The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-08-20
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The chairman of the 4 oemocratics Ma
tional Committee, Hon. William =. Har-
rity, is not yet forty two years old, but
has evinced great political sagacity il
the management Of the campaigns Of his
party in PennsYlvania. He was born in
Wilmington, Del, Of Irish parents, in
October, 1850, and was educated there at
st. Mary's College, finishing his course
at La Sale College in Philadelphia,
from which he graduated in 1870 with
the first honors Of his class.
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The Detroit School Examiners had q
surprise the other day. Four Sisters Of
Charity from st. Felix Convent appeared
before them and asked permission to I'M
dergo the regular written examination re-
ouired for teachers in the public schools
for the first and second grade certificates
The members of the board were embar-
raised and enjoyed bad five minutes or
so until the Sisters saw their dismay and
fastened to relieve them by the assur-
ance that they neither wanted to teach
nor to carry off certificates. but that they
merely desired to make test OF their
ability in order to institute comparison
between the examinations required OF
teachers in public schools and those in
converts and parochial schools.
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An American girl, Miss Sarah Bart
Icy, the 19-year-old daughter of Boston
merchant, and Masude Yoshimatu, a
performer OF Dun's Royal Japanese
troupe, were recently married in the
Catholic Church of the Guardian Angel
at Coney Island. The groom is % years,
and native of Japan, whore his family
is among the oldest and most aristocra-
tic. The bride is very pretty girl. She
has blue eyes, fair skin, and short
golden hair that curls bewitchingly.
About week ago Miss BARLEY and her
married sister, Mrs. Lizzie Morse of
Boston, took rooms at the Sea Beach
Hotel, Coney Island. They applied to
Chancellor Mitchell of the Brooklyn do
cese for dispensation, permitting the
marriage of the japanese and the Datho-
lie girl. It was granted. At the close OF
the season Yoshimatu intends to take
his wife to Japan and introduce her to
his family.
Edward Blake, the Canadian Liberal
party statesman who has entered the
British Parliament as member of the
Irish National party, seems to be making
Roadway rapidly. He has delivered two
frst-rate speeches in Enaland-one to-
the members of the eighty Club"
which is represented in the House OF
Commons by lob of it's members and oneto
the members Of the English Home Rule
Union. Both speeches have made an
excellent impression. They have beer
conciliatory, argumentative, and at the
same time presented the Irish case fully,
abating not q jot Of the Irish Home Rule
claims. They have attracted the atten-
tion of the Tory journals, which discuss
them with more calmness than they de-
the speeches of Mr.. Gladstone. Mr..
Blake does not content himself with
making speeches. He is trying to bring
about reconciliation between the Par
nellites and nti-Parnellites and may
succeed. If he does may not Mr. Blake
he the successor of Mr.. Parnell?
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A familiar figure in the political his
tory of Tipperary has disappeared with
the death of Mr.. Peter Edward Gill.
For close on half q century the General
as he was popularity known, has been in
the fight, and with his paper, the Upper
airy Advocate, kept the lamp of Nation
ality burning even in the darkest an1
dreariest days. OF late years he hal
dropped out of the arena where he had
so long and prominently figured, but the
memory Of his work. had not passed.
away. "The General was something
more than journalist, He was one Of
the most effective platform speakers Of
his day. Original in the manner as ia
the matter of his orations, devoted to &,
style which could be ikened only to az
exaggerated form of literary pyrotech-
mics, Peter Gill could nevertheless when
he chose make the rafters ring and STIR
the blood of the biggest open air mee6-
ling. A sketch of his chsquered career
would cover the most exciting and event
full incidents Of the National movement
in Tpperary during the past half oen~
fury.
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Six of the English and Scotch repre-
sentatives in the new British Parliament,
are Catholics, namely: Sir Charles Rus
sell, Messrs. John Austin, for Osgooldg~
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