The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-04-24
EDITORIAL AND OTHER rrx,as.

- The Chicago book trade is 81, OOO, 900
year.
One club in st. Petersburg presented Pa
N Il with jewels worth $4,000.
=, Acopy of the first folio edition of Shake,
# peare was recently sold for $500, in Lor
% don.
g The Protestant Sisters of Mercy o,
g ganization in New York has died of 1scau
dali"
y We have taken so much bark this week
: that we're afraid our pen may bite some
T body.
= The land bills now before Congress pro
pose to give away one hundred million
acres.
3 1t is said that Boston has constantly i,
/ the field 1000 solicitors, drumming up Gus
toners.
The annual expenditure for repairs, at
/ tendance, etc., of st. Peters, at Rome, i,
@30, goo.
On an average, four persons are killed il
London every week by accidents from fas,
driving.
There is no tax in England on the actu al
necessaries of life. Once it was 80 here
but now!
mill in Newburyport, Mass, which orr
ginally cost $685., 900, was sold last week
for 100000.
/ One of the members of the Iowa legisla-
ture has married the enrolling clerk de-
lightful lady.
The great question among the temper
ance folks of Iowa is, will cider intoxicated
Who'll decided
Cardinal Barnabo has presented Father
Carter, of Philadelphia, with handsome
| set of vestments.
An exchange says that party politics
| and pining poverty are twin sisters and will
destroy any country.
New Jersey claims the distinction of re-
ceiving the first colored vote under the fif-
teenth amendment.
Dennis B. Kelley, of Kelleysville, Pa,
has presented a lot of ground to the Catho-
lie Church of that place.
The editor of the Chicago Post denies
having any intention of buying the New
York Herald for so, 900, 900.
Female convicts in Iowa are made to 1
break stones just like men. Here at least
they have some of the "rights" of the other
sex.
The refusal of President Grant and his
cabinet to pay their fare on New York
railroad, is the latest sensation. queer
joke.
according to Theodore Tilton's paper,
there are thirteen kinds of Presbyterians
in the United States, all fitting agains each |
other.
1t has been demonstrated that the Islands
of Guernsey and Jersey have sunk more
than fifteen yards in the last five hundred |
years. 49,
M. Reaume has issued the third volume I
of his Bossuet and his Wor.s, containing
the life of Bossuet from 1892 to his death
in 1904
Elihu Burritt calculates that it costs
Great Britain over csc, 600 a year in using
superfluous as in such words as honor. IA
vor, etc. q
A dog which fell down the shaft of a
nine in Colorado and remained there 40
lays, was taken out alive, although nearly
starved.
During recent trial in the Isle of Man,
he jury were addressed by judge and coun-
ei for twenty-nine hours and fifty-fiye !
minutes.
A Wisconsin farmer has applied for di-
'orce on the ground that his wife cannot .
pitt as much wood as she boosted before 4
marriage. f
Brigandage is still rife in Greece, parti- .
ularly in the mountain districts. Some
lmericans, who were captured, have been
Blacquey Bey, the Turkish Minister at
ashington, is, like his wife, Roman Ca
holic, and neither of them are of Turkish !,
arentage. g
A town in Vermont has three brothers by r
he name of Wright as seIectmen. Certain ~
? that corporation cannot do wrong, as it "
all right. :,
John Smith has been arrested in Troy .,
n ill-treatiDg his mother. For shame, !.
ohm, to disgrace your popular ar respect
Die family! b.
An Iowa minister named B. Ware, has al
cen deposed for permitting his wife to use W W
Is name in putting a sewing machine n,
arsons, B-ware! re
The burglars who robbed the New York 10 4:
ational Bank offer to return the stolen "a
'nds on receipt of 40 cents on the dollar, h,