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Show A remarkable fact brought to light by the last report of the lesistiHf genera! gen-era! for Ireland is that nearly -'0 per t cent of its people die of old age. Next June, in Westminster - Abbey, : built centuries ago by Catholics-. King J Edward VII will be crowned and will take an oath declaring Cat holies to be idolaters. Three days afterward Car dinal Vaughar. will open the new-Catholic new-Catholic cathedral of AYestniinstor. Pennsylvania, imitating the wisdom of the Catholic Church, has passed a law forbidding marriage between fust cousins in that stale. The idea of the act is based on the belief of physicians that marriages between first cousins are detrimental to the stamina of their children. Utah's streams are full of trout and lb".- atv a couple of fish hatcheries in the state, also a congressman who has just asked congress to appropriate iiTi.ui.'O for a lisli culture station. Moun tain trout should be as cheap as but-' but-' terni'ilk at the restaurants, and they are. It is th? nankin which costs money. Under the new marriage law in Xew j Yoik any couple free to make such j covenant may draw tip a form of con- j tract, stipulating the conditions on j which they shall live together, and! have the same recorded as other deeds and legal instruments for use in case of disputes arising in course ot" their execution. Bad as this is, it is not as bad as the old practice under which the introduction of a woman by a man is his wife constituted a legal mar-' mar-' tiiige. Since the conference of. capitalists and labor leaders at Xew York the leaven of arbitration is working toward result. "William H. Sayward, secretary of the National Association of Builders, makes the announcement that, having submitted his plan of arbitration ar-bitration of building strikes to individual indi-vidual members of the building trades unions and employers' organizations, he has now arranged to submit it to the organizations themselves. His plan contemplates a court of arbitration arbitra-tion with paid officers ,for the settlement settle-ment of labor disputes. According to a German statesman There is close relationship between divorces di-vorces and suicide. In Prussia, he says, out of 1 .WM'l'u persons, 3-iS women wo-men committed suicide after being di-; di-; voiced, as compared with only sixty- ' one married women, while the men Mere in the proportion of ten divorced to one married suicide. The inference is that divorce js evidence of unhappi-ness, unhappi-ness, which often leads to self-destruction. Many divorced persons, it is further alleged, become insane. In Wurtcniberg there are in the asylums :;.0:'J divorced persons, against 2s3 married, 116 celibates and 676 willows and widowers. Mental aberration, it ; is argued, is likely to lead to a crazy ' choice in marriage, a crazy choice t. ; 1 a divorce and a divorce to that inten- siijcatioii of craziness which is official insanity. .; ' There is but one national movement ; i - In the. United States for a memorial i : I for "William McKinley, to be built by a ' t popular subscription. That memorial will be erected over the grave of the i lte president at Canton. The work of j .; securing subscriptions is in the hands j ' ; f the McKinley National Memorial I . I - ssocielion. with headquarters in J Cleveland. O. Some confusion in the j public mind has resulted because there-existed there-existed a.h organization in Washington.' D. C, known as the Washington Arch association. Its object was to build .a memorial bridge over the Potomac-river. Potomac-river. The arch association has ceased to solicit popular subscriptions, leaving the field to the McKinley National Memorial association. Of the McKinley National Memorial association, ex-Secretary of State Judge William R. Day of Canton is president: United States Senator Marcus Mar-cus A. Hanna, vice president; Myron T. Herrick, Cleveland, O., treasurer, and Kyerson Ritchie, Cleveland, O.. secretary. The governors of the states and territories are honorary members. The Catholic News of New Y'ork notes an attempt to create a scare at a meeting in that city. The author of the attempt was a minister named Johnson, who declared that he believed be-lieved there was a movement on foot to Romnize the navy, and that this movement received much encouragement encourage-ment from AVashington. Commenting on this, the News says: "Although this man's assertions were printed conspicuously in the papers last week, we haven't heard that our Protestant lo iiaven t neara mat our t'rotestant friends were stirred up to any noticeable notice-able extent by the Johnson discovery. Perhaps they are aware that out of twenty-four chaplains in the navy not more than one-sixth are Catholic Cath-olic priests, whil the Catholics in the service number at least one-half one-half the men of the navy. It must be difficult for a sane man to see where there is any danger of "Romanizing" the navy. Even if that were possible, we do not believe sensible Protestant Americans would be alarmed, for they well knov that in the late' war with Catholic Spain our Catholic soldiers and sailors w.cre among the bravest and the best of the American light-j crs.'' |