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Show :! Read The lntermountain its col- limns are interesting the whole way through. The gairal influence of mellow spring is evidenced by the gaiety of the streets. Easter bonnets will soon bo in order. The old historic Hill of Tara, of fond memory to Irish hearts, has recently ' changed hands. It contains 2"9 acres of fertile land in the county of Meath, and was sold to a lady for 3,500. iOur premium Father Elliot's "Life of Christ" is in good demand. Several Sev-eral dozen copies have passed from our hands already, and applications are coming in every day. See "Our Offer" in another column. Archbishop Walsh of Dublin, the Primate Pri-mate of Ireland, ever noted for his generosity gen-erosity toward things Irish in general and the Irish cause in partkvilar, ha? contributed J100 for the publication of an Irish dictionary for the use of students stu-dents who are studying their mother I tongue at home. A more cosmopolitan assembly was I never seen than that which witnessed j the twenty-fifth anniversary of Lio's 1 coronation in the Vatican on March 3. I More than 70,000 people of all r.ation- I alities were there. The- chimes of St. I Peter's rang out in joyous poals over the Eternal City for the first time in a quarter of a century. j Many strange claims have been made in times past regarding St. Patrick, but a New York Baptist minister will lreak all records on next Sunday, :j wh-u :he will claim St. Patrick as a Baptist. He promises to establish his ctaim conclusively by proving that SL Patrick "baptised his converts by immersion." im-mersion." This reminds us of an old j ' cowboy, whom we knew as a boy, and j: , "who claimed relationship to his em- 1 ployer because he would say: "My I great grandfather was at your grand- ! father's wedding." |