The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-04-16
NIHuELLANY.

.u.F NIDOELLANY. tEt
There is q man in Ohio ffty.three years OF
age, illiterats and nearly blind, VINO aeu Tam-
bers the occurrences of every day slnSe Man.
ton any date to him in the last forty-n IS
years, and he tells instantly what aay a;iaS |
week it was what sort of weather preva.U 1'r
A gentleman who proposed test, providcIi
himself with Journal for forty-fve years. anu
after severe cross-examinations' proven
Ohioan to be correct invariably.
The London Daily Ne,cs calls attention 10 .nv
fact that some gloves are dyed in smcn we -
to be poisonous to the wearer. Inc caou
given Of lady who after , wsailng at the
sides and roots of the nails lnvestIg"Iod
showed that the dye, in which the gloves mae nma
been dipped, contained an arsenlca sal. mr.
dye of which irritated the skin and caused "a q
very sore hand, from which she snne f dred
gloves.
The pitcherplant of California grows; a some-
times to q height of twenty-four lhcu a,.
Within the surface Is .moot1ea ad 1o m;th stff,
needle-lke, solorless hairs, pointihg "ha.
ward The size diminishes from two incn naI
to nothing. Flies and various ina TSa nsedies
converge, and the poor creatures nn s;h;1itu
death at the bottom, without the possioil.y
of retreat. Cutting into an . Gia Pinches deep
, ~ SSansa1v. nscLed insect remains. Whether
the plant is nsectiverous NO one can say ~
is allied to the Sorrac"n'o' 10 con'"0A ~
swampy woods.
q writer in tho CosnhIH Magazine has exam
? iued the records in the Regstrar.Gener OF
= fee, and therefrom compiled STATISTICS ih 70 o.
gana 70 %Sieh appear in Welsh families. Mary
heads the list among the girls, occurring II
: 6sl9 Instances, and William appears 6S9u Times
Q thus leading the names of male chlidre ,,,
! Eliza, among females, appears less than an!
other. 1907 times, and Edward the least Oh an!
Q male Names 117O times. OF the total num- nI 90
4 of each bears one of the following names
- Mary. William, John, Elizabeth, Thomas
sarah Charles Henry, ai,Ss
q Annie. Mar xaret, Emma, Eliza, Robert, Arthu VI
Alfred, Edward.
In London, every eight minutes, nlsne ,, III
day, somebody dies every fve minutes a c rai
t. ME as the whole of Scotland, twice as many
s; denmark, three times as many as Greece, an
l. four hundred times as many as ,o" 600
a. G. In it's vast population of nearly 4,CooUoO .,
n, abandoned women, 10000 professional gan
~ blers, $4,000 criminals known to the po lon q.
" fhieyes and receivers of stolen goods, ooo,o
ss habitual frequenters of public houses, ana o
to, 900 street Arabs To keep this vast mul1iI ~,
o. of disorderly characters in something, I'M e ms
re obedience to the law, 5000 policemen are nece
nd sary. OF the population OF the city, on n
i IL about 200. 900 attend public worship, there
nm ing d million of adult absences ifoii 'n
70 on every Sunday
"o po,,>,n THE woRLD.-We start from Ne
no York. and crcumnavigate the globe IN our ! !,
ila agination thus: To Buffalo OF Cleavelan ..n
ms or 625 miles by rail- in seventeen nous,
rly hours thence to Omaha, 49O miles IN twen 1o
out three hours; thence to San Francisco, -
the miles, in ninety-three hours; thence 10 then e
ty hama. AVA miles, in twenty-ene days; then
NO to Hong Kong, 1870 miles, in s,x days. tdeH H
ing to Calcutta, $500 miles, in fourteen DAY
thence to Bombay 1Sls I'm; m,'eS IN WE'VE daS
lrg, thencs to Alexandria, 100 miles, in five hon
ere thence to Marseilles, 1870 miles, IN SIX u"s
rter thence to Havre, via Paris ana nou VII
tire home again-315O miles-in nine days-t'
Ga swinging round the circle, 23,739 miles,
S seventy seven days and twenty-one NOV
81. steady travel! 4-.. .rs y.
~, n,eeting of the British Association, at Dup
Sly Mr. Charles Banconi, of Cashei, IeaI Pc
ives relative to his extensive car estaptisnt p
the alter which a gentleman stated that at
flow ford's, the great English carriers, they GO
the not work horse more than Ten np in,s -,
In and wished to hear BanconHs opinleem On
IT of subject. MI. Bancoh, Ia.tar worL n h
lole, experience that ne 60 ~ davs i'm the "
NIL. than six miles day Tor seven aa assinr
eJ. er'cent Mr.. Banconi's opinion on this 7
ia one of the highest Importance, for he
TIER over 900 horses w4ra,nG A SAY niles /. is
Holy ances, which daily traVel 4Sst ,.'iie s.; &c
mary the result OF forty S'+A'
cans entifc AmeTtcan-
q the Typhus fever patients are now treat
about Germany with cold water baths, OF wn II.
Car account is given in the Lancet. If the he
Cat the system rises to 1O4 deg, the patient !.
Pre- into q bath at SO deg, and kept there up
-, neck for fifteen Minutes 1t head symI
rs, he ave ahont threeauarters of an hour
J steps the bath, the temperature will be four
affec- duced by two or three degrees. The opeT
give q ia repeated four four or five times a day.
tients are apt to be refractory at first
ly Fa- make considerable moaning, as they expe
7ividly the cold OF the waSeI ptS aa,Est;nns-
of our benent, iney W., ~ fshrila baat to n n
opeans IaPu ia a nowerful means of mitis
sharers the symptoms, shortening the disease, al
inction yor onvalescence.s The mortality has b
at gifts duced under this treatment, from liz pc
oil, ac- to 4 per cent The reduction of the bloc
and an nerature, when in excess, is coming to
useful important consideration with medical
ia terri Six hours of temperature ct 100 deg,
spirit of pafen'iy ia'''' IL
ir great THE INFLUENCE OF Music ANN