The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-04-18
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Paris consumes thirty million pShndslof
fish yearly. W ~ N
Cdnard, the great steam packet owner, is
dead. --vl
The Alabama STAINS treaty has been Ge-A
Baron Jomini, ens efI the greatest Mill
tary writers of the age, il hsad, Il
Tie Emper6f francis Joseph, Of Austria
speaks steven Languages. a
The dressing casssof the late MARQUIS of
Hastings cost $4,000.
L InIIlinois habitnal drunksrsls ire placed
in charge of guardians.
Sixty Thousand cnpies of Alexander Ste
iphens history Of lie . 81 dave been sold.
Patent medicines Beings into one man in
Louisville $3.50, COOPER annnm. .Eg
San Francisco ~ u y 9Fsf hfty
million segarsslAs3 glsM.4Al4. unuUI9
Gen. Mcclellan has been. offered the,
presidency of NorthernzcSlleg A-EG- = =
A curious philologist gives one hundred
and twenty ways Of spelling sfscss6rs.n
The spring risess IA the. Ohio has flooded
the lower streeta Of Louisgilles sbooD Ii bs.11I
The miscellaneous works of art left by
Rossini bEessht go 08ass sssssssFsssssM
The Nevada Legislature, foiiowing SuE
own axamp1e, has licensed gambling.
Maiden Alboni is paid $500 each time she
singAin Rossinis new mass.
TIE proceeds Of the fair lately held at
the Blaffer BuildingsS win amount TO SIS, Z
600. tas1s
The Credit Roncier i to-be intrroauccd
into our city. Have We Periefe among
us2
By a new invention, printing paper can.
be freed from ink, leaving the sheet pure,
spotless white.
An unusual amount of sickness prevails
among the families of foreign ministers at
Washington. 50
The President has taken a summer re-
| treat at Long Branch. office-seekers would
reach him even at the pole.
The home of the muses--that of Mrs.
| Sigourney-has- been sold for railroad
station.
England is sending troops to Canada.
Has the rejection of the Alabama treaty
any thing to do with it
Il T. G. Bowie, nephew of Reverdy john
in Kansas City, last week. ~, -,a s4a.
Gen. Wade Hampton recently purchased
! fifteen hundred mules in Illinois for his
! South Carolina plantations. c-
There is snow pillow on the Central Pa
ciic Railroad propelled by eight locomo-
tives.
Minnesota is larger than the six New
England States-having eighty-four thou,
sand square miles.
\ The reception of ex-President johnson
all along the route to Memphis was most
enthusiastic.
t The. threshing machines used in the
United States save ten million bushels o.
grain annually more than the fail would
magnificent silver crown has been pur
chased by subscription in England, ant
placed on the Emperor Maximinian's tomb
A Baltimore swindler mixed $45 wortl
of gold dust with brass filings 30 dexter
ously as to palm it off on a jeweler fo
$27OO. -,.-l,.- e14-.#
Chicago possesses the largest equatorial
telescope in existence. 1t was originally
intended for Oxford, Mississippi, but thu
was diverted its destination. tgs,,N tz-.a5
There are 10000 shade trees in Paris
The recently planted trees on Canal stree
look as if they'd answer a better purpos
L than clothes lines 80 ~ a':L9t = I !
: The police at Dteppe, F.rErre5 have bec'
4 warned not to catch drowning ladies' by tn
4 hair,-as the present fashion renders sucl
PROCEEDING uncertain. :
1t is expected that five hundred EN-
, ployes viii be discharged from the depart
f ments at Washington within the next few
, months. , .l a. a,.<,la..sa De- ssr.a,iF -+5rsF
An" EPSON salt deposit" has been dis
; covered in Amherst county, Va. GU
} stomach protests against working the mast
b thing. st,e -.
' Female notartes are in fashion both il
. Missouri ana Iowa, And why not Who's
deeds ar" better executed, we should ik
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