The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1873-03-09
|R,rning Star and Catholic Messenger
SEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY, MARCH 0, 1873.
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

Memphis and Galveston celebrated Mardi
aras this year.
III It rained so hard in Atlanta the other night
a&hat q policeman got wet.
The Queen of Denmark wears calico dresses,
q publicity way of rebuking extravagance
- dress.
4 Father Burke sailed for Europe on the 22nd
ia February, on board the Steamer City OF
Paris. Father Lilly accompanied him.
M Vienna has thirteen daily papers, which are
Stenerally considered the ablest of any journals
ID ublshed in the German language.
John Bright appeared in the House of Com
hons on the oath for the first time since his
rolonged illness. He was loudly cheered.
& Mention is made of lady, nowi in Washington,
those hair is sixty-two inches long. Her name
- Miss Mary Ralston, and she is native of
iowa.
81 ME- Bessemer says he is prepared to supply
buns that shall fire balls of Eve tons at the rate
Sf one q minute and to construct n gun to fire
- ten. ton ball.
An exchange describing funeral, says {:
fThe procession was very fine, and nearly two
miles in length, MS was also the prayer of DR..
Perry, the chaplain"
bchool-desk, intended to obviate the injuries to
ehe sight, induced by children sitting IN iop-
Bided position to write.
q The mayor of the commune of Nanzeville,
France, has sent in return certifying that
&here were neither births, marriages, nor
deaths in his jurisdiction in 1872.
In the London Probate Court the judge has
pronounced in favor of the will of Mr.. Holmes,
who left eos 900 to charities and only f1oo to
bis sister. Charity does not always begin at
home.
4 In England, executions occur quietly and in
sbresence of o very few witnesses; but the in
stant the drop falls, black flag is raised over
she prison, conveying to the crowds outside
She informatio that justice has done its work.
81 Plattsburg, N. Y. is growing village, and
bas q population of 5000, of which 5000 are
catholics, in equal proportions of Irish aud
French Canadians. The country, for twenty
Hpiles around, is principally occupied by Irish
Farmers, some owning as many as six hundred
ecres.
q Up to January, 1872, the New York Central
Park had cost the city twelve and q half mil
lion dollars; but since the park was COM
nenced the taxable property in three wards
Ia the immediate neighborhood of the park
has increased in valuation from twenty-six
nillion to nearly hundred and eighty-six
billion dollars.
A paper, by DR.. II. Weldenbauch, "On the
application of Steam for the purpose of Extin-
suishing tires,~ will be found in the Polytechnis
ltes Journal ron Dingler for December. 1t is well
worth every attention, the author clearly
Showing, by results, that steam arrests the
spread of fires, and extinguishes them more
Sapdly than water does.
Experiments were recently made in Chitten-
aen county, Vermont, with the object of ascer
Gaining how far soil is protected from cold by
Snow. For four successive winter days, there
being four inches of snow on level, the aver
Age temperature Immediately above the snow
was found to be IA degrees below zero; imme-
aiately beneath, 10 degrees above zero; nuderJ
drift two feet deep, 81 above zero. /
4 The Marquis of ormonde is having erected
an eastern window of stained glass in st. Ca
nices Cathedral, at cost of f1, 900. The sub
5ect, illustrating the life of our Divine SAVIOUR
Is copy of the original window destroyed by
&he Cromwellian soldiery, which elected the
8dmration of tho Pope's Nuncio, Rinuccin,
en the occasion of his visit to Kilkenny, dur
apg the session of the Confederation.
q The Roman correspondent of the Unirers
Frites that the Pope has received communca-
lions from several Powers informing him that
she Powers in question look upon the re-es-
Enlistment of the Legitimate monarchy in
France as only question of time. All Europe
p beginning to perceive the necessity of curb
4ng the ambition of Prussia and bringing Italy
o reason, aud this can oply be done by the
restoration of Henry V.
q The Bombay papers Just received contain a
brief account of earthquake on the Sindh
afonter. The full force of the shock appears
% have fallen a town called Lehree, in
whjch nearly every house was destroyed, and
200 persons were either killed outrisF0 by fall
ng walls or buried in the ruins of the houses
"a fact, only twelve of the Inhabitants escaped
Fith their lives. In the Madras Presidency,
t place called Backtown, a pagoda, in which
large number of people were assembled, cele-
rating native festival, caught fire, and in
he CONSERVATION caused by the event twenty
tx person we're sufFocated, and many others
9eriously injured.
young man in Minnesota has met with the
following miahnDa. He atanned IN hoard q