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Show "Calves for the Coronation" was the odd-looking headline seen the other evening even-ing in an afternoon sheet. Investigation showed that it meant nothing mote sinister sinis-ter than the news that artificial ealvs were going up In the London market in connection with the forthcoming royal mummery. Notwithstanding this fact there is no danger of any scarcity cf genuine calves at the ceremony. "The lowing of the young klne is audible already, al-ready, even on these shores. Standard and Times. & V alter Wellman, correspondent from' Washington for the Record-Herald, says I that General Miles is an avowed candi- date for the presidency, on the Democrat- I ic ticket, in 1904. The general, in our opinion, is too good a strategist to show his hand thus early, and Mr. Wellman s statement may be regarded in the light of a "feeler." General Miles would be a formidable candidate, leaving out all i mention oi his military virtues, because he is abejt the only American general, of internat'onal repute, who regards the American eonstiutution as an instrument to be lived up to. Chicago Citizen. If every Catholic family made the resolution res-olution at -.New Year s to buv even one Catholie book during 1302. this twelvemonth twelve-month Would see among the faithful in this country the purchase of about 2-IO,Ott) volumes. Think of it: - Where is the Catholic family that could not . buy a dollar book in the course of a year? Yet how many ipend hundreds for liquor and table luxuries who will not give even 2 cents a week to the nourishment of their mind and heart! Pittsburg Opinion. Aren't we Catholics just th least bit snobbish and inconsistent? We deplore the evils of mixed marriages, but when snmebodv in "high society" marries a Catholic we are more or less enraptured. We seem to forget that the Protestant party to a "swell" marriage can make and break a promise as well as one in humbler circumstances. There Is, in fact, more likelihood of this within the charmed circle of society than without. Sacred Heart Review. Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given $10,000,-00i $10,000,-00i to found a national university at Washington, and twenty-seven gentlemen gentle-men have been chosen as trustees of the fund. Five of the trustees are ex-officio. the president of the United States, the president of the senate, the speaker of the house, the secretary of ihi Smith- sonian institute and the president of the National Academy of Seienc.-s. n . only one. Mr. Roosevelt, is ,i l:..,,' g man. He has two associates f !': .;;,,. class. Secretary Hay md i r. s v., , Miteheil. The remaining twen; ,-! ,. , men distinguished in business ..r , ,, .... . able men nearly all. but incbi.l:., . remarkable for scholarship. . r. A 12.X!:'.' citizens of the ''iit!i..;i, .: have no representative on this ' i -i board. Pilot. Urltish patience is appareniiv n. ; . the p. lint of exhaustion. 'I".;.- I.,,- Times accuses the German i-p' t ing the English uniform as a !, : figuratively speaking, and . :-! - .:.., that this practice cannot be without provoking the resentment long-suffering llritish puhli.-. :s,- i the Times doesn't stipulate tiu-time tiu-time required to arouse .John l: .i" s der to tishtinu pitch, so the .!.,,,;., exercise is likely to remain fasbi.. .. Germany for a while yet. Moiii?,,,-. An instructor of "physloloyx ." paper calls it, Professor l."ii;b - ' Ann Arbor, has discovered the - the soul in the spinal column If . ' cation of the soul keeps shifthii; i -; wav. it is hard to forecast cons, Most of the old niateri.uists loe.u. . soul in the cerebral area. The Tit.; 1 instructor demonstrated his t ! , . . , f experimenting on a frog, and wb - t for a frog is good for a man. T'i, ; kev will have to take a ba. k seat: w. getting now to npt onlasm. I'le, Lombard removed the brain of , X and an hour later, when lie nit i of acetic acid on the foot, wh.u u ... of the frog began to raise Neil. T . four hours later, a piece of paper -rated with acid was p'aetd agair.-t wnwinj of th.. irriikw .in. I ih. remains oi the croaker. .in.i the nhvsicallv and metaphorically ki. i- Therefore. Professor Lombard eon ; . our so"ls are in our spines. vi-rt'u-.i be decided on later. P.ut ar lasi ace. , th' fr" was dead, at any rat- '-- to recognize acetic acid in nnv form are now convinced tbnt mental cr i .i ness is nothing but the result of c--served curvature of the sidne. c i , Universe. |