The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-01
GENBRAL NEWS ITBMs.


four bunohes. Ono little bunoh 10 for the hair
one for the belt, another for the throat, and
still another to hang from the ohatslsine.
An sosive volcano has put ia an sppesranos
In Humbolt County Cal, and 10 throwing up
stones and FIRE. THE 10 in harmony with the
periodical earthquake shooks experienced on
the Pacific Coast
There 10 no law in Ohio to punish 0 man for
running railroad train out Of schedule time
henoe the conductor whose oarelessness caused
the recent accident at Mingo Junction has been
discharged from custody.
The Catholic Proteotory In New York since
its establishment, sixteen years ago, has given
board and shelter to $4,000 children: At pre-
sent 24s0 children are inmatsA Of this intt tn
tion-1500 boys and $50 Rirls
Halls Journal Qf Health insists that We would
be healthier If We ate more onions. Dried
onion COT Ain from 2j to 30 per cent. of glut
pea and the grain. Experience has long proved.
that like cheese, il helps to sustain ttrength
beyond what its bulk would suggeet.
Among t 1e orders just issued to the Boston
police, to regulate their duties in places OF
public amusement, is the folio wing: "Police
officers are not to interfere, even on the re-
quest Of mansgers or their agents. with per-
sons who 10 reasonable and decorous m amer
express their dir snt by Kissing or otherwise
nt what is presented ON the stage"
From the passage of the English Merob ant
Shipping act of 1876 to the 30th of June 1873,
the number of vessels detained for alleged de-
fects in hul', equipment or machinery was 22S
or these 2l9 were found unsafe Eve were
found safe, one was improperly detained and
in three csses the surveys were not com pleted.
The number d7tai ned for alleged overlooking
or improper loading was sixty.two, and oil Of
these were found to be unsafe.
Embezzlers or those about to embezzle will
be gratifed to learn that, according to an
English decision, if per IN 10 sent by his en-
ployer to get o check csshed and spends or
pockets the proceeds, he is not guilty of theft
L., - At. T.. = 1rt,
civil suit for the recovery of the money. The
check is not stolen, because it was placed in
his hands by the owner for 8 purpose which
was accomplished, and the money is not stolen.
bscause the owner did not have it in his pos
session.
Eoglish railroad reports j att at hand show
that the perils of the rail are considerably
greater in the mother conntry ths n in the State
ofNew York, While New York railroads killed
passengers last year, and more or less seriously
ipjured 37o5. Here one passenger in every
5,216 800 lost his life by the oompany's care
lesenees or bis own foo'hardipees; there, one out
Of every q ,377 727. Yet the reports also show
that the English roads have bsen steadily i'm
proving. in the matter of eafety, since 1873
when 241 passengers were killed.
According to Lieut, Conder. in bis recently
published Text Work in Palestine" the world
is in danger of losing one of its wonders. The
six remaining columns Of the great Temple of
the Sun at Baalbeo are nodding to their fall.
The Turks have already sapped them in seek
ing for the mental cores run into the joints;
every frost adds something to the progress of
destruction, and any winter may bring the
destruction of three ont Of the six. These
columos, seventy five feet high, are among the
nobleet architectural works In the world, and
the method of their erection ie still unexplain-
ed.
Two young veloci pedsts hare just shown
what can be done by bicy cles by way of travel.
They left Paris and travelled through part
hn fl,n SoiH Ia and rhA mt nf
France, Italy, and southern Swii zeilsod. They
travelled through Orleans Tours, Potiers
Apgouleme, Bordeaux. Mon tau ban. etc.,
distance of more than 5000 miles, returning to
Paris. They made an average of at lsast
seventy seven miles for every day, making no
distinction for delays for rest or op account OF
weather. Tho longest single days journey was
from Tnrin to Milan 80 miles, made in nine
AID half hours
The occupation of Cyprus by the E5g!fsh has
anew the truth of the statement
t1Rt the only two nationalities with whom the
Jews cannot compete are the Greeks and the
Maltese No jew has ever thriven in Greece
or Ma'ta. Upon the occupation of Cyprus the
G ks were so early in the teld with their
ready money that they bougbt NJ houses right
and left from the upeuspecGing. natives, and
rem ia and prices have gone up more than 100 per
cent. A fabulous Fl cure is asked for anything
approaching decent dwelling, and land is also
being bought in the hope tbst sPecuiative
companies may require come otthses valuable
sites for building purposes" The English He
brews at once Declared th at the game was net
worth the candle, and kept aloof.
A very novel discovery in natural history has
recently been made in England. lecturer on
this subject was called upon the other day to
pay for Q live rabbit which he had in q basket
in . railway. carriage, and which the ticket
collector said would be charged the same as .
dog. The lecturer vainly explained that he
was going to use the rabbit in illustration offs
lecture be IVES about to give in q provincial
town, and, Indignantly taking small live tor
1oise from his pocket. said: you'll bs telling
me next that this is dog, and that must pay
for it also" The ticket taker went for superior
orders, and on his return delivered this lecture
on natural history: "Cats is dogs, rabbits is
dogs, but . tortus is . hinsect." The professor
had to poy dog fare for the rabbit.
The rotten borough State of Nevada is un-
usually excited over the approaching election.
The subject of contest is not the United States
Senatorship-for the bonanza kings seem sat
isaed with the way that J. P. Jones has repre-
sented their interests-but the proposition to
repeal the law under which tax is levied on
the net proceeds of mines. ThislAw practically
lays the burden of supporting the State Gov
ernment on the owners of tae great silver
mines, most of whom are residents of Califor-
mia. OF ha in hA hit ants of Nevada who