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He translates Hagiography: Justice Joseph Thaliath. who recently translated a life of Matt Talbot into the Malayan language, has been appointed Chief Justice of the Travancore High Court. Justice Thaliath also caused the biography of St. Teresa of the Child Jesus to be published in the South Indian vernacular.
Retreats Preferred to Carnival: The practice of holding closed retreats for men and women each year during the three days of Carnival time is growing in all parts of Brazil. In the State of Sao Paolo alone ten thousand men and women made retreats at Carnival time this year. In this city, all available accommodation was utilised this year. Five hundred members of the Marian Sodality for men made retreats at centres conducted by the Jesuits.
Registers Anything From Earthquake to Burglar: A sensimetre, the recent invention of Brother Luis Hurtado, S.J., of the Jesuit La Cartufa Observatory near Granada, Spain, which acts not only as a burglar-alarm, but can also calculate vibrations, is arousing great interest in scientific circles in Spain. Among the things it can do arc: register the wind's pressure on a given surface; register the various flows of the slightest draughts of air; all kinds of vibrations such as those
caused by the opening and closing of doors which are at some distance from ' the apparatus. The invention will be of special use to meteorologists, but it. can also reveal the presence of persons on the premise's, who might be bent on robbery.
Chinese Dominican Interned : The Rev. Dominic T. Chang, 0.P., a Chinese priest ordained in the United States, is reported to be in a Japanese concentration camp, accord. ing to word received by the Provincial of the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in New York. Fr. Chang, who spent more Than nine years in the United States in preparation for his return to China as a priest, was en route to his native land at the outbreak of the Pacific War and when he reached Manila he was not allowed to proceed.
U.S. Priests Bless Ships: " Send Thy holy angel to keep front all harm this ship•and all who shall travel on it," was the invocation which the Rev. Raymund J. O'Flaherty, of the Catholic Welfare bureau, uttered as the Robert Morris, first of what will he a great American fleet of 10,000-ton vessels for maritime commerce, was launched. The Red. Michael John Clare, C.S.S.R., chaplain at Fort MeArthur, rearticipated in similar ceremonies marking the launching of the vessel Zabulon Pike.