The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-08-28
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Ex-President Roosevelt's own ac-
count of his African hunting trip will
begin in scribner's Masasine for Oc-
tober and continue for one year.
Andrew Carnegie has given $4,000
for the erection Of public library in
Tralee. That's more than an Irish y.
English landlord has ever done for
any city in ireland.
The state of Illinois has placed a
statue Of Gen. James Shields in tn.
nations hall Of fame at Washington,
d. C. The gallant 1rishman is worthy
of the honor bestowed on him.
The Christian Scientists must be
numerous and influential in Los An
geles, Cal. When Boston lecturer
in that city recently spoke against the
followers Of Mrs. Eddy, none OF the
daily papers would report him for
publication.
The new Boston college will have
Daniel O'Connell hall, which will he
dedicated to Irish antiquities and
specimens Of Irish art, ancient aud
modern, and in which will be erected
statues of famous Irishmen, with de-
scriptive tablets.
The Orangemen are no longer con-
fined to the North Of Ireland, II we
are to judge by the recent attacks
made by them on Catholics in Eng
land and Wales. They must have
come from fighting stock and ought
to make good soldiers for England in
the coming war with Germany.
James A. Flaherty, the newly elected
supreme knight of the knights of Co.
lumbus, is the founder and editor of
La verita," an Italian English week.
ly published in Philadelphia. He is a
lawyer as we'll as an editor. Why he
should be publishing an Italian paper
is a conundrun.
One of the speakers at the banquet
rendered by the knights Of Columbus
to Cardinal Gibbons and other visit
ing prelates in Salt Lake City WINS
Senator smoot, who Is a Mormon lead
er in Utah. Smoot stood by Cannon,
Aldrich and Payne for upward revi-
sion Of the tariff.
It is calculated that John D. Rookie
Teller will be a Millionaire In ten
years. According to the American
method of enumeration, a billion is a
thousand millions. A good thing that
he cannot carry his big pile along with
him to the Elysian fields. If he. lives
for another decade he ought to be
made an honorary member Of the bill
lion dollar congress.
Bleriot, the aviator, who recently
crossed the English channel in a n.y.
ing machine, and won the prize Of
fered by the London Mail for his great
feat, is a. graduate Of the Catholic
College Of Our Lady of Graces, Cam
bray, France. 1t is pleasant to re-
cord that unlike Clemenceau, who was
educated in a Catholic institution, he
has preserved the faith In the midst
Of infidelity.
Both the houses of the Connecticut
legislature last week passed bill re-
pealing the so-called "blue laws" re.
lating to Sunday observance. which
prohibited almost every form Of recre-
alton and secular activity. One Of the
laws specifically repealed is that which
provides for fine Of 81 on each per-
son who shall attend q concert or en-
tertainment on Sunday. About time
to repeal such a law. OF course. 1t
was not enforced for many years.
A st. Paul Presbyterian minister
scored old DR.. Eliot last Sunday and
held him responsible for much Of the
irreligious sentiment now prevailing
God pity DR.. Eliot on the day of
judgment" exclaimed the minister,
though in New England he is looked
upon as little lower than the angels
He said he knew a number of young
men who entered Harvard with a be-
lief in the Bible and left it agnostics
and worse.
VIM. Winter, the dramatic critic Of
the New York Tribune for forty-hve
years, rendered his resignation last
week. He is 70 years old and was