The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-12-11
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Three women own and run boats on the
Erie Canal.
A wealthy citizen of Boston is building q
o500, O00 residence.
Il A society has been 0rmed ip London for
The prevention Of baby farming.
Prince Torlonia has sent his Holiness q
e Peter penny Of $4,000 crowns.
Since the war began suicides have ceased
In Paris, and the Morgue is empty.
California is building horse-cars on
new plan tho horse. covered by the roof.
On Monday, 5th inst, fair was opened
i'm Philadelphia for the benefit of " abused
animals.n
! Applause at the Sunday preachings is
beginning to be quite q common occurrence
They are selling sweet potatoes in Flori-
da at sixty cents bushel; the crop is I'M
usually large.
Philadelphia enjoys the possession of
sixty-two persons entitled to the appella-
ton of millionaires.
We see it stated that there is an hospital
in Boston into which Catholic priest is
not allowed to enter.
The Mount Cents tunnel will be COM
Dleted in ls72-the Hoosac tunnel in 1875.
Both are great bores.
In Grafton; vt, recently, an auctioneer
sold large lot of apples, of fair quality,
for one cent bushel.
There are no less than, ten prominent
offices held by printers in the North Caro-
lima State Government.
We, Of the United States, as q nation,
are not yet one hundred years old, and yet
we have had three wars.
About $6O, 600 were realized by the fair
lately held in New York for the erection of
q new Founding Asylum.
The decrease of mule stock in Kentucky
is attracting attention. In thirty years the
scarcity has not been so great.
The parsons of Connecticut have decided
in solemn conclave against the reading or
circulating of Dickens works.
II O. man remains silent at the tables of
q hotel on the Continent, he is supposed to
be dumb, deaf, or an Englishman.
The Rocky Mountain Herald predicts that
the buffalo will be extinct in twenty years.
The railroad track will soon efface his
tracks.
A case was recently before an English
court which turned zon the age of dog.
We are not informed what tale the dog I'M
folded.
Single men are not eligible for the New
Haven police. People often complain that
not a single. policeman is to be seen when
wanted.
A man in Chicago has been fined STU fo'
throwing his wife out of the window, tt
the imminent danger of persons passing
underneath.
Another effort is being made to send ar
Episcopal bishop to the Hawaiian Islands
The first was a failure-and we believe g
discreditable one.
The Massachusetts, Supreme Court has
decided that a contract made on Sunday
and carried into effect, cannot be repudi.
ated by either party. 49,.
The Fiji Islanders have a theatre. Pro-
gressive, isn't it, from being cannibais
The farce, GIVE Eaten my Friend" must
revive pleasant memories.
Chunder Sen, the famous Hindoo, came
from India to see Christian Europe, and
couldn't do 80 because of the ravages o.
war among Christian people.
A Mrs. Yeubgman, of Illinois, has fallen
heiress to a Scotch estate of $4,000, 900. Il
q widow, or divorced, what a chance there
would be for some other young man.
Swedish laborers in Florida picked OF
the first day from IS to so pounds of cottoI
in a field that had been gone over thre'
times, and the second day 165 pounds.
The beef packing houses of Kansas Civ
subsistence to 500 families. A single bank II
that State has handled as much as $1,000,
600 money employed in the cattle trade.
The noted Red Stockings have disbande'
they will employ no more. professions
mines. Last year they expended $4,000 TO
players, which has proved demorallzing.
Lady Burgoyne has received from tn
Empress Eugene costly gold locket en-
CLOSING her Majesty's portrait, as souvenl
of her voyage to England in Sir John
yacht.
Brewing is science in Bavaria, whic
accounts for the excellence of its beer. A
Munich and Augsburg there are schools