The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-09-24
MsruIng Star and Catholic Messenger.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

lamps.
Cotton pickers in Georgia are now paid fort
cents per hundred, Without rations in Missie
sippi and Arkansas sixty cents, or fifty cen,
and rations.
Ia consequence of their refusal to submit t.
tho new Russian law in the former kingdom
OF Poland, by which all the officers of jnslic
are bound To learn Russian, 1000 officials hav
boon dismissed from their situation.
very nice point has been raised in Eng
Land by legal idiot W no insists that Marwooc
docs not carry out the sentence of death st
imposed, because the culprit has his neck
broken instead of being banged by the neck
Gill he is dead
Within five years 4C00 square miles of Pales-
zine have been measuIe ed, ne position of three
soorths of the Biblical towns have been set at
rest and the true sites of the caves of Adullam
and the ford of baptism of the Jordan have
been ascertAined.
Red wine is so generally colored in France
with cochineal and fuchiue that the Govern
9nent has ordered an investigation. Sufficient
fuohine is imported into Bordeaux to color a
third of all the W ne produced there, according
to report by Lyons physician.
From Chicago comes word that rents have
Stldened oil along the avenue, and orders are
already out for several new blocks for of
Eastern firms. Confidence seems to be entirely
restored in mercantile circles, and the pros
poets of q fine fall trade were never better.
farmer like man and q common looking
horse have come from Canada to make money
at the county fairs. Tho horse is called Little
that fact is kept secret by the man, W no is bus
enabled to enter the beast in races intended for
slower ones.
Berlin correspondent says that Bismarck,
when he addresses the House, always an
nounces his plans in the calmest, directest and
most oracular way and that his argument is
merely On adroit, but explicit, assurance that
however the members mny vote. their votes
will not exercise the smallest influence upon
tho action of the government.
They are OK polling the Bibles from the schools
in Greece. The Protestant Missona aries had
succeeded in many places in Introducing trans
lations OF the Protestant Scriptures into the
schools. The matter was brought to the no.
'Sice of the government, the Bibles were exam
ined, pronounced false, incomplete and hereti-
cal, and as such were banlshed from the
schools.
The Paris Exhibition of 1873 already pro-
misses to be great success. 1t will be in the
heart OF Europe's favorite capital all foreign
countries have, through their ambassadors no.
titled their willingness to contribute 10, the Prince
of Wales has accepted the Presidency of the
English committee. and other princes are ex
pected to follow his example. The construc
tion OF the building has already begun.
The msrketmen of Boston have had public
dinner without wine, and the Journal says,
contrastlngly g There was class supper, not
long ago, in this city, which tho papers, next
morning, characterized 40 brilliant and suo-
- essful but they omitted TO mention that some
of the yoang men who attended it were carried
nwag in such q state of intoxication that they
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upon the floor of the car"
In the second comeratd of the Irish College in
Rome, Father Prout," (Rev. j. O'Mshoney),
wrote the melodious Bells of Shandou.
During the siesta hour of q sultry summer noon
he pencilled on the wall beside his bed the
original poem. Unpopular as this genial priest
after ward became to the heads of the college,
che students have never allowed the dim pen
cilliug TO be covered over or erased, not itE
u6anai@g the apartment has been pspered many
NNnss since the writing.
Disraeli is not prophet in Israel" If we
may judge by the London JetciSh World, which
thus spoke when he became Lord Beaconstield:
1--WE do not think our community has any
zeason to be proud of him. With some persons
sSucoess sanctifes any career; but pure, self
seeking, unredeemed by single unaffected
generous and disinterested aspiration; bare
faced and INSCRIPTIONS rudenesS, and truculent
Lnaolence; nonsenslcal charlatanlsm, stlmu-
lated to attack tho sentimental and weak
minded; readiness to profess any opinion
political or religious, to serve a turn are not
the sort of qualities which meet the approba
ton of men of sense, honor, and good feeling
Even among those who have found it necessary
20 use Mr.. Disraeli, do not believe that
there is a eingle man of sense who respects
DIM"
One of the most recent important discover
ies ID that of n new plociVe, known az cotton
Eunpowdcr. The fast process of its mani fac
Oure, which is csrIled on ut Dare. in Eogl6nd.
IS to steep cotton in mixture OF nitric aud
sulphurio acid. After the acid has been pressed
out, the cotton is dried aud :riturated (reduced
to powder). and mixed with certain other
chemicals. To show how safe it is, not TO
7lode with fiji or pressure, the following expo
riment were lately made. Two barrels of the
powder were placed in the middle of roaring
bonfire. The barrels were consumed, and the
powder blazed away without ex ploding Then
an iron pile driver, weighing half q ton, was
allowed to fall fifteen feet box containing
ton pounds of the powder. The box SIM
ply crushed, and the powder scattered about.
Exploded with fuse, the cotton gunpowder
broke four steel inRots, weighing several hun
dredw eight in pieces, and whom under water,
sent up column of water two hundred feet
high. II was also made to explode whom wet
with twenty per cent. of water.
An interesting essay in favor of international
arbitration has been issued by Don Arturo de
Harooartu, recently a member of the Spanish
CorteE Abiding to the assertion of the En-
peroE of Germany, just before the Turoo- Servian
campaign really opened, that the peace of Eu-
cope was As calm as that enjoyed twenty years
preceding the reconstruction of the Germanio
Empire, Marooartu writes: And yet cultivated
and religious Europe arms and arrays more
than 100000 Of soldiers many in num-
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