The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-05-20
@o-ulns Star and Catholic Messenger,
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GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A correspondent of the american Ari journal
says that the girls Of Cashmere make shawls
worse S3o,ooo, ana ~Nl SHOW Soo dtsunet COT
ore or sbades which We cannot mako or even
Z distinguish.
8heating ships with Taper fastened on with
cement, IS being tried ~ Portsmouth, Eng
land. A sea captain VIII invented the pro-
cess claims that sea Soed will not grow on, or
bArnacies adhere to tho paper.
New Jersey firm has lost SlO0, 900 In e1
periments TO fnd out how 10 dye plush for
silk hats. The best that can be produced in
America turns brown under the hot IRON
Heuco the high price OF silk hats.
A school law recently adopted in Missouri
required school boards 10 give the preference
to colored teachers for oolored sohools, and
prohibits the employ yment of white teacher
for q oolored school when n competent colored
sone can be had.
Anthony Allison, q Confederate soldier, who
lost track of his family during the war while
he was cenfned in q Northern prison, and has
been looking for them ever since. fonnd them
tho other day At Rising Fawn, Tenn.-and his
wife hadn't married another man.
A mockiDg bird entered Methodist church
At Jackson, Tenn. the other Sunday, and
ing Of the altar. where it sas In attentive
silence till the close Of the sermon, when 1t
warbied some of its sweetest notes and sailed
away.
Irrigation 10 nowhere else In the United
States 60 extensively praotised.as in Califor-
MIA; and there IL is, perhaps. carried into an
Improbable excess. scheme for main
canal through several counties, with the nsces-
sary branches, will entail cost of $35 on
every acre of land affected.
The citizens of Winfield, Kansas, turned
ont in masses lately, headed by o band of
music, and fought grasshopPers all day. The
account says: "As the people drove clouds of
these pests from them the band discoursed
sweet music, and made the war a very anus
ing and Interesting one"
Before the select committee of the House of
Commons on the London Fire Brigade, On
inspecting officer of the Lord Cbamherlain's
department. said that he approved of the prin-
ciple on which the Opera Comique (London)
was constructed. The entrances are through
underground passages. and the audience
safe.
A Nashville bank robber bnrrowed under o
street for Ave days. and at length came up in
the GOAL vault of O beer saloon three doors
away from the bank, and was bitten in eleven
places by the most uncom promising dog he
ever tried to conciliate. The next time he
tries any mining operation he will take prsc-
tical engineer along.
Austria. Nearly every sheep station in New
South Wales has lost from ]. 900 to 5000 head
OF sheep. The total loss is estimated at over
L. ,0OO, COO sheep. A traveller writes that in rid
Ing seventy miles not blade of grass ap-
bpeRfee, whore in former seasons dooks were
N2ocustomed to roam.
The arms and ammunition factories in Con-
.aecticut, including the Bridgeport metallic
tory OF Waterbury are running night and day to
All ordeSs from both Rnssia and Turkey. The
Winchester Arms Company of New Haven fill
- tho cartridges Colts factory in New Hartford
Is said to have recently received u largo order
from Russia for navy revoveTs.
Worcester Press :-"Tber. is perhaps no
more perfect picture Of perplexity than the
countenanoe of y man who finds in his pocket
letter which hs wife gave him o month ago
to mail, aud holds IL up to the light in futile
effort to determine whether there is Anythin x
in it that would convict him If he were ro
carry 1t in his pocket the rest OF the year and
mail it on the anniversary of the day on which
is was written"
The Washington Home at BoSton, for the
cure of lnebriates, contained 3l7 patients at
the hrst of the year. OF these, III were mar
ried men and 140 single; 900 were Americans
and 81 foreigners, and ITO were mechanics,
So clerks, 13 merchants, 10 lawyers aud =
physieians, Toe average number OF days each
paSieno has remained is 2l. Three months are
S-considered necessary to receive the full bene
iitb of the iustitution.
New Britain, In Florida, is owned by far
rnsrs from New Britain. in Connecticut, and it
described as "a slice of New England out o
its latitude" About two years ago fourteen
families bought two hundred acres of Govern
unent laud on Halifax river. aud four hundred
In n dense forest near by. Now there ~ u row
of pretty cottages frontiug the river, the lane
being divided into strips running back from
tho stream. The forest is being cleared away
and orange trees have been planted.
Prosecutions have recently been instituted
IN England for selling preserved green pea
which had been colored with poisonous insre
dieuts. A London dealer who stated thai h
received $4,000 oans of these peas from franc
per auuum was fued 2S. I'D. and costs, at tn
Wandsworth Police Court the other day, AN
n like Cue was imposed in o number OF oth0
cases. In Liverpool it was shown in one cas-
that the peas had been dissolved with salt q
copper CORES pondinR to two and half grain
of CRY stalized sulphate of copper. Any perso
who partook of the peas regularly, said tn
analyst, would certainly be injured.
Barbers often assert that razors get tired {
shaving, aud that they will perform satisfa'
torily If permitted to rest for time. 1t hi
been found by microscopic examination thI
the tired ra2,r, from long stropPing by Il
same hand and in the same direction, has tn
ultimate 6bEes of its surface or edge u
arranged in one direction, like the edge OF
piece of cut velvet; bat after months re
thsse flores rssrrsuga themselves here 70 gen
ously, crossing each other and presenting
esWiike edge, each abre supporting its fello'
and hence cutting the beard instead of beir
forced down fiat without cutting, as WHIT
laid by.
Tho omonnt of water passing over Mage