The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-12-06
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS

The FIST Bible printed in America was print
cd in Mexico.
Some Japanese youths are to be sent to Ger
many to learn tho art of brewing beer.
Madeira wine is likely to become scarce, as
the vines in that island are said to be dying.
The Catholic population of New York city is
400, 900 souls, for whom there are about forty
churches.
The Catholics of Wheeling, Va, are to erect
o monument chapel over the late Bishop Whe-
Ian of that Diocese.
The Wyoming Post says the only church
where sermons are preached in Irish in this
country, is located in Elmirs, III. A priest
from Canada breaches q sermon in English,
and, after q short intermission, repeats it in
Irish.
Ruskin avoids the necessity of possible SIN
terviewiug" by publishing the following par
ticulars of his family: "My mother was o
sailors daughter, SO please you one of my
aunts was q bakers wife, the other tanners,
and don't know much moro about my family,
except that there used to be q green grocer of
the name in o small shop near the Crystal
Palace. Something of my early and vulgar
life if it inter ests you, will tell in next Fore"
The newspaper business is evidently unpro-
htable in Milwaukee. The Sentinel says: "See
the sublime pitch our devotion reaches on
Thanksgiving Day. We give thanks for ex-
istence, though most of us, could we have
been consulted about it, would have greatly
preferred to remain in the wide womb of I'M
created rlght, devoid Of sense and notion"
The teacher of @ New York night school has
received the following information in drop
letter: "The card that you sent down to -
Water st., suoh boy by that name don't live in
the house. there is boy that lives in the
house but Fred Jonshon that goes to night
school here. And please don't troubble us
about the letter that you send down, you
could come down to see if that boy lives here.
there must be another boy that gives the rong
number. We are ashamed that the letter man
brings them cards down, hee must think him q
very bad boy that lives here"
In the coarse of article on Heat and its
Relation to Construction" the Building Ns,Us
points out the great and ut times dangerous
oxpansiveness of iron when subjected to heat,
and the sensitiveness of that metal to changes
of temperature. "Thus," it says, "a bar or
beam even 10 feet long and subject to oidi-
nary change of temperature, say from 80 de-
grees to $50 degrees. will elongate more than
of an iuch-n sufficient modicum to cause
fracture to stone work, to snap tho thread of o
screw. or to eudauger bridge floor or u roof
trnss When we think of lengths ten and
even u hurdred times this dimension, the dan
ger of Incorporated expansion or contraction
is increased thousand fold"
The greatness of works undertaken by pub
fishers must necessarily bear Gloss proportion
to the resources of the publishers, and
therefore, the reader naturally expects
to learn that oil the greatest publica-
tions of America issued from New York
presses. In this expectation he will not be
No literary or scientific work
OF equal excellence and magnitude with the
" American Csclopsdia." published by the APP
pletons has ever been undertaken in America.
Each volume of it cost the publishers $50, 900,
exclusive of paper, binding and press-work.
The cost of the complete work was more than
$500 900. Twenty-eight editors, assistant edit
ors, and couipilers are constantly engaged upon
it, Its sales exceed $500, 900 a year.
Keep money at hoG" Ivy patronizng our own |
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