The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1879-02-02
Morning Star and catno,Ic kesaene or.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Examination of 5000 grammar school pnpil.
ut Boston shows that about per cent of the
boys are color blind, and only about one-hali
of per cent of the girls.
Prof Baird, of the Smithsonian Institntiou,
is about establishing Dnw ber of fish- breeding
stations In the rivers of Tennessee, for the
protection of which q State appropriation 10
10 be made.
Fifty-three per cent of the population OF
France are engaged ia agriculture, 26 per cent
in misunderstanding and other industries, Ia per
cent in trade ana per cent In the liberal pro-
fessions, the remainder being returned "a Of no
occupation.
The Geographical Society of Paris has tax en-
the initiatory steps toward forming an emigra-
tion society, which will give information to
those desiring TO emigrste regarding all sec-
the advantages and disad vantsges of emigra-
tion in detail.
OF the 17S $50 mon in the ranks of the British
army, not quite 40. 900, or about % per cent,
are Irish. According to the ratio of population
Ireland should contribute about II per cent
Scotland contributes about per cent; her pro-
portion should be nearly TO- The strength of
the Irish contingent 10 In the infantry of the
line, but about 81 per cent of the mounted
soldiers are Engiishmen.
Three months ago the district magistrate at
Sorel, Quebec, was dismissed nevertheless no
has continued to hold court, having passed
upon fifteen felonies and thirty ak misdemean.
ors, and now he has applied for his quarters
aalary. This, however, is not equal to the
case of the Chiosgo magistrate, who held
place two years after bis Sffioe WAS abolished
ing warrants and executions aud boldly over
ruling decisions of the State Supreme Coutt.
Karoli' the serpent tanner, who is creating
sensation In Paris, was at London some years
ago. when his father suddenly out off supplies.
AT that time the famous Batty, with his lions,
was all the rage. Karoli Thought he would do
as Batty did. Since then he has subjected all
the beasts in creation. In 1873 his tigers had
s,,T H. l.
took to tanning oaimans and pythons. The
three caimans, the Javan python, and the boa
constructor which Carroll has at the Chatelet
have been known to him but q few weeks.
1t is becoming common to s,nd children by
express, aud q number of boys and girls in diff
ferent parts of the country have been trans.
fsrred safely in this way. The express agents
care for their human freight. giving them
oommodstions in the express car. When a
transfer is made from one line to another, the
lad or lassie. properly billed, is banded over
80 the expressm an Of that lioe. A girl was last
week tn us tra nsferred from St. Paul to village
in northern Michigan, and she made the trip
safely.
When Captain E, B. Ward, the Detroit mil
Aonusire, died, an inventory of his property
the debts of the estate being scheduled at
$1,440 473 During the three years that have
since elapsed the management of the estate
have beeRelp the hands of men of character
and ability, E0sS Aproceas of bringing down
to hard pan hsfA n:feoted the assets hat they
only amohnt t6 3 sc. Ola 40 as against liabili.
ties of $640,sS. ST. Instead ofleaving 81 600 900
Captain Ward was $3.50 900 bshind. Iron and
mining stocks to the amount of $3.50 600 are
scheduled as FL only for tho junk dealer.
The German army horses are now fed on
hiscuits 0f three parts each lof rye flour, oat
Aour aud dextrinated pea -four and one part of
linssed -four. The biscuits are made with
hole in the middle Of eaob, so they can be
strung on astring and hung to the seddle-bow
or be carried by the trooper aroHnd his waist
Eash biscuit weighs. when baked and dry,
about two ounces. Seven biscuits are broken
up and given to the horse in the morning,
moistened with water, IL convenient. other u ise
dry twelve at noon and seven ut night. After
careful expert ment in Damp, on the march aud
campaigning, they are reported by oil the
cavalry and artillery ii GERS better than oats.
a trooper osu easily carry thirty pounds of
those biscuits. WI hich will Furnish lis horse
with full rations for eight days, or will serve,
With forage, for twenty days hard marching.
French scientists continue their experiments Is
with blue Nnd other oolored glass. to ascertain
it's effect upon animal life. h. Beolerd huds
that hy-eggs hatch more rapidly under the in
Hueuoe of the blue aud violet rays than under
the green. NJ Young has been experimenting
with the eggs and young OF frogs and trout.
He fnds uniformly that violet light hsstens
abe Matching in very remarkable man
ner blue yellow and all white coming next,
and the red and green rays being ipjnrious F.;
also, that darkness does not prevent develop
Lu6OG, G0OuRh lb oOibSo ib bn01
tAdpoles deprived Of all nourishment die
much qnioker of inanition in the violet and
blue rays than the others, because they con-
sume more rapidly their accumulated ali
Dentary stores aud that the mortality aP-
Dears greater in the onlored lights than in
white.
The amount of counteFfeit ooin in oi'oala
tion in the United States is Nid to he 81 900,
900, besides the great nuu Der uf genuine
pieces made frauduient by the removai If part
of the metal. Wholly spurious coins are al
most always lighter tn su the good oDes. but
an exception, described by the Soieutfc AnaHi
can, is O IS piece made of gold aud silver, and
really costing the oounterfeiter So 40 each
Yariors ingenious modes are used III stealing
gold from the coins. The most common il
-.sweatiuR," which "a done by using the coin sF
the apode in an electro-platinK bath, the gold
being abstracted from it and deposited on
other surface. As much as two dollars worth
of gold can be taken in that way from double
eagle, without making difference that is
readily detected except by weight. A les'
scientific plan Ia to file the smooth parts of tie
surface, aud reburhsh the spots The most
extensive fraud is'splitting.' The operator
SAWS the coin through neatly, gouGes out the