The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-08-15
s.rolng Star ans Catholic MESSENGER.
MxW ORLEANS, SUNDAY. AUGUST 1s 1879
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMs.

The late Michael Levy left 17'Ooo,ooo iran''' I
all made in Publishing French literature
1875 Is O hard year on newspapers e'p'o s'
IL. of Janpary. 365 Journals have suspended
publication.
An unpublished letter of Bossuet, Inc eio-
ouent Bishop, brought l, 225 francs az recent
Paris auction.
The lately deceased Cardinal Archbishop OF
Besancon makes the lo4th cardinal dying un'
ring the reign of Plus TX.
There are 500 paper mills in the United
States. with a capital of SaO,0O0.ooo, and pro-
aucing $40, 600, 900 worth per annum.
Cantain Webb, the English swimmer, has
now made twenty miles at SEQ, from Dover to
Ramsgate, in eight hours and forty-nve
minutes.
The stolen sermon question has again broken |
ont in England Among the remedies 1t 10
proposed that young preachers should DO
srained to speak extempore; also that all
preachers should not be required to preaon
every Sunday.
A letter from Tickfaw, Ls., to the Bullets"
,tases that parties are about to stock the
Natalbany river with shad, having eroughs
10000 young fish for that purpose. Success
has attended similar efforts in the Potomac'
Hudson and Delaware rivers.
Observatory at Copenhagen has discovered q
mode of sending any number Of telegraphic
messages over the same wire, by the simple
method of pitching each message in different
key with the aid of tuning forks.
JOAQUIN Miller has acknowledged that he
cannot spell. "Why," sold he to Olive Logan
Mt Long Branch the other day, when she dis
covered poor photography in some verses he
was showing her, Zone man can't do every
thing. Spelling isn't my profession"
London has another new industry. man
ADVERTISED himself as "Knocker- up and window
tickler, from 3 to T." He wakes heavy sleepers
who wish to get up early. Window tickling Is
waking without ringing the bell, by means OF
alongr lie, with which he taps on the window
pane.
Don Pasquale has just published q thirc
volume Of the speeches of the Holy Father. II
contains abstracts of 1913 "discorsi" or speechei
delivered between the Goth of September, 1873
and the 18Th of May, 1875, making, with TIT
contents of the two former volumes, total o
Alb speeches.
The French papers speak in terms of deer
gratitude, of tho Colossal proportions at
tanned by the English subscription list in al
of the sufferers by the foundations. The
seem fairly astonished that England shoul
have done SO much to help the distressed pee
Pile Of another country.
Georgia seems to be we'll off financially. tn
taxable property which in 1865 was $126. 635, 81
has now augmented to 1913 ,o92 600, an increa
of more than so per cent in ten years. tt
total debt is only SO 100000, and the Sta
owns &c, 600, 900 of property, besides $4,000, OF
atock in cotton mills and divers other stock
In the Canary Isles the vine ran ont, az
that was the end of good Canary wne." TIL
they raised cochineal, and now the soil
exhausted for good qualities Of that artic
DO they have tried tobacco and that will
future be their great crop, and they will q
parently produce an article finer than ever
fore known.
Rev. J. A. Kelly and Rev. j. v. Edelin,, t
Dominican Fathers attached to st. Pete
Church. Memphis, Tenn, on Thursday, il
nth, celebrated their silver jnbilee-that
Ehe twenty-fifth anniversary of their ord
tion to the priesthood. The occasion was
Nhioh brought great joy to their parishon'
as well as to their fellow priests, and was
served with appropriate ceremonies.
With o most csdaverous counteuance {
Grape on His hat he waited at Paris stat
Ior the coffin to be lifted ont of the train
it was heavy, for it was lined with lead.
while the people looked on with sympathy
wondered if it was his wife, his mother or
father, the we'll informed police invited
into private room, where they opened
coffin and emptied it Of its load of Brus
lace.
There is little river in Switzerland vi
bears the suggestive name of sucre-tha
sugar. In The late inunda atoms that, like 81
other river; threatened to become cantaker
she Mayor of the city through which it
tch froT hiOhar mr. the Rtr
as follows: Sudden rise in sugar-tske
cautions" He puzzled this little
replied: 81 never speculate. Have given
dispatch to n contectioner."
She stepped into the car radiant with yo
and looking cool and bright in her flo
trimmed hat aud speckless suit of linen.
young men immediately offered her
seats she accepted ono with an entrau
smile and instantly gave it to poor,