The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-08-29
EDITORIAL AND OTHER TrEMB.

-Four new monasteries are coon to be estab-
lish6d out West.
A daughter OF Bisinarck 10 convert and q
most fervent Catholic.
It is said that the number of Freem asons In
the world is 100000.
Wealth does not always improve u.s. A man,
IS he gets to be worth more, may become
WORTHLESS.
Mr. John Bright has declined even the al
lurements Of blank check to come and lecture
in America.
Most people love to be praised, and some
are so fond of it that they will take it from
those whose praise is disgrace to anybody.
We all of us charge our blunders on some
thing or somebody else-if shoemaker makes
misfit he always blames the foot bot not the
boot
Edmund Burke greatly approved of the birch
tree groves near Elton. "No licking, no learn
| ing" was Burke's idea of the principles of
education."
| Wisconsin claims q population, exclusive of
one county that in 1870 had 8. 165 inhabitants,
| of 536 $40. The population Of Milwaukee has
advanced from II ,440 in 1870 to 100,775 in 1875.
Three months ago the Montana papers would
have stated that horse dealer had been in
vited to hemp-necktie sociable; now they
cay that the citizens have put pull-baek
cravat on him.
The Catholic VolksfreSnd, of Munich, Of
Thursday, confirms the statement made by
several newspapers shat the Bavarian Govern
mont had refused permission for the Francis
cans formerly established at Fulda (Prussia)
| to settle in monasteries Of the Same Order in
Bavaria.
The Russian Government has interdicted the
celebr alton of the Jubilee in the Russian
Empire. In consequence of this tyrannical act
| the Holy Father has made some alterations in
the prescribed regulations, so as to enable the
Catholics Of that Empire, especially the Poles,
to gain the same iudulgences and privileges az
, the rest of their brethren throughout the
world.
Rosie Cotterman, aged ten, little German
girl of Bloomington, ILL.,, bravely stood in the
way of an Infatuated cow till she had put foul
or five smaller children over fence. He
clothing was almost all ripped from her ant
she was badly bruised, but the Mayor ant
! police force, as they descended from the lamp
posts and telegraph-poles, were loud in prais
, of her courage.
! In July diver in submarine armor working
a at wreck the coast of Normandy wa
seized by a devil fish, which held fast to
neighboring rock. His comrade came to hi
assistance and was seized also. It was onl.
with great difficulty they could give the sigma
2 that they needed help. Others went down
! Cutlasses were brought and the monster
| arms were hewed of.
D During the panic which ensued when tn
l Algerian struck last week on Split Rock in tn
Z st. Lawrence Rapids, Southern gentleman
called his son, o boy of ten, to him and en-
deavored to fasten hfe-preserver round hi
body, telling him if the boat capsized to strik
: out for shore. The boy, however, obstinatel
d refused to let him attach it, insisting that hi
g father, who was helplessly crippled Will
= serving in Louisiana regiment, should kee
8 it for himself.
Q An Indiana gentleman invited number c
4 friends to dinner, and they accepted the invita-
z ton, but none of them appeared, and the Dime
r was spoiled. Accordingly he sued them for tn
|. value of the viands wasted through their lac
j. of courtesy. The lower court gave him judG
ment for the amount claimed, but the superio
h tribunal reversed the decision, remarking tha
n If the principle first affirmed were correct til
e risk of accepting invitations would be yer
i serious, indeed.
It The general meeting of Catholics of Go
N many, which takes place at Freiburg
,r Brisgau, from the 1st to the 4th of Septenb
IT next, is, though ordinarily an annual even
Q, the first that has taken place since 1872.
"a 1873 it was considered inexpsdient to hold tt
Of meeting, as the conference at Mayence, occu
AS ring shortly before the proposed date, had bee
oi so largely attended, and had practically al
" ticipated it's deliberations. Last year it WI
lie put off on account of the Kullmann inoide1
pr and the ensuing general excitement.
n An immense bank of pink coral has been di
covered on the coast of Sicily, and GOO boa
belonging to the different guilds of coral fshe
- of Tore del Greco and Schiana, are squsbbllr
over the bank and fighting naval battles wit
RS such fierceness that the government has bee
In compelled to send the Explorator end anoth'
be steamship of war to compel the disputants
ID keep the peace. Bat their intervention is Co
d. fined to the surface; they cannot prevent tt
a.