The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-06-21
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river this season.
The Iona of King Theodorus are being
transported to London. a..
Mrs. Gaines warns all interested to accept
her terms Of compromise.
New York city sends one prisoner to
Sing-Sing on an average daily.
Gutta percha is about to be substituted
as material for paper-hanging.
Boston has fourteen free baths, which re-
main open from June till September.
Ex-Governor McRae, Of Mississippi, died
in Belize, Honduras, on the 18th u1t.
The wedding robe of Princess Murat cost
$4,000 She has $780, 900 for pin money.
The authorities Of the Canada peniten-
tiary deny the logging of Father Mcmahon.
Longfellow has received the degree of
doctor of laws from Cambridge University.
DR.. Pusey and the Ritualists have come
in favor of the Irish Church establishment.
The British Government threaten Train,
the irrepressihle, for his Manchester speech.
Gen. Terry and Father DeSmet were at
Fort Rice, urging peace on the whole Sioux
nations.
1t is said that there are moro papers pub
lished in San Francisco than there are in
London.
A Yankee in Worcester, Massachusetts,,
has invented . new fish-hoOk, resembling
hair-pin.
The Boston line Of English steamers has
ceased. One million was sunk by the ex-
pertinent.
A cavern said to equal the Mammoth
Cave of Kentucky has been discovered near
Ottawa, Canada.
One half Of the children engaged in facto-
~ work in Massachusetts die before the
age of eighteen.
A neck of mutton is the choice piece in
the Paris market, because it takes the least
fuel to prepare it.
A Paris chemist has succeeded in obtain
ing crystalized masses that are excellent as
substitutes for jewelry.
Fifty petitions for divorce have been en-
tered in one term of the court in Hilsborough
county, New Hampshire.
Ten young men in North Carolina are
anxious to get situations as sons-in-law in
some respectable families.
An infant, about five months old, was
discovered alive among the wreck at the
Port Jervis railroad accident.
Father secchi is going to India, by order
Of the POntifcal government, to observe an
eclipse on the 18th of August.
Madame Alliott, the present occupant of
the obstretric chair in the Paris Academy
of Medicine, is about to retire.
Mrs. Atwell, aged eighty years, Of Metcalf
county, Kentucky, has her hair growing
black, from the snowiest white.
Iowa is said to have one hundred and
twenty six Thousand dogs. A fine State for
tanning, as it abounds in bark(s).
. A man m Auburn has set out thirty
thousand cabbage plants. Heads, even if
Of cabbage, ought to be plenty there.
There is q tame rat i'm East Boston, which
will come out when called, and stands on
its hind legs, but avoids the presence of the
house cat. ..E
Brazilian paper is ut fifty per cent dis
count--our greenbacks thirty per cent. Bra
I'll ought to be ashamed-and we very
proud by contrast.
Galiqnani says that the suns disc is at
present full of holes, one of which would
hold the whole terrestrial globe without
touching the edges.
A child who had swallowed q large piece
of cracker, and had almost suffocated, was
relieved Of the obstruction by blowing vio-
1ently in the child's nostrils.
Saw-mills on the Chippewa river, Wiscon
sin, destroy the fish, by binding them with
sawdust, in which state they butt their
brains out against distinctions.
A Mr.. Paxton has entered thirty thousand
acres of land near Redwood Falls, Minneso-
ia, and organized a body of men and ami
mails to cultivate his little farm.
John Hopkins, of Baltimore, has made a
will, leaving million and half and a SUI
burban estate to found a university, and
another million to build an hospital.
1t may be recollected that some years
ago the Duke of Buckingham was compelled
to sell many beautiful articles of art from
Stowe. He is now gradually repurchasing
them.
A druggists apprentice in Providence
broke a jar of nitric acid the contents fall
ing on his head, destroyed his hair, burned
his face shockingly, but his eyes escaped
injury.
Prussia is strengthening the defenses of
Cologne. 1t would take the strongest kind
of Cologne to protect the people of New
Orleans from the horrible smells in our
streets and cutters.