The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-08-14

In mixed school In Georgia the ages Of
the scholars vary from six to sixty.
The family silver Of the deposed Duke Of
Nassau weighs seventy hundred weight.
The fees from divorce cases in Indiana
are sufficient to pay OFF the public debt.
Yankee cigars owe their Havana flavor
to valerianic ether sprinkled inside the
boxes.
We regret to see statement that the
Bishop of Buffalo, DR.. Ryan, is dangerously
i'll at Rome.
An order was last week received in st.
Louis for the purchase of $4,000 tons of
hay on French'account.
There are 287 Incorporated colleges in
the United States that annually turn out
an average of 400 D. DIS.
A Springfield hog has INDICATED the
capacity Of his race by presenting good
case of delirium tremens.
The only remaining survivors of the
Robert Bruce family have concentrated on
the "braes" of Wisconsin.
Senator Revels has had the degree of
D. ID. conferred upon him by "Avery Col
lege." A very high honor.
The rush to the Yosemite Valley this
year is unusually large-already more than
10000 travellers have gone thither.
The Prussian Government has offered a
reward of five hundred thalers to the first
soldier who captures mitrailleur.
Near Clear Lake, Iowa, there is glen
1000 feet deep, with perpendicular de-
scent, where the sun never penetrates.
Maine depends principally on hay for her
export trade; this year the crop will be
scarcely sixty per cent of last years yield.
A spirit medium in Illinois predicts that
President Grant will be assassinated on
the 4th of July, 1870. Is that spirit "proof."
The population of the Sandwich Islands
is steadily diminishing-in the past three
years the deaths exceed the births by 1900.
A floating match is the latest Long Branch
sensation to amuse the President-the
winner laying on his back three hours and
forty minutes.
In st: Croix county, Wisconsin, deer are
becoming so numerous and tame that they
are not unfrequently seen within a mile of
the county seat.
In Kansas City they are digging up the
graves of the early settlers to improve the
streets skulls and bones are scattered
emigrants, at the rate of 1000 per day.
More than Louisiana, out of New Orleans,
receives in six months.
A mulatto boy named Harris was sen
fenced to Sing Sing State Prison last week
by Judge Bedford, for being found con-
cealed in dwelling house.
The weather this season has been awfully
hot-so much SO that neighbor of ours in
the Sixth District told us that his hens laid
eggs last week.
Nine wives have complained to the over
seers of the poor at Newark, within the
same twenty-four hours, that their hus
bands wouldn't support them.
1t has been discovered, that while the
of water in Brooklyn for some
time past has been thirty million gallons
per day, the supply is only twenty million.
A patriotic German woman of Pittsfeld,
Mass, declares her intention to go to Ger
many and fight in behalf of Prussia as soon
rs she can find a pair of pants that will fit
her.
The disciples of Brigham Young are
making sure Roadway in Massachusetts,
there being three churches in that State
where the doctrines of Mormonism are ex-
pounded.
A grand building, to cost $4,000, 900, is
projected in st. Louis. 1t is intended to
cover three squares, and to be occupied as
\ customhouse, railroad depot, excllEnge |
and hotel.
The tour of Rev. Revels through New |
England has been a pecuniary, but not a |
social success. People paid fifty cents to
zee black Senator, but nobody asked him
20 dinner.
A young man in Louisville is advertised |
20 marry q Breckenridge county belle in
The Mammoth Cave. This (says an ex-
,hange) looks like running matrimony into |
the ground.
Gen. Candy, who formerly commanded
in this city, has been made an LII. D.
BY Wesleyan University. His Methodist
brethren here accused him of-well, not of
telling the truth.
A Cincinnati woman, desiring to make
way with herself, bought opium, revolver,
/ double barreled gun and a razor, but had |
,nly time to take the opium and shoot her.
,elf once before she was arrested.