People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 37, 12 September 1901, Page 10

People We Hear About

A bronze statue of General Phil Kearney ' the one-armed devil,' as the Confederates called him, has been mounted at Muskegon, Mich. It is the gift of Charles H. Hackley to the Mnskegon

PnXS'rr believed to be the oldest woman in rSftS 1 °^ J^n c 27 at Jeff «Bon township, Meroer S a™-i % ,?of "' 110 years - She WM born in County Derry ™fP/if P /i ?' "i\ * n i Wenfc *° Am erica about 1811, eettlingK Philadelphia with her husband. Her husband died at the age of 90

n« m! «?T neDCe ( ?*/[ dina £ Momi ' who i 8 to leave n «t month to fH fc™ "Z V -" it .u° me > wiU be 71 ?<*«> ° n M °nday next His Eminence, who is the third Archbishop of Sydney and the firrt Australian Cardinal, was born at Leighlinbridgef Carlow on September 16, 1830 When only 12 yea« of age he ao£m£nied his uncle, the late Cardinal Cullen, who was then RectorVf £c Irish College, to Rome, where he remained until 1866, successively as student, professor, and Vice-Rector of that college. He wm ordained on March 19, 1853. During the quarter of a century that he remained in Rome, he made a special study of the archives of the Catholic Church in Ireland, England, and Scotland, with the result Intwfr 18 n . ow ,<f en , erall y acknowledged amongst the foremost living authorities in the department of antiquarian research. His studies in this direotion have borne fruit in over a soore of publications from his pen In 1866 he returned to Ireland as secretarial uncle Cardinal Cullen, who was then Archbishop of Dublin He also became professor of Hebrew and Scripture in Clonliffe College if* fo Waß conße ? I r » ted BiB *0P of Ossory, over which See he' iS! ?! ?2 years, until he was appointed Archbishop of Sydney in 1884. It is just 17 years since he arrived in Sydney, when he was we corned by a concourse of people estimated at 100,000. In the following year he was summoned to Rome, when he Was raised to So- 0 *!? 1?,1 ?,' 1 *. 118 ' ° n July 27 by hiß HoHaess Leo XIII. In November 1880, his Eminence presided over the first Plenary Council of the Catholic Church in Australasia, which was attended by 17 prelates Jhe great work which the distinguished Cardinal-Archbishophas done for the Church since that time is well known to our readers It s to be hoped that his Eminence will be spared for many years rg h ul C hed UU a P rel f ate! hlCh * b " * "*»** . M *: J\ R O'Connor is at once the ablest and most interesting journalist in London (says the Sligo Champion). He has in his day, experienced the extremes of fortune. He starved in attics, and eat in editorial chairs dictating the foreign and domestic policies of successive governments. As most of our readers are aware T P O Connor is a Connaught man, having been born in Athlone, "• on the right side of the Shannon ' and very near to the spot where the distinguished Bishop of Achonry, the Most Rev Dr Lvster first saw light He was a class-fellow of his Lordship'in Summer! hill College Athlone, and was remarkable among his associates mamly by the fact that he seldom wore a collar, never wore a waistcoat, and always carried a chunk of bread in an inside pocket of his overcoat. He took his M.A. degree at the Queen's College tralway, in classics, modern languages, and Constitutional history' and went to London to seek his fortune. There is no member of the Irish Party who has been so persistently and shamlesßly belied and vilified as P.P. ; but he has never even once condescended to notice the cowardly pigmies who assailed him. Had he been a failure in life's struggle, the shafts of envenomed and malignant envy would never have been directed against him. TP.is an Irishman to the heart's core, and few men living have done more in our day to advance the Irish National cause. Had he Berved Mammon as faithfully as he had served Ireland, he would, long ago have been able to say what he says this week that he has 'secured a sound and staple security against poverty for the rest of his days ' He is still quite youthful in appearance, and is always bubbling over with good humor. His long residence in London has failed to cure him of hib Irish brogue, and although he is one of the best educated men in the House of Commons, and speaks several Continental languages with ease and fluency, he always refers to the Go\e nraent Party in the Chamber as 'the gintlemen on the onnoHite side.' For all his hard knocks, T. P. has a heart as soft as an Irish schoolgirl, and would split his last sixpence with a stranded harvestman.

Considering the enormous strides trade in medical science during the nineteenth century, it is not surprising that the number of remedies for all kinds of diseases has greatly increased during recent years. One hae only to glance through the advertising columns of the papers to realise this fact, and sufferers must sometimes be soiely puzzled to decide what particular cure thoy will try Many of the old-time remedies no doubt admirably serve the purpose for which they were intended, but without attempting to derogate from their meri 8, it must be remembered that in these matters the pharmacists of tli*- precei t day are far ahead of their predecessors. Evans's Witches' Oil is a preparation which is the result of the experience of the past combined with the improved knowledge of the present generation, and as a never-failing cure for rheumatics in all its phases, pleurisy, colds in the chest and lungs and such minor, but still troublesome, complaints, as mumps' quinsy, or spasms, it cannot be equalled. In case of Bprains, strains! bruises, and surface wounds it will be found an immediate remedy easily applied, while taken internally it is invariably successful in warding off attacks of influenza. Sold at all chemists and store keopers throughout the Colony at 2s C>d and 4* 6d per bottle. Agents : Messrs. Kempthorne, Prosser and Co., throughout New Zjaland. — *,»*