The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-03-22


the forms to be washed without removing
them from the press or machine.
SELF-DEeNDENcE.-M an unwise pa
rent works hard and lives sparingly all his
life for the purpose of leaving enough to
give his children start in the world, as It
Is called, Setting a young man afoat with
money left him by his relatives, is like tying
not swim ten chances to one he will lose
his bladders and go to the bottom. Teach
him to swim and he will not need the blad-
ders. Give your child q good education.
See to 1t that it's morals are pure, his mind
cultivated, and his whole nature made SUBJ
you will have given him what will be of
more value than the wealth of the Indies.
You have given him q start which no mis-
fortune can deprive him of. The earlier you
teach him to depend upon his own resources
and the blessings of God. the better.
Children, God bless them, are the only
beings for whom we have no Imperfect
sympathies." We love them through and
through. There is nothing conventional in
the hearty laugh of n child. Its smile is un-
susceptible to artifice. We like mischievous
to make old folks, while "good children"
generally die early. They die early not be-
cause they are good children, but because,
their quiet habits make them strangers to
mud-puddles, oxygen, dirt piles and out
door exercise. When a friend tells us he
has little boy who never wants to leave
his books" the knob of the front door i'm
Iediate1y becomes an object of intense in
terest to lis. AS if blest with fOreknOwledge,
we know that i'll n short time a strip of black
Grape will be throwing shade across his
path that time can never eradicate.
VAMPIRE BATs.-Among the products of
the country around Para are vampire bats,
which are so dangerous that the natives are
obliged to guard carefully against their in
trusion into their dwellings. A letter says
That party of Americans recently had an
unpleasant experience with them. They
were on an excursion up the Amazon, and at
night one of them was bled so badly bya
Vampire as to awake in a state of exhaustion,
with a face like II corpse. Tie foot of his
hammock and the floor beneath it were satu-
rated with blood, the flow of which was
checked with great difficulty. 1t is this diff
tculty of staunching the blood which makes
she vampire so dreaded, the quantity which
the creature requires to satisfy his appetite
= being comparatively trifling Some persons
seem to be especially liable to their attacks,
while others can sleep in II room infested by
shem nightly with impunity. They only
make their attacks in darkness, and IL light
kept burning in sleeping -roona-is an effect
ual safeguard.
ANTIQUITY OF THE IRISH HARr.-Long
before the Tyre was known in Rome or
Greece, the Gael of Ireland had attained Il
high degree of perfection in the form and
management of the Irish harp. The Irish
harper made use of two kinds Ofinstruments,
the cruit and clairsearch. The latter is sup
posed to have been employed in producing
martial strains, and used in banquet halls
the former thrilled from it's chords the sof-
ter breathings OflOve and sorrow. The pa
gan Gael would listen to no instruction of
Druid and Ollav (priest and professor) that
xyafHaH tn ha,,
the Christian dispensatiOn had supplanted'
Druidism, they continued to be in equal re-
pute. In rank the minstrels were co-equals
of the mobiles, and at the festive boards to
them We're consigned seats of the highest
honor; extensive land estates were settled
upon them; many of them LAS late as the
seventeenth century occupied stately cas-
ties. The legal records of that period show
that the annual rental of one of this class
was equal to $4,000 of our present
money. Their persons and properties We're
held inviolable by all classes: the erie, or
compensation, levied under the brehon law
for the killing of IL chief professor was next
in amount to that eXacted for prince or a
king.
SEEING THE Sun AT MIDNIGHT.-In July,
1865, Hon. j. HI. Campbell, United States
Minister to Norway, with party of Amer
lean gentlemen, went far enough north to
see the sun ut midnight. 1t was i'll 90 de-
grees north latitude, and they assembled a
cliff one thousand feet high above the Arctic
sea. The scene is thus described:
"1t was late, but still sunlight. The Are
tic ocean stretched away in silent vastness
ut our feet; the sound of the waves scarcely
reached our airy lookout; away in the north
the huge old sun swung low along the hori-
ION like u slow beat of the toll clock in our
grandfather's parIor corner. We all stood
silent looking at our watches. When both
hands came together at twelve, midnight,
the full round orb hung triumphantly above
the bridge of gold running due
north spangled the waters between us and
him. There he shone in silent majesty
which knew no setting We involuntarily
took off our hats-no word was said. Com
bine the most brilliant sunrise you ever saw,
and it's beauties viii pale before the gor-
srenua cnlnrinn which lit mn the ocean