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Show - r Religious Intelligence. j A priest is president of the public .school in Pompev, N. Y. He is the Kev. George S. Mahou. - According to the Catholic church . directory, Catholics number 513,400 in Auld Scotia. The new group of buildings soon to be finished will make St. Patrick's square the handsomest in the city of Washington. D. C. Judge John W. Corcoran, of Clinton. Mass., who died the other dsy, was the first Catholic io sit on the bench of the Massachusetts' superior court. , - ' . . . A corporation of prominent Catholic gentlemen, gentle-men, with Bishop Conaty at the head, has been formed in Los Angeles for the purpose of publishing publish-ing a Catholic weekly paper in that town. Rev. Father MicDowctt. who,-as representative of Bishop Christie, opened the. mining congress at Portland with prayer, was also the last speaker. With a short benediction he closed the session. Blue and White is ihe nar.c of a montbly magazine soon to be issued by tho students of Sacred Heart college, San Francisco. The journal Avill consist of thirty-two pages, and will contain articles by undea-graduateS.ajid the .alumni. Chief Charging Bear made a speech at. the convention of the Federation of Catholic Societies held in Detroit recently. Among other things he said: '"I thought Heaven liid come down to earth when I was in" church this morning." ; In the tornado which has swept Sorrento. Italy, the cathedral-and monastery of San-.Paoli almost fell to the. ground. One house gave way, burying three persons beneath the. ruins. The town presents pre-sents a spectacle of greatest desolation- As a posl-graduatc school, the Catholic university univer-sity at Washington is larger than the Johns Hopkins Hop-kins university. According ..to.. Dr. Egan, who was. interviewed by The Milwaukee Sentinel last Sunday, Sun-day, there is now an enrollment of 375 in the postgraduate post-graduate course of the Catholic university. f- V Honolulu is to be enriched with a handsome Catholic cathedral, the gift of a German planter of the. islands who is as generous as he is opulent. The cost of the new structure is said to be fixed at $150,000. It will bo a welcome, addition to the Catholic church property of the Hawaiian metropolis. metro-polis. .. : 4 The National Child Labor committee, formed to ''help create a healthy public sentiment in favor of giving every child the best possible chance to make-the make-the most of its life," and to co-operate for the regulation of the employment. of children. in gainful gain-ful occupations, includes the names- of Cardinal Gibbons, ex-President Cleveland, Senator Tillman, Bishop Greer and a host of notabilities,. '. . There is sorrow among .the veterans -who are pensioners of the Hotel des'lnvalidcs, Paris. Since the foundation of the Invalidcs by Louis XIV nuns have acted as nurses to the: 'veterans, but the oilier day the nuns had to depart to be replaced by lay nurses., Some of the nuns of the .Invalidcs had been in the place for a number of years and were well known figures, especially Sister St. Angelique, who had nursed in the Invalidcs for sixty-live years. : . Joliette, the leading town of ihe new diocese recently organized in the ecclesiastical province of Montreal, was ihe scene of a two-fold celebration, civic and religious, in which the apostolic delegate, prelates from Anrious dioceses in Canada and the United States, ihe clergy from a large number of parishes in this province and the laity' from the surrounding country districts and "from Quebec; Montreal and other cities, took part. The occasion was a public reception by the laitv to the new Bishop, Mgr. Archainbault, and his'consecration in the cathedral. On the arrival of the train at the station it is estimated that more than 10.000 people peo-ple were gathered in and around the vicinity. 4 : . |