The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-24

together they entered. solemnly the little
procession made It's way 20 tho sacTisty,
where the senior priest was seated at a
table. Before he could ask what they
wanted the young man, suddenly taking
the girls hand, said In a Oud voice: wilt
thou have me TO thy welded busband?"
Yes, yes" was the quick response.
In an instant the priest had grasped
the situation. Jumping up he put his
hands over his ears, exclaiming Il hear
nothingi l hear nothingi" and ran out OF
the room. The desperate lovers. with the
witnesses. followed close on his heels,
the couple repeating the marriage form.
Other priests and some worshippers, at
traoted by the unusual noise and mis-
constituting the situation, joined In the
chase through the sacred edifce while
some rushed out to fetch thepolice. Eventu-
ally the whole party were taken in carriages
20 the police station, where they were
Intercepted and afterward released.
The talk Of Madrid now In Are they mar
ried or are they not2' and the HcraEdo
makes a fervent appeal to the young mans
relatives to withhold no longer their con-
sent TO a union which has, technically at
least. been concluded between two willing
parties before a duly ordained priest OF the
Church.
An aerial railway which will be the only
one of its kind in existence 10 nearing COM
pletion in a German tirm's workshop aC
Leipz;g-G ohIis. i'm Ssxony. IL is intended
for carrying goods across the Andes be-
tween Chscabuoo, In the Argentine Republic.
n Puerto Mont, a seaport on the Chilean
coast. There Ia an extensive trade between
those two places in wool. skins. wood and
miscellaneous manufactured goods which
hitherto has had to be transported by OK
wagons aCposs = perilous mountain pass
a slow and costly method. A scheme 70
bore "A six mile tunnel through tho mountain
range has been abandoned as too ex pensive.
The cable railway will pass the summit Of
the Andes range not In a straight line but
in a curve, a mountain pass being utilized
on which a power station Ia to be erected.
Norwegian inventor has patented a suit
OF clothes which will protect its wearer
against drowning. The clothes are lined
with a nonabsorbent material made OF spe-
cially prepared vegetable fibre which
without being too heavy will effectively
hold up the weight Of a man in the water.
Twelve ounces Of the new material will. IL
is claimed. a v a person from Sinking. The
invention has been tested with favorable
results az C~hristiania. Successful trials
were also made with rugs made Of the same
material. capable of supporting two per-
Sons in the water.
Although IL has been stated that the date
Of the next Consistory has been fixed for
December . the Vatican denies the state
ment. II is, however. admitted that very
probably a Coneistory will be held during
the first half OF the coming month simply
for the imposition Of the red hat 70 Cardinal
Rinaldini, who cannot return to Rome before
such a ceremony takes place. IL is under
stood that no now cardinals will be created,
and the report about the elevation TO the
csrdinalate of Archbishop Bourne OF West
minister is declared unfounded in Vatican
circles.
In fact il has been remarked that the
Archbishop is not considered a persona
grata at the Vatican and hence his pro-
motion TO he a Cardinal Is considered not
only unlikely but even very remote. Neither
does there seem TO be any probability that
Father Wrentz. the General OF the Jesuits,
or any other member OF the Same order will
receive the scarlet hat.