The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-08

| he obtained 26. of the remaining ballots be-
| ing blank The election has made somewhas
| of q sensation, as q week before Mr.. Darwin
| only received votes when Professor Grey was
elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death
| of Herr Braun, of Berlin. Several times bis
nsme has been before the Acadamy, his caudt-
datnre always created an exoitemeut espeoi-
| ally during the lifetime OF Leverrier, who in
| vsriably led tie successful opposition.
In 1876 there were 55ss women sent to the
Westminster Prison for drunkenness, an in
| Grease of7O5 over 1875 Some of the prisoners
had been convicted 100 times. Short sen ntences
and punishment fail in effeoting any reforma-
| tion, and ssnitarium Is to be ops sned st Bed
insure . oure on the principle that sufficient
| time should bs given to enable the nerves TO
| recover o healthy tone, and to supply religious
and moral influence and constant medicai su-
per vision. Laundry women form the majority
of habitusl drupkards, and there fore She pro-
posed home will have large and efhcient
laundry.
1t 10 an odd spectacle to witness scores Of
women doing the work of longshoremen on the
wharves Of st. Johns, Newfoundland: When
the time arrives for vessels from Southern
Eas ope, Brazil, West Indies. and elsewhere, to
| take aboard their cargoes OF ealt cod, herring,
etc., files of buxom females, with tucked-up
gowns, barred arms, and coarse brogsns, may
be seen along the wharves. carrying Hat bar
70 ws of fish to and fro Each barrow has four
handles, and 10 borne by two women. They
perform the same labor a. men at this business,
bat their pay 10 inferior. In fact, they seem to
work more arduonsly than their male cooper
ators and continue to do 30 the same number
of hours. Women also go on the " summer
voyage" to Labrador, and act seyerally In the
capacities of splitters," !" "salters" and head
ers."
There is life in the old land yet. 1t is stated
in the Washington papers that the Democratic
campaign committee occupies i've rooms 0t
the Capitol and is working hundred men and
boys night and day, while the Republican
committee has q whole building to itself, q lot
of clerks for assistants and as much money as
1T knows what to do with, and Hayes oontri-
button still to come in. These patriotic and
hard. working com mittees are doing ell this to
out by the hundreds of thousands to show that
the other party is responsible for hard times,
but that our party is the only one that can set
things right. Thts kind of compsgn has been
going on for o great many years in this coun-
try, but go far as head from it has never fur
nished the laborer with employment or given
bread to the starving.
Governor Rice of Massachusetts,, doesn't be-
lieve in competitive examinations. He was
one of the first to suggest such examinations
for West Point and Annapolis appointments,
but he soon found that those lads who had
good memories aud little energy OF character,
succeeded in getting the appointments, and
generally proved utter failures as military or
naval men. In fact, some of the rejected lads
at these competitive examinations, who were
sfterward agpointsd to MI the @ piece Gl Sne
efficers. SIT wants boy with go ahead and
good grit, and not gentle lad with big
head, for q military officer" says the Governor,
who adds: "a boy may have the making of
college professor in him, but it won't do to at
tempt to make general of him.
In Paris Q correspondent of the Baltimore
american got up early in the morning, and rode
about the city on the top of q street car in
writes: THE housekeepers bring out all their
rubbish and pile it up in the street. one pile
for every four five houses. 1t is no sooner
emptied than the rsg-pickers, who swarm the
streets with their bags and buckets and hand
carts, pounce upon it and gather up all the
fragments of paper, rags or metal to be found
third of the rubbish. Servants are every W here
to be seen with broom and bucket in hand
cleaning off the fronts. The stree t3 are being
sprinkl with ho se, and an army of men and
women with birch brooms are sweeping the
streets. Ga the boulevards, horse brushing
machines are in motion, and the garbage carts
are removing the piles thrown out by the
houseksep Men with hoEe ars watering
all the roots of all the hundreds of thousands
of trees the boulevards, and taking up the
gratipgs so as to loosen the earth around
tuem.'
A great work now in course of execution is
the lighthouse of Ar-men, on rock beyond the
Isle of Sein, II Cape Flnisterte (Land's Ead)
Brittany, western France. In 1860 q commits
| sion was first appointed to inquire into the
possibility of constructing lighthouse at this
| point, where the currents were tremendous
| tha t. even in the calmest weather they cause o
very heavy sea in certain directions Of the
wind. The rock is of hard gneiss, from
| forty t. fifty feet in length, and about
twenty five in breath. The preliminary
| work was done By f,iermen of the Jale
of Sein, whose Familiarity wita these waters
enabled them to reach the rock when no
one else could. Their method wLs. when
opportunity offered. for two of them, wearing
cork bsltS, to get out Of their boats aud lie
upon the rock, which they olutched with
one hand, while they made holes at intervals
of three feet with the other. Mean while they
! we're covered with spray, and sometimes car.
ried away to be recovered by boat In 1867
only eight hours work could be accomplished,
and fifteen holes made. Next year forty holes
were made. In 1869 the buildiDg wss begun,
and now the tower is forty feet above the
highest tides 1t is intended to be about ninety
| feet above them.
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