The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-04-27
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Prince Bismarck recently said to az
American who had the pleasure Of an in
tervieW with him, that. one pf his great
est regrets was that he had never had az
opportunity Of visiting this country
Portland prison is the largest prison
In England. Nearly 2,e00 con iGts are
locatedf there, being employ ed.s chiefly III
the Crown quarries, from which some
thing like 50, 900 to $4,000 tons of Port
land stone are annually exported
The large number OF youthful ritlersf1n
Europe is without parallel, The pres
ent Car is ~, Emperor William is &c,
the Queen of Holland Is, the King OF
Spain an infant, the King Of Seryia 81,
and Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria S6.
There are no fewer. than lob cathe-
drals in the United Kingdom. OF these
48 are Catholic Cathedrals, 36 Church OF
England, IL belong to the Church OF
Ireland, and Z to the Episcopal Church
OF Scotland. .
vice in the British army, 40 were last
year. discharged as invalidss The de-
sertions fell from 4,827, in 1893, to-
1888, and of these 1888 rejoined. The
number of men: who purchased their dis
charges fell from 2, GET, in 1893, to 2 ,454.
The salary of the Speaker o., the House
OF Commons is $4,000 a year, with a
retiring pension of $4,000. Mr.. Peel
who recently resigned from the position,
was elected speaker in 1884, upon the
retirement OF Sir Henry Brand, who, ac-
cording TO custom, was elevated to the
Peerage, becoming Viscountl Hampdeu.
Unquestionably, apart from all political
bias, Mr.. Peel has discharged the duties
of his arduous office with, to quote from
a British contemporary, "a dignity, suay-
ity and fmpartiality which have elected
cordial recognition from every section
of the House. It is {. mere statement of
fact, unembellished by the slightest coll
oring of compliment, that during the IL
years he has occupied the chair he has,
to quote again, united in his own per-
son, to an unusual extent, all the ele-
ments not only necessary, but to be de-
sired, in the speaker Of the House Of
Commons"
Physicians in Alton, Iowa, and vicin-
ity are interested and puzzled over the
remarkable change Of color presented III
the person of a little negro girl, aged
about IL years, the daughter Of highly
respectable colored people. The child
was originally as black as the ace Of
spades, but of late she has been chang
ing color, till now she presents the ap-
pearance of a white person: No cause
is known for the strange condition, as
the girl is in perfect health. Her par
ents have been offered 81 900 a year by a
Chicago amusement manager for the
privilege of putting her on exhibition.
They positively refuse to expose their
daughter to what they consider such an
indignity..
Archbishop Walsh, who has returned
to Dublin from Rome, has written a
letter to the newspapers contradicting
the statement circulated at Wicklow
that he desires priests to abstain from all
interference in elections. The arch
bishop says: II am very far, indeed,
from wishing anything of the kind.
always desire that priests should ex-
ercise in the fullest extent their natural
and legitimate influence in all public af-
fairs, and l trust that upon the present
most critical occasion priests will not
fail in their public duty
At 'Dashour, twenty miles south Of
Cairo, the graves Of two Princesses Of
the twelfth dynasty, more than 1000
years ago, We're discovered intact a little
while ago. The collins had decayed
and the mummies crumbled to duty as
soon as an attempt was made to remove
them, but on the head of each was
golden coronet as fresh as the day it.
was made. One was wreath Of forget
me-nots with Maltese crosses at interv-
ais made of precious stones; the other.
coronet contained a socket in which
was inserted q spray of flowers made
of jewels, with leaves and stems of gold.
nci Ghc ft7H,a loo
bracelets, arnlets, anklets, daggers and
charms.
NJ. Pasci,a1 Grousset, Deputy Of Paris,
has just addressed a letter to M. Picard,
Director General Of the exhibition Of
1900, in which he proposes that mine
should be made to the depth of 1900 me-
tres in order to test the theory Of inter
nal fire. If the temperature rose to-
tropical heat, he considered the much
discussed question would be settled
M. Grousset proposes that horizontal
galleries should be dug every 200 me-
tres, in which illustrations of coal, dia-
mond, gold and other mining would be
given. Two ;eleva tors would connect
each gallery with the one above and be-
low. These, he thinks, would attract 9
large numbers of visitors, and would
therefore justify the expenditure neces-
saTy to construct the mine.
The charming home Of Michael Glen
non, editor and proprietor of that bright
Southern paper, The Norfolk Virginian.
was recently visited by Father Cronin,
Of Buffalo. Mr.. G1ennon is national
treasurer Of the I. G. 3. u. No citi-
zen in Norfolk is more respected than
he; nor has he ever found that devotion
to the rcOSS and Shamrock of his fathers
has been aught detrisnent to his pros
perity. He pointed out to me the houses
in which the poet Moore, Lafayette and
the third Napoleon dwelt while in l!or-
foia, says Father Cronin. I was shown
also another relic, a dilapidated frame
house beyond the confines of the city.
1t IS said to be the house in which a
Gnondam professor of mine was born
Rev. Abram j. Ryan, the cherished poet
of the South. ~
The subscriptions announced in Dub
lin, on March 30, to the Irish Parliament
airy Fund are close up to $500, and run
the fund we'll into its third thousand.
The place of honor il this magnificent
contribution belongs tc Belfast, which
sends in the splendid total CT $3.50 odd,
Belfast is Q, model and 4 sermon to the
Nationalist towns Of ireland. Its
strength is in its unity There is no
faction, no internal discussion of any
kind among the sterling and generous
of Belfast. They have
learned. in the long, uphill struggle
they have SO brayely Waged against
bigotry and intolerance that only By
unity and discipline can they hope to
hold their own, To he. friends with THAR