The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-01-15
NEW WORLD ITEMS


Mary's Hospital with new auto am
bulance.
Ancient Statuette.-A stone statu-
cite in the United States National Mu,
scum, and found near Vera Cruz,
Mexico, shows from its ancient Magyar
glyphic inscriptions that it was made
100 years before Christ.
Check from Down-and.o Outs. - On
Christmas Day Archbishop Glennon of
st. Louis, Mo-, visited Father Demp-
sey's Hotel. It's five hundred inmates
surprised him with check for 800
as a contribution to the Kenrick Sem
mary.
Received Into the church.-Mrs.
Alexander Poro, daughter of a noted
German scholar, Herr Bruno Jagow of
Leipsic, was received into the Catho-
lie Church on Christmas day in st.
AIMS Church, Hoboken, N. J.
DR.. Mcguire Leaves University
Very Rev. John d. Mcguire, S. T. L.,
Phi. d., dean of the School of Letters
of the Catholic University, Washing
ton, and professor of Latin language
and literature, has been appointed ir-
removable rector of st. Elizabeth's
Church, Philadelphia, Pa.
Priest Assigned to 5attIeship.-Rev.
George B. Kranz, recently appointed
to the Catholic Chaplain Corps, Unit
ed States Navy, has been assigned to
the Battleship Louisiana of the At
lantic fleet.
Provision for Sacramento Wine.-
In handing down decision declar-
ing that Denver must adopt prohibi-
ton on January 1, 1916, with the other
parts of the state, despite the "home
rule amendment, the State Supreme
Court incidentally upheld that section
of the "dry" constitutional amend
ment which provides for the sale of,
sacramento wine.
Visitation Sisters Bereaved.- Sis
tiers Mary Ligouri and Mary Peter
died at the Visitation Convent, st.
Louis, Mo-, on December %, making
three deaths among the sisters at the
institution within two days. Sister
Mechtilde died December q. Two
of the deaths resulted from bronchial
pneumonia.
Change of Rectors.-Mgr. John D.
Biden has been appointed rector of
Annunciation Church, Buffalo, N. Y,
and the Chancellor, Rev. Thomas j.
Walsh, rector of ON st. Joseph's Ca
thedral, in that city.
Gift for Church.-The new chalice,
paten and ciborium of ST. Antoninus'
Church, of Newark, N. j., the gift of
the parishioners, was consecrated and
used for the first time on Christmas
morning at the five o'clock Mass. At
that time the new pipe organ, recently
installed, was also used for the first
time. The chalice is valued at $1,000.
1t is made of gold, studded with dia-
monds and emeralds. 1t was placed
on view in the church on Sunday. 1t
was made from contributions of old
gold and jewelry by the parishioners
The Dominican Fathers are in charge
of the church.
$500,000 to CONGRATULATIONS Nc
Dougall, millionaire lumberman and
farmer, died recently in the Carmelite
Convent at Seattle, Wash, which he
founded and of which his sister, known
as Mother Cyril, is superior. He was
seventy-three years old. 1t is esti-
mated that he gave at least 100000
TO the convent.
San Antonio's Anniversary.-A COM
mittee from San Antonio, Texas, head
ed by the mayor of that city, called
upon Cardinal Gibbons on the eighth
of January, to invite His Eminence to
attend a three-day convention prepa-
ratory to celebrating the two hun
dredth anniversary of the founding of
that city by the Franciscan mission
aries. An International Exposition
will commemorate the bi-centennial.
A Curious PIant.-In the public Ii
brary in Marquette, Mich, there is a
plant which is growing in the shape
of cross. Three years ago Peter
Dolf, the custodian, had a clover patch.
Out OF it sprang the stalk of a strange
plant which grew upright until this
last summer, when two shoots branch
ed out near the top at right angles
with the stalk and formed cross. A
number of amateur botanists from the
Northern State Normal School exam
ined the plant, but nobody seems to
know what it is. Mr.. Dolf does not
remember planting anything but Glow
er seed.
Member of Noted Family Dead
Miss Fannie r. Randall, sister of
James Ryder Randall, author of
Maryland, My Maryland" died re-
Gently at her home, 1904 John Street,
Baltimore, from paralysis She was
stricken suddenly on her return from
Mass in Corpus Christi Church. It
had been her custom to attend daily
Mass there for many years She had
been in excellent health up to that
day, and when stricken was busy with
her crocheting needles. Miss Randall
was the daughter Of John X. Randall,
and was born in Baltimore sixty-seven