The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-05-06
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

record.
Successful experiments have been made q
Antwerp having in view the lighting of tn
harbor by means of electricity.
Four of the greatest theologians of this az
accept the days of Moses in Genesis as SO man!
long periods, namely: Cardinal Wseman
Father Perrone, Father Piancini and DR.
Molloy.
Late returns from India show the number o
people EN- Doyed on famine relief works in tn,
Bou bay Presidency TO be 22S s55. The pum
bers employ ed on famine relief orks in Mad
| ras aggregate $50 600.
Sir William Napier, no mean judge of mer
and things, said of the Epgl ish that they were
chic fly remar kahle for their bondage to absurd
delusions, "to which they cling With tenacity
proportional to their grossness."
The Kbedive of Egypt is to sell, or has by
| this time O d, to an English firm, tt Q conces
sion to export cid bones, and the ancient sep
nlchres of Egypt are to be treated as store
| houses of phosphate for English cornfelds
Seven narrow gauge railroads running from
Cincinnati in various directions are COM
menced or projected. The billy nature of that
region gives such reads great economical ad-
vsntages the cost being SIS 600 mile against
$50 900 for the broad gauge.
The dogs on Mount st. Bernard saved the
lives of forty persons during the past winter.
AT the distance of an hours march they can
discover, through their wonderful sense of
smell, whether travellers are on the mountain,
and begin to howl as soon as they do.
Stanley Matthews is not, many suppose,
brother-in-law to the President, but he is
Henry Watterson's uncle. Tins. Mr.. Hayes
married Miss Webb, Miss Webb's brother
married Miss Matthews. Her brother Stanley
married sister of Henry Watterson's mother.
Prominent European capitalists have been
negotiating for some time, and at last success
fully. with the Land Com mi ssioners of Florida,
for 100000 worth of orange lands. They
intend TO bring into the State 2 600 or 3 600
hardy farmers from England, Germany, France
and Italy.
Irrigating the dry lands of Colorado from
wells by windmill power has been recently
found practical by q far mer, near Evans, in
that State. With one small mill acre Of
vegetables was watered, and the thirst of a
herd of eighty head of cattle, horses, and sheep
was quenchcd.
peanuts is due to the use now made Of them
for the oil they contain. Last seasons pro-
duct reached coo. 900 bushels. valued at
81 600 600. The oil is in large demand as
gu bstItute for olive apd almond oils, and keeps
a mnch longer time without becoming rancid.
Willie Chapman, five year old resident of
New London, Conn.,, while playing with his
top near o Hiilfume, fell in, was carried un-
der breast water vi eel in motion and through
the covered raceway TILL he caught project.
ing timber. aud was fished out. First words,
"Where's my topP Not heroic nor yet psthe-
tic, but natural.
she expectation of champagne to America
fallen off from Ola 600 cases in 1872 to 1876 600
cases in 1876 These figures indicate that the
bard times, or the Temperance movement, CT
the competition of the native wines of Ohio
and California, or something of the sort, is
minishipg the consumption (horrid
thought y that
West Virginia has the largest and most
valuable body of timber of any State in the
Union. Prot Fontaine estima' es that the area
still covered by forests is between 9 900 900
ard 10 0OOG GOO acres, and that the value of the
surplus exportabe timber is folly $75 900 600
as it stands in the forests. The OAK, walnut,
cherry, ash, poplar, maple, elm, sycamore, and
locust attain s'Z' there not surpassed on the
American continent.
A remarkable proof of the efficacy of yacci-
nation is shown by report just issued by the
medical officer of the WatfoTd Rural Sanitary
in England. Smallpox visited o
family, nine In number, residing at Bashey.
Three had been vaccinated. and ak had not.
All six unyacclnatPd persous took the disease,
and four died, while the three that had been |
vacoin ated escaped altogether-one Of the
three being Guild at the breast, fed by it's
mother within two hours of her death.
TIE company that published the catalogues |
of the Centennial Exhibition lost $4,000 in |
the enterprise, and have sued the Commits |
siouers for that sum, basing the claim on |
violation of contract. The stock hoc ers in the
Globe Hotel and Opera House Company lost |
about quarter of their Investment, and most
Df the other great hotel ventures near the |
were equally unfortunate. The |
within the grounds, the city |
theatres, and the regularly established hotels
came out OF the Centennial season Will enoF-
nous profits.
The ball recently given at the Grand Opera
House. in Paris, in aid of the distressed work
men of Paris, realized 1870. 600 francs, about |
S38 600. after dcducting expenses, amounting |
10 $l2. 600. The street in front ofthe building |
was in great part inclosed and filled with |
irees and plants in boxes. Carriages drove |
INTO this magnificent Winter garden and de-
posted their behounced aud jeweled freight. |
Paris papers are eloquent upon the decora.
ions of the interior. The lady patronesses, of
whom Madame MacMahon was at the head,
old 4 OCO tickets, besides the many others
disposed of.
The disad Y antages of wearing false hair were
painfully illustrated at Mlllersville, Pa, the
other day. A boat, in which two yeuug ladies
and two young men were passengers, cIpszsd
,uddenly, and one of the young ladies sank out
IF sight. AS she reappeared one of the young
men grasped her hat, which came off The
ady sank and on her second appearance Jared
20 better, for this time the frightened youth
,aughS her by her hair which, being false,
,ame off in his hands, and down she went
again. AT last, however, she was caught by
her real hair and dragged aboard the boat,
after having had what may properly be called