The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1878-01-13
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GENERAL NEWS IZBRS-
The Speaker Of the south Carolina House a
Dele gates 10 only tWonfy- seven years old. HE
ability IL highly spoken Of.
Peanuts yield q largo percentage Of oil that
IL o good for al purposes ns olive oil Il is
more pAlatable than olive oil, and 10 cssd ex-
tsseiveiy for culinary PorPOses, andiDg ready
The summits Of Nounh Ksnia and Kilinan-
fzro Of Equss0riAl Africa are always ccyaEed
With snoW, thoagh si0oss under the equator.
The former e aboat lS 900 fsef sad tbs latter
$4,000 feet high.
Professor W. Sawyer, of Appleton, Wis.
IN aspeech on the necessity for reform in spell
Ing, declared thss there wers only fve werds
h tbs Engiish language thas were pronounced
- they were spelled.
why the Ca3sdians get along 30 peacefuily
with the fndisrs IL parity explained by the
fDct thai every person who, since le7ts has In
trednesd vhisksy, into the region Of which
Port A&cLcod IL che centre, has, without an
sxaepSicn, been captured and fned-
xhs Georgia farmer who kns carried a the
PslA shis year 10 Mr.. James II. Booker. He
zAlssd sixty balsa Of cotton, twelve hundred
aAezsaDd Of oats aud wheat. and fsenfy Eve
koEs. The nswspapeEs chronicle this a. the
EEsA1ast harvest b. any one man since the
WE.
rassons In AngastA. Ga, is she formation of q
eonpa1y with . capital Of fifty th0onaad dcl-
iazs 30 establish q cotton factory there One
Be . desire 70 pso'ids plaza Of snpioynsnt,
1sg eoiered yeeths 90 soon - they cease going
- ashooi.
Rrefsirg by the erpsriescs Of Georgia
. tss ssase for indos.rial purposes. BIS sa1s
bean intrc4aeed iato the General Assembly to
exe2ps fron taxation certain amoans of cap
tiai Invested in notwithstanding and mining
eafeFYxises-
Ia parie thav ara ~ar-nfr1 tho asre.e ,-.,- 49, l
small hot water pipes connected with little |
stowe placed beneath one Of the platforms.
TIA eogt 10 about ten American cents q day, |
no fnsi rsed being Just sufhcient 20 keep . |
Doderate quantity of water hot. The Paris 4
tans arc greatly pleased with the plan.
At Paterson, on Wednesday night, the police
found . crowd of boys playing foos-bAIf With
. human skull, thus strikiDgly exenplifyinR
The t-s.A 90 9kskesp4asese lines:
Imperial Cssar. dad and tarnsd to clay,
Mixss a.s: sss S;s. 2, r. Pa e. ~ NJ e.,
Eassla eoldiy farriaA game o ba'- |
Nr. David Dickinson, Q Georgia planter.
haa eompufea cArefoi census since 1855.
nom which be deduces that the negro race in
the South 10 not dying ONT that labor does
not produce so much ~ it did before tbe aboli-
ton OF slavery that, working the came num-
ana oct 90 much corn sad cattle raised /; sad
akat the lsborers declare they work harder
aAan when they we're slaves.
The deepest artesian we'll in the world 10 be-
.s osss s IL Pssss' a1ngars =. , IA. Hl.sady
vhst more than half that depth he's hitherto
lad the prominence. The city has devoted /
800. coo to the work, which Is undertaken 10 |
S1pply warm water from bot springs for the
Manieipal establishments and public baths.
NE boring will be prosecuted until the tenn
peratnEe Of the water shows 1859 Fahrenheit.
Henry Thurston. of White Creek, Texas,
Who stands seven feet six inches high, thinks |
Ia IL the tAlIest man 10 the Union. He 10 |
yell prop0rtiooed, as strong a. giant, and |
enjoys the bsst Of health. He fought in the |
cooiede.ate sr@y, and after the var, while
tbrorg shat he could scarcely walk the streets. l
Being modest, be has refused very reasonable |
snns offered by sbcwmen who wished to eK- |
sibit him
bean patented in Frspce. and the patentee |
soee it for making printing types that have |
bean introduced into practical use among his |
country men, in Germany, aud elsewhere. They |
arn, Eaid to be preferable to metal u pes in
zZny respects, and in no re-pect inferior 20
than. They are cast in the same noulds,
Sud make IS equally clear and deGued i'm
srasslon. Tbey sifsr less from wear, cost lets
snd are healthier for the conPositors to handle.
Recent sAnitAEy statistics made in England
70 10 confirm the extraordinary he1lthfoess OF
abe grocery o. compared With that Of the dry
EooSs trade. TIE reason is thai those employed
n she former live In S1ch airy and the latter
m such confined rooms. In one Of the great
Lcudon hospitals . visitor spoke to the House
Shove be said, "have all got bad colds" 81
know il, aud regret it, was the reply, but il
Il much the less of tVo evils. Better bad coldS
shan air In the least tainted"
II the figures in the Secretary of States
Slnce are Trustworthy, the Common wealth Of
New York on June !, 1875, bad population Of
A696.95 souls-wiGh bodiss attached. OF
these, 3 SOB 800 were native born, and l95. 65S
o. little more than one-quarter VI the Whole
were foreign born. Bot the census takers 70.
port that Of the 537 .726 NeW Yorkers engaged
IN productive Industry yeSr before last, 925 1913
were natives Of the United Stats, while 6l2..
AS3, or q good deal nearer one-haif than one
skisd OF the whole number, were born in foreign
eorotTies.
A contributor to . sciedtifo paper writes;
~ End that nndsr very favorable circum-
stances il is jest possible to see, while in Fog.
land, church In France, with unss3sted
Tislon. In the direction of Calais the coast Of
ATIois IL very fat, and on the 26.h OF MsToh
lsss 1 found through my telescope large
sharon or cathedral q few miles to the west-