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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 16, 16 January 1891, Page 7

Archdeacon Farrar, in a discourse on General Booth's scheme, delivered in Westminster Abbey, said the Anglican Church had lost the great mass of the working classes. Not more than ten per cent. attended the ordinary services. The condition of Herr Windthorst, the leader of the Catholic party in tbe Reichstag, is the cause of sjme anxiety among his friends and supporters. He is suffering frum an affection of the heart, aud his physicians have enjoined him to withdraw from all active participa- j tion iD peli'ieal affairs for the piesent and to take an absolute rest. Empress Frederick has bought Martin Luther's old castle Kronberg, and will convert it into a charitable institution in memory of her husband. Empress Frederick would better couvert it intu an industrial icsti'uti n and fciv« work to a few of her eons' hungry, idle subjects. Except iv tie case of asylums for children the world has too many charitable institutions now. The person who, wishing to help the poor, will invent come way of giving work to the unemployed will oe in the better business than giving alms and building j poor houses. In EngUnd to-day one person in every thirty-three is either wholly or in part a pauper. Father Kneip, of Waereehofen, near Munich, has discovered a remedy for neurotic patients. He makes them go barefoot so as to prevent flows of blood tv the head, and every morning they have to plunge into icy cold water. After the plunge comes a rubbing down with towels till the body glows, and then the cure is carried on by mean* of a vigorous dietary from which meat, condiments, and all intoxicating drinks are excluded. Baron Nathaniel Rothschild, of Vienna, has undergone tbe cute successfully. General Msnduit, of the French army, kept bs liuuurauth birthday on the 7th November He was a soldier of the Firbt Empire, having entered the army in 1807. He received his sub-lieutenant's commision in 1808, and waß raised to tbe rank of lieutenant in 1809, and cap'ain in 1812. He was placed in the reserve, but with the rank of Central of Brigade, 1852. The clemency of Irish landlordism has again bjen shown in the eviction of fifty families on the Olt>hert < star in Donegal, feir John Swinburcr, a wealthy English land owner found an evicted widow, her Bou.^laugbter-in-law, and eight email cLiidren vainly seeking shelter from the rain near the house fiom which they were driven. He declared that if he had perpetrated one-tenth of such cruelty on his estates in England be would be shot down and the country would ay it served him right,