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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 9, 21 June 1889, Page 31

A grandson of Lsopanii, tho famous Italian, has become a Jesuit. The city ot aJontical, with a population of 223,000, has 130,000 Catholics. Ohtss is a royal game, lequiring the highest intellect for the proper mastery of it. A d,.ily contemporary ieports that Lao XIU. is a devotee of the game, and lurnishes the following details : " The i*ope is a very fine chess player, and one priest in Home has the especial honour of bein^ his adveisary over the boarJ. The priestFather Giella— has played chess with Aigr. Pecci for thirty-two years past. When Cardiml Pecci was raised to the Papacy, Father Giella, who was then in Florence, pot an invita.iou to proceed to Home and take up his quarters in the Vatican. GielU is hot tempered, but the Pope takes his temper good-naturedly, and is s^iJ to often improve the occasion by a homily on the virtuec of resignation and me-kness. Ihe present expenses and the pio3pective damages of the London Times arising out of its tomfoolery with the Parnell forgeries are estimated by the Pans Figaro to the amount of 2,000,000d01s Mr. Walter, the publisher, has expressed his intention to meet these demands out of bis private purse. It i b only just that he should do so. Mr. Buckle, the editor, from the first refused the forgeries, and declined to have anything at all to do with tie letters upon which were bas»d the articles on " Parnellism and Crime." In order to ple..se his Tory and Unionist friends, Mr. Walter insisted upon the publication of th.article?, and succeeded in overruling the better judgment of Mr Buckle. In thus saving the paper Mr. Walter may have to ruin himBelf, but doubtless his T.ry fnepds will keep him from going to the poor-house. It is, however, a good lesson to stockholders in a periodical publication. They will always find it better to heed the advice ot a properly-constituted editor rather than that of a publisher who Counts upon immediate returns, and does not look torwaid to lemote consequences. As it ie, two millions do not constitute the who'e loss or. the London 'lima. It has ioifuted public confidence, and is bound to go down hill in iU bubiuus:, fio'u now on to the end of the chapter. In a dispatch of Apnl 1 from Jackson, Mo, is the following tragic account of ivh^ous madneda : •' (Sheriff John Husky, of Bollinger county, has jiut arrests Annnda La.-ater, charged with murder, and Ler husband, Monroe, as acecs-ory. Tne husband recently became a leligious lunatic, claiming to have r. ce.ved from God the command to prercb, bm fiist to oftVr his fourteen montbs'-old child as a sacrifice. He m ulu h s wjf, ; b tra- the infant, averting that the Almighty had promis. d to renurr ct the child on the third day. « »»a La-ater was anosted. b<- had bi-en carryin ' the dead infant in his armsfor two day*." Tmis rcc-tlKs the famous Freeman tragedy in rr^t^"K t its features, and bulb are doubtless owing to th" common y known Piotestant piuate ju igme .1, or, better desciibed, pernonal judgni'jnt. Wtiei amm JUbunjea the right to interpret obscure passages of Scnptuie as he phasus, there is no telling what he may ao. me Lasateis, like their poor murdeied child, are victims of a ftlee principlu.