The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-08-09
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS

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70 Fame is said to be made of few lin,
e of puff. 'A-'
= The profits of the late Paris Exhibitio
IL are SGOO,OOO.
Y A machine has heen invented to set tyr
q by electricity. y
/. Jefferson Davis arrived in Liverpool O
the 9Th instant
. Kentucky has gone Democratic by sevent
. thousand majority
Russia has three and half million sert
not yet emancipated. --------.----
Russia has at last received her seye
million dollars for Alaska.
There are one thousand Smiths and eich
, hundred Browns in Boston.
Moses \. Beach, late owner of the Su,
newspaper, leaves S27O,OOO.
One of Landseers pictures lately sold a
auction III London for SOC, 900.
Boston rat made nest of $1,000 be
longing to J. Burge, recently.
One of the Seymour express robbers ba,
escaped to Europe with &96, 900.
The Baltimore bellies are wringinc the
hearts OF the beaux at Cape May.
Hole the Days son, chief of his tribe
Is out eighteen, and worth s., 200, 900.
LIE Petit Aloniteur, of Paris, has daily
circulation of three hundred thousand.
Ihe international union of tailors will
assemble in Washington ON the 10th inst.
The appropriation bills passed by Con-
gress last session amount to $l6l 400, 600
/ There are ten thousand persons in Eng
iano VINO support themselves by the pen.
England has four times the number of
paupers receiving relief that ireland has.
A watermelon has been grown ON Gal.
weston Island Wai0hipO ix%,
The real estate of n man out West CON-
slsts of the dirt he carries about his per
son. F
1t is proposed to establish an Agricultural
college in Mississippi. for the education of
boys.
Sweden furnishes us largely with matches:
last year we got fifteen million boxes from
there.
The Able Bauer preached recently be-
iore the Emperor and Empress against the
ballet.
Harvesters along the line of the Michigan
Centrai railroad are receiving three dollars |
per day.
Among the thousands of Mormons re-
Gently arrived at Castle Garden, there were
no Irish.
In Bavaria newspaper publishers are inn
prlsoned for inserting patent medicine ad-
Father Hyacinth, the celebrated preacher. |
has gone to England, to observe religious |
matters there.
Mr.. Adams, late Minister to England. is
preparing an edition of his fathers John
Quincy works.
ork stage, is now manufacturing hoop
skirts on Broadway.
The damage to the woods by fire in
Ottawa, Canada, this season, is estimated
1T four million dollars.
Moore, Sparks, and Terrell, three more
of the express robbers, were hung at
3rownstown, last week.
John b. Cough, after amassing fortune
~ lecturing on temperance, announces his,
'etirement from the field.
A robbers cave has been discovered near
carthage, tennessee, causing great sensa-
ion in that neighborhood.
A groom in Barnstable, England, has
'een sentenced to five years penal servi-
ude for poisoning horse.
The Irish have RENTED f54O, 900 to Ire
and within the last year. Since 1913, they
ave sent home ETA, 50O,O 600.
Tue consumption of sugar candy in the I
ulted States amounts to two hundred and
fly thousand pounds per day.
The opposing candidates, Republican
nd Democratic, in the Sixth Congressional
district of Ohio, are law partners.
The registry law, lately passed by the
Legislature, has been pro- ,
ounced unconstitutional by the courts. !
Owing to strike among the men en-
loyed in the gas-works, Philadelphia was. fo
lst Friday night, without any gaslight
Green tea, with lemon, is said to he pref L
rable to lager. A temperate man says he \
better suited with LATTE to his lemon. Z
Mr.. Childs, of the Philadelphia Lcdger, u
nd forty newsboys on the Fourth of July. !;
A man died in Sing Sing prison n few ~
lys ago. aged seventy, who commenced 81
lie with 100000. He was well educated. s.
Dry murran is prevailing among the a
title i'll Georgia. More rain. 1anytbinG W
1T drv, rs spreading in orr c;t1S ~ ,,Sosa,,t ~