The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-08-06
Pebbles on the
Shore Of KnoWIedge

In recent essay Mr.. Michael Davitt recalls the
fact that the use of Captain Boycotts name TO denote
social and economic ostracsm first suggested by
Father John OMalley parish priest of The Neale
County Mayo The word now exists in French as boy
cotter, in Dutch boycoten in German as boycottiren
and In Russian as boikottizovat.
A man with large thumb should neves marry a
woman with similar characteristic. There will IN
such case be constant struggle for the mastery.
Nine. de Navarro MARY Anderson sat to the
painter Watts for five years before her portrait
finished. She loved to hear him talk and he talked
most of the time
Peers of the realm in England cannot be bound
keep the peace like ordinary citizens, and the
old time privileges of the members of the house of
lords in this respect called to attention the other
day by an unfortunate individual who having
ceived the promise of sound thrashing from the
ceedngly rascibe and pugilstic Lord Lonsdale, en-
deavored protection from the impending as
sault by appealing to the courts.
"At a social gathering my house the other even
ing" said a well-known New York physician. Il had
as guests eight men, every one of whom is has been
potent factor in the affairs of this city, N politics,
finance, the legal and medical professions Journalism
and railroad management. 1t came out that not one
of them native of the city. Not only was none
of them native New Yorker, but, with extop-
on, they all born in isolated rural hamets or on
backwoods farms. The one exception was born in
incorporated village of 1000 inhabitants"
Most people outside Russia are under the impress
sion that the atters designs upon Constantnope
based merely upon the rights of conquest and upon he
or less mythical political testament of Peter the
Great in which stress is laid upon the fact that the
possession of Constantnope indispensable TO Rus
sias national grandeur and her political as>we
economic development. The Muscovite determination
to secure Constantinople later Is 1o'rded,
however, the popular conviction that the city belongs
to the czar by right of inheritance. Ivan the Great
married princess of the impernal Byzantine eperors
Caesars of Constantinople 1t was the strength
of this matrimonial alliance and of his wifes rights
to Constantinople that Ivan the Great assumed not
merely the Byzantine title of "Caesar corrupted into
the Russian GEAR" but likewise the double headed
eagle of the emperors Of Byzantum, which symbol has
formed the national and imperial device of Russia and
of her reigning house ever since.
When King Arthur founded the famous round table
he requested Merlin the enchanter arrange the seats
Merlin arranged set of seats to represent the
Ties Twelve were for the faithful adherents of Jesus
Christ and the thirteenth for the traitor Judas The
first were never occupied save by knights distinguished
for their achievements, and when a death occurred
among them the seat remained vacant until knight
surprising him in heroic and warlike attanments
should be considered worthy to fill the place. If
worthy knight sought the chair he repeed by
magic power. The thirteenth seat occupied
but once. The story ges that naughty and nsolent
Ssracen knight sat down upon it and Immediately
swallowed up by the earth Ever after it was known
the "perilous seat" and brave the celebrated
knights of the round table said have been not
had the courage sit the thirteenth chair
and the superstition against it still survives
Although no room could be found for Stanley in
Westminster abbey which is always described as the
Valhalla of Englands greatest yet there plenty
of individuals entombed there who have assuredy no
claim grandeur. Thus, among those whose remains
have found place in the ancient abbey is John
Ct frLf IS
the eighteenth century who kept of the most dis
reputable resorts in Tottenham court road and who
has sometimes been described the father of prize
fighting in England. Then there is Thomas Parr an il
terate Shropshire farm whose only title to
fame that he attained the extraordinary age 152
and lived to ten rulers succeed one another on
the English throne, dying in 1885 and being buried in
the poets corner. Alpha Behnspy, playwright and
demi-mondaine, in turn likewise reposes in the abbey,
as does also the infamous Thyme who has magnif |
cent monument But Lord Nelson, who frequently
spoke of his earnest desire for tomb in Westminster
abbey. was inferred in St Pauls cathedral while many
other distinguished men like Sir Henry Stanley have
found the doors of the abbey closed against their re-
remains.-Marquis dc Fontcnoy in Chicago Tribune