Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-10-28

| to crumbe under its pressure.
"What then occurred says the letter, as
an inexplicable thing. The waters fought with
and overthrow those houses whose position op-
posed their current They carried away the
fountain of San Pedro, and opening great
trenches and bursting open the doors Of the
pocado and of the several shops, they spread
through squares and steets, inundating wine
cellars, warehouses, and the first floor of the
houses; in some instances reaching to the very
roof, throwing down walls; and abandoning
everything, the inhabitants fed to the noun
tains, whence they looked on at the horrible
catastrophe.
LIFE AFTER FREEz1NG.-It is said that the
scientific men of France are at present
specializing on recent instance of young
man brought to life after being frozen eleven
months on the Alps. The blood of living
man was infused into the veins of the frozen
youth and he moved and spoke. The ex-
pertinent was afterwards tried on hare,
frozen for the purpose, with complete
success
II has been the practice at the hospiee of
St. Bernard, for the monks to keep the frozen
bodies of unknown travellers for months, that
they might be recognized, and in Norway,
according to the recent work on that country,
published in England by Prof. James D..
Forbes, the people, in some of the valleys,
during the long, weary winters, keep the
bodies of deceased persons in frozen state
till spring. when they are borne to the
church for the last time; but this is the first
instance on record of resuscitation after
death was for some fine apparent.
In some parts of this country it is quite
common to transfer fish from the waters Of
one locality to those of another, when they
are frozen so hard that they may be broken
like a stick by bending. In this State the
Otsego bass has been packed in straw and
conveyed to a considerable distance. and
after being placed in cold water, gradually
thawed to life again. Nearly all the fresh
fish brought to our markets, and forwarded
hence into the interior, are packed i'll ice.
In this manner the Eastern people ship fish,
meats, fruit, ETC.: to the East and West Indies,
in their ice cargoes.
Some years ago. an entire mammoth was
found on the northern coast of Russia, in an
excellent state of preservation, to the very
hide and hair, and after its discovery and
displacement animals partook heartily oft
flesh. The tusks were brought TO St. Peters,
burg, where they are still to be seen.
i .
of cultivated reason you look abroad, and
see wealth Of beauty, a profusion of good
ness in the work of Him who has strown
bird, and enameIed the insect, in the SIM
can read this lesson. An uneducated man
now in its splender floods the armament and
al, lor hon hon hnxr
much of the loveliness of the world results
from the composite character Of light and
from the rejecting propensities of most
physical bodies. Il, instead of red, yellow
and blue, which the analysis of the prism
and experiments of absorption have shown
to be its constituents il had been homo
all have been! The growing corn, the ripe
greenness of spring and autumn's robe of
many colors, The haes Of the violet the lily,
and the rose, ting silvery foam Of the rivulet.
the ocean, would have been alike unknown.
streak in the sky, and dull vapors would
which in the dyes of flaming brilliancy cur,
TAN HIS IIsi1IS up anu SoinS w" Il. tay5
there would have been no distinction be-
health, the paleness Of decay, the hectic Of
would have been an UNMARRIED, unmeaning
leaden hue where we now see the changing
and expressive countenance, the tinted
earth and gorgeous armament"
EXHIBITION or PIcKpocKETs-The New
York Herald mentions the following novel
mode Of showing up pickpockets: w..
Yesterday afternoon the Chief of Police
made visit to fhe Agricultural Fair, and
soon after two notorious pickpockets were
discovered in the fair exercising their nefa-
rious operations. They were. both taken
into custody, and by order of the Chief put
at once on exhibition. They were each
provided with large placard, attached
with astring around their neck. labelled
Pickpockets.', The rognes were then walk
de around the fair under an escort of police
men, in order that the people present might
eb gratified with the sight Of live Pickpock-
ets This novel exhibition caused consider
able excitement, and hundreds OF people
followed after them. They were kept on
exhibition in the manner for several hours.
We understand that the next light fingered
caught at the fair will be pfovi-
ded with cage, and thus become one Of
The stock elephants" on show.
a6r A friend Of ours, yesterday morning,
was Just about indulging at breakfast, in the
luxury of Shanghai egg, and had broken the
she'll, when another egg met his astonished gaze,
the FIRST she'll being merely cover to the Sc
,ond. It is now on our desk for the inspection
Of the curious in such matters.
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