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Lord Salisbury has golf course laid
out &C Hatfield, and may occasionally be
seen having game with Mr.. Balfour.
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An interesting event Of resent occur
renee wasthe awarding BY the state Of
New York Of q valuable gold medal to
Rev. w. Cerby, G. s. O., for bravery dis
played at the battle OF Gettysburg, when
Father Corby was chaplain Of the Irish
Brigade.
One hundred and twenty Ave Hebrew
children attend the parochial school Of
st. Monica's Church, New York. Their
parents besought Father Dougherty to
admit them, and he gave instructions to
his assistants to do 60. The school has q
total attendance Of HOO children.
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Alderman Dillon, the newly elected
Lord Mayor of Dublin, is practising
solicitor, and has been in the thick OF
the political battle in Ireland SINCE the
initiation Of the Land League. He acted
az solicitor for the accused in nearly all
the famous state trials in which MEM
hers of the Irish parliamentary parties
have been defendants.
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The whaling bark Alaska from the Arc
tic Ocean has report Of the catch OF the
whaling feet up to Oct 8. OF 43 vessels
Is were clean at that date. Report Of
Alaska shows that never in the history
Of the world has the present catch been
equslled. The total catch was 361 bow
heads and 8 whales. Twelve ships be-
longing to seven owners took 288 whales,
while % ships of six others took only 70.
At present no price is quoted for the
bone, but even taking it at the exceed
ingly low figure of IS per pound, the
above catch would represent over 3d..
100000.
Standish O. Grady, the Irish historian
and romancist, will shortly publish q
"History of Ireland for Young People"
as we'll as another historical romance
The latter, entitled ''The Chieftain's
Last Rally" is q tale of Elizabethan Ire
land, and deals with Donboy Castle and
the last OF the O'Sullivan Beres, who was
conquered and driven from Ireland by
Sir George Carew. The histosy Of Ire.
land will be one of the series of Oh Ids
histories in Mr.. Fisher Urwin's Children's
Library, for which Mr. O'Grady has al
ready written Finn and His Compsn.
IONS" treating OF the. cycle Of IrisL
heroic literature.
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H. F. Phelps, a ST. Paul man who
styles himself "a minister Of the gospel
of Christ" writes to the Journal to ask
the Minneapolis Protestant ministers,
who are attacking Mayor Eustis for not
enforcing the Sunday liquor lew, what
authority they have for calling Sunday q
holyday. The Bible gives them no au
thority and he says they stand upon the
tradition and authority Of Rome. MIR.
Phelps is right, and he could truthful]y
say in addition that they have no author
ity for accepting the Bible rs the anthem
tic and inspired word of God except tho
Catholic Church. The Baptist, Method
list and Presbytirean ministers who are
now clamoring for the strict observance
of the Sunday belong to modern scots
founded by erring mon not more infal
lible than themselves and with no more
authority for keeping Sunday holy. 1t
they believe the Bible is the sole rule Of
faith they ought to keep holy the Jewish
Sabbath on Saturday. q,
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One Of the stereotyped charges made
against Catholics by members Of the A.
p. A. is that they are law breaking peo
pie and that they fill the penitentiaries
in this country. OF course, the charge is
false. The number Of criminals in the
North Indiana state prison, according to
one of the officials, is 846 at the presen,
time. That i, the largest number ever
confined there, and of that number only
eighty are Catholics. A former warden
of the institution says that Catholics were
seldom found charged with the more
atrocious crimes. If outrages such as
members of the A. p. A. are disposed to
commit we're punishable by imprison-