The Irish standard., 1893-04-01
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The amount OF this country q offerings
to the Holy Father in this year Of his bis
golden jubilee has already been estima ted
at 1900 ZOO, quite good sum, SEEING
thar the total offerings Of the Catholic
world are put down at 81 ,25O, 900; thus
making the United States contrlbute one
sixth part nearly of the whole The SOW
eral countries OF South America, to
which, by the way, the Holy See has just
sent an apostolic delegate in the person
OF the bishop Of Lasagno, presented the
venerable jubilarian of the Vatican with
$4,000.
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Having heard that Father John Con-
way, editor of the Northwestern Chron-
icle, would be in London on March Is,
the Irish Home Rule party gave him an
invitation to attend their ST. Patrick's
day banquet and respond to the toast,
eTha Irish at Home and Abroad" In
their invitation they said it was toast
in which DIR. Conway would find occasion
to say few words in the name of his
brother Irish-Ame, leans to whom they
must for ever feel deeply indebted.
Father conway accepted the high honor
rendered him and delivered q feicitous
response to the toast. Among the other
speakers present were Justin MCCARTHY,
Edward Blake, T. M. Healy, T.P. O'Con-
nor and Sir T. III. Grattan Esmonde.
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President Cleveland has settled the
question whether or not there is to be an
extra session of Congress by announcing
that he will call Congress together not
later than the LIST of September. He is
anxious that the Mckinley bill shall be
repealed as promptly as possible. and
new tariff law passed in time to go into
effect on July LIST, next year, or earlier if
possible. He believes the Democratic
party should carry out it's pledges Of
tariff reform as promptly as possible, go
as to relieve the people OF. the unneces-
sary burdens imposed upon them by the
Mckinley act It is probable tariff act
will be prepared in outline in the Treas
ury Department by the time Congress
comes together, 80 that there will be am
pie time for the discussion of the bill in
detail and it's passage in both houses be-
fore the time for the regular session.
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A London paper pays deserved trib-
ute to Mgr. Nugent, the well-known tenn
perance advocate, when it says: As his
we'll known form appears upon thee@st
of Liverpool the little city Arabs y
ter him to claim blessing from I'll 30
sFather Nugent." No one stops to a.
what is his creed or his politics; he is ols
of those genial, large-hearted, and pasce-
full characters that cannot possibly be-
tagged and labelled with any of the isme
which suit the ordinary man or woman.
It is not until you note his cassock, Or
enter with him into the little private
chapel in his house at Waterloo, or sit
down with him to his fish dinner on Fri
day that you realize he is of the Catholic
faith. He is at once philanthropist and
shrewd man of the world, and as you
look at his finely arched brow and we'll
proportioned head, you are instinctively
set wondering what might this man not
have been as statesman or general.
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The report of the Dublin Society for
the Preservation OF the Irish Language
for the past year shows that the interests
in the language, literature and folklore
of the country is increasing, but, unfor-
tunately, the IRISH speaking populatiog.
is diminishing The Society sold during
the past year 4634 books, as compared
with 1896 in 1891, thus making the total
nun,hor IF books mt in ciroulotion since