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Show Religious Intelligence. j- A i eh liisiiop illder of Cincinnati, who ; rd- d lai ly. was the honoidry president I i' the Priesis' ToUd Abstinence i 3".u-. I A lioiise at Hoiywell in Wales has I .Vei ii u i t -i i for a college, in w hich can- .li'l.H'- for the priesthood arc to 1- ? t Ui- ii I the Welsh language. i . , i The Miitan has conferred the grand j "!-,i... of Hie order of Medjidie upon J Cardinal Merry 1 1 1 Val, the paivil ' ! 1 .i -y of state, and on Cardinal Cui. f - I . tiioniinieiit has been erected in ' j Kansas to Padre Padilla. "the lirsl ' I Mariyr.-.l pri'st of the American con- ' tii ' iil.'" who was killed near the sue l ; t: ill" memorial pile at JJerington. ? ;; The Kex . M. p. Fallon. D.D.. O. M. : .1.. rector of Holy Angels" church. Uuf--::lo. N V.. has been appointed to the f'.fhVe of pnnincial of the Cider of n.;.it,. Fathers for the Province of the j .; Ci.ited Slates Holy Cross coih-ge. Worcester, has been awarded a silver medal for its exhibit at the St. Louis exposition. The holy faiher h.i? changed the title y of the an lidiiiiese Of Vancouver Island. ; H. C. to Victoria, by which it will be 3;i.ov. n in the future.-. The bishop of Yucatan has refused to five his blessing to the cave where the -T ; i'parition of the Pressed Virgin is said K- have taken place. 4 The Bombay Catholic Examiner Mates that many of the Kashmir car-'Ms car-'Ms on exhibition at the St. Louis "World's fair were woven .by waifs received by the Tertiary Brothers or St. Francis, who conduct industrial 1-rhool.s al .Marabad and Lahore. A .steoi steej.ie. r.0 feel high, is being rd-ed on the tower of St. Joseph's chili-el, at Albany. X. Y. AVhrn com-M' com-M' ted it will measure about l'."0 feet Honi the gro;;nd. The tower. will also ntain a chime of ten bells, five of which have been donated by members ' of the congregation. ' ' ' A pilgrimage of Indians to the mis- j n' sion at North Vancouver is being ar- i J ranged for Dc. 5, when every Jtoman 1 j Catholic Indian in British Columbia J Mi" endeavor to b- present. The gath-I gath-I e: ing wid iast for rour days and will feienrate the feast .f the Immaculate , con--vptioii, or ine .Ittie'li anniversary I ol th proclamation to these Indians of j the observance x.f that festival. The Chicago policy have diwovered (and broken op a- '"nun factory," which ,ii doctor of that city operated under' j the name of1 the ' Nazarene hospital, " j hiring women to dres up as nuns and go - lit and.bf fo: it. 'I he doctor and nis "nuns'" have hern arretted, and the ' i'?"- authorities are' not disposed to deal mercitully with th-m. . J By a decision of the supreme court of j the District of Columbia, Georgetown ' ; uuiverfity will benefit to the amount j:f ?:n,(ion. tj-ip dee;jnn relates to the! j estate of the late Dr. K. Carroll Mor-j I gan, who died some years ago. I 4 . I Ar hbisho-i Keane of Dubufiue. we barn from the Sydney Catholic Press. has prepared for the second Australian Aus-tralian Catholic 'congress, held at ; Melbourne, a-paper on "The immaculate immacu-late Conception in Connection With Democracy." f More lhan 400 students of the Jesuit college at Mauresa. Spain, recently held a reunion at that ancient institute. After the solemn high mass there was a banquet and many speeches and an exchange cf reminiscences. I f Three hundred newspaper workers j assisted at the first mass timed for the I convenience of Philadelphia's army of ; Catholic night-workers was celebrated in the Church of St. John the Evangel-, Evangel-, isl. at -A o'clock last Sunday morn-I morn-I ing. I Asiatic Russia contains 70.000 Catholics, Cath-olics, Siberia 25,000 the whole empire , containing, according to official statis- i tics cf 1S03-04, 11.4C9.SS4 member? of our faith. There .are 4.C93 secular priests, 4.ral churches and 956 religious of both '. sexes. ; For the second time within a month, j ; -says the New Y'ork Sun. the hall chair has been stolen from the parish housia 1 of St. James' church, at '23 Oliver j i street. A young man calls "to take : the pledge." The girl at the door bids j ' him take a elviir and wait. lie takes 1 the chair, but doesn't wait. The establishment of a school is being be-ing spoken of in Belbium to be known 1 as the Damien institute, whicn will be for training young men destined to j exercise the sacred ministry of the priesthood among the lepers of 1 Mulokal. - : Friends of higher education for women wo-men will be glad to learn that the fifth year of Trinity college, "Washington. D. C. has opened auspiciously with a i large enrollment of students, the fresh- c man elas-s alone numbering already J thirty-five members. Brother Justin, president of the Christian Brothers' college, received distinguished honors at the International Interna-tional Congress of Arts and Sciences held at the World's fair. The delegates dele-gates rhowered him with compliments, and elected him an honorary member of the organization. f Lord Brampton, so long known as Mr. Justice Hawkins, has celebrated his s7th birthday. - An interesting side-of side-of the venerable baron's character is ahown- in--. 4ie . beaut rfu! -Brampton chapel ill- the; "Catholic cathedral' at Westminster, with its wealth of marble and mosaic work, all given by the famous fa-mous judge. The annual Mass of the Holy. Ghost, popularly ktvwn.as the "Red Mass." was celebrated this year, for the first time, in Westminster cathedral on the first day of the term. Oct.- 24. Archbishop Archbish-op Bourne presided and a large gathering gather-ing of lawyers was present. This mass was for a number of years celebrated in the ancient Church of St. Anseim and St. Cecilia. Lincoln's Inn-FieldM. . . - .. When Msgr. Francesco Tagiati. who brought the pope's jubilee gifts to the; fair in St. Louis, he especially enjoyed a luncheon cooked fov a colored woman wo-man named Katie, a former slave and a Uoman Catholic. Upon his return to H me. Msgr. Tagiati procured a silver medal, whic h the pope himself blessed, and p'-iit it to Katie, who is now the proudest colored woman in America. f The new king of Saxony will enjoy a civil list of 147.000. His majesty is in the somewhat unusual position of being a Catholic, ruling over a Protestant Protest-ant country. Out of a population of .' something like 3,000.000 only about fcft.noo are Catholics. The state church is Lutheran. The Catholic faith has been (hat embraced by the royal family of Saxony stiuce lfi97. I Dr. De Costa's funeral took place j from St. Patrick s cathedral. New York City A solemn requiem masts was sung and the Bev. Thoin.is P. Mclaughlin, Mc-laughlin, who received Dr. De Costa into the Catholic church, preached the serimm. Father De Costa was buried 'in Ihe priest'si plot in Calvary cemetery until the mortuary chapel now under 1 construction is completed, j j Archbishop Keane of Dubuque Will ) officiate on the ix-casion of the conse-icration conse-icration f Coadjutor Bishop-elect Da-I Da-I vis of Davenport, la., on Nov. 30, in Sac red Heart cathedral. Davenport, and Bight Bev. Henry Cosgrove. D. D.. bishop of Davenport, wil: be the senior assistant enust'erator. The sermon of the day will be preached by Bight Bev. John Lancaster- Spc.ldinc, bishop of Peoria, 111. At the weekly meeting of the Cincinnati Cin-cinnati Methodist Ministers' association associa-tion the other day a' resolution was adopted expressing high regard for Archbishop Kldcr. On viva voce vote there was no opposition, but afterward a few asked io be recorded, in the negative nega-tive because : the resolution praised Archbishop Elder as a prelate. The resclutiQn was .offered by Rev. D. J. Starr, chaolain.of the Ohio penitentiary, penitenti-ary, at Columbus, who resides in Cincinnati. Cin-cinnati. ' I Archbisbon Farley last week presided! j at the first; diocesan synod held since he J J has been raised to the. archbishopric of: New York. r To the ''clergymen assembled assem-bled in tiie cathedral he made an address ad-dress in which he spoke in the highest terms cf the loyalty .ind faithfulness of the clergy to him and bespoke its continuance. The archbishop dwelt at length on the importance of establishing establish-ing at least the beginning of a Catholic school in every parish throughout the diocese net now having such a school. He said that last September ten new school." were opened nd that he has promise of thirteen more to be ready for opening next' September. He urged the pastors to support the Catholic uni -versify af Washington and lo try to double the usual amount taken in the annual collection. - The pope, it is reported, is inr-fituting economics at the Vatican. He has abandoned his e?':'o:t of honor during his w'alks, has ordered the horses of the noble guard to be sold and nas directed di-rected that the collection of birds in tiie gardens be maintained no longer. ! His predecessor possessed various ; kinds of pheasants and ostriches of : many rare species. Pupe Piuv X thought it was too costly to support thees luxuries and ordered them distributed dis-tributed to variois institutions. Ho , thought also that the expense of keep- ing up the gardens was too heavy, and ! some parts which are now devoted to ; flowers will be turned into meadow i lands. I |