People We Hear About.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 4, 24 January 1901, Page 6

People We Hear About.

The death is recorded at Royton, near Oldham, England, of an Irishwoman named Kennealy, who had attained 110 years. She was the youngest of 13 children, and her reminiscences dated as far back as three years before the opening of the present century. Jußtin McCarthy was 70 yearn of age on November 22. From the position of an obscure journalist in Cork to the editorial chair of one of the morning paper 3in London was his achievement in lfsl f 5 years. There are 34 nations represented by ambassadors in Washington, D. C. Twenty uf thtne arc Catholics ; one, Russia, schismatic Catholic ; five are heathen, six are Proteetant, and the Dominican Republic and Hayti are more largely Catholic that Protestant, and the representatives of both are Catholic. As a child Madame Albani made such a success in her first appearance on the concert platform that she was surrounded with bouquets. That was in a convent in Montreal, where she received her education. At 14 she was first soprano in a Catholic choir at Albany, New York, and at sudden notice became organist. Then her singing ability was noticed, a fund was raised, and she waa sent to Europe for study in Paris and Italy. The rest i 8 known. Mr. John Morley, whose sixtieth birthday occurred recently, although he is in no way the austere man of tradition, is not rioh in amusements. He likes long walks over Scottish hills and solitary meditations in country lanes, and he has the bookman' b resource of supreme happiness in the seclusion of his library. The one relaxation he permits himself is music, of which he is intensely fond. An American newspaper was responsible for the report that Mr. Morley's favorite recreation was entomology, and that he was frequently seen with a butterfly net chasing a rare specimen. This, of course, was purely imaginative. A remarkable article on Lord Russell of Killowen, in an American magazine, offers to its readers 'an estimate of his earnings at the Bar.' These were enormous, of course ; but the writer overpasses the mark when he puts them at £20,000 a year for a period of 3<» years. Somebody else has quoted Lord Russell himself as saying, when a rumor that he made £30,000 a year was quoted to him, that a third of the sum would be nearer the mark. The inference may be taken that his income averaged something under £20,000 a year over a longish period. As he kept a careful record of his fees, the question which has often been rather excitedly discussed will be settled once for all. Mme. Julia Regnifo, the widow of General Regnifo, for many years the minister of Columbia to the United Stateß, has just presented her beautiful jewels, the gift of her husband, to St. Aloyßiua' Church in Washington. It is the wish of the donor that they be placdl on a chalice, the gold of which is to be made from sword hilts and other peismfll belongings of General Regnifo. The bereaved lady is now in Paris, and will there select the model for this magnificent chalice. Mr. William O'Malley, who is the Parliamentary representative of the Connemara division of Galway, is a well-known journalist. He was for a considerable time manager of the Wu'kly Smi of London, when the journal was under the control of T. P. O'Connor, M.P., and was also connected with the London Star. He was born in the year 18,j7, and is married to a sister of Mr. T, P. O'Connor. He is an astute and able politician, and has rendered good services to the Irish Parliamentary Party. His Eminence Cardinal Vaughan naturally enough comes in for notice in Mr. Clement Scott's Free Lance, After describing the Cardinal's appearance — he calls him ' the handsome Cardinal ' — hit receptions, und his self-denial, he says : 'With the exception of two brothers, Colonel and Reginald Vaughan, of Courtfield, Roes, and Glen Irothy, Abergavenny, all Mrs. Vaughan's children, for whom she prayed so earnestly, have become prießts or nuns. Tereia Vaughan joined the Sisters of Charity in 1861, who were then in Park street, Westminster. She offered herself to the Superioress, Sister Chatelain, who, noticing at once her symptoms of delicate health — and, indeed of consumption — made her reception apparently out of the question. Teresa, nothing daunted, exclaimed: "If I cannot live as a Sister of Charity, let me, at least, die as one." Her wish was granted, and Teresa Vaughan was the firit Sister of Charity who died in England. Of his brothers, four entered the Church — Bede, who died Archbishop of Sydney ; Bernard, of the Society of Jesus, Rector of the Holy Name, Manchester ; John, Damestic Prelate of his Holiness ; and Kenelm, founder of the House of Expiation, now in South America collecting funds for the new Westminster Cathedral. In addition to the four brothers who entered the ecclesiastical state, the Cardinal has two unclesWilliam, Bishop of Plymouth, who was born in 1814, was consecrated by Cardinal Wiseman in 1855. and Edmund, a member of the Redemptorist Congregation. To this fairly formidable list of clerical relatives must be added two nephews, sons of Colonel Vaughan, of Courtfield.