wooing go;
Thy part in electricity
Is unmatched eccentricity.
This new discovered fact, of course,
Leads to the Telegraph of Morse,
The Motor and Electric Light
The Telephone and more in sight.

[Illustration: _IN QUEEN VICTORIA'S PALMY DAYS._]

Ireland Of Ireland but a word or two.
Celts were her people and they knew
Not benefit of Roman Ruling;
Young Europa's Infant Schooling.
In century five St. Patrick great
Converts them to the Christian state;
And from this Western Isle afar,
English and Scotch converted are.
Danes and Two hundred years from nine-nought-nought
Ireland Danes raiding Erin trouble brought;
And left them in chaotic state
No longer masters of their fate.
In those days 'twas 'Woe to the weak,'
Saxons and Danes had made us squeak,
Then came the Normans in great force
And civilised us in due course.
They tried the same with Ireland green;
But only sowed a feud between
The land they'd conquered and Erin,
Leading to endless quarrelling.
England accepts the Reformation,
Catholic still the Irish nation
Cromwell Sees Cromwell with them battle join
Boyne And William beat them at the Boyne.
William Pitt in eighteen-nought-nought
Ireland and England's welfare sought
Act of Union By 'Act of Union' which he passed;
1800 But still the wretched squabbles last.

George IV. Now come George Four and Will his brother;
William IV. With these two kings we need not bother;
The first a gourmand, bon viveur,
The next a sailor, bluff, sans peur.
Trevithick, Newcomen, and Watt
Are names will never be forgot;
For their crude engines were the source
Of man's control of Steam's wild force.
Steam By eighteen-thirty man has tamed
1830 Steam to his use; and widely famed
Was puffing 'Rocket' with the power