March the seventeenth is the day sacred to the memory of the Irish Saint Patr and all Trish people, who wish (0 be ea sidered loyal, mark the occasion by wearing a small bunch of green Leaves, popularly supposed to be shamrock, but more often a small species of clover in their buttonholes. We, over here, seem to have taken a fancy to the little plant, and on the Saint's name-day last month half the people one met were seen with a little bunch of it somewhere about them.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.