The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-07-18

The Manchester Aquarium has secured
an additional object of curiosity, Ia the
way Of q sea- horse. The B1ominer ssys
"With the head, neck and body Of horse,
it has q tail like lizard, which it en-
twipes round seaweed or a bit of natural
rock work. In this position it waits with
remarkable patience for its food, chiefly
animslculS, to come to be eaten.
The law of negligence was recently made
to apply with costly force by the Supreme
Court of Illinois upon parties obstructing
streets, the court holding that they are
responsible for accidents to life, limb or
property Indirectly gro wing out of such OBJ
structious. A collision between teams, by
which hoy received irjnries ending in
death, was traced back to the fact that it
was caused BY the unlawful occupancy OF
the street with a sand-heap, the owner OF
which has been mulcted in damages to the
amount of 81 900, the Supreme Court
affirming the Judgment in the court below.
It will be remembered that Mr.. Seth
Green's experiment of Introducing shad in
to the Genesee River, with o view to the
propagation in Lake Ontario of this delic.
ious inhahitant of our waters, was proved
successful by the capture of several we'll
grown fish. Another and more convincing
proof DOW comes from Cobourg and other
Canadian towns on the northern shore Of
the lake, which have been visited by great
shoals of novel kind of fish, supposed at
frat to be herring, but which proved en-
close examination to be shad, evidently
from the Genesee plantation. Mr.. Green
has planted and Mr.. Roosevelt watered,
| bat our Canadian brethren are getting the
increase.
Brussels possesses park which for extent
| is unrival'ed 10 Europe and before long will
have no superior ia heauty-tbe great forest
of Soignes, which extends from the aubur bs
| south to the edge Of the battle field of Wa
| terloo, a distance of twelve miles, and with
a width of four or Ave miles. This large
| tract has q great variety of hill and dale
surface. with some email streams no~ing
through it. 1t is densely crowded with
| tall forest trees one or two centuries old.
Through this great forest the Belgian Gov
| eminent, to whom it belongs, is construct
ing broad drive-ways and Bride paths.
| and lakes, cascades, bridges, grottoes. and
other decorative works. But it is 40 exten
sire that it will take generations to com
plete them all.
i P1sc1cULrURE IN FRANCE The fish
Matching ests blisbmept at Hunningue, IN
the department of Upper Rhine, duriag the
lincubating season of 1924 Matched on,
;. sS3 con eggs, of which 30 per cent. per.
ished, AZ per cent. were sent ABROAD, ano
the remainder were retained at the estao
lishment. The number of fish sent out t.
restock the rivers were as fot, ITO" 70 Ger
. many 2 $50 600; Austria. 60 OOO; Holland
600 600; Luxembourg, 80 coo France. lsO.
| QUO Switzerland, 100000; Italy, 10000
Brazil. 5000. About 500 900 salmon ant
bastard salmon we're placed in the Rhioe
the Ill. aud the Moselle. Very satisfsctor,
experiments have been made in the lake
of Pomeranis, Silesia, aud Brandenburg.
5 Galignani publishes come details reia
r tive to q fatal bull fight at Madrid. Ac
cordip1 to the accounts eight bnlls, twelv
horses aud two men were killed. vi Tn
latter, the banderillero, Mariana Canet
!, was tossed in the air by the furious an
: mas, then picked and thrown mp agar
T His agony did not last five minutes. ID
! had already received two thursts fro'
horns in the thighs and breast, when flo;
o blow in the throat put an end to his III
o A picador surDamed Ell Frances, who ha
a h,s two legs broken and threerlo smashe
: lived until the next morning. singul'
Il circumstance connected with this affair
!, thatit was organized for the benefit OF
Y society for assisting widows and orphan
t The French Department of the IDteri
). has Just concluded a prOtracted strugg
; with the undivided half of an egg. I!
reports of produce from one departme
declared with much accuracy that it's heI
n had contributed to the wealth of France
n many millions, hundreds of thousand
II thousands, hundreds and tens OF eggs, wi
80 many Ouu eRRhp anu nan OIL o6S OsSA.
IF investigation being made the figures of t.
y department refused to admit that they hi
n lied or told more or less than the trut
even in the estimation of single half e
D. Ao oordingly that half-egg was, as o
50 might say, traced to its source, when
al proved that no mares nest had been e
IN ercising all these official and statistic
n minde, but that conscientious farmer b
IN returned the half egg because one of
u hens had laid it just on the boundary OF a
OF other department.
be Sir Orator Pu6f, who chad two tones
r. his voice" is fairly rivalled in this acco
en- plishment by the Catholico- Protests
no Church of England in our day, as the go
al people of Devices have had occasion
ue learn within the last twenty Ave yea
IN Daring that time they had an extrc
ck high Church rector, next an extremely /
dir one, then another of the high order, q
zee now they have a very low churchm
on They have been taught" says local jo
alta ual, "to revere the ritual of tie Chur'
m and they have been taught to think little
ar it. They have been taught the doctrine
~ ord fhau haCa hpan 4