The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1879-01-12
GRNERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Temperance societies have lately been form
cd ut Hanover and Gottingen with view o
reducing tho consumption Of beer to moderate
proportions.
About fifteen Thousand Russians will leave
the old country during the next three moutht
many of them already being on the road
large percentage Of HON will settleiin eastern
DAkots and in the country tributary to Siouz
City.
Mexico has laid the corner stone of q monu
ment to the late Holy Father, in the City Of
Pnebla, in presence of the President of the Il >
public, the Governor Of the State, and the
Bishop of the diocese. Great Joy has been the
Iesnlt.
A donkey may be made Al actor il the right
incentive be given. Joe Emmet introduces in
'Fritz' one that brays every evening at exact
1y the proper point in the play. This Is accom-
plished by showing the donkey q bunch of
carrots, OF which he is inordin stely fond.
As Bismarck is known to desire that Gam
BETA should obtain the highest power in
France, q French writer accounts for the curl
ous wish by suppoeipg the German Chancellor
10 suxious to hasten the grand crash he be
lieves to be coming. Not an improbable sug-
gestion.
The superintendent approached youth of
color, who was present for the frs, time in
Sunday school and inquired his name. for the
purpose of placing it on the roll. The good
man tried in vain to preserve his gravity
when the answer was returned: "Well masss
calls me Captain, but my maiden name is
Moses"
Anew plan of mobil;z .tion has been adopted
for the German Army. OIly twenty-four
hours are to be left to the men of the reserves
and the landwehr for the settlement of their
private affairs when once they have received
lhe order to join their regiments. This order
10 given irrespective of Sunday or holiday of
day or night
The vital statistics of New York present
strong evidence OF the longevity of the men
and women of the Irish race. or twelve cen
tenArians whose deaths are recorded in that
city during the past year, eleven were natives
Of Ireland and in o maj ority of cases, the no.
tices of those still living who have passed the
bounds of o century of existence show that
they come from the Emerald Isle"
There were at Paris during the Exposition
season May November - 571 1872 visitors.
or 46,o2l more than in 1867. OF these 2l8622
Ga 04; Belgium, 81 4l9; Germany, % 524; Italy,
l6 ALI; the United States, IA $50 Switzerland,
32s4; Spain, 10 234; Austria. .072, etc. Among
them were thirty nine sovereigus and princes.
This, of course, only includes those who put
up at hotels and public lodging houses.
a new material for Governing walls called |
"Muralis" has been invented by Frederick |
Walton OF London. 1t is q mixture of oxidiz ed |
linseed oil and fibre, and on this ornamental
sion in relief is very clearly stamped by maoh- |
inery l. would be admirable for boarding |
houses and sohools, for so well does it resist |
knocks that if struck with the sharp end of q |
hammer q slight indentaton will at first be |
prod uoed, but in half an hour the elastic sub |
stance fills up the gap.
There only eight States in the Usion |
where the postal service pays its way and |
half OF them are in New Ed gland-New Hamp |
shire. Ii MASSACHUSETTS, Rhode Island, Connec.i |
ont, New York, New Jersey, Penney lvauia and |
Aohig sr-the net surplus of revenue from |
these States being over 81 $50 900. II the re- |
naming States did as well, the Department |
would have o s1rplus of over $4,000 600 ito |
turn into the Treasury annually, instead of
lacking about s. 900 900 Of being sci f-sustain- |
SDg !
The compressed gas system in vogue on the |
German railroads has been adopted by the
Ep gsh Government for lighted buoys. The
bnoy is filled with gas the burner at the top is
lit, aud q light that no shock or oTenChirg BY
water can extinRuish is provided that will
burn day aud night for thirty four days. 1t is
thought that with improvements one of these
buoys can be made to show a light visible at a
d'stau ce of four miles for three months, while
abe application of an electric apparatus extin-
gushing the lamp at sunrise and reiighting it
at sunset would give it a working duration OF
six months.
The mail bng5 of the European, Cape o
Good Hope steamer, wrecked December, 1871,
we're saved, but very wet. They contained
quRI {. tea OF diamonds. Those 10 packages
were, although the addresses were most OBJ
liberated, ultimately all delivered at their tes
sination, but quantities of stor cs he'd got loose
from packages reduced to puip.r After infinite
Grouh!e the London Post, fl &c fUand out for
whom they intended; they were then
ued by diamond broker, and the amount,
sos 900, divided among the several Claimsuts,
and, the mort remarkable thing in the whole
business, not u single murmur was made By
any of them.
Tobacco, according to an eloquent member
OF the JAussvIlle, Wis, debating society, min
i6es the annoyauoes of deily life, exhilarAtes
IN times of depression and oAlms in seasons OF
excitement q Isdruples the normal ecstasies OF
eelibaoy and modifss the Nsperities of connu.
bal iucoU pAtibIlities And the President of
the Maine Senate, acting Governor during
days interreguum last week, spoke of the
United States as Republic more pure and
perfect than any ideal Of Plato, whose IL
Sivers have been wiser than Scion or Percles,
and whose intellectual progress will some day
rival, il it does not surpGSs, the art of Phidss,
the pom of SophocleS, the tongue of Demos
Ahenes.
Nessrs. Taplin & Knight, milline'S, Albion
BnildingP, AldersgAte Road, London, marked q
sixpenoe and laid it on the carpet of o room,
and then sent Florence Chapman, an erraud
girl of eighteen, into the room to sweep it mp.
Five minutes later Mr. TAplin missed the six
pence and, As he said in court, "gave the girl
into custody. He put the sixpence there that
abe might take t." The prisoner said that she
picked mp the sixpeuoe, and before she had