The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-12-23
Msrniug s+.r and Catholic Messenger.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

you don't want to DO robbed Of your goo
name, do not have 1t painted on your umbrells
An eminent Dublin surgeon has given $500
to establish lifeboat on the wild coast o
Kerry, In memory of his deceased brothers.
Ink stains in cotton or linen can be removed
by washing in salt and water. This should b.
done before the fabric is washed with soap.
Switzerland has passed q law prohibltiu,
-childran nnder the age Of fourteen from beinj
employed In manufactures after the first o
next May.
During 1876, lOs,77l Italians emigrated t.
America According to the statistics 50 900 o
this grand total are set down as temporar,
tourists, the rest as permanent settlers
Malmaison, the favorite surburban home Of
the fret Napoleon and his Empress Josephine
vas lately sold by auction to Mr.. Ganiier OF
Paris for $50. COO france, or about STAG. 900.
The MoffAt bell-punch, in use in Virginia
bsrroOms, is good collector of statistics for
the Temperance reformers The Richmond
bell-punchee registered in seventeen days 255
600 drinks.
There are now In Boston ak public and many
more private kindergartens. St. Louis has
thirty.two that are pu Bile, Chicago has seven,
aud Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis and
Nashua, n. H., oneeach.
There 10 nothing so very Astonishing about
!. Herbert Browne, the Rhode Island man, who
10 alive with two bullets Ia his head. One edi-
sor has daughter whose head 10 JGft of baffs
and parties all the time.
Ben You has gone back to China after m ak
ing 500. 600 in the Cigar business In San Fran
cisco. Considering the relative value of
enormously wealthy ut home.
The new Catholic Church OF Rome, Georgia,
wss dedicated two Sundays ago with imposing
religious ceremonies, and q special train waa
Tun from Dalton to Rome to accommodate the
number who desired to witness the services.
Berlin paper says that Germany in 1880
will lave q feet which. although Inferior in
the nnm ber of yessels 10 those of either F. .Ance
or England. viii be superior in the quality of
ls .erial and artillery in the cdr cation of Off
GERS, and in the completeness Of it's eq nip.
meots. The construction of vessels proceeds
Aar' dly.
In the Cathedral at Brunswick, Germany, it
was recently determined to soour the walls
and pillars. AS the dirt of ages came off, the
indicators of cleanliness were rewarded by |
the unCovering of old paintings of great merit |
that had Ueen entirely forgotten. Sketches
are to be made of them first, and they are then |
81 be restored |
In that paradise of Kentucky, the blue grass |
region, famous for it's racing horses, its whiskey
and it's beautiful maideps, real estate price
have touched hard pan. Tho Lexington Prese
says that at uo time in twenty-five years has
land been 80 cheap. Sixty dollars TO ninety
dollars an acre 10 the price for farms really
worth from 500 to $3.50 per acre.
Hitherto the names Of the streets Of the
thriving city of Gloucester, Mass, have ex-
listed only in the Imagination of it's inhAbi-
Eants. Since Jnly last committee has been
At work aaming the streets. When the work
is com pleted, 226 streets and oonrts will have
been named, and 800 signs pat mp to designate
them. The houses will then be numbered, and
letter oarriers commence their rounds.
Over 600 chiusmer are employed oigsr-
weekly pay ranges from SC to sic. One firm
employs white g'rls who receive from SO to Sl2.
Most Of the manufacturers are willing to en-
ploy white boys and girls in place of the Chi.
nese workmen, if they can get them; but white
men arc not to be had at figures low enough to
make competition with Chinese labor posi-.
hls.
An iron mountain, 10. 500 feet high, and riv.
alling the famous iron mountain of Misaouri
has been discovered in Colfa1 county, New
Mexico. The ore is almost entirely pure irou
and in connection with the immense q uan titles
Of coal foand in ColfAx county. this huge de-
postS of iron ore must ut no distant day be-
come the source of industries which will
gather and support q large and thriving popu-
LAtiop.
In India last year 1913 persons and 54 $50
,Attle were destroyed by wild animals and
poisonous snakes, u considerable increase that,
however. may be accounted for In part by the
greater accuracy OF The later set of statistics.
10 rewards for the destruction of noxioue ami.
mails and reptiles The complete figures for
he laSt season were % 357 wild animals and
s7O,1e5 poisonous snakes killed.
Flannel for wear next to the skin only came
nto general use ia this country about tho be-
ginning OF the century, and 10 said to have
been frss worn hero by the soldiers of Lord
eercy's regiment, which encamped on Boston
Common IN October, IVA. There WA then
'oarcely hauSel enough in the town to clothe
he regiment. TIE wearing of 1t was subse-
suently strongly advocated by Count Rumfotd.
The DGke of Wellington insisted upon it.
James Todd, one of General Lees fAvorite
conts in the West Virginia campaign, was
killed recently in despute with hunter
lear Stanton, Va. He was reputed the most |
'kilful hunter in the valley of the Shenandoah,
having killed more than twenty -seven hundred
leer up ito 1860 with one old Misunderstanding
life. He could perform the feat of putting Q
oullet through o hat on the opposite eide Of q
rec, by placing an axe blade for the ball to
glance upon.
As an evidence of the rspidity with which
Texas is advancing, during the year ending
Juno last there were taken up, under the home
tie ad law 4 SIG. 900 acres. New land taken MP
lnder the homestead law, for sotual oultiva-
ion, 10 generally taken in lots of 100 scres.
{ would appear that more than II 0Oe new
arms were commenced last year under the
homestead law alone. Bot this is not ali.
There were sold during the year GAO 9ol acres
or cash, and l37 800 acres were allotted on
military land warrants.
a French correspondent says of the oham-