The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-12-18

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cinsian.ei Aas eve -. ban slab. eo--
Posed Of women.
Prince Popiatowsld Il giving singing
lessons In London.
An acre Of land has been sold in the city
Of London for $4,000, 600.
AZ Skeneatelas, N. T., the dancing
school is held ~ Legg Hall.
Carlyle says thAt Britain has popula-
ton Of thirty nSilions-mostly fools.
A prominent physician of Thirty fourth
street, New York, has woman driver.
One-half Of the oil cloth manufactured
in the United States comes from Maine.
Nine men were publicly logged at New
castle, Delaware, on Sunday week. Where
was Berghf
WEIGH clergymen are holding a love-feast
in New York. They call it the Dywgymd
gen Dyrdgwyle.
Peru has a surplus in her treasury. Uncle
Sam shonld quit Boosting until he can
emulate this example.
Baltimore has got up to 2S3, 1875 on its
second census, and means to keep on try
ing until it can count up AGO. 600.
Rev. DR.. Stone, Of San Francisco, has
visited all the brothels in that city, to col
lect notes for q sensation sermon.
One hundred and fifty thousand dollars
have been raised to establish a first-class
Democratic paper in San Francisco.
A student in Michigan agricultural
college has invented gate latch, the.
patent of which he has sold for $4,000.
:,,T hoe G~,I,
ing sheep, which he offers to match against
any dog of bis weight in the country.
At Button, Indiana, it takes seven min
| utes to issue license and marry a couple,
and ouly five minutes to divorce them.
A Bavarian officer in the neighborhood
of Orleans writes that his detachment had
burned down five villages in twelve days.
Mrs. Yelverton, who nearly persisted in
the SHOWS of the Yosemite Valley, is still
SO low that her final recovery is uncertain.
The speakers at the recent Woman's
Suffrage Convention, in Cleveland, nearly
all bore the outward semblance Of the male
sex.
| A Boston coroner states that there are
| more deaths from railroad accidents in
j november Gudu III OIucE uOAtu ia Al0
year.
| St. Albans, VT, has female butcher,
whose trade is extensive, especially in the
hog killing line-her fee being fifty cents
per hog.
The London Times presumes that there
are not ten Irishmen in Ireland but that
think of going to America some time or
another. 81
In face of war prospects, England has
lowered her standard for recruits to five
feet four and half inches-few available
at that.
/ A ragpicker was lately killed by a loco
motive on the Cincinnati and Hamilton
! Railroad, who had accumulated a fortune
of $4,000.
Metz there are 10000 poor, utterly desti
tute, who will require relief all through
the winter.
The Chicago Times, in reporting the fact
that man there married to get out of Jail
remarks that "some chaps have a queer
idea of liberty"
A Boston book agent was repulsed with
Ne
stairs with broken leg. Hardly polite,
even though legal.
Mr.. Headrich, of Wytheville, Va, has
invented a six-barreled gun, which will
FIRE four hundred times minute, by si,;
ply turning crank.
After Thanksgiving in New York,
there remained on hand next day over
coo, 900 pounds of poultry-which shows
that the article was not in great demand.
The artesian we'll of Lincoln, Nebraska,
throws a stream of brine six inches in
diameter to the height of over fifty feet
having volume and velocity to turn mill
wheel.
Miss Isabella Smith, of Waverley, Iowa,
recovered damages from ]. T. Campbell,
last week, because he wouldn't fulfil his
promise to marry her, and making Miss s.
Mrs. C.
The punch bowl Of the late II. P. Stur-
gis, of Boston, sold at auction for 5000
the purchaser was influenced by memories
of past joys to which that bowl had con-
tributed. ~
Now that coal is selling at 81 so per
barrel in this Crescent City, people should
avoid the mistake of putting too large a
quantity of coal in the stove or CRATE at
one time.
1t is proposed to erect an hospital in
New York for the cure of tobacco -chewers