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Show - - , . - - -i-M-M--WV In a month or two, should you desire to recall the name of the city in Venezuela where a battle took place this week, just think of Patsy Bolivar. It's the Spanish way of spelling the town. There is md enough gTass left on the ranges of Utah to feed a large herd of cattle. Sheep luae eater, up nearly everything green ; and while it lasts every flockmaster will vote the high-tariff-on-wool ticket. " The spiteful woman in the-back yard who re-Miu re-Miu fully exclaims, "Oh, what a long tail our cat has got,' may change her tune when she looks at the comet. The comet has a tail three million miles long. John T. Gibbons is quoted as saying that in boyhood his brother, now cardinal and arch- : bi-hop, delighted in athletic exercises, playing a i rattling game of baseball, was a splendid swimmer, and withal was methodical. An editorial in our last issue, headed "Xo American Amer-ican Pope," named Humbert instead of .Victor Emmanuel II, (eldest son and successor of Hum- -Wt), as king of Italy. Xot the printers fault, ither. The blame wholly belongs to the indi-gestibility indi-gestibility of the hot tamale. ; Beginning last Wednesday, the contractors of the new city jail pay a forfeit of $25 per day, the penalty for not having the building finished in the lime named in the contract. The question which may next agitate the city council is, ought the city whack up with the "walking delegate." Just as was predicted, the Russian minister of foreign affairs politely told our minister to the court of St. Petersburg that the czar would not receive, much less consider, the petition from American Jews to the president. Thus is 1 loose veJt snubbed, and the Jews gain nothing by putting their trust in a vote hunter. A special correspondent of The London Catholic Catho-lic Times, writing from Germany on the results of recent German elections, perceives other than theological significance to, the socialistic growth. He says: ''It means that the German workmen almost everywhere, and the German peasants in many ! places, are wearied of the burden of militarism It "i means that the landed classes, who tax the people peo-ple s food to keep up their own prices, have provoked pro-voked resistance." Again we remind readers interested in the "Conversations "Con-versations of Our Club" that the arguments presented pre-sented in debate were inspired by conditions existing exist-ing nearly half a century ago. while Brownson lived and was in his vigor. Rather should these writ-nigs writ-nigs be regarded now in the light of posthumous literature lit-erature wliicA reflected the ss of Brown-son's Brown-son's logic and elegant diction, than any fair exposition ex-position of present conditions of Catholic education. educa-tion. Wonderful strides have been made in the past quarter century, so that our Catholic parochial paro-chial schools today invite praise from even non-Catholics. non-Catholics. The day King Edward entered Dublin, Maud C.nune (Mrs. McBride) hung a black flag from her window and threatened to scald the policemen who insisted on its removal. This woman's head has been turned by the misapplied adulation of her countrymen. Her attempt to emulate the, deed ;J of Barbara Eritchie, related , in Whittiers poem," "v. i ' ad conceal her real motive by insisting- that the black flag expressed her grief over the pope's death, is a piece of tomfoolery that won't wash. Black flags are never displayed for mourning. Black flags were once displayed by pirates of the when they wisheo xo signal to ' their prey that no quarter would ho given. Evidently Maud Comic has gone mad. Seven little islands in the Philippian archipc-lago, archipc-lago, just large enough to grow yams and fish-worms fish-worms for the wild ian of Borneo, have excited the cupidity of Ulicle Sam and John Bull. Both lay claim to ownership. The fact to be established estab-lished is, whether John Bull's cupidity was aroused before Circle Sam's, or whether the latter lat-ter acquired them iu the job lot sale that Spain ! made to the United States. The title to the islands, is-lands, the wild man of Borneo and his wives, (assuming (as-suming that he is a relative of the sultan of Sulu), may be conceded to Uncle Sani. Hay, in return, may drop contention over the Alaskan, boundary now in dispute.- In any event, the bargain will be made without, war. No such good luck is in sight at itroi-eut. - |