The Irish standard., 1893-10-28
PASSED TN REVIEW.

All the OK :presidents Of France are
now dead, and only one ex-president Of
the United States still lives.
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Marshal MacMahon will be longest re-
membered for his famous words uttered
before Sebastopol: "J'y suis; j'y reete"-
tsI am here; here shall stay"
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London has big appetite. Itdevours
every year over 100000 oxen, 100000
sheep, 100000 calves, 100000 hogs, fowls
innumerable, and consumes 100000
gallons of milk.
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The Rev. DR.. Morgan Dix, Of New
York, in recent sermon on the parlia-
ment of religions, declared it to be
masterpiece of satanic ingenuity, the
baneful influence of which could not be
overestimated.
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The Rev. Father Corrigan, of the
Church of Our Lady of Grace, Hobokenr
will have a marble statue of Mgr. Satoli.
the papal delegate, placed in his church.
1t will be unveiled on Sunday, November
II, and extensive preparations are being
made for the event. Mgr. Satolli is OK
pected to be present.
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Archbishop Redwood, of New Zealand
is an ACCOMPLISHED and enthusiastic vio-
linist. He carries with him on his trav-
els an old violin of celebrated make, and
when in Baltimore he took his highly
priced instrument from his case one even
ing to entertain Cardinal Gibbons ~itis
"Home, Sweet Home," and other mel
odies. 49,
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Prof. Hszen, of the United States
Weather Bureau in Washington, is going.
to make an aerial voyage across the At
!antic. He will travel in a balloon made
of strange material and equipped with
hitherto unheard of devices. 1t will be-
moved by propellers end directed by a
rudder, and ia expected to stay ahoat two
weeks or more. though the trans-oceanic
trip may require only fifty hours. The
enterprise will be paid for out OF private
funds, but instruments for observations
will be furnished by the government.
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The tribute which Cardinal Gibbons.
paid to Mr.. w. J. Onahan for his services
during Catholic week at the Columbian
exposition was as distinct as it was de-
served. ''And last" said the cardinal,
though not least, beg leave to thank
one man in particular, without whose Ia
bors this congress would not have been
success. refer to one who has labored
in season and out of season in organizing
the congress-; who has done, might say,
the greatest share in bringing it to for
tunate issue; refer to w. J. Onahan. SEC
rotary of the committee on organization.7
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In Belfast, Ire at the breaking out of
the civil war, was bright young man,
the head clerk in a grocery at e20 year.
The boys who did the packing would
rank here as shipping clerks; they worked
for shilling DAY, boarding at home
The head clerk. enthusiastic for the pres
ervation of the government which had
proved 81 good refuge for so many Of
his countrymen, and to which one brother
had already come, crossed the ocean to-
enlist in the Sixty ninth New York Vol
nnteers. He acquitted himself so bravely
that the close Of the war found him a
G aptain. Washington knows him today
as Captain Patrick O'Ferrall, substan-
tial and public-spirited citizen, wortl
100000, and intensely American.
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The Angio mania of Van. Allen, the
American minister to Italy, amounts to a
mona mania. His father left large
estate, including magnificent house at
Newport. But it did not suit the young
man who inherited it, So he had the
mansion torn down, and in it's place an
English manor house was erected. The
English style was rigidly carried out. 1t
was without gas and water. Candles
were used in place of gas, and the water
was drawn from we'll, in imitation of
the old times IN England before modern
IS were known. His children
are being educated in England and have
not visited their native land for many
years Mr.. Van Allen Imports all hie
directly from "dear old Lun-
non." Van Allen is the poorest specimen
Of an American representative that has
ever been appointed to foreign mission,
and his appointment was given him in
of $4,000 contributed to
The campaign fund for the election Of
Grover Cleveland.
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General Lord WoIseley's specific denial
that he was directed to keep the Duke Of
out of danger at the battle of
Tel -Kebir will not satisfy anyone who