The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-02-14
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS


world, but it's smiles and caresses have often
Rugged them to death.
Two daughters of the noted Indian chief,
Hole in the Day, are being educated by the
| Sisters of Notre Dame, Milwaukee.
The population of San Francisco is reported
to have increased 90 900 during the past year,
and over 1000 new buildings were erected.
The Dallas, Texas, Herald reports large num-
bers of immigrants, with no end of children,
and destitute of money, arriving by every
train.
In the month of October last the income of
the Vatican was eight millions of francs in
gold, counting offerings and presents of all
kinds.
In the year 1870 there were made in the
| whole world 200, 600 watches, of which Swift
zerland made 600, 900; France, 100000; Eng
land, 1000, and this country, 1000 600.
doctors wife attempted to move him by
her tears. "Ah /" said he, clears are useless.
have analysed them. They contain little
phosphate of lime, some chlorate of sodium,
| and water"
Tho French Government. is systematically
organizing service of carrier pigeons, the
great central station of which is to be the Jar
din d'Acclimatation in Paris, with lesser sta
| lions in all the important fortresses.
According to DR.. Vandyke Carter, an English
physician, the island of Crete is the nursery of
leprosy. There are towns in which all the in
habitants are lepers, and, by marrying and in
termarrying, the disease is perpetuated.
All the money which the war cost France
her army expenses, the acquisitions Of the
| enemy and the five milliards of indemnity
| counted together-foots up nine milliards three
hundred millions of francs, or 81, 800, OOO, OOO
Eighty-seven priests have been expelled
| from the Jura in Switzerland, and about
| twenty are enduring prison confinement and
labor, because they will not acknowledge q
junta of infdel politicians as head of the
Church.
DR.. Mangan, who was prosecuted recently at
| Norwich, England, for inserting absinthe in
veins2of dogs, has been awarded prize of $500
by the French Academy of Sciences for the
same experiments, showing the effect of alcohol
| on quadrupeds.
N. Francis Guerin has arrived in Paris from
| the Cape of Good Hope, with q diamond which
| he found in an abandoned mine at the DeviPs
Table. This diamond is estimated to be worth
100000 frapcs, but the possessor has not vet
found purchaser.
In McNairy county, Tenn, recently, five sis
tiers were married on the same day. 1t is very
rare that so many members of q single family
get themselves into trouble at once, and other
portions of the county are tauntingly chal-
lenged to cheat it,"
Now they tell of a Photographic apparatus
by which plate, kept permanently sensitive,
can be put in a locket on the watch chain, and
with which the holder can secure the portrait
of a person he sees anywhere, without the
knowledge of that person.
Therei is man in the condemned cell in Paris
who cannot be guillotined until the authori-
ties ascertain his name. He was condemned
by name since found to be false, and there is
no precedent for the execution of a man whose
name is not known, so he must wait.
The Married Ladies' sodality of Cincinnsti
consists of 923 members, of whom 700 received
Holy Communion at one of the morning Masses
in ST. Pauls Church. recently. This admirable
Sodality has lately endowed the church with
complete suit of vestments, which cost nine
hundred dollars.
In January, 1870, M. Margelidet-as an ex-
pertinent in natural history-plaoed frog in a
hole dug in q solid stone, and closed and her
metically sealed the opening. On the 18th of
last month the stone was opened at the Museum
Of Natural History in Paris. The frog was
living, but not lively.
Colorado, now knocking at the doors of
Congress for recognition as a State has little
more than one-third the population of Shelby
county, Tennessee. Yet it is proposed to give
this "rotten borough" the same representation
in the Senate possessed by New York, Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio, that two more supporters of
the administration may be obtained.
What a deliOhtful 1ittla extract from ha
New York Commercial 4drertiser this would be,
if it were not wholly untrue: "Truth never
gets its votaries nto ineXplicable tangles it
impIisons no man in the network of his own
words; it ignores brains and forms q straight
forward story without them, and the sharpest
lawyer cannot puzzle the weakest witness who
abides in this virtue"
A somewhat peculiar libel case is to be tried |
before the Chester county courts. Mr.. Will. |
liam Benner posted notice on his property
i .n~I>I.