The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-08-26

c. S. Sp., formerly of st. Peter Claw
er's, Philadelphia, has recently re-
ceived into the Church fifty converts
and he has large class under instruc-
ton. The mission is new one placed
in the Harlem district amid colony
of negroes.
Gaelic FelIowships and Library
Following the report, made to the re-
cent A. o. H. convention by Rev. Ed
ward J. Fitzgerald, of Washington,
D. c., on the progress made by young
students at the Catholic University,
as a result of the establishment of a
Gaelic chair by the Order, the conven-
ton voted to establish two fellowships
at the Catholic University, and also to
establish Gaelic library.
Chinese Students at Notre Dame
Six Chinese students have arranged to
enter Notre Dame University this fall.
Three of these young Cinnamon are
Catholics. Governor Walsh, of Massa-
chusetts, the first Catholic governor
of the state, visited Notre Dame with
these young Orientals. He had met
them in the Philippines where he had
Just concluded four weeks visit, and
made the return trip in their company.
Notre Dame has had Chinese students
before, but six is the largest number
to enter in a single group.
Archbishop Hanna, Labor Day Ora
tor.-Most Rev. Archbishop Hanna Of
San Francisco, was chosen by the gen.
eral Labor Day celebration committee
as orator of the day at the Labor Day
exercises to be held at the Stadium in
Golden Gate Park. Mayor James
Rolph, Jr., is to be invited to oficiate
as chairman. The decision to invite
the Archbishop to deliver the Grafton
is an innovation, as this duty hereto
fore has fallen to labor leader
Society for the Propagation Of the
Faith.-The annual report of the Unit
ed States Branch of the Society of the
Propagation of the Faith, for the year
ending December, 1915, has just been
issued. It shows that the sum OF
$5O3,6190S was contributed to the
cause of foreign missions. This is the
largest amount ever received from the
Catholics of our country in single
year and bears witness that they are
not insensible to the pressing needs of
the missions at the present time. This
increase in contributions is particular
ly fortunate, in view of the fact that
two-thirds of the revenue for Catholic
Foreign Missions has been cut off on
account of the war, while the receipts
of the Protestant missions are larger
than ever and their activity is in
creased in proportion.
Mummified Raccoon in Chapel Roof.
-Workmen repairing the chapel of
St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, Md,
on August 1, found among the rafters
between the ceiling and the roof, a
mummified raccoon, which had been
there for probably more than CEN
fury. The animal, which measured
about three feet in length, was almost
perfectly preserved, even to the hair.
A carpenter readjusting some timbers
happened to glance about fifty feet in
front of him and was apparently very
much frightened when he saw the head
of the animal, which appeared to be
alive. He descended and notified
Father Boyer, who sent another work
man to the roof to reclaim the crea-
ture. The animal is splendid speci-
men of it's kind The theory advanced
is that the raccoon crawled into the
rafters when the chapel was under
construction about 125 years ago, and
that it was shut up inside. 1t prob
ably died of suffocation or starvation.
Father Boyer took possession of the
mummy and will add it to the collec-
ton of curiosities in the seminary.
coIored Priests JubiIee.-The col
ored Catholics of Baltimore, Md, are
very much interested in the twenty
fifth anniversary of the ordination of
the Rev. C. R. Uncles, S. S. j., which
will take place during this winter.
Father Uncles has spent the years of
his active work as one of the lprofes-
sors at Epiphany College, which is a
school established for the training of
priests to work among the colored
people.
A Unique Event.-At the Catholic
Church at Eagle Pass, Texas, where
several regiments of the National
Guard are encamped, the unusual sight
was presented recently of Mexican
priest celebrating Mass for American
The preacher, the assistant pastor OF
the church, is German and has three
brothers in the German army now in
the trenches. The pastor, a French.
man, has several relatives in the
French army. The Mexican priest
was ordained last month. He tried to
go over the bridge to Piedras Negras
but was stopped within one hundred
feet of the Mexican end. He has been
an exile for eight years.
Generous Requests to Charity.-Ac
cording to the will of the late Mrs
Anna Eliza Walsh, widow of Jere
| Walsh, at one time the best known dry
goods merchant in Greenpoint, Brook.
Ign, N. Y, 100000 will be given to
charity. The testatrix died on June