25 JULY 1908, Page 3

People sometimes complain that the sense of humour is dying

out in Ireland. We are therefore specially glad to record a proof to the contrary. An Irish tenant who had just bought under the Purchase Act boasted to the agent that his landlord was now "God Almighty," and that he need fear nothing. "Don't you be too sure, Pat," was the reply. "Remember God Almighty evicted his first two tenants."