The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-02-06
GENERAL NEWS Items.

Landelle has finished his 'Tncarpation" an,
" Death of St. Joseph" painted for St. Sulpic
in Paris.
The Boston Jounal asks: "why is it tina
there are 30 many smart babies and SO few
| smart men 7"
Seventy sub-grsnges of the Patrons o
Husbandry died in Iowa last year. 1t is stated
that the mortality is increasing more rapidly
| than the births all through the West.
| In his speech to the singers in Vienna Herr
Wagner exclaimed: az hate the newspapers
| because they epdesvor to render nv effort,
ridiculous; meyer read q newspaper"
! Senator-elect Beck, of Kentucky, will be the
arbitrator on the the part of Virginia, on the
| MarylSndVrgiuia Boundary line commission
| in place of Ex-Governor Graham, of North
Carolina, deceased.
A Russian correspondent writes to the St.
Louis Globe Democrat that there is to be great
European war, with, on one side, France,
| Austria and Russia, and on the other Germany
England and Turkey.
A letter carrier at Halifax has been arrested
for stealing letters. IL proved, however, on
examination that he had not stolen them, ss
1000 letters were found at his honse unopened.
He had been too lazy to deliver them.
At bennington, England, about two weeks
ago, o Clergyman, aged seventy three, wss
found dead in his room from lack of the neces-
saries of life. The coroner's inquest revealed
the fact that for many years he had subssted
on an income of eight pence day, his food
being bread, milk, cheese and cocoa.
The French Acclimatization Society has been
occupying itself principally of late with the in
PRODUCTION of Eucalyptus globulus (the fever
tree) into various parts of the world, the study
of the oak silk-worm, and the introduction of
American varieties of potatoes into France.
The November number of its bulletin contains
valuable correspondence upon these subjects.
A new industry, that of drying eggs, has been
set on foot in Passau, on the Danube and the
Prussian military authorities are about to give
the product trial for soldiers retions. The
London Netrs says several German chemists are
very sanguine az to the success of the expert
ment, and they pronounce dried eggs to have
lost none of their valuable properties by the
gradual evaporation of the water contained by
them in their original state.
The various accounts of al enormous
rapaoious bird existing in the interior of New
Guinea, and supposed by some to be the "roc'
of the Arabian Nights" have received some
confirmation. Count Salvador, of the Royal
Museum of Turin, has described in the can
nails of the Civic Museum of Natural History of
Genoa" large rapacious bird discovered by
his naturalist, D'Albertis, in New Guinea,
which he proposes to call Harpyopsis N0ra
Ounce
The Independent Beige undertakes to give an
account of MIR. A. T. Stewart, apropos of his
purchase of pictures in Paris, and some of the
anecdotes apent him from this source will be
found quite new to readers on this side of the
Atlantic. For instance, we are told that during
the war Mr.. Stewart, having had extensive
dealings with the Government, was it's creditor
TO the amount of $4,000, 600. One day, when
the Government was in q hobble about money,
and some reference was made to this indebted
ness, the great merchant exclaimed, Fifty
millions! Oh, don't mention such O trihe," and
with one sweep of his pen, transferred the sum
revelation will give Mr. Stewart an excellent |
opportunity of blushing to find it fame.
A Brooklyn gas consumer has made trouble. |
He is one of those men who are always making |
trouble by going around and interfering with
his own business. he got an injunction to
prevent the Brooklyn Gas Company from re- |
moving the gas meter in his house, which he |
thought registered falsely, and o test revealed
per cent too fast. And so the company re-
funded the money. All the other thousands |
who patronize that gas company will now
call at the Office and get six per cent |
Of their payments for the last year refunded. |
From all parts of the country come loud COM
plants of gas extortiou. The price of gas has
1os been reduced to correspond with the re-
luctior which he's been compelled in other
,hings. There ia no competition, and the rich
md exclusive corporations that supply light
ire enabled to extort whatever price they
h0oSe to ask. Thousands returning to
kerosene because gas is twice as high as it
'ught to be.
1t oddly illustrates the difference between
he social temperament and tastes of England
md of France that, while the EuglIsh Com
nander- Chief, the Duke of Cambridge, has
ust sentenced an English ofiiceRRss q chastise-
nent for some otfense, to wear his uniform at
II timos when he appears in public for one
alepdar yeaI the French Minister of War
General De Cissey, has just been obliged to
ssue order forbidding officers of the new
Army of France from wearing their
inform in public unlees upon ceremonial oc-
asi ons or " hen on duty. No Frenchman who ! ,
as been decorated with the Legion of Honor
yer dreams of going out without his red
ibbon in his button hole, while an Englishman
Tho should walk the streets with the red rib. |
on of the Bath would be likely TO be ducked.
his is commonly thought to sho W the superior /
Iodesty of the English nature. We suspect
A. I pl IA frnm flu fhn
pposite quality, and reproduces the pride
Ihich trampled on the purple of Plato. Ger
ainly this was the case in that famous instance
Lord Castlereagh making himself the most
ota BILE man in Vienna by wearing a coat with
ut star, in the midst of the glittering no.
ilities of the continent!
BUSINESS FAILURES OF THE PERIOD.