The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-01-14
GENEB1L VIEWS ITEMS.

Ship building on the L iSde employs 4o.'
men.
Gen. Crook says that IudfaBs make the b
cavalry 10 the world.
The aggregate amount of flour yro6n> ced ca
year in America is over 45 900, 600 bnrreA = J
quiring in the Deighborhood of 95o. QUO, U
slaves for packages, on the suppositiop that
is all barrelled.
It Is moderate estimate that the attempt {
count in Hayes has already cost the countr,
In tne stoppage of business, in the enforce
pauperism OF lsboring people, and the genera
decline in values, 81 least one Thousand mil
lion of dollars.
About 1900 Icelanders have i'm wigrated int
| Manitoba and settled on Lake Winnipeg, at
| place which they call Gimli The Colonia
Government has given them land and belpe
| them to get over. They are very unlucky
| however, this winter, numbers of them, espe
cislly children, having died of smallpox.
| Little Delaware is not the only place ia tn
world where the whipping post is utilized. Il
England perpetrators of various crimes ar
punished with the lash. It is understood til Ia
in New York the system is to be introduced a
punishment for garroters and burglars Ii
England experience has demonstrated tha
criminals are more afraid of forty lashes thar
twenty years Imprisonment.
A Russian officer has just invented an inge
NOUS proiectiie which will attract attention.
The czaroch, as it IL called. is au elongated
| shell, the head of whichfs completely spherical
When fired the CT aroch leaves tho gun like an
ordinary she'll, bnt when it bursts the cylin.
drical part alone flies into pieces, the spherical
head continuing it's light toward the Infantry,
usually massed beyo nd the artillery.
The number of pilgrius who assembled last
year at Mecca is stated to have been lac, 900.
OF these 40 600 were conveyed by sea, and the
The whole number is below the average of
former years, the falling off being accounted
for by the French Government having forbid
den the pilgrimage from Algiers in conse uuence
n oh if12
Senator Brown, the managing director of the
Toronto Globe, has jast fought and practically
won another battle behalf of the freedom
of the press. This time it was against one of
iireiy oVerstepped the limits of his jodicial
privileges, was sharply taken to task by the
Toronto Globe. On the question of Contempt
the Court was divided, aud the victory there
fore rested with the newspaper.
A Boston debating societyrecently grappled
with the problem of 1.-THE Relative Ecougnic
Value of the Equine and Bovine Species" The
discussion was carried on in seven languages
aud Emerson. Both sides were evenly bal.
anced and victory long hung doubtful, till at
laet it was urged that oxen were more useful
t han horses, because they gave milk. On the
face of the returns the OK received large
popular majority.
Governor Bsveridge. of Illinois, the great
American pardoner, turned twenty convicts
loose on the community in the last month of
bis term. Among them Gregoire Psri, an
ltalisn salocu-keeper. who, on the day of the
great Chicago fire October 9, 1879, cut two
men to pieces with huge knife because a
third, stranger to them, didn't pay for his
ives committed to life-imprison mont,
which in Illinois is from Eve to six years. In
PERKS case it was less.
The hair producing countries par excellence
are Normandy and Picardy in France. Bohemia,
and Tyrol. French hair ranks fret
igh md lnaf In
and English. Hair purchasers generally hunt
n COUPLES, the typical old woman and the de- |
'oJ. They claim that the moro stupid the
population of district, the finer will be the
lair of the women. Cutting the hair right eff
polls the market, so it is only tbinned ont AZ
Intervals. Thus several crops are gathered
rom one head.
The scientific world ia greatly interested in
he statement chat tie United States sh;p.of |
7::r Getty sbnIg, in voyage from Faval to |
(! bc&Jtar, disco gefsd an immense coral reef
ocsten IN latitude &c deg 80 min. N. aud lougi,
Uoe IL deg % min w. UGtil the discovery of
he Gettysburg the ezisteuca of the reef had
ever been suspected. The reef has bsen
thoroughly surveyed, and the dispatches show
hat the delicate and valuable pink coral, SO
igh]y priced by the world of fashion in ell
GEES, will be found in immense quantities The
ner shades of this coral excel in value bv
eight, that of pure gold-selling at from SIS
} $40 per ce.
Experimenting in acoustics, A. 81. Mayer,
I.
wing: " Let q man read q sen tence over end
yet again with the same tone and meditation
Vo1cs, and while he is doing sound A
pc (256 double vibrstions). remark able ,
fsot Is produced, which varies somewhat with
70 voice Experimental on, but the ordinary !:
snlS is ns follows: 1t appears as though two l
rsons were reading together, one With a
ave voice (Which is formed by the combina. :
On of all the readers real vocal sounds below q
in pitch, or having less than 256 vibrations) 9
. other with high pitched voice, generally -
ueaky and nasal"
The marked deterioration in the physique of n
e crews of the British ships is the subject of t
m ark by FCopsul Msrsh in his report on the a
ade of Calmo, Peru, during 1874 and 1875, v
s. Issued. This deterioration is. says tho g
'nsul, but too evident )" at least fifty per a
MT OF the men who appear at the Consulate Il
OF broken constitutions the effect in most ].
ses, of excessive drinking, licent;ous living, G.
d exposure, presenting a sad and striking a
ntrast TO the rudy faces and vigorous frames ii
the corresponding class of men in the ROYAL ~
Wy. Tho proportion of foreign to British is
men serving on board British chips has 8
On about eighty per cent. g,
l late Havana paper Announces the return tn tt