Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1853-12-24

4 The WARMING PAN.-In Ireland warm
| ing pan is called friar. Not many year
: ago; an unsophisticated girl took service il
hotel of -. Poor thing-she had move
heard of warming pan in her life, though
she regularly confessed to friar once {
year.
1t SO happened, on cold drizzily night
that priest took lodgings in the inn. He
had travelled far. and being wearied, he re-
tired at an early hour. Soon after, the mis-
tress of the house called the servant girl.
Betty, put the friar into No 81
Up went Betty to the poor priest.
"Your reverence must go into No. s, my
mistress says"
How! whatw asked he, annoyed at be
ing disturbed
''Your reverence must go into No. g."
There was no help for it, and the pries
arose, donned dressing gown and wen
In about fifteen minutes the mistress call
ed 10 Betty.
"Put the friar into No a."
Betty said something about disturbing his
reverence. which her mistress did not un
derstand. So she told the girl in sharp
voice, to do always as she was directed and
/
Up went Betty, and the unhappy priest
despite his angry protestations, was obliged
to turn out of No. and go into No a.
But little time elapsed ere the girl was
told to put the friar into No 3, and the poor
priest, thinking that everybody in the house
was mad; and steadily resolving to quit the
next morning, crept into the damp sheets
OF No. 3. He was TO njoy no peace there.
Betty was again directed to put the friar
into No. 2, and with tears in her eyes she
obeyed.
In about an hour the landlady concluded
| TO go to bed herself, and the friar was or
dered into her room. Wondering what it
meant, Betty ordered the priest to 90 into
No. II. The monk crossed himself, count
ed his beads and went to No. H.
1t so happened that the husband of the
landlady was troubled with the green-eyed
monster. Going up to bed, therefore, be-
fore his wife, his suspicious were confirmed
by seeing him in his bed sound asleep To
rouse the sleeper and kick him into the
street was the work of moment; nor was
the mistake explained till the next day,
when the priest informed the innkeeper
what outrages had been committed upon
him, and he learned to his amazement that
he had been serving the whole night as a
warming pan.
EXTRACT FROM DEACON SNowBALL's THIR-
T1ETH sERMoN.-The Deacon satisfactorily
solves an important question in natural his
tory, as follows
Son dis 'casion we will take our text from
desc Words
Full many gem of purest ray SERENE
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear;
Fun many flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
What you tink is dis gem dat is down in
de ocean? 1t is de 6sh's eye shining in de
dark down dar, and de poe, tink it is gem.
De JeWsharp Is gern-now dar is no jews
harp down dar among de waves OBJ de sea.
Den good wife is gem-but wife isn't
found dar neyther, but she is found in Sans
back cellar, or at the bobbolition non exis-
tence meeting Den breastpin is gem.
But de place for de breastpin is de bosom
so tink desc gem in de ocean is muffin but
fsh's eye down in de ocean dar. Den de
poet tell you dat flower is born to blush un-
seen. Dat 'lude to Rose Bluefoot, who is de
flower dat is born to blush unseen, cause
she hab black skin, and when she blush
you can't see it, bekase her skin is so black
it won't show. Dis 'lude in ticklar manner
to de colored people, bekase dat dey blush,
and nobody see 'em blush Dey tink de de-
lectable colored lady can't blush; but dey
might as well say dere is no hoss in de
stable, when de stable door is shut and you
can't see de hoss."
FASHIONABLE ExTRAvAGANcE. - One of
the New York papers, speaking of the ex-
travagance that prevails in the world of
fashion in New York, says:
"Already our ladies, who make any pre-.
tension to the title of fashionable, have com.
menced war of rivalry with European
and if they do not surpass them
in the style of Dress they are certainly their
equals in extravagance. In one year, a lady
Of fashion, living on the Fifth avenue, will
expend seven or ght thousand dollars upon
dress; and we are assured, upon the most |
reliable authority, that walking or pro-
dress. such as is seen occasionally |
in Broadway, costs from fifteen hundred 10 |
two thousand dollars.
A Tuscan JoKE.-Florence has been lately
astonished by an attempt on the part of the |
" o'ouH DuAC " IIdAC UOU UtOt. All IN. |
habitant of Lucca happened to pour some
water out of the window Of his house, and
On the head of the Grand Duke, who was
passing at that moment. The poor subject.
horror struck, rushed down stairs, and, fall. |
ing on his knees implored pardon. sNever |
mind, never mind" answered his sovereign.
: only it's lucky it was NOT an Englishman
hat the accident happened to- for if it had
been. half an hour hence should have been
involved in diplomatic correspondence"
PA1Nf1se:-A new method of painting
las been discovered and employed BY the
celebrated Horace Vernet It consists in
making the colors with olive OIL When the
picture is painted, the back of. the canvass
$ covered with a coating of fulIer's earth,
which draws the oil through, and absorbs il
entirely. The painting is thus reduced TO the
Q the nature of the paste. The fuller's earth
$ then removed from the canvass, and Al
'oat Of linseed oil is applied, always at the