The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-07-05
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

exceeds ,30z 400 francs.
He has left void that canno. easily L
d. Hlled," as the bank director toucfipgly r,
. marked OF the abscondipg cashier.
Z The clergy cost the United States sic OO0, 0G
annually; the criminals, $40,000O00; til
lawyers. SO. o00. 900; rum, 5000, 900 900.
large petriSed rattlesuake was recent
found in a block of marble in Vermont. 1t
six rattles were as perfect as they werein life
The receipts of the Government from dis
titled spirits for eleven years from the fsca
year ending June 80, 1868 to the CORES spending
period of 1873 inclusive, amounted TO 1855,
234,lo1.
An Albany man, who was demon str atng tc
a crowd that there was such thing hydro
phobia, was the first to shin up BARRIERS pole
when small yellow dog came rushing dow q
| the street.
Nearly all the States have their farmers
colleges in successful operation, with an aggre-
gate attendance of about 4. 900 students under
training of 375 professors in theoretical and
practical agriculture.
No rural proof-reader ever achieved q tri-
umph- like that of the Reading Clerk Of the
Senate, when he made Mr.. Poland say judicial
calumny and caricature" for Judicial calm
ness and correctness"
The Archbishop of New York confirmed 1885
persons on the 18th, 18th, 10th and 21st of
June, 1891 of whom received the sacrament at
st. James Church. During the past year his
Grace has confirmed $4,000 persons.
The most diabolical pun ever invented was
perpetrated by q very harmless sort of person
the other evening. When MI. soberleieh read
that father in the West had chopped his only
in two ha
didn't think they ought to arrest o man for
simply "parting his heir in the middle
1t appears from the preamble of the Itch
borne and Doughty Estates Bill, which has
been read first time in the House of Lords,
that the expenses of the litigation occasioned
by the Claimants proceedings, and payable by
the present baronet, or, in the event of his
death during minority, by the family out of the
estates, have amounted already to nearly
cog, 900. These are exclusive of the expenses
of the prosecution for perjury, which have to
be borne.by the country.
new cotton factory has just been completed
in Greenyille, s. c., with capital of 500, 900,
The proprietors intend to run fifty cards and
5000 spindles, and to manufacture cotton warns.
The Piedmont cotton factory, just below Green
vile, on the Saluda, is partially in operation
aud promises gratifying results, and to close
these latest evidences that there is life in the
old land yet. the English Manufacturing
Company OF South Carolina" with a capital of
100000, will soon have a large factory at
work in Spartenburg county.
We saw 1t stated in a newspaper tho other
day, says the Courier-Journal, that if an editor
will scatter little borax about his table, the
reaches which come there to devour his paste
Will stay away. We at once bought a supply
of borax and tried the experiment. The
reaches did stay away, but merely long enough
to telegraph all the reaches in town TO come
up and see how An editor had made q fool of
himself. And we have no reason to believe
that the invitation was declined in n sinple
instance.
The London Church Herald says: "Anotber
noble family-recently moved to the highest
grade in the peersge--is about to lose its son
and heir, who becomes a convert to the Church
OF Rome, if he has not already actually Sc
coded. Mr.. Carey Elves, landed proprietor
in the Midland counties, and recently High
sheriff OF his shire, has, with his wife and
family, likewise Joined the Anglo Roman com.
munion and, from what we hear from quar-.
ters which are well informed, there can be
-sNAS Nouoe thSO uHoIueE large and influential
exodus, in the same direction, is imminent
We are unable to see how n noble family
" loses its only son and heir" by his CONVEX
sion to the Catholic faith
The wonder at Winchendon, Mass., lust now
is floating island of about i've acres. which
is voyaging around Lake Monomonauk, a sheet
Of water of abous 5, 500 acres in extent, lying
partly in Winehendona and partly in Ringe. n,
II formerly clained asresidence in Winch
sadon, but toward the latter part Of May the
little island was, one morning, discovered to
have changed its place and moved about two
miles Ap the lake beyond the State Line
then it hoAted back nearly to its old place,
only day or two after, to call north again.
Its coil is firm, and many good people bave
approached 1t by boats and travelled over it 4:
The entire surface is covered by a thrifty
growth Of vegetation, consisting Of grass, |
cranberry vines, bay and whortleberry busbes: |
nero are more than 400 trees by count, vary
ng from five to twenty-five feet in height |
scattered over it's surface, Strono so,+ba,,