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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXII, Issue 1, 3 May 1895, Page 20

Messrs Herbert, Haynes, and Co., Princes Btreet, Dunedin, call attention to their materials for winter dresses. The goods will be found in every case the best of their kind, and 'he best value for the price. The Catholic newspapers of Franc. 1 and Germany announce that Alsace is preparing a grand pilgrimage, which will reach Rime in the spring. Trie departure of the pilgrims from Alsace is fixed for April 2i) and their return for May 18. They will assist at the feasts of the Holy Cross, St Pius V, and St John at the Latin Gate. They will be accompanied by the Bishop of Strasburg, Speaking of Mgr. Satolli, a writer in the (Methodist) Christian Advocate says : "He took his place among us in a meek and humble way, and up to the present tim 6he has never been obstrusive, hileatly aad quietly he has performed his miH«ion, and, without knowing why, without being able to explain to themselves, the people of the United States tuve grown to admire and esteem the ' American Pope.' " Ricent discoveries in the vicinity of Pompeii, throw light on tha condition of that most interesting of all ancient cities which have come down to our days. At Pianella Betteimio:, a house has been discovered which was buried in the same eruption, of the year A.D. 79, which overwhelmed and entombed Pompeii, Herculanenm and Stabia. Tbe bouse is complete, and consists of several chambers, amongst which are three bathrooms with baths of sculptured marble, and apparatus for the heating of water, etc. The most curious feature in this discovery is that this housa has preserved its roof throughout tbe centuries which have elapsed since the eruption of Vesuvius wuich destroyed these cities, and changed the very features of the landscape in this neighbourhood. There are fourteen metres — nearly fifteen yardc — of a roof remaining on this house. This is the fiist time in the course of the researches made with so much enlightened care during the century and a half since careful investigations began to be made here that any house with a roof has been found.