JUST arrived from London.

A large quantity of the famed Royal Eye-Water, which is sold nowhere in the City of Dublin but at Dick's CoffeeHouse in Skinner-Row, at a British six pence per bottle, with directions how to use the same; at which place it has been sold these 26 years past, with great success, and nowhere else in the said city;

greatly esteemed by all that have used it, having cured many thousands of persons, both old and young in this kingdom, & never was known to fail in curing any red, swelled or sore eyes, it strengthens weak or watery eyes, adds vigour and briskness to the sight, takes away bloodshed from the eyes, keeping them in constant good temper. The said water is known to be infallible in curing and strengthening the eyes after the smallpox, sitting up late hard drinking, or cold in the head; it cools and gives ease to the eyes in 2 or 3 minutes after using.

Several persons, by using a bottle or two of the water, have found such benefit thereby that they have thrown away their spectacles.

Irish Peasant December 15, 1906

WE WILL now enlighten the public with regard to more of the ditties that a Cahirciveen audience were compelled to listen to at the concert we referred to last week: Bertie Beag sang 'My Latchkey'.

This song tells of the adventures of a drunken person and his latchkey. We spare readers of the 'Irish Peasant' a detailed description. Bertie sang another song called 'Bachelors'. This song ridicules that most sacred of all human contracts . . . matrimony. Right thinking Irishmen will not allow the sanctuary of the home to be made a laughing stock of in this country. We thought the stage Irishman and the gross comic song were things of the past, but they seem to have been resurrected especially for the aforesaid 'grand' concert. We trust it has been for the last time.

The matrons and the teachers will have to be careful that their children are not again subjected to 'eye-openers' of the kind to which we have referred. Songs in which drunkenness and riotous living are made subjects for jest, in which it is attempted to belittle our people, and in which the duties of the home life are ridiculed are not the kind that should appeal to an audience composed of people like those of Cahirciveen, whose morality and respectability are beyond reproach.

King's County Chronicle December 19, 1860

THURSDAY last the Rev.

James Morton, Little Island, Local Inspector of the gaol and bridewells of the South Riding of the county of Tipperary, visited the Tipperary bridewell, and made the report which was submitted to the magistrates presiding at petty sessions on that day.

"The neat and orderly appearance of this important bridewell is very creditable to the keeper. Two males in custody, and 182 prisoners in the quarter, of whom 101 were drunkards.

Signed J. Morton." This is a terribly large proportion of this class of offenders, and when we remember that the quarter specified will not terminate until the 31st inst, that the crime of drunkenness generally increases as Christmas approaches, and that a number of cases are disposed of summarily . . . the fines being paid, no committal taking place . . . we are pained to think that the large number of 101 will fail to represent the real number of inebriety in Tipperary. It is however, but justice to that town to observe, that a large quota of the arrests have been of persons belonging to Limerick and elsewhere who come to transact business.