The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-08
GENERAL NEWS IT,NMS.

GENERAL NEWS ITHMS.
thirty-tbree minutes.
new cannon has just been tested in the
Krupp artillery grounds. Bredelar, which ia
fred ct the expense Of $50 q shot.
An Austrian general has been credited with
the witty remark that bis countrymen went
int) osnia to occupy it, and are likely to be
occupied.
The Mohawk Telegraph aud Telephone Com
pany, with Q capital Of 500 900, has been in
COZ rporated for fifty years Its line will extend
from Albany to Utica and other points.
King Humbert, of Italy, is about to erect ct
Turin, to the memory Of his father, q monu.
ment to cost 5000 000 The competition, which
is confined to italian Itists, closes on the %.
Of February, 1879.
The sale Of Queen Isabella's jewels yielded
dem was broken up and the brillisnts were
sold by weight to Mme. Blanc. widow OF the
gamblerKi OF Monaco, for $50. 1923
1t is computed that the grain used for liqaors
bushels, which would make 1 1.o50 900 900 four
pound losves of bread. Great Britain uses
30. 600 600 bushels of grains yearly for the
same purpose and am sn%nny non imports food to
The Pittsburgh Sunday Ledger distributes its
issue, in the absence of Sunday trains, by q
very Ingenious railroad velooipede. It was
only Intended to carry one man and about 250
pOuuuo Ol papers, Oub u I0w 6uuO6yb ago buI60
men started on 1t with 100 pounds. and made
26 miles at On average of 10 miles an hour.
Much litigation Ia likely to grow ont Of the
mill explosions in Minneapolis. The insurance
companies refuse to pay for the whole damage,
actual loss by fire; but the mill owners hold
that fire caused the explosion, and that, there
fore, the entire loss was in consequence of fire.
Mr.. Edmund Beckett writes to the London
Times th at lone doesn't learn much at church
INIT 1nor he nj
rule limiting speeches at the only one ever
attended. All the men who were worth hear.
ing could ~ all they wanted in quarter OF
an hour, and those who were not were very
bsnehcially extinguished by the Presidents
bell"
One hundred aud sixty steamships now ply
the Atlantic between Europe and America, and
new ones are being added from time to time
to meet the increasing demand for the quick
trsnspoI tstion OF passengers and frieigbs.
Cheap ocean steam service has largely mono-
polize ed our carrying trade to European ports,
and the sailing service to competing points has
suffered in const uence.
For six years q commission has been laboripg
at the restoration of the records Of births
marriages and deaths destroyed by the Paris
Communists during the rising of 1871. 1t has
ratified 366 O15 applications and rejected Az
432; SO 82S ebtries could be deci cipbered in the
chsrred books, and the duplicate registers Of
marriages kept at the Msyoralty since 1859 sup
piled "a 4S0 more. There are still 3094 cases
under consideration.
A large district of Siberia is being ravaged
by hordes of bandits. They consist OF escaped
convicts-men who have been septepc c sd to the
mines of Siberia, but have escaped. These
have banded together in companies, and are
now the terror Of the aistrict they infest I'm
mense numbers of condemned persons yearly
escape from the mines. For example, of 50 600
confined in the Government of Tomsk on Jan.
l, 16 800 managed to escape.
Dodu, the telegraph operator, recently de
corated with the Crots of the Legion OF Honor
for services during the Franco German war, is
the eighth woman thus rewarded. Five of the
other CROSSES went to Sisters of Charity who
had shown especial devotion in hospitals, one
to Madame Abicot, wife of the Mayor of Oisou,
for defending her husbands house against
several armed men, and another to Rosa Bon
heur, the painter, who was decorated In 1865
They have had great blast at the Glendon
furnace limestone qnarrets near Easton, Pa,
IL 900 pounds cf po wder. lightly tamped and
covered with 600 kegs of sand and with
blocks OF Rhinestone, beia & exploded No more
noise was heard than the noise twohorss
wagon wonld make ruuning over q road. 1t
had been estimated that If 90 600 tons were
broken the effort would pay, bat it is no "
thought that 100 900 tons OF Tock were moved
propus' ton has recently been made that
the ustiona. debt can now be paid oil by the i'm.
position of an annual tax of $50 on generals, u
$40 on ''oolonels" and S. on maj ors." There
| ls no doubt of this. The enormous revenue
| that wonld accrue from such n source would in
| q very short time wipe out the eutige debt.
After this it could be applied to settlement OF
| the labor problem, as the fund would b sniff
ciene to make a handsome distribution pee
| capita for the whole country.
A clergyman in Australia, being disgusted
| with the number of threepenny pieces he found
| in the plate every Sunday, studied the subject,
and. instead of paying the small silver coins
into the bank, looked them up in his desk. The
result was marvellous. After some $50 oi
| small coin had been withdrawn from oircula-
tion sixpenoes and shillings took their place in
| the plate, and latest accounts speak encourag-
| ingly of the increased amount derived from tue
weekly contributions.
Pret y nice work. Cleopatra's Neadle, with
the gir9ers and iron scket, weighs 202 tons
fortnight ago they got it into position upon
| the gicders by its trnnnions and poised it 90
exactly that with his single strength Mr. John
Dixon made the Opex describe an arc ofseveral
inches. The pivot on which the immense mass
| is balanced is "a feet inches from the lower
| end of the monument. Aoalculation made be-
| fore they began to raise it placed the theoreti'
osl centre of gravity at the height of 27 feet