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Show Cardinal Moran, In one of his recent nddresses In Ireland, says that on the 17th of March last, when 30,000 Irishmen Irish-men took part In a St. Patrick's day celebration, in Sydney, Australia, only one drunken man was noticed that day, mnd he was not an Irishman. t . The London Saturday Review, which never was and never will be anything I but an honest and avowed enemy of the United States, predicts that trade rivalry may yet be settled by the sword. We are with the Review on that prop-; prop-; osition. Bring on your sword! . Realizing that the present dynasty of Servia was founded by a swineherd, swine-herd, the present king, who is without i heir, is about to do a most sensible thing the only commendable act marking mark-ing a reign of debauchery and cruelty. It is said he will educate a peasant boy and name him his successor. "Whistling soloists is the new religious fad in some Chicago Protestant lurches, the idea being suggested by the Delaware preacher's sermon which i began with the whistle of the meadow lark. Should a whistling chorister come to the same end foretold of the crowing crow-ing hen, he will but add another attraction at-traction to Protestant worship. On his lion hunting trip to Colorado, President Roosevelt should not skip Utah, and for a very good reason, to wit Karl Mayer, a Salt Lake man. killed a large bear in City Creek can-I'on can-I'on the other, day. a short distance from the street car line. Mayer says there's another bear In the canyon. According to a writer in the Boston Transcript who was at San Juan hill, , t Teddy Roosevelt and his cowboys did not storm it at all. The real scene of , their achievements, he says, was a smaller eminence known as Kettle hill. Suspicion arises that this Boston writer is prejudiced, and he gives the story dead away by naming any hill in Cuba after a kettle, which is no more Spanish Span-ish than fandango is English. "With fourteen murders committed . in Salt Lake during the last ten months, and with footpads attacking citizens almost nightly, things seem ripe for the organization of a campaign against crime in this city," says an evening ' paper. Does that mean the old-time ! vigilance committee? The citizens met a week ago to hunch the administration administra-tion on the water problem. They may be compelled to do the same to rid the city of crime and criminals. Jt now appears that Premier Combes ' Mretched the Associations Law beyond the limit, with the result that out of ' 1 t!)e 7,000 schools closed only 300 were : legally affected by the law. It is fur ther stated that the schools of the sisters sis-ters will be open in October. If all this turns out to be true, the persecution persecu-tion was really a blessing, because it ! exposed the designs of the enemies of the church as well as revealing the weak points among those of our faith i j . The good ship Windward, with Lieu- ! j tenant Peary, wife and little daughter j tm board, was towed into New York j harbor on Thursday. Peary sailed from j New York, July 2, 1S98, in that vain I ( search for the North pole which has I ' resulted in little so far but hardships, disaster and death. However, these . Arctic explorers have demonstrated an ' ardor in pursuit of knowledge not ex celled by any heroism displayed in bat- " . tie. The farewells they give their friends have generally been farewells forever. Peary Is in luck, although he left seven of his toes In: the land xt the midnight sun. He did not findHhe pole, but established the, fact that Greenland is an island. Supposing it is an island, does such discovery iiring us nearer to the realization of an open polar sea? Hardly more so than the alleged discovery dis-covery of animal life in the planet Mars. |