The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1866-10-20

Mary. But inc lnlpOStcrS nuu Dcen so
foolish as to write it on paper made of
rags instead of on the ancient papyrus,
as they easily might have done, and a
person who came to see it observed that
the letter, besides being curious, also
involved Il miracle, for the paper on
which it was written was not in exist
ence till several hundred years after
the mother of our Lord had asccnded
into Heaven. Peter Damian, describing
the anti-pope, John, at the close of the
tenth century, says he"had his eyes bored
out, his ears cut off, his tongue cW ont,
and then being put on an ass with his
hand, was paraded about Rome and
obliged tocXclaim: "Such is the dcscrv-
ing punishment of him who cndeavors
to eXpcl the Pope of Rome from his
seat"
The poets have also been found guilty.
y critical writer, quoting from "Parn-
disc Lost" Book l.,
"Thus ircorporcul spirits to smallest forms
large"
asks: "If they were incorporcal, what
occasion had they to reduce their
shapcs?" In Addison's "Cuto" occurs
the following line:
50 the purc limpid stream when foul with
stains"
Some one has noticed this couplct
! from Blackmorc's "Arthur:"
"a painted rest Prince Nortigcrn had on.
Which from Watci Pct his grundsire won.'
Phillips in his pastorals makes shcp.
herdcsscs tear their hair and beat their
breasts at their own deaths:
aye brighter maids, faint cmblems Of my fair,
! With looks cast down Hul with diSh'vrle hair,
In bitter anguish beat your breast, an lmptn
Her death untim 'ly, oS it were your own
I.ucian makes Promcthcus cite vcrSC
out of Homer, and Shakespeare place.
the scene of Il shipwrecil on the coast o
Bohemia.
There have been bulls, too, on canva
as well a. on thc printed page. Burgo
anne, in his "Travcls in Spain" no
tices painting where Abraham is pre-
/ pairing to shoot Isaac with n pistol; ant
=, in a country church in Germany til
painter, representing the sacrifice o
Isaac, places a blundcrbuss in Abra
hams hand, and paints an angel com
: ing down to pour water on the pan. L
Owens travels Is mentioned a pictur
| in the church of st. Xachaaia, at We
e nice, where an angel is entertaining tn
: Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus wit
eli an air-on the violin. SO in the colleg
2 library of Aberdeen there are elcgan
paintings on the margin of n Dutc
= missal representing the angels appear
2 ing to the shepherds, one of the latte
of whom is playinga a bagpipe. Lew
Q Cigoli painted picture Of the circun
:, cision of Jesus, and drew the hig
# priest Simeon with spectacles on H.
5 nose, probably out of respect to h
5 great age. Spcctaclcs were not know
= for fourteen centuries afterWard. y
l POusinn's picture, at the French MI
: scum, of Rehecca at the well, has tn
whole background decorated with Gre
= elan architecture. Another at tn
!, French Museum, representing tn
c reconciliation of Jacob and Laban, hs
l Il Stecplc or belfry rising over the tree
1 A belfry in the mountains of Mcsop'
: tamia in the time of Jacob! In a pic
Z, ture painted by +. Chcllo Della Pucl
y the Blessed Virgin is placed on Il VclvC
: sofa playing with Il cat and Il paroquc
0 and about to help herself to coffee froI
f an engraved cotIrc-pot. Sir Thom,
4 Browne, in his Vulgar Errors" h
II written more than a page to disprol
Is the possibility of Adam and Eve ha'
:, ing navels, objection having been mac
c to paintings by Raphael and Micha'
o Angelo, and to the painting of Adai
n and Eve by Mabuse, in st. James'S Pa
+ ace, in which they are represented wit
. navels.
a Sir Boyle Roche may, perhaps, |
:, properly callcd-and we hope tn
phrase will not he misinterprcted-tI
a Father of all Bulls. And yet there
e an authentic record of FrcnChmal
J. named Calino, who was quite as r.
/, markable rs Sir Boyle for Il bovine ten
c denCy. There is letter OF his in eXis
d ence, rs follows: "My dear friend,
}, left my knife at your lodgings ycssc
Il day; pray send it to me if YOU shou
= find it. Yours, CalinO. =. 5. New
|, mind sending the knife; l have -four
II it,"
r There is also a note to his wife, viii,
e he sent home with basket of prov
Il ions, the postscript to which read: "N,
d will find my letter at the bottom of |
d basket. If by chance you should fail
Ir do so, let me know as soon as possible
10 CalnO once tried to get Il certificate
defective sight from the surgeon OF
20 regiment to which he belonged, to ave
Q some military duty. 81 am so ne'
IT sighted" said he, that can't see
o. stripes on the arm of that corporal oV
e. there"
or One Winter day, 4 friend of Calil
r. walking with him in the garden of
ns Tuileries, said:
II "Calino, I'll bet you twenty fral
he that YOU don't walk across the irOH
L. pond yOndcr on your bare feet"
ht " Done" said Calino, taking his sh'
IS and stockings in his hand. But VIII
o. he was half way across, he turn
lis around, saying it was too cold to so a
[r. further, and made the best of his "