The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-01-10
xonN1lroe sfAR AND CATHOLIC lrEssEEsER.
NEW ORLEANS SUNDAY. JANUARY 10. 1859.
, Arts. scIEMcEs ETC

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An inventor in England has recently patent
ed sness waterproof his method = thns
described The pateIitee melts in ten pints OF
hot water thirty ounces Of ges gslaII, In eu o.
s sher thirty pints Of hot water he melts twenty
ounces of soap and four pounds of alum, after
wards mixing together sne W Mo In another
not pot ha heats gallon of bensole and one gal
Ion Of parafine Oil, and melts in it twenty-fonr
ounces Of rosin To these materiais aOsan. OH.
he added and he let's it boil till 1t attaans /
moderate degree of consistency. ihis Is com
position No. 2. He first dips the article 70 20
heated state and afterwards dries IL Ihen ne
applies the second composition IN cold state
with brush or in any other convenient man
ner. /
French paper describes the mode that is
odonted on a large scale for preserving the
eggs required for consumption in Paris. Into
a caldron of boiling water q collander contain
INC a dozen eggs is plunged, and kept in it tor
a minute. This short immersion coag1iates
thin layer of albumcn, which, attached to the
interior of the shell, constitutes an lmperhe-
able lining
A Titles paper has the following: In eXcava-
tons lately made on the banks OF the housa
at about half mile from it's confluence WIN
the Arauyo, the remains of an ancient CITY
have been discovered. The tops OF the houses
are covered with thick layer of earth. me
superstition is that the catastrophe by whlca
the Mace was engulfed occurred two Thousand
years ago. subterranean passage mas aus, aist
Ieen found under the river. The people about
the place have collected several COINS, eal.nei
vases and other objects interesting to the anti
quarian. s'i
White horn buttons may be made to initiate
mother of pearl by being boiled in saturated
solution Of sugar of lead, and then laid In o
verv dilute hydrochloric acid. Combs, to which
the boiling process is not applicable, as II nis
| forts the teeth, may be treated by being kepS
: ~A>1,r N1rat
solution of nitrate of lead, then laid for quar-
ter to half an hour in bath containing tn!ee
per cent of nitric acid and hnaiiy pelnS TIL
sed i'll water.
ditch saws in a Boston publication: 1t was our
fortune to attend man slowly dying OF con
sumption, Who while hopelessy an Mf who ~
the time felt herself, and seemed to be, IN per
feet health. Years after her husbands death
and when she was brayeiy bathing attack.
| ;mmediatcIy subsequent to his death, she re-
lated to me the following fact, but only on my
definite inquiries as to how !ntimat .9i ner ieit
tions had been with him during his illness.
seems that often, in wintry nights !h;a1 iei W.
/ full woman would arise from the SIDE Oh ne
husband who was lying with ms nreas;ng dis
ease, and weuld persuade nun 70 t AK 5 n1
warm clothing aud to lie down IN 'n s;n M
SHOWING :, blanket over it, she would take tn
4 SPOT that had been previously occupied .
him! Upon our expressing .d rn morl and Mhic
apparently had told with SO mnch power upG
her she quietly remarked that she knew AT S Sh
time the danger that she was arcIt and oni
of her husbands comfort! BUT, au l9 ISL On
al then got what have never recovered from
certain vitality seemed to 60 OUT 0a mei ye -.
AGAINST the encroachments of the dlsease, 81
finally died, always believing that she had
ken consumption from her husband, pne WI
a certain martyr-like joy that such had real
been the fact
The World of Uonder.-This world OF ours
filed with wonders. The microscope reve "a
them not less than the telescope, each at elth
extreme of creation In the insect creatio
i particularly, there is so much to know that n
never been dreamed of-wheeis withln ne e
without computation or number Let us III
n rapid glance at the proofs of this statemel
The polypus, it is said, like tabled hydra =;
ceives new life from the knife when Is ra ,,a
to destroy it. The fy-spider lays an egg VIVA
ia ma large as itself. There ara tour thouSi
/ and forty-one muscles in the caterpillar. Ho
discovered fourteen thousand mirrors ~ ~
eve of drone; and to effect the respiration
a carp thirteen thousand three hundred AT
ries, vessels veins, bones, ETC., are necessa
The body of every spider coh,a nf ;nnnrce,
BILE holes each hole permitting the P'ss'1So
a single thread all the threads, to the ano.
of thousand to each mass, JON toge. i nv.
Il thew come ont, and make the single thii
5 with which the spider spins It's "eu % :.
what we call spiders thread consists Oh III
than four thousand united Leuwhenock'
means of microscopes, observed spiders no
ger than grain of sand, and which 81
threads SO fine that it took tour tnou us u
them to equal in magnitude the BIG u ="
gle hair
THE CRowBAR BRIGADE IN WIcKLow.-Ct
-, ,,r;t;nr To the FIaa of Ireland, recount
follows the incidents of the eviction OF a ten
farmer, named Kavanagh from his holding;
the property of Mr.. Acton, at tne , ToMni
of Maccreddin, in the County OF WICK On:
"This man Kavanagh had married the WI