The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-09-04
xDTIURIAL AND OTHKR ITElls.

xDuO1IAL AND OTHER ITEMS.
There are million of grape vines with
in the limits of Los Angeles, Cal.
Mrs. Adela McKeon is an independent
candidate for Congress from California;
According to Mr. Gladstone, the wealth
Of England increases $500, OOO, 900 every
year.
Y In Illinois and Indiana the trains stop
i've minutes to enable passengers to obtain
divorces.
The city Of New York. is now commonly
spoken Of by visitors from other places as
Fiskville.
Throughout the voluminous characters
sketched by Dickens, he has not attempted
. Scotch one.
Tho late severe drouth is assigned as the
reason for raising the price of milk in some
Northern cities.
Augusta, Ga, has shipped ~, 600 water
melons this season, One-third of the num-
1er going to New York.
The grandson of an Irish Earl is about
y start in Dublin a comic paper, to be
Alled The Knight Errant.
Horace Greeley has just sold one of his
TN shares of the New York Tribune stock,
tust to pblige friend"
Great Britain has 64l6 cotton, wooden
nd other clothing manufactures, which
Employ s45, O66 operatives.
IA man in Concord has biscuitswhich
vas set on Lafayette's table in 1928. 1t is
Fetty well seasoned by this time.
The first female compositor has just been
admitted to the Government printing Office
atWashington, to work by the piece.
Hrussian recruits are all marked with in
delible ink, SO that they may be identified
when they are brought home mangled.
A boarding hoase in Boston advertises
that sfour Christian young men are wanted,
who neither chew, smoke, spit nor swear"
A New York policeman, while making
an arrest recently, was assaulted by three
women, one of whom bit off his right ear.
The late warm weather was so severely
felt that neighbor of ours in the Sixth
District had to soak his pig to make him
hold swill.
A census taker in Michigan found beau
tiful young lady rejoicing in the name o.
Luna Aurora Borealis. Her life ought te
be insured.
Those who wish to get bird's-eye view
of the merits of the Alabama question,
can do so by turning over $3.50 pages @
small print.
A party of workmen engaged in digging
canal in Sherman, Me-, found live tur
tie, eighteen inches across the back, tel
feet below the surface.
The School Commissioners of Louisville
KY, have decided to employ no NOR
teachers who are under twenty years o
AGE. A wise decision.
Professor Blot, famous for his cooking
ecsures, il suffering terribly with ,dyspep
lin. q disease which he promised to banis
rom the face of the earth.
The census returns show that the increas
n population in Brooklyn, Jersey City ant
.tber cities about New York is proportion
.talv mnch greater than in New York it
elf.
A mathematical genius estimates that
would require canal FIVE miles long, fit
act deem. and two hundred feet broad
hid the beer annually consumed in Eu
ripe.
Mrs. Steele, sister of Hon. Roscoe Conk
lisg, has been appointed by Collector Muir
DIV, of New York, an inspectress OF Gus
tons, and is discharging the dutiesof ne
ofice.
Worm lozenges sold in several Massa
cb.setts towns have been analysed, an
found to contain strychnine in suftclen
aumtity to cause great injury, II nc
desth.
London butcher has been detected
setine donkey meat for beef, and his COCK
nee customers are exceedingly indignar
atbeins " treated as I they were o"nni
bals." ,:...
Ia marriage lately reported at pitts
buir, the bride and groom were aged II
spdctively fifteen and sixteen, both mamma
corsenting. They are providing for tn
next census. ~ q,
: An exchange says that there were ao'o.
slassee of lager beer, 10000 bottles OF sou
and $4,000 cigars consumed by those WI
attended the recent temperance conventlo
at New Haven.
A man in Iowa has been arrested for oil
tanning goods under false pretences'
got a girl to marry him on the preten'
that he was wealthy. The "goods" don
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