The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-02-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
A lemon tree at Stanford, Fla, produce
6OOO lemons last year, come Of which weighe
pound each
Oat West, where there is q scarcity of Goa
and wood, cheap machines have been iuvente
for twisting straw and hay into compact stick
4 French tourist, on q visit to the Centernia
last summer wrote home: "Americsns liv
well up to their income, and insure their live
for the balance"
The catcher of the Harvard ball nine will b
queer looking fellow on the background, n
he has invented q brass wire mask to proven
blows in the face.
petit jnror recently got exc.sed by Mr.
SERGEANT Cux, Of the Middesex Sessions be
cause he was an undertaken with large sm ali
pox trade, and he felt sure that he was carry
ing the infection about with him. The Judge
y waB more reluctant than the other Jurors b1t
&. finally let him go.
There were built last year in the United
/ States 2. 442f miles of now railroad, Texas and
California being the lesdipg States having
respectfully 3S74 and 3509 miles. In New York
I there were built 694 miles, in New Jerse, "a
and in Connecticut a.
1t is said that the railway officials in Eng
land are annoyed at the bad example of the
Marquis OF Waterford in riding third class.
They tried to break him of the habit by giving
sweep seat beside him, but he simply
4 bought first class ticket for the sweep. and
retnrned TO his former seat
Home apathy appears to be making headway
France. From statistics lost Dublished by
the Academy of Science we learn that there are
20 homeopathic doctors in regular practice in
Harfs and ever 300 in the provinces Since 1869
three hon Ropatbjc hospitals have been founded
two in Paris and one at Lyons
n A remarkable painting, "The Dying Sa.
viour," has been placed on exhibition at Lei =
sio by the artist, Prof Emil Pischan. A peculiar
feature of the work is that near by tine eyes
geeem closed, as required by the conditions of
the scene, but that at some distance they ap.
pear open and turned to heaven.
The most expensive newspaper published in
(which is $24 gold. and the cheapest is the
BoRRe Pensee. a religions weekly which costa
only twelve cents year. The oldest of Partisan
journals is the Journal General des 46sehes which
Is now In its 24Tth year of publication.
The protracted financial depression in Aus. |
tro- hungary continues unabated. Daring the
past year ], $50 firms became bankrupt, besides
Al limited liability companies, representing |
oapitat to the amount of GA 600 600 forms. At
recent Cabinet council In Vienna the finance
ministers of Austria and Hungary urged that
no further demands should be made upon tax |
papers unless the necessity was overwhelming |
The other day, in pulling down an old house |
in Yorkshire, England, the following bill was |
found:
lTs7-sept.7. Beef, III 7oz.........-...I 0 |
Oct - Dc; S..Ie,r 10 NJ i.;j
6s
81
pound. Now it is Is GD1s 2d.
Valentine. the Virginia sculptor, while at
staunton last fall, was cbarmed with the sing
ing, by little blind girl. of song in which
face ~ The music, the words and the touchinp
presence of the little girl, with her hands put
mp as II In mute appeal, made pictore upon
the artists mind which he has reproduced in |
marble at his studio in Richmond.
French weekly journal entitled L'Fcho des
1e"r nond:s is now published in this city by
.a nar. Alfred III, Cote. 1t is a sheet of twelve
pages, of convenient form Catholic in religion
Sna conservative in politics It's issue OF
oatnraay last Announces that Mr.. Cote has re-
1elteo IhronSn the obliging intervention of his
DC o@enediction which was sent from Rome on Dec, Q
10, 1876 N''"'o 'N Lev 8
=, The farmers, who usually com plain that their I
,lass 1s dented adequate represent in lepis
atlve bodies and That the lawyers monopolize =
VI power and honor, have no cause for such '
omPlslbt IN Maine at least. majority of the Q
MEMBERS aIe farmers, merch ants and manu- fac d
nrers' There are only two lawyers in the Q
enate and piue in the House. Seven Senators u
ut OF the thirty-one and seventeen Represep-
AUiVes ont OF l5l are college graduates.
German professor, Dr.. G. A. Fiscber. of
aFmen, ls about to undertake an exploring r.
xPedltion into The interior of Eastern Africa
M VIII make the experiment., W hich he will
9 tne hrst OF African travellers to adopt, of re-
aKlpg carrier pigeons along to convey mes- Ge
Sges and reports of his progress to Germany. ni
ne station for sending the birds their &c
~ ISneward flight is TO be located at z apzibsr. II
u" pigeons are of the finest quality, and have
cen tested in flying matches. in
ames Gordon Bennett could not have been th
:mliiar with military statistics when he de- W W
med, .9S, with shiver, Mays proposition to sb
Stle aHaiFs with cavalry sabers. He did not % %
low how very harmless these weapops are. pr
he surgeons reports of the casualties of the ~" m
'anco Prussian war says that though thou- ~
nus OF gallant men, armed with sabers w.
arged at each other with the most sanRuipa o. az
there was, all told, but six men who p
ct their fate at the edge of the sword. an an
The Netheriaud Association for the Promo. oil
on of the Public Welfare offers q prize, COM wi
tltion to be open to ail the world, for the 20
ct treaties, in popular style, with especial to
ference to the laws and present condition of ge
Netherlands, on the question, "WhRt is
Q best mode in which the State, the Church,
nnicipal corporations, charitable institutions,
ID individuals may give relief and support to the
o poorP No treatise is to exceed ten octave 70
ges and it NAV be written in German. Dntoh. dir
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