The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-02-11
NaernIng Star and Gstaonc Asssenger.
WKw ORLEANS sUNLAY FEBRUARY H. is'7.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

oysters lasJ ear
Dry goods prices chow n shtinkage of one
third in four years.
It costs S. 700 600 TO keep mp tho road ana
foot pavements of Pans.
Colonel w. +. Tardlry ran for Governor OF
Tennessee III November. lie IL now satisfied
with the iiioe ot second assistant to the hFt
marshal of Knoxville.
Rain, formerly very ra'r in Lower Egypt
has become frequent !" Ai' xandria aud Carr"
IN conse que ncn OF .e extenbive planting of the
mulberry in thai vicinity.
In large iron InanufRctory in western
Pennsylvania al the heat for smelling II made
by gRs, which is brought in pipes from II
natural well nineteen miles away.
An Atlanta, Ga, negro has succeeded in do
1nesticatiug partTIdte. and now has about Sky
Young birds, hatcbed ont Ia the Spring, all
doing we'll They are tame healthy, ana seem
contentcd.
An iron mountain, rivalirg it's MtesouTi
names sake, has been discovered sixty miles
north of Duluth, Minn. II is eight mlos long,
one and half miles W ide, and 200 feet above
the level of Lake Superior.
English sparroWs have the reputation of
stay at homes. seldom migrating under any cir.
oumstanoes but those taken to Boston several
years ago, and their descendants, are quitting
that city by thousands.
1t is O pleasure to be able to state that not q
single child of Catholic parents in the CITY OF
Oswego, N. Y, attends the public schools. we
heartily wish the same might be said Of every
city and town in the United States
Miss Bertha Won Ifllern carries the belt. She
has just succeeded, at Boston, in winning her
race against time, which was to walk eighty
eight miles in twenty six hours. She accom-
plished the feat with twelve minutes aud
thirty-one seconds to spare.
The Fourth Artillery is now, was very re-
Gently, the most widely scattered regimental
organization in the United States army. The
several companies arc stationed in tho States
of South Carolina, Nebraska, California and
Oregon, rna the Territories OF Washington ana
Alaska.
n Northern paper sayH this Of "nr state:
" "Louisian4 has produced this year S''nUoO 600
worth of sugar, cotton nc" aud oihor c'HImo.
dites. and, by the use of free labor, IN" cost OF
production docs not exceed $50 uuU 600. Iho
profit TO Tie people for tho labor Of the year IL
Abont SJ5 Ouo 900.
William CullGu Bryant is said to have ro.
Ceived s 600 for his poem, "The Flood of
Years. published in a recent number of Serb
ner's and copied in the MORNING STAR few
weeks ago. AS the poem had less than 100
lines the price was about s. IA line, which is a
higher rate than has ever before been paid by a
magazine. II Is not every man who can be 81,
and get 81 900 for IA short poem.
About four hundred shanties are far ont on
The ice in Saginaw bay. These structures are
made of thin wood lined with heavy building
paper, and rest on runners, so that they may be
moved readily. The inhabitants are fsherpep,
who out holes through the ice and capture large
quantities of fish. The population is over n
hotel in this strange village, which will last
Drohahiv until March.
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Ahere never was ueasi iel Vi usn VI oo,i peIl
non ior admission ln'o Ino EteHS eT1i W
1ohuoh than aC tne plese.iU t'te. n9 TI oauui
date must wall Yen yentS loi li's Iulh: nc mueI
SeoureH huhnFeu itlehSS w Snpp"tI nm ~. nere
SoIl sty"r.,or oS 81 s,f, vcnnraI nrincinlo II
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Major Powell, who has cIrefully Investigated
lhe subiucr, comes TO tho conclusion tnat
poisoned UrFoWs have never been uSrd hy
American Indians The hoief Of Indians -
shtt dlscasrs Ia not como from natural csngrA
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,souIa ,oI l,I;k,l,, tn cnnr.iyr ,Ina i,;,
pcnlatiuy Glsoase by means Of poisonous sub
stances They do not know, for example, that
cattlesuake moi isou comes from sac in the rep
2.le's Jaw What thcy calf poisoned arrows
or " medicine arrows " arc arrows to which
aupernatural qualities are supposed to have
been Unmarried by iucautations
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