The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-11-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Tho eucalyptus trees planted at Nice have
prevented, during the last two years. tho
mnlariRl feyers usual in that city.
The number of miners killed in the anthra
cite coal regions of Pennsylvsuia in 1876 wal
22S and the number of wounded 472.
A Telegraph station has been established 81
Giesvor, near Cope North, Norway. 1t II
II deg. 1g north latitude, and is the mos
northern station on the globe.
News from Naples announces sn iueressed
activity of Mount vesuvius. The glow of FIRE
In the crater is so intense that 1t can be dis
tinotly seen from Naples at night.
bridge across the Bosphorus is to be Cap.
tain james B. Esds's next attempt. 1t will
cost sos 600 900, and be of iron and masonry
100 feet wide and 6QQQ lnn9 -witb-ffteen
spans, the central one of $50 feet.
The dangers from the noiseless running OF
bicycles have been SO great in Eugland that the
Watch Committee Of Liverpool recommend a
law that anybody, running yelocipede with
ont o bell attached to it ball be fned S..
It has become very common for ladies of the
Russian nobility in the large cities Of the En-
pire to offer their diamonds to the public
treasury. and wear 81 ornaments onttons torn
from the uniform of slain officers and sol
aiers.
A new style of postal card is now used in
Germany. It consists of two cards of the or
dinary size attached together each having
nished by the Post Office and sent for the pur-
pose of facilitating the return of answers.
Among the newest fashionable sh ades are the
following: Dead turquoise, startled pymph,
lily green, pasha's green, cooked sorrel green,
Persian lilac, Dubarry pink, Pierrot white
souci or marigold yellow and matador red.
Considerable enterprise is shown by some of
the little towns in Texas. Weatherford,
town about 30 miles from Forth Worth, and
having about . 600 Inhabitants, desiring to be
connected by rail with the rest of the world
has actually raised $751; 900 to help bring the
rail to that place.
After 30 years of absence, shoals of herring
appeared this year on the coast of Denmark.
The fish was for many centuries the chief
source Of revenue of the country, and the
Danes naturally hope that 1t may net soon
again disappear, as 1t did suddenly one Au-
tumu over 300 yeara ago.
The making up of old prescriptions has Just
been legally interdioted to druggisss ie Ger
many in all cases in which tho prescription
contains any powerful drastic, emetic, or mar
ootio component, unless the practictioner who
originally wrote the prescription sanctions its
reproduction by written order.
At Newmarket o couple of weeks ago three
Eorses-Tredeger, Fair Lyonees and InVal-ran
fos post sweepstRkes and made o dead heat
Of three, thing that had not happened in Q
6eld CT three starters since 1867, when at the
Craven meeting Piemsn, Conde and Archimedes
Iau for race and flushed together.
The trade Of o cook" remarks n recent
traveller in the French provinces, ISIS an honor
uneducated women, as it is with MS. The pro-
Yrietor of a great hotel will spend whole days
in the kitchen for the benefit OF his guests
He brings Intelligence and enthusiasm to his
work"
During the past year the consumption of
cotton reached the highest point ever attained
in this country, while the value of our cotton
fabrics exported has, despite low prices. in
creased 5000 600 within two years, or from
SO O90, 600 for the fsoal year ended june 30,
1875, to $40, 900 for the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1877.
Professor Wirchow OF Berlin, as the result
of q series of observations upon 100 153 Ger
man childreu, hnds that in northern Germany
children with light hair, blue eyes and fair
skins are far the most numerous, while the
brunette type preponderstes in southern Ger
many, attaining it's msximuCf at the south
western and southern portions
French memoirs relating TO the seventeenth
and Ell iGhteenth centuries all go to prove tb at
French women of rank received n high order
of education, and even pursued ahstrnse stu
dies. History tells how the beautiful Duchess
Du Maine herself prepared in secret, from the
BibNotheqne du Roi, the argumeuts and legal
precedents to prove her husband's right to the
regency.
The society formed in France year or two
ago for the purpose of surveying for canal
TO unite the Atlantic and Pacific by the DArien
route, is making progress in it's operations.
Jts explorers are busily at work in the United
States of Colombia, under tho direction of
Lieut.. WSse, WhO reports MS connIanoo Gnab
an interoceanic canal by way of Colombia will
soon be an accomplished fact.
OF the 5 1853 churches belonging to the Pres
byterisn Church, 94S are reported vacant
about 19 per cent. Of these, - are among
the strongest, counting from 200 to over 500
members each S3 coupt from 100 to 200 each
166 from so to 100 members each 234 from 2o
to so members each $40 from 10 to 25 men,
bers each; 10 number below 10 each, of which
& have two apiece. OF the i ,744 ministers GS6
have no regular charge.
A party of emigrants from Pittsburg to Ar
kAnsas are going to their new homes in 3
cheap and novel manner. They have built
themselves u large boat, on which they in
tend to place oil their household goods, and to
float by way of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers
to the mouth of the White river, from which
latter point they will have their boat tOwed
up that river to the lands in Arkansas upon
which they intend to settle.
The wiudow-g glass manufacturing interest is
now one of the principal industries of this
country, and is destined eventu8lly to check
The Importation from France and Belgium. In
fact, largo quantities of glass and glassware
have heen exported from the United States
during the past year. There are in this coun.
try seventy-twO glass factories, of which
twenty-seven are In New Jersey, in which
State there is u capital of $1,000, 900 invested
in the business.