The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-08-03
THE OMNIBUS.
GOOD NIGHT.

GOOD NIGHT.
Good night have to say good night
To such host of peerless things!
Good night unto that fragile hand
All queenly with its weight of rings; .s ats
Good night to fond upfed eyes, .He
Good night to chestnut brads of hair, ..a..
Good night unto the perfect mouth - ~. It.
And all the sweetness nestled there ,e . =. :.
The snowy hand deains me, then
I'll have to say good night again!
But there will come time my love-
When, if read our stars Alright
/ shall not linger by the porch ,s
With my adeus. Till then, good night n
You wish the time And |.
You do not blush to wish it so?
You would have blushed yourself to death
II To much year ago
a What both those snowy hands? ali, then
I'll have to say good night again. .s4sd.at4
SCENES IN TENERnFE.-The Guanches always embalmed
their Dead and body of priests maintained especially
for that Office They despised DEATH and when they felt it
coming they assembled their people, and simply said "Vaco
guareI to den They at taken to cave,
laid SKINS and vessel of milk cheese placed
hem after which they shut that none might dare
ntrude their last moments The body washed with
salt and water in Egypt and anointed with aromatic
herbs and butter Of goats milk 1t then opened with
removed and the remainder left to dry in the sun;
it aferward rubbed with herbs powder of wood, pumce
during which the Guanche wake continued When the
body quite dry and light charcoal it wrapped
goatskns either tanned raw and stamped with
its own family mark The kings and mobiles sewn up
in finer leather Gando that first they carried the
corpse certain cave and stretched fiat stone when
they opened it and took out the bowels them twice day.
they washed the porous parts thereof the armpi behind
the the groin between the fingers and the neck with
cold water. After washing them sufficiently, they anonted
those parts with sleeps butter and prnkled them with
powder made of the dust of decayed pine and of
bushwood which the Spanards call bresos together with
the powder of They then let the body remain
till it perfectly dry when the relatives of the deceased
and swadded in dressed sheep skins irding
tightly with long leather thongs and put it in the
which had been apart by the deceased for his buyng
place. After hundred years the embalmed light
cork and perfectly fresh Others put into collins
pine wood called sabno carried almost inaccessible
caverns and arranged in order shelves Viera and
described wondrous de Hergue between
Arico and Guimar south of Tenerie The smallest possible
aperture in rock led large and spacious hail. and its
wall compartments like bees nest where thousands
of mummes were laid He remarks: II with wonder
the with which the Guanches render their dead eterna
of Tenere cotemporaries perhaps of King Juba" 1t is
striking thought that destined to become extinct in
the sixteenth century, and who actors in the world but
for century before their extinction should have had
instinct implanted them render themselves everlasting
that their thousands of bodies should exist this
complete preservation in the bowels of their island and
yet be SO difficult to find Mrs Murray who resided in
Tenerie four years. and wrote two amusing volumes about
her stay, says that she Guanche mlnmies in
excellent preservation The hair brown the teeth
beauu the sewing of the moruary skin surpassed that of
her French kid glove though the native sewing had been
done with fish bone and the skins were like the sotest kid
The Guanches appear have taken greatest
care OF their teeth they drank nothing but water and that
not till long after food lest anything heating should spoil
their splendid teeth Their descendants inherit this
ment which gives charm to the planes face When they
laughed envied their white rows without blemish
yet would answer for it. toothbrush is unknown to them
FLYING MACHNEs-A bird is sustained in the air by the
weight OF that fluid and the sustaining power of its wings VIII
depend upon the quantity weight of air that would nave
be displaced by its fall By wide stretch OF wing anu
horizontal notion the resistance is maxmized and long
winged bird that has raised itself in the air aVod FS