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Show I THE (ITllK WORLD. The Catholic Summer School begins its annual session at Cliff Haven, N. Y., near Plattsburg, in a few weeks. London's Tablet states that the grandchildren of Dickens are Catholics, that faith. being the fath of Mrs. Henry Hen-ry Dickens. A Havana dispatch says: Five Sisters of the Good Shepherd from St. Louis have arrived here and will open a new house of their order. Mrs. William E. Gladstone, widow of the late English statesman, who so forcibly championed the cause of Irish Ir-ish Home Rule, is dead; age 88 years. She married Mr. Gladstone in 1839. The Archdiocese of Boston has one hundred and twenty-three students studying in the Diocesan Seminary. During the year 1899 twenty-three priests were ordained for the diocese. This bodes well for Catholicity in the old stronghold of Puritanism. -?- ' -: The establishment of a Catholic high school for girls in Philadelphia is under un-der consideration, and while plans have been' formulated they have not been finally adopted, owing to lack of funds to begin the work. Sister Mary Hilda Sands has been chosen Mother Superior of the community commun-ity of Visitation Nuas at Mount de Sales Academy, Catonsville, near Baltimore. Bal-timore. She is a sister of Admiral Sands, U. S. N., and has been a Nun for over twenty-five years. Father Phelan has seen Cardinal Sa-tolli. Sa-tolli. He says that VHis Eminence looks ten years younger; he has put on flesh and would today pass for a handsome man." He lives in ' large apartments, furnished with elegance and taste. , Patrick Reddy, the well known San Francisco lawyer, who defended the Coeur d'A.lene strikers several years ago, is dead. He was a pioneer of Nevada Ne-vada and California. Rev. John J. Sheahan, chancellor of the diocese of Buffalo, died June 14. He was 36 years old and a native of Buffalo. Buf-falo. . ... - The Sisters who are doing such good work for the soldiers in South Africa are not very ably seconded by the society so-ciety ladies who volunteered to take a hand. The English society women who went to the Cape presumably to nurse the soldiers ,but in reality to have a high old time, are receiving condemnation condemna-tion on every hand. . ' .' f.-.. ! : At the annual meeting of the alumni of the Academy of the Visitation, Georgetown, the association determined as an evidence of good will toward the new Trinity College for Women, which is being built under, the direction of the Sisters of Notre-: Dame de Namur, near the . Catholic university, to give J $100 to its fund, thus being enrolled as one of the "founders." Aix-la-Chapelle ia being detached from the archdiocer;e of Cologne, and thus a. new diocose is about to be created in Germany, p. The Emperor William, "it is said, has displayed a keen personal interest in this matter; desiring to see tho - city of Charlemagne, Charle-magne, the great emperor of the west and the founder of. the holy Roman empire, become an episcopal see. |
