Untitled

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 251, 22 February 1878, Page 5

The Unieers recounts the following incident, connected with the Angers pilgrimage : " A pious workwoman of Lannion, whose name is known to the angels, came to Rome from Brctagne on foot, Arriving in the middle of the night, quite tired out, she knew not where to go. Two Italian soldiers, taking compassion on her, brought her to the pilgrims' hotel of Santa Chiara, near the French Seminary. The hotel was full, not a room was to be had. However, the woman asked to be allowed to speak to the landlord, who is an excellent Catholic and a P-reton to boot. How was he to shut the door on a countrywoman asking in the Breton tongue for hospitality ? A comfortable bed was made up for her in one of the sitting-rooms, and next morning the poor pilgrim went to see the Pope. What is more, her countrymen crowded round her and paid her every attention. M. and Mme. de Montergon thought themselves honored by her company, and told her she should not leave them till they reached Anjou. bhe dines with them, and with them visits the city and the sanctuaries. The telephone, the newest and in some ways the most striking of all applications of electricity, has already received one practical application of importance. It is a very difiicult thing to keep the ventilation of a mine perfect. The men neglect it, and when the inspector is coming down prepare the air for his .visit. It has been found, however, that the anemometer or air measurer can be so adjusted that after a few revolutions it releases a spring, which touches the vibrating plate of the telephone, and at once, therefore, warns the engineer above that the anemometer has completed the series of circles' 3 In other words, he hears in his office the rate at which air is moving in the mine six hundred yards below him, and this without human intervention. If there is not enough air, the ramc telephone enables him instantaneously, without rising from his chair, to call attention to the neglect.— l^ndm Spectator.