The Irish standard., 1892-12-17
PASSED IN R LEW

Father Ignatius," the Anglican mon
Who lectured in this country and Canad
shout two years ago, has become Cath
slic and bequeathed Llanthony Abbey
Wales, to the Pope. It is reported tina
his conversion to Catholicity has pro
duced great excitement in Protestan
circles in Wales
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James Jeffrey Roche, editor OF tn.
Boston Pilot, has this to say of an Irisl
snob: DR.. Conan Doyle is apparently *
anxious to be taken for an "Anglo-Saxon'
that in his latest story, "Jelland's Voy
age" he purposely gives one OF his char
aoters name as Irish as his own, and
describes him as "a straw haired young
Englishman named McEvoy," while the
villain, with the un-Celtic patronymio
ICELAND" is represented as "a little
aark-eyed fellow with black curly hair
more than three, quarters Celt, should
imagine
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Miss Eleanor G. Donnel]y, the talented
and accomplished sister of Hon. Igna-
thus Donnelly, of Minnesota, has COM
posed an ode for the approaching golden
jubilee OF the Episcopacy of our Holy
Father, Pope Leo XIII. This beautiful
composition has just been translated
into Latin Of classical elegance by Rev.
Hugh T. Henry, professor of Latin and
ecclesiastical music in st. Charles Semi
nary, Overlook, Pc. Father Henry
made use Of the favorlte Sapphic stanza
Of Horace for the effective rendering of
Miss Donnelly's lines. A German trans
lation of the ode has been furnished by
Rev. Bonaventure Hammer, 0. S. f., Of
the church OF St. Boniface. Lafayette.
Ind, and an original and striking melody
has been fitted to it by New York pro-
feesor of music
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Catholic culture in Ireland has scored
a splendid triumph this year. Miss Muir
ply, M. A, who was for seven years pu-
pill of Sion Hill convent, Blackjack, and
afterwards of the Ecclee street convent,
has been awarded the studentship in
Modern Literature at tho Royal Univer-
sity. 1t is the highest prize in connec-
lion with the degree of Master of Arts
and the difficulty of obtaining it may be
understood when one remembers that no.
oody attained the standard of qualiica-
non FOR the studentehip since 1887. Cas-
:leknock college has also scored this
year, Mr.. Matthew j. Curran, who was
educated there, having won second
Glass scholarship in mathematics; while
Mr.. John McSwiney,o of Clongowes Wood,
Jesuit college, carried away first class
scholarship in classics.
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Sir George Colthurst has received
very tempting offer from the promoters
# the Chicago Exhibition to permit
them to remove from Blarney Castle the
celebrated Blarney stone, the kissing of ,
which is reported to have such a marvel
lous effect on the responsiveness of that
unruly member, the tongue. The Worlds
Fair people only wanted the stone during
Exhibition, when it was to be safely re-
turned to its original position, but Sir Il
George refuses to sanction the removal
Of the famous relic under any circum-
stances. Blarney Castle was built in
l446 by Cormac Mccarthy, a lineal de-
of the Kings of Desmond. 1t is
situated on an isolated rock that rises
boldly over the junction of the rivers
Blarney and Comane. The stone is in
bhe northeastern angle about twenty feet
from the top, and bears Latin inscrip-
ton recording the erection of the fortress
TX /,
To an English correspondent who
visited him last year Cardinal Lavigerie
gave an account of his great missionary
work. AS the aged cardinal babe the
good-by he said sadly:
Probably I shall not see the great en-
;erprise in it's full development. I am
I'D and broken Years and griefs crowd
lpon me and it is time for me to be
linking of the quiet corner in the Ca
,hedral at Carthage, where my tomb is
llready made. This is the inscription
1pon it,:
Here lies
He who was Cardinal Lavigerie,
And who now is nothing but dust.
Pray for him
"On'y the date OF my desth is wanting
,e added with a smile. II can't we'll fix
hat. But lest it should be forgotten,
lave had Father Delattre to the spot,
md given him money to pay for the cut
ing of my DEATH day on the stone"
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. P. d. O'Phelan, of Winnipeg, strenu-
,us]y claims that st. Brendan was the
lrst discoverer of America. He sends
he Free Press of that city reply to Jon
)lafson respecting the discovery by the