The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-08-12
PASSED In REVIEW.

The Methodist says that one-half OF
the Protestant girls who are sent to
Catholic converts are sent there as pro-
test against the lax notions and unwhole.
some practices Of American society girls.
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Chicago has been disappointed in the
Nawab of Rampnr because he parts his
hair like aD American and wears clothes
made by an English tailor. In outward
appearance there is nothing oriental
about him except his olive complexion.
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The parliament Of religions will con-
vene in Chicago on September II, and
the sessions will continue seventeen
days. Representing the American HER
q, chy will be his Eminence Cardinal
Glib ons, Archbishops Ireland, Ryan. and
Chapelle, and Bishops Keane and Spald-
ing.
A Judge, in crossing the Irish channel
one stormy night, knocked against a
well-known witty lawyer who was suffer-
ing terribly from sea-sickness. "Can do
anything for you?" said the judge.
EYES," gaeped the sea-sick lawyer; Il
wish your lordsbip would over-rule this
motion!'
Forty-seven years ago on the third OF
this month Thomas Francis Meagher
delivered his famous speech on the
"Sword' in Cancellation Hall, Dublin.
He was interrupted by John O'Connell,
son of Daniel O'Connell, who said he
could not sit and listen to such senti-
ments. Then Smith O'Brien, Duffy.
Reilly, Mitchell, and the celebrated young
orator from Waterford took their depart
ure and founded the young Ireland party.
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The Sultan of Johoce has engaged
apartments at a Chicago hotel for occu-
pancy during his visit to the Worlds
Fsir. It is likely that he will bring with
him more precious stones than any other
of our oriental visitors, for he is fond of
such possessions, and the $3O.00O,00O
which he inherited from his recently de-
ceased wife permits him to indulge his
fancy for them. Besides having mag
nificent collection Of diamonds he is re-
markable as one of the best billiard
players in the East.
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President Cleveland e is being very
widely commended by the Catholic press
for his act in sending congratulations, in
this country's name, to Pope Leo XIII.
on the completion of his fiftieth year in
the episcopal purple. The credit of sug"
costing the sending of such congratula-
tons probably belongs to Cardinal Glib
bons, who, in one of the several CONVEX
eations which he has had with the Presi-
dent since his Inauguration, very likely
alluded to the matter and Mr.. Harrison's
neglect of the proprieties of the occasion,
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Over 1000 documents in the Vatican
bearing on the discovery of America by
the Norsemen have been examined by
permission of the Pope by j. G. Haywood,
an American scholar in Rome. These
documents did not prove the assertion Of
the Scandinavian scholars that the voy-
90 of Lief Erickson was known to Co..
umbus, but they did prove that Catho-
lie bishop resided in Greenland all the
time, and that he reported to the Pope
that there were unexplored regions south
of Greenland that were peopled by saw
ages.
The Minneapolis new city directory
contains more names than appeared IN
the directory of last year, making total
in this issue of SO, 483 names. This num-
Der multiplied by ~, the lowest multi
plier used by any city in the United
States to estimate population, gives
223,707 as the population of the city.
Some idea of the city's rapid growth
may be realized when one stops to con-
slider that in 1860 there were only $500
inhabitants and that in the last ten years
the building improvements have been
equalled by only seven cities in the,
United States.
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MIR. Gladstone was asked by q rabid
Unionist member in the House of Com
mons the other day if he would consider
the ACCESSIBILITY Of substituting the three
crowns on the Irish quarter of the royal
standard in place of the harp, the harp
having taken the place of the three
crowns in the reign of Henry VIII. Mr..
Gladstone said that as the harp had now
been the nationally recognized symbol Of
Ireland for nearly 400 years, he thought,
it ought not to be changed without very
good reasons, and added few points Of
history that effeotually equelched the
proposal and the proposed.
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