The Irish standard., 1917-12-15

about IS per cent.
There are more working women in
New York state than in any other
state in the union.
Very Rev. A. f. Carlyle, Lord Alb
bott of Caldey Island, Wales, who With
twenty-five Church Of England clergy
men Joined the Catholic Church in
1913, has arrived in America to study
Catholic seminaries and industrial
schools.
Women of Goldsboro, n c.. have
agreed to discontinue the exchange OF
Christmas presents during the period
Of the war.
Robert Mathew, freight handler
of Porterville, Cal, was arrested for
beating his wife. He had demanded
a jury trial, but changed his mind and
pleaded guilty when he found he was
TO be tried by women.
Last week "A men were arrested in
Washington for being intoxicated on
the city's streets. The saloons were
all closed on Nov. LIST.
The Catholic Colonization Society
of America, with headquarters in Chi
cago, has been organized with Arch
bishop Messmer of Milwaukee as di-
rector-general. The purpose of the
society is to rescue the immigrant who
was farmer in the old country and
finds himself misplaced in the cities
and establish him on the SOIL
While kneeling in prayer in the
Church of st. Vincent de Paul, New
York City, Nov. 23d, Miss Marie San
teous, for several years daily visitor
to the church, was stricken with heart
trouble and died before aid could
reach her.
Normal artillery and normal patrol
the trench conditions at the "Ameri-
can 'front.'" The Sammies take nightly
excursions into the weedy, muddy bot
toms of No Mans Land. Steady rains
have made everything Shiny and slip
perry. The trenches are veritable
quagmires.
This country imports between 2,0OO,-
900 and 100000 pounds of Roquefort
cheese each year.
Rev. Arthur Barry O'Neill, poet and
pedestrian of Notre Dame University,
will soon reach his 50,00Oth mile post
as walker. He has been walking for
his health and pleasure since 1906,
sometimes giving an entire day to his
hobby and reaching the nearby cities.
The Hebrews of the United States
have started to raise $1,000,OO0 for
welfare work for Israelites at canton
ments. 1t is alleged that there are
more than $4,000 Jewish soldiers al
ready in the United States army.
Rt. Rev. ]. Henry Then was in
stalled as the third Bishop of Denver
last Wednesday. At 10 o'clock Bishop
Then was escorted into the Cathedral
by the Knights of Columbus, and the
ceremony of enthronization was per-
formed by Rt. Rev. Msgr. P. A. Phil
lips, Administrator of the diocese, who
officiated in the place of Archbishop
Pitaval, who is in Ell Paso, officiating
at the dedication of the new Cathedral
there
A Toledo man gave a party to cele-
brate the success of his first garden.
The garden yielded no vegetables, but
it attracted his neighbors hens and
they laid three dozen eggs.
The "peace prayer" chain which has
been sent to many persons in Mime
apolis in the last few weeks, is de-
nounced by the priests of the city as
insincere and an insidious attempt to
further the enemy cause. Cardinal
Gibbons and priests of the archdiocese
have urged Catholics to break the
chain and Destroy copies of the
prayer.
According to an Italian scientist
who has classified 1000 cases of self
destruction, more suicides occur be-
tween the ages of Is and 26 than at