Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-09-30

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| Passing through Nature to Eternity"
Men seldom think of the great event o
Death, until the dark shadow falls acros
their own path, hiding forever from thei
eyes the face of the loved ones, whose living
smile was the sunlight of their existence
Death is the great antagonism Of Life. ant
the cold thought of the tomb is the skeleton
in all our fears. We do not want to &C
through the dark valley, although its passage
| may lead TO Paradise, and with Charlie:
mouldy grave, even with the kings anc
princes for our bed fellows. But the fiat O.
Nature is memorable. There IS no appeal OF
reprieve from the great Law that dooms US
all 10 dust. We flourish and fade like the
leaves of the forest, and the frailest flower
that blooms and withers in day, has not a
Trailer hold on life than the mightiest mon.
arch that has ever shook the earth by his
footsteps. Generations of men appear and
vanish like the grass, and the countless muI.
titude that swarms the world TO day, will. to
morrow, disappear like foot prints on the
shore:
"Soon as the rising tide shall beat,
Each trace will vanish from the sand.
In the beautiful drama of Ion. the instinct
Of Immortality so elocuently uttered by the
death devoted Greek, finds a deep response
in every thoughtful soul. 1t is natures
prophecy of life TO come. When about TO
yield his young existence as sacrifice to
Fate, his betrothed CIementhe asks if they
shall not meet again. To which he replies
81 have asked that dreadful question of the
hills that look eternal; OF the flowing streams
that flow forever; Of the stars among whose
GoIl of :r.s h,1 lad
in glory. All were dumb. But while I
gaze upon thy living face, ! feel there some
thing in the love which mantles through its
beauty, that cannot wholly perish. We
shall meet again, Clemanthe"-Er.
To KNOW A HoRsE's AGE.-The colt is
born with twelve grinders. When four front
teeth have made their appearance the colt
is twelve days old, and when the next foui
come forth it is four weeks old. When the
corner teeth appear the colt is eight months,
and when the latter have attained TO the
height of the front teeth il is one year old
The two years old colt has the kernel THE
dark substance in the middle of the tooth's
crown) ground out of all the front teeth. In
the third year the middle front teeth are
being shifted; and when three years old
these are substituted by the horse teeth.
The next four teeth are shifted in the fourth
year, and the corner in the fifth. AT six
years the kernel is worn out of the lower
middle front teeth and the bride teeth have
now attained TO their full growth. AT seven
years hook has been formed on the corner
teeth of the upper jaw; the kernel of the
teeth next 10 the middle fronts is worn out,
and the bride teeth begin to wear off, Al
IChf IF fho al inf rf
all the front teeth, and begins TO decrease in
the kernel has wholly disappeared from the
corner teeth has increased in size, and the
bride teeth lose their points. In the tenth
year the kernel is worn out of the teeth next
TO the middle fronts of the upper jaw; and
in the eleventh year the kernel has entirely
vanished from the corner teeth of the same
jaw. At twelve years old the crown of all
the front teeth in the lower jaw has become
and the bride teeth are much
worn down. As the horse advances in age
the gums shrink away from the teeth, which
receive a long narrow appear
ance. and their kernels have become meta
into darkish point, gray hairs
increase in the forehead over the eyes, and
the chin assumes the form of an angle.
Iihsdurg Gazette.
TAILoRs-The Home Journal, in a pleas
ant homily upon "The ways of Tailors,"
shows up some Of the tricks Of the trade:
"Tailors must live: at least, they think
so; and we have no objections. Yet they
are great tyrants, and have ingenious ways
Of torturing their victims One way is this
They invent fashion which is strikingly |
peculiar, and get it into vogue by various
arts best known TO themselves; for example,
very short overcoats, with long waists, which |
ook well on men like Count Rossi, whose
figure is faultiess. Their next movement,
after everybody is overloaded for the winter,
IS to bring out a garment which differs as
much as possible from the one in fashion
hat is, an overcoat with skirts to the heels,
md waist under the arm-pits They get
lalfa dozen men of high fashion, who look
veil in anything: 10 parade this new inven-
ion in Broadway, and make the short-coated
majority appear out of date. The vancouver
succeeds; all the daudies are driven to the I
OF ordering superfluous coat
he tailors smile, and the dandies bleed, or
heir fathers do. Some time ago, our tailor
grants put Us all into long waiscoats; and
into combinations that just
apped over the hips. Suddenly the wais-
coats we're Abbreviated four inches. What
vas the consequence Why, Of course, the
combinations failed to connect and he
vho would not exhibit to mankind broad
,elt of white around the waist was COM
,elled to discard all his store Of weIl-saved
And in vain shall the oldest
customer protest and order garments Of the
asst fashion. Consider my reputation, sir,
avs the tailor, with the air of offended
majesty"
PET RATs-I was asinnished on visiting
he house of some of the inhabitants to see
uge rat walking quietly around the room,
nd crawling up the masters legs in cool,
amiliar manner. Instead Of repulsing it OF
living any alarm, he took il mp in his hands
nd caressed ii; and then learnt for the
rst time, and 10 my utter establishment, that
was custom in Bangkok to keep pet rats:
htch are taken very young and carefully
Jared, till they attain perfectly monstrous
re from good and plentiful feeding. These
omestic rats are kept expressly to free the
ouse Of other vermin of their own race, and
} ferocious are they in the onslaught they
lake, that few Of the houses are ever an
Dyed BY mice or rats.
[Neaze,s Residence IN Siam.