The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-04-03

The daily average receipts Of A. T. Stewards
store is ts7, 900.
At late execution in Pennsylvania town,
an enterprising person rented auger-holes at
~ peep, in . building overlooking the jail
yard.
A monster fsh was recently caught near the
Eddystone Lighthouse, which weighed cwt.,
twelve feet in length and ten in circumfer-
ence.
Chicago woman, who deals largely in -four,
has applied to be admitted to the Board of
Trade. Why mott She'll be the flower Of the
flock.
Cornelius ODowd, in Black,cood, says that in
England people work life at high boiler pres
sure, but the Yankees do more, they sit on the
valves"
Thomas Carlyle pays only Sl25 year for his
house in Scotland. He bluntly refused TO see
an American admirer who lately called on him
at that house.
It is remarked as q singular circumstance in
the South African diamond diggings, that all
the diamonds have been found by natives and
not by Europeans.
Two hundred and forty coolies have left
Cienfuegos for this city-one hundred of whom
noSo WON SnS"6SN IVA SOAA' w ss>AS ANAAl's .
Mississippi plantation.
As many of the fair sex are studying law
with view to being called to the bar, it is pre-
sumed their practice will be no bar to their be-
coming mothers-in-1aw.
At the grand military mass celebrated at the
Mechanics Pavilion, San Francisco, on St. Pa
tricks Day, the collection for the orphans
amounted to nearly $1,000.
How have the mighty fallen! George Wash
ington told q lie in Columbus, Ga, one day last
week, which had the sad consequence of send
ing BENJAMIN Franklin to Jail. -
The widow of the late T. Bigelow Lawrence
offers to give $25 900 for the erection of art
museum in Boston, provided an additional
$75, 900 is raised by subscription.
Philadelphia has seven medical schools, and
is said to be willing for consideration to fur
nish diplomas to seventy-times-seven applicant.
who have never entered their doors.
Such was the crush to get to the festivities
at the Hotel de Vile, Paris, on Mardi Gras,
fiat q party which started at halfpa eight
did not reach the ball room till halfpast two.
The Franklin Bank in Baltimore, has form
ally resumed the redemption of its outstand-
ing circulation in coin. The Southern Bank,
of this city, never stopped redeeming it's notes
in coin.
The Messrs. Trubner announce the publica-
ton of q Chinese English dictionary, "arran-
ged according to the Radicals" Then recon-
struction or destruction of both parties is sure
| to follow.
| A thief stole Judge Barnard's hat off the
bench in his courtroom, New York, on the 23d
| nit, without being observed by either judge,
| jury or lawyers. He lost overcoat in the
same way once before.
| It cost the country $4,000 to publish, in a
volume of 962 pages, the addresses of condo
1ence called forth by the assassination of Presi-
| dent Lincoln. The Eclectic says there may be
| ten pages worth preserving.
| The new press of the London Times prints
| II, 900 copies on both sides in an hour. The
paper used is just as it comes from the mill, in
strips of $500 yards in length. The press only
| measures fourteen feet by five.
|. Alottery suit in New York brought ont the
| fact that no less than six million dollars per
| annum s received by the sale of lottery tickets
| mostly from poor wretched people, who have
not cent to spend except for the neccssaries
OF life.