The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-07-28


the manufacture of window glass. 1t has "a
factories. Pennsylvania has 80; New York IL
| Massachusetts, Illinois, and Maryland, each
West Virginia and Mi 1uri, each Indiana
3; aud Michigan, Wisconsin,, and Iowa,
| apiece.
The training of carrier pigeons is still euer.
| getically pursued in Belgium, and during the
latter part Of May some 3os6 baskets OF
the Franco Belgian frontier, 80 that the
pigeons might learn their way home from
I French territory.
| The Mobile and Ohio Railroad is to be sold
under q foreclosure, at Mobile on the 19;h
August. The main line is 472 miles long with
| 46 miles of branches all equipments and ap-
purtenances, the lease of another line of
miles and about 1,000. 900 acres of land are also
included.
During the first three months of. this year
the number of persons killed and irjured on
rail ways in Great Britain in the course Of pub
lie traffic, reported to the Board of Trade by
| the railways. were 232 killed and S37 injured.
In addition, by accidents occurring at stations
or on the railway premises, II persons were
killed and 493 injured.
Twelve hundred and sixty j os Communists,
submission, and diligence" have been allowed
remission or commutstion of punish ment in
honor of the fete in France on Jone 80. Since
the present Cabinet took flee $50 prisoners
had previously been objects of olemency, ABS
of them rec giving o full pardon.
Two prisoners in the all at Newcastle, Ind +,
worked together in digging through the wall
of their cell. One was lean and the other was
fat. The hole was made large enough for the
lean man to squet zs through, and theu. as the
labor was hard and slow, he refused t. remain
aud enlarge the opening, bat escaped at once.
The fss man was detected and secured.
Mr. Charles Ross, chief Of the Parliamentary
reporting staff of the LONDON Times in giving
evidence before q select committee of the
Hot B. of Commons, which 70 codsidering the
question Of hasiu. an effciai report of the
TIM do tod fat hn had lNQan in
the gallery hfty. eight years, for twenty five Of
which he mad been leader of the Times corps,
which consists of fifteen men IN the Commons
alone.
600 miles, from China to London, has been
won this year by the Gleneagle, which brought
nearly eeG 900 ponnds of new sea with her
She made the run from Han Kow to Graveeend
in thirty seven dsya ono hour and four min
utes. tbe beat time on record. How close the
race was may be inferred from ths fact that
of Dover the GtguEHgte tweut min
utes behiod the GlenfoulRs.
The royal flmiIv of Italy assisted at the
launching OF the DAndolo, the sister monster
ironclad to the Dullio, at SptZia, on the 1O5h
inst. The British navy has no vessels 81 pow
erful as these two, and the Italian Govern
ment is about to build two others even moro
colo sal. which viii! be each 14oeo tonnage
and 36 inch armor. The italian navy now
comprises 16 IL ancads, S3 screw, and 32 pad
die steamers, with 676 gons.
That titled patron of pedestrians, Sir John
A. tley, who presided over the OLeary walk
ing mate at IslinRton, lent his friendly Offices.
on the 1st of the month. to q one-mile run, at
West BrompLon, between sundry famous fleet
footed athletes. Cnmmings OF Paisley, the
winner of the belt, made his mile in four min
utes twenty-eight seconds, Hescott, his near
Perhaps some Americon runner would now
like to go after Cummipg's belt and his title
to the worlds one-mile championship.
France has o new flag, classical and elegant,
fNrh hErt ahoa tiff ia hi1R- RrTTTnn ted
by small sapgular block, like that which
formed the pedestal for the Roman eagle,
bearing on one face the number and designa-
ton OF the regiment and on the ether the let
ters "R. F." gilt laurel crown snrmounts
this, topped By q lance head. The flag is of
silk instead of bunting, and has fringe of
in September, at great national festival, to
the troops composing the garrison of Paris and
to delegates from the territorial forces.
The folio wing anecdote, now in circulation,
mind at this moment. In farewell visit of
Princess Reues, wife of the German AmbAsse-
dor, this lady congratulated his Majesty on the
deep reverence and affection entertained to-
ward him by hi9 subjects, gently and adEottly
insin atiDg that SO much devotion should bs
rewarded by the Padishsh showing himself
moro frequently in public Tho Padishah
lis iened with q long and astopished face, and
when the Princess left remarked to the by
standers, 81 should very much like to know
what interest this woman oan have in causing
me to be assassinated."
The superintendent of o home for boys in
San Francisco, having named it the Youths
Directory, was overwhelmed by local gram
mariRnB with prOtestation against the location
OF the apostrophe in the word youths" He
thereupeu wrote to twenty learned 0uthOri- |
ties, in various parts Cf the United States. to |
SETTLE the question beyond dispute; but they |
differed not less than the Pacific coast sages. |
President Barnard of Columbia College, Pres |
ident Eliot of Harvard, George p. Quacken- |
boss, the author of books on rhetoric, etc., ; |
Prof Sehele de We're of the Univereity of Viz
ginis Chancellor Crosby of the New York |
University, BENZ, w, Dwight aud Prof w. D. |
Whitney pronounced youths Directory" COR |
rect and ''Youth's Directory" wrong; Noah |
Porter, President of Yale, declared ''Youth's |
Directory" correct and the other wrong, aud |
Richard Grant White aud DIR. McCosh of Prin- |
cetOD pronounced both correct, while Presi- |
dent Gilman of the John Hopkins University |
SEM reply from which 1t was impossible to |
determine on which eide he was.
The intense fear and disliko of snakes which |
are felt by women have more than once been |
spoken of by bihlosl commentators 9s o sort /
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