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Show Priests as Inventors. The Rev. Antonio Pagani has exhibited exhib-ited an orchestra of violins, cellos and j organs working by electricity at the Como exhibition in horior of the Catholic Catho-lic scientist to whom we owe electricity, electric-ity, Alessandro Volta. The Rev. Luigi Cerebotani has gone to Germany with his invention of a printing telegraph machine for railways and telephones and another invention for making subterranean sub-terranean electrical traction applicable to tramways and railways. Of the work j of Padre Embriaco, Roman provincial i of the Dominicians, I have already ! written in the Catholic Standard and j Times, where the work of Mgr. Leto, of ; Palermo, has also been described, and j during the past year the Rev. Frances- I co Morano has published yet another valuable scientific work ("JIarea At-mosferica"), At-mosferica"), while a commemoration was held of the famous inventor of electrical clocks and of the pile called after him; Mgr. Candido, of Lecce, about whom the reader may consult the work of Professor de Giorzi "S. E. Mons. Giusseppe Candido eagle Oro-logi Oro-logi Eletthici di Lecce." Finally, the same year has seen the promotion to a titular Archbishopric of Mgr. Tonietti, the former Bishop cf Montalcino, an eminent scientist. Were we concerned to examine the "decadent races" theory as applied to Italy, we should enter upon a vaster field, but the facts illustrated or referred refer-red to afford a brilliant commentary and contradiction of the accusations which certain ill-informed perwons in America have presumed to make against the Catholic clergy in Italy. It would be interesting to know if an equal display of successful activity in music and in the natural sciences was made by the American clergy of all I Protestant denominations during the i twelve-month between Jan. 16, 1899, and Jan. 16, 1900. Until this has been shown, it will be suitable for the "Christian Advocate" and euch papers to be careful care-ful with reproaches and accusations. And if Italy be a decadent Latin coun-' try, then the industry and success of its clergy redound to their still greater great-er honor. The exhortations ' of Leo XIII have not fallen on barren soil in Italy. ., |