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...almost always mistaken for persons. Hence when a proud man wishes to leave something of his pride, after death, above the humble dust; when a famed man wishes to allow his admirers to satisfy their appetites for adulation; when a rich man wishes to indicate the extent of his domain and the individualities of its proprietor; such a person requires a portrait painter to come into his attendance and to reproduce, upon canvas, a face, in light and shade...
...Great go to Mr. Brady. Pope Gregory XVI (1765-1846) created the order in 1831 and put it under the patronage of that first and greater Gregory (c. 540-604)-to reward the civil and military virtues of the subjects of the Papal States. But now, when the Papal domain is only a patch of land at Rome, the knightly requirements have been loosed by the Popes and made applicable to all the adherents of their spiritual hegemony. Nicholas Frederic Brady, Grand Cross Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great does not become, by the investiture, a citizen...
...Repassed over the President's veto, 57 to 22, the Senate bill authorizing $3,500,000 for roads through public domain; sent it to the House...
Before the Civil War, says Ritchie, "the struggle of the States was for State supremacy over Federal power in the Federal domain. Now it is for State existence against Federal transgression in the State domain." There is no longer any danger of State supremacy, but there is a very real danger of State suffocation...
...this is praise, worthy in every way, it is difficult to see just where the new style tabloid would fit in the scheme of things. The inevitable loss of circulation due to the suppression of the more sensational items of news could only be made up by invading the domain of the legitimate newspaper, and in that field competition is already too keen to offer much hope to a new comer...