The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-10-21
Asrnins Ger and Catholic Messenger.
nnw ORLEANS. SUNDAY OCTOBER al. 1877.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

All the glass manufacturers on 'no .I !
eide, Pittsburg, Penn, are RAINING oo"o'e
time on account of large orders
The enduring odor of musk Ia marvellous
When Justinisp, in 53S rebuilt What 10 no"
the mosque of 81 soph'h, tne noI'ns ".'
charged with pu.k, and TO this day the at
uosphere of TIE building 10 hlleo Win the
olor.
A society hss been formed in Indianapols,
with subor dnate organizations In al the ienu-
ing cities and towns of the state, TO reiieVe
the people of tho surplus laborers by obtaining
homes for them where land is cheaper and |
labor in greater demand
By French law, aEehiteets- contractors |
are held responsible for period of ten years
after the completion of structures for the total
or partial loss of buildings constructed by
them, IL such loss is caused by fault either
in the buildipg or foundation.
From November 1, 1876. to August 81, 1877,
the foreign exports of Pensacola have been
5 34O,294 cubic feet of hewn timber, o9l $50
cubic feet sawn timber, 2os CUBIC ,d reet OAK
timber, % 92i 900 feet lumber, .3c7 bales
cotton, employing $50 vessels, with tonnage
of Die, AGO tons.
The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
Railroad Company have paid for sixty i've OF
the eighty-one lives lost at the Ashtabuia
disaster, at q rate averaging 50 GOO apiece.
The most expensive life sacrificed cost the
company $1,000, and a newly married couple
were appraised at only $4,000.
Miss Minnie Z. Hodges, who has just re-
signed the position of cashier and money order
clerk in the Des Moines, Iowa, Post Office,
handled and paid out during six years 81 ,ooo,-
900, and never made mistake OF cent. AT
times she had charge of the whole office, with
twenty five and thirty clerks under her direc-
ton.
Tho magnificent new town hall of Man
chester, England, was opened last month The
total cost of building aud furnishing will be
near $4,000 900. There is peal of twenty-one
bells, each inscribed with Tennysoh's lines
from "In Memorian':
Ring In the Christ that is To be-"
The centre of population OF the United
States is said to have travelled westward,
keeping curious)y near the thirty ninth par
allel of latitude, never getting more than
twenty miles north or two miles south of it.
In eighty years it has travelled only four hun
bred miles. and il still found nearly fifty miles
eastward of Cincinnati
q tourist in rural England writes at is
curious to note how little interest the lower
rustic knows even the most common. In In
dia, on the other hand, the natives know
almost every tree and flower, and can give
much Information on them which is not to be
despised by the most accomplished naturalist"
Among the novelties of the coming Paris
exhibition will be youth of fourteen with
feet shaped precisely like his hands. He CON
use them for the same purposes, and plays
upon the piano with both hands and feet, hav-
Ing peculiar chair which enables him to curl
MA body into the necessary position; He is a
Very good performer, and speaks both English
and German. His French ia yet imperfect
About ESQ 900 pistols have been made OF
Norwich, Conn, this year. Orders in
crensng. and many of the works are running
works make some 100000 cartridges day
they have supplied Russia with 40,OO0OO0
Turkey with 20 900 900, and have just got an
order Tor 100000 from Italy. The Russian
and Turhieh inspection officers nave Deer
working SIDE by side at the factory.
-Sverv one knows about VIchy water IN
avery one doesn't know about Viooy. Nns us
large, nourshiug place At the extTe ,l sou' ~
Nv, mart of the Department OF Aiher, rrauce
~ stands on the south bank Of the rive
Allier o tributary of the Loire me Town
very we'll built, and was lnmehse,! i'nPt W.
in tho reign of Napoleon III. Mosb Oh III
49, ara the property of the State, and every
thing has been done TO make inc per eS' 90 ~" nc
"a ulensart possible. IN Ao'o, ave ~ ~
hottl,s of yichy water We're exported from tu
town
A striking illustration Of the extent I
which property in this country has shrnnk
valuo. il shown in the casn OF an esI"se IL
Western city. The asSeLs of tho hecehsen " o
valued inst before his death Mt one milion az
lars above his liabilities. lie WAS regarded
a mnu Of immense wealth, and lived Ia gre
style. Yat his estate ie no" proh"9nI
rOfnliy lnsolv emit, and his executors nsk d
creditors 10 receive seventy,HVe per GEM.
their claims. He was regarded rs nillo
aire down TO the moment of hiS death, YET
The while he was actually heavily III ueoV'
owning cent in the world
The importance of the naval engineer 10"
DAYS IS illustrated in the cHae 81 me ID
which has thirty four eDGIDes Oh board
elusive OF tte powerful pIssonss ana Tn oy mmHi
.hat propel the ponderous vessel lne capac
Of these alone is equal, it is said, to 1000 ho
There MISC feed engines sSd sna
snS2ines ngines to pump with and engines
hoist with there are even engines to aid
working the guns, to assist in torpedo servic
and for turning the magnet machine that gu
out the electric light
AtKanthalai, Ceylon, there is magnitio'
tank on a scale SO enormous that 1T would p
cost more than five million dollars to erect
It was constructed about A. D. 275. s
more remarkable is the great store tank
Kalowewa. Its circumference is supposed
have been hardly less than thirty milee, {
it was kept full by two rivers. Channels
tended from 1t over fifty miles, which COW
ed an unfailinG supply of water to cert
large store tanks and thence to minor VIII
gradually restore many of these great WoI
Here We see how the ianoients proven
Samines.
Since the beginning of the war three Ia
manufactures have been established in RuJ