The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-13

laying about him in the very thckest of the fight Ac
cordng to these early chronicles however the soderkng
remained long the bloody struggle lasted quietly in his
tent Brian to have thought fighting on Good Friday
an lmplous matter for him. but very proper thing for his
soder These sent forward butcher be butchered
while the King continued his knees in his tent which
surrounded by sheldburgh or guard of men with their
shields locked and overlapped SO to form wall OF IRON
between him and HARM While his knees, he repeated
halfahundred prayers and then asked how the field was
going After receiving reply he repeated halfahundred
psalms, and then demanded What of the battle? On
hearing the report Brian went again his knees, and
psalms prayers and paernoter repeated in SUGGESTIONS
OF hfes with the usual nterudes of asking news and re-
ceiving intelligence from the field of Gontar Brian Boru
was praying instead of fighting controlling the held when
Brodr and his Danes crashed through the shiebuh and
came upon the monarch he impetuously charging
Heaven with prisons On the cry of the Danes that the
kneeng man was the King, Brodr dsdainfuy remarked
that he must be priest and not King Brian The joke
exasperaed the Irish monarch that to show its nappcaby
Dane of both his legs but Brodr he felt them going stove
in the head of Brian with his batteaxe and thus made
end of the King though the final victory did not rest with
the Danes.
oFF-A French professor casts this ugubri-
horoscope of earth: Our earth will become moon.
Once earth soft and dused substance; then became
incandesen and luminous sphere next very solid globe
liquid within it is obscure planet thick and gradual
y COOLING with fire in its bosom, but bathed its surface
fires will be exnguished its atmospheres and will
have evaporated and earth will revolve through space
inert and icy It will then be like the moon where
organic life is extnguished where silence regns supreme
where extraordinary cold weather followed without transit
ton by excessively hot weather. The had its
atmosphere its volcanoes its inner fires and its humid belt
The same law governs the destines of all the suns satellites
Each of them upon breaking from the common
mence to cool so much the more rapidly its volume was
smaller The earth being forty times larger than the moon
cools forty times slower than it but like it, does COOL AL
ready the have lost the feth part Of their original
volume and they will have entirely disappeared before the
solid crust of the earth is sevenyve miles thick When
this day there will be animated creatures
Of animal or vegetable life on this globe Icy nights will
follow od days the of time this will be the fate of
the and all the solar system But it will be thousands
of millions of years before the earth reaches this stae
ABOUT New ORLEANs-I think there country in the
world dreary and oppressive the country round New
Orleans 1t vast swamp below the level of the Misss
sipp covered with cedars not evergreen but decduous
single leaf upon them For miles these dreary forests
tend with almost always the aspect except perhaps
for few miles the trees may be bathed in yellow Shiny mud
halfway their trunks where lake river has been
sweed and risen for time fifteen feet higher
than usual Natural scenery untouched by man. has, almost
everywhere in the world beauty not always lovely
graceful beauty, but beautiful dreariness beautiful
wildness beautiful quainness beautiful luxuriance
Here in this swampy Shiny Louisiana there is ugly drear-
ugly wdness ugly quantness and the country often
struck absolutely ugly and with its agators baskng
in the rivers almost revolving somewhat if it
appearance. We in New Orleans in 1853 and the
of society not pleasant to contemplate than
the natural the moral atmosphere offensive
the swamp miasma Every day heard of murders and
assassnatons in the Streets and crime ruled in society The
fear of vengeance from criminals often prevented the
injured from seeking the protection of the LAWN fact the
of the city almost lawe The aspect of the streets
quiet enough, perhaps with the exception of few
drunken Irish and Germans, whom | sometimes abso-
luely rolling the pavement but it impossible
speak any person without hearing of crime and
the daily papers crammed with revolving records.
detesed New Orleans detesed the Hotel ST. Charles
with its 800 people sitting down table together and de-
tested the conversation heard there dinner and in the
immense drawing crowded with fine ladies' Fine gives
idea how fine these planters ladies were indeed much
exravagantly dressed than crowned heads in old
countries and jewels in the early morning
than a princess would in any evening in England
Everything in New Orleans disguised me. I could
visit the slave auction slave depots without suffering
with horror for days after and could not look the daily
paper with its little black running negroes heading
Vulnerable advertisements of runaways without feeling sick
with sympathy for the suerngs of these human beings
indicated In fact lost the feeling of the presence
slavery. 1t met everywhere its influence was felt
everywhere In the booshops by the garng absence of
nv the