
The aged and respected President
of the New Haven Gaelic O'Growney
League, Mr. Thomas O'Callaghan,
paid a visit to Brooklyn this month
and had a very pleasant confab with
the editor of the Gael.
The Gael would recommend the foll¬
lowing Rules and Regulations in the
Conduct of Gaelic Classes : —
I. The Class Exercises of each Ses¬
sion should be confined to one hour
and the presiding officer should see
that perfect quiet was maintained du¬
ring that hour.
II. Teachers should not be permit¬
ted to answer questions beyond the
grade which they respectively, teach.
Crank callers putting such questions
should be told that they would not be
permitted to disturb the classes, and
that any information relating to Gael-
ic matters would be imparted at the
desk after the dismissal of the classes
III. No outsider should be permit¬
ted to criticise the text books in the
presence of the students.
IV. The second hour of the Session
should be given to speaking, singing,
etc. The vocabulary in the Gael, if
filed by societies, will supply them
with all the words which leering critics
would fain puzzle Irish speakers.
In the world today there is not a
nation so brutish, so hypocritical or so
bloodthirsty as the English, nor a peo¬
ple so base and so morally corrupt as
its backers! In this country we have
innumerable organizations (Church, of
course) ostentatiously devoted to the
suppression of crime and to the ameli¬
oration of the ills of animal nature. If
a parent correct his child he is brought
to court, and punished; if a horse with
a sore be worked the owner is fined,
etc. The leaders and supporters of all
these humane (?) organizations are, to
a man the pro-English element in the
country — those, God-fearing (?) humane
souls who were toppling over each oth¬
er in their haste to get up public (?)
meetings calling for Arbitration be¬
ween this country and "mother" Eng¬
land — horror stricken at the thought
of war and its result. — These, too, are
the hypocrites who turn up the whites
of their eyes in holy horror at the
mere mention of the "Spanish Inquisi¬
tion." — Ah, gentle reader, have you
heard a word of protest from these
hypocrites or their newspaper confreres
last week, or since, when the wires con¬
veyed the intelligence across the seas,
that with machine and rapid-fire guns,
the English killed 500 of the half sav¬
age, helpless Matabeles who tried to
defend their gold fields against the en¬
croachments of the murdering English
robbers? No, not a word of protest
from them — they are a chip of the one
block.
