The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-06-04
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

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There are 1860 boys in the Catholic Pro.
tectOry at fremont.
| Two hundred thousand people visit Cen.
trail Park, New York, every Sunday.
The reason schoolboys delight to dig and
explore in caves is because of the recessea
there.
In Boston they make nearly two millions
and q half dollars worth of pianos during
the year.
In New York city the average daily at.
tendance in tho public schools during April
was 1873
| Wyoming is the paradise Of servant girls.
They command seven dollars q week and
the suffrage.
Two women in Kansas have gone as
partners into the law business. They pro-
pose to be sisters in-law.
Oranges twelve inches in diameter are
said to grow in Los Angeles, California.
This beats the world for size.
The California vintage this season is es-
timated at ten million gallons. Vine cul-
ture is very profitable in that State.
J. w. Koehler, q matchmaker, commit
ted suicide Thdrsday by swallowing q
dose of cyanide Of Potassia.
Over 1000 more freight cars were moved
over the Erie Road during April, this year,
than in the same month in 1870.
The IbervilIe South states that on the
18th of May the laying of the cornerstone
of st. Paul's Church, Bayou Goula, would
take place.
By successful operations in bogus tick
cts, one Edward R. Roberts accomplished
a huge swindle on the Erie Railroad to the
amount of $25, 600.
A bronze statue of Sir Walter Scott il
to be erected in Central Park by the st.
Andrews Society of New York. PERMITS
sion was granted on Wednesday by the
park commissioners.
port for May Admissions, AIS; discharged,
1854 deaths, Sc; deserted, 81. Number of
patients remaining June 1, 493.
Monday night q fire occurred on st.
Francis street, between Water and Com
merce, Mobile, Ala. destroying from $780,
600 to $780, 600 worth of property.
At half past nine O'Clock Thurday night
a fire broke out at 90 Commercial Alley,
in the stationery establishment of j. Buck
ley, which was entirely consumed. Dam
age $4,000.
In Rhode Island, in 1870, 5O25 children
were born. Of this number 2725 were of
Catholic parents, whilst the births in the
entire non-Catholic population of the State
numbered only 2305.
The first train, bound East, crossed the
Mississippi river at Wiuona, Minnesota last
week. great crowd of people lined the
banks of the river. Trains will hereafter
pass regularly to st. Paul and the West.
Every man, officers and privates, serving
in the German armies in the late war, is to
be presented with q bronze commemorative
medal, for the manufacture of which the
German Parliament has voted ESQ, 900 tina .
Iers.
IL 1869, in the Diocese of st. Paul, after
an existence of only eighteen years, there
were $4,000 Catholics, a Indian missions,
2 religious communities, los churches, and
80 stations, and So priests and ecclesiasti-
cal students.
School children who read the newspapers
are found to be better acquainted with
geography, spelling and the meaning of
words, grammar, and more generally intel
ligent than those who do not. This is
significant but undoubted fact.
At the place where the celebrated Men
delsohn Quintette Club gave the concert
preceding the one in this city, recently,
one of the musical committee greeted the
leading manipulation of feline intestines
and equine capillary substance, warmly,
and said, 81 am delighted to see you, boys;
which is Mr.. Mendelsohnf ." - Iitusrille
Herald.
In the first five weeks of the financial
year the English Treasury receipts amount
ed to &C, ZOOS, $50, and the expenditure to
4s,OO5, $50, In both cases the totals were
slightly under those of the corresponding
period of last year. The balance in the
Bank of England on the 9th ult. was e.
9s9, 1897.
GRAND ILLUMINATION ON THE 18TH.-In
order the of the illumination which
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