The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-03-07

the scheme had been working the re-
port stated that out of forty-three
boys visited fourteen were considered
satisfactory, eighteen fairly satisfac-
tory, and eleven unsatisfactory.
Blessing of BipIane.-At Chateau
fort, France, the celebrated French
aviator, Maurice Galtier, invited a
number of friends, aviators and the
press to witness the blessing of his
new biplane. The machine was spon-
sored by Nine. Dutrieu, herself an air.
woman, and M. Chiroutre, the pub
Usher. The parish priest of Chateau
| fort blessed the machine.
Father and Five Sons Friars.-A
Franciscan friar, Reverend Francis
Guppi, died recently at the Convent of
the Minor Observants, Paris. Father
Guppi joined the Order about ten
years ago when he. was nearly fifty
years old, a widower with five grown
sons. Strangely enough all the sons
followed their fathers example and
became friars In order not to keep
the family separated, special dis
pensation was granted for the father
and the five sons to reside in the
same convent.
Some Nuns Return to Hospital
Twenty-seven thousand people of
Grenoble, France, having petitioned
for the return of the Sisters to the
municipal hospital, the authorities
were moved to accede partially at
least to their request and Sisters
have been installed in some of the
wards.
Paris Academy Honors Priest-The
Academy of International History,
Paris, has made Father Anthony
Malon, Superior of the Salesian
Fathers in Brazil, an honorary mem
Der with gold medal for his historical
researches among the Borero Indians.
Home of "The Little FIoWer."-
Lisieux, in Northern France, has be-
come place of note in the Catholic
/
Therese, the Little Flower of Jesus.
Crowds of pilgrims and tourists go
there from all quarters of the globe
to pray at her tomb
Memorial to DerouIede.-One of the
last acts of the great French patriot,
poet and orator, Paul Deroulede, was
to attend the presentation of the ex
vote offering made by his devoted
sister to the church at Nice in thanks
giving for his safe arrival there from
Paris. The offering was a beautiful
group in white marble showing the
conversion of st. Paul.
French Bishops Met.-The French
Bishops met in Paris on February %
for the purpose of organizing the
Catholics of France in view Of the
coming elections. The Holy See has
agreed to this move on condition
that it receives the unanimous con-
sent of the prelates.
An Interesting Cause.-The Congre-
cation of Rites have been examining
singularly interesting Cause in the
life Of Father P. Mannoir, S. j., who
in the seventeenth century did so
much to forward the work of missions
and retreats, and was so closely asso-
ciated with the Ven. Michel LIE No
bletz, whose heroicity has just been
acknowledged by the ecclesiastical
authorities empowered to investigate
| it.
Cardinal Merry del VaI's Vicar
| Cardinal Merry del Val has chosen
Mgr. Agostino zampini, the titular
Bishop of Porfireone, as his vicar.
Aged Senator Scores Masonry.-The
latest to have his condemnation of
Italian Masonry printed in Idea
Nazionale is Senator Pastro, who be-
longed to Masonry in his youth. II
am some months over ninety-one
years DID," the senator writes, "and
have ever been an enemy to all kinds
of vileness. My body, I believe,
would turn in it's grave, if having been
a Freemason, the title of sleeping
Mason were given to me-" And the
old man so venerated in italy recounts
how he abandoned the sect nearly fifty
years ago.
Spanish Marquis Honored.-The
Marquis of Comillas, Spain, who owns
practically the Transatlantic Company
Steamship Line and who built on the
Cantabrian coast magnificent semi
nary for the Jesuits, was honored by
the King of Spain with the highest
Order in his royal gift, the ''Toison
de Oro."
Leaning Tower in Danger.-A COM
mission of engineers has pronounced
the Leaning Tower Of Pisa in near
danger of collapse, necessitating i'm
mediate attention if it is to be saved
the fate of the Campanile in Venice.
Priest Invents "Trepidometer."-l
Father Alfani, the director of the
Florence Observatory, has invented
an instrument to determine the vibra-
lions and stability of buildings and
bridges. 1t is called the "Trepido-
meter"