THE SERIOUS-COMICAL MAN OF THE 'DAILY TIMES.'

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 25, 18 October 1873, Page 6

THE SERIOUS-COMICAL MAN OF THE 'DAILY TIMES.'

Oxe who evidently considers himself very smart, writes the following nonsense in the ' Daily Times ' of the 14th. inst. " The newest institution iv France is the pro-pilgrim, For a moderate consideration "he will visit any shrine (hair shirt and unboiled peas in boots extra) aud bathe in or drink any spring however holy. The justa-position of +.he middle ages and the nineteenth century, the ages of faith and commerce is not without interest.' 1 "W"ell° there is something else, also, not without interest, albeit a melancholy one, and that is the facility with, which a certain writer, perhaps writers, in the "' Daily Times ' permits himself to be made the ridiculous dupe of the funny men of the herd that hates Catholicity. There is no story, however absurd, that this man, or these men will not greedily swallow, provided only it affords an opportunity for veutiug some profanity derogatory to the grand old Church.