The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-10-08
gaEnlng Star and CathoiIo Messenger.
sXw IxLEAys. SUNDAY, OCTOBER Iy7e.
GENERAL NE VS. ITEMS

Spiteful Chicago says that ST. Louis man
ran six miles after his nose, thinking he was
going TO hre.
According to the London Times, the House OF
Commons probably never had fewer young men
of great capacity that at present.
From 1850 10 1850 the Southern peopIe paid
Pittsburg manufacturers for iron and steel
work over s. 600 eco. From 1863 to 1875 the
Southern people palG PIttsbnrg less than $500.
600. What is the causef
TIE slave trade in the South Sea Islands
ought to be lucrative for it certainly is peril
GUS branch of commerce.. The crews of two
English vessels engaged in it were recently
slain and eaten Ivy their cargoos.
post-mortem examination of the body of a
Germ an who died recently at Paipted, N. f.,
revealed the fact that the principal internal
organs were in a reversed position, the Heart on
the right and the liver on the left
Herr Krupp calculates that his latest gun
will penetrate the 24-inch arnor of the En- plish
ironciad InAerible at a distance of 600 metres
or will go Though IA inch armor five or six
miles off, and throw "a prcjectiie weighing $50
kiiogrammes completely over London.
The field of Marathon belougs TO q practical
gentleman named SoufZos, who has drained it
and cultivated corn and grapes thereon. 1t
produces an abundant crop, differing therein
from Banker Hill, which classic ground" Mr.
Artemus Ward WAS Informed, was good
enough for beans and not worth q cuss for
whoat."
Emile de Girardin says th at each year has its
H,
lions of Christians no. under Turkish rule. He
urges several plans regarding the countries
which they inhabt, one being that they should
form confederation under the title of the
United States of the Danube, and that each
State should assume ills proportion of the pre-
sent Tur hish debt.
The English Home Secretary has commuted
the sentence passed by the Ho ncastle magis-
beth Richardson. She had been sent TO Jail for
three weeks for being found in garaen at
midnight with her apron full Of new-mown
hay. This desperate criminal was seventy six
years old and Of feeble mind well as BODY,
and having rheumatic leg, thought she could
cure it by obtaining some hay for a baudage.
at Damariscotta, Me, in area Of a hun
dred square roes are piled the shells of one
hundred millions of oysters. Prof. Cunning
thinks that the multitude of eaters may not |
have been very great, and that he heapste tell of
time rather than mum ber as no oyster has lived |
in the rivers near within the memory of man |
Instruments of bone, stone and copper are the |
only human relics found among he shells, and I
their positions show that no great geological |
event has occurred sic CO the heaps formed |
Mourning Reform Association has been |
formed in London and is rapidly gaining in |
numbers and popularity, under a special i'm |
petus given by the clergy. The members are
asked to subscribe to declaration that the
present mode of sepulture is unsa tisfactory,
and that dt able ccffins and brick graves should !
be discouraged IS far as posi- Bile. They are
also asked to put II practice, or at least recon-
mend, the dispensing with scarfs, hat bands
coaches pals aud OF uer oete en- tatious
sdjuncts of funerals.
Mr.. Ralph Scott intends to start on his serial
voyage from Dover to Calais and back on Oct. |
9th, and e1p poets to accomplish the feat in sixty
minutes. He describes his machine a strong
built light frame, in viii Oh peculiar mech ami
cal arrangement is placed, and acted pom by
spring. This spring is compressed by u screw
and wheel something like the brake of o rail
road car, and when 1t ID desired TO set the ma
chine in motion one end of the spring is al
lowed to press against the forepart of the Frame
while the other part presses the mechanical ar
rangement.
King Grero of Dahomey is spoken of as a tall
fine looking man, with regular features and
much lighter than that of a ma
jority of his negro subjects. His aspect is
agreeable, and his manner TO foreigners cour-
tecus, but under this mask be hides he cruelty
Of tiger. None of bis subjects can address
him except through the medium of a Minister
under pain OF losing bic head, and none of his
1ourtieta are give hIm an pleasant nforuatjou
La conse qnence he rarely bears bad news. His
pest troops are wouen, Th"y subjected |
rom cLIlGhoud TO violent exercises, prd rarely
cave tue precincts OF the palace They arc
to perpetual celebAcy, and any man
1t EeI, Is punished with death. In walking TIE l
tre.ts they sound little he'll attached 10 | {
heir necks, aud on hearing this The men rush ! {
sway or prCBir&te themselves With their facea :
o the ground, through foAr of uoing thong.iJ {
o smile at ore Of them l., ks toe rest of tho +
rmy, they wear q tunlC, VII loose trousers
nd helmet. TIE Ctficero carry whirs with .
NAlcn 10 administer casu gatIun. /