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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-09-29
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

Omaha, it is said, will soon be made
an Archbishopric.
1t is announced that the Emperor of
Germany will arrive in Rome October
IL.
Blshop-elect Foley OF Drtroit will not
be consecrated till November, though
the bulls Of his appointment have been
received at Baltimore. Cardinal Glib
bons will consecrate him when the date
is fixed.
Rev. F. x. Schouppe, S. j., the auth r
Of "Moral Theology in use IN many
ecclesiastical seninaries, has been
transferred by his superiors from ST..
Michael's College, Belgium, to new
college recently established at the base
of the Eimalayas, Bengal, India.
MIR. Brown, the Conservation of For
ests in South Australia, has received
through the Most Rev. DR.. Reynolds,
Archbishop of Adelaide, medal sent
by his Holiness the Pope for copy Of
the Forest Flor. of South Australia, -
forwarded by that gentleman for the
Pope's acceptance.
Sir Ambrose Shea, the popular Gov
ernor of the Bahamas, is a devoted son
of the Church. He is native of New
foundland, and after being knighted by
the Queen was appointed Governor of
that colony. Orange bigotry was SO
rife at the time that it successfully op-
posed the appointment.
The Sovereign Pont,ff has, by special
Brief. not yet made public, instituted
an Order of Knighthood for women,
the members which will bear the title
Of 'sMatrone del Santo Sepolcro' the
decoration to be conferred on those of
''the devout female sex'' pronunced
we'll deserving of the Holy See.
Father Cronin, in the Buffalo Union
says: If the pastor requires his Catho-
lie children to attend his school, he
owes 1t to the children and heirparents
to make his school as good as the best.
Hence let all d, ones and old fogies be
swept aside. Such clogs to the wheels
of our Catholic progress should not be
tolerated in this the day of our educa-
tional battle-when we want life and
activity.
The Misses Drexel, of Philadelphia,
Pa, have contributed to the rebuilding
of the Convent of the Sacred Heart,
Manhattanv1lle, N. Y, the sum of SlO,-
GOO. They but lately gave $4,000 to
the American Catholic University.
They are founding an Industrial school
in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia;
they maintain an indian school in the
West; they are ostgenerous contribu-
tors to the colored missions, and of
their private benefactions there is no
END.
A rumor is gaining some currency in
Irish ecclesiastical circles to- the effect
that the Archbishop of Dublin has been
selected by his Holiness the Pope to the
dignity Of Prince of the Church.
This rumor goes into particulars so far
as to. declare that his Grace is to receive
Z the Cardinals hat in the September of
next year. One thing at least is GER
4 namely, that the Irish Catholic
CON mnnity will receive with unbounded
gGlH
\ Rr1atitnde sandi delight 60 signal mark
Fapal fayor bestowed % his Grace.
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CATHOLIC NEWS.
THE SIGN OF BLESSING.
BY p. H. A.


Low in tie shadow of the Cross
muse on days gone by,
And see, through golden sunset CLEANS.
Each cherished "~emory;
a stately home between two seas
One Southern, calm and mild;
The other on Northern coast,
Oft tempest-tossed and wild.
Not far church. glowing lamp,
The presence of my Lord,
The light Of faith, the dover of prayer
The priests sweet. magic word;
The touch of water and the Cross,
The absoution given.
And then the long, the ''royal road,''
That leadeth but to heaven;
A garden, too, of brightest hopes,
A life all seeming fair,
Belief in friends fond trust in VOWS,
And confidence in prayer.
Ten heeting years, what now remains
OF those dear days of old?
Go seek yon churchyards greensward. where,
UEGer the marble cold,
Lies he, the just, the upright judge,
The head of that fair home,-
Hisloving generous, tender heart
AT rest beneath the tomb.
Without the body of the Church,
Within the Church's mind;
In pity grant, o loving Lord!
That he may mercy find.
And he the priest who ministered
Beside the Northern bav.
Who brought into the fold of God
Poor sinners gone astrsy-
Now an archbishy p's double cross
Upon his bosom wears,
And through the land of Acadie
a mystic crosier bears.
che friends, the hopes. the spoken VOWS,
The plans so fondiy cherished
All gone, as in the early t,ost
The flowers of summer persisted,
Bat one remains, one blossom bright,
Of all those tiowerets rare;
Twas planted by the hand of God
Sweet confidence in prayer.
God took the rest. Hiswill be done
On earth as erst in heaven
The lesson that from Calvary
Was for all ages given.
Eark! priests words fall solemnly
Ger ruin, anguish. loss:
''Whate'er is blessed since Jesus died,
We bless it with q Cross
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A. O. N. DIRECTORY.

NATIONAL OFFICERS.
MF W1LHERF.. N D, Philadelphia, Pa.
PHI McNELLIs, N S, Indianapolis. Ind.
PATRICK H1NEs, Z, Greenport, N Y.
National Directors-John W. McGreevy, P. J.
O'Connor, NJ. Mccarthy. Cornelius Horrigan, r.
]. Conway.
STATE OFFICERS-MINNESOT
STATE nELEaATE-M. M. Shields. of Faribault.
STATE SEoRETARY-G. NJ. Giltinan. of Morris.
STATE TREAsURER--W. j. Murphy, of st.
Cloud.
INSURANCE SECRETARY. T.. M. Ryan, of Anoka
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STATE OFFICERS-MINNESOT
! STATE nELEaAIE-M. M. Shields. of Faribault.
STATE SEoRETARY-G n. Giltinan. Of Morris.
STATE TREAsURER-W. j. Murphy, of st.
Cloud.
DIVISION OFFICERS.
MINNEAPOLIS. HENNEPIN COUNTY.
County Delsgate-P Rooney, rs 5th st g.
president, J E Leonard; recording secretary, L.
O'Neill, 1921 Washington ave s.; financial and in
snranee secretary, Joseph Walsh. Plymouth tsaa
ings. I'd and 4th Sundays of month.
Division No. 2-President, p Dwyer; vice
president. J Barron; recording secretary, P. Nc
Herman, Fewer House; financial secretary, +
Moorhead; insurance secretary, Thos Dunn, 1903
4thst s; meetings, Let Monday and Sd Sunday OF
each month.
Division No. s-President,, Perry Long; vice
psfsdent recording se nG John
John Mcclure; meetings I'd and 18th Fridays.
Division No. president, John Kennedy !;
yice-pGesident Wm Mc 3a ra recerding secre;
insurance secretary, Isaac Rice 218 Plymouth
ave; treasurer, 7 Connolly; meetings. LIST Sunday
of month.
H1BERN1AE RIFLES. MINNEAPOLIS.
Captain-Ed. Kennedy, Jr.; 1st Lieutenant,
r, J. FtZgerald: I'd Lieutenant. VIM. Foley.
ST. PAuL-nAMsEY COUNTY.
Division No. President. James Ryan; wee
president, VIM Boyle; recording secretary, n A
Conroy, Cos Conway; financial secretary, Patrick
O'Donnel, 939 Hudson ave; treasurer, Il Dow
ney: insurance secretary, - ToWey, 65 Il 18th
st; meet I'd and 4th Mondays at No W Sd st.
Division No. 2-President P. Il. McManus;
vice-president, T. f. O'Dowd; recording secretary,
John 3. Pewters, Is E 7th st; financial secretary,
NJ r. Murnane. cor 9Th and Wabasha; treasurer,
Barney Ryan; insurance secretary, j. J. Ahern,
municipal court. Meetings, I'd and 4th Wednes-
DAYS Of month at No W Sd street.
Division No. 3-President, M. J. Lang; vice
president, William Delaney; recording secretary.
Nj. J. Bell, Register Of Deeds: financial secretary
p NJ. Maroney, lB1 La Fond st; treasurer, Patrick
Bolan; insurance secretary .....:":.........
meetings, I'd and 4th Tuesdays at w Sd street.
Division No. President, j. G. Boyle; vice
president, b. Kneeland; recording secretary, G
l. Lake, 228 e 9TH st; financial secretary, NJ j
C'Rourke. 620 Canada; treasurer, j: 6 Flaherty;
insurance sec. G c Shannahan, 254 Fairfield av;
meetings LIST and Sd Wednesdays at w Sd ST.
Division No. president, P. J. Hogan; vice
president. r Luby; recording secretary, M D
0'Brien. 225 Granite st: financial secretary. M
Hogan, ...........; treasurer, James kerwin;
insurance secretary, Edward Foster, AT Top
ping; meetings, lat and Sd Mondays in K of l.
hall, Cor Park ave and Sycamore
Division No. 6-President, J II Gallagher;
vice-president, Riordan; recording secretary.
j Tw0hy; financial secretary, James D0oley;
treasurer, NJ G Ryan; insurance secretary. $3.50.
.....; meetings, .................. OF eacn
month.
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MORTGAGE SALE.

LAYBouRN & McHuaH. Att.
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QTATE OF MINNESOTA. County of Henne-
- pin District Court, Fourth Judicial Dis
, 1888-02-03

The blasts Of the trumpet on railwaya
as a means of giving signals to engine
drivers, pointsmen and others engaged in
%shunting operations. which are now ex-
tensively used IL large shunting yards of
the sCalcdonian railway in and around
Glasgow, are, it is stated, about to be in
troduccd on some of the great railway
systems having termini in London. e
cording to the code of trumpet signals
for shunting in operation at St. Rullox
goods yards, Glasgow, the various signals
are represented by long blasts, short
blasts and s'crows'' of the trumpet, the
repetition Of each varying the directions:
for instance, n long blast Of the trumpet
means ''move Forward and two long
blasts are a signal to ''mOvc back As
a rule, the goods yards Of the principal
railways, if not quite close to the termini,
are situated usually in thickIv popula-
ted metropolitan districts, and il is be-
Ievcd that if trumpet signaling should be
introduced to them, discOrlant sounds
of continuous and diversified blasts Of
h trumpet will create n nui5ancc-Cs-
peclalIy at night, when people are in
bed, night being invariably utilized for
shunting-which Londoners will scarcely
put up with. Under this novel arrange
ment each shunter, and in some cases
the signal men, are furnished with a
horn trumpet eleven inches in length,
having a reed inside the mouthpiece, the
whole being of very light construction.
The trumpet is carried by the shunter
slung over his left shoulder with a piece
of cord, and hangs across the right hip.
1t is not at present stated whether or not
the use of the trumpet as a signal will
enable the railway authorities to dispense
with the sounding of the engine whistles,
which have already been the subject Of
SO much objection.-London Daily News.
, 1888-02-03

There are no homes nestled down in
copses of wood, or mansions surrounded
by lordly parks. The music of no dis
tant church bell reaches and lullJ me, nor
does the carol of the mountain hcrdsman.
the chants des vaches. come in way de-
.liciousness from any distant lofty pastur-
age. But in place of these one looks
upon mountains cutting the sky with
lofty cones green to the very summit,
and clothed in n wealth of forests far up
the sloping sides-ranges of hills from
l 900 to 5000 feet high, not stretching
in fatiguing samencss, but notChed, bro
ken, bent, in short, graceful curves, then
lifting into sharp points never the same
in any direction, and never hurting the
eye by rocky GOODNESS or sandy or
brown b%arrenness. But few peaks exist
in the land SO lofty as to reach beyond
the line of vegetation. When the tree
line is passed there ONE grassy verdurc
50 luXuriant that the tallest heights
clothed in emerald velvet. One
looks far up narrow valleys, which else
where would be wild gorges, and sees
them terraced far into their depths and
variegatsd with various crops in all
Of maturity, from those but lately
planted and freshly green to others
golden and ready for the sickle. Every
mountain slope, every mountain gorge,
is thus terraced rs far up as streams
offer opportunity for the rrigation.-Car-
ter Harrison in Chicago Mail.
, 1888-02-03
a Troublesome Staple.

lotion is the most troublesome staple
II the worlds commerce. From the
hour of picking until the moment it
passes nj Of the loom as a fabric it is
susceptible Of a million changes, each one
of which affects its value on the market.
a bale of cotton is so sensitive to heat
and moisture that the weight varies every
minute of the day, as you will find by
actual experiment. On this account
buyers and sellers are represented at the
congresses by men who are styled
"~weighers, - but whose duties are some
thing more than recording weights or
checking off receipts. On their Judgment
the value of q shipment or consignment
can be increased or diminished by sew
eral hundred dollars, hence factories are
careful to place only their c~learest head
ed and most reliable men at the scales.
a daub of mud at one corner of q bale
may justify rebates with ono package,
while on another the sellers representa-
tive would not consent to any deductions.
The deleterious effects of exposure to
weather can be estimated at q glance by
a sldllful man, but, nevertheless, the pro-
cess of weighing is accompanied by moro
frequent contention than any other part
of the business. Then you must remem-
Der that if any crooked work has been
done, a bale of cotton can be traced all
the way from the mill through a hundred
hands until you finally reach the planter
who sold it in the first place.-Globe-
Democrat,
, 1888-02-03

Careful manual training is one Of the
few good things that are good for every
body. 1t is good for the rich boy, to
teach him respect for the dignity of
beautiful work. 1t is good for the poor
boy, to increase his facility for handling
tools, if tools prove to be the thing he
must handle for a living afterwards. 1t
is good for the bookish boy, to draw him
away from books. But, most of all, it is
good for the non-bookish boy, in showing
tim hat there is something he can do
well.
The boy utterly unable, even if he were
sudious, to keep up in book knowledge
ind percentage with the brighter boys
becomes discouraged, dull and moody.
Let him go to the work room for an hour
and find that he can make a box or plane
n rough piece of board as we'll as the
brighter ~scholar-nay, very likely better
than his brighter neighbor, and you have
given him an impulse of self respect that
Is of untold benefit to him when he goes
snck to his studies. He will be a brighter
6nd n better boy for finding out sopie-
thing that he can do well. Mind you, it
is not planning the board that does him
good; it is planning the board in the pres
ence of other boys who can no longer
look down upon him when they see how
well he can plane, He might go home
after school and plane a board in the
bosom of Ills family or go to an evening
school to learn to plane without a quar-
ter part, ray, without any, of the inval-
rable effect upon his manhood that 1t
will have to let him plane side by side
with those who in mental attainments
may be his superiors. Nashville Amer
lean.
, 1888-02-03

"Oh, no, sailors are not the only per.
sons who purchase telescopes" said q re-
taller in optical goods to n reporter re-
Gently. "a great number arc being sold
now. You would be surprised if you
knew how many there are in this city
who take an interest in star gazing, and
a great many gentlemen have some very
fine telescopes mounted in q small OBJ
servatory on the roof of their house. The
sale of telescopes is rather on the in
crease than the decrease. Yachting is
getting more popular every year, and
every yachtsman, even if he only has
q small catboat, must have a telescope -
"What do they cost?'
"Any price you like. 1 can give you
one for 81, and 1 can make you one for
just as much money as you like to give.
The most popular kind just now is
mounted on a black or tan leather case.
1t will shut up into about six inches Of
space and only costs $25."-New York
Mail and Express.
, 1888-02-03

Farther OF is the desert; on the right
is the desert; in front is the desert; all
around is a vast plain, now golden, now
red, now in part black, now gray, chang
ing as the sun changes, as the great
shadows Of the pyramids are projected
upon it, or as the moon comes with its
pale light and tones down the grand
chromatic display. The only variation
In the wondrous eXpanse comes from the
mounds of sand hero and there. These
last change agreeably to the whims of
the wind. Like drUught animals, at one
moment they seem to be resting and
waiting for their call to labor. Then
the airy messenger comes and gives the
word. At nee the sand begins to rise in
slender spirals. Body and strength are
gathered as it continues whirling and
ascending, until it towers aloft like a
great black column. Now it IL Joined by
a wild company impclled by the wind,
and all hasten across the pluin-ail rising
higher and higher, al waveriug, spinning
with awful velocity, until, their dcstina-
ton reached, they fare at tho top like
water spouts, break and burst high in the
air, and arc difiusad-a terrible storm
upon the plain below. Woe be to man
or camel on whoa dcsccnds the awful
weight! As far rs the eye can sec south
ward lies Egypt the sjlvcry Nile creeping
along between the bands Of emerald.
Within view ~ , over forty pyramids.
Icribner's Nh. lzirc.
, 1888-02-03
Catching Dairy Fed Fish.

Some miles beyond Burney falls, from
the brow of a hill, we looked down hun
drcds Of feet on Crystal lake, q CLASSY
sheet of water moro than a mile in length,
now all ablaze with sunshine. We fol-
lowed a steep road that led below to the
meadows, green as English ones that
poets sing of, that skirt the ~reed-edged
waters to where q dairy stands, its low
roofs trailcd across by clinging hop vines.
Just here the lake leaps over stony steps
a dozen feet in height, and pours its
loamlng floods into a rapid stream that
hurrie5 on to Hat creek. These mimic
falls span $50 feet, and circle many atiny
isle of richest grass and flowers. The
mistress Of this dairy stands on her steps
in leisure moments and feeds her fishes
curds. They crowd by hundreds open
mouthed and eager. She takes advantage
Of their hunger and drops a hook among
them. She draws a prize every time
and throws it into a tank to be con-
venient for tho frying pan. That morn
ing she had hooked twenty.
"And how do you catch them again?''
l said, watching the pretty creatures dart
10 and fro in their narrow prison.
That's just what I'll show you now,
rs I'm going to let you folks take them
all home And Selling n pole with an
ion point on the end this relentless wo-
man speared her fish with every dash.
Ringing it out on the wet floor, where it
'riggled and painted for a moment, and
when it became quiet was carefully
flowed away in a basket by Mrs. Char
ay. The lake had plenty more, and the
mistress never found any trouble catch
@S all they could possibly use.-Ninetta
Eamcs in Overland Monthly.
, 1888-02-03

Go where you will you can find no.
.'nore such a bright, good tempered,
laughter loving and ~innately polite people
e; these Japs. They are full of jokes and
are MS unselfish as human nature can be;
generous, trustful and faithful, p%atien.,
gentle and brave. They have n strol..
pride, too, that is nowhere more clearly
shown than in the fact that though n Jap
seldom passes n beggar without giving
him something, yet there are COMPARE
lively few in the country. If You are
annoyed by being followed about by Il
curious, but note, a respectful, crowd,
you have only to hold out n coin and
they melt away like shekels at n church
fair; they feel hurt at being taken for
mendicants. -Tokio Cor. New Yorlr Fri.
bunC.
, 1888-02-03
volapus tho Fad in New orlenn

The study of Volapuk is the current
fad with New Orleans ladies. 1t is pos
sible that not all Of them could give a
tangible reason for learning a language
that appears to be q hash up of all
others, that has nc literature and which
no poets, or essayist5 or actors use, and
which apparently offers q store of practi-
cally useless information. 1t is not GER
tain that all of these students will stick
until they acquire the language, although
it is believed that a fair knowledge of IL
may be acquired in less than a half q
dozen months. Nolapuk, however.
makes an original fad, and the study OF
it is very good training, that may lead to
something better, moro pleasant and
moro fruitful Of good.-Ncw Orleans
PiCaYInn.
, 1888-02-03

Fer several months Professor Bell has
been going deep into his researches on the
subject of hereditary deafness, He has
conducted n wonderfully large CORE
sponiencc with people in all parts of the
world to hunt up every scintilla of evil
1ence necessary to trace out g~enealogies.
He will eventually make public his dis
coveries, showing hereditary deafness in
the same line of descent for 200 years.
The professor has also constructed q valu-
able luachine for talking with deaf mutcs.
1t is something like the typewriter in
theory, having a keyboard which turns
up big, plain letters in such a way rs to
constIU ct n word, and to facilitate CONVEX
sation Chicago Times.
, 1888-02-03

THE divinity students broke out
again" said the young man that boards
on South Division street. ''Wc were
sitting at dinner today, and Miss Stages
she up and says one of her pupils will
never set the river on fire. The divinity
student looked up and said: 1 sec that
you, like other good people, are i'll error
occasionally What do you mean
said Miss Stages, getting red in the face.
i mean,' said the divinity student, that
when you talk about setting the river on
fire you are using an old saying that's
got off the track. 1t used to be, Hell
set the Thames on fire." and
people when they said it had in mind the
river Thames; on the contrary it means a
miller's sieve, called a tense, which was
used in the old wind and water mill DAYS.
This tense had a wooden rim, which slid
back and forth in n wooden frame. If
the man that worked it was energetic in
his work he sometimes set the tense on
fire from friction. Hence it was said of
n dull, slow person that he would never
set the tense on fire, and the saying has
been corrupted to its present FORM
Buffalo Courier.
, 1888-02-03

The machete, n broad sword or knife,
about two or three feet long, and carried
without n sheath, is the universal arm of
Venezuela and Central America. In the
southern states of this country the prin-
cipal use for the macheto is for cutting
sugar cane, but in South America it re-
places the pocket knife, the axe and the
sword. The llanero or haciendcro is
never seen without it. He cuts bread
with it, peels sugar cane, cuts bananas
and other fruit from the trees, chops
wood, cuts his way through the primeval
forests, slaughters hens or pigs and de
tends himself against the attacks of wild
beasts and scrpents. There is no better
arm against the serpents than a machetc,
for with n single stroke the native will
cut them i'll two.-E. De Hesse Wartegg.
, 1888-02-03

When the discovery is once made that.
even apart from any merit of ones own,
there Is an audience provided i'll advance
by the energy Of publishers and editor,
the sense Of responsibility becomes very
great, and with it the feeling that per-
haps, even if what one writes is not very
good or important, it may assume a GER
tain merit through reaching some one
who needs just that word. \ clever
woman once said that an orator must
speak with much more confidence to an
audience of five thousand than to one of
a hundred, because among the hundred
there might be no one who cared for the
particular thing he was saying, whereas
among the larger multitude there would
probably be mt least one. ThEs the
writer for any Journal that ~Circulates by
the hundred thousand may feel that there
Is a reader always awaiting him some
where, and who knows but what he saws
may fit the precise need Of that one?
Now, TO haze one reader each week il
really a great thing when we consider
how much some stray scrap in a news
paper, perhaps not in itself especially
wise, has occasionally influenced our own
lives. Nothing encouraged me more to
undertake these papers than a remark of
my friend, Mr.. James Parton, who told
mo that the part Of his literary life
of whose usefulness he felt absolutely
certain was the series of papers that he
contributed weekly during many years
to The Now York Ledger. He rarely
heard FROM them again, he said-It
seemed a good deal us if they had been
written and thrown into the sca-yct it
was on them that he relied to satisfy him
self that he had been Of some real and
permanent use to somebody, in his long
career as a writcr.-'T. w. Il in Har-
ppT's E1yl-