People

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 11, 13 March 1902, Page 10

People

It has been decided to erect a monument in Dublin to perpetuate the memory of the late Dr. Kenny. President Roosevelt has been elected an honorary member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of New York. Prince David Kawanahaka, of Hawaii and Miss Abigail Campbell, of San Jose, California, were married recently in San Francisco by Most Rev. Archbishop Riordan. Right Rev. Dr. Bagshawe, who lately resigned the See of Nottingham, has taken up his residence at the Convent of the Little Company of Mary, Isleworth. Squire Sutton, of Stannington, Sheffield, a Catholic gentleman serving with the Yorkshire Yeomanry in South Africa, was severely wounded in a recent engagement Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P., has appeared in the ranks o£ temperance advocates, giving this as his solemn matured opinion • ' I believe that in half a century from now no man will rise to the heights of any profession, in the field, in forum, or at the desk, who is not a teetotaller.' The efTete Latin races arc showing up pretty well in the march of scientific progress (says the ' Western Watchman '), Marconi is a Latin; <uhl lie has i ust placed us in telegiaphic communication with Europe without the aid of wires. SantosIhimont is a Latin ; and he has demonstrated that we can sail through the air and guide our course as perfectl\ there as on land or sea. A brn\o and patient worker m the \inevard of the Lord, Sister Mary LafMeii.t Dancino, of the Sisters (if CaHcirv, passed away m Rome in December, aged 72 years, 50 of which she had spent m the religious state Her long lifo was entirely de\oted to the deaf and dumb, and she was the first to introduce the phonetic s\stem m Italy Miss \nnie Leary, of New York, has been created a countess by Pope L<>o \ni m recognition not alone of her munificence along educational and chaniable lines and her personal piety. but of her unceasing effort on behalf of Ihe Church m America. She is the first American woman to bear a title bos-lowed hv the Holy See. and probably the largest indi\idual benefactor' of the Church in the country. Up to this time only Iwo American women have been distmctnelv honored by the Pope. Mrs. •Toll n Sherman and Miss (iwendoline Caldwcll were decoiated with the Order of the Golden Kose. l'\ir away in the Victorian mining centre. Dr-ndigo (writes ' M A I' ") In ps a simple music teacher, Allan Bindley , a man of modest claims) and still more modest fortune, but who taught Miss Amy Castles all she knew of music before she left her n.itne Australia On the night of her recent debut in London, when her dressing-room was thronged with people of distinction, and masses of costly blossoms were Iving at her feel, a cable containing vist two words ' Omul luck.' was handed to Aliss Castles from Mr Bmdloy In. that, moment all her success was forgotten, tears fell on the paper as she pressed it to her lips, and, remembering that cables from Australia are costly it"ins, she said to a friend, ' [Tow good of him, for he is not a rich man.' Signor Enrico Mastracchi, of the staff of the ' Unita Cattolica,' is the do.\eu of Italian Catholic journalists. On Thursday, January 2, he had been 40 years on the Catholic press as a writer or editor. The

' Unita Cattolica ' kept the day as a day, of jubilee, for, as it remarked, the completion of 40 years fearlessly devoted to the defence of the Catholic flag- deserved tp be commemorated in a special manner. His Holiness Leo XIII. did not allow the occasion to pass unobserved. Through Cardinal Rampolla, he wrote to the journalist sending his congratulations and the Apostolic blessing. He also presented to Signor Mastracchi a gold medal, which is a beautiful work of art, assuring him that he desired to recognise the earnestness and constancy with which he applied himself to the laudable work of Catholic journalism, and the care which ho took to practise in private life the principles which he asserted in public. Father Felix Crepeaux, who performed the marriage ceremony of Senator Depew and Miss May Palmer at Nice during December, was a well-known officer in the French army (says the Cleveland Catholic Universe'). Some years ago he was colonel of a regiment, and a brilliant career was opening before him. He resigned from the army and entered a seminary to study" for the priesthood. He was then only 45 years old and was an officer of the Legion of Honor. He was soon ordained, and said his first Mass at Orgeval. His subsequent promotion was rapid, and he is now cure of Notre Dame, the chief Catholic church of Nice. Lord Howth is now past 70 years of age, a bachelor, and the last of his hue. He was, in former years, Liberal member for Galway, and will be chiefly known to fame as the virtual founder of the Dublin Horse Show. Howth Castle has been in the possession of the family since the 12th century, and the present peer, though only the fourth earl, is the 80th baron. The castle, winch is 12 miles from Dublin stands on a bleak hillside But in late spring the bare-looking mountain is a perfect paradise of blossoms, acres of ground being covered with masses of azaleas and rhododendrons The beech hedges grow nearly 30ft high, and there is an elm tree 300 years old. A quaint legend is attached to Howth Castle. The story goes that when an Irish chieftamess returned from a visit to Queen Elizabeth, she proceeded to the ensile in search of refreshment, but found all the gates securely closed, it being the hour of dinner. In rc\ong<\ she seized the infant heir of the St. Lawrences and carried him off a prisoner to her own castle in M.iyo Nor was he released until his father had co\enanted that the gates of Howth Cusilc should never again be closed at the dinner-hour. This \dw has been religiously kept through the course of centuries, and the custom is still ol, served in modern tunes — even-.'S recently as when Lord and Lady Ashbournc occupied the Castle.