The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-07-22


School Com missioner and mem ber Of the Boar
of Public Works. The convention will be oom
posed of 73o delegates, who will mean business
> and do
him with selections from Wagner, after whici
he expressed himself as resigned to go to bed
where he slept very eoundiy. Toward mid
night eate assembled in the back yard and
yowled frightfnlly. Tho sleeper did not gel
up and throw bootjsoks ut them, but turned
on ono elbow and whi,pered in his dreams
"sing IL once more, Elvira sing it once
: else, but thinks OF beating her piano into
'kindling wood and turning her music book in
to curl paper.
"soper,p says phonetic and philosophic
gsrius is more people ,sl than green ESos
In 1874 there were slain by locomotives In
England PAD persons, of whom 7ss were tres
passing on the track, while .52s were run
over by, or fatally injured while lespiDg from
carriages. Reduced to figures, taking the
average railroad journey at ten miles, If a
traveller should spend ten hours q day on
English railroad trains with an average hourly
speed of thirty miles. 1t would be 2,749 years
before his turn to be killed came round.
A thunder storm story from the Dansyille
<Conn.) Advertiser Suddenly Smith heard
the noise Of thunder and bscame unconscious
The man also heard the noise, but neither of
them saw any flash Of lightning. The man
went to Smith and In about twenty minutes
he was restored to consciousness. Then at.
tcutiOu vas gwen 10 the lOE5e8. O00 OF them
was standing erect. with one foot lifted lit
tie way from the earth, and the other was
kueeling with hs nose in the earth, and both
were stone dead and retained their positions
until they were pushed over. Tho supposition
ia that in this casc the electricity went from
the earth to the sky."
The Auslaad calls attention to a curious IT,
stance Of climatic influence on race. In 1916
several hundred Wurtemburg families emigra-
ted to Trans Cauoasia, and took up their abode
in the neighborhood of Tihis They were re-
markeble for q broad, square build, fair or red
hair, and blue eyes. The next generation
eyes were seen. In the third generation the
type of the original colonists was hardly reoog-
nizable. Black eyes and hair were the rule,
the round Face heightened, the form gained
siendernesB and elegance. 1nasmuoh as they
never intermarried with another race, IL IL
eontended that climate alone must have of.
footed the change.
Gladstone he's contradicted au erroneous
statement that he is in receipt of an ex-Csbi.
net Minister'S pension OF $40 600 year. Cabi-
net Ministers with the exception of the Lord
Chancellor, who receives is, 900 o year for
life, no matter how brief his tenure of office)
service, but they rarely accept it. Lord
beaeonsield was in receipt of such a pension
while last out of ofice. but Gladstone has
never taken il. Though younger son, he had
$oO0 OO0 from his father, aud his wife inherited
Ehe extensive estates of her brother. At one
time, however, he was embarrassed by heavy
Losses In an unproductive mine, aud ten years
ago rumors to his impecuniosity wore
ctrculated. He has large family.
Owing to the critical condition of d Airs pro
duced by the war In Turkey, the tax ON sheep,
which 10 one of the most important sources OF
the revenue OF the Porte, has been doubled.
As 0 result of this the peasants in Little Asia
finding no longer any profit in raising hocks,
are vOlunt nteering in large numbers to fight in
she army. Thie Is not only the with Ma.
hometans but also with Christians, and few "
weeks ago the singular spectacle WAS wit
messed in Smyrna Of tho people of both faiths
marching beneath banner on which both cross
and crescent were represented. II would be
queer II tho new sheep tax should bring the
Christiaps and Tarks into moro friendly rela.
tions, although the relations existing at present
are not SO untriendly as they are OF on repre-
sented to be.
Ga june 22 . curious shower of eand and
mud, coming from the South, fell in Rome
which seems to be regarded due to saud
brought in dust storm from the great desert
IN Africa, being mixed with the pollen of some
vegetable, and held ia solution by the cloud
which carried IL. An artist says that yellow
spots. of about . twentieth of au inch in diam.
eter, were made on the paper on which hs was
eketching, aud alao-though the color varied
from yellow TO whte-hne drops of the same
dimensiona foil all about the neighborhood of
Rome. The cloud which brought IL, though
giving ont little or no rain, turned the sun at
p. n. into the semblauce OF " q pale moon of
greenieh tint" Similar phenomena were no
doubt mistaken for q rain of blood by the
coming evil.
In order that will in Massachusetts, may be
valid, the Law requires the signature Of three
witnesses, and codicil, even if Il be in the
handwriting of the testAtor and can be proved
a. such, must be duly witnessed. In . recent
ease an interesting question arose. The will
was signed and witnessed. The tastator sub
eeqnently drew pen through certain clauses,
and thereby show ed his Intention to erase them.
Objection was made to the will on the ground
that it was not the original will, the changes
having been made after 1t was witnessed. The
will wss proved in the Probate Court, and
carried on appeal to the Supreme Court, where
the deoree OF the Probate Court was affirmed,
the court holding that the revocation was
proper and the will, as changed, valid. The
Qeestiou raised was whether erasures did not
require witnesses As we'll as oodioils,
The Colorado Central Marrow Gauge Rail-
road rams through Clear Crock canon. The
granite cliffs descend thousand feet to the
river, without any bank, The railway is
from the hillside. The tRistinRs
and turnings of the canon are interuineb
and innumeEable. In graceful curves or In
bold, rounded sweep the stream aud the rail-