The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1876-09-10
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

nee of the United States troops there; the
ad about So 600 a month to the circulating
3edium.
A factory for the manufacture of sugar an,
kyrnp fran wateru'eloDs has been established
bn Andres Island, California in the San Joa
fuin river.
Nothing pleases fly 80 much to be mis-
AIKEN for buckleberTy, and if he can be bakeC
q cake and pass himself off on the unwar,
ss currant he dies without regret.
The champion whittier is son of toll ir
Michigan. With his jack knife he has whit
Ned, Whitfield, whitfield for three months, and
BOW he has chain six feet long fashioned
rom a pine stick.
Probably the rarest and most costly modern
mantelpiece ever brought to this country, is
4 shat which Harrison Gray Otis is having put
stands over six feet is deliberately carved with
massive figures, and is known to be 450 years
old.
Work on the tunnel across the British Chan.
mel is to begin on the 1st of June, 1877. The
tunnelling machinery to be used can bore q
drift nine feet in diameter across the Channel
h years more and an additional outlay of $780,
100000 will complete the tunnel.
Thomas Brown, a one-armed switch tender
on some railway in New Hampshire, is
tented man. When be was informed short
time ago be administrators, that his brother,
a who lived in Massachusetts, had died, and
among his various bequests had left him leg
acy, he replied to the official letter: ~ don't
,
When Mrs. Patience Remington, of North
SMITH cid, Conn celebrated her ninety-tifth
tirthday recently, her three sous-trplets-
Fly nine years old, were present. When they
ere born their father was offered 500 to name
Hem Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but his patri.
sm was greater than his avsrice, and he
med them Washington, Jefferson and Mon
Christine Nilsson is having great success in
geden, and special trains are run from every
eerter to the towns where she is to appear.
Stockholm it was impossible to find con.
eFks room large enough, and the cathedral was
psned for her to sing in. She gave the "Ave
E4aEia" of Gounod and the "Cruciixion of
AHre, the air of Traviats," and a number of
s1edish songs.
When the first short railway in China was
Rened at Shanghai in June last, immense
pwds gathered to witness the wonderful
ectscle. The peasants suspended work all
png the line to Woosupg, but did not evince
agn of the promised hostility. This is essen
lly model line to show the natives what
lways are AID can do. The gauge is two
s six inches, and only four and q half miles
% opened.
In net OF Parliament has just been printed
and 40 Vic, C. 41) to remove restrictions
the granting of qualifications for registra-
under the Medical act on the ground of
1t enacts that "tbe powers of every body |
tied under the Medical act TO grant quail |
siops for registration shall extend to the
biting of every qualification for gistTatiOLs |
nted by such hody to all persons, without
te&lnction of sex"
we Adjotant-G zen erHl of the Army has stated
ssS sS a com munlcation to the Secretary of War
4sas ouilng the last five fiscal years ending
June 81, 1879, there were over 80 600 Gssert;ons
from the United States army. During the fiscal
ear 1875 there were over $500 cases of deser-
en, or ten per cent of the entire force Cen
Hnsend says that, the army being small and
ekered, there is little bar to desertion, except
sentiment against it and the fact that a
arter may at any time be arrested.
ks the recent distribution of the PRICES by
mi iya nj vi f1o |
she chief colleges in the country compete
common, the eight chief prizes were carried
BY lad named Reinsch, Psrisiau bankers
and aged about fifteen. This extraordinary
mt has not occurred for over two centuries
beat competitors three years his SENIOR
he looks as innocent as he is unassuming
almost tainted with emotion when the
etators and students rose up en- mssse to
aud the young genius He has q brother
lortionately clever.
party of ten English medical men were
ng not long ago, when one of them inquired
present were limited in their practice to
Election of six phsrmRcopDial remedies, {
Oh would be chosen as being the most use.
compound drugs to be excepted. Each of I
party wrote the names of the six drugs he !
Rld select and handed them to the doctor
asked the question. On examining the
ots 1t was found that majority of the =
were given in favor of opium, quinine
IRON between mercury and iodide of DO | I
I'm they were equally divided, as they Z
also between ammonia and chloroform. c
ne oetences Of London on the Thames are 6
approaching completion. Heavy guns are f
continually shipped from Wool wioh t
snal, and Iilbury and other forts are armed L
so6 66wenty;h ton guns, throwing projectiles
~ pounds. Shornmeade Fort and Coal n
Se folnt' opposite, render the river impreg- =
1e n ntongh their cross-fre; but even lower = :
an enemys heet would first have to run U
Oh Grain, and shoeburyness Most of all, &
ever, ever, the Government relies for the safety t.
Seon q, on the new torpedo system, which ii
= enormous expense. e''0 oo0'o0S anu "V
,1otnIt are pleasing signs that Protestant Il
psoSiy sSosi3 is on the decline in Norway On the 81
hnrrI h,In t OF the solemn CONSERVATION of the n
OF 81. Paul, in the city of Bergen, "the =:
sSItestants themselves" says les Missions IL
So.oISuSs, rivaled the Catholics in their zeal a
SiN. I've the festival the character of national Il
cLnS. They crowded to the nntionai d
4AOn' and in the evening they illuminated b