The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-05-13
Mornlng Star and Catholic Messenger.
HEw ORLEANS, SUNDAY, MAY 10 is.T
GENERAL NE WS ITEMS.

said, $4,000.
From December II, 1869 to March 81 last
the names of over 200 900 perscns were placed
on the register of habitnal criminals in Eng
land and Wales.
bill has passed the Illinois Legislature
authorizing railroad conductors to stop trains
and put off everybody playing cards for money
or using obscene lanRnag".
The little town of Salem, N. c., ships aunu-
alp 600 600 pounds of dried blac berries to
Chicago. 1t costs one cent per pound to de-
liver them there, whore they are sold at fifteen
cents pound.
When it was proposed to lay down the first
ocean telegraph between Europe and America
subscriptions were obtained with great diff
culty. Now the amount of money invested in
submarine telegrapby is stated at $l10 600 600.
Children now say in New York when there's
strong odor of flowers: "Oh, what a smell of
funeral" Such is the dreadful connection of
ideas. 1t is evidently high time for No
Flowers" to wind up the announcement of
funerals.
return to the British Parliament states
shat the total number of persons proceeded
against for drunkenness In oonnties, cities
and towns in Irelsnd during 1875 was 95 ga,
and the number of these cases that occurred
on Sundays was 8 400.
The standard of drunkenness varies consid-
erably between London and Edinburg. A
witness In u London Court testified that 'a
1nsn is properly drunk when he cannot walk"
An Ednburg witness swears that "a man has
nay enough till he can nay speak.
General Newton, the renowned engineer and
superintendent of the government works at
He'll Gate joined the Canadian pilgrimage
and IL on his way to Rome to take part In the
grand celebration of next month. Few pill
grims will receive greater attention in the
Eternal City.
Two yonng lawyers had n difference as to
the meaning of an obscure passage in the
"Christian Year." and resolved to appeal to
the author Mr.. kebe wrote back that
mother had hit npon the right Interpretation.
but he really couldn't now say exactly what
he meant himself.
Recently the Siena, Italy. authorities forbade
an anniversary procession in honor of the
Blessed Virgin. TTe civil authorities, who
intimAted ut the Cathedral door th at the pro-
oession was not to proceed, were overpOwered
by thousands of peasants from the country,
and the procession took place amid shouts of
"Yiya Maria"
Maine's new Savings Bank law restricts
semi annual dividends to q per cent. but pro-
vides for o triennial division of net earnings.
Deposits are limited to $4,000, except from
Widows, orphans, and certain Others. All
deposits are exempt from municipal taxation,
and those OF married women and minors are
not subject TO the control of husbands or
parents.
OF tho many candidates named by rumor
for thevacaut chair in the French Academy it
is now officially announced that but three
have sent in their names Vctorien Sardou,
the Due d'Audiffeet Pasquer and NJ. Leconte
de Lisle. III. de Pontmartin and N. Arsene
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patched the letter which alone places the
writer's pretensions definitely before the
Academic body.
The Massachusetts State Board of Health
issues circular descriptive of bydrophobia. | {
The disease is divided into three stages-the 7
hrst is marked by restlessness, the second by
spasms and frothing, and the third by para
iysis. An attack of the disease, it says may {
be avoided in vast majority of cases, after q .
person has been bitten by rabd animal, by1 {
Mt once washing and csuteIiang the wounds t
With white. hot iron or nitrate of silver. 6
Notwithstanding the general business de- 9
preston during the present fiscal year, the
luternal revenue receipts promise to come up {
10 the estimates, and possibly exceed them '
Fer the ten months they exceed the same period I
last year by about s. 600 600. For the past four
months they exhibit Very satisfactory in :
crease upon the corresponding period last .
year. The receipts for last year to the 3O5h I
April were $93 332 10 SO The receipts for
this year have been $95 932 2l0 1S. 6
George Klein, of Memphis, is very bald, |
only fringe of ha'r remaining low down Oh
his head. He reoentlyNsad the smooth surf face
dyed with very bright colors. divided into
squares of crimson, yellow, green, and 80 on. |
His poll, under good light, looked like a :
section of rainbow. He went to church, and ,
attention from the services. He Z
than the performance did. at length he was
committed to an asylum lunatio. He
declares that the country is not free in which |
, man may not die his head according to his |
own fancy. r
The recent railroad surveys in San Diego
and San Bernardino counties, California, have
established some curious facts about the Col {
9Fado desert. The lowest point surveyed is
.7e feet below the level of the sea, and the
ow est point on tie limo ofthe Southern Paoi Go
Railroad is 275 feet. From o point near Indian
Wells, for sixty miles east toward Yuma, the
whole road lies below sea-evel. An old ocean
beach clearly distinguishable. extends all
around the edge of this immense basin, at q
level some fifteen feet lower than hat of the
sea. Immense beds Of ralt have been found
IN some cases two feet thick Analysis shows
'his salt TO be almost pure chloride of sodium.
An extraordinary proposal to redrce the
week from seven days to five, and further to
sDame the days, comes from Australia, Mr..
h. X. Rusden, the author of the scheme, enun- {
,iates his views in paper on the Week" in I
ne Transactions Of the Royal Society of Vic ,
oria, where he expresses the opinion that ,
while reducing the number of the days in the
week il would be good opportunity to discard
he present Pagan names aud to substitute I
)neday. Fweday, ThreCday and Fourday for ]
hem-Sundsy to be called Goodday. The I
uthor is saDguine as to the success of his
Ian, and answers the plea of impracticability
nth the remark that "the week itself was
ctually altered by the Romans, Greeks and 7
lRny other peoples; and, in fact, as there is ]