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Show ' J' ! gburcb itnlersal i i Church Calendar. ; IS. M. St. Luke. 642,248 tor seminaries, novices. 19. T. St. Peter of Alcantara. 889,394 for vocations. j 20. Y. St. John Cantius. 849,494 for parishes. ( 21. Th. St. Ursula and Comp. 661,316 'V for schools. v 22. P. St. Mary Salons. 633,730 for su-V su-V periors. V i 23. S. Most Holy Redeemer. 247,619 for r,t 4. missions. retreats. i'i " 't S. 21st after Pentecost. St. Kaph- 'JU ael K. Eph. vi. 10-17. G. Matt. 1 ,) xviii, 23-25.-887,675 for societies, t W works. f THE GENERAL NTENtToN FOR i OCTOBER. j I Recommended by His Holiness, Pius I ; " ; i The Catholic Instinct. ; i What cuniinoil m'Msv is i:. Ihv domain i "f daily life, such is Catholic instinct h. J the affairs of faith. When set iuIc f action are lacking or oliscurc in their ! application, when precedent cannot 1..- fund. and v one is near to advice- ! us, then it is that common sense conies : our rescue, and Ic.ds us through paths v-"here no surer joiSde is at hand, i In exactly the same way there are mo- I , incuts in the soul's life when the ordi- ! I . . nary landmarks are swept sway or hidden, when action is imperative yet i error imminent, and the voice of God i .-uinot hi heard: our instinct for whr.t 1 i.-- Catholic can Then be our only stay, j : This instinct is. as it were, a spiritual j s-'-nse and unerring perception of the sort, by which we instinctively and un- 1 seiously judge or act as the infallible Church would do. It was ihis instinct 1 which led the Christians of the fourth century to shrink from Arius years j before his cnnciliar condemnation: it j : was this instinct which prompted the j ; populace of Constantinople to rise up j I r und reject their heretical patriarch; it j is this instinct which today inspires even the ignorant to condemn the doc- j j trines of modern free-thought. More j today than ever before is the Catholic 1 j instinct needed. Men are castir.gr off , I 5 the iiksomeness of imitating Christ and lj ! are setting up self to be their Savior. !j W I Aerain.-t such we must beware. The f.A J Catholic instinct is fostered by a dc- I 4 -. vout Catholic life. It is the flower -f I VW humility and prayer. It is the natural J fW result of a life such as the Church I wishes all her children to lead, and ' 1(1 makes its presence felt when it Is most i j j needed, for th.ose walk in CodV I I THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD. ? By Theodore O'Hara. i V. Tl.e ivmffied drum's sail roll has beat ?i l The soldier's last tattoo; d t No more on lift's parade shall meet - f That brave and fallen few. W ' On fame's etc ma 1 camping ground 3 Their si'ent tents are spread, ' And plory guards, with solemn round, 4 The bivouac of the dead. i No rumor of the foe's advance i Now swells upon the wind; No troubled thought at midnight 1 haunts j I Of loved ones left behind; j No vision of the morrow's strife j The warrior's dreams alarms: 1 No braying horn or screaming fife ! j At dawn shall come to arms. ! ' Their shivered swords are red with rust, i Their plumed heads are bowed, 1 Their haughty banner, trailed in dust, 1 Is now their martial shroud, j S And plenteous funeral tears have . washed : The red stains from each brow, Aii'l the proud forms by battle gashed, Are free from anguish now. : The neighboring troops, the flashing j !'! blade. j The bugle's stirring blast. The charge, the dreadful cannonade, The din and shout are past; N.ir wars will note nor glory's peal y Shall thrill with fierce delight : j Those breasts that never more may f"! The rapture of the fight, i J Like the fierce north hurricane That sweeps his great plateau, I i Flushed with the triumph yet to gain, ,me down the serried foe. ,!, Who heard the thunder of the fray f iJreak oe'r the field beneath, j, I Knew well the watchword of that day fi-i j ,'Va': "victory or death." A Lfiig had the doubtful conflict raged 5' ov-r all that stricken plain, V For !u ver fiercer fight had waged I i T:: vrjnfu' bk.od of Spain: V y.-.n still the storm of battle blew, ' i Si:il swelled the glory tide. ' fl ,""t long r,uf stout old chieftain knew, ) ' Sn h odds his strength could bide. I T'.vas in that hour his stern command I ''a!!ed to a martyr's grave, i f " ' f"Vi(r of his beloved land. ji Tiie nation's fiag to save, ft 5-y rivrs of their fathers' gore Ji j ''i- first born laurels grew. If I v.-hi he deemed his sons would V i . !"'ur !:'ir lives for glory, too. Fii'l ninny a mother's breath has swept I "'t Antrostura's plain, 1 A:, I ions the pitying fky has wept i Above its mouldered slain, f 1 'Hi- raven's scream or eagle's flight, ' t slie), herd's pensive lay, I ; Al' :n takes each its sullen height 'i"iat frowned over that dread fray. ; k" i:i- of the dark and bloody ground, f Ve must not slumber there, j '' !.-!.' stranger steps and tongues re- I sound 5 I A!..;.: the heedless air. j "i;t- ,,wn proud land's heroic soil t I Shall he your fitter grave; I I ' '-laims from war his richest spoil : I Tl:e ashes of the brave. ; I '"! !- ;i-ath their parent turf they rest, t I-'ra from the gory field, : j '),) to a spartan mother's breast f Vi '" ni;,"' a bloody shield: I If " s;'!'s'lin' 'f their native sky j Siniif-s sadly on them here, Aal khidred eyes and hearts watch by TrH 'rh" heiv.es' sepulcher. Ur r I '''-' "a. ejiihalmed and sainted dead, I i I v''":"' :is 'he bl)od you gave; ' 'i 'Us footsteps here shall tread I J'1 la-rbage of your grave; .u u- v.i your glory be forgot, :1 ,A iide fame her record keeps, I "r ,,, j,,,5rit the hallowed spot ;, ;.'ie valor proudly sleeps, ; 1 niarlde minstrel's voiceless stone j in deathless song shall tell, s hen m;iny a vanished age hath flown, The j.t y low you fcJ. . f vri-ck, nor change, nor winter's ( I I Misht. j 1 k., ""-'s remorseless doom, r;i ' ' 'wll dim one ray of glory's light : I Jliat pi. is your deathless tomb. Dying by Halves. ' ' 1 J!y falling from a cart, a Chinaman, j "hose nfo was insured for a large ; "mount, was seriously hurt. There was f' 'Ubt as to his ever getting better, , 1(1 at length one of his friends wrote . the insurance company, "Hong Wang Bits. dead' likeC half mone5''" Tit ' Story of the Crosses. The Catholics of Fermanagh were overjoyed Aug. 'II, says the Irish Catholic, Cath-olic, when it became known that the two crosses belonging to White Hill R. C. church were found. The crosses (two in number) have a romantic history. White Hill chapel was built eighty years ago, and there were no crosses put on the gable3 a most unusual thing and this of course left the chapel very bare looking. In 1S62, tbout thirty-five years afterward, after-ward, the parish priest. Father Travnor, who Is long dead, purchased a pair cf fine metal crosses, each standing about four feet high and about four cwt. in weight. He had the stone bases set on the gables ready for the crosses to go on. They were left in the priest's yard, ready for erection, but to the good pastor's pas-tor's surprise, the crosses disappeared. He was overcome with grief and cried out that "God would have satisfaction out of the vagabonds, and that the crosses would come back again, but not in his day.'' His prophecy lias come true. It is forty-seven years ago now since the crosses were stolen, and this !n the ino-t bigoted times of Orange ascendancy. ascendan-cy. There were a good many Orange lodges around White Hill, and their members were much displeased at the Idea of the crosses being erected. In the night time fifteen, or perhaps more, of the brethren made their way into the priest's yard, took the crosses bodily, and carried them a mile or more to a large morass called Dring bog. In the very center of this bog there is a large round hole, full of water, with no bottom bot-tom to it, called the Bullock hole, co ise-quent ise-quent on bullocks being often drowned in It. Into this hole the crosses were pitched by the advocates of dvil and religious liberty as they thought, never to be heard of again. Though the authors of the outrage were known, the good priest would not prosecute. He always said that a greater great-er vengeance would come down upon them than his, and his prophecy was fulfilled. There were three ringleaders of the gang who suffered most, a father and two sons, who owned town lands, which passed out of their hand 5 a few-years few-years afterward. The father was killed coming out of Irvlngton on his own horse. Of the two brothers, one shot the other ;:nd was imprisoned. Eventually he was smothered smoth-ered in his own bed. Another who carried car-ried one of the crosses became a cripple, crip-ple, with a stoop in the back which was incurable, while his toes rotted off. Still another lost his foot by putrefaction. putrefac-tion. A fourth went out of his mind. A fifth was crossing to Amori-M t ) get out of the hands of the law. He fell off the upper deck of the vessel on which he was a passenger and broke his neck. A woman who supplied whisky to the miscreants mis-creants got cancer in her hands, and lost both. It seems miraculous that the heavy crosses sank only a few f?et beneath the surface. On Aug. 11 a laborer named McQuaid was working at a drain beside the Bullock hole. He put his shovel in for curiosity, vhen, lol he struck one of the crosses. He went for Father O'Doherty, P. P., and with the .help of nine or ten men brought the first one out with ropes. It was only three feet below the surfao-; the other one was eight feet. He had ropes tied around him, and he came on the other one and brought it to the surface amid the loud cheers of the other workmen. The crosses were then carried back to the chapel. Father Traynor's prophecies proph-ecies were now fulfilled. The crosses were laid safely in the chaoel, and visitors vis-itors are coming from all pares t have a look at them. They are not now- wanted want-ed for the chapeh for, as soon sis they were stolen, a new pair was got and put up, but' they will be erected on the pillars in the chapel yard, tnere to stand for the future to remind strangert. of the provocation that the Catholics of fifty years ago received. England's Oldest Shrine. For some time past efforts have been made to raise funds in order to o'otect from the ravages of wind and weather and the encroachment of drifting sands the ruins of St. Piran oratory at Per-ranzabuloe, Per-ranzabuloe, said to be the oldest Christian Chris-tian relic of its kind in England. It Is now proposed to build a protecting house of concrete around the ruins. If this protection is not forthcoming it is probable that "the lost church," as it is locally known, will be again buried beneath be-neath the sands which covered it for so many centuries. It is generally believed be-lieved to be the original Church of St. Piran. to whom the Cornish miners give the credit of first showing them tin, and who was one of the most notable of the many Cornish saints. A Scholarly German Bishop. Bishop Wilhelm Schneider of Pader-born, Pader-born, Prussia, died Aug. 31. He was born in 1847. After his university studies stud-ies at Bonn and Innsbruck, he was ordained or-dained priest in 1872 at Feldkirch. As chaplain and tutor in a Westphalian family of rank, he had an opportunity of extended travel. He passed the examination ex-amination of doctor of divinity in Tubingen Tu-bingen and became, in 18S7, professor of moral theology in the clerical seminary at Paderborn. This position be kpt after he had been made canon . nd dean of the cathedral chapter of that city. In 1900 he was elected bishop jf the dio-cest. dio-cest. which sounts 1.300,000 Catholics. Bishop Schneider was a prolific writer, whose books on psychology, ethnology and moral theology, though perhaps too deep for the great .nass of book readers, are very much valued by scholars. schol-ars. Bishop Nelson Attacks Dr. Eliot. In a sermon delivered Sept. 29 at the consecration of the Rev. Dr. John Gardner Murray of Washington as coadjutor co-adjutor bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Epis-copal diocese of Maryland, Bishop C. K. Nelson of Atlanta said: "It is perfectly apparent that man may be the head of a great organization organiza-tion while rc-maining in dense ignorance ignor-ance of, or indifference to, the plainest facts of histry, and he may misapply his knowledge in a failure to recognize the most stupendous power In the history his-tory of the world. The man who denies de-nies Christ is but an idle dreamer whose visions must not be taken into account and whose views should not be seriously weighed. A little child at devout prayer is a greater factor In the world's good than the man of university uni-versity learning in which Jesus Christ has no place nor part. We must apply ap-ply our best endeavors to safeguard our young men and our young women against the insidious and often dishonest dis-honest methods to rob them of their faith under pretext of greater learning learn-ing and a more advanced thought. It is time for us to beware of the Greeks, even when they bear gifts." Repartee. Two Jehus in Brighton had narrowly escaped colliding in one of the main .streets, and as each blamed "t'other," they commenced slanging each other. "Go on," said one. "You've to tie a knot in yer nag's tail to keep It from falling into the nose bag!" "Who's talking?" yelled the other "Why if yer old nag fell down, you d have o strike a light to look for it!" Tlt-Rts. Brief and Breezy Sparks From the Telegraph. New York. Unless the supreme court of the United States reverses the decision de-cision or the president of the United States interferes, Charles W. Morse, one-time "ice king;" coastwise steamship steam-ship organizer, banker and capitalist, ; will serve fifteen years at hard labor in the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga. After having been at liberty under $125,000 bail since June 17 last, he is back in the Tombs prison tonight, on account of a decision of the United States circuit court of appeals today sistaining the judgment of the lower court, which found him guilty in November No-vember last of violating the national banking laws. Helena, Mont. A slight earthquake shock was experienced in Helena at 6:25 last evening. It was of exceptionally exception-ally brief duration, consisting merely of a jolt or single tremble. No damage dam-age was done. It was felt throughout the city. Guayaquil, Ecuador. A severe shock of eathquake was felt here this morning. morn-ing. No casualties are reported. Eureka. Oct. 11. John Cronin, an apprentice ap-prentice in the carpenter shop of Campbell Camp-bell & Matthews, met with a mishap today while working on one of the planers. He sustained a bad cut to the palm of his left hand and the fingers of his right hand were lacerated. Duluth, Minn. Following a long period pe-riod of balmy weather, and ushered in with a sixtyrmile northeaster, accompanied accom-panied by snow, sleet and hail, Duluth and vicinity have been wrapped in the first blizzard of the season since early yesterday evening. Lake Superior is running high, and shipping has been delayed. Kansas City. With the first snow of the season falling at Sioux City, la., and Omaha, Neb., and sleet at St. Joseph, Jo-seph, Mo., portions of those states, as well as eastern Kansas, experienced a decided fall in temperature today. In Kansas and Missouri a temperature tempera-ture of 13 degree's above zero was recorded. re-corded. Sioux City this morning reported a heavy fall of snow, which melted as it fell. Des Moines, la. Snow fell here today, and tonight iv again snowed, accompanied accompa-nied by a piercing north wind. Light sno wis reported from many towns in central .Iowa. Winona. Minn. Three inches of snow-fell snow-fell here ton! eh t. At times the storm was almost a blizzard. New Richmond, Wis. Snow flurries here today were followed by a severe storm tonight. The temperature dropped to freezing. Wheeling, W. Va. A two-minute snowstorm struck Wheeling tonight. The, snow fell after hours of drizzling rain. Vallejo. Cal. The navy department has telegraphed from Washington to the Mare island officials inquiring as to the length of time necessary to fit the cruiser Albany for a three years' cruise in foreign waters. This is believed to indicate that the ship will be sent to the Orient. Des Moines. Walter Evans, aged IS, died here from injuries received in. a football game. Milwaukee. Dr. Frederick A. Cock last night gave a lecture before a large audience here. He was given a warm welcome by the Milwaukee Press club. Dr. Cook then left for Detroit. Laredo, Tex. In order to replenish the limited supply of corn in the republic repub-lic of Mexico, the duty on that product from the United States has been temporarily tem-porarily rescinded. Vancouver, B. C. Playful children loosened the brakes of a work train, which was on a siding near here, and the train ran away.. After going down grade for four miles the train struck a Vancouver street car, injuring twelve persons. Boston. Politics in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, the only New England Eng-land states holding elections this fall, looms up unusually large for an off year. In those states the governorship is at stake, while the income tax amendment amend-ment lends great interest in the contests con-tests in each legislative district. Washington. The popular idea that the American Indians are decreasing in number is dissipated by official figures showing that today there are more than 300,000 red men in the United States. The increase in population of about 30,-000 30,-000 during the last two decades is attributed at-tributed to the government's constant effort to uplift the Indian to the level of contemporary civilization. Three and one-third million dollars is being ex pended by the United States annually for the education of more than 30,000 Indian boys and girls. Ottawa, Kan. Rev. E. M. Stuckey, recently arrested In Waukegan, 111., in company with 17-year-old Lorena Sutherland, Suth-erland, was arraigned here Saturday charged with kidnaping, entered a plea of not guilty and was released on $3,000 bonds. No date was set for his trial. Chicago. Freshmen at Northwestern university were called upon, after having hav-ing been divided into eleven sections, to spell words in common use, each section sec-tion having 100 words. Here are some of the words propounded, with the spellings spell-ings given: Irregular Earegular, iregelar, ireg-caler. ireg-caler. Accessible Excessable, assessable, ax-seble. ax-seble. Counterfeit Counterfit, conterfite, eounterrjheet. Apprentice Aprentase, aprentis. Chivalry Shivalry, shivelry, chifael-ry. chifael-ry. Magazine Magazeen, magaseen. Plumage Plumag, plumeag, plu-meage. plu-meage. Anthracite Anthreesite, anthrisight. Adage Adgage, addige. Municipal Munisipple, municiple. Glacier Glassear, glashier. Intelligence Enteligance, intelegence. Professor J. Scott Clark, head of the department of English, said after the test that the present mode of teaching elocution in grammar and High schools was responsible for the large number of poor spellers. Pioche, New News has just been received re-ceived here from Atlanta, the new gold mining camp fifty miles north of Pioche, Pi-oche, that Howard Pepper, a saloonkeeper, saloon-keeper, was shot and instantly killed last night by his wife. Pepper was a member of the Roosevelt rough riders in the Spanish-American war. He came to Atlanta from Black Horse. Nev., and was known in Idaho and Montana camps. Santa Fe, N. M. A special from Es-panola. Es-panola. thirty miles north of Santa Fe; tonight says that Judge Francisco Ser-na Ser-na was killed by his son, a youth of 20, who struck down his father with an ax, cleaving his skull. Judge Serna was one of the best known men in the territory. ter-ritory. The murder was the result of a quarrel. The slayer has escaped Into the hills. . New York! Some of my reasons for saying that Dr. Cook did not go to the north poi will b understood by those who read the following statements of the two Eskimo boys who went with him, and who told me and others. of my party where he did go. Several Eskimos who started with Dr. Cook from Anoratok in February, 1808, were at Etah when I arrived there in August, 1908. They told me that Dr. Cook had with him after they left two Eskimo boys or young men, two sledges and two dogs. The boys were I-Took-A-Shoo and Ah-Pe-Lah. I had known them from their childhood. One was about 18 and the other about 19 years old. On my return from Cape Sheridan and at the very first settlement I touched (Nerke, near Cape Chalon), In August, 1909, and nine days before reaching Etah, the Eskimos told me in a general way where Dr. Cook had been. That he had wintered in Jones' sound, and that he had told the white men at Etah that he had been a long way north, but that the boys who were with him, I-Took-A-Shoo and Ah-Pe-Lah, said that this was not so. The Eskimos laughed at Dr. Cook's story. On reaching Etah I talked with the Eskimos there and with the two boys, and asked them to describe Dr. Cook's journey to members of my party and myself. This they did in the manner stated below. (Signed) R. E. PEARY. Cleveland, O. "It is the same old story," sto-ry," said Dr. Cook tonight, when shown the statement issued by Commander Peary, together with the map accompanying accom-panying it. "I have replied to the points raised a dozen times," he continued. con-tinued. "The map published by Commander Com-mander Peary in itself indicates that the Eskimos have respected their promise prom-ise made to me, that they would not give any information to Peary or his men." New York. Three days after she had come here from San Francisco to take up work in a New York preparatory school, 16-year-old Eunice Mally was last night run clown by a street car and perhaps fatally injured. The car dragged her for about fifteen feet along the pavement, fracturing her skull and inflicting serious Internal injuries. Seattle. Charles A. Hall of Ann Arbor, Ar-bor, Mich., aged 60, and shabbily dressed, applied at police headquarters last night for a cot to sleep on. In his pockets were found $100 and a letter from Ann Arbor attorneys saying that his estate is worth $24,000. Physicians say Hall is suffering from melancholia. St. Petersburg. The cholera epidemic !n this city continues to run its course. The cases average thirty a day. Thirty-four Thirty-four of the servants of the Medvied restaurant, a fahsionable resort of the capital, have been stricken with the disease. Catholic Notes. The Catholics of the diocesse of Cam- hr.il, France, have reopened 340 schools I to take the place of the 443 primary -schools closed by the Religious Congregations' Congre-gations' law. The Oberammergau Passion Plays will jo given next year from May 11 to Sep-:cmber Sep-:cmber 25. The burgomaster has issued t notice reminding the men that they nust now let their hair grow. Mgr. Morisclone, the oldest bishop in the world, has just died at Squillace, Vatanzaro. He was born on the 22d of October, 1811, and became bishop of Gravina and Montepeloso In 1S55. In 1858 he was transferred to Squillace. The monumental new Cathedral of St. Louis, Mo., which is rapidly rising, may be America's highest art representative. represen-tative. Its scheme of Mosaic decorations decora-tions and other embellishments may -ost, it is said, $10,000,000. In order not to conflict with the Eucharlstic Congress that will meet in Montreal next year, it has been decided to postpone the proposed Pan-American Missionary Congress, at Boston, until 1911. The clergy will welcome a new decree of the Holy Father empowering them to dispense from diriment ecclesiastical impediments and thus validly marry persons who are in danger of dying be-r'ore be-r'ore a formal dispensation could be obtained ob-tained from the bishop of the diocese. Again this year the King of England lunched with the Abbot of Tepi, who is the ground landlord of Marlenbad, and who has received the honor of an honorary hon-orary knighthood in the Royal Victoria Order. The abbot has been a commander command-er of the Victorian Order for several years. Rev. Herman J. Goller, president of Gonzaga college, of Spokane, Wash., has been selected as provincial of the new province of the Jesuit order, with jurisdiction juris-diction over twenty-six colleges and residences in southern California, Alaska, Alas-ka, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Ida-ho, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming, with headquarters at Portland. Port-land. The French Episcopate has issued a pastoral letter warning Catholic parents in France that the teaching in the public pub-lic schools jeopardizes the faith of their children. The letter condemns especially co-education, saying that the "mixture of the two sexes is contrary to morality and unworthy a civilized people." The letter forbids the use of a score of public pub-lic school text books, principally histories, his-tories, and appeals to parents to unite in protection of the faith. The Pope received as usual last week many people, among whom was a man of the name of Montrosi, sixty-eight years old, and an old crippled woman who. was wheeled into the presence of the Pontiff in a wheelbarrow. Both pilgrims pil-grims came from Modena, the man walking and pushing the cripple in the barrow. They took seventeen days to make the journey. The Pope received them most cordially and thanked them for their -great proof of attachment. All the convents of the great order of the Sacred Heart in and near Paris are now closed. The command to close the last house left open in France, one In Brittany, went Into force on Sept 1, writes a corresponden of the Irish Catholic. Cath-olic. On the feast of St. Ignatius, July 31, the famous convent at Conflans was shut, the present mother general remaining re-maining there to the last, like the captain cap-tain who leaves the sinking ship without with-out hauling down his standard. She remained to close the door herself. Catholic Practices. The Christian Register bespeaks the utility of Catholic practices in Methodism. Meth-odism. It says: "Tlie question is asked whether Methodism Meth-odism has a confessional or not. Of course it has: every family, every family, every church, every community, has a need of a confessional more or less organized and properly conducted. Roman Catholics are human beings, like the rest of us, and Protestants blunder greatly when they reject everything used by Catholics and described by them under some technical name. Prayers for the dead are as rational as prayers for the living, and he who believes in a future life and in remedial discipline has no occasion to scoff at the doctrine of purgatory, although he may balk at the decree of eternal punishment. Every right-minded minister In normal relations with the people of his parish will sometimes find himself called upon to discharge all the offices of a spiritual priesthood. He will receive confessions, give counsel, and in a proper sense pronounce pro-nounce absolution, and both he and those who consult him will be better for his offices. These are very important admissions and show that religious society of today must finally recognize the need not only of Catholic practice, but of Catholic faith and unity as well. Pilot i Things Worth Knowing. Signs are not wanting to assure any one that every year single chrysanthemums chrysanthe-mums are steadily gaining in favor, mainly, of course, with those whose aim is to grow plants for general decoration and for supplying cut blooms for their own table. Single blossoms, fortunately, fortunate-ly, are not criticised by the home grower grow-er as to the size, as their beauty cannot be thus measured. A rapid decrease in the use of rye Hour for bread in recent years is noted in Germany. Because the enormous rats of Uganda are so voracious missionaries are using books bound in tin. The first grain elevator in Russian Asia soon will be built at Tchalabinsk, along the Siberian railroad. Spun glass as a substitute for human hair in wigs and other tonsorial adornment adorn-ment Is said to be a success. One of the requests for a patent received re-ceived in the patent office of Germany was for a device for making one's own matches. With the aid of it, any one can, by five hours' work, save 6 or 7 cents The eighth satelite of Jupiter, discovered discov-ered at the Greenwich observatory in January of last year, proves remarkable remark-able not only for being so far from the planet, but also for its very eccentric orbit, its distance from Jupiter varying from about 10,000.000 to 20,000,000 miles, it revolves around the planet in aboui twenty-six of our months. . It is proposed to convert Blackwell's island. New York, now used for penal institutions, into the greatest tubercu- The first bituminous coal mined in the United States was found near Richmond, Rich-mond, Va., early in the eighteenth century. cen-tury. In its warfare against the Moors the Spanish army revived the ancient sling to throw explosive grenades into the enemy's ranks. A feature of a new German system of telephotography is 1iat the wire used to transmit a picture may be, used for telephoning at the same time. According to government experts, the great Salton sea, although in places fifteen fif-teen miles wide and forty miles long, will disappear by evaporation by 1925. There is a belief prevalent among the natives of Asia Minor that the thicker the clothing worn at all seasons of the year, the better it is for the human body, protecting it alike from. the winter win-ter cold and the summer heat. In Caucasia Cau-casia it is not uncommon to see people-wearing- huge, bearskin coats in the midst of summer, with the thermometer standing at 100 degrees. Street lighting by gas was done for the. first time in London in 1614. An Italian journal says that Adelina PattI has sold her throat for $100,000 to an American, who will exhibit it after her death. London public schools taught more than 3,200 children to swim last year. New York ranks first and Iowa second In the value of its dairy products each year. Radium to Be Cheaper. According to scientists who have recently re-cently made a new discovery,, that mysterious mys-terious element, radium, is to be put on the market a lot cheaper. In view of the fact that the price until now has been something like several hundreds of thousands of dollars an ounce, this is interesting news. Radium is perhaps the rarest and most expensive known substance. Experiments have had to content to deal with minuto grains thereof, Instead of bulky quantities a few years ago there was not more than two pounds available a scarcity of which was not altogether unfortunate when the tremendous, almost terrible, force of radium is considered. This new supply of this precious element ele-ment is located in Portugal. Streams of quartz, containing more than 50 per cent of oxide of uranium, from which radium is taken, were discovered, and men who have examined it declare that the mineral, by reason of its great facility facil-ity of treatment, ought to be at least three times superior in pitchblende for radium producing purposes. The "Yellow Ford." The battle of the "Yellow Ford" was fought between Hugh O'Neill, allied with Hugh Roe O'Donnell and Ma-rulre Ma-rulre of Fermanagh, against Sir Henry Bagenal on Aug. 14, 159S. The battle was fought at the "Yellow Ford." a small river about two miles south of Portmore on the Blackwater. Port-more Port-more was garrisoned by an Enelish soldier named Williams. Bagenal marched from Armagh on Aug.' 14, 153S. to try and relieve Williams (Bagenal had reached Armagh from Dublin without any casualties). But O'Neill defeated him and completed routed his armv. 2.000 of which were slain, including in-cluding Bagenal himself. |