The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-05-07
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

J., erected In LoulsVlile, Will Do unveiled on I'M
;. 9Th of May.
= A shipment of twenty-five boxes OF China
mems bones was recently made at San Fran
q CISCO for China.
The Sheriff of PeIqnimaps county, N. c..
weig hs 4l0 pounds. When q prisoner is refrac
tory he sits down on him.
The Methodist Conference at Lewiston. No
/, has adopted resolve declaring opposition to
the use of the Bible in the schools a sin.
Now that Gov. Ames is out of the way, the
i, State tax rate Of Mississippi for this year
shows q reduction from 50 25 to s. SO per $1,000
English eapitalists are said to have lost
about five hundred millions of dollars in
twelve months in Turkish, Egyptian and Peru
Wan securities.
There are Ia coo tame ostriohes at Cape
Town, Africa and during 1875 there were sold
at Port Elizabeth alone $500. 600 worth of
| ostrich feathers.
A bricklayer recently died in London who
was found to have the heaviest brain on record
it weighed sixty-fve Ounces. The man
| could neither read nor write.
One half the Chinese no land in San Fran
cisco 60 back home alive and the other half
| dead. Both halves carry their money along
with them to the Celestial regions.
| Liverpool is to be supplied with water from
| Lake Windermere. The estimate of cost varies
| from $4,000 900 for a daily supply of ten nil
lion gallons, to CA 500 0G0 for forty millions.
The Italians have no special fancy for trees
like the English and Germans. The only tree
cultivated in Italy is the mulberry, which has
q great practical value furnishing food for
silkworms. Poplars are raised in Lombardy
only.
In Kansas suit the other day q mans nose
was offered in evidence to prove him q drunk.
ard. The evidence was there, but was not
taken by the court. The party who suggested
It's introduction wears one of his eyes in
sling.
Miss Rye, of Canada, irreverently known as
" Old Rye" is at work colonZing Canada with
street children from England. On her last
n n nrYarI kal
her with $140O to aid her in her voluntary
lsbors.
The London Lancet deplores the spread of
"morpha disease" in England aud Germany
People are beginning to go far too often to
druggists shops to buy opium in some form or
another, and the diseases resulting from it's
use battle medical skill.
A paper company in Holyoke, Mass, has
manufactured an immense ream of paper for
the Centennial The sheets by IL feet,
the ream weighs about ton, the value of the
4SO sheets is $780, and if cut into ordinary
sheets of note paper they would make 500, 600
sheets.
The consumption of eggs in the manufacture
of calicoes is almost incredible. No albumen
ls equal to that contained in egg-and it
would consume the lay of 300 600 hens to sup
ply one of the large calico manufactures in
Franco Inferior dyes can be obtained from
blood, etc.
Money in London is worth in the open mar
ket only aud three-eights per cent per
annum, and yet specie payments prevail there
and have prevailed there for half q century.
Here is chance for a sermon by the advocates
of more greeubacks to show how q specie cur-
renoy raises the rate of interest aud Expresses
borrowers.
Superintendent Cooper, of the Atlantic and
Great Western Railroad, says that locomotive
drew directors car nine and three fourths
miles on that line in seven and one-fourth
minutes. The time was from a flying start to
dead stop, and it Is calculated that the high
est speed vas at the rate of eighty-seven miles
An TH YES dnvu orrodn
1T does not speak we'll for the intelligence
of the public" says the London Lancet, that
the stamp duty on patent medicines during the
last year yielded an increase Of els, s4S over
the produce of the previous year. 1t IL scarcely
creditabe that the passion for consuming nm.
known Quantities of unknown drugs should
be 80 strong as this thriving trade in nostrums
indicates"
his crops frnm the frost, recently placed four
large heaps of wood and dried leaves saturated
with oil, 10 fo"r-acre lot and set fire to them.
They produced THICK, black smoke which
hung over the ground like a mist, and the
temperature became two or three degrees high
er than in adjoining fields. The cost was esti-
mated at seven cents an hour for each acre.
"Two of my neighbors," writes @ cores.
pondeHt in South Caroline, are Col. r. G
Howard and Tony, formerly his slave, who
now goes by the name of A. II. Howard. Both
are members of our Legislature, where both
sit with perfect equality, making laws. The
former, of course, is Democrat, and the latter
is a Radical. After Adjournment, the Colonel
superiutends his farm, and Tony woI ks for him |
as q carpenter, taking his meals in the kitchen |
with the cook"
The Teviotdale distrot of Scotland is at
present suffering from most extraordinary
soourge of mice. 1t is supposed that the To- |
disc !miuatc slaughter of hawks and other
birds of Icy has disturbed the halanoe of ma |
ture, and allowed the mice TO multiply " su
overwhelming an extent that the consequences
to the farmers are likely to 10 sc-i"cs The
Duke OF Buooleuch's head keeper has given
orders that the hawks, etc are hereafter to be
preserved-a remedy that will take effect in
time, but cannot reoOup the farmers for present
loss.
The condition of the Apache Indians in
Arizona affords forcible common tAry upon tn
management of Indian affairs under Granite
Administration. These Indians, having ex-
hausted their supplies, have been compelled to
leave their reservation, which is against the
regulations, to escape absolute starvation, and
Gen. Hatch has telegraphed to Washington
thas as matters now stand it is an alternative
whether they shall be starved or killed. That |
is, unless they obeV the GoYernment authoritiaa