The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-07-08
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

= man at Pawlet, Vermont, recently los
fourteen COWS, which broke into bis Potat
field and ate vines that had been anointed Will
| kerosene to keep OF bugs.
One Of the atten dAnts in the British Muse
um was recently frightened into convulsioD
because be thought an Egyptian mummy, foul
thousand yearo old, spoke to him.
According to the Goshen correspondent O
in civil suits resulting from election wsgers
that TIlden was elected President.
The city of Shreveport, Louisiana, furnishes
the poor folks with lime to whitewash theii
houses, and the Shreveport gas company gives
it away to any citizens who want 1t for dsin'
fectant uses.
The editor of the Methodist organ which ID
| published In Syracuse, is instructed to abridge
all obituary notices to fifty lines. This was
| made necessary by the food of lengthy notices
| of deceased bscribers, which threatened to
| crowd out all other matter.
Texas has fifty wheat producing counties,
oue-ffth of which, II fclly cultivated, would
| produce sc 600 900 bushels of grain. 1t has
taxed to the extent eff their prod wen ess,
| would yield S62 600 bales-more than the en-
tire prodact OF the world at present
| The Dublin Metropolitan Police in the year
ending December IL, 1876, consisted of two
commissioner superintendents,2 % inspectors
| 1I9 sergesnts, Oil constables, and ~ deteo
| tives; total, 160. The cost Of the COM
missoners, their superior officers. clerks, etc.,
WAS "a su0 pOiiC0 lOkCcs So<o,OVOs
A backwoods chap sent an Iowa editor q
poem. The next day the paper poured half q
column of sarcasm against the young man, and
said the poetry was not worthy of an eight
yesr-old school-boy. Then the rural lad sent
the editor q copy of Horace's odes, with the
leaf turned down whence he had copied the
trashy poem"
A London manager, Felix Rogere, has beaten
Cleopatra with her legendary evans. He has
performed the feat of sailing in q tub drawn
by four geese, harnessed to the pole. from Bat
terses to Westminster Bridge, tie time occu-
pied being one hour and twenty minutes.
He was dressed in . naval captains uniform,
and received q salute Of four guns, one for each
goose.
There il a church in the quarter of Berlin
called the Burg, where the hearts OF deceased
members of the Prussian royal family are kept
in silver urns. They are behind railing, aud
an inscription is upon each urn, denoting the
name of the former possessor, his birth, death,
etc. Bodies of royal individuals, according to
the Prussian custom, are always opened, the
heart being placed in one church, the entrals
in another, and the rest of the corpse in third.
local paper says: "The young ladies of
the graduating class at the Lewiston one }
day in American prints" That's getting to be
awful old. They play pretty economy-pay
nine cents yard for the print, pay a dress-
m aker Sls for making it mp, wear ga bon
worth Of jewelry, and expect the world to go
wild in frenzied admiration of their brave
economy.
The Irish voters in Great Britain can no
longer be overlooked. They number at least
IL 900 in Liverpool, 10000 in Manchester
10 600 in G!asglow, and (without now count
ing their great power in London many dozens
of thousands in the large towns of Scotland
and the north of England. Already it has been
shown that the IRISH vote in England and
Scotland cannot be overlooked, but must be
taken into serious consideration in every cleo
toral struggle.
A 1okn
lished in London, on the principle that diseases
ca generally be cured by special system of
Diet and that they are caused chiefly by inn
proper food. Ga the entrance of visitor, "a
physician asks him regarding his ailments. His
meal is then prescribed, and he ID allowed to
eat no more than il presented to him. At the
close he is dismissed to smoke q medicated
| cigar and TO sip coffee, camomil tea, or what
ever other beverage may be considered advisa-
BILE
| Rochefort's insulting challenge to he Mar
| shall President of France TO show that be was
| really wounded at Sedan, and did not-as Rad
cal sheets have repeatedly charged-slip of
| his horse unhurt, so as to give the unpleasant
| and unpopular duty of surrendering I'M to some
one else's hand, has been met DR.. q. Bourgs-
| rel, o military surgeon, then upon the field, is
| shown, by an extract from independent medl-
| cal reports, to have attended the Marshal and
| to have found him badly wounded in the left
| side by splinter of 3 she'll.
It's not given to every dog to have 80 good
| o day as WAS recently enjoyed by a retriever
at Colombo. A ship named the Julia Ann
| having grounded, d a guilty arose as to how
. line could be got from the chip to land in or
der to rescue the crew. Several inefzctua ef-
forts were made, when the captain bethought
him of fastening line around the body of the
ships dog, fne retriever. The dog was
thrown overheard, and at once SWAN with the
line TO the shore, whereby the captain, bis
| wife and the whole crew were thereafter safe
iy landed. What have the dogs of Newfound-
land to say to thisi
A Jersey City undertaken. Charley Hall, who
usually sleeps in his store, went ont recently
to spend the evening. In his absence some
! wags stuffed an old suit of clothes to look like
q corpse, and laid it tout on board in the sleep
ing room. When the undertaken returned late
and lit the gas he was astonished to see the
supposed "shH by the side of his bed. Gently
he reached cat his hand to remove the cover
| ing from the face of the corpse. J ust then a
stuffed club desc ended upon the back of his
neck, and several of the jokers filed into tb o
room in time to see the undertaken embrace
the fraudulent corpse and disappear under the
| bed.
A mountain at Saint Foy, in the Department
OF Savoie, France, has fallen. Some days
previous indications of the state of the NOM
| tain were observed by the inhabitants of the
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