The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-09-26


jokes. By some hook or crook, the dis
patch went on, and dived under the ocean,
and came up smiling in the Garden of the
Tuileries in France. The manner of it's
| reception by Napoleon has been lost to his
tory. All that Is known is that the En-
Peror did not pay for it, and the facetious
operator was hunted up, and obliged to
pay bill of $lS7 so in gold for the little
joke. That operator was entirely satisfied
with the result of Sedan.-Vi Virginia, Nera
da, Enterprise.
A Permanent Subscription has just no "
| been opened in France in furtharance of the
] great cause of the Catholic Universities
As, under God, the glory of the conquest
recently achieved for securing henceforth
absolute freedom of education to all Cath
oics belongs by right to the illustrlous
Bishop of Orleans, Monseigneur Dnpan
loup, so we rejoice to know that to NJ. Louis
Feuillot belongs the credit of taking
the initiative in starting this Permanent
| Subscription for the advancement of the
interests of the Catholic Universities. The
| preliminary labour of their establishment
| has already, as he says, been satisfactor-
| lily accomplished. The most difficult part
|, before the promoters of the cause of her
education in France is, therefore, even now
performed. But in saying this he is con-
scious that he has not said everything. If
"mnch has been done, vet more remains to
| do" To Christian people, as NJ. Louis
Eeuillot says, belongs henceforth, by right,
the privilege of supporting Free Univer-
sities. To this end adequate funds, as a
matter of course, are all essential Better
than any flourish of rhetoric are the closing
words of NJ. Louis Yeuilot's brief but srf-
fcicnt argument in favor of the establish
ment, at once, of the Permanent Subscrir-
ti"r, pame)y, where the great Catholic pnb-
licist announces that the CniUers claims toc
itself the honor of baving its name entered,
Nv oIr tha I;,t
the sum of2 600 francs. May that frat gift
excite on all hands n generous emulation.
The London Tablet, of % h August,
states, of the suppression of the converts at
Geneva, that The Grand Council of the
Canton of Geneva has just consummated it's
iniquities by suppresslng all the converts of
the Sisters of Charity and the Little Sisters
of the poor. The Bill was introduced on
Wednesday week aud debated on Satur-
day, when Ga members voted for the aboi
ton of the Converts and only seven in! their
favor. These establishments are given
one month to wind up their affairs after
winch they are to be closed. and any mem
Der of them contraveniDg the law after the
expiration of that delay is to be prosccu-
ted. Four months are allowed for all ap-
pllcatIons concerning the liquidation nf
their pro peTty hch may be made by the
c0FPorat0Is themselves, by private irdivd-
uais, or by communes, parishes, other
legal bodies. The Council of State is
charged with the dpt.y of seeing that the
property is still applied to chai table pur-
poses, and is empowered to provide for the
support of the sick, aged persons, and Or
phans, who are thus expelled from their
present homes. Radical Geneva will no
doubt be of opinion that it has thus done
for these victims of misfortune all that can
be expected of it when it has substituted
for the self sacrificing labors of the nuns
a of off H.
sick, and the children will probably be of
| different opinion. They will have learnt
by experience the difference between Sis
ter of Charity and hired hospital nurse,
between Little Sister of the Poor and
what we should call workhouse beadIe.
Nature has note on a new and remark
ably destructive engine of warfare, now
undergoing artillery experiment in Eng
land, known as the "Water she'll" The
chief merit of the invention-made by Mr.
Abel-consists in filling an ordinary shell
with water instead of an explosive agent.
A small cylinder, containing from quar-
ter to half an ounce of guncOtton and a
little Eliminate of mercury. is attached to
the fuse and inserted into the water filled
shell, and, owing to the almost incompres-
81 bic character of water, the explosion of
this seemingly tritling charge is said to pro-
duce more violent effects than have been
attained by any other means. We are told
that "a 16 pounder (cy)ipdro- conoidaN
shell fl led with sixteen ounces of gun
powder, was broken by the explosion of
this charge into 90 fragments. The ietona.
tion ot>1a quarter of an ounce of gun. cot
ton confined in shell of precisely the
same construction and weight, the cham.
Der being filed with water and tightly
closed, burst the shell into 100 fragments,
which were violently dispersed. cores
ponding charge of gun cotton, contine,! in
he che ,haT balm, Il.
with air, did not burst the shell when d.
tonated the resulting gases found vent
through minute perforation in the plus or
screw stopper of the shell. One ounce of
gun cotton confined in a similar she'll, filled
with water, broke it up into 300 fragments,
but IN addition there were two pounds one
ounce OF the she'll almost pulvertzed by the
force of the explosion brought to bear upon
the metal through the agency of the con
fined water" Beside this Increased de.
structiveness of this extremely simple de
vice, an even greater recommendation is it's
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