r Amhreim, a
Benedictine, under the auspices of the Propaganda, and with the consent
of the Bavarian Government, has restored the abbey, and is now fitting
it up as a seminary. The students who will enter this new Missionary
College will devote themselves to the African missions, as their
brethren in the college of Steil give themselves wholly to the Chinese
mission. German Catholics may be proud of their missionary enterprise.

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DYNAMITE!--Millionnaire Cyrus W. Field, of New York, raised a monument
to Andre, the English spy, with great pains and expense. Some other
party razed it, a few nights ago--with a dynamite cartridge. Robert
Simons, while trying to kill fish at Little Rock, Ark., with dynamite,
exploded some of the stuff in his pocket, and his right arm was blown
off in a jiffy.

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ARCHBISHOP CROKE says: "Politics now simply means food and clothes and
decent houses for Irishmen and women at home; they mean the three great
corporal works of mercy; they mean the protection of the weak against
the strong, and the soil of Ireland for the Irish race rather than for a
select gang of strangers and spoliators."

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THE LANDLORD WAR is raging in Ireland. The Boycotting campaign is being
pushed. This chorus is intoned by "T. D. S." and caught up throughout
the land:

"Tis vain to think that all our lives
We'll coin our sweat to gold,
And let our children and our wives
Feel want and wet and cold;
We first must help ourselves, and then,
If we have cash to spare,
Let landlord, and such idle men,
Come asking for a share;
So landlords, and grandlords,
We pledge our faith to-day--
A low rent, or no rent,
Is all the rent we'll pay."

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A CHEERFUL PROSPECT.--Sympathetic Friend: I say, Toombs, old man, you're
not looking well. Want cheerful society, that's it! I shall come and
spend the evening with you, and bring my new poem, "Ode to a Graveyard!"

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THE ENGLISH ELECTIONS.--One of the unexpected effects of the public
excitement consequent upon the general election has been the revelation
of some of the most grotesque vagaries of Protestantism that have ever
come under our notice. One clergyman told his parishioners not to
scruple about telling lies as to the party f