The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-02-19
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.


EDITORIAL AND oTFHR ErEGs
Tennessee has imposed tax ON dogs for
the school fund.
Cincinnati's floating debt and liabilities
exceed 81 100000.
- A sausage maker in Cincinnati advertises
Wis wares as "dog cheap"
T Gen. Sherman has six aides. de-camp.
Are we still in "rebellion.n
A preacher in Chicago owns and drives
one Of the fastest horses in that city.
There were only 800 divorces in Vermont
last year; but it. wasn't good season.
Gambetta Is said to be slave to opium,
consuming immense doses of the drug.
More than 200 students of the German
universities have been killed in the war.
A machine has been invented in Iowa
that makes 100, 600 matches in minute.
Iowa has a town named Seven-Up. Not
much of an Improvement on Old Sledge."
Worth, the mah-milliner, is said to be
about moving his traps from Paris to New
York.
San Francisco has ten savings' bank,
containing e3l ,2s9, $50, deposited by sc, e62
persons.
A man of Belmont, Wisconsin, killed a
hen the other day, and found $ls worth of
gold in her gizzard.
Gov. Warmoth must think the people of
LOUISIANA very polite-they ask his pardon
for criminals so often.
A woman in Boston refused to buy beef
on account of the cattle disease, and took a
pound of liver instead.
The advertising rates of the London
Times are but little more than half those of
some New York papers.
A doughnut simmering in kettle of lard,
recently exploded in Chicago, and man
in the room was badly injured.
Boston's police force cost last year $780,
GOO. New Orleans, with a far less popula-
ton, cost nearly double that sum.
The Medical Press warns ladies against
green gloves-a poisonous arsenical salt
being employed to produce the color.
Henry ward Beecher's last theological
essay appears in the New York Ledger, and
treats of the geneology of Gains wife. ~
DIR. Heardsn, an English physician, says
that the ribs of persons afflicted with dis
The drouth is still severe in many parts
of Massachusetts,, it being almost impos-
sible to obtain water enough for household
necessities.
A temperance liquor seller in Illinois tries
to cure his CUSTOMERS of their bad habits by
giving them bad whisky when they insist
ON drinking.
A sipgle agent in Newport has already
leased twenty-five furnished houses for
next summer, and is daily receiving fresh
applications.
Hogs are SO fat in Missouri that in order
to find out whaSe their heads are it is Deces
sary to make them squeal, and then judge
by the sound.
We understand one of the Solons at
Mechanics Institute has bill prepared to
let nobody vote hereafter but those who
will vote right.
An Amsterdam banking house is report
ed to have made by its dealings in Ameri-
can securities alone, during the last eight
years, over $5OO,OO0.
The New York Tribune calls Minnie
Ream's work, ga wooden figure of Mr..
Lincoln, cut by italian journeymen for be-
witchipg Miss Ream."
An American, it is said, is about to pur-
chase the Villa Albani, with all it's trea-
sures of art, intending to remove the col
lection to this country.
A"poor but honest" man in Boston went
into the newspaper business with only one
suit of clothes, now he has eight suits
seven of them being for libel.
A butcher in Napa keeps the key of his
safe hanging over the door, to save bur
glars the trouble of spelling the safe by the
use of cold chisels and crowbars.
A woman in Norwich, Conn.,, who ran o
needle into her foot year ago, by acci-
dentally stepping upon it, recently had it
pulled from between her shoulders.
An Oregon paper describes fierce mur-
der, and adds calmly, The perpetrator of
the deed ia supposed to be Jack Kanim,