The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-04-21
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


b1sness places.
A,.,l;ny car ia used for pleasure on the Kan
sas Pacific Railroad. 1t 10 stoop riggea' nas
Seur wheels, and will run forty mics al hout
WHEN the wind 10 favorable
Tho "yevnyp cigar, which Is great favor
sta in Southern Germeny, is said to be com
,.caed entirely of beet and cabbage leaves,
Thich have been stepped in tobacco water
Colonel Allet, Commander os the Pontif'al
Zouaves until the usurpstion in l7'o, piaVe
COLDER n man of the strictest honor, ana q DC
won't Catholic, died suddenly in S"iizariano Oh
March %.
Bismarck has obt aimed permission from the
Rsichstap to prosecute Herr Won Lud"lR, y
parliamentary eccentricity, iot nsv,ng SUI 40. -.
committee that the mouse NO" N"N '"e ~
q iucid interval
with over seventy five millions American
Droduee marketed abroad in the single month
oS March, and only thirty-hve millions to1eign
s.oods imported, il looks as though gold ana
Grsenbacks might soon be interchangeable,
without the help OF the law.
correspondent Of the American Architect
pund that the reason somo oesspoo!s near ms
kouse were no annoyance, sisnougs .a tI1ia IGa
arss and two very hourishing naples had stuck
their roots into them and were deriving all the
hensit.
Edward Everett Hale says that the voicts OF
american women are too gsneraly hign ano
harsh, and he ssoribes this fact to the custom
n schools of making the children "read up
ICud.7 He would like to see placarded in
zvery schoolroom Lear's praise OF Cordelia:
Her voice ever soft,
Gentle and 10 ", an e1 sollept thing in woman.
Tho American Exporter urges the establish
ment of q genuine American shoe factory In
Germany, stating that there 10 not at present
any factory there, although 9slng american
aueHgy TO make the thing pay as handsomely
rs it might, the German workmen not, MS o
general thing, taking kindly to new labor saw
tng machines.
Dore has been exhibiting at Paris very
pretty bronze statue of Night" The figures
jest rest lightly upon pale, silvered crescent !;
doable diadena Of stars is npon lie forehead,
and it is exqusitely drsped with cHnging
Ssil Displaying all its curves and lines, and it's
Eags diaphnnous and OF pale blue. gemEned
with ArRuseyes. Love, bearing n nuptiel
torch, trips towards Night and casts bis light
apon her.
Kuo Tu.i.n, the Chinase AMBASSADOR to Eng.
gAnd he's Kept a diary ever since he started on
ais voyage 10 Europe, which Is said to be full
ofinteilgent comments on Earopsan manners
and customs, and is very different thing
nom the somwhat childish record of his travels
which the Shah of Persia gave to world. The
chinese Aubassador's diary was sent for pub
TUation to China and at fret the lnandarins
aAere endeavored to get 1t suppressed, on 90
0caat of the very free manor in which it oou-
SrRsted tt institutions of the outer "barba-
Tians" with these of tho Celestial Empire 1t
Res, however, since seaa the light, and 10 now
4eEnE translated INTO EuRllenb Will WIG" u
Publication in London.
considerable oommotion in the Enlish colony
IN Rome ct the religious Proclivities manifest
I'd by the English Ambassador, Lord Paget.
To does not attend the old English church, but
pesfeIs the miuistrations of DR.. Nevins at the
American Protestant Episcopal Church of St.
RAup4 DIR. Nevfns' assistant has recently
gone over to the Vatican enemy, and DIR. New.
1nS himself was 6 cavalry ofcer in the United
States esIpy before no donned tho oassock
Lady Pagst and the wife of the English Chap
Ain are not on epeaking terms. Thoy are even
xpuld bs Sel. II the English Ambasssdor to the
1suifthai should one OF these dsys become the
spiritual subj cot of the Vatican"
4 succesafuI trial Of tho Berdan rauge.fnder
Ans iust been made by tho general staf Of tie
Sasrman Army. In less than o minute the dis
n range of o mile and three furlongs being
aHs yard. Ths instrument consists OF table
which can rsvoive freely about pivot at lte
centre, AID which Ia GS.ed on four wheeled
carriage. Tho long side of the table for rs the
IxSd base, and the prolonRatlons of the axes oi
BWo Telescopes arranged along the sides OF the
Snble in suoh o manner that they oan be turn
ad simultaneously through any arc, the side'
81 IN ieosceJsB triangle, the acute angle o
which is at the object the distance Of whioh 1t
manfred. A miorometer fitted to one OF the
telescopes gives the distance ut once in metres
In Philadelphia the bells Of the Church o
n. Mark were thought to be suoh nuisance
sAAS the nhabitants of that city went to Law
70 obtain their aitenoe. Tits bell iaWsuit ha
hSon lately decided by the Supreme Court. Th
aeWeT Sou!t absolutely forbade the ringing o
saS belle, bat the Supreme Court permits then
Do be rung on every day of pubic worship
taouGh not before O'clock in the morning no
NashinGton's birthday, the Fourth OF July
Bow Years Day. Epiphany, Ash Wednesday,
Good Friday. Thanksgiving, Asoensiou, Al
Saints, Christmas and for marriages al
Aarials. The oomplanauts do not seem t
hAvO gained much by their cotton except tn
SGohibition of the bells being rung early in tn
:Eerning for Sunday school.
The Andaman Islands, where the larget
1snal colony of the British Indian Empire
sStablishod, and which gained painful cell
acity from the fact that it was during an il
1pection of this colony that Eord Mayo VIZ
areacherously murdered by one of the convict
belonged originally, like the neighboring Eron
81 :slRuds the Nloobar Islands-to DenmaIl
Dat were come thirty years ago transferred
England. The Islands number RltogethC
sfty -four, with total area Of about 500 squal
miles. The average temperature is SIC FAl
zenheit. The interior parts of the islands al
severed with immense trees, mostly teak bI