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mrn^ p!m^3,y 1 t?e CATHOLIC NEWS. i||il^ The Estherville, Iowa. Catholics are erecting a large and handsome church. i, The St. Louis branches C. K. of-A., are working up an excursion to visit, the sister branches of the Order in Chi cago. The class for ordination to the priest hood this year is the largest sent out from Woodstock College, Maryland, since its opening in 1869. There are at present thirty-three for eign Cardinals and exactly the same number of Italian Cardinals. This never occurred before in the history of the Papacy. The province of Cincinnati is made up of the dioceses of Cincinnati, Cleve land, Columbus, Covington. Louisville, Nashville, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Fort Wayne and Vincennes. The election or a new provincial of the Augustinian Order in the United States will take place at Villa Nova College, Pa., this month. Mgr. Sap piachi, Rome, is likely to preside. The Catholic general assembly con venes at Breslau, Aug. 27. It will be one of the most important gatherings of the day. as it is intended to formu iato a platform declaring the indepen dence of the clergy. At the Convent of Mercy, Pittsburg, the other day, Sister Mary de Chantel McLaughlin and Sister Mary Aveiino Shields made their religious profession, and Miss Eugenia Baur and Miss Mary McAulilie received the habit and white veil oi! Sisters of Mercy, with the names Sister Mary Mita and Sister Mary Os wald. Right Rev. Bishop Phelen was celebrant at both ceremonies, Kev. F. Regis Canevin assisting. A new convent of. the Perpetual Ad oration has been founded at South Mimrns, near Barnet, England, .ft is culled St. Monica's Priory. The resi dent Nuns are canonesses of St. Aug ustine, and follow the rule of life writ ten by that great doctor of the Church. This house was first established in Lotivain, in Belgium, about 800 years ago by Margaret Clement, who had been brought up in the house of the great Chancellor, Sir Thomas Moore. The Royal tomb in the cave under the Church of St. Michael, in Munich, which the mortal remains of King Ludwig II. were deposited, contains at present twenty three coffins, including those of two Bavarian princesses—one, the daughter of Emperor Charles VII., v/ho died at eighteen years the other, a daughter of Duke Ferdinand Maria, who died at twenty years of age. Thus far the body of the King is only encased in an oaken coffin, richly and artistical ly ornamented in a short time the wooden receptacle will be enclosed an elaborately wrought metal one,bear ing the name and crown and unhappy monarch. It is just two hundred years since Governor Dongan, of New York—a Catholic holding his rank under a Cath olic king—granted a charter to the city of Albany. The most striking and im portant feature of the celebration of this event, held at the State capital a few days ago, was the commemorative service at St. Mary's Church last Sun day. The Mayor and city officials were present, and Mass was celebrated by Right Rev. Bishop Wadhams, of Og densburg. The attendance of a mili tary organization and of Indians in their aboriginal costumes made the oc casion more picturesque and impress ive. Rev. Father Walworth, of St. Mary's, preached an eloquent and for cible sermon. Cardinal Manning, in a sermon on the characteristics of the age, preached lately in Loudon, speaks thus of the effect of the spirit of the world upon society: "There was a time when the Church, its feasts, its customs, its traditions, ruled society. There was a time when individuals were weak, but society was strong—society was Christian and if Christian men became weak, society held them up. Now society has put off its Christianity. Individuals retain their faith, but the weight and current of society, which has lost its Chris tianity, are always bearing men down and carrying them away. Now the Church has to wait upon the world for its time, its hours, its festivals. Chris tians and Catholics are carried away by the spirit of the world. The name of God is hardly mentioned in private life. When a number of people sit together, who ventures to mention the name of God? Who ventures to sneak of any cacred thing? Once more, what little ml charity there is amongst men at the present day! Lastly, there is a worldly piety—a phenomenon which I can not explain. I do not know what to compare it to, except a kaleidoscope, in which sometimes one color pre dominates, sometimes another it is a combination of manifold tints. So it. is sometimes in the lives of some people. There are scapulars and ball-dresses, novels and books of devotion'-I will not go on.' Is it not better to have a single eye' and a firm spirit, and to choose which master you will serve? The people of the world look to Catho lics, and when they find one of us do ing the same things that they do,they are not only scandalized, but they are disappointed. They look to us for better things, and they believe better tilings.' A. '^SfM%" ^B*:- -,' A FANTASTIC SCENE. Jffce Grotesque Throng Which Fills the Streets of Nice on Shrove Tuesday. Who could describe the motley thou sands that form the crowd? Who could resolve them into their ele ments? Picture the most fantastic scene and the most fantastic panto mime that was ever seen in theater or circus, and multiply the effect ten thou sand fold, picture thousands of masked and dominoed men and women, attired as demons, as Mephi.stopheles, as imps and apes, as cats and dogs, as frogs and vegetables, conjure up hosts of ghosts, think of the most horrible night mare or the awful things of an opium orgie, and you have something of tho effect produced on the mind by one's first impressions of a Nice carnival. Imagine this great pantomime, in which fifty or sixty thousand people take part, giving themselves up to the dar ing frivolities of the carnival for three or four hours in the open air, with a burning, blazing sun. The ingenuity and the taste which are expended upon this wonderful ceremony are extraor dinary, and not less impressive is the astonishing variety of the costumes as sumed by the crowd which has flocked here to take a deep draught of diablerie. The tops of the*long colonnade were black with people, and there was no window and no point of vantage which was unoccupied. Up aloft souie were contented to brave the dangers without masks, but. the majority were both masked and dominoed. Opposite the prefecture was placed the throne of King Carnival, and the enormous fig ure of that awful potentate towered thirty feet up in the air, a Gargantuan monarch, with features modeled in {lorse )roportion to his height. Like the of Troy, his body serves as a receptacle, not for men but for fire works. On the last night of the revel ries a fuse is lighted, and the King flies up to the stariit heavens, illuminating the evening sky with a million lights, crimson, golden, silvern, shooting hith er and thither, and dropping their liquid lire on the crowd. "The King is dead. Long live the King!" cry the iickle plebs, and until 1887 the Iking and his court are forgotten. Round this huge iigure, standing out like some savage idol, tile the procession, slowly moving up the street to the braving of trumpets, and the beating of drums, and the fire of guns. The grotesque throng keeps admirable or der as tho procession marches slowly past, cheering and shrieking with laughter and cries of admiration, keep ing up a fierce fire of confetti the while. Bands of men, women and chil dren pass, clad in long, flowing domi noes of every conceivable cut and fash ion, red, pink, blue, green, violet, ,'-.lashed with trimmings of other colors, affording vivid contrasts to the body of the fabric. The masks are hideous and beautiful, with eyes bleared or lan guishing, mouth all awry or of perfect form, noses dwarfed, noses elongated, hooked, bent, broken facos bloody, faces rouged, ochred wigs of pink, tresses of flowing yellow' or of coal black. Many wear paper masks, whick admit of even more startling effects. One sees clowns in sugar-loaf hats and parti-colored robes, pantaloons and harlequins and troops of devils. Even the babes and children are disguised, and mother would' not recognize son, nor husband wife.—Interior. NAMiNG TROTTERS. Origin of the Nsraes of Some of the Best Known Ksce Horses. It is rather curious to trace out the origin of the names of many fast horses as entered in the trotting and pacing record. We all know how .Maud S and Jay-Eve-See came by their cognomens, but tho origin of some of the others are only known to the older horsemen. Goldsmith Maid, for in stance, was originally Goldsmith's mare, so called from her owner, Mr. Alden Goldsmith, of Orange County, N. Y. Goldsmith, by the war, has a very happy faculty of bestowing euphonious or appropriate names on his horses. For example, Bodine, Alley, Driver., Huntress, Sister, Trio, the last three being sisters, nnd very fast. Rarus, who was the first to lower Goldsmith Maid's record, be longed to a Long Island farmer named Conkling, whose son returned from college, and was asked to bestow a name on the likely colt. With a re miniscence of his classical studies and a prophetic intuition of the horse's future, he chose the Latin adjective signifying "rare." St. Jiuien received his name from a brand of wine— baptized in claret, as it were. Clingstone belonged to ex-Lieu tenant-Governor Pond, of Con necticut, who owned a large orchard of clingstone peaches, and desired as much success with the horse as he had with the fruit. Butterscotch belonged to an old candy peddler at Grand Haven, Mich., who made it one of the conditions of sale that the hors« should bear the name of that sweet and sticky article of confectionery. Some horses have risen to distinction under names bestowed upon them by mistake. Among these is Kibono. The owner wished to call him Cui Bono, but through the ignorance ol" the trainer and the entry clerk the horse's name appeared as Kibono. Having made a success under the latter ap pellation, it was thought best not to change it. Another horse was baptized King Pharaoh, but his trainer knew more about games of chance than he did about the Egyptian monarch and the animal havS gone as King Faro ever since. One horse, on account of infir mities, was to be called Deaf and Dumb, which the erratic spelling of his trainer shortened to Defendum7 As it costs fifty dollars to change the name of a horse after it has once been entered, Defendum flourishes to this day. Changes frequently take place, how ever. All of which is more ingenious than accurate.—Dunton's Spirit- of the Turf.- —Of the State libraries in the Union that of New York is the largest. It contains 128,000 volumes. Next comes Maryland, with 75,000 volumes, and then California with 62,000 volumes. Illinois stands tenth on the list. fr**v THE IRISH STANDARD: SATDRDAT^ AtJGnJST 7,1886. A NEW NEBULA?' The Wonderful Results of an Experiment Kecently Made In Paris. The Paris observatory has in success ful working order an ingenious and ef fective apparatus for celestial photog raphy. Messrs. Paul and Prosper Henry, able and earnest workers at the •bservatory, photographed, by means •f this apparatus, the well-known clus ter of stars called the Pleiades on the 16th of last November. Greatly to their surprise, a new nebula made its appearance on the photographic plate. This wonderful agent pictured an ob ject which their closest observation through the large telescope of the Paris observatory failed to detect. In order to make assurance doubly sure, the cluster was photographed three times subsequently, on the 8th and 9th of December and on the 8th of January. The result was always the same. The nebula was plainly discerned in the photograph, and refused to appear to the eye of the observer in the telescope. The Messrs. Henry have published a drawing of the new nebula. It has a curious and weird appearance. It seems to start from Mai a, one of the seven sisters of the group, moving at first toward the west and then turning suddenly toward the north and at last fading into invisibility, and at a dis tance of about three seconds from the star. A more distinct and ill-defined portion of the nebula makes its way to the south. The nebula is very intense and takes on a plainly marked spiral form, bearing a resemblance to a gro tesque and one-sided solar corona, and suggesting the great nebula of Orion on a small scale. The discovery of the nebula in the Pleiades has revived the memory of mysterious objects that have been seen from time to time among the stars of this group. In 1779 Jeaurat published a chart of the Pleiades on. which a nebula appears near the star Atlas. In 1859 Tern pel discovered a nebula in the same cluster, near the star Merope, which was seen by several other ob servers. Both of these nebulae have disappeared, and the nebula discovered by tfie Henrys occupies an entirely dif ferent place, apparently branching out from Maia. Three, therefore, of the stars composing the Pleiades either are or have been surrounded by nebulous masses. The most interesting fact concerning the new nebula is that related, by Prof. Pickering, of the Harvard college ob servatory. A photograph of the Plei ades was taken at the observatory on the 3d of November that developed cer-. tain irregularities. It was exhibited on the 10th of the same month at the Albany meeting of the National Acad emy of Sciences. These irregularities were discussed, and supposed to be due to defects in the photographic process. The photographs have been re-exam ined since the discovery of the'Henrys. One of the irregularities so closely cor responds to tho new nebula that no doubt can exist in regard to its origin. It must represent light photograph ically perceptible in the vicinity of Maia. The other markings on the Cambridge photograph have acquired a new interest. There seems to be in dications of nebulous light about Mer ope, and a faint, narrow streak of light projecting from one side of Electra. Thus American astronomers came near winning the honor that was won thir teen days later by Paris astronomers. Although the Messrs. Henry have thus far been unable to detect the new neb ula by the aid of the telescope, other astronomers have been more successful. M. Perrotm, of the observatory of Nice, where the atmospheric conditions are far more favorable than in Paris, an nounces that he has seen the famous new nebula. The observation was made February 28, and the feat was accomplished by masking Maia. The nebula was again observed March 3 and 4, not only by M. Perrotin, but by his companions, Messrs. Thellou and Carlois. The importance of photography in exploring the heavens can not be too highly appreciated. It is claimed that with the telescope now in use the human eye can detect no stars smaller than those of the fourteenth magni tude. Photography then can pierce to depth of space beyond the power of the sense of sight. What wonders may be developed through its agency in the future! Mapping the starry heavens is but one department of astronomical photography, but its value words may not calculate. The astronomers of the closing portion of the nineteenth century are thus enabled to bequeath to those who come after them an exact picture of tho starlit sky. When these maps are referred to one hundred years, or even fifty years, hence every departure from the records, every dis appearance of a star, every appear ance of a new star, every change of position will mark the occurrence of some stupendous event in the economy of the material universe. Observation pilefl upon observation is the only means by which at present the inhab itants of this little planet may hope to discover the secrets now hidden in the star depths.—Providcnce Journal. ABOVE PAR. Why a Texas Student Showed Some At tention to an Old Tramp. When a boy from the country goes Austin and becomes a student at the university, he immediately shucks his country clothes and blossoms out as a dude. If he doesn't pile on a great deal of style the other students boycott him. He' is also expected to associate onlv with high class people— that is, sucli as wear good clothes. "Tom," said Bill Yardly to Tom An jerry, "the boys are very much dis gusted with your conduct" "What have I been doing now?" "You have not quit going around with that old tramp." "I can't well get out of showing him some little attention while he is in town." "Why can't you shake him?" "I don't mind telling you in strict confidence that he is my father. Don* give me away now, Bill." "I won't. It shan't go any farther." —Texas'Sifting s. —A young girl in New York is a suc cessful and skillful locksmith. SELLING JEWELRY. The Peculiarities-of Men and "Women Observed by a Jeweler. A Main street jeweler says that he inds the women a hard lot to deal with in some respects, while in others thay are very desirable customers. "If a man buys a ten dollar watch and finds that it gets two or three minutes out of the way in course of time he comes back and wants to dynamite the store. A woman buys a watch for its looks and if it is five or ten minutes out of the way she doesn't care. She would prefer not to have it stop alto gether, though. Now and then a, school-ma'am comes in here and shows quite a masculine desire to have a good time-keeper, but she is an exception. Then it is hard for a woman to make up her mind about a purchase any way. I sold a fine gold watch to a woman yesterday," continued the merchant, "after she had been in cer tainly ten times to look over my stock. Since she started out on her search she had been to every store in the city. I know she had. She was accompanied on her last visit by a male friend, who advised for my watch. She kept me all through my supper hour, but of course she didn't think of that, and I was sat isfied. Sometimes we have to resort to little tricks of trade. Two women came in here the other day and said they had an hour in which to buy a clock for their pastor. I showed them a beautiful French clock worth seventy live dollars. The price was about right, but they couldn't be satisfied so easily, and were for starting out on a tour of inspection. I took the clock to pieces, showed them the works, explained the mechanism, and got them so interested that they forgot how the time was flying the hour went by, they did not have time to look further, and were well satisfied to buy the clock. The secret of successful selling is always to be courteous and interested in your cus tomer's. In no business is this so im portant as in ours, in which sales have to be carefully cultivated from the first feeble nibble to the final bite. Here comes a man now that I have been try ing to sell diamonds to for a month." The door burst open, the jeweler left his cozy quarters to meet the visitor, entered into a pleasant chat with the would-be buyer, got out the familiar casket and displayed its contents to the best advantage. Then he leaned care lessly over the show-case, whistled softly and gazed out at the people on the street. But the visitor's part was not played so nicely. He turned over the jewels nervously put them on his fingers, took them off, looked at them in every light, twisted his handkerchief in them. Then, as if with sudden de termination, he held up a ring, asked the price, criticised the fit, haggled over the price a little, and 3aid he would take it. The purchase was quickly made, and the jeweler came back with a smile of. triumph. "He paid five dollars more for that diamond than I would have given it to him for a week ago," he said. "It almost amounts to superstition with me, but I make special efforts to sell, and at good prices, on rainy days. Some days we sell ten dollars' worth of goods and some days five hundred dollars.'' Rainy days, and some others, are set down as bad ones for trade. So I exert myself to bring up the sales if possible on the off-days. We hang out for a fair price if we can get it, we take a low price if we must, but sell we will. One sees a good deal of human nature, for few things touch a man's innermost self so closely as his pocket-book and few things touch his pocket-book like a jeweler's line of goods."—Springfield Republican. DISCOUNTING BILLS. An Old Merchant Tells How He Makes His Business Profitable. "I make it a rule to discount my bills in thirty days," said a well-known retail merchant in Northern Ohio, who recently was in this market buying goods. "My discounts add consider ably to my profits in the course of a year. I buy oftener and smaller bills than under the old system of purchas ing new goods only twice a year, spring and fall. Prompt paying has caused me to buy with more caution and judg ment. "I carefully make out a memorandum of what I want and adhere to it. I try to take no chances on the goods I in tend to pay cash down for, "or inside of a month. I buy the goods that please myself and my trade, and not what pleases the jobber or the salesman to sell me. I ask no favors in the way of credit, and am therefore independent and can buy where it best suits me." "How did you get in the condition where, you could buy for cash?" was our inquiry. "Had you a large capital to commence with?" To which he re plied: "My original capital at the start was less than four hundred dol lars. I made money by saving it I had no clerk for the first two years, do ing all my own work. I was econom ical in my store and living expenses, and always have been. "I have been selling goods for twen ty-five years, and have made money every year. I have never indorsed a note nor bet on a horse race. I have always found enough to do in taking care of my business and of my profits. —N. Y. Dry-Goods Chronicle. A Stone Giant in Florida. While digging in the mound back of the garrison in search of Indian relics some gentleman, discovered a petrified Indian giant—as natural as if chiseled from a solid block of granite bv a masterly hand, and free Irom a single blemish except an indentation on the thigh made by the pick. In close proximity were a number of flint ar rowheads and other implements of In dian warfare. A stone jar was also discovered under the giant's head, which, upon being opened, was found to contain a calumet, a lot of brass jewelry and a number of copper and Spanish gold coins, which were black with time's Corroding breath. The discovery has created quite a stir. 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