The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-02-01
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS
"Does one woman in fifty fill the lower half
of her lungs with air % Is the stern inquiry of
q sanitary exchange.
Clerical neckties for the ladies are the latest.
They are of white null, and made exactly like
those worn by Episcopal clergymen.
Col. John Forsyth, editor of the Mobile
Register, is spoken of as the probable candidate
of the Conservatives for Governor of Alabama.
The diamonds and point lace won by the
wife of Hon. Ben. Wood at the Orphan Asylum
ball, N. Y, last month, were valued at $14O, 600.
The $4,000 presented to the Holy Father on
Christmas by Dr.. Chatard was the gift of the
Diocese of Philadelphia and not, as reported,
of the Catholics of the whole United States.
A Cincinnati paper says that Gen. Scott was
killed by letter, SO was Mr.. Clay, and SO was
Caleb Cushing, and wants to know if it is not
probable that Judge Waite has written ono
too.
A newspaper imp is responsible for tho fol-
lowing cure for bed-bugs with salt water ::
This will mako the bugs dry, and while they
are gone after a drink move your bed into an
other room.
A bachelor says if you hand lady q news
paper with paragraph cut out of it, not
line of it will be read, but every bit of inter-
est felt in the paper by the lady will centre in
finding out what the missing paragraph con-
tanned.
Said professor in college to notorious
sluggard, who was once, for a wonder, prompt
~ in his place at morning prayers at the ap-
pointed time, 81 marked you, sir, as punctual
this morning. What is your excuse 7" "s-s-sick,
sir, and couldn't Sleep" was the reply.
The first cannon ball ever fred in the United
States for the purpose of saving lives was
24-pound shot, which was fred on the 18th of
January, 1885, over the ship Ayrshire, wrecked
on the Squam Beach. Having line attached,
it was the means of saving the lives of POI
persons. The ball is now at the Capitol in
Washington.
Some waggish soul having stated that the
line, though lost to sight, to memory DEAR"
originated with Ruthven Jenkins, and first
appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine for Ma.
,ines, in 1701 and 1902, the London illustrated
Neps fell into the trap, and, having published
that statement, subsequently felt constrained
to publish another to the effect that neither
the magazine nor "Ruthven Jenkins" ever
had any existence.
The Ypsilanti Commercial tells this story
" A few weeks since two of our prominent citi-
zens swore off from drinking. One of them
had occasion to visit Chicago. Meeting some
friends they urged him to drink. He pleaded
his agreement with B. in Ypsilanti. The
friends of A. in Chicago were not satisfied, and
telegraphed to B. in city, saying: A
is getting awful dry. Can't you let him off
this oncef The noble Spartans reply tsle-
graphed back was: mo! If he must die, let
him die q sober man,"
It is gratifying to know that the Radical
strength in the United States is on the wane.
The recent Senatorial elections fix the number
of Republican Senators at forty -six, while the
opposition, reckoning the Liberal Republicans,
will number twenty eight. This leaves the
Radicals minus the usual two-tbirds majority
even il those claimed as loyal remain true to
the President, which is exceedingly doubtful.
We agree with the New York Herald, that it
takes many years to alter the political charac-
ter of the Senate, but it is evident the pro-
cess has commenced.
There will be four eclipses this year and q
transit of Venus. LIST, total eclipse of the
sun April 10Th, invisible in North America
I'd, partial eclipse of the moon May LIST, in
visible in the United States an annular eclipse
of the sun October 10th, invisible in America
total eclipse of the moon October oath, in the
throughout America. Begins at New York
12:49 in the morning; New Orleans, 11:42 in
the evening. A transit of Venus over the SUMS
disc December 9Th, invisible in America; Wis
ible in Asia, Australia and the East Indies.
On Thursday last $4,000 young salmon were
turned loose in a small branch of the Shenan-
doah river, near Winchester, Va. These fish will
soon be in the Potomac, and in the course of
few years the river will abound with them.
The reason for turning the fish loose in the
extreme head waters are because there are no
black bass in those small tributaries to destroy
them, and to induce them to ascend the river
as high as possible when they return from the
sea in after years, it being characteristic of tho
salmon, as well the shad, to return to it's
spawning ground.
FAIR IN BRAsHEAR CITY.-Our contemporary