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Show King Edward has evicted the statue erected by Queen Victoria at Balmoral to her Highland gillie, John Brown. Brown was the power behind the throne in his time! He had as much to do with the great achievements of the last reign as had Victoria herself, which, to tell the truth, was nothing at all; but his royal mistress was deeply attached to him. He appreciated her poetry as nobody else did, and advised her not to print it. He was a strong Conservative in his politics and disliked Americans, but would occasionally occas-ionally unbend to congenial souls like George W. Smalley. Edward, as Prince of Wales, always chafed under Mr. Brown's rule; but It is rather small business to cart away the gillie's statue, without even selling it as a sign for some enterprising tobacconist. The late queen would not have been so wasteful. Boston Pilot. f A lady soloist was requested the other evening to stop singing the Ave Maria in a Presbyterian church of Racine Ra-cine by the pastor because he considered consid-ered it inappropriate for a Protestant church. The pastor was right; a Protestant Prot-estant church is no place for the Ave Maria. But if he stopped all the music which has been appropriated from Catholic writers there would be little music left to sing. Church Progress. f The offensive rebel emblem of an American Eagle on the western gable of the Old State House was removed on Thursday of last week, and will not be put back to offend the sensibilities of the loyal authorities who keep the English coat of arms on the other end of that now truly British relic. The visit of the Honorable Artillerv com pany of London, has made the city j propertly ashamed of its sneaking con- sideration of Revolutionary sentiment, i The "bloomin'- Yankee" will no longer boast of Boston ,hs a "rebel city," says the triumphant Britain. Boston Pilot. f AdelinaPatti's repertoire for her coming com-ing tour in the United States includes three Ave Marias one from Bach-Gounod, Bach-Gounod, another from Schubert and a third from Santley. Evidently the "Blessed among Women" as the angel proclaimed her has not j-et ceased to inspire music, as indeed she has ever j inspired all Christian art Catholic Union and Times. |