The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-08-21
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

til veal.
he There are $4,000 sclavonian Catholics
is the United States .
,a Inc present population of Chicago
as estimated at BOG, Cos.
l. Pennsylvanian has imported two tho,
sand dollars worth of Irish swallows.
D, M. Chassepot has received Russia
E patent for an improvement on his rife.
spirited girl in Dubuque has com
i menced an action against her mother fl
: oral SANDER.
The census of Sweden, just taken, show
. population of 4,172, lsO-a decrease c
q 22,061 in two years.
3 Rev. Olympia Brown was proposed il
!. the Connecticut Legislature as commando
of the State militia.
The peanut crop in the South this yea
will reach a million bushels. Peanuts ar,
not prescribed, ," it seems.
ravenous-looking shark, eleven feet
long, was captured off the head of Atlantic
wharf, Charleston, last week.
A dilatory ceusus-taker in California
writes IN extenuation-" Mercury ITO de.
grees in the shade and no ice."
The Catholic Church at Mount Auburn.
ohio, was entered by thieves on Saturday
week, and the sacred vessels carried off.
James Harris, of Jefferson county, Iowa,
mas son three months old that weighs
only two pounds. He is lively and v:gor-
GUS.
VI 622 murders committed in New York.
the papers say, during thirteen years, the
Dcrnefr3fnra nf Xxx how
covered.
There are 10000 Germans in San Fran
cisco, and their breweries number TWENTY
six, producing 10000 barrels of German
beer annually.
young man lately married in Beloit,
Wis.,, helped his wife, while counting, to
sew together rags enough to make sixty
yards of carpet.
st: Louis has Sc, 700 dogs, and proposes
to cur-tail the nuisance by detailing one
hundred policemen to make way with all
that hadn't collars.
The library of the British Museum now
contains 100000 volumes, and doubles
itself every fifteen years. What an accu-
mutation of rubbish
A servant girl in Toledo frustrated a
'eggar's plans by throwing him out of the
garrett window to the sidewalk. He never
recovered from the shock.
Several persons were poisoned in Colum-
ia, s. c., lately, through the accidental s
he small plum tomatoes. !
AS an instance of the signs of the times, :
he keeper of a certain Cafe Napoleon in t
serlin has actually been obliged to shut up
hop, SO obnoxious was his sign.
English Spiritualists say Charles Dickens II
as been received into the spirit world, ST
nd introduced by Prince Albert to the 81
'ciety that makes up that sphere. n, n.
Napoleon corrects his manuscripts very an
mes has word been put in or left out. mi
ithout satisfying his literary taste. 81,
A bran new invention is that a squeeze cal
lemon is great improvement to tea,
ID may be used with whiskey when there -
opens to be scarcity of the former. cit
physicians in France assert that seven of
cent OF lunatics are made SO by the dri
ployment of hair dyes. Won't the same tb,
IT'S and figures apply to this country? the
Troy recently Wanted the good qualities teri
newly discovered mineral spring. In, I'm
W it has turned out that those qualities -
re owing to the drainage of a tannery. o
Sir Francis Grossly, an English million to
3, has given million dollars to certain n ms
bic charities, conditioned that the INN
ney be invested in United States bonds. the
rich German from Oshkosh, Wis, went rem. rem
yn to Fond du Lac lately and married a arai
want girl at the hotel ON ten minutes bear
uaintance and the landlady's recon- rock
,a,+; has
test
! Mrs. Trip, of Hardin county, Iowa,
e her husband Railways Relief mixed d
n strychnine, to cure his stomache-ache t th.a
ly. He recovered, but dissolved part he
ship with Mrs. T. ven
isk has prohibited the sale of the New VIII
A''o""o Oh INC Efle halfway or on lays
of the Narragansett Steam dire
Company, that journal persistently
cking his character. when
he butchers in New Albany, Ind. are IN Ii
strike, and refuse to sell meat to the a. wis Wis
bltants. Our butchers are contept 1r;tI, the n
ting their customers with establishment ievee
heir exorbitant charges. obvio
terrible earthquake has visited the q nV Co. !,
es of the Gulf of Corinth, destroying ed In
raj towns and villages Mapy persons joyou