The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-10-09

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EDITORIAL AND OTHER uxNs.
a brother Of President Grant has lust
started tanIery At Geneva, Ill.
The ambulances Of the army of the Rhine
comprise beds for sec. 600 patieats.
Nelaton, the great surgeon of Paris, last
year returned an income of 800, 900.
Mile. Nilsson gets $1,000 a night in gold
for her songs, "Sing song of sixpence. y
A woman has carried off the $500 prize
Ior the best managed farm in Oxfordshire,
England.
Inc number of German songs, warlike or
patriotic, published since the outbreak of
the war, is $50.
a man named Oliver Deming was re-
Gently murdered for q drink of whisky at
Martinsville, Ind.
The magnetic well in Chicago having
E oeen thoroughly tested, the citizens think
they prefer whisky.
IN New York strong minded women get
living by shop-lifting- it is said thew
can lift as much as men.
Kentucky wants reliable and intelligent
working men who don't claim the Flowery
Kingdom as their birth place.
The childrenknowni in London as "Arabs"
were lately treated to an excursion the
number in the train was 1900.
Owing to competition between steam
boat lines, passengers are now carried from
New York to Albany for fifty cents.
The Fireplace" is the name of a drink
Ing saloon in Chicago. Any one can get
warm by it for ten cents, or red-hot for
quarter.
Not long since New York lady received
three sewing machines, six family Bibles
and ten ice pitchers among hor bridal
presents.
woman named Boyce was burned to
death in Albany lately, by the bedclothes
taking fire from pipe which she had been
smoking
Three-fourths of the pictures hitherto
exhibited in the Louvre, at Paris, have
been packed and sent of. to an unknown
destination
For warranting that dress pattern
would "wash," when it wouldn't, a Spring
Held dry goods firm has been mulcted in
$50 damages.
The Figaro announces the total of the
subscriptions for the purchase of a sword
Of honor for Marshal McMahon amounts to
10000 francs.
A dearth of telegraphic operators exists
at present in Germany, and hundreds of
small Geographic offices had to be closed
in consequence.
A crab was recently caught in the Bay
of Yokohama, Japan, which weighed over
forty pounds, had legs five feet long, and
two enormous feet.
Miss Lydia Armstrong, of Grant county,
Indiana, advertises for husband. She
says: Money is no object, but he must
be willing to work."
Baron Edmond de Rothschild has been
drawn for the French Garde Mobile, and,
although a youth, has already been elevated
to the rank of corporal.
The editors of Hearth and Home acknow-
ledge the receipt of q hens egg weighing a
quarter of a pound, seven inches in cir
conference and four long.
A gardener and carpenter are advertised
for in London paper, but, as their as
sistance will be required in choir, none
need apply who are unable to sing"
The amount of money loaned upon bond
and mortgage by the life and fire insurance
of New York last year, reaches
he stupendous figure of $4,000, 900.
Nearly all the towns along the Hudson
nave been visited with intermittent fever
his autumn, and now the chief town Cd
ts banks has the yellow fever prevailing.
Mccormick, the reaper machine man,
has contracted for the making of teles-
'ope to cost $4,000 in gold, which he in
ends presenting to the University OF Vir-
,inia.
A London firm has contracted to supply
. house in Paris with 5000 mourning bon
lets and 10000 yards of Grape in two
weeks. In Berlin they have orders far
greater.
Virginia City, Nevada has an uncomfort-
lble habit of sinking fifty feet or more,
Without much warning. Outsiders con-
ider the Crescent City sunk pretty low
morally as well as physically.
A man who recently attempted to travel i
rec on one of the Ohio river steamboats,,
vas so mortified when asked either to work, y
ay, or get off at the next landing, that he t
walked overheard, and was '