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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 6, 1 June 1883, Page 18

Lady Florence Dixie is reported to have seen four moons one autumn evening. The phenomenon was so striking that she at once ordered her carriage and drove to the residence of a neighbouring astronomer to confer with him on the subject. The astronomer in question was a man of wit, and most gentlemanly instinct, and not wishing to contradict the lady, gazed up for some time fixedly at the single " orbed maiden, with white fire laden, whom mortals call the moon," then turning towards the lady replied, •' By Jupiter, you are right, madam ! "—lrish" — Irish World. The object of Mr. Parnell's visit t» Paris was to instruct all sections of French opinion on the merits of the Irish question and to counteract English calumny, which is constantly at work there, as in America. Mr. Parnell has decided to make no distinction among the journalists or statesmen of France or other foreign countries, holding himself open to interviews to all alike. Mary Ulrich, who was sent to Berks county almshouse a year ago, conceived an intense affection for a much younger wosen, Laura Ulrich, who had been there 20 years. They only knew each other by their first names. They discovered they were mother and daughter and the mother, who had spent years, when in better circumstances, in searching for her child, fell dead in the latter's arms. Recruiting in England has practically ceased, not because recruits are not wanted, but because they will not enlist, though the army was never so spoiled and glorified with victory. The brigade of Foot Guards is below its number by 800 men, and it is f aund impossible to get recrnits to fill up the deficiency. The same want of men and impossibility of getting them is equally felt in the rest of the army. The largest man in the British service is Lieutenant Sutherland, of the Fifty-sixth Regiment. He is six feet four inches high and weighs twen ty -six stone.— N.Y. Sun. The British trooper is more than matched by Father Turner, a Kentucky friar, who, in the course of a mission at St. John's Church, Lockport, last week, was engaged in fighting the battles of the Church militant. The brave Domini- ' can' who so frightened the devil, is only six feet six inches high, and ' three hundred'ind twenty-five pounds in weight. Behold the growth of Popery in this land of the free, where it has room to expand 1 — Catholic Union. ?"*" Archbishop Wood became a convert in 1836 while cashier of the Franklin Bank, Cincinnati. The following year he went to Rome, spent seven years in study and was ordained to the priesthood in 1844. He was consecrated Bishop in 1857, by Archbishop Purcell, and became Archbishop of Philadelphia in 1875,