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CATHOLIC NEWS.
Belieious 5otes.
S One-fourth of the inhabitants of Aus
tralia are Catholics.
Cardinal Manning is suffering from
inflamed eyes.
In two years from now the See of
Baltimore will be two hundred years
old.
Work has been commenced on the
new German Catholic church and
school at LaCrosse.
President Grevy has conferred on
Cardinal Di Bende the Grand Cross of
the Legion of Honor.
The Catholic University of Leuvain.
Belgium, is four hundred years old. It
was founded by Pope Martin V.
The good people of West Bend, Palo
Alto county, Iowa, have raised a sum
sufficient to build a handsome Catholic
.church.
Ten Protestants have been received
into the Church already this year by
Father Doyle, of St. Edward's church,
Cincinnati.
For the first time in several years the
Sacrament of Confirmation was admin
istered on Sunday, May 8, Chatta
nooga, Tenn.
Thp news is confirmed that Mon
signor Stumpff, coadjutor bishop of
Strasburg, will be nominated Prince
Bishop of Breslau.
The death is announced of Baine P.
Flannigan. of Falkirk, the first Catho
lic that has occupied the position of
magistrate in a Scottish burg since the
so-called Beformation.
A church is about to be built in Bome
to commemorate the centenary of St.
Louis Gonzaga, and an appeal is made
to all the youth of the Catholic world in
aid of its erection.
Four thousand eight hundred dollars
have already been collected by Arch
bishop Elder, Cincinnati, to buy the
claims of the late Archbishop Purcell's
creditors of twenty-five cents on the
dollar.
A fine communion rail, the work of
one of the Franciscan Brothers, has
been placed iu the Church of the Sacred
Heart, Indianapolis, Ind. It is under
stood that a new main altar will shortly
be put in this church.
Miss Miriam Armstrong, daughter of
Bev. J. G. Armstrong, late of the Mon
umental Episcopal Church, of Atlanta,
Ga., has been received into the Catholic
Church by Kev. Father Keily, brother
of Hon. A. M. Keily.
The death is announced of the dis
tinguished Catholic journalist, Don
Giacomo Margotti, editor of the "Unita
Cattolica." The paper will continue to
be conducted cn the same lines by his
brother, Commendatore Stefano Mar
gotti.
The Oblates of Mary, in Canada, hav
ing civilized the Kippewa county, are
now going to open it up to the com
merce of the world. They are building
a railroad from the termination of the
Temiscamingue railroad to Kippewa
Lake.
Rt, Bev. Bishop Junger, of Portland,
is visiting Seattle and points on Puget
Sound. His Lordship goes to Seattle
to arrange for the building of another
church in that city. Ground has re
cently been purchased in Tacoma also
for a new hospital and a Sister's
school.
Monsignor Bosi, cleric di Camera of
his Holiness, presented to the Holy
Father the offering of the girls in the
educational institution of the Visita
tion in Turin, on the occasion of his
sacerdotal jubilee. This was accom
panied hy an album containing the ad
dresses of each of these pupils.
The celebration of the 458th anniver
sary of the delivery of Orleans by Joan
of Arc was inaugurated on Saturday,
May 8, by the Bishop of Orleans, who
held aloft the standard of La Pucelle,
which he had received from the hands
of the Mayor, while he blessed the
kneeling and enthusiastic population.
The civil law of Italy oppresses the
consciences of Catholics in a variety of
ways. The latest development of this
legalized tyranny is the issue of a circu
lar by the Director of Public Schools,
compelling the attendance of the chil
dren on holidays of obligation under
pp.in of severe punishment, so as to pre
vent them from assisting at Mass.
M. Gounod has presented to Leo
XIII., as an act of filial homage to his
Holiness, a new cantata which he has
composed, and which is to be sung at
the Vatican on the day on which the
exhibition organized to celebrate the
Holy Father's jubilee will be inaugu
rated. The Sovereign Pontiff has gra
ciously accepted the tribute. It is ex
pected that the illustrious composer
will proceed to Bome to direct in per
son the execution of his. work.
It is gratifying to know that the
Catholics of Iowa are full of religious
ff zeal. Within a very short time corner
-stones were laid for new churches at
|fCouncil Bluffs and Dubuque. At Cres
:ton a magnificent church was dedicated
ia short time ago. The "lows Messen
ger" says: The indications are that the
progress of church organizations iuid
building is but commenced, and in a
tew years Iowa will stand first amon?
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MEXICAN NOTES.
Charlea Dudley Warner's Impressions ei
a Bsllway trip in Mexico.
Cuautla is a typical Mexican village
in the temperate region, about 4,000
feet above the sea, in the State of Mo
relos, which adjoins the State of Mex
ico on the south. It is reached by a
railway—eighty miles in seven hours
—which climbs out of the valley east
ward, and then runs south and west,
making an almost exact half-circle to
its destination. In Mexico the rail
ways must run where the mountains
permit.
The first part of the way lies over
the flat plain, through the chinampas,
or little patches of truck gardens,
over narrow canals and ditches,
through overflowed ground with tufts
of marsh-grass, and between the two
lakes. The whole region is alive with
teal ducks, which rise from the lagoon
and whirl away in flocks as the train
passes. On the slightly elevated roads
donkeys laden with vegetables (the pa
tient beast which a witty woman calls
"the short and simple animal of the
poor"), Indian women, also bent to
their burdens, short, with flat
fa—3s, brown legs, small feet and
small hands—the aristocracy of
the soil—and Mexican laborers
in ragged serapes and broad straw
hats, file along toward the city. Soon
abrupt elevations in the plain are
reached, picturesque heights with
churches, and the foot-hills are
entered. The journey grows more in
teresting as we ascend, the adobe
villages have a more foreign character,
and the mixed population becomes
more picturesque in costume and hab
its. The train is made up of first,
second and third class cars. The Mexi
can men in the first-class, yellow half
breeds, are gorgeous in array, wear
ing enormous and heavy high-crowned,
broad-brimmed hats, loaded with sil
ver and gold bullion, trousers braided
down the seams or thick sewn with
coins or buttons of silver, every man
with a pistol ostentatiously strapped
on his waist, and many of them carry
ing guns. These gentlemen are going
to hunt at some hacienda in the hills,
and. at the stations where they alight
there is great scurrying about, getting
into rickety carriages, mounting
heavily caparisoned little horses, which
fidget and curvet. There is an amus
ing air of bravado about it all.
The third-class cars have four paral
lel benches running from end to end,
and are packed with a motley throng—
Indian-looking Mexican women in blue
ribosas, plenty of children and babies,
men in soiled serapes and big hats,
every body eating some odd mess. At
all the stations the train makes a long
halt, and the sides of the cars swarm
with hucksters, mostly women and
boys, offering the sapotas and other
tasteless fruits, tamales, and other in
describable edibles, ices (flavored and
colored snow), pink drinks faintly
savored with limes and pulque. The
tamal is a favorite composite all over
the republic. It consists of chopped
meat, tomatoes, and chile rolled in a
tortilla. The tortilla, perhaps it is
necessary to say, the almost universal
country substitute for bread, is a cake
made of maize, and about the size of a
large buckwheat cake. Its manufacture
is one of the chief occupations of
the women. In almost every hut and
garden one can hear the grinding and
the patting of the tortilla. Seated on
the ground, the woman has beside her
a dish of soaking grains of maize. In
front of her is a curved stone, and upon
this she mashes the maize with a stone
roller held in both hands until it is a
paste. This paste she molds and skill
fully pats into shape, and lays upon a
piece of sheet-iron to bake over a
charcoal fire. Too often it is like
Ephraim—"a cake not turned."
At and before we reached Ameca
meca,«an elevation of over 8,000 feet,
the twin snow mountain rose in view,
and thereafter lorded it over the land
scape in all our winding way. From
Amecameca the ascent of Popocatepetl
is usually made, and the cone shows
very grandly across the rayine from its
elevation. This is the village of sacred
shrines and noble groves, much re
sorted to by pilgrims and excursionists.
At the sacred festival in May as many
as 40,000 worshipers assemble here.
At Ozumba, where the'road begins to
descend, we breakfasted very well for
fifty cents, a rude shanty, on eggs,
rice, beefsteak, three or four other
kinds of meats and stews, sweets,
pulque and black coffee. The pulque
is best in these high regions. It is a
viscious milk-white fluid, very whole
some and sustaining, and would be a
most agreeable drink if it "tasted
good." In fact it tastes, when it has
been a few days fermented, like a mixt
ure of buttermilk and sour cider. But
many strangers become very fond of
it. The older it grows the more intoxi
cating it is. As the reader knows,
probably, it is drawn from the maguey
plant, called by us the "century, "which
grows on these elevations ^to a great
size, and is the cleanest-limbed and
most vigorous and wholesome-looking
product of the region. When it ma
tures it shoots up a stout spike ten or
twenty feet high from the center, bear
ing brilliant orange flowers. When
the plant is ready to tap, the center
stalk is cut out, and the sap collects in
the cup thus formed. It is dipped out,
or sucked out by a tube, and when first
drawn is mild, cool and refreshing. In
about three days it begins to ferment.
As it is often carried to market on the
backs of natives in pig or goat skins, it
gets a disagreeable flavor. The maguey
plant has many uses. It is eaten cut
up and preserved like melon rinds. Its
long tough fiber is very extensively
used in making ropes and^ cordage.
The end of each leaf terminates in a
hard, sharp, black thorn. .Break off
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tached to it, and you have a capital
needle and thread for coarse sewing.
The muleteers use it to mend their
saddles and broken harness straps.
What encouragement is there to indus
try when nature furnishes in one plant
drink, food, needles and thread, and a
rope for lariats!— Charles Dudley War
ner, in Harper's Magazine.
EATING ON BOARD SHIP.
How Many Provisions It Takes to Stock
a Modern Ocean Steamer.
That "human nature is a curious
thing, and there is plenty of it," is
probably better exemplified on board a
great ocean steamship than in any
other place in the world. There is to
be found motley assemblage of men,
women and children, sometimes num
bering upwards of 1,500 souls—not
packed like herrings in a barrel, mo
tionless and compressed, but as bees
in a hive, active and swarming about
every hour in the day. Their lives are
linked together and subject to one
common destiny for the time being,
and the knowledge of this fact, as well
as the circumscribed nature of the im
mediate surroundings, promotes so
ciability and good fellowship, and in
duces passengers to take an unusual
interest in their neighbors.
The vast majority of the traveling
public accept with complacency, and
quite as a matter of course, the refine
ments and conveniences to be found on
board the ocean steamers of to-day.
They fail to grasp the full extent of
the advancement which has taken
place within the last half century, and
they are apt to overlook the intricacies
of the human mechanism which has
to be constantly but quietly kept in
motion for the attainment of order,
regularity and discipline. They pos
sess no intelligent conception of the
vastness and variety of the provision
ing necessary for the proper mainte
nance of the crowds carried in our
modern floating hotels nor have they,
the slightest ideas of the quantities of
fuel and ship's stores generally ab
sorbed by these insatiable leviathans.
The Britannia, built in 1839, took
600 tons of coal leaving Liverpool on
her outward voyage. She burned
forty-four tons per day, while her
steam pressure was nine pounds and
her speed a little over eight knots per
hour. Gradually and steadily the
ocean steamers increased in all these
particulars until the culmination was
reached in a vessel built in 1885. She
has averaged a speed of eighteen knots
in nine consecutive voyages between
Queenstown and New York, which is
equal to nearly twenty-one statute
miles per hour, or somewhat greater
than the average speed of the ordinary
train service on any railway in the
world. Her engines indicate 14,000
horse-power and are supplied with
steam from nine double-ended boilers,
each with eight furnaces. The total
consumption of coal is 300 tons per
day, or twelve tons per hour, or 466
pounds per minute and if the whole
of the fires were raked together and
formed into one large fire there would
be forty-two tons of coal, or a mass
twenty feet long, twenty feet broad
and rather more than four feet high
fiercely burning. Besides the coal,
130 gallons of oil are used daily for
journals, bearings, etc.
Passengers inhale with the sea air
an excess of enthusiasm, and are ready
to become excited on the smallest pro
vocation. Is it a passing vessel? Or
a spouting whale? Or a towering ice
berg? It forms for the nonce an all
absorbing topic of interest and eager
speculation. But even to those who
can not be termed epicures, the chief
concern and uppermost thought of
each day is undoubtedly "What shall
we eat and what shall we drink?"
The fresh breezes create hearty ap
petites, and with numbers of people
the time is agreeably spent in the en
joyment of one meal or in the anticipa
tion of the next. Under these circum
stances, what an important depart
ment is that under the charge of the
chief steward!
The amount of provisions, groceries,
etc., on board at the time of sailing is
very large. For a single passage to
the westward one of, the most noted
steamers, with 547 cabin passengers
and a crew of 287 persons had, when
leaving Liverpool* the following
quantities of provisions—12,500 pounds
fresh beef, 760 pounds corned beef, 5,
820 pounds mutton, 850 pounds lamb,
850 pounds of veal, 350 pounds pork,
2,000 pounds fresh fish, 600 fowls, 300
chickens, 100 ducks, 50 geese, 80
turkeys, 200 brace grouse, 15 ton pota
toes, 30 hampers vegtables, 220 quarts
ice cream, 1,000 quarts milk and 11,500
eggs.
In groceries alone there were over
200 different articles, including (for
the round voyage of twenty-two days)
650 pounds tea, 1,200 pounds coffee,
1,600 pounds white sugar,2,800 pounds
moist sugar, 750 pounds pulverized
sugar, 1,500 pounds cheese, 2,000
pounds butter, 3,500 pounds ham and
1,000 pounds bacon.—N. T. Mail and
Express.
—I once knew a pious old Scotch
man whose son had succeeded remark
ably in life, and had built a princely
mansion in a beautiful city. A lady
was congratulating the old man on the
event, when, with a quiet little laugh,
he answered: "Weel, he may ha'e a
grand hoose, but I've a better." Yes,
a house of many mansions, the mas
terpiece of the Architect of Heaven and
earth.—Dr. W. Q. Blaikie.
—There are one thousand convicts
in Sing Sing prison, and it takes
twenty-one barrels of flour to make
bread for them every day. —Boston
Budget.
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HUMOROUS.
—When you say that you don't know
which are the fattest letters in the
alphabet you will be told O T,
whereupon you are expected to exclaim
OI C.
—Pugilist—"I heard you wanted to
hire some one to post bills." Show
man—"I do. Have you had experi
ence? P.—"No, but I'm a first-class
paster."—Boston Budget.
—A Haverstraw woman, who be
lieved there was "good luck" in hav
ing a bird fly in a house, chased a
canary bird in, and in doing so upset
and broke a ten-dollar looking-glass.—
Middletown Mercury.
—The Proper Study of Mankind.—
"What is man?" sighed Haroun Alras
chid. "To-day he is here and to
morrow he is in Canada, and the next
day nobody knows where in thundei
he is."—Tid-Bits,
—That Damsel from Maine.—
A dashing young damsel from Me.,
With a face most uncommonly Pie.,
H&d such cute little Ft.,
That when seen on the St.,
Toung "ChoUy" was driven Inse.
—Philadelphia Press.
—"Reuben," said Mrs. Stubbs, laying
down the evening paper, "what is
meant by optimism? "Optimism?"
•'Yes. The paper says that optimism
is not a characteristic of the modern
age." "Optimism, Hannah, is a dis
ease of the eye, an' you'll git it the
fust thing you know, if you keep on ap
readin' that fine print."—Tid-Bits.
—Ma—"Now, you must be good,
Algy. Algy—"How much will you
give me for being good?" Ma—"How
much will I give yoU?" A—"Yes'm."
Ma—"Nothing, of course." A.—"Then
I won't be good." Ma—"You won't?"
A.—"Not unless you pay for it." Ma
—"Why not?" A.—"Because I would
then be a good for-nothing boy."—
Penman's Art Journal.
—Uncle Jack returns from a long
walk, and, being somewhat thirsty,
drinks from a tumbler he finds on the
table. Enter his little niece Alice, who
instantly sets up a cry of despair. Un
cle Jack—"What's the matter, Allie?"
Alice (weeping)—"You've drinked up
my aquarium, and you've swallowed
my free pollywogs.—Harvard Lawr
poon.
—Nothing in a recently published
compilation of definition excels the
following, said by the Norwich Bul
letin to have been written by a boy in
school in -that city, in a language les
son in which the word "organic," was
to be used in governing the sense oi
the sentence. "The he Italian is the
most organic man on the face of the
earth."
—Fit For An Asylum—First Omaha
Girl—"Yes, that Mr. Newbeam is
handsome, but he's such a fool." Sec
ond Omaha Girl—"It doesn't seem pos
sible." "It's true, though. At the
concert the other night I caught him
staring at me and I looked back at him
in a surprised, angry sort of way, you
know." "Of course." "Well, he
didn't once glance in my direction
again the whole evening."—Omaha
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
—Queen Victoria has in Windsor
Castle three vases valued at $100,000
and a Sevres dinner-service worth
$250,000.
—King Humbert IV. of Italy is about
forty-three years old, passably hand
some and a brave, humane and popu
lar ruler.
—Captain James M. McDonald, one
of the supervisors of San Francisco,
has donated his monthly salary, $100,
to charitable purposes.
—Mr. Beecher's greatest taste in art
was for etchings and engravings, of
which he had some two thousand, in
cluding plates by some of the most
eminent masters.
—Senator Stanford owns the largest
vineyard in the world. It is in Te
hama County, and contains 3,500 acres
in bearing vines. The entire ranch
comprises 30,000 acres.
—John L. Mitchell, the son and heir
of the late Alexander Mitchell, is short
in otature, with a shrewd Scotch face.
He has a flowing full brown beard
which reaches half way down to his
waist, and wears steel-bowed specta
cles.
—The Princess of Wales has had her
daughters taught the complete art of
divss-niaking. The Princess herself
understands both its theory and prao
tiee, and this is one reason why she is
always so perfectly dressed.—Harper's
Bazar.
—An exchange remarks: If the mar
irity of readers were to express their
honest opinions concerning the authors
whom they read, one of their opinions
w:mld be that nearly all, if indeed, not
all, authors have written too much.
—Ezra D. Stiles, of Skaneatles, N.
Y., claims to be the oldest Mason on
this continent, if not in the world. He
became a Mason in September, 1817,
in a lodge held in Augusta, N. Y., and
in the following winter joined the
Chapter of Royal Arch Masons in New
Hartford, so he has been a Mason
nearly seventy years. Mr. Stiles was
ninety-one years old the 11th day of
March last, and is hearty. If. Y.
Sun.
—The Queen of Roumania fell into a
throne by failing down-stairs. When
there was. no Kingdom of Boumania in
existence' she had laughingly said: "I
do not want- to marry unless I can be
Queen of Bonmania." Running down
the palace stairs at Berlin one day her
foot slipped, and she would probably
have been killed but for Prince Charles
of Hohenzollern, who saw her danger
and caught her in his outstretched
arms. When Roumania chose him for
a ruler he claimed the Princess as his
bride.—Chicago Tribune.
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