The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-08-11
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


and Tunisian officials. A second section is to
be finished in November.
Michael Reese, the news of whose death Il
Wallenstein, Germany, was received at San
| imatsd at $40, 900, 600 or more, and, with the
exception Of Senator Sharon, was the largest
real estate owner in that city. Some years
ago made will leaving the great bulk Of his
estate to benevolent instit utions.
Behm and Wagner's tables have Just been
published, and show q total increase in the
| population of the earth Of Is 100000, partly
| arising from natural growth, partly from the
showingg of ne and more exact censuses. The
total population of the earth is set down at
l ,439 145 300, divided as folows: Europe,
3l2 1893 4so; Asa 531 100000; Africa, 2O5 2i9,-
| 500; America. sc 1l6 900; Australia and Poly
nesia, a. ALI, 300.
1t was through the mistake Of single letter
in 1929 that BAtoum was left in the possession
! of Turkey. In the draft of the treaty of Adri-
| anople it was declared that the river Tscho-
rooh, which flows into the Euxine south of
| Bstoum, should form the new boundary. In
copying out the treaty for signature the scribe
wrote "Tsehc! ,oh," river twelve miles to the
north-a clerical error which left the barb or
| in the possession of the Turks.
Tho Russian Gov vernment, after having made
up the account of it's losses in men and money,
hes now made mp the number Of shots the army
| has fred. From an account published in the
| Invalide Rnsse 1t appears that tae Russian
troops In the Balkan Peninsula fred, in round
numbers 205, 900 shells and 10 000, 900 rife car.
killed and wounded Turks amounted TO about
200 600 men it appeers that it lakes something
like q fty- two cannon and rifle shot (mixed) to
kill or wound one man.
The Natohitoches pindicator states: white
immigration to the parish hes been steadily on
the increase for two years past, as 1t has been
ever since the war. A large amount of land
has been opened in the hill portions of the
parish, while the white populations of the
river section has increased to almost if not
quite, double since 1865 The interest in i'm.
migration has not subsided. The new settlers
among US, of whom We spoke at the ime they
came, are we'll pleased. Tney now have, as
they say. the finest crops they ever saw. They
are writing their accounts to friends whom
they are trying to induce to come to Louis.
ana.
The Rev. DR.. Cuyler, writing from the Yose-
mite. describes the fall IS O floating veil or
scarf of snow-white foam, that Swings down
the mountain side for fifteen hundred feet
Before the basin of rock is reached the air parts
the descending waters and spreads them into
the shape of q hollow triangle. SO that per
son standing in the basin and looking upward
beholds q hollow spire of " aters above his head
loftier than Trinity Church. When The sun
smises upon it he sees spire of flashing dia.
monds. The winds swing this descending
scarf of waters to and 1, o, and it changes form
every moment. Sometimes the jets from the
brink of the precipice take on the appearance
of white rockets, which gracefully move down.
ward until they burtt into ten thousand gilt.
tering drops.
Daniel 8. Wetherbee, an old man living in
Milford, Mass, was missed on the 2 of July
and mot found until the 9th When found he
was lying on the ground, partly across log, |
trying TO get drink of water ont of q ole he
had ecooPed in the mud, using the leaves Of
five feet from his drinking place he had con. |
structed q rude shelter CT sticks, moss and |
twigs, jest large enough to crouch down In; |
his reason left him, he had IN ade himself
home, crawling to the mud hole for water and |
succeeding in catching frog or two, eating
was whiting fifty rods Of a travelled road and |
within twenty -6ve rods OF Q cultiva field
yet 80 faint that he knew not the direction OF
half mile. For twenty days he had NO 6re, |
and he was starving to death when found. He !
was cared for by the Sefectmen.
The London Company of Cooks recently pro- |
vided for giving sixteen lessons in cookery to
three batohes of girls of from twelve to fifteen
years, the daughters of workiugmen. The girls
were recently given an examination in public, |
beginning with washing the dishes and uten. |
sils to bs employed and clarifying the fat for |
cakes, etc Then came the mixing of ipgredi. |
ents for the various dishes-baking roasting, |
boiling, ste wirg the proper cooking of fish and
vegetables, the making of soups, cakes and |
pastry, and sick room cooking. The girls were |
left to themselves and had to draw upon their
recollection of the lessons they bad received. |
When the result of their lahors WIS placed |
upon the table for inspection the work proved, |
of merit. Altogether, however, it was worthy
of high pra ss, and whatever there was in the
way of failure was in a very large degree at.
tribpt ed to the nervousness caused by having
to work in the presence Of public gather
ing.
DR.. w. Farr, in q let Ser on the canses of death
in England and Wales, printed with the Reg
istrar Generals annual report just issued. say
that alcohol has undoubtedly @ medicinal
effect in many maladies it stimulste es the
faintnR heart after shocks of every kind. PoIt
wine is q potent remedy in fevers instead of
raising, it reduces the burning nest Of the
blood and cslms the delirium of the brain.
Alcohol appears to arrest the action of zymotic
diseases, as it prevents weak wines from fer
menting. Like csmphor, alcohol preserves
animal matter this is not now disputed. DR..
Farr invites the attention of those who have
portrayed the bad effects of alcohol to consider
whether it does not prevent the action of vari-
ous infections on the temperate. The neglect
of this side of the question throws doubt on
many of their inferences. The deaths ascribed
to zymotic diseases in 1876 were 90 660; to slco-
holiem, 1920. Now, it is evident that sny
effect depressing the prevalence of zymotic
di6eARee. that kill their of thouBAnda. ill