The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1876-11-26
,A1ora,og Star and Catholic Messenger.
INV 0RLEAMs. SUNDAY NOVEMBER 20. ls7e.
GENERAL NE WS ITEMS.


p0inters. 300 scuiptors and 4SO architects.
Come French geographers are agitating the
establishment of an observatory on the top of
Mont Pho TX in the ApenAines to serve as the
~osatre of European meteorology. They pro-
sp0ae to build q metaliio chapel on the summit
90 which visitora will be conveyed from the
GOot of the rock in q captive balloon.
Tho church .goers of Boston must be wonder
SuN what queer things will next be preached
-aato them. According to the announcement in
che daily papers of that city, they have the
Pvivilege of listening to the pastor of 81. Lukes
Reformed Episcopal Church, who will preach
. sermon in words of one syllable" The an
n0npoement adds that it will be "a theological
ssUriosity," which nobody will dispute.
China hes its big trees as well IS California
About thirty miles from Nikko begins the
Bgngast avenue of shade trees in the world
These trees are sugi, or cedar and are from
Avo to seven feet in diameter at the base and
and then lift their heads forty or fifty feet
higher. They number thirty thousand and
veso planted after tho foundation of shrine
= two hundred and fifty years ago.
sRsy. Able Delahaye, v. G. of the diocese of
E&euen, presided at the ceremony of removing
ahe bodies of . number of French soldiers slain
ascnument Of Maison Brulee. Admiral La
Ronoiere 10 Noury delivered an eloquent oration
On the affecting occasion, as did also tine Rev.
Ahhe Audieuvre, who was himself taken pris-
amer by the Prussians at the battle of Molineu1
a letter from Teheran, in the Unirsrs, repre-
sente the Persians as greatly excited at the
<sour0e Of events in Turkey. The present posi-
Of the Sultan. Revolts are contin ually break
ing ont In the different provinces Of the Em'
piFe which the forces at the disposal OF his
Majesty are quite inadequate to suppress The
simperial treasury is also represented as being
an Q most embarrassed state, while the people
are ground down by taxation to the extreme OF
distress.
Cob. Valentine Baker hes made q careful re-
n~veks, tnu n a
lending Constsntinople on the land side. Few
cities in the world are SO we'll situated for de,
fence as COnstantinople. A properly devised
eexpedo system, with both movable and sta
4ionary torpedoes, supplemented by ironciadss
-ooald make it impregnable to the heets OF
Europe, while its land approaches may by en-.
Hineering skill be made obstacles against
which armies might long dash in vain. II
Russis makes war with Turkey she will find
tire capture of Constantinopie q feat OF arms
likely to be beyond her power, espeoisiiy az
EnRisnd could not submit to the Czsrs plant
ling bis hsg in the Bosphorus
ON Sunday, October 20. an interesting and
magnificent ceremony. attended by great
number of clergy, took place at the parish
ehuroh Of st. Quentin De TOuraiue, France
Ye consisted OF the restoration to that church OF
ezRe relics of st. Quentin which have long
at Tours Upwards of 10000 pilgrims arrived
aS St. Quentin, when the devotions were pre-
sided over by the Cardinal -Arohbishop OF Cam,
Y -trak, and the Bishops of Amisns, Beauvais and
Soiasous The ceremonies were of o very inn
lhJoeainR description, especially when, after the
y sayening Bsnediction, the Credo was intoned oy
,phe Arohpriest of st. Quentin, followed by 6ooo
e voices.
= The Tallahassee Fla, correspondence OF the
!. SAyannah Ne.cs says: "The United States
tToopo that ore here are nearly all Democrats,
and are, WithAl, a clever set of fellows. Some
:. IF khou come from South Caroline, and have
nosaaased hurrahing for Wade Hampton yet
>~sSe1e Of them, q captain, remarked TO your COZ
respondent yesterday that there was about 81
rr.nsFh neoessity for four hundred troops here
ga there would be at . New England sunday
1ebool celebration. The people here treat theu
Kindly and respectfully, ana are Rlaa SnaH ,s
.GNne kind to spare, the respectable ana law
,sSoidipg citizons of Florida will be glad to se'
them down this way
Paris correspondents admit that the desir
for something entirely new in dress every sea
sen is confined to the Foreigners of Paris ant
10 not entertained by the Parisians themselves
who, Of all people on the globe, change TIL
fashion least frequently. Tne one class ls con
s6antly on the gui Uire for something startling
with which to crafty curious friends at home
she other remains content with wearing what
ever is most becoming, knowing it cannot b
a questioned for do not they belong with thos
who create the modes for the civilized world
This explains in great measure the coDfictip
styles which are constantly emanRtlnR tror
we'll known Paris houses Where one. lad
will be furnished with a wardrobe showing th
extremes OF the ultra monde as set forth i
"French fashions for Americans" an other vii
that of last season 3 in genuine Paris fGshicn'
The ways of the buffalo, described b
travellers the far West, are IS strange q
those of tho Heather Chinee. If herd {
these animals gets on the north side of q tracl
1T will stand stupidity gazing, though the loct
motive passes within u hundred yards of i
Bat if two miles from the track on the sout
side, the whole herd is thrown into the wildes
commotion. Regardless of consequences it wi
make for the track, aud if the train is in il
way, each individual buffalo will go at it wit
the desperation of despair, plungng against {
between the locomotive and the car. TheI
was q notable instance of this in the sever
winter of 1s71-72, when the ponds and sma
rivers were frozen solid, and the buffalo VIZ
forced to the larger rivers for water. The col
ductors of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Railroad, after having trains ditched twice
ono week. learned to have very decided r
spect for the idiosy yporasies of the bott alo an
when there was possibility of striking her
on the rampage for the north side of the trac
stopped the train until it passed.
Four years ago France was bankrupt
name and fame. The resources of the countI