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Show The magnitude of casualties sustained by Russians Rus-sians and .Taps in Manchuria leads us to think that the man who invented the bullet-proof coat got drowned in the Liao river. . . In the city of Chicago there arc now 125 par- ishes and missions with parochial schools. These schools are attended by 70.000 children. Xot quite (0.000 pupils are under Catholic care in that city. The archdiocese has GtiO priests and 3.200.000 Catholics. Cath-olics. ' -4 Millions of votes were cast in the election that gaAe Cleveland the presidency, but Blaine lost, by the narrowest of margins. Hence little things have their value a fact appreciated, by Judge Parker when informed that Ilhode Island is now among1 the "doubtful'' state. 4 2'otre Dame Scholastic, the college paper of Notre Dame, Ind., mentions two graduates of the Notre Dauie law school who are candidates for ; congress, and others chosen to stand for important I offices. "I he dean of the law college. Colonel oynes, ; is certainly to be congratulated. ' f l ire last week destroyed the theatre at Basle, lh: finest playhou-e in Switzerland. No loss of J ; life, as the tire occurred at 2 o'clock in the morn ing. 'Like the Iroquois lire, it started behind the j stage and made short work of the asbestos cur- t.'u.u. Nothing that inventive genius has perfected. ; is immune from lire. Therefore, roll up the ns- l besios curtain along with the bullet -.proof coat. - ; A wealthy Now Jersey family furnished a lit-; lit-; lie eottage close to the mansion, in which an altar j vas owted, so that the Catholic servants might a'n ml mass regularly. The local reporter of the. I New York Sun, reviewing the affair, innocently J'.y 'i priest wan "hired'' to go to this chapel regit-"" - huiy. That word "hived" has no place in the vow of obedience taken bv a priest. : ' The Catholic Universe of Cleveland insists. that the debt f the United States to the Catholic church , ; for educating it.s children out of its own funds I : docs not by any means cancel even the financial Migalions of the s'ate io the church. Thus it is in1or--l ing to barn that in the city of New York Is'onc the home bureau of the St. Vincent do Paul society, established six years ago, has so far placed fl.'.T abandoned children in homes at an outlay of $:1.NJ4.7.. The secretary of the bureau estimates that, this has already saved the city nearly half a million dollars. From the True Voice of Omaha we note that another department of the rapidly developing Crcighton university was auspiciously inaugurated last Monday in the formal opening of the new law school. Nothing needs now be said of the manner in which the department of arts and the medical eollcgc have carved their way to the front rank of the higher educational institutions. The brilliant success of those departments has accentuated the j demand for the Jaw department. The energy of Father Dowling and the munificence of Mr. John A. Crcighton are never appealed to in vain. ; -. The merchant who seeks to augment steady eus- !tom in this era of competition must adopt other ' means than the well worn "fire sale'' and "selling : below price"' signs to tempt the credulous buyer. I The coupon cut from the daily newspaper, with the prize bold out to the one who gets busy and collects the largest number, is having its day in ' Salt Lake. But F atte goes us one better. Synions' " firm of Uwt city recently ordered from the I treasury department' fifteen hundred crisp dollar bH. and wher. ' consignment reached '.Butte" the bills were :-t.-;t.. in a heap inside the large " . N - - . - . . M i i . iii .. j f.. : r) - " ' window, visible to every woman on a hunt for bargains. bar-gains. Over the heap of dollar bills this tempting legend was placed : ."Come in and get a dollar bill for ninety cents." And they did go in, and' so many others waited impatiently and struggled with the men outside to obtain entrance, that it was found-necessary found-necessary to employ a big policeman to preserve order. There was a time when Butte would not cross a muddy street to save a dollar. When we hear of Butte" jamming itself in a crowd to get ten cents the best of a merchant, we look upon it as a sign of the blight the appearance of copper pennies would bring to the great camp. : f l'rom all over the country reports roach us of general apathy in the presidential campaign, and indifference to the result. This docs not argue a corresponding- decrease in the total of votes so much as it does disrergard for partisan sprcao-cagle sprcao-cagle oratory, once so potent in arousing enthusiasm, enthusi-asm, especially when -supplemented with torchlight processions,. Latter day knowledge of polities is obtained through reading rather than through oral instruction". The change to sanity that has over-taken over-taken the campaign spirit of other days, suggests j a revival of the sport candidates may draw out of I it and save' the vast corruption fund raised to j purchase votes and grease the palms of ward heei-j heei-j crs. The Taylor brothers of Tennessee, rival candidates can-didates for governor, were the first to introduce the pleasing and sensible innovation. Both being iine violinists, they agreed to fiddle their wax io the exalted position of chief magistrate. The refill re-fill was a peaceful and harmonious campaign, one that put every voter in the best of humor, anl one tlint gave Tennessee a good governor and a good fiddler. Something after this spirit, is taking place in" Adams county; Colorado. Last week all tho candidates can-didates for office were present at the couuty fair, arrayed in immaculate duck suits. It was arranged ar-ranged beforehand that so soon as the nominees made their appearance on the speakers' stand they should be pelted with tomatoes, the one receiving the most blotches from the succulent vegetable to be declared loser. It was a jolly affair throughout, and the regret is that such method of electioneering' electioneer-ing' could not obtain all over the state. f |