The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1876-06-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


which have an attendance of nearly so 600
pupils.
No wonder Dom Pedro skips about the coun-
try in such a lively style. His bill at one of
the Philadelphia Hotels was nearly $1,000.
The English postoffice savings banks had
over twenty-five millions sterling in band on
December 81, 1875. They received nearly nine
millions last year, and only paid out seven.
An egg. condensing factory has been estab-
lished at Passau, Bavaria, wherein the eggs are
dried and then reduced to fine meal, which is
packed in air-tight cans, ready for shipment.
A little of Eli Ellerbe, while playing in
yard few days ago in Rockingham, N. c.,
was attacked by a rooster, which pecked the
little fellows head so badly that it caused his
death.
The French oyster plantations have proved
wonderfully successful. Those at Morbihan,
which in 1872 yielded only $685. 900 oysters,
last year gave 81 2S6, 900, and have produced
this season u ,2l4, GOO.
A prisoner in Texas, confined in cell adjoin-
ing condemned murderer, advised suicide as q
means of escaping the gallows. The murderer
followed the advice, and hanged himself The
adviser is to be tried for murder, the law
regarding him as causing the taking of q human
life.
Capt. Uranhart, captain of the ship Tri-
Mountain, which rescued the passengers of
the wrecked Vile du Hsvre, recently lost the
command of his vessel. LIE Grand Cramer, of
which reached the sum of SIS 600, and Capt.
Urquhart has bought with it an interest in an
other craft.
Chicago has two mayors and no money. The
policemen, 1iremen, clerks in the city Offices,
ETC.. have not been paid for months, and Comp
troler Hayes has had to lend the city So to
secure the fling of the necessary papers in
suits begun against it by claimants for dam-
oges, the Clerk of the Circuit Court refusing
to give the city any more credit for fees.
Governor Tilden has signed the bill passed
by the Legislature, allowing wife to testify ti
new law does not compel her, however, to be
witness. This is the first innovation ever
made by the Legislature upon the old common
law rule prohibiting husband aud wife from
testifyipg for or against each other in criminal
casee.
Religious intolerance is one of the principal
Ingredients of the Radical party in the West.
The Republican candidate for Attorney General
in Indiana, in speech few evenings ago, re-
ferred to the Israelites "God- abandoned
of the Jewish faith responds: "If they are
abandoned, it is not for participation in the
thieving crimes of Grants administration"
Not long ago a very celebrated English artist
was approached by a merchant with the offer
of 1O, 900 guineas for picture, the subject of
which the merchant was to select. 1t turned
out that the merchant had no interest in art,
and the picture was to advertise his business
by representing crowds of customers-each of
whose faces should be distinct study, as in
Frith's derby Day "-going in and ont of
said merchants establishment. The offer was
declined.
A number of gentlemen lately from the East
were congregated on q corner in San Francisco
the other day, when they cav a two horse dray
loaded down with what they took to be lead
bars, stalled on Montgomery street. Great
was their surprise when informed that the lead
bars were silver bricks from the Bonanza
Mines being taken to Flood s. O'Briep's bank
and that over hundred thousand dollars IN
value was intrusted to the custody IF one man.
and hauled around the street like apy other
merchandise.
Jean Paul said: "Play is the ohiIds first
poetry" 1t wss a wise and poetic saying of a
poet. But Froebel, the Kindergarten, was not
poet, but q RcbOolmaster and a philosopher
He went deeper, and said the supreme word
about play when he called it the '' fret work
of childhood" 1t is the child's chief business
Use play to serve the ends of education you
may, but to do away with it is the unpardon-
able sin of the prevalent method of teaching.
The Pekin Gazette of the 9th of March con-
tains an edict curiously illustrative of Chinese
official routine The Governor of Shantung is
overwhelmed with trepidation," and submits
himself for punishment because an officers
name was wrongly spelled in a dispatch; that
is to say, because copying clerk put one
Governor signed without noticing it. "As q
special act of grace " no proceedings are to be
taken against the offender.
The recent African discoveries have devel-
oped the fact that vast mineral wealth under
lies the surface of that great continent. Lieut..
Cameron, who has just returned from there,
Tells OF enormous deposits of coal and iron
Enough, he says, {" to supply the world for On-
told Centuries. A canal Of one hundred and
twenty miles in length, connecting the Congo
ana Zsmbesi rivers, will open up these deposits
ana provide communication between the Indian
Sno Atlantic oceans. Already England shows
an Inclination to take possession of this valu
aole country, which was disclosed to the world
Oy Lieut. Cameron's important explorations.'
@. The payment to about 800 of the late A. T
n,oMarts novu employees, who had served him for
S2OS 7En Enan ten years, of an aggregate sum oi
cd S 1oy, Is one of the best beneiactions direct
Sf,yLh Dy me giver. There is no truer generosity
and f;aS flaS which recognizes and rewards long
so i,rSs 'oiGl fn service. The circumstance that
With Mr.. Stewart indioStes that thai tie tSsrs S' m1si
AZ 49, Dsen something attractive in his service
49, loslSs - sne people who worked for him wers
HuLo . ot tnolg pay, and onnla - &. - nnnn