The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-04-30
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY, APRIL 80. 1eTi.
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS

NEW ORLEANS. SUNDAY. APRIL 80. 1sTi.
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.
man in Cleveland delivers fish ready
cooked for the table.
1t costs ten dollars in Canada to call a
man ga ald-headed idiot"
A preacher in Connecticut boasts the
title of the Rev. Hezekiah Fiddle, d. d.
White French flannel is proposed for
summer wear by the upper ten of New
York.
During the five years since nitro glycer-
inc came into use, 100 persons have been
killed by it.
1t is stated that more money is expended
in the United States for cigars than for
common schools. ,.,.
Tennyson refuses to ressspize Walt.
Whitman as poet, and calls Emerson
/" cruel electrified"
The lottery, crop promises to he very pro-
lific, judging from the many schemes pre-
scented for patronage.
A monument is to be erected in Trieste
to the late Emperor MAMMALIAN of Mexico,
to cost ll9, 600 francs.
Camilla Urso purchased Of London
dealer in rarities a cremona three centuries
old, and gave $4,000 for it.
A lady of Cumminsville, Ohio, has be-
come violently insane through the use of
nitrous-oxyde, or laughlng-gas.
San Francisco reports a mammoth mush-
room-three feet in circumference, and
weighing five pounds eight ounces.
A Swiss naturalist, in q recent lecture,
says that the handsomest women in Amer
lea are those born of foreign parents.
Last year 100 barrels Of salmon were
taken with nets around Sitka Bay, and 700
barrels around Prince Of Wales Island.
The Hon. James NJ. Mason, of Virginia,
is in Baltimore, under medical treatment
for nervous debility and threatened blind
ness.
Nine times as much coffee is consumed in
the United States as Great Britain, while
the former.
Negroes vote in Rhode Island, while ma
turalized foreigners must be possessed of
$l34 worth of real estate to entitle them to
the franchise.
When Mrs. Grant receives, it is called
reception. When the President does the
same thing, it is called lcvee. Amt we
getting on fastf
The late Alexander Dumas, during the
height of his popularity, earned by his own
and vicarous literary labor from $50, 900
to $I75, 600 a year.
Van Amburg's huge elephant, Tippoo
G>:l, ssiod at ConnersvlIle, Ind, of heart
disease. He weighed 10000 pounds and
was worth $4,000.
A young woman who had been getting
in Pennsylvania has fallen heiress to an
English estate of Sl5O,OOO.
Gen. Jordan, who at one time was COM
mander of the revolutionary Cubans, is
now engaged upon magazine and news
paper writing in New York.
Miss Ellen Hammond, daughter of DR..
Justin Hammond, of Danielsonville, Conn.,,
takes charge of her fathers practice during |
his absence at the Legislature.
A Californian, after reading "Poor
Richards Maxims," expressed his disgust
of them by calling their author, Benjamin |
Franklin, an "incarnate picayune."
A Mr.. Terry, New York undertaken,
recovered $1464 20 for q coffin furnished
the remains Of Mrs. Killoran, which her
executors refused to pay amicabiy.
Land in Long Branch which year ago
sold for $1,000 an acre, now sells at $4,000
per lot of 100 feet front. There are now
500 carpenters employed in new buildings.
1t is remarkable that among the brilliant
and magnificent ornaments presented to
the Princess Louise as marriage gifts, none
were received from the Imperial Prussian
family.
DR.. Jones, of Cincinnati, refuses to serve
in the City Council because, as he alleges,
he was elected without his knowledge or
consent. There is model, gentlemen Ad-
lninistrators!
Nettie Power Haughton, the youngest
daughter of Gen. Sam. Houston, has be-
come a copious contributor to the press,
with the intention of making writing her