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Show POPE DISPLEASED. Severe measures are being adopted in the Vatican to prevent the sale of tickets tick-ets or cards of admission to the pope's presence. It has come to the ears of his holiness that admission cards have been placed on sale recently in many hotels of Rome. Hereafter no tickets in bulk will be given out for distribution distribu-tion among deserving foreign visitors, except to well known persons who enjoy en-joy the confidence of the Vatican authorities. au-thorities. It is reported that seven Americans paid 10 francs apiece in order or-der to be admitted to St. Peter's Basilica Bas-ilica the other day to witness the funeral funer-al service on the anniversary of the death of the pope. |