The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-09-18
EDITORIAL Ann orHx1 rrxns.

lege.
| 1t ia estimated l4O,OO0,OOO pounds of
white paint are used yearly in the United |
States.
Thirty -eight thousand baskets of peaches |
arrived in Jersey City one day last week
by rail.
Lincoln, the capital of Nebraska. which
is but two years old, has a population of
5000 souls.
Both London and New York are said to
be overrun with skilled workmen out of
employment.
Our railroads are As, 900 miles in length
Great Britain has not quite IL 900 and
France only 5000.
Scientific investigation proves that work
ers in tobacco are exempt from typhus
fever, dysentery and cholera.
| At Southbridge, Mass, three children
that were lying dangerously ill, died during
thunder storm Thursday week.
! Leaving the news behind and finding it
waiting for them at home, is the experience
of passengers on steamers from Europe.
| New counterfeit fifty cent notes are in
circulation in New York and the West, and
doubtless will find their way to this city.
Western papers say the number of peo-
pie now obtaining homes in that section
under the homestead law, is unprecedented.
The late John Simmons, of Boston, has
bequeathed half million of dollars to
establish " Simmons Female Seminary"
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens is slowly re-
covering his health, and busiiy engaged
in writing school history Of the United
States.
A nephew OF Gen. Won Moltle and
niece of Gen. Monteuffel, of the Prussian
army, are said to be living in San Antonio
Texas.
The little ship Ragusa, which is only
little over two tons burden, has reached
I Boston from Queenstown, after an eighty,
days. voyage.
On Friday week a woman in st. Croix
county, near Hudson, Wis, drowned her
two children, set fire to her dwelling house,
and then took poison.
The demand for Christian Brothers ex-
ceeds all the resources of supply. The
school in Providence. r. l., lately made APP
plication, without avail.
Sister Louise, who was among the vic
TINS in China, was formerly Alice O'Sulli-
van, of Syracuse. She had been a mission
airy in China seven years.
tits estimated that out of our assumed
population of forty millions, twenty-five
millions will be found by the census to
have regular occupations.
Alucky laborer named Murray, while
digging upon the site of the old Fountain
Hotel, Baltimore, lately, turned up box
containing 1000 gold coin.
IL dreadful result of the war is that the
German toy makers, being drafted into the
ranks, there are none left to manufacture
them. Bad news for the little folk.
An editor in Michigan promised a yearly
subscription for the largest watermelon
left at his office. He has been boarding his
entire force on the results ever since.
In London there is an itinerant barber
shop, where shaves are obtained for penny
a piece. Crowds attend the institution"
awaiting the cry of 'your turn next"
The landlady of Hartford doctor last
week, finding she could get no money,
9" went through" his specimens with a
poker, and destroyed fifty six glass bottles.
On the 4th inst. the Germans of College
Point held festival to raise funds for the
wounded, at which lager beer was auctioned
off at from ten cents to twenty-five dollars
a glass.
Gladiateur," the famous racer, which
has won for his owner $4,000 in stakes
alone, is to be sold in London this month.
American turfnen are to make an effort to
secure him.
The longest railroad bridge in the United
States is the Cayuga bridge, ten miles west
of Auburn. 1t is one mile and fifty yards
in length, twenty-five feet wide, and cost
SI5O,OO0.
The Provisional Government of France
is foolishly busying itself with changing
the names of streets in Paris having an I'm :
perial twang while the Prussians are almost
at it's gates.
1t is said our city just now is visited by
commercial travellers from st. Louis, who
offer advantages which they say cannot be
equalled by the merchants of Cincinnati
and Louisville.
Queen Victoria has presented a sword to
each of the friendly native chiefs of New
Zealand. Some stupid suggests that pair
of drawers and a box of soap would be
mora suitable,