The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-06-17
Msrnlng Star and Catholic Messene er.
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GENERAL NE VS. ITEMS.

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Tho Emperor of Germany wears eighty
eight decorations on gala days.
A bouquet of $50 flowers, each Of q different
kind, was exhibited at Il Georgia fair.
London graveyards, long since disused fol
buriais, are being converted into gardens.
The latest in veatigator gives Jerusalem 0ot
Christians, $4,000 Je =, ADD 10 600 Mobamme
dana.
A man in wilm,pgton flied sprinkling pot
with benzins. aud dampeued the carpet in his
parlor with H.. protection against moths
Gas generated by the benZine capsed violent
explosion, killing two women VINO were III Tue
apartment
A radical Danish divine, instead of using the
regular prayer for the King, altered it a few
Sundays sgo to petition, that God wouid en-
tighten the mind Of the KING and turn his
heart so that he might again deserve the
affection of his people"
A grove OF the great trees ofthe Yosemite has
juBt been plored. 1t is Of altitude similar to
that of the other groves, q 900 feet Instead,
however,, of being only cluster of forty trees
it Ii o six-mile-square collection OF ten thou
sand. There are trees in it estimsted to be
from 100 to 1000 years old.
Cinnamon in California are themselves com
planning of Chinese cheap labor" Coal
mines in Amador county are worked by China
men from the interior of China, who speak
dialect that the rect of their countrynen 10
California cannot understand, accept $40 q
month wages aud board themselves.
The valuation of Boston 10 to be reduced
this year $50 600 900. making . reduction Of
500, 100000 within two yesIs--It 10 claimed
that the valuation for the purposes of taxation
ofreal estate should be what it will bring at q
forced sale, and that for some years past the
land Of Boston has been much above this.
An English commission, sent to examine
some recently discovered guano deposits to the
south Of Tarapacs, in Peru, has confirmed the
reports of previous explorers as to the i'm
mense quantity of the deposit, amounting to
ct least 10 900 900 tons; and it is richie. in
ammonia and phosphates than that of the
ChinchR Islands.
Abont two weeks ago, while a eon of Mr..
Silas Wright, near Troy, Alabama, aged about
sixteen years, was seated on log fishing, a
huge moccasn giided across his lap, which
frightened him TO suoh an extent that he be-
came completely paralyZed with terror, and
remained in that condition several days. He
ia just recovering speech
Judge Pierce, of Philadelphia, said from the
bench q few days ago that the 900 licensed
gave one tavern to every one hundred inhab.
itAnts; probably one TO every tWenty-f We
male adults. The fruits for the year 1875 were
"a Gil arrests, which was 4o3 more than all
the arrests from other causes.
Peter b. Brigham, who died in Boston last
Thursday, worth ~ 600 COO, made the first Of
his fortune by keeping IN oyster saloon. He
: nsed to pass around among his customers, ask.
when he was paid for them always said (:
"Thank you sir: cali again" which courtesy
may partly account for tae - 600, eco.
The London Spectator writes: With a
great war raging, revelation possibly immi-
nent in France, and serious debates instant ly
occurring in her own Parliament, Her Males
ty retires into the depths of the Highlands,
GOO miles from her capital. Shonid, therefore,
anything se-ions occur, her Premier-an old
man, fall Of gout-must travel 500 miles for q
personal Interview.
The Albany moulders' union, formerly one
OF the most powerful labor organizations in
The country, has virtually disbanded by voting
that the members may work for whatever
wages they can get They have been on q
strike all the winter and spring. and tseil
places in the foundries have been flled. The
same result has nearly been reached in Troy,
gfeas stove manufacturing place, here Ions
strike has been attended with much blood
shed.
are tearing down the old Jesuit barracks
built in 1896, If we remember sriRht, and IL
the foundations discovered certain antre
thickly bestrewn with bones, which were .
once taken to be the tombs aud relics Of victim
Of the Jesuits. Investigation, however
showed that the recesses formed necessar!
psrts of the fIuudation plan and that thu
bones were not humau and had probably beer
collected by rata.
The Postmaster at Corpus Christi, Texas
has very properly decided that the king snake
the deadliest reptile in that region, is no
legitimate mail matter. The serpent Was sen
from San Diego to Corpus Christi to be malice
abroad, aud had therefore already travelled
considerable distance in charge of the mai
carriers. Alligstora are sometimes tnrwarde
through the Post On 70, but when 1t comes t.
handling venomous eorpcn 3 the best. natureI
postmas ter in the world may hesitate
A Frenchmau named Buvert has nvente
what seems 10 no highly snccessfnl dreas f"
defying fire. II 10 believed o be chief
formed of sponge, which is soaked just bsfor
use. The poryon which covers tho head
sufficiently large to contain the air necessaT
for breathing while the operator ia at worl
NJ Buvert rolled red hot coal withon
apparently experiencing any Inconvenience
and il is believed that the dress might be- {
great value in enabling the wsnrers to saw
valuAbles Mt fires.
Arithmetic men everywhere can amuse them
selves by computing what are the odds agains
y submarine volcano in 9 900 feet of water W
heaving a ledge of rock preciaely ne q ship
passing over it, 40 "a to tear off ten feet of be
keel and sink her. Yet such was the exper
ence of the steamer Knight Templar. Whe
about eleven miles of the island of Galita, IT
mis-, there was a Submarine rumblnR lasting
minute, the ocean seethed white all round he
and che received the blow about Hfteen fee
from her stem, sinking four hours Afterward
Correspondence of Richmond Dispatch: TIL
Grand aatafa of the family of Lenoir In HuRut