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Show Prosperous Irish. (London Chronicle.) The saying that Irishmen flourish in every country but their own has been brought nearer home lately by various allusions to sons of Erin who have made great fortunes in the west. Mr. Mackay died recently in London, perhaps the richest man in the world. Then the fatal motor car accident to Mr. Fair in France reminded us of the millions made by his father, an Irish emigrant to the States. And now Battle Abbey has been leased by Mr. Grace, the member of a flourishing flourish-ing Irish family, which never, however, flourished to the pitch of spending thousands thou-sands a year in rental. The Graces of Grace castle, county Kilkenny, possess a baronetcy which dates back for more than 100 years; and Battle Abbey is ap- propriately enough inhabited by the descendant de-scendant of Le Gros, one of the earliest of the Anglo-Norman settlers in Ireland. |