The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-04-12

New MACHINE.-A builder in Philadel-
phia makes fire-prOOf ceilings with q fiat
arch of corrugated iron backed by concrete:
The arch is supported at each end by what
is technically known as H-iron girGer.
l Is NAIL MAKING MAcHINE.-A Matchmaking
machine has been brought out, which, OF
nails from half an inch to two inches long,
will cut three thousand six hundred pounds
a day oflarger nails, five thousand pounds,
and of :" Spikes" weighing from IL quarter
to three quarters of q pound each, it will
cut two thousand pounds in an hour.
GEOLOGICAL CHANGES IN IrALY.-The
curious geological changes that have been
remarked from time to time in the north of
Italy, aud especially on the shores of the
lakes in that part of the country, are now.
attracting more than ordinary attention.
An hotel, built many years ago at Densen-
ZanO, on the shore of the Lake Garda, is
gradually sinking at the rate of six inches
daily, and the ground floor has already dis
imperceptibly, and without any shock. A
scientific commission from Milan has been
appointed to examine and report upon the
phepOmenOn. s,sc.
SOLAR ECLIpsE.-Our readers are aware
that astronomers are looking forward with
great interest to the solar eclipse which is
to take place on the 18th of August next,
and will be total in India. On this subject
NJ. Lev errier, recently, read a cOmmunica-
| ton to the Academy of Sciences, informing
that learned body that the line of the cen
trail eclipse passes through Alden, then en-
tiers India by kOlapOOr, a little above Goa,
crosses the whole continent from west to
east, and quits it near Masulipatam. 1t
then traverses the Gulf of Bengal, passes
north of the Andaman Islands, crosses the
northern part of the peninsula of Malacca,
the Gulf of Siam, the point of Camb0ja, the
north of Borneo and the Celebes, and lastly,
skirts the south of New Guinea The dark
ness will be very long, and last more than
six and half minutes, varying by few
seconds according to the localities. This
long duration is owing to the circumstance
that while the moon will be in its perigee,
and, therefore, has large apparent diane
ter, the sun will be in its apOgee, and will,
therefore, have Il very small apparent dia-
1 meter.-Galignani.
A PERFECT ANTIDOTE FOR ALL POIsONs.
| \ plain farmer says: alt is now over twenty
wears since knew that sweet oil would cure
4 the bite of Il rattlesnake, not knowing it
would cure other kinds of poison. Practice,
observation, and experience have taught me
that it will cure poison of any kind, both
on man and beast. think no farmer should
he without bottle of it in his house. The
patient must take spoonful of it internally,
and battle the wound, for Il cure. 10 cure
Il horse it requires eight times as much as
; it does for man. Here let me say of one
of the most extreme cases of snake bites III
this neighbOrhOOd: Eleven years ago.
where the case had been thirty days stand
l ing and the patient had been given up by
This physicians, heard of it, Carried the1oll
t and gave him one spoonful, which erected
9 II cure. 1t is an antidote for arsenic anu
) strychnine. 1t will cure bloat in cattle by
eating too freely of fresh clover; it will
3 cure the sting of bees, spiders, or other in
sects, and will cure PERSONS who have been
poisoned by a low-ruhning vine growing in
!, the meadows, called IVY
THE ARCTIC FIRMAMENT.-yrhe intrepid
r1>o
. . nym forpersevering adventure, thus, under
J. an Arctic sky, raises his own thoughts and
u those of his readers from nature up to ma
u u Blttre,s-Ged:E "The intense beauty of the
y Arctic armament can hardly be imagined
Il 1t looked close above our heads, with its
:, stars magnitied in glory, and the very plan
!. u cts twinkling 80 much as to battle the OBJ
servations of the astronomer. l have trOd-
den the deck when the life of earth seemed
suspended, it's movements, its sounds, its
'coloring, its companiOnship; and as looked
), on the radiant hemisphere circling above
- me, as if rendering worship to the unseen
u center of light, i have calculated, in huml-
u lily of spirit, Lord, what is man that thou
n art mindful of him p And then I have
: thought of the kindly world we had left,
+ with it's revolving sunlight and shadow, and
Is the other stars that gladden. it i'll their
e changes, and the hearts which warmed to
us there, till i lost myself in memories OF
e those who are not. and they bore me back
>, to the stars again"
he MATcHEs.-Herc is the grand secret o.
r matches which light only on the box. In q
ut building number of girls are seated Mt 6
I'd bench, busily coating the underside of ;
t. quantity of wooden boxes with soft, thick
l. brown paste. When this dries it looks al
L. most like piece of gritty brown paper
III pasted on the box. The matches which e
he into these boxes are warranted not to ignite
of though you rub them against ordinary sand
e. paper until every trace of the composition
o is worn Off How is this ? The secret is
10 simple enough, as most people know. Those
I'd matches which ignite only Oh the box ar.
,b devoid of phosphorus. The paste into which
s. tln1- hny heen dinned cnntl iniun almiX