The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-04-01
MsraIng Star and Catholic MESSENGER.
MEw ORLEANS, suNra APRIL }.
GENERAL NE WS ITEMS.

goods TO the amount of SIS SU7 900
The strange experiment of selling refres
ments in ti'st.olass theatre is being tried
tho Globe. Boston. Uniformed boys pa
through the auditorium between the acts wi,
ioes and Lemonade.
Henry Fauquier. in tie Petit ParisieH. pr
diots the speedy obliter"''"" of the French n'
elity without any governmental abolition
eitlea.- IL no logger has privileges, and it's Ii
0oenoe under republic is slight
When man in Nevada receives Q not c
signed "60l." telling him he must quit this
1eotion, he understands that IL he disobeys b
will be pnuished by vigilance men. seve
thieving gamblers have jast beeded such
command in Reno.
Fraucis She ffington of San Francisco Ia oil
aud penuless, bnt he has q wealthy SON. who
he thinks, ought to support him The son re
fuses TO do 80. The father sued the son 70
alimoDy, but tie oonrt has decided that
sather has no legal claim of that sort on q sod
Mr.. Scott, an iron merchant of Edinburgh
having received an order for 400 tons of iron
Rtrders for the new station being erected in
Giasgow, is having the Rirders manufactured
In Belgium, and delivered in Glasgow at cen-
siderably less cost than be can have them made
in England
Since the establishment of the French re-
public. nearly all the flags furnished to the
army have been of wool, through motives of
economy. Bv way of assisting the unemployed
workmen of Lyons an order has been given for
one hundred regimental Il iags of silk, and future
orders viii be 70. the same material.
De only american woman " no - The " 10 OF
q ChiDaman in San Francisco has bsen brought
anto public notIce by the Chronicle She is
astonishing her husbands couutIymeu by
showing them how woman may be the head
oil q household, whIch l. Yevei Itiou to them
and IL Is said mat he bitterly Iepents bis
trlC2onial choice.
The Frenci Commission charged with de-
visipg means Of artestog the Tavagea of the
phylloxera in the vineyards has decided that
the only remedy Will be the tearing up. under
Government BUpervisiou. of all vines III lcted
with the pest. The canton # Geneva, in
Switzerland, has adopted a similar oourse and
has arrested the rnvaGns OF the Ius.cb.
n very interesting scieutiEc report on oy ster
culture has lately been presen ted to the French
Govern ment From this it appears that oyster
culture has for some time been prosecuted in
Franco so carefully and with such success that
ehe supply will soon be very largely increased.
Tho English fairly eat up their oysters, and
have for some years almost had to go without
any:
shown q monster orange. which weighed 81
pounds and measured in circumference ~
ginches. 1t was grown at Riverside, San Bsr-
nsrdino county, upon the ground of G. w.
GarceloD. The tree which produced it is Just
four years old, and had q number of other
oranges besides this one, which were but
slightly smaller.
Some fifty years ago two gangs of workers
In . Belgian co al mine were at variance, and
one party made q fire 30 ss to smoke out the |
other. The coal in the mine became ignited,
and 1t continues to burn down to the present
day. Efforts have been made again and again
20 extinRulsh the Are, but in vain. Some of
: the American mines have been burning now for
upwards of twenty years.
Between Nice and Monaco is q locality 80
unhealthy that the Paris, Lyons e. Mediterra. |
mean Railway Company have been obliged to
change every two or three months the watch |
man ut the crossing there. Plantations of the
eucalyptus have been formed at this place, and
at present the same ~Rtchmsn has resided |
there for several hA with hia family with !
out experiencing the least incouvenieuos.
benevolent society has been formed in
Paris for the purpose of trausplaUtiDg to AL |
Eeria all children of either sex without homes,
or of poor parents who are willing to part with
them. tract of land, with the necessary
residences, schools and workshopS, will be OBJ
taiued for the young people, and IN addition to
receiving good education, they will be taught
trades and reared to habits of Industry. Count
EOooher de Carroll, q member OF the French
Senate, is President of the society, which num-
hsrs among its directors Ferdinand de Lesseps.
Ehs yonpg King Of Spain has been making
Uosr of bis kt gdom, Triumphal arches of
orange and lemon branches loaded with fruit,
aud Of palms and tiowery shrubs have greeted
him; streets upon his route have been brilliant
with flowers; his carriage has also been COW
cred With them; allegorical professions have
boea formed, and ladiea have freed white
pigeons adorned with bright ribbons at his
approach. The papers hope in return that the
King and his Cabinet will fiud some way of
relieving Spanish man ufaotu res, commerce aud
agriculture from their fearful state Of depres-
aioa.
There is to be soon published at Geneva q
blind mans newspaper, to be called the
Journal des AreuglSs. Its editor and his assist
Snts will literally be blind, leaders of the
Sind though not, let us hope, in an indi-
Nidusl sense. 1t will be printed on a type in
vented by a gentleman named RecordAn, " hich
is said to he n very great Improvement, both
IN point of simplicity and cheapuets, on pre-
Tious methods A principle feature is that
each letter b as small holes in it, to which the
fiugers quickly become sensitive. and the posi-
ton of the holes determines the letters.
Tho arrival of the Field Jagers is announced
at Berlin. 1t is a corps composed of 100 we'll
educated young men, who must have pre-
Niously served two years 0s privates in the
cavalry. Their vocation is that of courierR
charged both in time of peace and war witt
carrying messages to commanders of armies o
Of dstaohmonts. For this purpose complett
knowledge of the topography of the district in
which they may operate srtqnired, aud q close
study is consequently Giveu to forests, hills
atrsams, and roads. down to the smallest and
least frequented. Each year portion of these
young men travel abroad in order to study
both the languages and the topography of the
hands they visit. Many mishaPs have occurred
nPmieR fhronOh n the iUnoranCe and m tak "a