The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-02-17

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PASSED in RE VIEW.
I. So M M,
Edward Blake's mission to Canada Il
quest ofIsfunds for Home Rule has proven,
q success and he left for England last
Saturday.
Aubrey de We're, the Irish poet, and
his family were for long years intimate
with Tennyson, who borrowed the
whole Of his famous Lady Clara'sr
name from them-for one of them
was actually We're de We're. Lady
de We're, it is said, did not quite like the
association Of her name and of title,
something like hers with the character
Of the hard hearted and naughty Clara.
"Why should Lady de We're be ag-
grieved?" was Tennyson's TESTING reply.
II have not given her name to an ugly
woman, nor to an old woman only to q
wicked one"
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At q dinner given by Sir Joshua Roy
nolds, at which, were present Garriok,
johnson, Fox and others, DR.. Bernard,
the Dean Of Derry, had asserted that sf-
ter the age OF IS man does not improve
II differ with you, SIR said johnson; "a !,
man may improve, and you yourself have
great room for improvement" The dean
was COMPOUNDED and for the instant silent.
Recovering himself, he remarked: "On
recollection, / see no cause to alter my
opinion, unless were to call it improve
ment for man to grow (which allow !,
be may) positive, rude and insolent and !
save arguments by brutality" .
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Maurice F. Wilhere, chief officer of the I.
A. o. H., is native of Donegal, where he {.
was born on October 30, 1854. When five {,
years old he arrived in Philadelphia with I.
his mother and sisters. From his youth
he has been prominently identified with
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measures looking to the advancement Of
Ireland. He has been Vice President of
the Irish National League of America,
President of the Philadelphia Municipal
Council, branch of the same body, Vice.
Preside { and President of the Irieh,
Catholic Benevolent Union, and has been
National Delegate of the Ancient Order.
of Hibernians since 1886. He is also very
active in Democratic politics and is
noted as ready and forcible speaker.
In 1890 he was elected q magistrate
which position he now occupies.
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IT'S satisfaction to know, and reas~I
surfing, too, in a free nation, that the
youngest country in the world is the
foremost in popular education. England
with 30,000,000 population, has 200 stu,
dents in the universities: Germany, with :.
10000, 600 population, has $4,000 college
students; America, with ST, 00o 600 popu-
lation, has 10000 collegians, W tn 5000 .
theological and 10000 medical and legal
etudents-a total of 100000. Our superb
GRITTY in reading and readers is equally
marked. The libraries of the United
States exceed those of Europe by TO-
100000 volumes. Our printing presses
send out $4,000 daily and weekly PERIOD
ioals, with 25,000,00O subscribers. This !:
is the reason why public opinion is intel
ligent and dominant here as it ia nowhere,
else in the world. This is the land of
the schoolhouse, the church and free
press-the trinity Of progress.
TX
Lord Wolseley's letter to the president
of the Thirteen Club declining to attend
their dinner will amaze the world. The
distinguished general is as brimful of
superstition as an old Scotch crone of
two or three generations ago. Oscar
Wilde approached the superetitione
which the Thirteen Club want to destroy
like an aesthetic, and in the spirit Of one
who cannot mix on too familiar q level of
equality even with the herd OF common
cultivated men, but Lord Wolseley ap-
proaches it as man whose blood will
curdle or freeze within him at the sound
of rat at the lonely hour of midnight.
II believe in ghosts,'' says the hero of
many fights, and the response of civilized
humanity will be, 'Is it possible?" But
his lordship has great many other su~
paratitiona haai1aa and ha huoa %hono
with genulneness and sincerity which
Mr.. Wilde, with his artificial sympathy,
must envy.
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The Maharaja Of Patiala, who is about
to visit the British islands, will bring
with him his wife Florence, known az
the Quaan Of Pafiala who in mn Irish