The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-11-09
hjng Star and Catholic Messenger.
F. oRI.EANs, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 0. 1873.
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rom the 18th OF September, up TO OctoDer to
4bere have died in Memphis 1884 from yell can
4 fever. Che
sbs debt of the city Of Paris now amounts t eU
&s2o, 600 900, involving an annual e1penai- in
{ for interest and sinking fund, OF $le'ooo' the
is
Rbe English have just made the very amsz- otf
discovery that o considerable slave franc
carried on tnfougn aa7i."' be-
yrna and Constantinople. ga,
4 woman,s journal has discovered that the s Il
* daily paper printed in the English Ian tn
Sape was published in London in 17o2, by NO
Sman-one Elizabeth Mallet. Isl
Mrs. Tano, wife of the Japanese Charge NO sa
1 aaires at Washington. is the first Japanese CT
Law who has ever left her native country TO m
IN her husband in foreign lands. ST
j a silk blanket for q fashionable poodle IN Of
aew York city cost sixteen dollars, and more d
IAN 10000 laboring men and women are v
brovn out of employment in that city. q
The Austrian Minister of Justice is said 70 Il
ave q bill in preparation which makes CIVIL il
bsrriage obligatory by prohibiting eccleslas
4 cal marriage unless proceeded ny civil. :
The London Morning Post says that during :
Inc last ten years 2,3o2,2 persons emigrated
rom Great Britain, of these, 76s'l6S were
English, SIC, 410 were Irish, and 167,o29 were
Scotch.
The violent storm that prevailed in the
north Atlantic in August, and was 1ele aii
aa,onp the seaboard, is computed to have causeo
4be loss of 600 lives and the destruction oi
sl122 vessels and 900 buildings.
The following is the balance-sheet Oh .ne
matrimonial relations of Shelby county, III
no;s. for forty days, expiring October ESQ.,
a Doll
to-wit: Marriages, 81; divorces IL Balance
good only till next term of the court) III.
Ink ia one of the things in which modern
science seems to have made very little improve
ment. An analysis of the ink found on man
4 useript of the year 9l0 showed that its compo'
sit;on was similar to that of the inks now IN
general use.
: A Missouri girl, on her wedding day, sold
her piano and bought o sewing machine ana
material enough for a suit for her husband ana
herself, and at once set to work making them
mn. Her husband told of it, In two weeks
her four sisters were all married.
An English veterinarian adduces facts TO
sbov that rabies or canine madness is very
rare in extreme temperatures, while IL Is OF
freouent occurrence in the temperate zone. Inc
disease is less frequent in Spain and Southern
Italy than in other European countries
A blazing erolite lately fell at Marysvilie
California, with such force as to bury ltsel
eight feet in the earth. When dug up 1t wa
hot enough to set fire to the cart in which
was hauled away, aud the astonished lnhaol
tants concluded that the devils had been play
ing a game of sky-ball.
We learn, says the Natchez Courier, that tn
contract for building and equipping the Vick'
bure and Ship Island Railroad, from the sc
coast to Vicksburg, has been let out to q Ne
York company, and that work is to commend
at both ends of the route at once, and the ros
to be completed on the 1st day of Januar
1875.
Tho most learned sovereign in Europe
Leopold IL, King Of the Belgiaps. He spea
twelve languages and can discourse huently
Greek and Latin. He is q great connoisse
in sculpture and painting, but cares little
nothing for music. His Queen, on the OIL
hand is an accomplished musician. The Nj
and Queen os the Belgians are, both OF the
Mons Catholics, and lead a most exempl
life.
The chemical properties of each color in
solar spectrum have long been known, and
late wears it has been discovered that Pla
may be made to thrive wonderfully in gr
houses constructed of blue or violet panes,
production of such nurseries being someti
doubled OF trebled by this device. But the
pertinent has been pushed further, for 8
English chemists maintain that rooms prov
with violet windows, or even with hanging
that color, will fatten the occupants.
Grape.stones are said to be q better su'
tute for coffee than chiccory is. When roa
and ground they are said to possess an al
very much like that of East India Coffee
the beverage obtained therefrom is about
same as coffee in taste, though inferio
quality. The beverage furnished by mar
the restaurants is very far from being "
the same as coffee in TASTE" and it is prof.
that a decided improvement could be MAJ
the present article by the use of grape-st
A member of the Missouri Legislature, v
reputation was that of a soiled rooster
scented himself for while under the pl
sickness, and shortly after had his dealt
nounced. Thereupon the Legislature p
the usual resolutions of condo1encei Sol
Aha xv;lv mamber1a hi tterest enemies eulO