The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-08-16

there are less than one hun0Feu uhu V"e"-
ty five competent Photographic reporters
in that city. :
A match race between a velocipede and
single horse buggy came OF lately IN
France, distance seventy two miles, inc
latter winning.
A soldier at Fort Hamilton, New YORK,
was, last week, compelled to bathe wMie
wearing a ball and chain, and was drowned
in consequence.
Aruuaway horse in Salem, Massachusetts,
was lately stopped 10y n well-dressed LADY,
with her parasol. That lady should have
the right to vote.
Winc-drinkers will be startled to learn
that there is not a bottle of pure wine IN
the United States, nor has there been 1or
twenty five years.
The steamship Star of the Union made
last week, in unprecedented time-three
days and twenty hours.
A tomato weighing twenty eight ounces
and sixteen inches in circumference, mas
been presented to the editor of the Evans
Vile (Indiana) Jo' mai.
When the owner of the trotting horse
Ben Butler was asked why he was 80 named,
he replied called him Ben Butler, sure
he'd carry off the plate"
A man, named Labelle, died suddenly at
Montreal, the other day, after drinking
eight glasses of whisky. 'Iwouid DE no IL
bel to label that man "a.
| A contemporary says when July is unusu-
ally hot, tile following month is compare
lively cool. We of New Orleans have not
come to the cool part yet.
A mechanic in New Jersey has invented
a machine which makes two quarts OF shoe
pegs per minute. At that rate he'll soon
peg himself out of a market.
A man in Pittsburg has had his eye put
out by cork from soda bottle. We've
heard of black eyes following-not from the
cork, but the uncorked bottle.
The total amount received by the benev-
client societies of Great Britain is SO, OOO, 600,
a large proportion of which is spent III COL
lccting and itiuerant agencies.
Sir Samuel Baker has received an offer
from the Egyptian Government to open
communication for trade between the lake
country of the Upper Nile and Lower Egypt.
A "sociable club Z" has been founded in n
Western town, the bylaws of which pro-
hibit them from talking about their neigh
bors. Surely, the members must be dear
and dumb.
An arrival at Havana from Mexico repre-
sents that country as in deplorable state
of anarchy. To give details would only be
repeating the old story of risings, pronun-
cimientos, suppressions, and murders.
Thaddeus Stevens is dead. Our readers
Y will please make their own comments, and
dwell on their reflections With the Their
G mometer at ninety odd, the subject is sug
n gestive of still greater heat, so we'll non
of it.
A resident of WATERFOWL, New York, re
:. Gently wheeled his wife on n wheelbarroI
9 from that place to Saratoga, for her health
Last week, they returned home, the woman
e restored and walking beside her husband
J. who wheeled the empty barrow.
The hens have caught the contagi ion o
r, female rights. A cock, belonging to MI
y Osgood, of Newburyport' Massachuset! Is
II remained till the chickens were Matched
st and then took sole charge of them.
A mulatto woman, named Banerd, Twin
p Mt Lacrosse, Wisconsin, gave birth, on tn
~ Fourth of July, to three children-tW
white and one as black as coal. IN
of Freedman's Bureau should see after TIL
No case of partiality to "white trash"
The Buffalo Courier notices the appear
. ance of n man named Washburn, one of til
a, Canadian patriots of 1887, who was bar
- isbed to Van Dicman's Land. He wa
lately liberated, and during his penal serv
ed tude was harnesscd to a pillow, and made
IL do the work of a horse. ..s
-l-aa the 10th ult. man was found amor
nS the charred timbcrs of the recent fire
as Rridreport. Connecticut, and rs u jul
L. we're holding an inquest, the supposed'd
IN funct, who was only tipsy, raised his hea
Ole covered over with charcoal dust, and i
CURED what they were dong.
at gentleman living in New, New En ns la
ng city was annoyed by the dlscordance 81
for i SuS the premises premises, but was refused
i'm IN members hoping to extort an enormo
III price. Then the gentleman built mp Il fen
:, beyond the caves of the church, and paint
' KS them black. The sitting heat may be II
W agined.
the A PuENoMENoN.-IuH Hungary, near r
s a mion, there was q vine, whose branci
we're of golden hue. The cause OF