The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-08-23
a,rnIng Star and Catholic Messenger.
INV ORLEANS SUNDAY, AUGUST g. ie74
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

4 makers.
"a prevailing prejudice against lawyers I" i
Affecting the politics of interior Illinois.
Two hundred and f fteen years ago (Aug. 18th
Feast of the Assumption, 1881 the first prizes
was ordained in Canada.
Since our last issue two of our oldest citizen
have died: DR.. w. Newton Mercer, 10 the s4tt
year of his age, and Capt. John c. Sinnot, wht
was in his 5oth year.
There are forty-two catacombs in and around
Rome, with galleries 5s7 miles long, and it il
estimated that from fonr to seven millions o.
bodies have found sculpture therein.
The Ney York journals are agitating the
question of the city's secession from the State.
The people of the city are taxed 81 to the 81
paid by those Of the rural districts and they
are, consequently, not happy.
The Rev. Mr.. Harding, of Kentucky, cautions
his readers against drinking vinegar to reduce
corpulency. The vinegar is certain to destroy
the digestive powers of the stomach He
recommends red-eyed labor as a healthfnl
substitute.
Boston merchant states he has informa.
ton from San Francisco that at least zoe
ships of about 1000 tons each will be required
to carry the surplus grain crop to Europe this
season, and that not more than $50 sail can yet
be reckoned on for that purpose.
There is an old lady in Virginia who believes
it to be Bible doctrine that for seven years
before the end of the world, no children are to
be born; and that gives her comfort for at
every fresh birth she hears of she says to her
self: "Well, the seven years at least have not
begun"
The late Chief Justice Chase, being once in,
vited to a tin wedding, replied Your invita-
ton was only received last night-too late
except for the heartfelt wish that your tin may
brighten into silver, and your silver into gold
and your gold into diamond, and your diamond
into the everlasting crown"
The "incidental expenses list of Congress
shows that each member has eighty-four
pounds of toilet soap por session. The article
furnished must be singularly devoid of sapon-
aceous properties, or the number of dirty hands
among the members must be ranked among
the most remarkable phenomenon of modern
legislation.
An act of the New York Legislature provides
fully for the suppression of quack doctors of
medicine, and recent occurrences have directed
the attention of the Board of Health to the i'm
portance of enforcing it. A quack doctor is
nothing but murderer in disguise, and more
dangerous, in truth, than an ordinary assassin
The one kills purposely the other kills in an
ignorant effort to cure
Among the art notes. ofZeae- of cur ex-
changes the following mention of Cincinnati
artist is made: He possesses some merit as an
artist, but it is hard to say whether it lies in
landscape or marine painting; you never can
tell his cows from his ships, except when they
have their tails exalted, when the absence of
spars betGays their character Even then they
may be mistaken for schooners scuddng under
bare poles.
There is some prospect of visit from Able
List, the great pianist. He has an earnest
desire to visit America and meet the people
who have SO long honored his name and loved
his works. He is promised that, should he
come, the entire profits of his tour, after the
expenses are paid, shall be devoted to the en-
dowment of conservatoire at Pesth, which
is to bear his name, and in which be labors
That great fraud of the reign and fall of
Napoleon Ill, the Chassepot, is no longer to
cucumber the defeated Frenchman. The ff-
teen millions of weapons of Monsieur Cbasse-
pots pattern are to be made into rifles that
will not shirk their duty in the face of the
enemy. Two rifles which have been tested by
committee of French generals have been
found much superior to the Chassepot. They
are the Gras, a French invention, and the
Beaumont, Dutch weapon.
That the English litigious people is
curiously illustrated by the amazing crop of
actions for breach of promise of marriage with
which the courts at Westminster are annually
burdened The "shop-keepiug nation is
prone to regard all matters, even those of SEN
timent, in their commercial aspect and the
rights of woman are in no case more strenu-
ously asserted than in seeking compensation
for the wounds of heart and tho ruin of
" prospects " inflicted by the faithless swains
of Britain.
Iron-clads are peculiarly unfortunate mon
sters. The one just built at Millwall, near
London, for the Peruvian government, is likely
to present the discouraging spectacle of
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