The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-12-12
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

Al the close Of the Revolutionary war Wash
ington weighed 2o9 pounds.
M. Guizots prize of 0 BOO0f. for the best work
on French literature was awarded NJ tne
Academ;e FRANC sise to Leon Gautier.
A talking match between two old maids for
s75 n aide. came off in Boston last week. The
winner ran up to 1e3 words per minute.
Arrangements are being made by which over
Bftv thousand members of the various Hiber-
piap societies will parade at the Centennial.
The total vote on the new Constitution of
Missouri, which went into force on Tuesday,
was 1o4, ,oe2 and tie majority for the instru-
ment, &c 23S.
The San Francisco papers are jnbilant over
the near completion of the first ship ever built
.t that mort. The vessel will be 1000 tons
measurement, and constructed wholly of fir.
The Khedive of Egypt was educated in Paris,
speaks French to perfection, is capital taiker
on anv kind of subject, and takes an especially
keen interest in England and anything Eng
lisb.
Ont of L $50 600 women in Great Britain earn
inc their own bread, there are 100000 in busi-
meas for themselves. Women are not satisfied
to he sbop-girls, but aim at keeping their own
shops.
The scout of Colonel Shafter on the Staked
Plains of Texas has established the fact that
large portion of that supposed desert is covered
With fine grass and every way fitted for stos&
raising.
Mr.. Gould, of Cumberland, R. l., having the
Church funds in his possession, kept loaded
sAot-cun by his bedside for their defense, but
an enterprising burglar entered and stole the
money and the gun.
A woman of Lansing, Ia, has been sent to
Jail, in default of payment of a fine OF sso and
costs, on o charge of malicious mischief. Her
peculiar vanity consists in enveloping herself
in q sheet aud playing ghost.
Those who are interested in the promotion of
yirtue by enactment will be pleased to learn
the anti-usury laws in New York are moro
stringent than they are in any other State in
the Union, and that there is more usurio1s in
terest extorted under them.
The largest Touring mill in America is owned
bv Hon. C. C. Washburne, of Minneapolis,
Mnn. 1t is seven stories high, and crowded
with machinery from top to bottom. Its cost
was $500 coo. 1t has forty run of burrs, and
turns ont 1000 barrels of -four per day.
Professor Andreas Muller, of Munich, has
rsceptly finished two large frescoes in the
church of Weissenhorn, in Wurtemburg. Th'
aubieots represented are the "Cruci6x x ion" ant
"Ths raising of Lazarus" The painter is still
engaged on two other important frescoes TO
the same church.
By the order of the BurGomaster, the polio
and gendarmes at Liege have prevented th
Bishop from leaving the Cathedral with pro
cessioD, such q course being considered iilega
The Bishop, in the name of his Aock, solemn
protested against these proceedings on th
part of the authorities.
M. de Berski has patented what he cal
"cork leather" thin sheets of cork covered o
both sides with thin linen, 80 prepared thf
when bent double it neither cracks or break
Its best use, the material being cheap, Ugh
Oupple and waterproof, is for military scco
tremep:s and tent-cloths
movement has been initiated to raise Il
fnuds necessary to send an Australian team
eompete in the American Centennial ri
matches Should the movement succeed t
hest shots in the colonies will come, and fro
the character of the scoring of the late annu
matches they ought to run any other rep
ssutatives very close.
The VOlksseifung Of Berlin states that Genel
de- Yoigts-Rhetz is regarded as the successor
n. de Kamecke as Minister of War. The sal
iournal rtjoices that the military expenditt
will not be curtailed, seeing that the gallf
Geperal had always vigorously supported
demands for an increase of the budget in Il
dsnartmeut. He believes in soldiers.
marshal de MacMahon," says the Deb
"is said to have expressed the desire to
returned to the Senate by the National Asst
blt some twenty persorages not belonging 6
the present, and who have, however, in ma
ways rendered services to their count
Among them are especially mentioned Mars
CanroNert and the Cardinal Archbishop
Paris.
A lew narrow guage railroad has been l
iected which is to extend to Pulaski, sever
Ave miles south of Nashville, in Tennessee
Memphis, and the people along the propo
line are subscribing 80 literally for the W
that no doubt is entertained in regard
raising the money for the undertaking.
distan GO between the two points named is
hundred aud ninety miles, and the estimf