People

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 23, 5 June 1902, Page 10

People

Dr. Sa&d, a physician who has h\ed nuany years in Palestine, has just written some curious facts abouts the efforts to convert Jews there to Protestantism. He says it takes 52 missionaries to make 12 Jewish conu'i'ts a, ,yeai . It is not generally known that the "Messiah ' was lirst produced in Dublin under Handel's own direction, and that H'andcl spent r.me months, from November 18, 1741, to August 12, 1742, in the Irish metropolis. Mrs. Charles M. Schwab, the wife of uhe president of the United .States vSb'el Corporation, taj<es great interest m studies that aim to find remedies for tuberculosis She has displayed practical interest m the matter by the donation of the best microscopic outlit made in Uhe world to the East End Charity Hospital, Pittsburg, Pa Major Patrick McMahon, son of Kite iM.iishal Me.Mahon, President of Fiance after the Franco-German war, has been promoted to a lieu-tenant-colonelcy m the French army. He is uhe husband of the Princess Marguerite de Orleans, daughter of the Duke de Chart res Ho is not ashamed to acknowledge and bear the name Patrick, or that his people came fi om Monaghan. The 'Zambesi Mission Record,' which is conducted by the Jesuit Fathers, sa\ -. 'As we go to press we hear with deep regret of Mr. Rluwles' death \\ e owe him a large debt of gratitude for the constant ci com agi ment winch he has given to our work m South Africa In a lutluie nunibei we hope to lender a moii) fitting ti ibutn to his meinoiy ' Says a London Catholic weekly .—. — The pleasant side of Mr. Rhodes' chaiactei was his clwint.v. In all good causes, diflctence of creed making no distinction The Sisters of \ a/a leth h.nr often infoimed us of his kindness to their houses, and other C.ttlioii.c Sisteis ha\e likewise found him a helpei But hvpocnfical rogues who appealed to him found him quite a different man, and from these lie got the l eputatnon of timht listedne^s, ,\n opinion we do not slhii c Sir AY II Russell. LL D . I) L , the Irishman who, as the representative of tlie London ' Tunes ' during t lie Cimiean campaign, became the gieatest Wat coiiespondent that ever livid, (elehiated ins eighlv-se-cond birthday the other da.v Jle represented the ' 'limes ' not only in the Ciitnea I, ut also ,v (he si< ge of Luiknow, in the Italian campaign of 185.), in Ihe American Ci\il War. in the D.unsli War of 18(51, and at Konnigmal/ lie went thiougli the Fram o-Cet man war, and was present at Soudan, saw Zululand and the Trans\aal in lighting times in 187<)-80. and was m Kgv pt m 188,'{8 1 One of Russell's first achievements .is ,i newspaper man was to carry to Hngla.nd, for the 'Tunes,' by special packet the result of the State Iri.il of O'Connell He beat his opponents, it is said, by two chn s The Retv Peter O'Learv, of Castlel.vons, ('or'k, has written and the Insh Book Company has published a \oluine of arithmetical babies in Gaelic The tables are coni.plete, including adidition, subtra.ction, multiplication and division tables, tables of weights nieasiures and moneys, avoirdupois, troy, apothecaries, linear, square and solid measure, ai paper measure, the division of the circle of time, and a metrical translation of the old mnemonic ' Thirty days hath September.' In the compilation of (he little book Father O'Learv has introduced quite a number of technicalities hitherto unknown in Gaelic, and he thus once

more demonstrates his' own resourcefulness and the adaptability of the, language to any formation of words expressive of any idea, no matter how abstruse or technical. Senor .Sagasta, the new Spanish Prime Minister, who has been called upon to steer the ship of State more often than perhaps even a Spaniard can remember at a moment's notice, is 75, and has made his way to the coveted ' banco azul ' from the ranks. His father was a political exile and li\ed in a village near Logrono, where the boy was educated 1 at the village school. Later on he qualified as a civil engineer, but chose to start life as a reporter of social events on a Madrid paper, and when the parliamentary reporter of the same paper was ill, young Sa-g-asta took his place, and hiis first acquaintance with the House in which he was to become so distinguished a leader was from the reporters' gallery. His reports having attracted the attention of the editor, ho was sent into the country to support a Liberal candidate, and returned to town as — Deputy ; his speeches luwinjg recommended him to the electors to such a degree that they chose him instead of the man whom he had been sent to support. Air T. P. O'Connor celebrated his 53rd birthday not long ago, and the newspapers commented upon the fact) that T. 1" 's looks arc at least a decade behind what one generally expects to see in the face and figure ofi a. person of that age. Were the genial editor of 'M. A. P.' to go amidst a circle of discriminating folk, who did not know hfm by sight! — which would not be an easy matter so well known is he in all parts of the country — and state his age as 40 lie wauld be believed by them all. he would be belie\ed by them all. dancing eyes, a chin not'unhke that) of a .linen ile footballer, and a figure th.it, despite his wails of suffering, from dyspepsia, miiglit cause em'y to ri.so (in the breast of a man anxious to be at advantage in the eyes of a woiiMii whom he would fain woo. ll'is hapr is abundant and coal-black, and his -\ oico has about it that pleasant and persuasive ring that is so often to be found associated with minds that have not lived long, enough to evperience all the wrongs and disappointments that are still to be met with m thus old workaday world

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