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Show CATHOLIC PRELATES OBJECT TO FIGHTS .Archbishop of Dublin and Bish op of Ossory Take Stand Against Pugilism. BY THOMAS EMMETT. Special Cablo to Tho Tribune. DUBLIN, Oct. 1. The Catholic hierarchy hie-rarchy has taken stand on tho subject of an aggressive pugilism and anything npproachig it. Recently the Archbishop of Dublin made an effort to prevent tho exhibition of prize fight pictures In this city, nnd nlnco then Bishop Brownrigg of tho dioceso of Ossory issued an edict against a. prize fight In Kilkenny. He wrote a3 follows: "I havo been told that our city haaj been placarded with sensational announcements an-nouncements of a series of pugilistic flghta between price boxers, to take place In the thoator In Patrick street. "I am very much shocked and pained at this attempt to Introduce a debasing and degrading form of amusement for the people and I ralso my voice in solemn sol-emn protest ngainst It and against those who are rosponslblo for bringing It here." Now here Is a roal whalo story, which comes from Cork: Tho Inhabitants of Llckbarrahan, a village on tho coast, experienced ex-perienced surprise on tho discovery, a few morning ago, of a whale lying dead, wedged between rocks. Tho monster, 108 feat long, had ovldcntly been dead somo days. In nooks along the coast monster, fish havo from time to timo been driven ashore, but the Inhabitants declare that nothing such as this big whalo lias ever come under their notlco. If3 backbone, right at tho center of tho body, was broken nnd dented in some feet. Tho! belief prevails that the flBh was Btruckl by an Atlantic liner. |