The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-05-28
Mernlng Star and Catholic Messenger.

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EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.
Mexico has 8, 000, 600 inhabitants.
Pennsylvania has 10000 liquor dealers.
Motto for Mr.. Darwin: 81 could tail |
unfold"
Only 100 deaths day, now, from yellow
fever in Buenos Ayres.
The Crown Princess of Prussia will next |
month publish her book on female labor.
The New York ladies wear their paraso's
sword fashion, at their sides, when not IN
use.
The address to the Pope from the Arch
diocese of Cincinnati contained lO,25O sig-
natures.
Within tho last two years the Berlin
Punch, has risen from nothing to be worth
$500, 600.
According to the census taken this month
London has little over three and half
million of Inhabitants.
Benevolence, like music, is universal
language" and like music and other Ian
guages, is very often all sound.
The election of Gen. Burnside as COM
mander- n-chief of the G. A. r. lie con-
sidered as q triumph for the anti-Grant
party.
A Philadelphia mechanic claims to have
invented an apparatus for indicating when
q car axle breaks, and supporting it till the
car can be stopped.
In St. Paul, MIMI, on Ascension Thurs-
day, the children of the Cathedral parish,
to the number of l0l, and also Of st. Mary's,
made their fret Communion.
Cornell University has recently sold one
hundred thousand acres of the land which
came to it under the Agricultural College
land-grant for four dollars an acre.
The Morning Post, dating from l772; the
Times, from 1888; and the Public Ledger,
are now the only daily papers in London
whose career began before the present CEN
tury.
In Boston about 81, 900 900 capital is in
vested in the printing business; the num-
Der of hands employed, 973; annual amount
of wages, s63l, 600; total value of product
$l,497, 900.
There were, in 1857, 12,4lO pupils in the
public schools of Cincinnati, and 4757 at
tending church schools while in 1869 there
we're q, 1872 enrolled in the former and
$4,000 in the latter.
A fight between O seal and a sturgeon
delighted the passengers on California
steamer the other day. The seal finally
got good hold on the fish and shook him
as a terrier would a rat.
The Empress Augusta has periodically
and mysteriously lost her most valuable
TI,1 L. 30 hos
been discovered. 1t was little grand
child, who took them for her dolls.
The accounts of the London Ga=ette, for
the year Is69-7O, show the receipt of G25,-
975 from advertisements and the sale OF
the paper and the total expenditure being
only s52s3, there remained a profit OF
2O,603.
An opponent of Woman's Rights" says
it, great convenience to have women
for postmistresses-they can not only in
form an applicant if there is q letter fol
him without looking, but can also tell hin
what is in it.
A gentleman travelling on q steamer one
dsy at dinner was making away with {
large pudding close by, when he was told
by a servant that it was dessert. at mat
ters not to me" said he, NJ would eat it i
it was q wilderness"
Two Methphie EDITORS have beef calling
each other a lot Of things; and now botl
Of them have their theals brought to then
in the sauctum, for fear If they go out t.
lunch they meet each other. When the.
are obliged to go out for drink they ar
disguised so no one will know them
Macon Telegraph.
Anew verse has been found containing
all the letters of the alphabet:
God gives the grazing OF his meat,
He quickly hears the she~p's low cry,
Bnt man. who tasses bis fneat heat,
should Joy to lift his praises high.
A poor man was fined $50 recently in
Massachusetts, town for driving lam
horse six miles in search of employment
that he might earn enough to feed his vii
and children.
On the Doth inst. the boiler in the steam
mill of Messrs. G. Lynch g. Co., near Gil
49, UU;l,ov countv Ala. eXDlOded. KILN