The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1876-12-17
GRNRRAE NEWS ITEMS.


gSAza slREgSzztf saAScco across the border into
RsAaEeA &9 zDs4Azs Of trained dogs, who are in.
sselsgs1a and sWIff featSd, and know precisely
the sAxe ~eSiss and ~here 10 take the tobacco
tAAa 10 Isce ASsDt them,
In sae Department Of Biscay, France, every
EAS9srrer mast Plaos twO saplings for every
&RSe.e treA he enta down In Java the birth
Of svery esild IL celebrated by planting fruit
tree. wsice 10 - carefully tended a. the record
Of ihe age OF the child whose birth it registers.
Oriental Justice and oriental rapacity sre
eEr.ousy illustrated in the case of the late
cetoEenarian Governor of the Persian provinces
OF FArs. - DO upon retiring from office had his
soles beaten TIL he disRorged 100000, and
promised 10 return Sie0 900 moro Of bis ILL
gotten wealth.
IN Paris there contractors who pay the
city $40 900 per annum for the privilege of
| keeping the streets clean. Tho work is done
under the supervision of the municipal an
| thorities. and the contractors are reiu buFsed
| by the sale of the mud aod dust, which, when
man msnutactured into fertilizers, is said To yield
$500. 600 annually.
We see it stated that q drove of 2 300 hogs
has been taken from Llsuo and Mason to Jack
| son county in Texas to be fatteped for slaugh-
| teriDg, as corn can be there had for Is cents
per boshel this looks coed deal like ri ivsling
the West, as with corn at she above rate and
the warmer weather in favor of Texas, the
hogs will cost less per cwt than if raised in
Ohio or Illinois.
Walnut trees sometimes attain prodigious
size and great age. An italian architect men,
tions having seen at St Nicholas. in Lorraine.
single plank of the wood Of the walnut
twenty-five feet wide, upon which the Emperor
Frederick III. bad given o sumptuous banquet.
In the Baidar Valley, near Belaklava, in the
CrimeA, stands . walnut tree st least 200
years old. It yields annually from 10000 to
100 900 nuts, and belongs to five Tartar families,
who share its produce equally.
From the Toioe Of Maria Laach, An Official
organ of the Society of Jesus, We learn that
that Order has scsttered all over the world aud
n r.
Statisques, the Freemssons have 796 ,250 mem
bers-2l0 s9l in Europe and 5S5 269 in America.
The proportion of Jesuits to Freemasons 10
then as 1 to S. but, Notwithstanding their i'm
mense numerical superiority, the Freelnasons
fear the Jesuits. The latter are clothed with
the srmor of truth, while over the former is
thrown but the thin web of falsehood.
A canon of the Protestant Episcopal Church
forblds the ordination TO the ministry of any
person who 10 defective in his senses or griev- |
ousiy manned. Notwithstanding this, Eishop
Stevens of Pennsylvanis ordained Mr. Syle,
who is both deaf and dumb. number of
clergymen and others are making O
stir about it; but Bishop Stevens maint&ins
that he was altogether right. Mr.. Styles mis-
sion, he says, is TO the deaf and dumb people, |
who cannot understand ministers who speak in
the ordinary way; and there is particular
ftness in Mr.. Styles ministry TO these unfortu-
nate persons.
Ostrich farming is carried on with the
greatest success at the Cape of Good Hope.
Choice birds worth $3.50 each. They
feed grass like cattle, and require very
little care. Usually they are toleraoly docile, |
but at the breeding season they become jrHiCR- |
BILE, and will often attack person who ven |
tures too near them. Each bird yields from |
$50 to 5000 worth of feathers per year. Those |
from the female are gray, and thoee from bhe |
male black. except q single white plume which
grows under each wing, and which 10 the most |
valuable of all
Taking that great belt of States which e1- |
tends from the Connecticut river to the Missis- |
aippi, namely, the States of Couuecsicnt, New |
York. New jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
and Illinois, we have tWo.fifLhs of the popufN- |
tion and three-fourtbs of the wealth and power |
of the Union. No other body of States surpass !
these in Intelligence, in resources, or in patriot
ism. These States cast 1877 out of the $50 cleo /
toral votes of the whole Union. A fact to be /
remembered il that IN he election of Hovem ber |
last Samuel j. TIlden receive ed majority of the |
aggreGats, popular vote cast in These seven !
great States.
Las: year a farmer named Bennett cAassd to |
be erected in the parish church OF SAbrahRm,
Cambridgeshire, England, tombstone in
memory of his wife, bearing the inscription
" In memory of Catherine, the beloved wife of !
Thomas Bennett, who died on the 22d day of !
April, 1915 aged 62, from long mental anxiety !
cArsed by An unlawfaly prolonged game case
in the parish against her beloved husband.
Friends of the oppressed, mourn for Quo that's
gone. Murderers, cast thine asxaDse oye. and
pass thy footsteps on. Oppressed Test IN peace"
Much litigation folio wed, aud the chancellor,
commenting upon the assertion of Mr.. Bennett
conduct of the late Mr. Adeaus, squire of the
place, and his represen tatives, said that such
charge had not the sligntest foundation.
The Chancellor ordered tue removal of the
tombstone, but not until the expiration of four
teen days, in the hope that Mr.. Bsnuer5 would
himselE remove it. Mr.. Francis, on behalf of
the Vicar, said that If Mr.. Bennett complied |
with the order he would be relieved OF costs.
Don sldson, the aeronaut, who lost his life in |
an ascension, predicted that il travelling in |
ballouus ever became common IL would not he |
by lofty flights, bot close to the ground. He |
sad that by Carefully RauRIng the amount of
gas 10 the bag, and using u pole to assist in
rlsIng over obstacles, "a psan might certainly
travel fast and safely in The direction of The
wind; sud he thuughJ hst some systeTn of
steering aud tacErng might be devised that
wond make movements possible without
reference to the wind. The Secretary of the
British AerouauticEl Society seenas TO have .
| similar idea, for he says: " 1t is singular that
no one has taken advantage of an REceTtaIned
fact 10 put tbe balloon TO more pleSsufa5le, be-
| cause more UTOIUn god, than has hitherto