The morning call., 1893-05-21

rosehuds on one thoIny stem. an ornament
i"rmed oil wrought gold, chiseled with ex-
qulslte workmanship aud set with gems.
In tne cup of the rose, among its petals,
tue Pope at every benedietion he pro-
noun ces upon II inserts few particles of
amber and musk. 1t is blessed on the
-Laertare-Sunday of Lent. The
PRAYER OF blessing contains a mystic allu-
sion to our Lord as ''the flower of the field
and the lily of the valley" After the
pressing and during the ecclesiastical year
1t is bestowed as q mark of special favor
10 some distinguished person-generally
one oil the falr seX-church or civil COM
munity. The ceremonies which at present
accompany the conservation of a golden
rose are of an elaborate character and
are explained OY liturgists as designed to
make 1t specially emblematic of Christ and
OF the Christian graces. Some difficulty Is
experienced in tracing them to their ORR
gin. but the custom of blessing and send
ing some symbol OF the kind seems to be
as old al least as Gregory the Great, who
died March u, 604 1t was frequent
practice to send TO persons he wished 10
honor few particles filed from Peters
chains, set in keys or crosses of gold. At
the present time it is generally the prac-
tice to send to the Prince who has best
served the Holy See the blessed sword
and cap QO stOCo il Deretto), while the
golden rose is sent TO one of the fair
sex. If in any particular year no one
merits the gift, it is laid up in
the golden rose is said to have been made
in the eleventh century, and an allusOn is
made to it in the chronicle of William Of
| Newburgh, 1897. Pope Urban, who sent
golden rose TO Joanna of Naples in 1886, is
said to have been the first to determine
that the consecration should be annually
observed. Among the very numerous
| q re-
| VIII of England, the Empress Eugenle of
France, Isabella of Spain. who in 1868 re-
ceived it as reward for ''her faith, JUS
tice and charity" and ''to fOretoken the
protection or God to his wel-beloved
| daughter, whose high virtue makes her a
| Caldwell of Baltimore. This year the
golden rose will be sent TO Marie Hen
riette. Queen of the Belgians.
RAIN-GAUGE.-M. f., Baden, Cal. The
rain-gauge is used for the purpose of as
certalning the amount of rain which falls
at given place. A record from the
gauge made up at stated times, or immedi-
ately after fall of rain, gives the amount
of water that has fallen up to date. The
gauges are of various construction; the
simplest is metallic cylinder, from the
bottom of which glass tube having on it
scale graduated by inches and parts Of
an inch projects downward. 1t is pro-
vided with funnel inserted a. the top to
prevent evaporation, and the rainwater is
emptled by means of stop cock at the
bottom. This, while it answers ordinary
purposes. does not admit of very nice and
close readings. There is used at the
Smithsonian Institution form of gauge
which consists of tube of
brass. ten inches deep and three
fourths of an inch IN internal diameter,
having attached a funnel three or four
inches deep and two inches 10 diameter.
The depth of rain is measured by means
of scale of thin whalebone, divided to
indicate the tenths and hundredths of an
inch. There is also in use what Is known
as self-registering rain gauge. About
two feet above the roof of the building in
which the gauge is located is placed the
usual rain-gauge receiver it is eight ches
in diameter, funnel-shaped in the bottom
and leads into block tin pipe three
eighths of an inch in diameter. This gauge
is mounted on square box. The pipe
desceuds from the gauge to a receiving or
gravity bucket, which is made of brass,
prismatic shape. balanced just above and
forward If its center of gravity in a square
frame by two points. These allow il