The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-02-08
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITElds.

Florida daudies wear sleeve buttons MADE
of aligators teeth.
10000 unemployed workingmen in Vienna
have petitioned the Government for relief
1t is said that tho black representatives give
q better color to Congress than some OF the
white ones.
Quebec folks are enjoying real wintry weather
now, the thermometer being twenty degrees
| below Zero
| A hand-organ is the latest excavation at
Pompeii. The ancents had their torments as
| we'll as the moderns.
joaquin Miller says that Bryant ia the second
greatest poet that America ever produced.
joaquin Miller being the first, of course.
The New York World publishes daily col
umn of names of the unemployed in that city
BY this means quite large number Of deserv-
ing poor have found employment.
A French paper states that Bismack recently
addressed o communi cation to tho British
Government relative to the tone of the Cath
| Ollie Bishops and press. He received dis
| couraging reply. ~
Emotional fnanciering" is the name given
| to robberies on q grand scale of employers by
| their clerks. MI. OuLwater, treasurer of jersey
City, "enotionally t.uanciercd" that city out
| of 49,, si6 recently.
| A man in Fayette county, Penn, read in an
almanac that his feet could be kept warm by
lining his boots with Cayenne pepper. He don't
feel much like walking, now, but he says he
! would like "to fluid the man what put that in
the almanac"
| The Nation begs a correspondent to I" excuse
| it for saying that one minute of LongfellOw's
| Rain in Summer takes rs farther out of doors
than all Tenpyson's highly finished and 1--WE
admit) most admirably picturesque landscapes,
! and seascapes and skyscapes."
| The leading Doctors of Richmond and Phila-
delphia, have succeeded in getting possession
of the bodies Of Chang and Eng, the Siamese
twins, and have taken them to the latter place.
The wives of these celebrities made it a condi
ton that their bodies should not be mutiiated
The Catholics of England are preparing to
erect grand Gothic church two hundred feet
in length, at OK ford, under the very walls of
the central fountain of Anglicansm. We shall
soon hear the political "gamin," Lord John
Russell, this aggression of Popery.
For the shaking walls of the Anglican Church
his brawling is, however, very poor underpin-
ming
Galignani tells of snubbing which Prince
Bismarck received recently at the hands of q
rival statesman. "The prince has undertaken
to have German adopted as the language OF
diplomacy; and, in pursuance of his plan, he
sent note, the other day to Prince Gortscha-
koff, who replied in Russian. Now, as Bis
marck does not understand Russian, he had to
seud for a translator, and is said to have been
very much irritated at the result of his expert
ment."
There was great exultation in Lynchburg,
Va, the other day. On the same day and near
tho same hour two United States senators, both
former residents of Lynchburg and natives Of
the county in which the little town is located
were elected; Judge Thurman in Ohio and
Col. Withers in Virginia. At about the same
time another son of Lynchburg, the Hon. VIM.
Allen, was inaugurated governor Of Ohio. The
pride with which the local papers refer to the
remarkable coincidence is altogether justifiable
under the circumstances.
Our sister city of Charleston is lively on the
immigration business. Nearly every steamer
arriving from tho North brings out from
twenty to sixty new corners, who are settling
i'll the interior. Another band of two hundred
arrived the I'd inst. from Castle Garden.
They includo one hundred Germans, seventy
, Eve 1rishmen, and the remainder Englishmen
and were received by the representative of the
, German Society and forwarded to their homes
in the interior.
There could hardly be better illustration
, of the pertinacious loyalty of the average
Briton than that in nearly every church in
England on Friday, January ODD, O marriage
4 ceremony was performed. It was the day O.
c the nuptials of the Duke of Edinburgh ant
the Grand Duchess Maria, of Russia, and wa,
. made hymonial holiday in every parish o
Il England, when loyal youth aud maiden sought
to achieve the nunkeyish bliss of being mar
r ried on the same day and at the same hour a
II their royal master.
g Tho Saturday Rerie,c says: "What the United
y States are to the rest of the world, Chicago il
l. to the United States 1t is the concentrated
6 essence of Americanism. The peculiar stat
Il or temper of the human mind in which mate
!. rial growth and extension are its only objects
and all it's forces concentrated with tn
utmost intensity on these, has never been 81
\ perfectly developed as in the United States
and, if we were asked what city in that ooun
"a try showed that temper in it's most energeti
10 form, we might possibly think once of Boston
or Nav York Int ahonld cartainly