The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-04-09
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

cost of music in the st. Patrick's Day. parade
in that city was 81. %.
The annual tobacco crop of the United
States is about 800, 600 600 ponnds, worth to the
producers at least SAC, 100000.
The bill to punish wifs-beaters by public
whipping has received the signature of the
Governor of California and become law.
The Church of st. Nicholas. just completed
at Hamburg, is the highest in Europe. 1t is Az
feet high-l1 feet higher than the Strasburg
Cathedral.
Packages of beet sugar seed are being dis
tributed among the farmers of Oregon, and a
factory will be located in the section showing
the largest returns.
The glass dome of the Centennial art gallery
will be lighted by 1000 gas jets. The dome is
266 feet above the level of the Schuylkill, and
will be visible at night all over Philadelphia.
The blowing mp of He'll Gate with 10000
pounds of glycerine will be the big feature of
she New York celebration of the coming Fourth
of July. It promises to be in all respects
Centennial blast.
The Benedictine Monks are once more in
Scotland after an absence of three hundred
years, and propose to adapt the premises at
Fort Augustus, Inverness shire, to the purpose
of a college and monastery.
A Chicago spothecsry put up two prescrip.
tions correctly, but misplaced the labels The
purchaser, a woman, consequently swallowed
q mixture intended for outward application,
taking dose after dose until she died in great
agony.
An edition of the doubtful plays of Shake
speare is to be collected and published shortly
Kinsman" and Edward ILL.," in the compost
ton of which some authorities hold that Shake
speare took part at least.
The City of Picking, which arrived at San
Francisco on the 18th ult., brought OH
Chinese passeng gers. 1t is stated that the whole
steerage accommodation of all the steamers
sailing from China for the next six months has
been contracted for by the importers of coolies.
Between the years of 1865 and 1875 1873 $50
men enlisted in the regular army, OF these
81, 066 were born in the United States, 3S 649 in
Ireland, 23l27 in Germany, 037 in England,
4703 in Canada, 4o6 in Scotland, 1898 in
France, 1572 in Sweden, 719 in Denmark, 5Sl
in Austria, 5 in Africa, in Arabia, and IS at
sea.
Bee culture is spreading rapidly in California.
The Los Angeles Herald says that. at the pres
emit rate, in four years there will be LOCO 600
stands of bees in that and the two adjoining
countless producing annually 100 600 600 pounds
of honey, which more valuable than the
sugar aud III ,lssses crop of Louisiana, Texas
and Florida combined.
A. L, Robinson, of Evansville, Ind, is the
kind of man this country needs. He held an
Office as customs appraiser, the expenses of
which were $4,000 more than its receipts. He
wrote to the Secretary of the Treasury that his
Office Binecure and should be abolished,
thus giving up $4,000 position.
A cat race was instituted at Liege recently, in
which thirty. seven competitors were entered.
They were carried far out OF town ana liberated
at Two in the afternoon, the agreement being
that the cat arriving home first should have
the prize The lucky grimalkin won in q canter
at GAS p. NJ, the second best not appearing
IN til 224 the next morning.
A fox at Reese river had always eluded the
hounds, the scent invariably being lost near q
hut in the woods used for storing furs. One
day when $he hunters were resting their horses
near this hut after hard run, the Oldest hound
in the pack entered the door and tried to jump
up on the wall. This attracted attention, and
it W as discovered that the old fox was hanging
by the tail to o nail in the wall, keeping very
quiet and looking very like the other pelts
hanging on the wall It was evident that this
was the way in which he had heretofore
escaped.
Grayson, KY, is exceedingly jubilant and
will not be disheartened. Since gaining the
advantage of railroad facilities her breed of
hogs has improved Thousand fold. The
pointer breed Of several years ago that could
run their shouts down halfgallon jog OF
buttermilk and lick the bottom clean, and
through whose emaciated sides person could
read the Declaration Of Independence without
speotacles, have altogether disappeared, and
the great, fat, lazy Poland Chinas, the over
grown Berkshires and Chester Whites have
taken their places in the estimation of the
farmers.
The French ladies adopted the fashion of
wearing stuffed small birdS in their hats. Tho
fashion spread to all the civilized world The
stock Of email birds began to give out and
suffered and these families became almost ex-
tincs' Insects began to flourish and crops
were destroyed. Austria and Italy made o
treaty for the mutual protection of small
birds, and both countries passed laws to carry
out the treaty. France mourns the loss of her
humming birds. In one year more than q hun
dred Thousand were killed in one Department.
1t is suggested that the tropical regions be in-
vaded to procure birds of rich plumage.
Pressure of the atmosphere is now applied to
raising coal from the Creuzot district in France.
The air is exhausted from hollow tube run
ming along the shaft from the bottom to the
top of the colliery. At the foot of this tn be is
piston fitted to it, and Importing cage into
which the coal is loaded When the cage is fall,
the air from the mine is allo wed to press on the
piston underneath, and there being vacuum
above the piston and the cage, the load is
borne upward to the surface. Not only is the
ceRl raised in this way, bat the ventilation of
the mine is vastly improved, for the contami-
mated air of the coliery fl ows up through the
tube, bearing the loaded cage above it, while
it's place is being constantly supplied by the
inflow of fresh air from the surface.