The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-09

new st. Johns Cathedral.
Catholic University Library. In
twenty-six years, the Catholic Univer
sity library has grown toabout 100000
volumes.
Olive Tree in caIifornia.-In the
year 1859 the Franciscan Fathers
brought the. olive tree into California.
There are now more than 100000 in
that state. Is.
Irish Research Professor.-Rev. An
drew O'Kelleher of Dublin, Ireland,
has been chosen to fill the chair OF
Irish research work and Irish studies
founded by the Irish Fellowship Club
of Chicago at the University of Illinois
Four Oldest Bishops.-In the eccle-
siastical province of Cincinnati are
four of the oldest Bishops in the
United States-Bishop Foley, now in
his eighty-fourth year; Bishop Cha
tard, now ending his eighty-second
year; Bishop Richter, in his seventy
ninth year, and Bishop Byrne in his
seventy-fifth.
$4,000 School for Wausau.-The
new $4,000 school being built by ST.
Mary's congregation, Wausau, Wis, is
nearing completion. 1t is expected to-
be ready by New Year.
Year of Centenaries.-This is a year
of centenaries. Among others occurs
that of the Visitation Order at George
town, founded Dec. %, 1916. There
are about $40 clustered members in
this country.
DR.. Ryan Will Deliver Iowa Bacca-
laureate.-The authorities of the Uni
versity of Iowa have invited Rev. DIR.
John A. Ryan, of the Catholic Univer-
sity of America, to deliver the BAG
calaureate sermon at the commence
ment exercises of that institution next
June.
Priest 81 Years oId.-Very Rev
Dean Costa, aged and beloved priest
Ill.,, recently celebrated his Gath birth
day. He is enjoying the best of health
and following his usual practice every
Sunday of celebrating early morning
Mass at the church.
An Edifying Sight.-An edifying
sight was witnessed in st. Mary's
Cathedral, Antagonist, Nova Scotia, on
recent Sunday, when a western COM
pany, destined for overseas, received
Holy Communion in body, their COM
handing officer with them.
Mccormack Donates WindoW.--John
Mccormack, the celebrated Irish
artist, during his recent visit to San
Francisco donated a window to the
new st. Edwards Church of which
his friend, the Rev. P. l.. Ryan, is
pastor. Mr.. Mccormack expressed the
wish that the window be in honor of
st. Cyril, the patron saint of his little
son Cyril.
Crew AbsoIved in Flieht.-A huge
German Zeppelin was hit, took fire,
and, while it was falling to the earth,
Bishop Cleary, of Australia, in an
Australian Camp, saw it, and gave alb.
| solution to its diving crew.
New Catholic Industrial Home.-On
November a new Boys Industrial
Home at Whites Ferry, Wyoming
! County, Pa, was formally opened
The buildings surrounded by a farm
of 139 acres were erected at an ex
penditure of $25O,000. They can &C
commodate $50 boys. On the opening
day sixty-two boys, all over ten years
of age, were taken to the Home.
New Mission House.-Ground will
shortly be broken at Girard, Pa, fol
the new Sacred Heart Mission House
of the Society of the Divine Word
The Rev. "A. M. Jeurgens, the newly
appointed rector of the institution
will have charge of the building opera
lions. The new structure will be Of
Ipretentious dimensions, constructed OF
brick and stone, and will be devoted
to training young men for the foreign
missions, a work to which the Society
of the Divine Word is specifically
| dedicated.
Knights of Peter cIaver. THE
Knights of Peter Claver, colored men
owe their organization to Bishop
Allen of Mobile, Ala. The first coun
Gil held in Mobile, 1909, conferred the
first three degrees on forty-one can
didates. The society has now a mem
bership of over 600. In this number
are twenty-five priests who work
among the colored people.
| Novelist Remembers Nuns.-In the
will of Molly Elliot Seawell, the Cath
lolic author, she requests that hel
funeral be as simple as decency vii
t.permit, and that mo eulogy be pro
lnounced over me and that no biog
raphy of me be published After al
of the requests are paid, the rest o.
the estate is to be given to the Sis
tiers of Charity of the Catholic Church
of Virginia, to be expended as a me
| mortal to Henrietta SeawelI and Fran
ces Elizabeth Seawell, with the provi
sion that certain relics of the de