The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-03-03

PASSED i re VIEW
Gladstone traces his ancestry. back %.
King Duncan, of Scotland, who was.
Macbeth's victim. Il. N /. ss's
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Arthur Balfour, the British political
leader. occupies his. leisure with investi-
CATION Of hypnotism and other subjects
Of physical research.
! It is denied that Mrs. Lease, the Kan
sas Popnlist, Is q Freemason. The only
female ever initiated into the mystic order
was Miss st. Leger, Of Dublin, in ITO.
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John Burns, the labor member Of the
House Of Commons, has delighted Lon
don with pun purely English. Cor
recting another member he referred to
the House OF Lords, "Not as the gilded
chamber, sir, but as the guilty chamber"
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Those literary corrections which soci.
city ladies' arrange for the impecunious
friends who read papers on every sub
ject under the canopy have received in
London the name of "leoturettes.' 1t
takes Briton to coin such wore, which
| is worthy Of Punch's green and salad
days:
ST. Peters Cathedral in Rome is to
have an elevator. Electric lighting has
already been introduced into the Vati-
can, and also the monograph and tele-
phone. It is not stated in what part Of
the Cathedral the elevator will ascend,
whether from the centre or some less
conspicuous place. Nevertheless, it will
run up into the dome.
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Labouchere's London Truth gives the
following receipt for making modern
English literary celebrity: "Hal( edu-
cate q vain youth at Oxford; let his hair
grow; dip him into erotic French litera-
ture; add one idea; chop it small; long
roll the whole; give grotesque Names
then serve up as rival to Milton, Sheri-
dan and Shakespeare" This is witty
and pointed. ~.
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The English clergy are the best paid
officials in the world, proportioned to-
what they do. The Archbishop of Cam
terbury receives $4,000 year, has two
or three palaces and swarm of clergy
to do the work; the Archbishop of York
receives $4,000; the Bishop of London
the same, and the others smaller sums,
/ none, however, less than $1,000. Some
of the Irish bishops have less, one, the
Bishop of Clogher, receiving salary OF
$500, but the English bishops are all
paid like princes and live like princes,
too.
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The new Chicago university, despite
it's big endowments and the famous staf
of professors it has got together, is al
ready in bad odor with the Baptists, who
look upon it as one of the institutions OF
their church, because of the ''liberal"
views concerning the scriptures recently
put forth by President Harper; and there
is some talk of citing that dignitary be-
fore an ecclesiastical court, to answer to-
a charge of "heretical teaching" Dr.
Briggs may not be the only Protestant
s'heretic' of notoriety in case this Bap
fist trial comes off.
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i It seems almost Incredible that any
school board in the country should place
such pernicious text book in the hands
Of pupils Of the non-sectarian" public
schools as Dickens "Childs History Of
England" work that, as history, has
no merits at all, and very many arievouf#
faults, and which abounds in the gross
est of insults to Oatholicity' Yet il.
seems that this worthless and viciouE
book is in use in the public schools al
Bessemer, Mich, and the Michigan Cath
olic very properly calls attention to the
laws do 9AOW1u8 liz" AGtA0 0AVAOA0A V4'~'
schools Of that place are to the charactez.
of being non-sectarian.
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| When Cardinal Manning was dying
three years ago he spoke few words fos
posterty into q phone graph which was.
kept carefully preserved till several days
ago by Cardinal Vaughan. A small
company Of distinguished persons, in -
Guiding Ambassador Bayard, met on the
Invitation of the Cardinal at the Arch.
bishops residence to listen to this rivss
Of voice that is still. The voice wa
very distinct and clear. There were long
pauses between the words. The message
was not in itself of great import, beyond
showing the predominant thought IT
the mind Of a man inst before death. Il
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