The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-09-13

Rabbis was held in Casse1, Hesse, on the 18th
ult. The old and new lights are at issue, and
schism, the modern remedy is threatened in the
Synagogue.
New Hampshire prohibits police courts from
B issuing naturalization papers. 5
No light is allowed in the British Museum
This may be all right, but it sounds odd COM
Ting from a centre of intelligence.
n East Tennessee marble is becoming i'm
& poItant item. Brownlow furnishes some items
from the same State.
1t is proposed to mount the Paris police on
Yelocipedes. Our police are content to do duty
less conspicuously if their bills were regularly
footed.
g There is hole in the five hundred miles
4 long Is this radical defect q
The best telegraphic operator in st. Louis is
: q deaf mute.
The great Cathedral at Leavenworth will be
finished in December.
{. Canada has raised a cucumber upwards of
five feet long 1t is likewise very prolific in
"scares."
Texas mustang grape wine is pronounced
superior to claret.
The water power of Maine is equal to that
of one million horses.
The yiceroy of Egypt spent $4,000, 900 in
ten weeks tour
Mankato,! Minnesota, is to have a Catholic
church to cost $1OO,O9O.
Emerson has written studied six hours a
day for thrty-five years. Nobody can under
stand half Of his writings.
There are $4,000 gallons of Bourbon whisxey
in bond in one district in Kentucky. 1t would
be better idea to make the drinkers give
bond to keep the peace.
suit in Chicago is to decide whether one
Bateman has three wives or none.
Catholic priest, it is said, inherits the CO.
pyrights of the Wandering Jew" and the
Mysteries" If SO, they will meet the fate
which probably has been meted to their infa-
nous author.
ACincinnati minister has been converted
from politics to religion.
One of the finest plantations on the Arkan-
sas river was recently sold for five cents per
acre,
The new St.Louis waterworks will cost three
and half million dollars.
A farmer in Derbyshire, England, recently
took prize at fair on three cabbages that
averaged seventy-two pounds.
The Paris post Office has fifty-fve branch Off
ces and 543 boxes. There are seven deliveries
daily.
The chief restaurants of Homburg, Germany,
employs 2I5 persons, among which figure thirty
cooks and seventy-five walters.
A fire lately occurred i'll the Lisbon custom
house, by which S5O0,OOO worth of cotton and
tobacco was consumed.
Two storied ears have been put Oh the rail-
road from Copenhagen to Klompenburg that
can accommodate one hundred passengers
each.
Large baskets full of plums sell in Holland
for fifteen cents, or about one cent for two hum
bred and fifty plums.
Three stock exchange brokers lately sold out
in Paris for one million dollars.
The railroad over Mount Gents, Italy, was re-
Gently partially destroyed by storm.
Two burglars were recently run down in Pa
ris by velocipedes. They would be useful ap-
pendages to use when escaping from tho bar
barisms which are apprehended GU nights when
Radical professions make all around hideous.
The Emperor of Russia is to review 100000
men at the camp of Tsarkoe-Selo, and has in
vited many exalted personages to witness the
maneuvres.
A young English lady while climbing up the
mountain at Chamounix, recently, was crushed
by a huge block of steaie rolling down.
A curious disease has broken out in some of
the French towns; it is called infammatory
mucous fevor.
The consumption of cigars in France last
year was 70o,ood,o0o
At a recent London fire collection of Sew
res vases, given to the Northumberland family
10y Charles y. of France, was consumed.
The latest sensation in Paris is jewelry of Ian
tern shape-of course after the witty paper so
called.
Three titled personages while dining recently
at Hotel in Ostende, took prussic acid, and
were found by the walters lying dead on the
floor.
Napoleon reviewed the troops at Chalons on
the 10th instant. The attendance is said to