The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-08-25
GRNERAL NEWS ITEMS.

O0tonet 6nmuei H. SfurRf6, Tth u. o. SdF8k"
~, has been received into the Church.
O,Donovan Rossa has re igned the Presidency
OF the Fentan Brotherhood on account OF Ill
health.
Eleven Sisters Of Charity have died within
four months at Constantinople while caring
for the wounded soldiers.
Falk, the Prussian Minister, has deprived
600 Catholics of the Church Of Gottesbelg in
Silesia, and has handed it over t. 2C0 old Ca
tholics.
Ksnsos has increased her population over
$50. 600 during the year ending jane 30th, and
over two million acres of Government land
were taken up.
The number of studeuts in the Mount Mel
Iersy Seminary, Ireland. last year. exceeded
one hundred and thirty. Fully fvesixths OF
these are destined for the foreign missions.
Boston's total valuation 10 S63 600 900, .
shrinkage of s55, 900 600 from last years vaIu-
alton. The rata Of taxation will be q few
cents less than sl3 on $1,000 against SIS 10 on
$1,000 last year.
A queer mistake occurred on the British ex-
pedlIIon To Cyprus. Ninety nail carts were
dispatched from Malta with bsgs of tept-I egs
In mistake for Inch pins The carts, of course,
were useless without the linch-pins. and the
tent-pegs did not seem, apart from the tsnts,
to be particularly valuable.
TSenty Thousand cabin passen gers, accord
ing to an estim ate of the New York Herald,
have lefs that port for Europe this supmsr-
the largest number during any single season.
nc tCS, however,, Is GVW cotbiuB tOWdEUo kukc
country, and for the remainder Of the see IN
the arrivals will show weekly increase over
departures.
The Arch bishop of Paris has founded mis-
sion In favor of the Orphans of the Revolt" OF
is7l: and An aged priest, whom the Commun-
Mission Of Pardon" to provide the wretched
refugees permitted . return feom New Gale
donia with food, clothing, g shelter and o
chance to obtain employ ment.
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and in abundant demands from the United
States and the richer countries of Europe for
the manufactured article. Manufacturers are
putting up new looms and rec engaging dis
charged weavers in order to enter at once upou
period OF active work and TINS the m markets
for raw silk in Germany and Italy are feelipg q
the stimulus of an unusual rise.
Americas contributions 20 the Cd World
cargo of the lost Idaho comprised 141 packa-
ges of agricultural implements, a. 600 pounds
OF bacon. 9s packages of clocks. II. 81 bushels
of corn, 99i bales of ton, 81 bales of hops,
So horses, 200 tons of fresh meat, 75 tierces of
salt meat, cssas. of machinery, pianos. u
kegs of ink, % 25S bushels of wheat, and II
packsg of msuufaet ared wood.
California has Portuguese population of
the courts, civil or crimin al, and the most tenn
perate class in the State. They earn their
livelihood by agriculture, stock raising, dairy
ing, gardening, mining, and whaling. There
California, composed entirely of Portuguese.
The average annual yield of their labor is
12S 600 gallons of oil.
In 1875 the Acoiimatizs stion Society of Paris
gems cyPrinoid, which is one of he most val
uable sources of food in China Nine Thousand
fry were despatched, of which bns nine reach
ed Matseilles Th. So were placed in pond
constructed for them, and have gro n large.
They feed on aquatic herbs, attain o consider
able szs, and are excellent eating. 1t is hoped
that they will be eAtirely acclimatizad in
France.
bourg, which have been executed in bronze
rep0usse after the models of M. a Geoffroy, are
no " finished, and are being publicly exhibited.
They challenge comparison with the famous
Ghiberti gates formerly set up in San Giovan-
nj in Florence, which won from Michael An
gelo the well-known criticism that Hthey
might stand for the gates Of Paradise" The
Ghiberti gat' t,ok forty yeas to made the
modern oDes were manufactured in q very
short space Of timt.
The Eoglish navy proposes Introducing the
use of hand t>rPsdoes, whos like the nsnd
grenades o the last century, will be thrown
by hand into the enemy'a boats or over para
pets. Instead of being shells. exploded by q
fuee, st were the grenades, they are of gan
cotton, compressed into a cake weighing from
three TO foor pounds. A long cord is attached
to each torpedo, the other end of which is con-
nee ed with little instrnment held by tae
operator, and resembling pistol. After the
trigger Of the pikt d is touched, aud an explos-
ion follows. One cake skaters o five ton
block of granite.
Another Irish judge has refused to INFECT
punishment OF prisoner because of the sever
ity of the new prison rules, which provide that
for the fret month of his or her term the pris-
oner most sleep on plank two feet wide in
the clothes worp by day. At the Kildare ass
izss the LoEd Chief Baron had q woman named
Kelly brought before him for being in illegal
possession of sum of money The judge
bound her over in 92O. on condition that her
husband would return the money to it's owner
before the next assizes, and said that he would
send 40 female convict to jail while the plank.
bed regulation was in force, if the justice of
the case permitted.
A real mule was one of the attractions in the
play of The Forty Thieves" as produced in
Virginia City, New. The resnlt is described by
the Chronicle as follows: mo sooner had Ali
come out of the cave with his bags of wealth,
and attempted to put them on the back of the
beast, than be began his part of the perform
ance. He let fly with his heels kicked the
shavings (the Supposed Iiches) out of the bags;
kicked down the cavern; kicked down whole
forest; kicked down the wings; kicked tie
end of the bass-viol, leaning against the stage