People

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 13, 27 March 1902, Page 10

People

Accord<ng to the Brisbane 'Ago' tho Rev Father McKiernan is JVla;\ or of Gayii l.i h, and is the only priest in Australia hoi fling- such an office ( Much regret has been caused at Cambridge by the announcement that Lord Acton, in consequence of the slate- of his health, has intimated his inlention of resigning the editorship of the- - Cambndge Modern Histoiy' to the Sn,\dics of the University Press. Lord Acton is a Catholic Mr. Wilfred Whistler, in the London ' Mail,' sa.vs there are 23.000 street names in London.- ' The most remarkable feature about this fact , in that Protestant city is the older the location the more' Catholic are the names attached to the streets. Names from the liturgy of the Church, and from the saints, especially Our Lady, are too frequent to be enumerated, -while, to a careful philologist, many names that are of doubtful origin can no doubt be traced to a similar source. Such names as ' Cockpit Court ' do not bear much investigation; they will be found to spring 1 from later times and tho current recreations which came in vogue certainly not with the sanction of the Catholic Church. Another famous art treasure (says n correspondent of the ' Daily News') will shortly be hung- in a private museum in New York. Air. I'ierpont Morgan, is now the owner of the Colonna Madonna, and has paid £.1 00.000 for it to the picture dealer Sedelmeyer It was in the possesion of Ferdinand 11., of Naples, and on his death passed into that of Francis 11., who tried to sell it for ■£.'50.000 (o Queen Isabella, to Queen "Victoria, to the Empress Eugenic, and, I have heard, to the National

* ' i Gallery. The Empress Eugenife would_ha,ve induced the ,La,u^i;e to buy this painting had ift^&fe££fojeen for the jWiigj of* 1870. S= f &xstfu&Bis%[ t hough t it ' heart J bjreak in&ct #?hßfr£|&o part with -his' famous 1 "worjsvqlr Jfaphael, which was done"" in'" lifs" 23rd year for tho nuns of St. Anthony of Padua at Perugia. It represents the Virgin Mother on a throne with the Infant Jeans on her knees, and with a court of saints and* angels. An Irishman named James McNally, an inmate of St. Peter's House, South JLambeth, enjoys the distinction of being the oldest man in London. He was born, according to his own account, in King's County, on February 17, 1797, and brought up in the ' County Galway. Ho left his native land 0O years "ago and went to London, where he got a job as scaffolder to the biggest building firm in the city. As he/ was always careful and sober and never smoked or drank he saved money, married, and went to America with his wife. It was during the Civil "War, and the American Government employed him to look after the baggage. Though he never enlisted, he was present at the Battle of Nashvillo and .saw a good deal of fighting. Ho lost his wife in America and he returned to England in 1883 with a snug little sum in his pocket. Tho old man is now 105 years of age. Father O'Callaghan, the Paulist, tells the following story illustrating the fearlessness of Archbishop, Keane of Dubuque : One Sunday, when the Archbishop was Bishop of Richmond, Va , he ascended the pulpit and announced that on the following Sunday afternoon there would be a meeting of all colored people of Richmond in the Cathedral. The then Bishop stated further'that he desired all coloured people, irrespecti\c of religious belief, to come to the meeting, and that he hoped that no white person would-be present. The announcement caused consternation in the church. Racial" hatred was strong "then, and - the-. , white members of the congregation -protested vigorously against having ' niggers ' occupying their pewK? Their objections were in Vaiii. Bishop Keane, like the Apostles of qld, recognised not the color of a- man's skin, but was concerned about the salvation of souls. Accordingly, when the meeting was opened on Sunday, tho Catholic Cathedral of Richmond was crowded with colored persons' Every negro in the town became interested, and lent his support by being present. Bishop Keane addressed the negroes, and on each Sunday succeeding he held meetings for the exclusive benefit of the colored population. The result was that at the close of a series of weekly lectures lasting a year the Bishop had made 500 converts. ' " l ' v -* i