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Show The loncrest word in the Fnplish language was j coined by Mr. Gladstone 'discstablishmentarian- I ism."' I -l ; If a person observe a lew precautions -he need not suffer from the torrid weather. The best plan ' . ' is to fro about work the same as usual. When the m'md is engrossed it is surprising how little one no- lieos the weather. ' ' 4 i I;.s a pood sign of the virility of ex-Senator j Davis, whom many think too old to fill the office i V)'4'e president, .to hear now that he is to marry I at the age of 81. Of course the prospective bride is I 51 widow. High diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle. ; ; I At a meeting of the Democratic national com- ; notice in Xow York, Thomas Taggart was elected ! chairman of the committee. Mr. Taggart was born 'n County Monaghan, Ireland. We are under the impression that the Sheehan familv came from I. ' Clare. I .'- A11 the bishops of the world have been officially j notified to come to Rome on the occasion of the celebration, next December, of the fiftieth anni- versa ry of ihe proclamation of the Immaculate Concept b.n, or, at least, to send delegations. All I bishops within a .hundred miles of Home are obliged 1 to attend. ! 1 : f I'1 the lexicon of newspaper literature, give the 's':)'t Take Herald credit for bringing out a new I 'i vxrc.-sive word. It is "all-around-g-ct-therc- ncss' It is letter than Addisonian English to ex- f plain the qualifications of such a man as Tom Tag- gart. ju-t elected chairman of the national Demo- i era tic committee. I r . I 1ne A. O. If. is at the present time in a flour- 1 ishing condition throughout the land, and is a . virile snd potent force in the cause of education, fraternity, ihe fatherhood of God and the brother- hood f nmn. i" all that goes to keep intact the I sentiments of patriotism and love for the old land j the betterment of its people. 1 ' . , r - 1 Dr. Edward Prcuss. for thirty years editor of I he Amerika. a German Catholic paper of St. Louis, j and father of Mr. Arthur Preuss, editor and pub- I j lisher of the Review of the same city, is dead at the age of 7) years. The sympathy of the writer ls oxi ended to the younger Preuss, a caustic critic I , but withal a kindly man. ::j ' Among other resolutions passed by the Ili- 1 bernians at their recent convention is this: I "We deprecate the uncalled-for and unwarranted j treatment the law-abiding miners of Colorado are receiving, and express the hope that ore long the I rights guaranteed by the constitution of the United States may be secured to them." ; f , The American Mining congress meets at Port- j land. Ore., next month. Judge Powers of this city' I J" listed as one of the speakers. For versatility. 1 .lu.lge Powers comes next to T. P. O'Connor, M. P., j according to observing Salt Lakers. Talks on any- I lhi)ig and everything. Talked to the Pioneers last Monday. Xo one would be surprised to hear that . he received an invitation to address the Gaelic Fies i in ihe County Gclway. Xo miner is the judge, but certain it is that at Portland he will not call a win;:e a whim, an error a Catholic editor fell into I 1K-e upon a time, lie desired to purchase aa winzo and a burro to operate it." The roof of- the Cullen hotel was nearly lifted off liy.the explosion of laughter. - - . - . . . .... :v , . , ' Vertical writing, as taught in the public schools of Chicago, is doomed. "It may be good; to write love letters," said Trustee Cameron, "but it is not good for keeping books. I do not know of a set of books kept in Chicago where the up and down writing is allowed. If a boy can write only in the vertical stylo business houses have little ucz for him." - . r- It is strange what substitutes will be found for intoxicating drinks in com'munitics where alcoholic alco-holic liquors are prohibited, remarks the Catholic Columbian. Rutland", Vt..' has had an' example of this in the excessive drinking of Jamaica ginger among a large class of its population, while in many of the river towns 'Teruna drunks" are not uncommon. - ; This is the money plank adopted by the Democratic Demo-cratic national convention: "The discoveries of gold within the past few years, and the great increase in-crease in the production thereof, adding two thousand thou-sand million dollars to the world's .supply, of which seven hundred millions fall to the. share of the United .States, have contributed to the maintenance ! of a money standard of value no longer open to question, thereby removing that isue from the field of political contention." : : Russian Minister of the Interior Von Plehvu was assassinated at St. Petersburg Thursday Thurs-day morning whilo driving to the Baltic station to visit the emperor at the Petcr-hof Petcr-hof palace. A bomb was thrown under -th minister's carriage, completely shattering it. M. Von Plchve was terribly mangled. Regarding the identity of the assassin ai the cause of the crime, by some it is said that the act was that of a Finn, and by others that the murderer was a partisan of the Zemstvos, the curtailment of whoso powers is attributed to the dead minister. Xothing, however, has been definitely established as yet. . j The race question has invaded Oyster Bay, the summer home of President Roosevelt. A local barber bar-ber refused his services to a negro preacher and the latter has appealed to the president for redress. Willi the Colorado miners on the one hand demanding demand-ing that he enforce constitutional law, the mine owners on the other persuading him to uphold their tyrannical methods, and now the negro preacher demanding to be shaved by a white barber bar-ber or know the reason of refusal, Teddy Roose-- Roose-- velt must feel that he is between the devil and the deej) sea. : f , The Catholic newspaper of Memphis, Tenn., the Journal 'of the Xew South, voices the opinion that the prosperity of the South will be maintained, no matter who will be elected president. Cotton still remains king. It says the high prices of last year arc yet maintained, and the great and increased in-creased demand for cotton insures a continuation of the prices. With the increased acreage planted this year, and with the good prospects now assuring assur-ing a large crop, with increased and better facilities facili-ties for handling the same, there is every reason to be certain of a continuation of prosperity in the-South. the-South. ' -r- The French government's controversy with the-Vatican the-Vatican continues to be the chief suhject of public pub-lic interest. The immediate issue is narrowed to the Pope's righ to dismiss the French bishops of Laval and Tyjon. A Paris dispatch says the government gov-ernment is positively determined to resist the assertion as-sertion of the claim. An ultimatum to that effect is now on the way. In the meantime the bishops are cut off from the Church for their refusal to go to Rome before July 20. If it be God's will, let the contention be clean cut and the separation complete. com-plete. The Catholic church of France can get along without state aid through the operations of the Concordat better than France can get along with- out the conserving power of the Church. Combes j does not thing so. Bonaparte said so. , .y ' A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune says j that the number of Russian soldiers in the far cast at the beginning of the war was grossly exagger-I exagger-I ated. He says that if those guarding the railway and small garrison places are left out, there were not more than 50,000 troops in southern Manchuria, Man-churia, and that reinforcements were sent forward so slowly at first that when Kuropatkiu reached -Liao Lang he had an army of only G5,000 men, and all sorts of tricks and devices were resorted to to make the Japanese believe his army was much larger than it really was. The correspondent believes be-lieves the Japanese were deceived that they dkl not know how weak and demoralized the Russians were and lost the opportunity to strike a decisive blow. He thinks that if early in May they had pushed on towards Mukden the Russians would iave retreated rapjdly and might have gone all to pieces. : . Robert Louis Stevenson was always wont to make fun of 'the profound and almost incredible ignorance of English people on the subject of Scotland. Scot-land. They know little more about Ireland. For the London Times and the other grcat'metropoli-tan grcat'metropoli-tan daily newspapers and most of their provincial contemporaries, iu recording the suit in Dublin courts of Sir Robert McConnell, former lord mayor of Belfast, for judicial separation from his wife, describe the action as one of divorce, although there is no court, in Ireland that is competent to grant a divorce. In fact, according to Marquis de Fontenoy, the latter does not exist in Ireland, and has no place in the laws of the Emerald isle, and Irish people who desire a divorce must either v establish a legal domicile in England or Scotland and get a divorce there, or else must secure it from 'parliament at Westminster, by means of a private act of parliament. Russia has committed some grave errors through the operations of her volunteer fleet upon the Red Sea. Either that or at this time, by rea-pou rea-pou of war with Japan, she is unable to press her own interpretation of the right of search for contraband con-traband goods-on neutral vessels. The latter is most likely. The Malacca incident was -settled amicably, ami-cably, although at one thne.English feeling against. Russia was intense and threatening. The good advice ad-vice of Prance the czar's ally, was heeded, and Rus- ' sia backed out of her contention and yielded the point of law to' her old-lime enemy. Of course damages go "along with the decision. Of all the colossal blunders that Russia has made in connection con-nection with her-complications with Japan, the worst of all has been in giving British resentment this opportunity to come out in the open and to gather strength. To avenge old wrongs, to retrieve old blunders, to wipe' out old panics, that is Drit-ain's Drit-ain's dream today, and the worst of the situation is that Russia's backdown iu the Malacca case only deepens British belief in Russia's weakness. |
