The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-06-13

done, the irrepressible idiot has 1t IN contem
plstion to trail the Stsr-SpaDgled Banner
from Calais all the way around Europe nne
survives this effort we hope We shall next
have him starting off from the Ural Noun
tains to carry the Russian flag through
ChIpa to Canton, and 80 have rest from Bates
and his banners forevermore.
Some of the x-Confederates belonging
to Mahone's Brigade, who had a reunion in
wished to Visit :she crater, M ;" where some Of
their bravest and most perilous ghting was
done. The result 10 thus described by the
Norfolk Vjrginian. "When nearing the fa-
NOUS hole, the party was halted by q man
who claims to own the place. who threat
ened to sblow out the brains of the frst
man who trespassed upon his premises.
He was talking to men who bad been shot
st aud shot before, and who did not relish
such talk. The consequences, to MIN,
might have been more serious, mad not q
gentleman of the party, one of our towns
men, asked how much was to be paid for
swered, twenty five cents for each person.
which was promptly paid, and the party
proceeded without further molestatiop."
This thrifty individual is a Virginian,
q native of Prince George county.
Possibly the reader may need to be in
formed that Paris is now and ever since the
war of the Commune has been in ga state
has not been yot trusted with the control OF
her own affairs for fear she should muddIe
the affairs of France. One Of the most
amazing results this abnormal condition
was the prompt and mysterious "squelch-
ing" the other day of lecture on the bal
Flammarion delivered one shch lecture
with immense success. He advertised a
second, prepared it, sold the tickets and
was On his way to the hall when he was
informed that ''the General commanding
in Paris had ordered the hall to be closed"
Fiammarion was left literally t'in the air."
without the ghost of au idea why or
wherefore!
A tender heart was that of Mary L. Shaw
who recently died in Boston. and be-
queathed in her will the sum of $500 to the
city for the purchase of flowers for the pa
tients of the City Hospital The sum has been
invested 10 six per cent bonds and the in
terest will be expended in accordance with
the will. How easy it is to make pleas
ant memory for ones self. just take the
| next hundred ears, and think of the many
poor faces in the hospital that will light up
with pleasure and gratitude when the
table of the sufferer. Many tear will fall
at sight of the thoughtful gift, and many
a prayer will be silently spoken for the
kind soul of Mary L. Shaw.
Mr.. Gladstone's attack upon the Catholic
Church has brought about the detection to
Rome of another English clergyman of rank ,
no LEES a parsonage than the Reverend Lord
Elm, near Erome, in Wiltshire; a son of
the Duke of Leeds, and a nephew of the
Reverend Lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne,
once SO well known as s. G. o." of the
London Times. This new accession has set
the English papers to computing the
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racy. Among the peers English, Scotch
aud Irish it has thirty four representatives,
There are also forty six Catholic baronets
aud fifty two Catholic members of PaTlia-
meut.
The Paris Salon, or Annual Exhibition
of Paintings, opened for 1875 on the first
day Of May, with 2.Ol9 paintings, sos
drawings az uarelles, miniatures, porcelain 8
aud the like $40 pieces of sculpture, los
architectural designs, 230 specimens of en-
craving, 81 Of li.hography, aud 46 medals
aud intagiios. Yet even these figures do
not fully represent the last years activity
of Paris in the fiue arts, for on the 9Th of
May the Salon des Refuses, or Exhibition
of the Great Rejected, opened in the enor-
nous building of the Magasins Rsunis on
the Place du Chateau dEau, with nearly
two thousand pictures, occupying eight
large saloons Oh the first foor of the edifice.
The deepest mining shaft in the world is
said to be that of the colliery of St. Giliy
Chatilineau, three miles from Charleroi,
Belgium, which is $50 metres in depth
l94o yards). The deepest coal pit in
Eug! land is that of the Rosebridge coliery
| in the Wigan district, being S75 yards deep
and l6 feet in diameter. The deepest mine
10 Cornwall is Golcuath, which is 36O fa-
thoms-72O yards. In the Harrz 10 oountains
there are several shafts more than 500
yards in depth.
| E.hr,ar, oI>o,s n1n
makers start from Belgium aud take up
their quarters in suburb of Paris and form
little colony there. Most are married,
but all leave their wives and children at
home and live en- garcon during their stay
at Paris. An experienced man can make
at least eight francs day, and therefore,
by exercising little economy. they can
easily save thirty francs a week, or about
5HOf. during their four months stay.
In the far East, We find that the Celestial
Empire is to be again Invaded by the explorer.
Col. Horace Browne is to explore the Drovincs