The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-05-28
agoralng Sea ano Catnollc messenger.
NRw oRLEA Ns, SUNDAY MAY %, 1915.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


Texas 10 improving her stock by heavy in
portations OF kentuoky shorthorns. Recent
shirty bull calves of pure blood and fashionabl
podigrees were shipped to Dallas.
Prince Napoleon 10 one of the most clog en
speakers of France. His profile, which
imoet m exact counterpart of that of tn
great Napoleon, also lends good deal of shin
90 his oratory.
5 Of the world in the proportion of railwa.
mileage to square miles of area. Belgium Il
She Afst, with . ratio Of to 6; Great Britain
comes next. with 9 ratio of to z; and Ger
to ID.
It 10 said that at Stratford children generally
believe that Shakespeare Is the writer ofeverJ
thing that ever was printed, down to the pla
cards on the walls while q few Of the more
intelligent doubt his being the author Of the
bills and the ne wspapers, but firmly hold that
he wrote the Bible from Genesis to Revelation
oaebecs rspatristion policy has proved very
and Hamberton, where free lands and grants
8 Of money have been made to Canadisns return
ing from the United states, have within the
year increased their population from 500 to 5000
souls, and o new settlement 10 about to be
started this spring 1T Temiscouats.
The wandering street peddler is deluding the
credulous housewife with preparation for the
resilvering Of spoons 1t is salt OF mercury
which, when rubbed upon worn plate, imparts
TO IL q brief argent gloss, but it comes of in
the sonp or the pudding and salivates the
family. The peddier should be kicked and his
powder thrown after him into the street.
A boy, twelve years of age, has been lying in
Jail In Salt Lake City for year. Having re-
gently been brought into court, it was found
shat he had stolen two dollars to save himself
from starvation. Ga account of his having
been heavily chained, the court sentenced him
70 six months confinement in the hospital,
Mat he might secure needed medical treatment.
The negroes of Columbus. Ga, had a Lady
Washington tea party the other night The
Eakh Of ia wa in
falcons and q gray sack coat, and was booted
and spurred. Mrs. Washington wore a black
Domino and q white nighGoap. Mary Queen of
Scots appeared in q pull back muslin, and
King Henry of Navarro carried a blue cotton
umbrella.
The Mennonite settlement in Manitoba con-
Sains eight townships, in which are located 81
villages, each of dozen or more houses. There
are Ala Families OF abont $500 souls in all, $500
acres Of land are under cultivation, 5000 bushels
Of grain will be 80 wn this year and 5000 bushels
1900 head of cattle, besides horses, sheep,
swine, poultry, etc.
A miikman was lately seeking the aid of the
police to trace the whereabouts of family
who had left the neighborhood owing him
eighteen shiliDgs. "Wen. 1 suppose there
was nine shillinGs worth of water in th at milk
ACCOUNT" remarked the inspector: .. That's
replied the dealer. "They were new custom.
ere, and hadn't commenced to water the milk
yetP
a DOCK agent VINO mas retired from active
labor upon the hard-earned aceumulaiions of
life of industrious cheek, says that the great
secret OF his success was when he went to q
house where the female head of the family pre-
beg your pardon, miss, but it was your mother
wanted TO see." That always used to get'm
They not only subscribed for my books them
selves, but told me where could find more
customers.
: Artificial clouds of smoke are often used n |
FRANCO and Germany as o protection egeinst |
frost. One plan, which has been very success |
fhl, consists in carefully mixing gas tar with |
In lA.ge heaps in the vineyards. When re- |
quired for use, smaller heaps are distri bu ted |
about the vineyard, and these will burn freely |
in few hours, and produce very dense |
smoke. which decreases the radiation and pre- |
vents feost.
wager of novel description was made and |
decided recently at Marlborough, in Q reens-
land. The local paper states that an old and |
pocketbook, containing E10 note,
was thrown in the middle of the street, opposite
the Post Office Hotel. The bet was that 100 |
persons would pass by without picking it up.
One hundred and forty persons passed, out of
whom three-namely, an old man, nursemaid
and new chum "-kicked but did not stoop
TO handle it, 1t might have remained unno-
dog Clyde" picked it up and de-
hvered it at the bar of the Post Off 20 Hotel.
All praise to DR.. David Terrier, Assistant
ehyeician at Kings College Hospital, London.
A4O nus discovered Speclnc Tor cold in the |
head. Being himself much Subject to that
very unpleasant though not alarming disease,
he tried what bismuth would do for him He
took repeated Pinches of it as though it were
NUT inheliog 1t strongly, SO as to carry it we'll
lnto the interior of the nostrils. In o short
Time the tickling in the nostrils and snee zin g
oeesed, and next morning all traces of coryzs
nents upon himself and others confirmed his
belief in the ehAcaoy Of this remedy, and he
aae described it at length in the Ldaoet He
Nhaa fkaklA
Trisnitrate of bismuth, six draohms; acacia
powder, two drachms; hydroohiorate of NOR
phia, two grains.
It seems to have been proved that at high
'ates of speed, the body Of vessel actually
'isee above its ordinary load water line and,
y the speed increases, continues to rise still
higher. The experiments from which these
results were deduoed were conducted by the
lteol torpedo launch built some months since
or the Austrian Government, with which q
peed of 1914 knots was attained. The differ
noes of level were determined by means of
hEee plomb hobs hanging from q bowsprit at
Iartous distances in front of the bow, from !
lbaeEVAtions with which the nltarad Hatar