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Show I THE CATHOLIC WORLD 4 CATHOLIC NOTES. I 'nit od Ftatcs authorities have, it is i said, forbidden the Jesuit Fathers in charge ;f the- observatory at Manila to send out any more weather bulletins. bulle-tins. The bulletins referred to have I been pent out regularly during the last v. half a century, ami have always I On Sunday, the anniversary of the murder of the Empress of Austria, a ; mass in memorium was celebrated at Farm Street Church, London, Repre-i Repre-i J sentatives from a number of foreign ' p embassies were present. Cardinal Vaughn hap finally decided that the monument to Dr. Rivington in, ; Westminster Cathedral shall be a facsimile fac-simile of the statue of St. Peter in his chair at Rome. Hy request of the late Bishop Wat-; Wat-; torso n of Columbus, all his vestments were g-iven to the Sisters of St. Mary's of the. Springs. There is but one Catholic church in St. Petersburg, that of St. Catherine, but on the account of the increase of the number of Catholics, a new church will be built as soon as permission can be obtained from the holy synod. The London Tablet, which is in a po- sit ion, to judge of the matter, says that I the signs of Catholic progress are to be J nrii all over the land, and it proposes ', i to demonstrate in itr columns that marked, substantial and solid progress is every day, so to speak, being made by the English Catholic Church. Archbishop Corrigan makes the an- J nouneement that the Kev. Dr. Burtsell, of Rondout, N. Y.. has generously donated do-nated $5.(100 to endow a scholarship in the seminary at Dunwoodie. X. Y. The Rev. Dr. Dougherty, of the Home of ; the Immaculate Virgin, X. Y., has given a like sum for a like purpose. Catholics learned with interest that P.ishop McDonnell of Brooklyn, X. Y., who is in Europe, had consulted J. V. Bent ley, an English architect in refer-j refer-j ence to plans for the completion of the Brooklyn Cathedral, at Vanderbilt. and I Clermont avenues. The Cathedral has been in an unfinished state for many , A hospital in which consumptive ; alone will be treated is soon to be erect - td near Chicago by a number of phi 1- . suithronic citizens at a -osl of $215,0'0. j The institution will be located in Aus- tin. where a tract of twelve acres has ! ; been purchased. The plan was origi nated by the order ,f Sisters known as the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ. ' The French pilgrims who will visit . Riime in the coming year of jubilee are I rxp'H ted to come in the greatest num- j her in the month of May. as it is then, according to the reports prevailing, that I : the canonization of the Klessed de la Salle will take place. That event will naturally attract French Catholics to the Eternal City. & Motisignor Stanley has resigned his j position as Vatican correspondent of l the- Times newspaper. Jiis pesilion in j I this capacity must have been a difficult , 1 -ne. Any news which was confidential ! I lie could hardly transmit, and any j news which was not. the paper could j secure without the services cf a regu- I ha correspondent. j j Right Rev. John Moore. Bishop t.f I St. Augustine. Fla., who suffered tn j j sitiaek of paralysis some weeks age, I ! has been for most of the time since j under treatment at' St. Agnes' Semi- i nary, near llaltimore, Md. The Bishop, J - is widely known and warmly esteemed ; throughout the country, and his im-i proved condition will be pleasant news to his host of friends. j Our Catholic, exchanges differ as to! the object of the recent visit of Car-I iinal Gibbon.- to Mr. McKinley. Homo j say he went to protest against the I i--s4cratiin of Churches in the Philip- j pines, while others stale that he went 1" assure Mr. McKinley that the 'hurch had no complaint to make of ill treatment by American soldiers. -n official no4e announces that the l'"pe will be unable to grant separate audiences to the pilgrims expected to i cme to Rome during the year, but as t he is anxious not to deprive them of 'lie benefits of the Apostolic Benedic-t Benedic-t i m. he win follow the example of his predecessors in similar circumstances and will pronounce a Solemn Benediction Benedic-tion in the Court of Belvidere or else- where, as may be eonvenent. The Catholic societies of Covington, "K.V-, 'presented the c ity council of that b'aee wjth resolutions adopted by their body at its last meeting, protesting - against, the laying of the corner stone "f the new court house with Masonic ceremonies,. The membershin thus nro- ttsting numbers between 1.600 and 1.700, j and the outcome will be watched with interest. ,i The Marquis of "Bute, prior to the 7 illness with which he has been stricken, ! was engaged in the work of preparing a new edition of his English translation of the Roman breviary. His conversion conver-sion to the Catholic church was the sensation of a quarter of a century ago, and supplied Lord Beaconsfield with material for "Lothair." Monseignor Capcl, who effected the conversion, was . " ' . mi ill i 1 ii.h m wnMijiiiiiiiiiii,,,.,, , - a, handsome and eloquent priest in Kensington, who emigrated to California. Califor-nia. Most persons will be surprised to hear that Dante had a daughter called Beatrice, Bea-trice, who lived and d!ed in a convent at Rtrvenna. The Roman correspondent correspond-ent of the Pall Mail Gazette announces that documents proving this fact have lieen fminrt in tliw arcliivnc f th.it rit- The long continued controversy regarding: re-garding: the heroine of Divina Comme-dia Comme-dia has a new- light thrown upon it, says the Ave Maria, by this interesting discovery. The number of students at the novitiate no-vitiate of the Paulists in Washington is greater now than at any former period pe-riod since the institution was opened. A year ago it was necessary to build an addition to the house to accommodate the increase, but even with the enlarged en-larged accommodations the number of students axceeded anticipations, so that a second addition has been made this year. Xotre Dame leads again with the number of students attending its classes. It is announced that at the opening of the university this year the enrollment of students exceeded 800. This is a larger attendance, we think, than any other Catholic college or university uni-versity in this country' can show, and it indicates in. what high esteem and great popularity this famous Catholic university of the middle west is deservedly de-servedly held. he Rev. Aloysius P. Eru.ker, S. J., left the military mission of St. Oeorge at Fort Myer, Washington. D. C, for Philadelphia, where he recently assumed as-sumed the pastorate of a church and will also be chaplain of the state penitentiary. peni-tentiary. The Rev. Rene I. Hoilland, lecturer at the Georgetown University Law School, will undertake the mission work at Fort Myer and continue his labors at the university. Father Bruck-er Bruck-er had been in charge of the work among the soldiers at Fort Myer for three years. Fifteen years ago last July two Franciscan Sisters went from Lafayette, Lafay-ette, Ind.. to Cleveland, on the invitation invita-tion of Bishop Gilmore. They rented a frame house and on August 18 their first two patients were admitted to what is now St. Alexius' Hospital. In ISO" a large new hospital was erected at an expense of $40,000. Up to date there have been 12.291 patients cared for in the institution, while the corps of nurses has increased from two l thirty, with an assistance of fourteen lay nurses. The Sisters of Mercy open their new-establishment new-establishment for respectable working-I working-I women at Lexington avenue and Sixty-I Sixty-I ninth street. Xew York, this week. A line hou.e has been rented and furnished, fur-nished, and put in charge of Sister Mary Ignatius. The intention is to piovide a real home for working-wo-I men, where for a reasonable sum they can get the comforts and the care to j whic h they were accustomed at home. and where they can be properly ac-I ac-I comrr.odated in times of sickness or enforced idleness.. The Sisters of Mercy i look forward to this 'work as the be j ginning of a great and useful entor-! entor-! prise in behalf of deserving women, i Xo ecclesiastical figure will stand j out more prominently in the history of I the now closing century than Man- ning's. the late Cardinal Archbishop ; of Westminster, and immediate sue-i sue-i cesser of Cardinal Wiseman in that See. He will grow with the ages. His j lovely traits of character, his logical ! eloquence, his profound learning and i powerful intellect, made him a power j , in the gorld and a great defender of I jth.o Churc h. Our friend, the authoress, j Frances R. Howe of Bailly Homestead. Ind., met him at the bed- , side of Louise Lateau and wrote this j chaining estimate of his character: 1 "'His is one of those wonderful conn- I tetianeos. where gentleness and purity I unite to give that appearance of per-pctr.aJ per-pctr.aJ youth, which masks the evidences evi-dences of study and learning from those wno see sirenui or cnaracter and traces of deep thought in the ravages made by worldly cares and the turmoil tur-moil of passion. There is the wisdom of the serpent, the harmlessness of jthe dove, in those bright blue eyes, so expressive cf keen penetration and' of a c harity kindled by the name of Di-j Di-j vine Iove, and the fairness of com-j com-j plexion more than Saxon in its perfection, perfec-tion, that sparkling countenance, ren-! ren-! dering so easy belief in the luminous features of Moses." ! Since the end of the Dreyfus trial, and while it was pending, all kinds of rumors have been afloat regarding the altitude of His Holiness toward it. There is no necessity to point out that they were all the merest conjecture, as Loo XIII is not in the habit of con. tiding his sentiments on current top- J ics in an off-hand manner. The Jesuits. I as usual, have been dragged in, and I positive statements made that the general gen-eral of the Jesuits, Pere Martin, had conne to Rome to hold a consultation on the subject with His Holiness. This is absolutely false, as the latter has not visited Rome; he is at San Domen-jco, Domen-jco, at Fiesnle, where he has been for a considerable time. It is thought possible pos-sible that His Holiness, who has graciously gra-ciously promised to receive the pilgrimage pil-grimage of French workingmen, who are exnected to arrive in Rome in the course of the next week, will address them on the subject of the state of " ( France, and exhort them to practice charity and brotherly love, ami to loyally loy-ally support the republic which is now j the form of government chosen, by I the French people. Whatever His Holiness' Ho-liness' private opinion of the guilt or innocence of Dreyfus may be, he is not likely to discuss the subject in the course of his address, but he may, of course, allude to if indirectly. The subject of the Paris exhibition is likely to form a theme on which His Holiness Holi-ness will enter, as he is known to be most anxious for its success. There is an idea that an encyclical will be ad- I dressed to the French people in, the near future, but this I am not in a. position either to confirm or contra-j contra-j diet. |