The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-05-09
MESsENGER, SUNDAYS Mays. 1893.


with the teacher and several of the boys IS,
before the opening of the court. -e4 i
: When his honor came in asked him TO =
hear additional testimony in favor OF the
defendant. His honor remarked that IL 2
was not usual to receive testimony after
verdict had been agreed upon. However,
on learning from mo the nature OF the
testim3ny had to offer, he yielded. Tie
teacher was called and sworn. The Judge
pronounced THAT sufficient, s said few
words to the jury,, who, after considering
for q few seconds, pronounced their sveraleb
NOT guilty. q i 81. gs4 ~ ss.s., so.,ao
lezs,s - ~ ARTS, SCIENCES, ETC. 92 's''aed' h
s2aAo EJE g fIs[A iEIslT aes1Sgty q. % J.,
"a Ee Human Finger, aad Thaplb,-3sepe !
have pincers, others wimble or brad awl.
The beaver has a hatchet, spade, trowei,
/ - rammer, and engineering skill OF tfie ut,
most precision .be9ElI bee has the square anu
bcom pass. III If it cannot be ssaids that these
gtyorkers never Improve intth4s use ofEthelr !
| tools-since the first nest of bird or aFa1-
bityis generally, more imperfeetlg formed !
than the second still 81 that is all; they
never change their tools, and they transmit
4 them to their progeny Just as they received
Them. 1T is otherwise with mar. Man has
nothing but his teeth and nails he IS IN ]
compiete and he,vas leftto effect his com-
spletion by furnishing himself with the Or
gans which he needs. He has to protect
his vulnerable body. and to ARA his power
less hands. Man has nothing; but he has
y the means. and is, moreovef, aRdef the OBJ
litigation OF acquiring everything; and thus
Il hts very weakness is the foundation OF ms
strength and the title of his greatness.
/ Thanks te-thflt~ small matter of his struc-
5 ture-that 6pposable thumb, which permits
t him to seize and let go as he pleases WHAT
[ ever he may hsndle-he can add by turns
n I to the effort of his hand the weight Oh a
= stone, the reach of IL branch, the cutting
j faculty of iron,. or the elasticity of air.
q The human race entered on it's reign over
y % the earth, and all that therein ISL when
e the first man felt-the beauty of a flower OF
d Paradise, and discovered that ne could
pluck it with his fuger and thumb. With
Is out that anatomical Improvement OF the
t foot into a hand, and of the great toe into
If a thumb, perfectly "opposable" by each
10 finger, the world would not be what it is
it We might have accomplished much, as
n beavers do with their tails; or birds with
y their beaks !; but, unfortunately, we are
0, neither beavers nor birds; and deplorable
< would have been the state of such com
munity, even should some OF its nempers
1T have been able TO initiate that ingenious
N gentleman at Antwerp who paints with his
TO feet for it is. incontestable that every hu-
lie man work, the greatest and most important,
m as well as the finest and most artistic, goes
back to the single finger and thumb. Be il
ne one where enormous masses OF masonry
ht have been uuarried and cbnilt together, OIL
H. one where natural forces have been dexter
/ ously taken up and turned to perpetual and
an multiplied power, it ali comes from the fac
lie ulty of pinclsing. The pyramids OF Gizeh
t. and saw-mil on the St. Lawrence bott
ed express the same proyidential constructor
at of that wonderful and beautiful piece %
as mechanism-a human hand. Hence th'
he best definition ever given of man-nameiy
nd sfan animal with cephattc hand "a Gram
nd handed animal. w tFa
in The Nations Without Fire.-According Il
ad Pliny, fire was a long time unknown t.
'er some of the ancient gyptlans and whel
let Exodus, the celebrated astronomer, shower
y, it to them, they were absolutely in rapture
IN The Persians, Pheenicians, Gree ks and sew
eral other nations, acknowledged that thei
to ancestors were once without the use of fire
and the Chinese confess the same OF thel
to progenitors.t Pompanion, Mola, Plutarcli
-, and other ancients, speak of nations VINO
" at the time theyF-Efete,' knew not the us
. oil. fire, or had just learned it. Facts G
rs, the same kind are also attested by severa
my modern nations. The inhabitants OF tn
to Marian Islands, which were discovered i
/ 1851 had no idea of fire. Never was as
,re tonishment greater than theirs when the
- saw it ON the desert of Magellan, in one {
she their islands. At first they believed 1T wa
: some kind of an animal that liked to an
ian fed upon wood.-The inhabitants of TIA
Philippine and Canary islands were former
'ko ly equally ignorant. Africa presents, eve
Z in our own day, nations IN this deploraol
Il state.
s. Rates of Trduel.-In q single second,
did snail travels one five-thousandth OF afoot
fly, five feet; pedestrian at ordinar
fed gait, i've and thFee-tentffs feet came
asst six feet; an nary breeze, ten feet;
running stream, twelve feet; trottln
vas horse, twelve feet;~a whale, twelve go
ors three fourths feet fast sailing ship, foul
led teen feet a reindeer with sledge, twenty
in. five feet a steam engine, twenty pine feet
skater, thirty -six feet; an E9Sllsh rae
The horse, forty-one feet; tempest, fifty feet
3 balloon, fifty feet a swiftly <thrown st0n
ne. fifty feet; a greyhound, Seventy feet; a
ed. eagle, ninety live feet "a carrier-pigeoi
four hundred and eleyen feet.
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