The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1876-03-19
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

names are given to the flesh they yield.
At meeting of American patriots (f) lately
held in Brooklyn, q resolution was unsnimoosiy
adopted, that Catholics ought to leave THIS
country, for the country's good.
The cause-A philosopher asserts that the
reason why ladies' teeth decay sooner than
pentlemen;s is because of the friction of the
tongue and the sweetness OF the lips.
In the old record book of q Connecticut
church, dated 1902, is this item for makns
a noise in church, Ann Bolton, spinster Is TO
sit three days in the poor pew, aud pay nue.
of five shillings."
Tho American Minister to Vienna. Godlove
S. Orth, lately nominated by the Republicans
for Governor of Indiana, had enough conn
dence in his election to lead him to resign the
Austrian mission.
Chicago has o new way of heating her horse
care. A red hot 100 pound shot Is placed in q
box under the car, with registers to admit the
heat. Five of these will heat o railway car ior
four hours, the inventor says.
A bill before the California Legislature
would, If passed, prohibit the sale OF intoxi-
eating liquors within four miles of the State
Universty and the San Francisco Chronicle
pedestIianism among students."
J. A. Bound, of Cedar Falls, has quilt
which he made himself, containing IL 22o pie
COS. We always tbonKhC it WAS foolish enough
for women to spend life time over u patch.
work quilt. but this man-oh, stuff him, stun
him, and send him to the Centennial.
A man, who said he was very poor, nearly
blind. and unable to work, aud whose appear
ance justified his words. was recently, in Lon
don, lined six cents and two sbiliiugs costs for
not sending his son to school. He was unable
to pay it, and was sent to Jail for five days.
The International Commission for the con-
struction of the Channel Tunnel between Epg'
land and France has terminated it's Iabors
after signing protocol attesting that the
scheme is asble and that an agreement has
been arrived at upon all the points to be con
sdered.
While James Buchanan was President he
was SO particular not to receive presents. that
when lady sent him q pair OF slippers he not
only returned them, but directed the messen ger
to wait aud get q receipt from the giver, so
that he might have in his possession proof that
they " eIe sent back.
Paul Haupt, of Denver served throughout
| the war without receiving wound, and when
| his reg giment was sent to Arizona, he, on one
| occasion, fought five Apaches single handed.
! killing three of the number. The ether day
| he was crushed to death between two blocks
| of ice in an ice house.
! 1t is among tue curiosties of the time, says
| a New York Contemporary that the Joliet Iron
| Works have b cen shipplug steel rails to Cana
| da and there nnderselipg British rails, where
| each party had to pay the same duties. Some
! OF the Troy and Plttshurg steel rail mills have
! been doing the same thing.
/ North Carolina negro thought he could
| outruu locomotive the other day on the Air
| Line road, aud when be picked himself up, af.
| ter being thrown twenty feet and landing on
his head, he said Yer don't ketch dis yer
| chile doin' dat agin. It's right smart wonder
l didu't tear desc britches clean of "
Rev. Father William Beecham. pastor of St,
Peters Catholic Church at Rome, Y,
for forty years, died Saturday, March 11th,
aged seventy years. He was one of the Oldest
cIergymen in tho diocese, and when first
stationed in Rome rode hundreds of miles on
| missions to southern, western and northern
counties.
Baron Won Washington is the name OF q
Bavarau officer now in the German army. The
family are of British Origin, though when OF
why they went into Bavaria, or whether they
belong to the English Washingtons of Brighton
in Northampton, whose coat-of-arms has been
reproduced on the flag of the United States, il
not known.
The proprietor of Meissoniers picture, called
Eighteen Hundred and Fourteen" is NJ. de Ia
tHaute, who paid S5 900 thousand francs for it,
pie5nre dealer recently offered 200,o 600 fol
the painting. but NJ. de la Haute replied tina
be would not sell it for Less than $50, ,OOt
francs, 0,O00 for himself and SO 600 francs fo
NJ. Meissonier.
Over one half of all the oafrmed drunk ard
" ho take refuge in the Inebriate Asylum q
Binghamtou, are permanently cured of thei
morbid appetite The Off cial statistics on th
suhiect, which have been published, cover
years, and very largo number of case:
This is encouraging news for the slaves c
! The color of a soldiers uniform is shown t
be not 80 much matter of taste as of vitt
Importance. Experience proves that men nl
hit in battle according to the color of the
G dress Red is the most fatal; the least fata
D Austrian gray. The proportions are: Re-
twelve; rifle green, seven brown six; An
titan BLUSH gray, five.
Lady Burdett-Coutts has not undertake
# one day too soon her crusade in behalf
d the small birds. In single sale ut Londo
:, in February, there were disposed of no fewt
u than IL 574 humrning birds, topac eoloYed, rut
e and emerald rs 900 parrots and II 600 kin
4 fishers, together with 10, 600 aigrettes made
birds feathers All these butchered to make
T. womAn'S holiday
e Two factions of Cinnamon have often fou q
in Virginia City, Nevada a recent encount
a resulting in the death of two and the woun
l. ing of the others. A formal agreement of pea
N has now been signed by Sam Sing and H,
/ Sing, the opposing leaders This was broug
Of about by Grand Jury, the foreman of whfc
"a in speech, told them that their shooting e
III dAngered other citizens, and that they won
be driven out of the city unless they bshavs
I'd themselves.
as Successful experiments have been recent
is made jim France with view of determini
~. whether lines could be sent ashore from
stranded vessel by the aid of pigeons. T
pigeon from the wrecked vessel, when set fl
NJ na 1lr pr;y, TO la, = Ill.