The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-03-07
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS

Sees in Spain.
The Legislature of Ohio has petitioned Con
oress 10 reduce the Presidents salary to s25 III
600 year IA
The Fair, held for the benefit of the Catho,l
Church at Donaldsonyille, just before Len, \
realized $1,000.
Avoid ANNOYANCE; be cautious and kindh
I, is not safe to trample upon even SO humble
thing as q bit of orange peel.
If YOU should tell Vermont man that carr
ing six black beans in his vest pocket wouldu \
keen contagious diseases away, he would 81 q
You down as one who believed the world wa
fat. F
| it a penal offence for any one to walk on i;
railroad track. What's the uses when IL
compapies already visit it with capital puniss
| ment. &
a man ANYTHING, give it to him ckeerfully All
quick, don't make him get down ON his knee
in front of you and listen to the ten commaal
ments and then give him Eve cents"
In 1872 Grants majority for President, ont Z
nopular vote, was 700 OCO. In 1874 the majorie =
against his administration was 5oO,000-t
change of 1000, 900 votes in two years. b.
they don't see it that way in the House.
Paris will have an International Congre
within her walls on March to deal with til
important subject of weights and measures. U
9, ouart measure is ever to hold three Pima
these are the fellows who must arrange it
Four societies of colored Catholics will par
ade on St. Patrick's Day in Baltimore: knight
of St. Augustine, sixty members Good San,
ritans, thirty eight members st. Benedictu
twenty eight members, and st. Mary's, fort
members.
, An inch on q mans nose is proverbial.ys
some account, and n. Derrisart, Of Paris
likely to know of exactly what account.
nose has taken to growing lately, and gru
half an inch in eight days. he is at H.
Hotel Dieu, in Paris, and all the surgeons &
France are rushing thither to sec him.
Tn. Continental Herald says French offas
of artillery has invented a new arm, a.
+ a6usier a main. 1t weighs only fourteen pounas
= and can be carried on the shoulder with u
!. aid of strap. The projectie is shell, wsiSi
y ing when charged only pound, and containing.
nine balls, which are carried to consideraS9
o distance.
: Financial returns in Russia are an uncgs
= tain subject, as the only law in the case is u
Emperor's declaration that he will never nl
:. strict himself to any arbitrarily limited sum ,
is public expenditures; but will spend in u
s. various branches OF administration what y.
re deems fit, and have the public treasure sup2l'
le as need be.
e Young Napoleon, placed at the head of hl
class at Woolwich in riding, comes honestly n
Is his skill. His father was one Of the Hris
:, horsemen in Europe, and sat his horse +
II though q part Of it, while his mother in %
younger days was not far behind her husban1
is as every one knows who has seen her in hun,
d ing parties at Fontainbleau.
= A Protestant merchant of New York, y
Edward s. Dewind, has recently given 500
ir each of the following Catholic charities:
vincent's Hospital, the Founding Asylum,
re Fraucis's Hospital Sisters of the poor, t
$, Home of the Holy family, ST. Stephens o
~ phanage, Father Drumgoole's Newsboys' Lodi
o. ing house, and st. Elizabeth's Hospital.
il The Catholics of Ireland and England wi
70 celebrate this year three notable Jubilee
First, there is the fftieth anniversary of Il
m episcopal conservation of the Archbishop
". Tuam; Cardinal Cullen is twenty-five yea
e. Archbishop; lastly, Archbishop Manning BIZ
r been for ten years adding lustre to the
WHICH S8Eulual nAu 50 long AuOIBe
Eat your bread Charles-do not fling
~ away" said learned aud good Judge to o.
I'd of his family, adding, "for who knows, in d
ne vicissitudes of this life, if you may not SOL
IA day want it," The old gentleman had to cous
of look learned and go away, when the youngst
answered more logically, "If 1 eat it, how C
he I have it when l want it ?" This is the rest
N of learned Judge having children.
RS The Polish colony of Paris has recently Sc
to the Pope handsome sum of money. A numb
i'll of Polish ladies added to this present cha'
BILE, embroidered with their own hands, VIII
lie, is a marvel of art and beauty. Cou
he Sosnonosky, Polish nobleman residing
Rome, has given the Pope a fine statue of t
mt Mother of Sorrows, which he sculptured bill
n. self and with which his Holiness was great
ell pleased, pronouncing it masterpiece OF
he
lie The conflict inaugurated fortnight ago
les tween the Pennsylvania Central and the BA
of more and Ohio Railroad Companies has be-