The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-08-14

france, q careful estimate (compiled from
autnenMc documents) was made of tn,
cosC IN lives OF recent European wars. TIL,
Cramean war was stated to have cost 7s3.
9OO lives; the war in Italy ia 1857. Is. 600
IN ocnleswig- Holstein, $500; the Americar
war $4,000; the Prussian war. $4,000
Nexlco and China, IS ,OOO-making a total
between 1853 to 1866, of I,75O, 600 lives
anu tnose were men in the prime of life
men who ought to have been useful and
I3ere were the MANNED, the halt and the
blind who were scattered over all the ma
lions or Europe. Such were the effects of
thirteen years war in the nineteenth CEN
curry. M. Leroy -Beaulieu, in his " Recher-
ches sur less Queries Contemporaries"
the work alluded to by Mr.. Peace), sup
plies some very curious statistics about the
cost of war. 1t is really surprising to see
how much money is spent for every man
killed on the field or sent away to die of
his wounds Or of some sickness of the camp.
The thing was done with comparative
cneapness in the Crimean war, where a
vast number of men were got together at
very close quarters. Between the Russians
ana the Allies there were more than three
quarters of q million of men killed. each of
them at the price of 9433. On the other
hand, the maximum of cost was reached in
the American civil war. Each one of the
SSi ,OOO deaths Though this is small esti-
mate We should imagine) was purchased
by an expenditure of E3345. The belli-
gerents in South America did the horrible
business more cheaply, not spending more
than 99OO per man. Small wars are gen.
orally costly. The Danish war extinguish-
ed $500 lives, at an average cost of about
s2O80. The campaign which ended at
Sadowa must be reckoned, considering it's
brief duration, to have been expensive.
Every life cost nearly CISCO. 1t is strange
policy which makes civilized societies ex-
pend what would be a comfortable mainte-
nance to three or four men on the destruc-
tion of one.
Ho,n $50 are made out Of $45.-A very
ingenious trick, by which gang of swind-
lers are making money by mutlating ma
tional bank notes of the denomination of
five dollars, has recently come to our no.
tice. The dodge consists in making ten
bills out of nine, and is so managed that
there Is only one FASTING to each of the
notes. The nine whole
bills are taken, and from the right of the
first one-tenth is sliced off; from the right |
of the second, two tenths; from the right of |
the third, three-tenths, and SO on to the |
number nine, from which nine tenths are
taken from the right, or what amounts to
The same thing, one tenth from the left.
Number one is passed as it is, with tenth
gone from the right; the one tenth taken
rom number one is pasted to the residue
Of numberitwo, from which two-t enths had
oeen taken, these two-tenths are made to
answer the place of the three-tenths taken
rom number three, and so on through.
Thus nine five dollar notes are completed,
eavlng the original nine, with tenth
zone from the left as tenth note. 1t will
70 seen that but a tenth is gone from each
Ill, and in different place from each one, ,
nd a little ingenious FASTING makes the
oss 1mperceptible to ordinary observers. h
is certain that large numbers of these
inf LOT 11c1
nd our readers will do we'll to look out :
Dr. them. The rogues who have carried J
ut the fraud were cunning in selecting
ne denomination they did. Larger bills
'ould have been more closely scrutinized q
nd smaller ones would not have been SO =
'deem bill that has been tempered with, a
I'D we advise our friends to scrutinize =
leir five dollar bills closely.-Pittsburg :;
cening Mail.
The Watch that Martha Washington
7ore.-The F." Father of his Country" had a
,uple of Glove affairs" The first was 1
it'll Miss Mary Phillipse, a daughter of
le owner of the Phillipse estate, in West
lester and Putnam counties. With the
nitten, and tradition AYERS that "George
-" as he is profanely called, "sat up" F
it'll his i" girl" all night occasionally. But,
the modern phrase, Mary "couldn't see r
)" and gave George the mitten BONE time Il
the year 1855. In 1881 he met the al
idow -Custis, and, not being favored at I
lat time with the advice of the elder Mr..
lmuel Weller, he neglected to "beware"1
that dangerous variety of the sex, fell
ver head and ears in love with Mrs.
nstis, successfully "sparked" her, and in e.
ie course of time was married to her. His
d flame, Miss Phillipse, became the wife
Roger Morris. Georges wedding occurr-
in 1859. After the betrothel of George G.
i'd Martha, he presented his love
it'll handsome gold watch, which was "
anufactured expressly to his order in Il
Id an effort is being made by the citizens,
purchase the interesting old relic, and
eposit it at Washington's headquarters
that city. The price asked for it is only "
1000. 1t was given by Mrs. Washington
) Mrs. Halyburton, her niece, and the
other of Judge James d. Halyburton, of
irginia. The saddest part of it's history
that it is now thrown on the market for T
lie, as one of the results to it's owners, L
lie family of Judge Halyburton, of the
rtunes of our late war, which stripped
many of our Southern countrymen of A
leir possessions. The watch bears the -
anne of its maker, Barwie, London, No.
b." 1t is of the old-fashioned BULBS -
7e" pattern, reduced in thickness to neat
dy's style. The gold case is inland with
hite enamel around the edge of back and
ce. The watch is in its original case,
Id accompanied by its original key. The =
tiers of the name " Martha GUSTS" are (
arked on the dial-nlatA. one Iafter iust