| Show AND PLAY THE ARDUOUS DAILY ROUTINE IN CATHOLIC COLLEGES A course of study and that weeds oat from the priesthood many men who are not possessed of an cn Zeal Plain food and prayers of a life is it in conr colleges well I 1 suppose it is lucli tha same as the life in colleges which are not ecclesiastical of course church students have many more prayers to say and are expected to observe the rules with more fidelity than other students they rise early in foreign colleges at 5 in winter and 6 in summer in most english colleges at 6 all the year round half an hour ia allowed for dressing after which all go down in silence to the church where morning prayers are said and a meditation is held for half an hour on some spiritual subject meditation is followed immediately by the celebration of mass and altogether about an hour is spent every morning in spiritual exercises then follows study till breakfast time at 8 breakfast consists of a bowl of coffee or tea with bread and batter at discretion in the home colleges while abroad one has a choice between coffee milk and chocolate but the bread must be eaten dry it ia wonderful what a substantial meal can be made of coffee and dry bread when there is nothing else to be had A few minutes for recreation are allowed after breakfast then work goes on till dinner time broken only by half an hours recreation at 11 PLAIN FARE dinner which is eaten at 1 ia always a good substantial meal and ample justice ia done to it after the rather thin breakfast no study is allowed during the hour and a half following dinner all who are well enough must join in the public games which for the most part are played with great I 1 spirit and keenly enjoyed at 8 the studies commence again and class and lecture or preparation for them with half an hours rest at 6 go on antil 7 or half past when thirty minnies are given to prayer and the reading of the life of saint after the prayers all go to the refectory for supper which like dinner is eaten in silence broken only by the voice of the reader who reads aloud some biographical or historical work after supper there ia recreation and at foreign colleges this is always the favorite hour of the day and very pleasant it is to hear the fresh young voices and merry hearted laughter echo ing along tha college cloisters at 9 the big bell rings out again for the last time that day and at its first peal the talk and laugh are hushed the groups break up all professors and church students alike make their way to the church for night prayers prayers over the points for the next mornings meditations are read out and after the singing of a hymn all retire to a well earned rest which in most cases is only too soon disturbed by noisy clanging of the great bell in the early morning THE IB HARD of course every day is not a study day sunday ia always more or less a day of rest and ai least one afternoon every week is devoted to outdoor recreation yet in spite of occasional play days as they are called and the holidays twice a year tha life is hard enough it must necessarily go on for some dozen years before the student is called up for ordination the life of a catholic priest is indeed one to which many are called ant few are chosen A great number of those who go to college at the ago of fourteen or fifteen with the intention of becoming priests do not reach afie goal of ordination in some cases health breaks down many grow weary of the contine and strict discipline of the life others discover that they have no calling for the ecclesiastical state and go ont into the world to begin life afresh so from one cause or another the student finds thau by the time he is ready for ordination he has lost the company of many who stood by hia side when he entered college of six who went to buege some seventeen years ago with the present writer one is dead one is practicing as a doctor in the united states a third is manager of a bank in the north of england another is serving as a mounted policeman in south africa and only two are priests A catholic priest in london tit bits so animals in tho dry parts of caves no animals whatever are fondd in toe dry parts of caves dampness or a certain degree of moisture seems to be essential to their existence under the stones one finds white eyeless worms and in the damp soil around about are to be discovered blind beetles in little holes which they excavate and bugs of the thousand leg sort these thousand leg bugs which in the upper world devour fragments of dead leaves and other vegetable debris sustain life in the caverns by feeding upon decayed wood fungus growths and kneeling in a beaten path one can see numbers of them gathered about hardened drips of tallow from tourists candles there are plenty of crickets also washington star queer sect in M a russian writer has published an interesting work the curious religious sects ot russia from which it appears that there are not lesa than followers of insane and cranky notions in that empire these communities muni ties of devout and deluded christians are constantly springing up in spite of all the efforts of russian despots to keep th em down st lonis republic tho ald mado a fool of me mrs that will be handy for you now my deai you can do silly thing to keep the baby amnard new yorla epoch A charitably disposed gentleman is to erect A home for newspaper men in washington city nothing could bo more desirable or display a larger meas aro of generosity toward a needy class it ia to cost and will afford a hospitable i shelter for worthy members of the profession the most powerful telescope yet made has just been finished in munich its ordinary power is which can be increased to an electric lamp of anute type is used in it and a special device which sprays minute of liquid carbonic acid ia used to felep it cool KT honest j many of the pioneers of oregon and testified to naton have cheerfully of the the wonderful curative properties celebrated eleb rated oregon kidney tea purely vegetable and pleasant to the taste and re taken by the youngest child or can most delicate woman 0 K T is a failone remedy for pains in the never back and loins non retention of urine scalding or burning sensation while urinating discharges and all I 1 td irey trouble of either sex 1 at all new lakes on mars there is buo ouo point of view from which the formation of a bow lake in southern california by the overflowing of a sandy desert with water from the colorado river possesses peculiar interest it may throw light upon some of the mysterious changes that have occurred upon the planet mars near the equator of mars there is a region which has been believed to be part of the dryland of that planet and which has been named Lybia bythe italian astronomer but a few years ago a change occurred in the color of lybia and some of the observers thought that it must have been suddenly overflowed with water since had assumed the color characteristic te of the other regions of mars that are supposed to be water covered other similar changes have been seen by on mars now that a new lake has actually been formed on the earth by the unexpected filling up with water of a depressed area of dryland those who believe that a similar occurrence on a larger scale has taken place on mars will probably be strengthened in that interesting opinion youths companion A banana tree that baars boars mr L gillen has a genuine curiosity in the form of a banana tree ten feet tall bearing one bunch of bananas he has a number of other banana trees but none bearing fruit save this one the leaves are long and slender and the motion of the wind causes the leaf to cut in two like ribbons until the suns rays cause the bud to open it much resembles a large red water lily bud tightly closed this covering drops off in time leaving the fruit lying closely side by side to ripen lexington mo news |
