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Show ! Archbishop Riordan of San Fran- , risco has sailed from Liverpool for home. ' 1 ' The archbishop of Toronto, Canada, says he does not desire annexation to the United States. i Cardinal Logue, in a speech the other 1 day in Glasgow, Scotland, said there is enough land in Ireland to support ' four times its present population. ; j Archbishop Ireland has declared him- ( pelf in favor of the canteen system -in I the Philippines in preference to the J far worse evils of the Filipino joints. J ; A "Biographical History of the Eng lish Catholics from the Breach With Rome to the Present Time" is the title ; of a book just , published in England, ' j ' the author being Mr. Joseph Gillow. j Among the English Catholics included ; , in the work is the poet Shakespeare. ; The agitation against the "stage ! , Irishman" is spreading all over the country. Two variety actors who in-Fisted in-Fisted upon doing the common stage I . caricature of the Irishman were hissed ! from the stage last week by indignant ' members of the A. O. H. in the Jacques ' . opera house, Waterbury, Conn. , J Leadville has two great industries, i mining and smelting. In spite of the ' Hosing of other plants, the Arkansas I v'alley smelter is employing as many jien as w ere employed by all the plants ; 5e years ago. There are 1,500 smel- ( ler employes on the A. S. & R. com pany's local payroll. There are 3,000 miners on the payrolls of the various ; mines. There are no idle carpenters r men engaged in building trades who ire able to work. The railroads have - i ncreased their local forces. Our parochial schools are the product of strong religious sentiment, and many rvho do not share it have come to see i .he wisdom of one of Ruskin's obiter licta on modern education: "The three !acts which it is most advisable that a nan entering into life should accurately i snow are: First, -where he is; secondly, where he is going; and, thirdly, what t he had best do under the circumstanc es." The present educational system, according to Ruskin, ignores or despises de-spises all three of these great branches of human knowledge. The following curious paragraph appears ap-pears in the Paris Journal: "At the time of the coronation an English savant sa-vant traced out the genealogical tree of Kins Edward VII, from Edward IV ' of Scotland down to Queen Victoria, in order to find out how much pure Eng-! Eng-! lish blood was contained in the veins of his majesty. The result was as follows: fol-lows: Out cf 4.0,r6 drops of blood circulating cir-culating in his veins, King Edward VII has only one drop of English blood, which comes to him from Margaret Tudor, -istcr of Henry VIII and wife of James IV ot -Scotland. He has typ droits of French blood, derived from Mary. Stuart, whose mother was Mary of Guise; five drops of Scottish blood, from James IV of Scotland and Darn-Joy; Darn-Joy; eight drops of Danish blood and 4. tMO of German blood. One drop of English blood out of 4,056 . is not too heavy a weight for an English king! There is probably no reigning couple in Europe that is more fond of a simple, sim-ple, plain and quiet life, or so averse t' everything in the way of pomp and ( ceremony as the present czar and czar ina, who, when at Tsarskoe-Selo, insist j upon occupying a large chalet or cot- I i--,,,, tage in the grounds to the apartments V in the palace close by. Indeed, it seems strange that whereas Nicholas, who is so averse to luxury and to magnificence magnifi-cence in his surroundings, should be the richest monarch in Christendom, his brother sovereigns, such as the German emperor, the king of, England, etc., who like all the glamor of royalty, and take pleasure in all its trappings and splendor, should be forced, by reasons rea-sons of economy to run their courts on the most strict, businesslike principles, prin-ciples, and be virtually debarred from the pleasure of consuming their own farm produce, because they can obtain ob-tain a larger price for it in the market mar-ket than what they think they .can afford to pay for their own. |