No. 52.-VoL. V.
SUBIACO, THURSDAY, AUGUST
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PRICE 6D.
1878.
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Messrs. sterling. faith. On the contrary it seems as if in the room ; that it was found million of pounds have, in truth, it were the father of all lies who now impossible to separate them ; and that Fair, O'Brien and Flood they What for- they fought so desperately that they done well-ebetter, no doubt, than is worshipped in Prussia. with would have done had they not been How TO MAKE A HAPPY HOME. merly was considered generous and had devoured each other, two rash and ventured beyond the pale of their of exception Six things are requisite. Industry noble is now looked upon with contempt, the British legislation. by called tails. are swindling theft and and must be the architect ; tidiness the business,' uph(lsterer ; it must be warmed by by the euphonic word affection ; lighted with cheerfulness ; leading merchants openly declaring that DR. NEWMAN ON TEB WAR. and industry must be the ventilator, re- some transactions are bordering on A. HINT IN TIME: VERSUS STEEL Letters having been addressed to his newing the atmosphere and bringing in felony. Marriages are concluded vtithRAILS. Eminence the Cardinal-Archbishop, and fresh salubrity day by day ; while over out the blessing of the Churchto the Very Rev. Dr. Newman, asking all as a protecting canopy and glory concluded on trial; to be broken if not A series of interesting experiments them whether in their opinion those who still have a nothing will suffice butithe blessing of foursti to answer. Sunday, but it is only a. Sunday in on the comparative durablity of iron believed England was about entering God. name, as the people work during the and steel rails has lately been carried upon an unjustifiable war with Russia, spend and the on the Cologne-Minden Railway. In were not bound in conscience to resist, church hours in riot- 1864 a number of rails of different even at the risk of life, being dragged afternoons and evenings FATHER PETER BECKX. ing in the public -houses and music - manufacture were laid near the station into such a war, replies have just been Father Peter Beckx, General of the halls ; while the upper classes rush to of Oberthausen, on the most severely received from these distinguished etckSociety of Jesus, will have reached the the races, preferring to hear the panting worked portion of the line. It is siastics. 25th anniversary of his election on the of the tortured horses to hearing the shown that the passage of 1,340,000 The Very Rev. Dr. Johnson, secre2nd of July next, and his fellow -reli- word of God, which is ridiculed in the axles was necessary to wear the Besse- tary to his Eminence, writes In gious in Calcutta, the majority of whom press and turned into blasphemy in the mer rails 1 millimetre. Replacement of replying, by the Cardinal's desire, to are his countrymen as well, are prepar- popular assemblies, while the servants rails took place from time to time till your letter of the 15th inst., ing an album by way of congratulating of God are insulted daily.' The German 1874, to an extent which is shown in it is hardly necessary to say him on his having reached his Silver clerical newspapers, Protestant as well a table. Of the 1,935 rails replaced, that no one would be justified Jubilee of Generalship. With the as Catholic, are writing in a like strain. 1,204 were broken in full section, 227 in going forth to slay others merely to exception of Fr. Lawerence Ricci, under the Uultramontane organ, Baverisches in a section at a fish-plate hole, and 504 give expression to the vindictive feelwhose administration the Society Vaterland, for instance, says in a lead- were rendered useless through various ings of diplomatists. But this is not was suppressed in 1773, we doubt if ing article on the attempt to assissnate causes. Since 1874 the number of likely to be, on the part of our Governany General of the Jesuits has ever the Emperor William : We Germans rails requiring replacement has been ment, the object of any war with Russia encountered greater trials and contra- seem to have sunk down to be a nation constantly diminishing instead of in- into which England may possibly be dictions than Fr. Becks. The Italian of flunkeys and money -making sycop- creasing as previously. This is because drawn." Provinces of Rome, Naples, Sicily, hant., without an atom of honor or most of the deteriorated rails have been The Very Rev. Dr. Newman such, not through lack of strength, but writes Turin, and Venice; the Spanish dignity.'"-Pall Mall Gazette. Your letter proposes a most through some fault of manufacture, serious question. I answer it thus. Provinces of Aragon and Castile ; and which became apparent only after some Soldiers have engaged in a profession, the German Province have all been 4Iiipersed by the godless Government of months of service. Lastly, while in and promised service and loyalty to the THE KILKENNY CATS. those countries during his term of office. 1870 it was necessary to renovate 7.75 Queen. They cannot leave it suddenly, the Kilkenny as " As quarrelsome On the other hand, he sees an increase of the total length, in 1877 the propor- at their own will. If indeed, they were procurrent as a long been has cats" of 4,285 members, of the Society ; testifying to the ad- called on by virtue of their profession to of a story that two tion is only 1.13, having found 5,510 on his accession, verb, growing out vantages of steel over iron rails. sin, of course they must not obey ; they Kilkenny fought upon one in and after twenty five years receiving cats must be put to death rath& than obey, so long and furiously that, occasion of 9,795. congratulations the but they must be certain that it is sin after the combat was over, naught before they can religiously refuse. remained of the two belligerents save THREE LUCKY IRISHMEN. They have no duty, no liberty to refuse their individual tails. This is manifestly THE ASTRONOMER AND THE ATHEIST. an exaggeration, and when our readers Three lucky Irishmen have floated to to serve in a war with Russia unless have learned the true anecdote the surface from the uncertainties and they are perfectly sure that the war is The famous astronomer, Athansius shall with these famous cats, they the sadness s of mining life in America. unjust. Till then, their duty to the connected Kircher, having an acquaintance that will understand why only the two One of them was a poor man less than Queen is in force, and it remains so denied the existence of God, took a decade of year ago, and, if report though they may have strong grounds traditional tails were found. the following method to convince him the rebellion in Ireland in speaks true, he is to -day so rich that a for thinking that the war is unjust. During principles. his own upon his error, of Kilkenny was garrisoned by a dower of thirty millions to his only They cannot release themselves from Expecting him on a visit, he procured a 1798 of Hessian soldiers, whow daughter would leave him an ample their duty on a doubt or an opinion. regiment very handsome globe of the starry was to tie together, in one of margin of ten millions to spend for And, much as I, for one, disapprove of it custom heavens, which was placed in a corner barrack-rooms, two cats by their himself, either in munificence here or in of the war, and deplore, certainly I am of the room in which it could not their tails, and then to throw them, bequeathments of charity for years and not sure that there are not just grounds respective possibly escape his friend's observation. to face, across a line generally used years to come. His name is James for resisting the measures at present face The latter seized the first occasion to drying clothes. The cats naturally Fair, and he is the manager, superinten- carried out by the Russians. It is not ask whence it came and to whom it for infuriated, and scratched each dent, chief partner and principal share- out-and-out a clear case that the Rusbelonged. " Not to me," said Kircher, became death ensued to one or both holder in the Consolidated Virginia and sians are altogether right and we alto"nor was it made by any person, but other untiland finally terminated their California Silver Mines, known to men gether wrong." them, came here by mere chance." " That," of as the "Big Bonanzas I" Some seven sufferings. " is absolufriend, replied the sceptical corps were of the years ago, James Fair became acquainofficers The jest." tely impossible ; you surely acquainted with these ted with two Irish fellow-countrymen, THE CASE OF CONSTANCE KENT. Kircher, however, seriously presisted ultimately made acts of cruelty, and they re- who lived in San Francisco, and kept a in his assertion. " You will not," said barbarous Dr. J. C. Bucknill, in closing the put an end to them, and to punish public bar -room there. O'Brien and he to the sceptic, " believe that this so!ved to pur- Flood were the two clever, sober and second of his Lumleian lectures on order effect this In to offenders. the small body originated by mere chance, to inspect industrious Irishmen with whom Fair " Insanity on its Legal Relations," beand yet you will contend that those pose, an officer was ordered and to report struck up an intimacy. They heard of fore the Royal College of Physielims, heavenly bodies of which it is only a each barrack-room daily, in what state a mine called the Hale and Norcross, said : "It is a happy circumstance faint and diminutive resemblance came to the commanding officer the room. The cruel soldiers, and they consulted Fair about it. for us professionally that we have not into existence without order or design." he found often to give direct evidence of crime. Pursuing this chain of reasoning, his determined not to lose their daily sport People said it was going to ruin-that It is painful enough to give negative of the wretched cats, it was utterly worked out, and could do expense at the in the confounded, at first friend was The no such evidence which is incriminating. next place convinced, and ultimately generally employed one of their com- no good. Fair, however, had most remarkable case in which I have of the notion ; he encouraged O'Brien and the approach rades watch for to joined in a cordial acknowledgment of in their speculative enterprizes, been concerned, not even excepting that the absurdity of denying the existence officer, in order that the cats might be Flood before and he had the satisfaction of knowing of Victor Townley, was the case of in flight liberated and take refuge of God. the visit of the officer to the scene of that, in a short time afterwards, they Constance Kent, who murdered her On one occasion, the were drawing about .£15,000 a month young brother and escaped detection. their torture. " look -out man " neglected his duty, as the result of their investment. Mr. After an interval of several years, a IN RELIGION AND MORALS GERMANY. and the officer of the day was heard Fair worked day and night in the Hale truly conscientious motive led her to One of our correspondents writes on ascending the barrack stairs while the and Norcross mining. It was said it was confess, and the moat painful and inthe 20th inst. : -" The chaplain to the cats were undergoing their customary exhausted, but the Irish three worked teresting duty fell to my lot of examinImperial family, M. Baur, preached on torture. One of the troopers im- hard and Last together ; and they ing her for the purpose of ascertaining Wednesday last a sermon in the Cathe- mediately seized a sword from the arm - worked all the more earnestly because whether it would be right to enter the dral of Berlin, before the Emperor and rack, and with a single blow divided each of them felt that there were stores plea of not guilty on the ground of Imperial family, in which he spoke of the tails of the two cats. The suffering of wealth still within their reach. -insanity.' I was compelled to advise the present state of morality, or rather animals escaped, of course, through the They worked, and worked, and worked, against it, tad her codilsel, Mr. (now immorality, in Prussia in very strong open windows of the room, which was and at last they came upon the great Lord) Coleridge, on reading the notes Affection, faith, and the entered almost immediately after by the Bonanza Seam, a vast sheet of glitter- of my eximination, admitted that I terms. Word of God are now unknown in this officer, who inquired what was the ing stephanite, 100 feet wide, of un- could not do otherivise. By -her- own country,' the chaplain said, in this our cause of two cats' tails being suspended known length and depth, and of the wish, and that of her falsities,: I great German .Fatherland, which for- on the clothes-line, and was told, in tstimate value of six hundred million of published &lease in the /lees deeedbWilke; bet) merly justly was called the home of the reply, that two cats had boon fighting Whirs, or one hundred and twenty ing the matalatfaeta :of
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