The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-10-23

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The rain famine has been ouite favorable
to milk consumers.
prominent Boaton parson has been do
sscted 10 stealing sermons.
The "heathen Chineen has proved an
{ adeHe hop picker in Wisconain.
ne male population Of Iowa is forty
.1hosaAnd in excess az the female,
boston IL in raptures because one Of ia
govsrnnent school tsachers is a full. b,ooded
negro.
California now produces 40, DOC, 600 bush
els OF wheat over and above what ia
needed for consumption.
The fair lately held in Philadelphia in
behalf Of the Church Of the Immaculate
Conception, realized $500.
"A srab-apple tree, near Black River
Falls, Wis, has borne fruit twice this sea-
son, and was again in blossom.
Latest advices from China state that the
French demand has been refused, and the
Chinese are preparing for war.
The Philadelphia bootblacks are licensed
% work on the sidewalks, but they are out
iawedNf caught pitching pennies.
An acquaintance says his ist of friends
has wonderfully increased since the two
parties have made their nominations.
Over 1900 babies have been received at
the Founding Hospital in New York since
its foundation, not quite year since.
A school-teacher named E. K. Barstow,
was stoped to death last week in IN out
district of Boston, by some Of her scholars.
The Chinese in California are making the
most commendable progress in civilization.
Two OF them fought duel the other day.
Squirrels are swimming the Ohio river
in droves, and are being killed in great
profusion in gardens and yards near the
stream.
The NJ. DIS. of st. Louis are greatly puz-
Fled over the case of woman who has
slept for twenty years, except at short in
tervals Of wakefulness.
Now that the fever has ceased, consump-
ton is greatly in the ascendant-particu-
larry among political coteries. Diagnosis !:
great sinking of spirits.
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sidering that the sex are not thought de-
fcient in powers both of lung and tongue,
they should make good musicians.
A woman in East Tennessee stopped q
railroad train by waving red flag, and
wanted to know of the enraged conductor
IL Sairey Melvina Smith was on board.
A confectioner of Indianapolis is in
of Oh III %
which he sent to the State fair was mis-
taken by the committee for carved walnut.
The Prince Imperial has been admitted
an honorary member of the English Army.
and Navy Club. The Emperor Napoleon
has been many years q member of the Club.
Rev. j. s. Whitcomb, q Protestant par
son in Pennsylvania, advertises his !" little
marriage knot promptly and strongly tied"
Troy has become almost as famous for
scandals as Chicago. Nearly every ISSUE Of
the aocal papers contain reports Of elope-
ments, abductions or threatened .shootings.
Wilhelmshohe, Napoleons prison, was
built by money received by the Prince Of
Hesse from England, in payment for the
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rebellious colonies.
A Boston paper Gays it looks as though
Gen. Butler would walk over the course in
the fifth Massachusetts, district. Lucky
fellow. He was surely born with "golden
spoon in his mouth"
The author of Legendary Fictions of
the Irish Celts" has q new work on an
equally promising subject in the press.
Mr.. Kennedy names his forthcoming volume
"Fireside Stories of Ireland"
An observer says that "children are not
80 we'll behaved since the mothers have
taken to wearing high heeled shoes" This
is supposed to be owing to the disuse of
slippers for spanking purposes.
They Are still squabbling about the as
sassination rewards in Washington. Ever
since the capture of Booth, the parties who
hunted him down have been quarreling like
cats and dogs about the blood money.
Louisville has contracted for one thou
sand English sparrows, to war on cater
pillars. If they want birds of prey, that
are songsters. at the same time, let them
apply to the st. Charles street saloons.
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