The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-01-01
EDITORIAL AND orzza rzsaes.

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last year was nearly $4,000.
From thirty to forty deaths from phthisis
occur weekly in Philadelphia.
In Portland, lately, iady's poodle was
seized to satisfy an unpaid bill.
The correspondence of A. T. Stewart
g. Co. averages 500 letters daily.
New York city consumes about q million
Of eggs day, at cost Of s24,0 eco.
The new Queen of Spain is reported to
be highly educated and intelligent.
Jenny Lind denies in. q card that her |
husband has squandered her fortune.
There are 100000 worth of lottery
tickets sold every week in New York..
The failures in Cincinnati within four
months have amounted to $2,OOO, GOO.
Some one has stolen q $4,000 diamond
from Rabbit, the soap manufacturer.
In San Francisco the street cars have
compartments for baggage and dogs.
A New Hampshire man, possessed by
an evil spirit" offers $500 to have it exor-
cised.
The Fechter- Wallack- Chanfrau quarrel
agony.
A new cable across the Atlantic, via the
Azores, will be in operation before many
months.
Six persons who have each attained the
age Of ninety years died at Providence, r.
l., last month.
Krupp, the famous Prussian founder, has
perfected new cannon for aerial warfare
against balloons.
A respectable citizen of Boston was ar
rested by a policeman last week for yawn-
ing in the street.
A countryman lately visited Albany, and
for the fret time saw a policeman and a
bunch of celery.
The Haytien Minister at Washington,
contrary to general belief, is a white man,
of English parentage.
Between 100 and $50 tons of mail matter
is handled daily in the New York Post
Office by 800 employees.
Spurgeon thinks that some parsons would
make good martyrs-they are so dry thai
they would burn we'll.
An American naval captain is at Con
stantinople manufacturing torpedoes TO-
the Turkish Government.
Violent gales on the shores of Lake Su
perior have seriously interfered with min
l ing prospects and profits.
( A party of fishermen lately drove
i school of blackfis on shore inside OF Cap
y Cod, which realized $4,000.
t The elephant Empress was sold the othe
day for $4,000, and tore down $500 wort
. of stable the following day.
e A dress maker in New York lately sue
q a bridesmaid for the value OF dress, an
the Jury awarded her 1862.
% A missionary is proposed to be SCI
among the Chicago hack drivers, to refor
,e them from profane swearing.
II A rural New York merchant lately ~
,e vertised for boy, when his wife conslde
1t ateIy presented him with two
!e Sixty-one prisoners attempted to brea
- Jail two Sundays ago in Louisville, viii
% religious services were going on.
h A lady in Chicago lately applied for
10 divorce, because her husband insisted
49, sleepipg in the front side of the bed.
it Rev. Garland H. White is under ARE
'e in Toledo, Ohio, for setting fire to q
y, house in order to get the insurance.
III cbiropodist in Ohio has caused wag
l to be built like a human foot, and deck
OF IL all over with corns and bunions.
vt A young female of st. Louis, a few da
ve since. swallowed q $1,000 note while e
of deavoriug to escape from policeman.
~ A lady is lecturing in New York on
n rights of children. The next subject will
he the inalienable prerogatives of doll babi'
cd M. Loyson, formerly Pere Hyacinti
has recently been visiting Professor Jowe
m, of Oxford. man is known by his frien'
e There are 2O2 manufacturing compan
t th in Albany county, with capital OF So'oo
for 600, and paying s2,5Oe,ooO per annum
SET wages.
U.s. A Chicago lawyer, named Gooorich'
,as tered no less than 243 divorce suits In
10 courts of that city during the past se'
eht months.
Prairie chickens in Illinois are very
ZEN merous this season. Large numbers
it'll them are killed by flying against the te
AN' graph wires. -
= A woman in Hartford excused herself
stealing, because she wanted the goods
and Christmas presents, and couldn't aftort
ruTp s buy them.
dent some liberal Yankee offers to mainta
f ssns Methodist preacher in Havana, If he
t sns 90. Can't Parson Newman pc spared
'e end Washington