The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-04-15
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III The cotton blanket, qnite comma on IN Fran
end Germany. is made by only one mill in tt
a United States, the Eagle and Pt9aix, at c.
j.. lumbus, Ga.
Large quantities of marble being sbi ppe
u from Knoxville. Tens., to San Francisco, I
build Stock Exchange which, it is claimec
;. | will be the finest structure of it's kind in tn
| United States.
The amounts of gold held by the prorninen
d banks of Europe are now as follows: Bank o
il France Si43 $50 900; Imperial Bank Of Ger
k many $137 ,5i5 600; Bank of England sl34 COG,
1876 4; Austrian National Bank sos $780, 900.
japan when she entered into commercis
relations with other powers, promised to pm
lighthouses around her coast, and now has 30
ten being of the first class, and employs y
Europeans and 100 Jap, IN the lighthouse
service.
Since the accession of Queen Victoria to the
British throne, forty years ago, it is calculated
that eighteen members of the royal family,
including the Queens uucles ar q Cousins. have
cost the nation f20. 2l7 COO, about $lO1,.
0S5 600.
The city of Philadelphia owns it's own gas
works. lights II 500 street lamps free, sells gas
to private consumers. of better illuminating
| power than that of New York, at So Is per
| 1000 cubic feet, and pays in $500,0uO profit
annually to the city treasury
BY the new liquor la W recently passed by the
Maine Legislature, hotels are not allowed to
blish wine lists on their bills of fare. In
consequence OF this act, the bills of fare of
Portland hotels have gone in mourning, being
heavily bordered with black.
1t is shown that, on the Gulf and Atlantic
border, the great rainfalls are twice fire.
quent on the coast as at 200 miles inland from
1t. cause assigned is the rising of the air
from the ocean as it impinges on the land, and
the consequent condensation of it's vapor.
There are in Colorado over fifty peaks which
rise more that IA 900 feet above sea level.
Blanca Peak, in that State tho elevation of
which was determined last year by Hayden's |
survey, IL probably the highest point within |
the limits of the United States being ii AGA |
feet above the level of the
According TO observations made by Dr. |
Lawson TAFT, the ear in women, as a rule, can |
perceive higher notes-soU nds with o larger
number of vibrations per second-than the ear
in men. The highest limit of and ability for
the human ear is somewhere between Al GOO |
and ~ UOo vibrations per second.
A worlds chess tournament will be held in
Lelpsic, beginning with the Sth of next uly,
n celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the
chess career of Andersen, one of the greatest
d living players, and veteran admired by all
1eVotees of the game. Contestants are ex-
oected from all parts of the world.
The number of individuals entitled to wear
The cross of the French Legion of Honor is
'bout 81 600, of whom Sc GO are soldiers The |
ar the most numerous; then follow the off.
ers. the commanders, the grand officers aud,
lnaily, the grand crosses, which number but
orty- one, aud are the highest in rank.
rance and Spain in railroad communication
" the LIST of January, 1873 The work has
'een several years in progress, and will save
Welve hours of tedious diligence riding hs
ween Perpiguan and Barcelona. Next wear
ravelers will be able to travel by rail from
Paris to Malaga, almost without changing
rains.
III. Tosselli proposes to establish watering
'laces for ships at sea. 1t is we'll known that
n many places springs of fresh water arise
rom the bottom of the ocean. These he pro-
roses to utilize by means of flexible tubes held
It the surface by suitable buoys. NJ. Tosselli,
t is said, has given the subject careful study, |
md made provision for the preservation of his
apparatus against storms.
Japan has a wonderful post Of ce department
for new country. During 1876 postal
transported through the mails mum bered 80.
'62 GA; the total amount of transportation
was ID 4O6 lis miles aud the total cost of the
departments 's E was only $7l3S44, owing to small
etters containing money only six were lost.
No straw routes or steals. A most extraordi-
1ary country is Japan.
1t has been remarked heretofore that poverty
IS no crime, but it is terribly Incunveuient.
This is not true in Pennsylvania. There il ia a |
crime. The Supreme Court of that State has |
recently denied the appeal of man condemned
to death, upon the ground that he W as too poor |
10 have the papers in his case printed, rs the
rule of the court equires Rather than remit |
D rule made for their own convenience the |
udges decide that man possibly innocent |
should be denied the benefit of an appeal, aud |
hanged.
1t iB believed that turkeys were introduced |
into England from America by William Strick- |
land,~ffeutenant to Sebastian Cabot, in the |
time of Henry VII Franklin always said that |
the wild turkey should have teen the EN- blem
1t the United States. the log cabin of the pic
neer being IN his day surrounded by these
birds, who saluted each other from forest
boughs, Just as the cbanticleer awakeus the
English farmers. The first turkey seen in
France WAS brought thither by the Jesuits, and
served up at the wedding feast of Charles TX
u 1854
The German Imperial Board of Health has
ssued warning to ladies against the use of a
lew ball dress which has just come into FASH
on, and upon which there appears a glitterinp
lust of silver and gold. Examination has dis
'osed the fact that the glitter is caused by
malt and sharp pointed particles of copper
md tin, which easily become separated from
he material of the dress, and are highly in
urious to the skin, into which they work, and
specially TO the mucous membrane of the
ungs, Tor the PARTICLES are often light enough
o be inhaled.
', From the Mersey alone, to say nothing of the
hyde, TO which the Anchor and the States
ines belong, ten distinct Atlantic fleets are
oW sailing, comprising over 100 steam vessels
from 2.OOO to 5 900 tons, and carving in |