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Show The return of Bishop Matz from Rome gave the clergy of the diocese of Denver an opportunity to manifest their loyalty and affection for their ecclesiastical superior. su-perior. They took advantage of the occasion oc-casion and gave Bishop Matz a right royal roy-al welcome home. The addresses were sincerely complimentary and well deserved, de-served, for there is not in the American hierarchy a bishop more devoted, zealous and kindly disposed toward those under his authority than the Denver prelate, it was proposed to present the bishop with a purse, but he vetoed that part of the programme, sayins that the times were hard and such a testimony of their respect re-spect and good will was not at all necessary, neces-sary, which proves him to be a rara avis in terris. Freeman's Journal. An English arithmetician demonstrates that the Boei army has literally cost the British people its weight in gold. As fighting units the Boer soldiers have proved that they are worth more than their weight in gold. Monitor. . The authorities of the Northwestern university are very much exercised over the recent outburst of Professor Pearson, who professes English literature In that institution. Professor Pearson has given his views upon the Bible. He holds that the miracles narrated in the Bible are myths, and he applies this to the New Testament as well as to the Old. The trustees of the university are scandalized and there is talk of forcing the professor to withdraw or resign. But why should the trustees be scandalized? Is not the professor simply exercising that right of private judgment which they so strongly insist' on? If his private Judgment lead:! him to conclude that the miracles are myths, is it not private Judgment still? How can they consistently undertake to coerce him In the matter, while they deny that there exists on earth any authority competent to tell him or them whether the miracles are myths or narratives of events that occurred as narrated? New Wnrlrl. M OL1U. Dawson, the mining capital, is becoming becom-ing sadly civilized, if we may trust the testimony of a lady lately returned from that city, who says that "A man might as well go to Dawson without his pick and shovel as without n dress suit." Alas for the brave days of old, when another an-other lady of a mining metropolis sang of the dance at "The Fork" and "Of the candles that shed their soft lustre And tallow on head dress and shawl; Of the steps that we took to one fiddle; Of the dress of my queer vis a vis; And how I once went down the middle With the man that shot Sandy McGee." Let us hope that every man in Dawson does not wear the abominable spike-tail coat. or. if he does, that he has a pistol-pocket pistol-pocket in his trousers. We cannot lose all the poetry of frontier life. Pilot. In some quarters captious critics keep making attacks upon the Catholic University Uni-versity regarding the change in the professorship pro-fessorship of Gaelic. It is strange that none of these attacks come from any person, per-son, or persons, in authority in the Ancient Order of Hibernians, which order and its members surely have the greatest interest in the matter, as it was their money, and theirs alone, that established the chair. Strange to say, these attacks come from sources that are (rem-rally considered con-sidered as hostile to the A. O. H., and from men who have refused to lend their influence and prestige to the enlarging of the order. If the national officers of the? A. O. H. speak officially in condemnation of the university authorities, then there will be time enough for those carping-critics carping-critics to give utterance to their views. The Nation. Secretary Root in his report 'strongly urges the government to purchase the lands of the friars and resell to the natives. na-tives. If this were a Catholic country, it is probable the lands would be seized without compensation and sold for the benefit of the government. That is what they did in Italy. Spain. France and Mexico. Mex-ico. Western Watchman. While Marconi, the inventor of wireless wire-less telegraphy, is the son of an Ralian and was born in Italy in 1S75. he is the son of an - English mother. Michigan Christian Advocate. We beg to inform our e. c. that the mother of the modern wizard was an Irish woman and a Catholic, but following follow-ing their old-time custom, the Anglo-Saxons Anglo-Saxons would like to lay claim to the distinguished dis-tinguished son. Michigan Catholic. The birthday anniversary of Robert Lee, the great general of the South, which occurred on last Saturday, was: honored as seldom before in this city and section. Lee was a splendid type of man. well worthy of all the honor which the people of the South, and now of tho en- I tire country, attach to his name. Balti- I more Mirror. |