The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-01-21
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1Hv ,1eErANs SUNDAY, JANUARY 81 1877.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The Iowa Supreme Court decides that
woman in that State may hold any Office ex
cept those of Judge and member of the Legisla
ture
TIE London Daily Telegraph certifes to ~
average daily circulation. between July 1 ant
December l. 1876, of 200 3l7, something un
PARALLEL in newspaper history.
Carrier pigeons are to be stationed on Anti
cost, the Magdalen Islands etc., To ensbl
mayiners cast away the Gulf of st. Law
renee to communicate with the people on Tn
south shore.
The steamship Oceanic recently made the rur
from Yokohama to San Francisco In IA days
Is hours and 20 minutes. The distance Is 4 o3'
nautical miles The average speed OF thu
Oceanic daring the voyage was thirteen knot
per hour The time made 10 the quickest or
record.
M. Vapereau the author of the we'll known
OBJECTIONABLE des Contemporains," is at worl
on a universal dictionary of literature. The
first two parts are out the remaining ten will
when completed will contain 2 09G pages large
octave.
Chinese nobleman in full drees was present
ct Mrs Grants New Years reception. Over 6
long yellow satin tunic he wore an invisible
purple silk sack very long and loose, and q
blue collar around his neck. A close silk cap
of black and red was on bis head. He also
wore queue.
In England they are getting nearer to the
root of that dreadful disease drunkenness. Al
q recent temperance meeting in bis diocese
the Bishop of Ely said that he attri butet
drunkenness in poor men not to desire fol
UQDor, but to the comfort of the public house
and the discomfort of their homes.
The expenses incurred at the recent Buck.
iDghamshire election in England, caused by
the elevation of MIR. Disraeli to the peersge,
mantle, who was return'd. to f6.4s0, while
those of the defeated candidate, the Hon. Ru.
pert Carlington, were t7,79O.
"Tbe English and Americans" says the
Spectator, '.are great peoples, with genius for
mechanical inventions, but they cannot build a
theatre SO that spectators can get ont of it, or
railway train so that it can be patrolled from
the outside, q street so that it shall be at
once silent aud safe for horses"
Over one hundred Thousand unfortQnates
have found refuge on Austrian territory, fly
ing from the Turk. So heavy and contip ued
has been the inhux that there has be en- recalled
lying between the Danube aud the Theiss. by
the Serbs at the close of the seventeenth CEN
tury.
Mr.. Holly, the pump inventor. will soon at
tempt to heat the whole city of Lockpors with
steam. The city is to be divided into districts,
and each district is to have it's separate boiler.
Mains from each boiler are to run to the diff
Serent houses, and all the occupant has to do
10 to turn on q faucet and obtain all the heat he
wants.
One of the feats usually pei formed by Japan
Csc jugglers is to wind long string around q
top, throw the top violently, and make it re-
when it has almost unwound. Dan Bushnell
t led it in q Baltimore theatre, and the top in
returning struck his head SO hard that he was
Knocked into insenslbiity.
The criminal statistics of New York last wear
were unsatisfactory enough. but one murdere
was hanged. At Chicago there were twenty
four violent killings, most of which were de-
Hberate murders; twenty-five of the slayers
were arrested, twenty .one were indicted, two
were tried, and in those two cases the jury
disagreed. This was emphatically Murderers'
Paradise.
A motion to have no liquors at the annual
dinner of the Boston Bar Associ alton received
hardly votes enough to count, on the ground
that to adopt it would be to reflect upon the
hibitory law which doesn't prohibit il still in
vogue at Boston it iciH seem a little odd to see
the legal gentlemen obtaining liquor illegally
at their banquet
hr ParBell, 8 member of the International
Gun aud Polo Club, has performed at Brighton,
England, the extraordinary feat of shooting q
hundred penny pieces succeesively in fly min
1tes, thereby winning heavy wager-f3OO to
Els. The arrangements that the
g thrower up" should stand eight yards from
the shooter, aud that be should not throw a
coin more than three feet above his head.
In Paris. on the 10th of August, the frat
steam tramway line " eat into operation with
the new Harding engines This line runs from
the Montparnasse station to the Orleans sta
ton, and does the transit service of the Aserva-
tory quarter, the Gobelins and the Jartlin DIES
Plantes. The engines worked ad n,irabIy, stop
ping and starting much more easily and rapidly
than horses Before TIE end of the year it will
be possible to go aroapd Paris Oh the external
boulevard by stead-tramway.
The census of Paris is looked forw ard to with
much interest In 100 the population mum
bered 10000 inhabitants. Toward the end Of
the eighteenth century it had diminished to
620 900, and continued to decrease until 1901,
when it numbered SAG, 600. From that time it
has steadily risen. In 1881 it was IA, 1888, in
1886 900 1876. Twenty years later it reached
/ 1913 6l3. In 1860 the annexation of all the |
districts comprised between the old Octroi |
boundary and the Notifications had the effect |
of swelling the numbers to 100000, and to
]. 1926, 900 in 1866. These additions nearly |
doubled the area of the capital. In 1872 the
population showed a slight falling off COM
pared witch 1870, being 1 951 79I, against |
900, 900 in the latter year.
Lord Dufferin, in a characterize ically clever
speech, last summer, administered some gentle
but much-needed discipline to the silly people
in this country who insist upon popularizing
pet names" for young women. The Governor
General of Canada ought to turn his attention