The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-07-30
GEEERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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The Chinese navy consists of forty-6ve ship
Of wsE, divided into three squadronss and th
army Is composed OF !, soc. 900 men.
Warsaw in September, ct which the questio
Of adopting the Gregorian' calendar In kussi
will be discussed.
A pane Of glass with movable silk .soreel
has been inserted In the roof of the swell Pari
| cab, to enable the passenger TO read the pape
without leaning uncomfortably FORWARD u
catch the light.
The largest negative ever produced by means
OF photography was recently exniosted IN sat
two feet wide, and the perfected apparatus cost
I the inventor over 9l2, 600.
In 1875 the United States had in operation
"a $50 miles of railroad, costing o. $50 20e, $50
ported that year over 200, 600 900 toms, and pas
seugers numbering more than i've times the
population Of the country.
Providence has vacation schools for the
children who are unable TO leave the city. The
discipline of these schools being somewhat less
strict than ct others, and the methods Of teach
ing being more entertaining, they have become
popular with the children.
An apparatus for reviving persons nearly
patient 10 put in an alright vessel, with his
head protruding. pump then draws the air
in and out of the vessel, which tends to make
his breast heave and his lungs move, as in
breathing.
Mr. Frederick Cavill, a teacher Of swimming q,
attempted on the 9Th to swim from London
Bridge to Gravesend distance of twenty five
miles, but owing to the sluggish neap ebb tide
no was unable to get beyond Greenhithe; which
This distance he SWAN in i've hours fifty
minutes and ten seconds.
A report made to the Silk Merchants Union
of Lyons states the silk crop of Europe In 1874
to have been, in round numbers, 9. $50 900
nOnndR. The ailE immortal into EQrOnA
amounted to II 500. 900 pounds, most of it
5000 900 ponnds) coming from China. The
greater part (6 900 900 pounds) of the domestic
silk was produced in Italy.
recalls the event. Amass of thick ice filed the
point of Lake Erie from which the Niagara
river starts, damming the water efectually for
river above, leaving only q deep creek to run
over the American side, and the British chan
mel reduced to less than half it's ordinary size.
Daring the month ending June 30th, 1876.
there landed in New York 1887 immigrants
from Ireland, and 2 566 from Germany. The
total number of immigrants, from all countries,
for the month, was 10 $50. During the oorres-
ponding month of 1875, the number of immi-
grants was Sea- decrease of about seventy
FIVE per cent.
The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com
psny is doing the handsome thing by it's en-
ployes in the way of a Centennial holiday. 1t
gives every man in it's employ, whether on rail
IO6us III coal m1Q6b, OF Wn8G nOG, tSuu us family
q free ride to Philadelphia, pays their admission
to the Exhibition, furnishes them dinner and
returns them home, all without q cents outlay
to the employee, and his pay continuing at the
same time.
In France out of a population of sc, 600 ,OOO
only 5000 600 people live on the revenue of &C.
cumulated wealth, while "a DOC, 900 of the en-
tire population live on the produce of labor. OF
these, 10000 600 are exclusively engaged in
agriculture. The banking interest, commerce
aud trade occupy 400, 600 persons, or, including
their families q total of S, 1888 900 inhabitants.
The various professions, including the mem bers
of their families, comprise $4,000 inhabit-
ants. The population earning living from a
variety of industrial branches numbers S,000,-
900.
The Texas cattle trade has reached huge
proportions, the number of cattle driven from
the south western portion of that State during
the spring and summer of the present year, mp
to July 9, being 3l1 800, according to statistics
given in the Kansas City Price Current or this
number 50 33S have been held in northern
Texas, while the remainder have been driven
north. Besides those included in the above
estimates, several thousand bead of cattle that
were win5ered in northern Texas have joined
the others on their way to market in the North
and East.
The editor of the Wheeling Register, who is
sojourning at the Virginia White sulphur,
writes: General Joe johnson is about seventy
years of age, bat as erect and straight as an
Indian: with a fine military bearing. He looks
every inch the soldier. He has eye like i
hawk He has a suavity of manner that Is
agreeable, and is usually very communicative
fond of anecdotes and relating "reminiscences OF
his past life. His superior military gerius is
go boldly pictured on the exterior of the Glan
that the nat is involuntarly raised, H.d The
military salute given in Posing him, aud his
fighting qualities are SO apparent that Bill Arp
In one If mis- humorous letters, said that during
the war his game chicken invariably croTec
when joe johnson passed his tent"
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