The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-05-23
s.ro,ns Sra5 Ano Catholic Messenger,
snw eRLEANs. SUNDAY, MAY n 1878.
EDITORIAL AND OTHER ITEMssee

bat q very bad thing for them to grow up
1heep.
A physician advised a patient to take
Nrslk on an empty stomach Whose
stomach ~ feebly asked the patient.
The collection of Peter Pence for this year in
ahearchdiocese of Cambria, France, has already
reached the extraordinary sum of two hundred
thousand francs.
Atlanta is stll moving forward. During the
Iaat thirty days over 100000 worth of i'm
pcovements have either been completed or
placed in the hands of contractors. This is an
excellent showing.
The French Ministry has had q conference
With leading journalists, with q view to revis-
ion Of the laws regarding the press. All the
Ssarnalists urge the repeal of special laws. and
the punishment of press offences like others
by the common law of the country.
In 1900, Oxford University had 10000 stu
dents; Paris University, 10000; Bologna
University, 900. In 1864 there were Is, 900
graduates alone at Oxford. And those were
tho "<iark ages. long, long centuries before
tho Gun of Protestantism had dawned upon the
world
party of 200 agricultural laborers from the
Ancolnshire districts, England, under the
leadership OF Mr. Banks, have sailed for
Canada: Much alarm is said to be felt by the
farmers at this Wholesale exodus, there being
oow in many parts o positive scarcity of
laborers.
The first list Of subscriptions towards the
Butt testimonial, was published in Ireland
&hree weeks ago. 1t foots up GI10O. Four
Bishops had 80 far subscribed-the Archbishop
Of Tam and the Bishops of Cioyne, Ross and
limerick, each of whom wrote very strongly
an eulogy of Mr.. Butts public services.
How sweet 10 o perfect understanding be-
s6Veeu man and wife. He was to smoke cigars
when he wanted them, but he was te give her
ten cents every time he INDUCED in one. He
kept his word, and every time she got fifty
cents ahead he'd borrow it and buy cigars.
And SO they were hsppy.-Mner's Journal.
In q recent speech, the Hon. B. II. Hill, who
was recently elected to Congress from one of
tho Georgia districts, said that if the North
az would covenant that the Union should be
constitutional, the South, he believed would
covenant that it should tp eternal" Lond
applause from the immense audience followed
Shis remark.
Tho official return of the number of foreign
horses imported into France during the last
three years is below that of 1870. During the
SRIhL quarter OF Jue present year o,OSu horses
were imported into France, and 5, GOA ex ported.
The returns show, moreover, that Germany
1,as bought more horses than France has pur-
chased German ones.
The ladies Of Warsaw, KY, to the number
III thirty-one, have collectively and severaNy
pledged each TO the other their words of honor
that, ave will not, during a period of one
yoar from the lst of May, 1875, purchase any
material for wearing apparel the cost of which
>edhGn exceed 25 cents per yard" Which is
something Warsaw never Jaw before.
"A curious bet has been made by we'll known
pedestrian and guide of Pau and Nice, who
ESas wagered that within q certain time he
- will capture q living eizard in the Pyrenees
viii bring it to Paris, conduct it through the
Champs Eysees, and make it mount the Arc
do Triomphe without touching it with q
switch. The eiZard is the widest aud most
Unapproachable animal found in the Pyrepees.
ut jumps from peak to peak at the greatest
tfeights, and is rarely shot even at the longest
range.
Tho city of San Francisco is moving in the
matter of water supply, and various PROPOSE
tons are made to meet the demand for more
NNoater- The present supply is about ten million
gallons per day. Five different companies
have each offered to erect works which will
give the city about sixty million gallons daily
nc 6 coat of about $40, 900, 900. If only one of
the Eve were offered the emergency would
rIuObtless DO met, but now the difficulty seems
TO be to decide upon which proposition to
Incoept.
n. de Ia Bastle having made glass elastic
: aud malleable by plunging 1t when heated in
TO an oil bath, two Silesian experme n teTs have
earned their ingenuity to the opposite extreme
aud have recently discovered method of
making glass so hard and unyielding that it
ean neither be bent nor broken, and may be
plunged, red-hot, into cold water without in
Jury. IRdectructiblc lamp-chimneys and win
dow panes that defy snow-balls are among
tho least of the advantages expected from this
invention.
Our neighboriug State, Mississippi, is be-
coming alive to the value Of immigration and
every now and then We hear of meetings held,
com mi ktaaa nvnointad apd