The Irish standard., 1894-10-27
PASSED in REVIEW.


strongest sisterhood in this country is ]
the Franciscan, which has; including
postulants. about 5000 members. The.
Sisters of Notre Dame came next with
1000 nuns, counting as one all the diff
ferent branches of the order; and then
follows the Sisters of s.. Joseph, and
the Sisters of Charity, each about 5000
strong, and the Sisters of Mercy, SOU.
In addition to these communities there
are about fifty other sisterhoods repre-
sented in the United States. The
strongest sisterhood, the franciscan.
leads in hospital work. The sisters OF
Notre Dame stand at the head of the,
list as educators, having over 130, 00Ot@
children in their schools and academies. u
Next to them come the Sisters of ST..
Joseph, with $4,000: the Franciscan 75,-
600, and the Sisters of Mercy $1,000.
The Notre Dame and Franciscan Sisters
are strongest in the central and western
states; while the Sistera of Mercy and
those Of St. Joseph are we'll represented
in this section Of the country.
~
Julius Hamburger, Grand Master Of the
Independent Order Free Sons of Israel,
addressed the members Of the Milton
Literary Society at the Central Opera
Honse, New York, recently. Mr.. Har-
burger dwelt at length upon the perpetu-
alton Of literary societies in our great
republic. A great question which is be.
ing raised by bigoted fanatics is the
attack on religious creeds through as +
sociations and by some sensational pulpit
divinee. II depreciate the action Of any
body of men for such purposes, +" he said
"Each creed does good work for human
| ity. The Catholics, who have been
attacked, a1e among the best citizens the
repub has produced They are public
| spirited, loyal and patriotic, and have
sustained the government sllace it's IN.
ception. If they are numerically Tery
strong in America, it ia 80 much the
better for the future maintenance OF the.
republic. They are organized to better
the condition Of the people for humane,
religious and benevolent purposes. We
must stand united as against the attacks,
upon any denomi nation
x**
A new vegetable is about to be intro
duced TO the people of the United States
through the Department of Agriculture,,
II is nothing more nor less than the.
root OF the Gala lily, which resembles .
somewhat in appearance the ordinary
Irish tuber, with the addition OF few .
whiskers that have nothing to do with :
the case or with the qualities Of the
article as an esoulant. However, it ie
more elongated, and when cat the in
terror Is frifie more viscid. In cooking
it is first to be boiled in order to destroy
certain acrid properties, after which it.
May be fried, roasted baked or what nots
according to taste. Farmers in Florida
have begun to raise these Gala roots for
market. The plants grow rapidly in
swamps, and SO thickly that the yield Of
single flooded acre is enormous. They
reproduce themselves by the multipEca-
tion Of their bulb underground, 80 that
the grower has simply to dig up the off
shoots and leave the parents to propa-
gate anew. So prolific and palitabIe are
they that their propagation in many
parts Of the United States, where con-
ditions are favorable, may reasonably
BE- looked forward to as an agricultural,
industry of the future.
~
The only line OF pseudo scientists, the
superstitious, self-styled scholars of
the early part OF this and the latter part
of the eighteenth century, believed that
filth would breed microbes, but, as tho
absured idea of Spontaneous genera
ton" has long since been exploded, it will
not be discussed in this "note," which is,
solely intended to explain the manner in
which microbes multiply There are sever
al species Of these minute creatures and
they have various ways Of reproducing
their species, but the most common is
what the investigators term "reproduc
ton by fissnre.n II, with strong micro
scope, We carefully watch microbe for
q short time we see CONSTRUCTION q
appearing on each side in che center Of n
the body. This soon shows itself int
shape Of . line across, and then all OF y
sudden, the nnicrobe separates in the,
middle & and behold, we have two in place
OF one! Each Of these rapidly increase
IN size until they are as large 81 the
original. When the miracle of the side,
spots and TRAVERSE appear and Il
OF two microbes We have four.
Wonderf plan q repro uction
creases ID two, two toni, ffonr
eight to sixteen, M
~ dve ll,ouure Il n
siinai 1i