The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-09-01
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pin county primaries Saturday night.
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It is said that not less than $4,000
copies of O. lecture recently delivered
by Archbishop Ireland has been sold.
Catholic missionaries in the East are
said to have made the greatest discovery
in the botanical department of medicine
that has been made since the discovery
of cinchona or Peruvian bark by the
Jesuits. The nsw bark is asserted to
cure the dreaded Ieprosy and its hardly
less horrible fellow-diseases cancer and
hydrophobia. -.
The Princess Imperial has managed
the affairs of the Brazilian nation dur
ing the absence Of her father. Dona
Brazil was born IN 1915 and married in
1864. Like her father the Emperor, she
is remarkably simple and unaffected in
her manners ana dress; and like her
mother, shs is sall, graceful and
gracious. Sins Is extremely fond Of
music, and herself a pianist OF no mean
merit. He. Eusband-Ccmte d'Eu--
speaks six languages.
A priest had occasion recently to an
nounce the death and funeral service in
the church over the remains of one OF
the stay-awav members of his flock, so
he made this keenly startling announce.
ment: ION next Tuesday the obsequies
of A. B. will be held in this church. I
shall preach a funeral sermon on the
occasion, and the man himself will be
here-the first time in twenty years"
What a lesson for those lax Catholics
who find so many f1iDpant excuses for
not going to church when alive, but
whose corpses are carried into this
sanctuary of God as Il in very mockery
of the foolishness of their anti-Catholic
livesl
His Eminence Cardinal Moran is now
in Ireland. On a recent Sunday he
dedicated the handsome new parish
church of Monasterevan in the presence
of the Bishop of Kildare and Leighlln,
Rev. Father Comerford and a great
gathering of the parishioners. An ad-
dress was presented to the Cardinal
after the religious ceremonies, and in
the course OF his reply his Eminence
said referring to Australia. Thanks
to the prudence and wisdom that have
guided QUIZ statesmen in modern times
in colonial administration, we enjoy
legislative independence, we make our
own laws, justice is impair 5ially admin.
istered, and the blessings Of liberty are
widespread among our people. Thus
it is that for us The standard of the i'm
perial rule is the symbol of peace. 1t is
the shield Of our strength, the Bgis Of
our iberties.'
The first attempt to measure the dist.
ance Of the sun was made by g. Greek
astronomer, Aristarchus, in the Third
century 3. c., who made it only about
one-twentieth Of what we now know it
TO be. Even Kepler, the great astron-
omer, in the Seventeenth century,
could only say that the distance must
be at least between thirteen and four.
teen millions of miles. Subsequent es-
Inmates rose to 80,OOO,0O0. At last. in
l7l6, Halsey, the English astronomer,
proposed to employ the transits of
Venus. These were therefore observed
in 1851 and 1869 in variety of places,
but the results at first deduced were
discordant and not satisfactory, until.
in 1924, the German astronomer Encke
''discussed'' the observations of 1853,
and arrived at q distance of about
ninety FIVE and three-tenths millions of
miles. Even the way in which transit
is turned to account can not be stated in
a satisfactory manner in the limits of
this department, nor in way easily in
telligible without the help of diagrams.
The Smithsonian Institute was Or
gained by an act of Congress in 1886
in pursuance Of the will of James Smith.
son, an Englishman-a natural son of
the third Duke of Northumberland
who devoted his life to scientific pur-
suits, especially to chemistry, and who
died at Geneva i'll 1929. He bequeathed
to the United States the reversion of an
estate amounting to $515, 1859, to be de-
voted ''to the increase and diffusion of
knowledge among men," The United
States Government erected in Washing
ton City a spacious building in which
there is magnificent museum, library,
cabinets of natural history, etc. The
Institute is governed by regents ap-
pointed by the Federal Government,
and it has departments of Astronomy,
Ethnology, Meteorology and Terrestrial
Magnetism. 1t is the grand center in