The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-01-17
KpTToRIAL AND orHxR TTENa

| EpIToRIAL AND OTHER TTRNe -
Dsvotees OF ono Of the Buddhist temn,.. ].
Jeddo have choice Of :. .ssa gods.
Foreigners are not allowed to enter thu -.
forts being constructed around Paris.
On tho 29th nit. Gladstone conpIet.d II.
65th year. snd on the 31st Disraoli eomr,....
his 69th. s@ '>
| The manufactures Of Richmond, Va. for ,sr
amounted to Ga, ,746,72o an increase ever 1sr
Of q. .s65.5A which 10 largely due to the hiel
price manufactured tobacco 10 bringing
! Tho Catholic Publication Society win 500,
Issue, from advance sheets, two important va.
umes on the Gladstone controversy, one BY n,
Very Rev. John Henry Newman, the other h,
Archbishop Manning. The title of the las.s,
is "The Vatican DEGREES in their bearings ON
Civil Allegiance"
As the manure from the hen-house in the
| best IN the world for onions, SO onions are the
| best food, whom mixed with bran or meal fl,
chickens. 1t should be given several times
week, and will prevent gaps and many othsr
diseases which. hens are subject to. Onions
and boiled meat make splendid diet for Law.
ing hens in winter.
ill got ill gone," says the old proverb, and
it comes true of the estate of the late Col.
Fisk-"Jim Fisk" The estate is hopless.y in.
solvent-or will be if all the claims against il
are snbstantiated. Tho honesty Of some of
the claimants may be judged from one
fact: the Erie Railroad Company lodged .
claim of "a ,000, 900 against the estate, in set
Element of which they have accepted various
shares and properties valued at about $1os 600.
An eviction of q highly sensational charao-
ter, (says the Dublin Natios Of tho 26th), took
place near bennington on Tuesday week,
where community of shakers, consisting Of
twenty men and one hundred aud eleven wo-
men and children, were turned ont Of their
houses. They appear to have offered passive
resistance to the expulsion, and remained
praying and singing psalms on the road in
the midst of the fearful storm which was rag.
ing at the time.
Since the death of Fortuny his studio at
Spanish Legation. No stranger is allowed to
enter. The place where his works are to be
sold has not yet been decided on. The Span
ish government has given orders for the pur-
chase of the artists portrait by himself, which
is said to be q masterpiece of portraiture.
picture of q young girl Ia Watteau is valued
at $4,000 francs. 1t will also be bought for
the Madrid Museum, already SO rich in art
gems,
Among the passengers by the steamer for
Key West yesterday, says the New York Herald
of Sunday, was the Rev. Father LaRoque, ac-
by two Sisters Of the Order of the
Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, with the Moth
or General of that Order, who visits the con-
vents there upon her triennial examination.
Father LaRoque is just returned from . con-
valesoent visit North, imposed upon him by
an attack of yellow fever contracted whiIe
attending the garrison at Fort Jefferson, Dry
Tortugas.
Hitherto Parisian bank-notes have been
burnt at the rate Of about three hundred thous-
and month, much to the disguss of people
near the bank, who complain bitterly of the
air being impregnated with the fiimy remains
Of the paper and of the disagreeabie smell II
10 now under consideration to adopt the plan
of tearing the notes into minute fragments,
and then reducing them into pulp, from
which fresh msterials can be prepared. This,
& is said, will further have the desirable eff
feet of saving q aeonsiaerable sum of money
A miserly old lady kept an inn. One day a
poor tramp called on her for something to eat.
Some bones that had been pretty well picked
we're placed before him. After finishing his
linuer, a little son of the landlady's, noticing
hat the man found it very difficult to make
much of dinner, put some money into his
lands as he stepped out of the door. When
lis mother came in, he asked how much it was
worth to pick those old bones "Sixpence,
ny DEAR" said the old lady, expecting to re-
eive the money. II thought so," replied the
10Y, "and gave the man sixpence for doing
t."
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