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Show i LATEST IRISH NEWS. I FromThe Pilot. - Down. ; The death took place at Newcastle, f . County Down, on Dec. 22, 6f Mrs. ; Field, sister of the late Dev. Dr. Field of Dervock, at the ripe age of 91 years. Mrs. Field was a native of Killyleagh, with which town her family fam-ily were honorably associated for centuries cen-turies past. She maintained her faculties fac-ulties to the last, and was able to read without spectacles. She had resided re-sided with Robert Hastings, J. P., chairman of Newcastle urban district council, since his marriage to her niece two years ago. Carlow. The news of the death of Mrs. Lan-pran Lan-pran created great sorrow. She was a member of an old and respected family, and universal sympathy has I been expressed with her husband and the members of her family. The death is announced of Thomas Lawlor. U. D. C, who was not only popular in the general acceptance of the term, but was highly respected and esteemed !n all the relations that become a good Catholie an ardent Nationalist, Na-tionalist, a sincere friends and in the family circle a devoted husband and affectionate father. Kildare. Rent Collector Peter Slavin has been called on to resign his position by the No. 2 (County Kildare) district council. coun-cil. At the Convent of the Novitiate, Mill Hill, London, recently Miss Teresa Mary (Tess) Kiernan (in religion Sister Sis-ter Margaret), daughter of the late Matthey Kiernan, Caragh, N. S., and 2tfrs. Kiernan, 13 Gulistan place, Rath-i Rath-i mines, was received Into the congre gation of the Sisters of Charity (Vin-( (Vin-( ccntian Order). t Zing's County. Joseph tMcNamara, on.of the most - popular citizens of the town of Castle- Jordan, died recently at his residence efter a brief illness. In the days of the Parnell split he took side strongly with the Parnellite section, and fought determinedly In defense of his principles princi-ples until peace was restored. Hayo. On Dec. 23, in the Cathedral at Bal-laghadereen, Bal-laghadereen, the Right Rev. Dr. Lys-ter, Lys-ter, lord bishop of Achonry, assisted by the Rev. James Daly, D.D., and the Rev. J. Gallagher, vAdm., constituted aind installed the Venerable Archdea-; Archdea-; ' con Loftus, P. P., Ballymote, as arch- - deacon of Achonry, to succeed the late Archdeacon O'Rorke. It is not disparagement dis-paragement to the memory of the creat archdeacon who is gone to say that his mantle most worthily falls on the shoulders of one of the most typical soggarths aroon in Ireland. Tipperary. On Christmas morning the wife of Michael Morgan, a farmer, residing in Boyroad. Necagh, gave birth to three pons, all of whom, together with the ; mother, are doing well. The three children were baptized in the Catholic church, and named Christopher, Christo-pher, Stephen and John. Dec. 20 being the first anniversary of the death of the late Dean White; P.P., Y. G., Nenagh, a requiem high mass was said for the repose of his soul. The celbrant was the Rev. D. A. Hogan, 1C. C, Nenaugh; deacon. Rev: T. Don-Jiclly, Don-Jiclly, O. C, Nenagh; sub-deacon. Rev. P. J. Gunnings. C. C. Nenaugh; master mas-ter of ceremonies, Rev. P. J. Quinn, P. P.. Kilcoleman. Deep regret has been expressed at I the announcement of the death of the venerable Archdeacon Jones, P. P., V. F.. Fethard, County Tipperary which i look place at a private hospital in Dublin, on Dec. 23. He was born in Templemore. He was educated in Mel-leray, Mel-leray, Carlow, and the Irish college, V and was ordained in 1S6S, at the Irish college. Rome. His first curacy was at , New Inn, County Tipperary, and after twelve months there he went to the i, college. Thurles. where he was profes sor of rhethoric and theology for four- teen years. He was appointed presi dent of the college, which position he; ; filled for some six years. From thence , ' he was transferred to pastoral charge of Killenaule. and after six years he was, at the death of the late revered Archdeacon Ryan, appointed to Fethard. Feth-ard. He took an active and practical part In the work of the National organization. or-ganization. His sympathies were , strongly with the Gaelic league move ment, and not long ago he organized l a very successful feis at Fethard. He was for many years pastor of Kille-anule, Kille-anule, where he built a beautiful pres-1 pres-1 . bytery. "While at Fethard he almost I , rebuilt the church. Most Rev. Dr. J ' Fennelly, archbishop of Cashel and I Emly, was the celebrant of the sol- i emn requiem mass in the parish I church on Dec. 24. I, - Water-ford. I The late Major General Sir John Ar- iflagh, who was a Waterford man, left by his will which has just been pro- I bated, 1,000 and his furniture to his I wife, and an annuity of 100 a year to 1 bis brother, Michael AVilliam Ardagh. 1 , The residue of his estate, the total of I which is estimated at --,471, goes to bis wife, with remainder to his chil- I ' dren. ' Mrs. John Ryan, wife of the booking I agent of the Dungarvan (South) sta- tion, died on Christmas eve. She was I a daughter of Mr. James Holden, of I the firm of Messrs. Walsh & Fielding, I Broad street. She had been in indifferent indif-ferent health for some time past. I Martin Eustance, a young lad who I lived in a tenement in Lady lane, was I playing with fire-fighting material on I Dec. 21, and his clothing became ig- nited. Before the flames could be ex- itinguished he was so badly burned that he died shortly after being -admitted to the hospital. Westmeath. I Much regret has been evoked in Athlone by the death of John Mills, U. D. C. Mr. Mills, who was one of the few surviving representatives of the Fonian movement in Athlone. went to America in '63 and served in the civil war. He spent nearly fifty years I in Athlone. where he was held in high estimation. Believe me. the world is a mirror I it reflects back to you the face you 1 rresent to it. and you get nut of the f "world just what you put into it. lf 1 you make no effort to let it know I ' what you have done it makes no ef- 1 fort to find out what you have done. I Is not this the just working of law? If you make no action, there will be no reaction. If you do not sing out, J can you get an echo '.'Dorothy Quig- j The Work of Opsonins. The discoveries of Prof. Wright of London regarding opsonins are attracting attract-ing wide attention. Previous to his experiments it was believed that the lencocytes or white blood corpuscles had a natural appetite for intruders in the blood and would, attack them on sight. 1 It now appears that they will not perform this function without the action of, some peculiar substances in the blood serum which Prof. Wright has called opsonins. A method has beer, devised for determining the amount of any particular opsonin in tho blood whereby it can be told how much addition to make in order to successfully combat a disease. The deficiency is made up by inoculating the patient with an appropriate dose of the dead microorganisms which when alive are responsible for the infective in-fective process; for example, dead staphylococcus microbes to combat boils and acne, dead phenmococcus microbes to combat localized tuberculosis. tubercu-losis. Although not all germ diseases, apparently, are subject to cure by the action of opsonins, certain affections seem to yield to them easily; and in all cases the determination of the opsonic index bids fair to be a wonderful won-derful aid to diagnosis, as indicating the resisting power of the organism. Great Electric Light. An electric arc light of 300 candle power, said to be the greatest single arc light in existance, has been added add-ed to the illuminations of the theater district of New York. It is the invention in-vention of Ralph Scott of Newark, N-J., N-J., only 22 years old, and its expense is only IT cents per hour. Scott is now working on a million candle pow-er pow-er lamp. He'd Done Enough. (Harper's Weekly.) In a western Kentucky town Ben Watson had saved the life of Myra Underhill. .Miss Underhill had been overturned in a creek with a swift current, and the act of young Watson was a very heroic one. He. had saved the life of the girl after she was sink ing for the third time, and had barely strength to pull himself and the young woman to shallow water. The news soon spread and Ben Watson Wat-son was hailed as the real, live hero of the village. Aunt Tabby Wilson, the oldest woman wo-man in the village, the mother of the little colony, wa loud in praise of the heroism of the young man, and at once declared that Ben and Myra must get married. "Ben saved Myra's life," she said, "and now they must marry and be happy ever afterward, just as they do it in the story books." But Ben demurred; the arrangement did not suit him. "Why not marry Myra, Ben?" said the old lady. "She is yours, and we must have a wedding." "She is a nice girl, all right," replied re-plied Ben, "but I don't think we ought-er ought-er marry. Seems to me," he went on, "I have done enough for Myra." A Felictlous Aside. Senator Beveridge, describing a campaign cam-paign wherein he had outgeneraled a rival, said: "When it became plain that victory was mine, when my opponent's face began to grow darker and more forbidding, forbid-ding, I smiled to myself; I could have muttered to myself some such felicitous felici-tous aside as that which came from the small boy who was being spanked. "In the course of his spanking the bey's mother' paused to say in sincere tones: "'Tommy, this, hurts mc far more than it doe6 you.' "And thereupon, in his odd, face-downward face-downward position, the boy winked and muttered to himself: ' 1 was afraid (hat hard board I put in the seat of my trousers might injure her delicate hand.' " Teaching Stupid Children. Don't let your children be punished for stupidity. It would be as reasonable reason-able to punish them for being lame or blind. If a child be obstinate or lazy the matter is different. The worst ef-fest ef-fest of punishing a child for stupidity is that he thereby is robbed of self-respect. self-respect. If possible it is best to educate edu-cate him where he will be brought into daily companionship with smarter children. chil-dren. Whatever other mistakes you may make, forbear impressing on him that he is a fool. This is the surest way of making him one. Children iwith splendid splen-did intellectual endowments sometimes are thought to be stupid. The sharp child who learns a lesson in the shortest short-est possible time, who is first to answer an-swer in the mental arithmetic class, who can produce dates and geographical geograph-ical names on demand is theone the teacher likes, and most commonly he is the one in after life who goes on the safe read toward competence. But he Is not one of those wlose thoughts will be treasured in the world long after he has left it. And quite often the so-cplled, stupid child Is one of the dreamers in whom are powers of the artist, poet or philosopher struggling for expression. " 1 Biggest Man in World. (Kansas City Journal.) The other morning at the 'Frisco tracks in Fort Scott was the biggest man in the world. He is known as Baby Jim Simmons, - a "negro, who weighs 750 pounds. There are but few who will believe that any human being be-ing could attain such a great weight unless they chanced to see this mastodon. mas-todon. One glimpse at the monster, however, lays all doubts as to the man's enormous physical proportions. Everyone who saw his massiveness went away telling himself that the negro ne-gro weighed nearer a ton than the weight given above. Jim Simmons was accompanying W. R. MacBurntt, a theatrical circus man, to St. Joseph. The monster lives at Beaumont, Tex. He occupied two seats in the smoker, and slept all the time from early morning morn-ing until 9 o'clock, though there was a constant stream of people scrambling through the car to see him. Efforts to wake the negro were unsuccessful. He remained there, snoring loudly and also bteathing heavily. Finally his manager man-ager came through the car, cleared out the curious ones and took his big one to the vestibule to give him an airing. A newspaper man was admitted to converse with the mastodon for a few minutes. i Simmons said he was 20 years of age: tbat his parents were bo.th small, though his- grandparents each weighed over the 300 mark. He says he does not eat or drink any more than the average sized man, and that he enjoys the best of health, his heart behaving in a most satisfactory manner. He is only 69 inches tall and is "further around than up and down." to use a small boy's expression. There is no doubt but that this man is one of the most gigantic human beings that ever lived. Exactness in little duties 4s a wonderful won-derful source of cheerfulness. F. W. Faber. t 0 THE SONG OF THE SHIP. Oh! the sweep of the toppling crests, The ocean's salt sea foam. Where the rolling billows comb, When. I dance upon her breast With the winds abeam and the skies agleam. In the light of the crimson west; My sails a white cloud, and I sing aloud In a glory of beauty dressed! t When the tempests up6n me pour My body groans and creaks, And my cordage wails and shrieks Midst the battling billows' roar; Oh, I sob ani cry. for 'tis hard to die, And be known by the seas no more. Though torn by the strain, yet I laugh again. ' ; If I win when the storm is o'er. When I'm safe and my voyage is done, All stowed aloft, abow; Then the winds may rail and blow, Who cares when the battle's won? Oh, the sea, the sea, 'tis the place for me; Up, up, and away! Though I die today, to-day, I shill die where my life began! Charles Gould Beede in Boston Transcript. Singularities. (Chicago News.) For thirty-four years past the accounts ac-counts of the naval port of Toulon refused re-fused to balance. There was 30 cents too much in the cash books and ever since 1873 this 30 cents has puzzled the official accountants. Some time ago orders were sent from Paris that this state of affairs must cease. Seven special spe-cial accountants were set to work, and after seven months' hard labor ths problem was solved. Admiral Galibet a former minister of marine, who was thirty-four years ago one of the officers of Toulon arsenal, but who for many years has been living in Paris on his pension has just received official notice no-tice asking him to call at the ministry of finance and draw the sum of 30 cents. He. was underpaid by this amount when he left Toulon in 1S73. A marvel of surgery has been shown to the French Academy of Medicine by Dr. Delair. A patient had lost his chin, part of his lower jaw, his lip, a portion por-tion of his tongue and his nose owing to the explosion of'a gun which he was firing. An apparatus in four pieces has been made for him which makes all trace of his loss practically invisible. The chin and lower lip, with false heard on them, are made of soft india rubber, the necessary teeth, nose and jaws have been supplied and the patient pa-tient can-himself remove and replace the apparatus, which weighs only a trifle more than an ounce. During the recent struggle, in Morocco Moroc-co the Moors one day found in their camp at Casablanca an unexploded shell, and wishing to find out how it "worked," they summoned their most proficient armorer, who, although he knows everything about hand guns, ;s most ignorant in regard to projectiles. This man thought that the best means of opening the shell was to use a ham mer. At the second blow the shell exploded, ex-ploded, killing and wounding many of the Moors who were crowded around him. ' Not by e". A. Poe. Now chill weather has descended; summer sum-mer days are good and ended; And the moth-ball scent is spotted as we pass the book shop door. Burning leaves send smudges rising in a style not appetizing; Coal men's weights are tantalizing: no one asks, "What is the score?" All we hear is "Shut the door!" Chicago JJaily Journal. He Placed an Order. A small, sharp faced boy, one of whose evelids had an inclination to droop in a chronic wink, entered a tailor shop in upper Broadway, approached ap-proached the proprietor and silently handed him a button. The tailor took itfsand looked puzzled. V' What's this for?" he asked. "I don't want it. I've got plenty of buttons." but-tons." "Dat's all right," said the youngster, "But yer want business, don't yer?" "Yes." . "Well, just sew a pair o' pant on dat button " The small boy was half way up the block before the tailor reached the door. New York Globe. HANG ON. Gimme back the dear old days all the boys in line "Boy stood on the burnin' deck" an' "Bingen on the Rhine!" "'Twas midnight; in his guarded tent" we spoke it high an' low, While Mary trotted out that lamb "whose fleece was white as snow." Gimme back the dear old days that mem'ry loves to keep, With "Pilot, 'tis a fearful night there's danger on the deep!" The old time, awkward gestures the jerk meant fer a bow We said that "Curfew should not ring," but, Lord, it's ringin' now: G$nme back the dear old days the pathway through the dells To the schoolhouse in the blossoms: the sound of far-off bells Tinklin' 'crost the meadows; the song of the bird m' brook; The old-time dictionary an' the blue i back spellin' book! Gone, like a dream forever a city's hdi the place Where stood the ol log schoolhouse, an' no familiar face Is smilin there in welcome beneath a mornin' sky; 'There's a bridge acrost the river, an' wee crossed an" said "bood-bye!" Atlanta Constitution. Thackeray an Unlerliner. The late queen's habit of underlining, which has entirely passed out of the customs of feminine letter writing, was singularly dear to Thackeray's sense both of sentiment and humor, says a London exchange. He never tired of making his women, whether he wrote their letters for them sweetly or derisively, deris-ively, underline with effusion. He would hardly have acknowledged a woman wo-man to be a woman if she did not practice prac-tice this, way of emphasis, any more than he would have held her worthy of the name had she had any sense of honor of justice, or any rule but affection. affec-tion. If she spelled a little amiss, so much the better. Thackeray derived 3traight from Goldsmith. Cobbett, by the way. was as fond of italics as any early Victorian woman of underlines; but how far from feeble is the effect in his page! The stress is. indeed, as mas- j culine under his pen as it is feminino under Queen Victoria's. . Catholic Standard and Times: "Better "Bet-ter send an inspector down to sec what's the matter with this man's meter." said the cashier in the gas company's office to' the superintendent. "Oh." began the superintendent, "we throw complaints about meters " "This is no complaint. He sends a check for the amount of his bill and says it's 'very reasonable.' " |