The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-07-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


| prison for debt due the Government.
A modern essayist defines gossip" to be tn,
putting of two and two together and making
| five of them"
spsculators, autioipating the completion OF
| tensively in New Mexico.
The English War Office reports tbirtv.two
| officers still living who took part in the battle
OF Waterloo, fought sixty-one years ago.
The island of Barb ADDE'S is in n bad condition
the population is too large. there being but
| half an acre CT land to each person and no
source of wealth but agriculture.
The Government Superintendent of railroads
| In Canada lives in q palace car that is fitted
| mp with cooking and sleeping facilities, and
other things needful for luxurious existence.
a., on Saturday lady applied for admission to
the Centennial ct one of the turnsties, but the
breadth Of her body being nearly as great as
It's length, 1t was necessary to open q wagon
gate to let her in.
Probably few people know that London,
England, has quadrupled it's population in
sixty years. In 1910 it was lees than 000, 900,
in 1861 some 100000, and now 4, OOO, 900 PEG.
pie in SOC, 900 houses.
The wonder of the summer meeting at the
wood Jr Hs Is the fastest Ve ssar old
record, having trotted in 2:27t at Nashville, in
the sand. He is valued at $4,000.
Grant has had two Secretaries of State, four
of the Treasury, four of War, two of the Navy,
and five Attorney Generals. Making in all
twenty two. and yet he is not happy.
The medical examiner of a prominent life
insurance company says he has to turn away
athletic exercises, because they have danger
ously strained the organs Of the heart.
The Chinese are the only nation who know
how to cover plates of sheet lead with thin
layers of oolored glass. They use them on the
sides and domes of their temples, to which
they lend lustrous and gorgeous appearance.
The Paris bookmakers have all been fined in
sums of from 200 to 1000 francs, with costs, the
courts deciding that betting had no relation to
the improvement of the breed of horses, but
was exclusively gaming, and so fell under the
penal code.
The census for 1875 shows that Boston has
34l.9i0 Inhabitants of whom 179 657 are NO.
men, 1872 ,262 men, while the foreign born are
in excess of the natives 2941. There are 3126
negroes, 1e41 mulattoes, As Chinese, 5 Japanese,
and 81 Indians.
A young man in Wayne county, Iowa, who
had been deaf and dumb for twenty years,
suddenly thrown from the wagon to the ground,
striking his head, and on arising found he had
recovered his speech and hearing.
A Chicagoan has obtained q verdict against
ed his trunk. He proved that the trunk was
but that the baggageman lifted it as highsas he
could, so that it would fall heavier.
Ploughipgs in unbroken furrows six miles
long can be seen in Fargo, California. The
teams start in the morning and make one trip
across an entire township and back before din
ner, and the same in the afternoon, making
twenty-four miles travel every day.
The oil region of Pennsylvania has dropped
out of general notice, but that business there
is still prosecuted is shown by the fact that 100
wells were bored in June. The average daily
barrels apiece, and twepty-seven were COM
pletely dry.
Governor Hendricks, who received the nomi-
nation for Vice President at st. Louis. may be
SAID to have been born in the political purple.
His grandfather was q member of the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature in the time of Washington
his father was Q noted politician, and ons of
his unoles was Governor of Pennsylvania and
United States Senator.
"The heightened period of hot weather."
says g New York paper, sis causing an uuusual
class OF accidents. The desire for GOODNESS in
noes many persons to sleep on roofs, and in
their uneasy slumbers some of them fall off
In one day we notice the accounts of four
deaths csused in that way in many oities. |
besides three cases that did not result fatally"
France exported. last year, false hair, beau
tifolIy got up in different shapes, to the amount
OF 100 tons, worth nearly two million Francs. |
Nearly the whole of this went to England and |
America. The Psris chiffoniers now carefully |
collect all small paper parcels with hair comb |
lnRs, which ladies and servant0 daily throw |
Dut of tie windows. and obtain five francs per |
kilogram for the oombings.
Jules Simon's Grafton on the occasion of
taking his seat at the Academy wss submitted |
before its delivery to q committee of immortals,
who examined it carefully, to be sure that it |
no fault of style. Nevertheless the |
first sentence read, "since the creation of the
Academy it has always contained, etc >" and
purists very properly want TO know whether
the pronoun relates to "creation" or "Acade-
N.Y."
The Philadelphiaus have hit upon q new
theory explanatory of the origin of diphtheria
and kindred diseases. The root of the evil,
they say, lies in the impure fat used in the
of soap, the poison being absorbed
through the pores of the akin. This theory
may do for Philadelphia, bu5 there is vast
amount of diptheria in other cities for which it
utterly fails to account. Thousands upon
thousands have been afflicted with the disease |
" ho never knew what soap wac.
Weston, the pedestrian, has had varied |
in Europe. Owing to able manage
nent he was financially successful at the out
set in Englapd. The profits of his first exhibit
lion are said to have been from 500 to
SIS 900, and he WAS for q time the chief subject
IF talk in London. Then his best perform
Auces were outdone in o contest of amateurs,
Iov oI.-;a hot of