The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-08-02
EDITORIAL AND orHa ITEMS.

EDITORIAL AND oTHKR ITEMS.
One oyster lays two million eggs.
Archbishop Cullen is convalescent.
A Newport cottage costs $4,000 for the
London has thirty three miles of beer
houses.
Baltimore has seventy firms dealing in
oysters.
The heat in Belgium this year is unpre-
cedented.
The annual product Of oil in Italy is
S35, OOO,O 600.
Shelby county, Alabama, has magistrates
of one color-black.
One fourth of the revenue of France is
derived from the vine.
jefferson Davis sailed from Quebec for
Europe on the 18th ult.
London news report the fall of Hermaita,
the Paraguay stronghold
A BARRIERS shop has been opened in New
| York, conducted by women.
| \ new inebriate asylum has been opened
at Wards Island, New York.
Washington rumors say we are to have
Col. Smallwood for postmaster.
| Anthony Trollope is severe on recon-
struction in the Pail Mall Ga=ctte.
|
newspapers in the United States.
| Sew: - i.....,e has furnished material
| for fifty puns since his nomination.
| A Mr.. Louis Goss, of Levant, Me-, ninety
years of age, cut three teeth last winter.
Three small boys killed three bears
lately in the vicinity of Waupaca, Wis.
The flood in Baltimore damaged property
to the amount Of several million dollars.
Upward of forty-six duels were fought
by one newspaper editor in Paris last year.
| A Chinese dictionary was recently pre-
sented to the New York Historical Society.
An electrical organ was recently intro
duced in the Church of st. Augustin, Paris.
The whites in South Carolina ask for
protection, or they will protect themselves.
Negroes contributed largely to the num-
Der of those who died North by sunstroke.
One county, St. Croix, in Wisconsin,
| will raise two million bushels wheat this
year. .,...,... ss---s-i :
Lansing burg, New York, uses sa5, 900
worth of hogs bristles in her brush fac
tories -...'
A child, four years old, living in Baltic,
Conn, plays over forty tunes correctly on
! the piano.
ley, Scotland, public park, of the value
of $1,000
A church was struck by lightning in
Chicago on Saturday last, and two men
were killed. '-.
Queen Victoria ia to visit Paris on the
9th inst, on her way to Germany and
Switzerland.
A Virginia lady has been paralyzed by
the excessive use of hair dye, containing
sugar of lead.
Chicago will expend one million dollars
on churches this year. The dollars won't
improve them. ---- :,
over one hundred years to establish it, has
been abandoned.
man by the name of Mcswyne was
inst, by q negro.
The Virginia White Sulphur Springs
have numerous visitors this year. Col.
Girardey is there.
One wing of the New Jersey State prison
was destroyed by fire on the 25th ult. Sew
eral prisoners escaped.
fa1k of precious stones-the most valu-
able as well as the most useful stone in the
world is, the grindstone.
Pitching pennies has been legally for
hidden in Brooklyn In our Legislature
gambling is being legalized.
In Toronto, last week, a man was arrested
for playing The Last Rose of summer
in his own -roeIi-en- Sunday.
Three thousand Mormons are now, or
soon will be i'll Castle Garden. New Y ork.
waiting transportation to L tab.
The eldest-son OF "a wealthy manufac-
turer in Lawrence has entered one of the
| factories there as an operative. to acquire
! practical knoN-edge- ef business