The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-04-09
NEW ORLEANS. SUNDAY, APRIL Q, ls7i.
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

A Sixth District druggist possesses
tonic, which he says will enable it's taker
to "eat an elephant"
The latest production of the Women's
Rights Advocate is an essay to prove that
Shakespeare was q woman.
NJ. Milne Edwards will publish paper
on the rare beasts which fell victims to the
cuisine during the Paris siege.
The Duke de rHuyes, who was killed in
the fighting before Orleans, was worth
100000 600 francs, and left no direct heirs
GahgnanTs Messenger, printed in English
by an Italian, is stated to have made more
money than any newspaper published in
Paris.
There are six different sorts of Methodists
in Baltimore; and although there is no
strife or controversy among them, there is
no unity.
The cause of the quarrel between Theirs
and the Orleans princes is attributed to the
literary criticisms of the latter on the old
historian.
Garibaldi announces that he will never
again set his foot in France. He footed
pretty speedily out of it the last time he
was there.
The Fenians are trying to ascertain how
much of the money subscribed in their
organization "has been devoted to the
cause of liberty"
The Rev. j. G. Vandoren, Lutheran, of
Pittsburg, became SO troubled about reli
gious subjects that he poisoned himself-to
resolve his doubts.
The only prisoners in the johnson county
Jail, Indiana, are two men who claim to be
preachers. One is there for horse stealing
and the other for burglary.
On st. Patrick's Day, an English flag on
one of the towers of Notre Dame Cathe-
dral, in Montreal, huttered upside down for
some time. Was it ominousf
Bitche is the only French fortress that
has successfully resisted the Prussian guns.
But Bitche becomes Prussian through the
cession of Alsace and Lorraine.
The total number of deaths in Paris
during the siege of twenty three weeks
was 64,154, against 81 ,97s the correspond
ing period of the preceding year.
Mr.. Fable, in lecture recently delivered
in Montreal, boldly advocated the annexa-
ton of Canada to the Union, and his utter
ances were loudly applauded by his hearers.
No less than six genuine Nathan murder
ers have been discovered recently west of
the Mississippi. The supply, in conse-
auence of the demand, is steadily increas-
ing.
Della Benson, of Elmira, took strychnine
because her lover "got religion" and
-, he dpt IN 1osark har He
offered to pray for her-but-she took the
dose.
A telegraphic prediction of a late storm
was received in San Francisco within
twenty -four hours after the storm had &C.
Cured. Showing the reliability of weather
prophecies.
The Goshen (Ind.) Democrat, noticing
the death of o subscriber, feelingly says,
ave are sorry to hear of the death of any
of our subscribers who are prompt about
paying up"
AT q murder trial in Cheyenne, lately,
four ladies were on the jury, which con-
demned half-breed to death-the delicate
creatures were not at all squeamish in their
award of death.
A ladies' life insurance company is being
formed in London; one feature of which is
that all the employees are to be 'comen.
Will ladies insuring give their ages 7
There's the rub.
Whilst two Empires of the Napoleon
dynasty have toppled over, the descend
ants of the Frenchman, Bernadotte, Gene
raj under the first Empire, still reigna
secure in Sweden.
We chronicled in these editorial items
that an Ohio man named Metbusaleh died
of laughter. We now learn that the said
cachination was caused by reading one OF
Gree,ey's leaders on SALT
When the news of the capitulation Of
Paris reached Warsaw, all the Polish mer-
chants closed their stores, and during the
whole day the churches were crowded with
men and women in mourning.
A sharper in Connecticut is advertising
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