The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-11-03

The Philadelphia courts have decided ina
person 10 in point Of law at the age oil u tn'
day before the tweDty-drst anniversary OF Ill
birthday.
nently a pair of kid side laced boots was Ill sdt
from the stock in just eleven minutes, In sighl
Of visitors.
The Grand Order of the Anti-Horse Thief
Assooiation has just held it4 annual meeting
ut Keokuk, Ia. 1t oontains Z, 900 members, dis
tributed through the States Of Iowa, Illinois,
Missouri and Kansas.
J. Summer, Boston rfeman, has re-
oeived $50 in gold from the sharps kine
Company of bridgeport, Conn. for his recent
score of 221 out of q possible 225 at Creedmoor,
the company having offered that amount last
year to any one who oould make 22o under the
same conditions.
In I.iye.pool, many of the street letter boxes
now have door which shuts with spring
and at the same time moves plate showing
the hour of the last clearance. The public
can thrs ascertain whether letters have been
taken out for particular mail, and the Post
Once has a check upon its men.
The fashion in ladies coiffures 10 Pa ris is to
brush the hair more and more from tho neck,
go that the modern female head looks like
Pompeian cameo. Powder is coming into use
again. At the races at Lopgchamps. there
were two ladi, s, formerly blondes, who ap'
pesred with ohpAry yellow bair. Ihey were
very pretty, and 50 no one said anything.
The Chin. = A., populstiou Of San Francisco has
servants. OF cigar makers there are COO OF
tailors, 3 900 of boot and shoemskers, > $40
laundrymen, l 500 merchants and profe. SION
al men, 600 professional gambrrs, l,4Oo
peddlers, = 500, while the reSt nro ti7hermen.
iaborers, and miscellaneous. Theirs are = OOO
women.
Persons who have been dilstory in taking
into the house their tender plants aud now
End them occasionally fros tbittsn, may be glad
to know that English gardeners thaw them out
successfully twhen not too severely nipped by
sprinklipg them COZ iously with cold water. 1t
10 usstets. however. to apply The cold water
before the temperature rises above the freezing
point, for then the cure will be worse than the
ainease.
Horse raising has become large business
on the Western plains. Some Of the herders
on the Yellow Stone have from 500 TO 500
head, and are making fortunes by selling the
three-year olds at $50 to 500 each. No grain
10 fed and no stablinR is provided, abundant
grass and rough sheds suffioing. The business
i exceedingly laborious and risky, an entire
herd being sometimes lost in o night by scat
teRipg or by an Indian raid.
Simon Grant has bought o tract of land on
the Northern Pacific Railroad for the purpose
OF starting o community. He is q wealthy
Scotohmap, and will devote his entire fortune
10 the enterprise, which he has been planning
many gears but he Intends to be the high
priest of the religior-said to be strange
movement. Thus far be has only a score or so
Of followers. He has chosen place in what
- fast becoming thickiy- settled farming re-
zion, and is confident Of euoots'.
The committee appointed BY the italian
Parliament to inquire into the debts of the
municipality OF Florence, which have cu1mi-
mated in the bankruptcy of the city, has oom-
pfeted its report. The only point which has
yet fully transpired is that the Committee oon-
arms the statement that the municipality *
pended - 100000 lire (Sl4 400o00) in oasb
upon Government buildings, to meet which
they had to borrow the nominal sum of $50,
in 9th yvoP6a. n allow q Il a
of about forty-four and half per cent 10
Hnanciers,
A huriesque wss played in London during
Mr Gat q ona's last tenute of cffioe, in which
dance WIS introduced. performed by persons
a stired In Imitation of certain G4bineC Mtnis-
teIS This WAS stopped.by the then Lord Cham
berlain. wht 8, successor has now iuterfered at
"The Folly" and forbidden Mr.. Alfred Bishop
20 make up1 Jas Lord BtGoonSfeld, in "Stsrs and
GarteIs.7 The control over he London thea
tres was vested in the Lord Chamberlain by an
act pas sod in the time of Sir Robert Walpole,
who desired to prevent the Government being
Brought into ridionle by the stage, 1t was
V9hemently and eloquently opposed by the
pelebrat d Earl of Chesterteld.
The captive balloon OF the Paris Exposition
had, mp to the Sth ult., made 74S sscensious,
taking up 2l GOA passengers while $50 300
persous paid the admission fee TO the spsoe
beneath. The receipts sn ~ ted TO $l2S COG, :
20 No more than forty eight persons were
taken up at one trip, thouRh there are accom-
$50 metres say $50 yards-was the utmost ex
tent of cable paid out, though tho length
available is 600. After nearly three months
*aere haS been no loss Of gas and .the varnish
End white Emo upon the GOATS OF linen, muslin
md gutta-peroha are intact.
The Chicago Times prints late of candidates
for the Legislature from that oty under three
hsadings, wbioh are little different from the
ordinary political classification: Under one
heading are placed what are called "the bsst
offered ;" which does not by any means indicate
that they are the best that should be under
another heading are olsssed the bad to worse,"
and under third are ranged the utterly
damnsble" 1t is probably unnecessary to re-
mark that the latter cless outnumber the two
formerly q large majority. The utterly
dAmnAb!e party has candidates in o great
many distr:t Is all over tie country this year,
and without distinction of party is Ithe mo a
numerors organization now engaged in pol
Etics
Postal cards give rEs to peculiar troubles.
4 Rochester iumbe dealer mailed 3 card t. q
discharged clerk accusing him of swindliuG e,
and the clerk has obtained a verdict of $3.50
damages. based on the publicity of the charge
while passing through the mails. A similar case