The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-08-13
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
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property amounting to $500, OtO, an income Of
$40 900, and accommodations for two hundred
students, has but forty-fv of the latter
According to q correspondent of the Chicago
Times, Sitting Bull is a fair French scholar. He
is thoroughly well read in French history, and
is profound admirer of Napoleon, after whose
generalship he has modelled his own.
The lockwood used by engravers is brought
from the region of the Black and Caspian seas
and is said to grow in perfection nowhere else.
A cubic foot OF it weighs seventy five pounds,
and the prices range from SIS to $3.50 ton. =.
An artificial chicken hatcher is exhibited in
Cincinnati 1t consists of large glass box,
holding 400 eggs, on wire trays. The tempera-
ture Is regulated so accurately that it never
varies half degree from one hundred The
machine WORKS we'll.
The greatest Centennial feat is the march of
the Cincinnati Light Guards from that city to
Philadelphia. They marched about thirty
miles day, halted for days rest from time to
time, and occupied two months in making the
trip. The company was we'll received in Penn
sylvania, but complain of ineospitality in Ohio.
The company will return by sail.
Mr. Alfred Webb, well known Dublin pub
Usher and Home Ruler, is preparing q Com
pendulum of Irish Biography" intended to CON-
prize l 600 lives. The work Containing notices
only OF deceased persons) comprises distin-
gu1Shed irlshmeu and Irishwomen, persons who
have taken leading part in Irish affairs, so
Tar as their lives relate to Ireland, and writer's
1pon Ireland.
the world is in Prizibrsm, Bohemia, and
measures $3.50 feet. 1t is in lead mine and is
supposed to have been begun about $50 years
ago. In other places greater depths have
rock salt bore near Berline is 175 feet Deep
and q coal mine in Belgium 542. The deepest
hole ever bored Is an artesan we'll, of S 500
feet, ct Potsdan, Mo.
Mrs. Robb, of Corpus Christi, is fairly en- titled
10 her name of the Cattle Queen of Texas"
She owns $4,000 acres of land, inolosed by
twenty-three miles of fence, which Is 600
Seeves per annum are fattened for market,
Her husband, who died some years since re-
fused offer CT S1l0. 600 for one brand of his
stock, which has been largely Increased since.
Mr. Wellers advice concerning widows is not
likely to be regarded anywhere in that section
OF Texas, at least.
a French physician makes the remarkable
statement that one-half at least of the so-called
drowned persons are buried alive, and that
they may be brought to life by proper treat
mept after having been several hours under
water" His remedy is to get out the water,
pour in and inject alcoholic stimulants, and
cases. His statement has been partially con.
armed by the resuscitation of q man after he
had been under water in one of the Seine baths
for more than twenty minutes.
Oatmeal in water, in the proportion of a
quarter of a pound of oatmeal to three quartz
of water, is recommended as q refreshing drink
The meal should be we'll boiled, the mixture
cooled, and water added to keep ND the propor
quenoh the thirst, but to keep up strength
without ice, when ice cannot be had, it is still
pAlatable if entirely COOL 1t is said that it i,
used in many iron foundIies and manu- aotorie.
IN England. The meal should be we'll shaker
through the water before drinking.
At the Paris Conservatory of Music is {
young man with almost phenomenal teuo
voice. He can sing the highest notes will
marvellous ease, and his compass is extraordi
nary. He might become the most famous SINCE
IN the world, doubtless, were it not for tn
singular fact that he has " no ear for music.
Assiduous study only enables him to maste
very simple tunes, and intricate pieces ar
utterly beyond his comprehension. He used {
DO q cook, and his wonderful voice induced
teacher of opera to take him in hand, but tn
result is failure.
The Rev. DR.. Leech, of Baltimore, makes thi
picture of public morality: Policemen ro
She stores they are appointed to guard brf
Eands arrest railroad trains and plumber safe
and passengers, tramps despoil mansions an
cottages, burglars nightly invade stores an
bank vaults; cashiers, who have long mad
false entries relative to stolen funds, daily Il
10 parts unknown Government officials, frol
Cabinet OAicers to messengers, are found guilt
Of embezzlemeut and population, and the mori
atmosphere is poisonous with financial co
Tuption." The remedy for these evils, in IL
preachers opinion, is the genuine conversion
everybody to Christianity.
The eject of the great depression in IL
mines of Cornwall, England, has been to redu,
not only the working miners, but the sma
anon Eeepers in the mining distriotR. 20 III