The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-12-21
/ KDIIORIAL AND OTHER rrElEa,

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Mark Twain sympathizes with the woman
movement, when the movement ia around .
washtub." 49,
An underground railway has been construct.
ed In tho city Of Constantinople. and the
contractors are now anishipg npr the termini.
The pigeon barrsckn in the citadel Of
Strasbourg contains now Eve hundred pigeons.
which are being trained for service in, case Of
siege. 80, To-, ~, ,x;T
It is stated that Ne. Thomas. Carlyle il Wi.
ting pamphlet ON cthe, controversy between
the German Emperor and the Pope, subject
in which DO takes . profound interest,".
IN the DATED States there are 2s2. lAs manu-.
featuring establishments. Employing 2sosssea
hands, and predicting annually a. 10, a95,4l2
worth of goods, equal to over $4,000 POI hand.
Tho Abbe Liazt was presented at Pcsth with
q gold and silver chaplet' Of laurel leaves on
tho 10th inst, which was the 6ftieth annivs..
sary of the day on which he commenced his
artistic career. ,.eFr"2 90 ~ hfaf -iz
$ There are now two railway tunnels Ia use in
Richmond Va. The Church Hill tunnel, lust
finished by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Company, is four thousand feet long, and tina
CANDLES Hill tunnel Is about five hundred feet
long. -@t' :.s1-
There arc fifty members Of the present
United States House of Representatives who
could not take the iron-clad oath, showing
that there is quite large sprinkling in that
body of those who aided the Southern Confed.
eracy.
A company has been formed in France to
utilize the power of the ocean tides on the coast
by proper machinery. The arst experiment is
to be made ut st. Malo, where the tide rises
nearly eighty feet, and overfows many square
miles of fats.
1t is stated that the Rev. Mr. O'Dwysr, who
has been curate to the Rev. Robert O'Keefe, at
Callan. has resigned Office. He deeply regrets
his past opposition to the Catholic Church,
and has announced his intention of proceeding
to Rome to ask for pardon.
In Richmond, Va, q firm of colored persona
manufacture sassafras oil on q large scale.
Forty Thousand pounds of the root are used
every week, producing eight thusand pounds
of rectifying oil. 1t is used for scenting toilet
soaps, favoring tobacco, and the like.
The Supreme Court of California says, in
the case Of Elsinger vs. Elsinger, that an equal
division of the common property, after . di-
vorce granted to the wife for extreme and
disgraceful cruelty committed by tho husband
was not right She should have had three.
fourths.
1t is reported that a society has been formed
in Belgium for collecting all waste paper, and
selling it for the profit of the Peters Pence.
The Society has appealed to the possessors of
bad books, such as the works of Voltaire and
other infidel authors to hand them over as
waste paper.
The Marquis Emile de Beaumon de Mont6s,
recently died in monastery of La Trappe,
where he had been for ten years under the
name of Brother Ambrose. He was amember
of ono of the most celebrated families Of
France, and was Louis Philippe's minister to
st. Petersburg.
The correspondent of the Irish-Ama'cas
states no learns 1t 10 the intention of Mr.. Isaac
Butt, the leader of Irish nationalists, to visit
America shortly. He certainly deserves o
friendly and hearty reception from them as An
Irishman of splendid abilities, and of genuine,
earnest, and self-sacrificing patriotism.
The terms Of twenty-five United States Sen
ators expire on the 4th of March, 1875, and this
fact will give great Importance to the political
campaigns of 1874, when will be elected all the
members of the House of Representatives ex-
cept those from Connecticut, New Hampshire
| and Rhode Island, and the Legislatures, in
| part or complete, in nineteen States that will
have the choice of United States Senators.
There has been a wholesale discovery of un'
seaworthy vessels at Aberdeen. A Board-of
Trade Surveyor the other day suddenly made
his appearance at that port, and, after exam
| lining number of ships, prohibited seven Of
them from proceeding to sea in their present
condition. Several of the vessels had either
cargo or ballast on board, and were ready to
sail.
The great "moon hoax" of 1882, by Locke
is still remembered by tho "oldest in habitants.'
Now French astronomer would have us be-
leve we are on the eve of great physical dis
coveries in the same region. This savau asserts
that the moon is inhabited, and would have
his assertion believed on the strength of GER
tain combinations of the telescope recently
invented by him. He describes the lunar peo-
pie as looking like flies walking on the ceal
| ing, for only the crowns Of their heads were
visible, the moon being in the full" In view