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DEATH IN THE FIELD.—­If things go on as they have been going lately, the statisticians who compile the “Public Health” averages will have to include, as one important item in their “Death Rates,” the ravages of that annual epidemic popularly known as—­Football!

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“JUSTICE FOR IRELAND!”—­The contest on the Chairmanship of the Irish Parliamentary Party may be summed up:—­PARNELL—­Just out, McCARTHY Just in.

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