NOTES FROM ROME
... ROME, Dec. 26. YESTERDAY the Pope officiated in the Basilica of St. Peter at the High Mass solemnized with all the pomp and ceremony usual on this grand ~occasion. He chanted the mass in magnificent style, his voice revealing no trace of the weakness of age; and during the service he blessed the sword formed like a cross, and the red hat, edged with ermine and orna- mented with a silver dove, ...