General News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 51, 19 April 1895, Page 15

General News.

Oklahoma ia desirous ot entering the grand union of States, and great preparations are being made for the event in the Terri'ory. Five hundred thousand gallons of oil were on fire a fow days ago at the Watere-Pierce Oil Company, Dallas, Tex. Professor Wagner of the Vienna University, Austria, it is ototeJ, his found a cure for insanity. Experiments have proved successful. Koch's tuberculine is the principal ingredient. A hog has been killed on Frank Eno's farm, at Pine Plain?, New Totk, the dressed weight of which was 1,200. This is the biggest porker known for years. The total number of telegrams, inland, press and foreign, in Great Britain in 1869 was 6,830,812 ; in 1894, 71,465,380, an almost incredible increase. The monkß of the Great 8t Bernard have engaged 150 workmen for this year to build a new and larger boßpicp, as the Aoeta-Martigny Pass is becoming constantly more uaed, and is much frcqueuted even in winter. His Holiness Loo XIII has presonted to Bishop Emard of Vallyfield, Canada, the pectoral cross which be was wearing at the time of the late audience, and accepted Bishop Emard's cross in return. Ever sincQ the Czar proclaimed hia intention of maintaining the autocratic rule in Russia, his Majesty has, a German paper states, almost daily been the recipient of threa'ening letters and manifestoes from the Nihilis's. It is even rumoured that one of the palace officials his been arrested on a charge of having placed various seditious illustrations in the Czar's study at night. The young Earl of Arundel and Surrey, who is now in his 16th year, is slowly but steadily increasing in health. A Commission which was appointed by the Russian Government to consider the qaestioa of the advisability of exiling political and other offenders to Siberia bap, it is reported, de;ided in favour of banishing only members of the privileged classes to that regioo, while criminals belonging to thi lower classes, will be confined in prisons in the mother country. A Catholic has been elected to the Imperial Diet of Germany for the Mora District, in the Rhine Province. Two thousand was the majority. It was previously in the tnnds of the Conservatives and ani< Catholics. Three thousand prisoners in Belem prison, Mexico, had worked cautiously and continuously during tho past three months on a tunnel which would have eventually hulped them to liberty but far its diacovory by tho officials. They hid pierced the foundations in many places. Kirk Ackerman of Big Pond, near Port Jorvis, New York, pbyed a trick on his neighbours last week. He gay-; out a report that he was dead, and they shovelled t" c snow through thi woodn for two miles to bury him. Upon reiching th-? boiis^ they founi him alive. He said he spread tbo story to fool them. On Friday he died without any fooling. He was 73, and a war veteran, Dr De Paradis is n!m >?t as well kaown in Chicago as if he was a Chicago priest. He is one of the rmat acKvo and most popular members of the Columbus Club. He is regarded aa one of the best theologians in the archdiocese having bsen a graduate of the University Oollegio Romano, where be waa one of the most brilliant students. Ho was exiled from Rome ia 1870, when the Pope was deprived of temporal power. He sought refu »o in Paris, and subsequently came to A'nerica He was chosen as one of the contributors to the " Magnificat," the memorial volume published at the celebration of the golden jubilee of Leo XIII, which contained 150 languages. In Archbishop Satolh'a western trip last year Dr De Paradia waa hia confidential emde and advisur. He was toaatmaster at the banquet given by the lialiaus m Chicago to the Ablegate. The Sacred Congregation of Rites ha 9 received from the Holy Father the ordci' to prepare the decrees for the Beatification of the Venerable Bernardo Uealino, a Jesuit, and Vincenzo Romano, parish priest of Ercolaco. A letter has been writtan by the Holy Fa'her recommending the bishops in Piedmont to aid as far as possible a society which has been formed in Turin for promoting devotion to the Blessed Sacisment. Bishop Mac, of Covington, U.S A., baa begun the publication of a journal, tho olj ct cf which is to jromote the interest of the Encharistic League.