The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-08-08
w,.~ire Star and Catholic MESSENGER.
sew oRLEA M. SUNDAY. AUGUST UIo.
EDITORIAL AND OTHER rrEMs.

EDITORIAL AND OTHER IrEmS.r
The Protestant religion of America 10 S'''e0
by an English Journal " Pe"ism .o ooo ooo
A Frenchman has estimated tha' 4oVV0 ="
Frenchmen could live on the 1000 "h''n '''
oOo, 900 Americans throw away.
A clergyman once said to his BISHOP ave.
.nreaohipg. at wrote that sermon, my ioiu' :"
one sittipg" IL shonld think 80, my ehiio''
was the significant reply.
Ten fine stations have recently oeen IN
uorted from SCOTLAND, ut cost OF go wv
They were selected for breeding imposes o'
the Powell Brothers, of Crawford county, o.
The moot serious trepidation Is exci'eo III
Eli.abetbtown. KY, by an inconsiderate per
son. who persists in carrying about Win MIN
n tame snake, SO that people who meet him
nevey can tell whether they've got 1t or NOT.
The limited States Marine Hospital in Sasan'
nah bas been turned over to the entire care
and charge of the Sisters of Mercy. Three oil
,be.sisfsrs are now located at the hospital ano
tia number in attendance will be increased u
five in @ few days.
fAuono the remarkable productions OF Caii
forn;a i. the Hogan family of Mendosin'
county The father stands six feet two inche
In his stockings, one son six feet SIX inones,
...ond ak feet three and half inches, and
third six feet seven inches.
Tho School Committee of Berkeley, Mass
figures in this way: "Three thousand on
hundred and City days were lost last yes
through absence. supposing each child In u
school gets one new idea in the day, there ID
loss to the town of $50 IDEAS"
In the Geological Garden at Paris big Sea
of the sort called sea lion, has Distinguish
bimself by saving the life of a little boy VI
had tumbled in, and couldn't get ont, becau
of the high edge Of the basin. The seal nc
him mn with his teeth till help came.
One German grand duchy, four duchies
.;x Municipalities have just coded the comma
of their military forces to the King OF Pruss
The duchies are the Grand Duchy OF ga
Weimar, the Dachy of Saxe-Meiningen' sa
Coburp Gotha, Saxe-Altenburg and Anhalt'
woman's revenge-if she dies for it. AS
b,;ds got ont of the carriage she caught
veil and tore it, and the bridegroom was
nat,rsa about it. Then when the function
said, "Wnl you have this mau," etc., she
"No.n and that was the end of that marri
One hundred dollars was sent to the Pc
drowned ont" in the south OF France
.his observation: AZ think this donation
be gladly accepted, as co'ni"S ~
German citizen who has never ceased 10 re
nize the immense service rendered by Er
TO the progress of all Europe"
A large number of Americans now In
land celebrated their national peclaratl
independence by fete held on the 9Th OF
ut the Crystal Palace. Not one of the spe'
abused the British. Was it that they
lected that they were in glass house,
must not throw stones Punch.
From all reports received from the jett
the South Pass, it appears that work is
crossing satisfactorily, and that no dithou
experienced in driving piles to solid 10
ton, it requiring about the same force to
n pile in the river bottom as 1T does any
else; this augurs we'll for ultimate sc
and is calculated to make all jetty bel
more sauguine than ever before. 1t
claimed that the water has already dee
considerably where the dykes have &C
some solidity by the river sediment fill
the interstices between the willow wo
stones, which process is said to be very