The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-08-20
MofuIae Sta, and Catholic Messenger.
VIEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY. AUGUST 20. 1876.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

An Oakland lunatic carried butchers knife
hround for two hours, offering to Kill any one
- Who said he wasn't Moses. Every one said be
looked Just like Moses
The number of vessels on the registers of the
British Empire in 1875 was 81 136, of 74a 237
tons and worked by 3f2 335 seamen. Inc In
crease over 1874 was POI vessels
The are 300 900 girls receiving a gratuitous
education In the Catholic female institutions
of this country. This work OF mercy Is esti'
mated to CYST about 81 000 600 annually,
On one of the bodies found on Custer g bat
tle-feld, that of . German soldier named AcH-
erman, there were no fewer than seventy hve
wounds. All the limbs had likewise been
hacked Off
lifboat recently tried in London, is 80 feet
long, weights two tons, and righted Itself I'M
mediately when capsized into the wafer EIgn-
teen men could not upset il ana the inventor
claims that it will keep 200 persons above
Water.
The exhibition mania has spread to New
Caledonia, where a successful industrial dis
play has been made recently. Inc C9mmn nn9s
workmen, contributed largely. The barren
deserts and thick jupgles of New Caledonia
have, by means of convict labor, been replaced
BY rice and tobacco plantations and orchards.
The climate of Casarea, situated at the foot
of Mount Libanus, 10 remarkable for It's terrible
atorms and extremes of heat and cold. In
summer the thermometer rises to lOA degrees,
and falls in winter to p below zero. In the
vicinity is an extensive lake fifty miles IN or
oumference, which partly dries up IN summer,
leaving EXPOSED
petre for the use of the Turkish Government.
An Erie merchant who settled with his check
an amount he owed Pittsburgh firm, and was
reminded by the latter that there remained
zen cents due ns they "could not stand the ex-
CHANGE" got even with his tormentors by get
ting together ten of the largest-sized ooppers
he could find and sending them on by express
to Pittsburgh, leaving to their recipients the
duty of paying twenty-five cents for charges.
Somebody once wrote song about one p Fl.
Sheridan being twenty miles away His
present conduct would suggest the propriety
of setting forth in rhyme that Philip is thou
sand miles away from the seat of war-and
evidently intends to remain where he is If IL
that the reason Phil doesn't go to the front is
not that he is afraid, but that with Lieut..
Col. Grant, of my staff" he is mastering the
devious mysteries of the noble game of GRO
quet-
The most eloquent Protestant Bishop on the
English Bench, DR.. Magee, of Peterborough. re-
Gently preached in st. savionr's Church, Ok
ford street, London, in aid of the Institntion
for the Deaf and Dumb. Daring the service of
morning prayer one of the officiating clergy;ncn
explained to the large number OF deaf mutes
sigps and movements of tho lips, every word of
the service as it went on, and In the game way
the sermon of the prelate was explained TO the
AFFLICTED portion OF the congregation
About two miles from tho City of Mexico is
. remarkable old cypress tree, gnarled and
visited ia wonderful way. II is thousand
ryoars old, and ten feet in diam eter ct it's base.
At ten feet from the ground il is fourteen feet
in diameter and ut twenty feet it divides into
two immense trunks, II is the old tree OF
Noche Trsto under which, according to Pres
colt, Cortez gathered his men when driven by
the Aztecs from the city. II was once fred and
very much injured, but the trunk and shell
will live for ages. The Mexican Government
has put handsome fonoe of stone and iron
around it, that vardal may disturb it.
Financially the Centennial Exposition is 80
far al oh AN a
display it is grand success. The calculations
originally made We're that the number of
visitors would reach at least 10, 600 900. Half
the time has passed and the number admitted
have been but 2 545, 900. Expectations are in
dulged in that September and October will
witness great influx, and we hope they will
large that tho prospect is not hopeful one.
One reason for this is the hard times, and nm
other il the fact that the railroad companies
have not yet showed much liberality. There
is yet time for q change Of policy IN this re-
spect.
Sevastopol has been ia "a ruined and disrnan-
tied condition since the close of the Crimesn
wer. II does not now contain more than 5000
inhabitants who are scarcely able to exist up
on the remnants Of the once hourishing COM
merce of ths-port. The life Of the community
shows signs Of reviving of late, some military
vessels having been constructed on its row
slips. Forts Constantine and Catherine are
etill standing. badly battered with cannon
quarantine completely dilapidated, some
hundreds of dwellings, having been built with
the stones which ouce formed their ramparts.
The principal public buildings of the city are
all destroyed.
The frankfort Zeitunl, r. Republican Demo
cratic paper of the German city of Frankfort
on-the-Main, got ont o remarkable issue on the
Fourth of July, in honor of American liberty.
1t had four-page supplement covered with the
original text of the Declaration of 1ndepend-
once in the English language 1t had another
supplement on red paper, containing on one
nj Ia Of Snan0leH Hammer
in German and English, and on the other side
"Hail Columbia" in both languages. In the
main body OF the paper there was a grand
poeticAl prologue in honor Of the "Centennial
Jubilee" of the American Republic there wac
an eloquent leading article about the United
States; there was elaborate sketch Of the
life and work Of Thomas Jefferson !; and there
WAS still other matter about this country.
The National Training School for Cookery
was started in London three years ago. & COR
roanondent OF the Boston Adrertiser, who lately