Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1907 — FROM FOREIGN LANDS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

A dispatch from Rome is authority for the statement that the silence of th* Vatican regarding.the publication of th* correspondence of Mgr. Montagnini, formerly secretary to the nunciature at Taris, is due to the fact that the violation' of the nunciature by the French government is now in the hands of Austria. The question is being examined under its different aspects, meantime th* Vatican is in the position of a third party, and will remain passive, awaiting developments. The new Lord's day act has gone into force throughout Canada, with the exception of the province of Quebec. Som* of the things prohibited on Sunday by thia act are: Public entertainments given for money, baseball, football, gambling, racing, bunting, shooting, fishing, th* sale of intoxicating liquors (except by physician's prescription between the hours of 7 p. tn. Saturday and 0 a. m. Monday), the sale of cigars, the bringing into Canada or selling of any foreign newspaper, the selling of goods and th* carrying on of any business. When th* bill was passed by parliament, some of the members from Quebec having protesteel, a clause was added permitting such provincial legislatures as wished to do so to evade the law by enacting a measure of their own. The Quebec legislature was the only one to lake advantage of this by passing a bill practically maintaining existing conditions. Some complaints as to th* stringency of the new law ar* reported on the part of travelers.