The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-01-24
R,ru,ng Star and Catholic Messenger.

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. : W ,,sISHNs. SUNDAY JANTARY a. ,s-s
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS
The State Of Indiana has reduced her in.
ssbtedness to less than 81, 200, 900.
"A "Halo" bonnsts probably derivs their name
from the exclamation of husbands when thew
see the bill.
At Pittsburg the collection for the Pope. TO,
#tS74, was q. 993 "a, and for the diocessu semi,
4 nary %, ss6 63.
Il One of our foreign Ministers intends to write
treatise on water-in its application to sharea
In Joint stook companies.
God makes the metals for man, but never
makes an engine or q watch. He seems to step
L back at the point where the will and energy of
man can begin.
. "What station do you call this ~ said a man.
as he cravlsd ont of the debris of q railroad
smash up. "Devastatiop," replied the urbane
conductor. he had been there before.
An advocate of corporal punishment for
children said ''The child when once startsd
in course of evil conduct, is like q looomo-
tive on the wrong track-it takes q switch tn
get it Off"
An exchange says that "Nevada despises to
send poor man to Congress-" And Nevada ia
right, too, for she knows If she were to send q
poor man to Congress he wouldn't stay Door
whom he got there.
The st. Louis Board of Trade, at its annual
meeting. adopted the committee report in favor
of building 900 spindle cotton mill, to cost
$1,000, 900, and urging st. Louis capitalists to
take stock in the enterprise
By judicieusly scattering the French express
sion, q derant, through his columns, the local
editor of the Detroit Free Press has gradually
built up for that paper a reputation which is
rarely to be had west of Boston.
What shall it profit man if he wears q
cane, and o button hole bouquet as large as q
dinner-plate, if his optics are situated on each
side of nasal organ which is not built to
stand g pair of spring eyeglasses
Sheridan, says the Louisville r;er-Journal
is "just about as &c to manage affairs at New
Orleans bob tailed bull with the delirinm
tremens in fly time is to take an invoice of
stock in q wholesale crockery store.
The Boston Globe announces the arrival in
its mailing-room of the colony of oockroaehes
which recently left this Office for Boston. They
do not hnd that they have bettered their con-
dition much. On the night they got in, the
PIAnoiPal colouist NounGe0 PASTE bucket and
took look round the room, remarking with
no little chagrin, Haven't you got bat one of
them pastipg-maohines f"- Courser-Joarx
The Sisters of Mercy of Cincinnati teach one
thousand children daily in their poor schools.
The Sisters of Mercy are celebrated for their
works of mercy, in the visitation and relief
corporally and spiritually, of the sick, poor
and destitute in their homes clothing, feed
ing, lodging, educating, and giving trades to |
the neglected poor children of worthless and |
INDECENT parents who occupy their houses of
mercy. In the city of Cincinnati the Order of
Mercy feed daily from two hundred to three
hundred men who are out of work.
One night recently the gas suddenly went
ont in Marseilles and left tho whole city in
darkness. At that moment gymnast was
on the flying trapeze in the theatre.
He was even in the air at that very instant,
having made his leap from one trapeze to catch
the other. He caught the other successfully,
but in such a nervous condition that he re-
NAMED in a convulsive or cataleptic state. De
Gould not relax his grasp to change his posi-
ion; his muscles held rigidly as steel and his
whole body was fixed swinging like stone
lie was taken down in that condition and re-
overed next day, ---