The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-11-18
as.nuns s+.r and Catholic Messenger.
GENERAL NE WS ITBMS.

SU,UUU.
The Prussan Congress meets on Sundays th
same week days.
New Orleans has contributed 50 112 so 70
the relief of the fever-stroken city of Fernan
dina, Fla.
Sweden and Switzerland contribute thu
largest number of new members to the Nor
SAon Church. England is third on the list.
Tho New York Board Of Heal:h has recentl!
discovered q tsnenent hoase in which ninety
nine families, consisting of over five persons
reside.
Twenty years ago it required over Eve ton
of coal TO make n TON of IRON rails now q tor
Of steel rails may be produced from the orr
with half that quantity OF coal.
A Philadelphia firm has lately made a con
tract with q company in Brszil I'D bnild npc
equip railroad $50 miles in length aoog o tn tn
shore of the Madeira river. Price, So OOO. 600
s20s immigrants from Europe arrived in
NeK-York- during October. 1898 we're from
England /; 1888 from Germany; 735 from Ire
land, and the remainder from France, Austria
and other countries.
societies in Great Britain, having 262, ,l9S mem
bers. holding operative capital amounting
to $3. 900 900, and drawing q net profit on their
shares in one recent year of $67O.721.
Charley Ross's father, in his vain search for
the stolen boy, has spent $50, 900. his entirs
fortune, and 10 now Q travelling saleemsn for an
Eastern house. He has made 800 journeys in
search of his lost child, and says he shall per-
Canada claims to have proc" "ed the largest
cheese record. From the - fersoll factory
has been turned out cheese Y Ching 1000
pounds. 1t was feet, 10 inches diameter,
3 feet in height, and 81 feet in circumference
1t required one milking Of 1000 cows, or IS
tons Of milk TO produce it.
prominent Boston minister said in his
pulpit the other day that though times were
the ', wage. a Of sin had not been nf reduced one
iotA. This would have been pretty good joke
for secular person. The only question is as
to the propriety of minister making Jokes on
death.
The French pilgrimages to Rome, which
were interrupted by the elections, are now re-
commencing and a band from the diocese of
Angouleme was expected there on November 10,
November 60 aud one from Perigueux on No
vember 26, the Blshops heading the pilgrims
from their respective dioceses.
That the ocean itself has it's region of calms
is q well. known fact but that there is snch
quarter on land is not so generally understood.
1t is claimed, however, that there is jost such
o quiet region, and that it 10 due to this natur-
nj phenomenon that the climate of Kentucky.
Tennessee, and the mort heru portions OF Mis-
eissippi, Alabama, and Georgia is 80 cougenial.
The city of Manchester, in England, mann.
faotures its gas, as q city enterprise, and makes
it pay very we'll, the balance last wear carried
to the profit side amounting to Gf00 54S los.
I'd. The price of gas within the city limits 10
at present 3s. II. per 1000 feet, and without
the city boundary IS. 10d., but o further re-
daetion In price is thought possible in abort
while.
physician and bank cashier renewed an
old quarrel in q Turkish bath in st. Lonis.
They occupied couches in the hottest room in
the establishment, and their tempers may
have grown warm in sympathy with their
perspiring bodies. They soon came to blows,
and then q rough -snd-tumble eight eusued.
They displaced the mating, 80 that their bare
feet came in contact with the blstering floor.
which caused an extraordinary hveliness of
NOV enent aud shortesed the contest.
Civil service reforms have been steadily 60
ing on in England since the day when Rarke
initiated them by his attack on the monstrous
expenses in the Kings household, where the
head scuffou even was member of Parfia-
meut who received q handsome salary, and, of
course discharged all duties, except signing
the recei pit tor his money, by deputy. Among
other extravsgances, all colonial governors,
ambassadors, and ministers Of state were even
fnrnhhAll with splendid services of plate, and
other peTquisites.
The two United States Senaturs who ever
served the longest terms, were both North
Carointaus by birth-Ben ton of Missouri, and
King of Alabama. The former served thirty,
reference to Mr.. Kirgs extreme courtesy, that
when he presided over the Senate the two Sen
ators from ArkausAe pronounced the Dame of
their State differently. and that he punctiliona-
iy observed this difference. He invariably
recognized one as 'the gentleman from Ark
an.sG,O, )" and the other as "the gentleman from
Ar-k0R-eRS."
Allen C. Lewis, O native of Sterling Conn.
went to Chicago in 1858, q young man OF
thirty-two, with capital eff 81 900. By judi
cious Investments in land he made fortune
and dying a few days ego left $500 600 to the
city for the estab hment OF q polytechnic in.
stitute, containing lecture.rooms reading.
room and library Ono novels), and schools fo.
the practical education of young men and
women of limited means. IA the Newberry
bequcst will give Chicago 81 100000 or $3,
0GO 600 free library, the Western city may be
said to be in luck.
An old military custom has been revived in
the French army. Some time ago au artillery
man of the Fourteenth Regiment, named
Chassetiere, lost his life at fire in Tsrbes
while heroically endeavoring to save the life
of his Captain. The General commanding the
diyision has just ordered that the name OF
Chassefsre shall be called ut the parade OF
his corps every day for month, and that the
BriGadier in charge of his squad shall answer
Mort en- brave :" This reminds one of what
was done in the case of Latour d'Auvergne
"Grst grenadier Of France" His name for
years was sung out at the morning roll call
aud the proud response given by the
Sergeant, Dead on the field of hOnOr!"
The Rev. DIR. skinner of the First Presbyte-