10 JULY 1897, page 14

Irish Visions.

"Stray suns visit it, the callow moon hath found it, Sad seas circle it, a melancholy strand. Dreams impeople it, shadows are around it, And the Gods call it the distant Shadow......

Irish Donkeys For South Africa.

T HE St. James's Gazette thinks that there is a brilliant future before the Irish donkey. He is the future beast of burden of South Africa, where he defies the tsetse-fly in......