The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-07-25
NEW ORLEANS. SUNDAY. JULY IS. ,isas. :,
GEHRRAL. M1eczLLANY.


the sydney (AgssEalial .Mqu says: Tho day
affer we left Wellington was Thursday, aud
tbe day after that was ThGrsday, so that we
had two Thuasasys Ell 10 20 one , week s,s Now, we
when there were two Sundays in ONE week, IA
though such thing was impossible but ID Ia
not nearly 90 imPOssibie Is i looks, and you
week as we were to have two Thursdays. Cap
tain Sim told MS an amusing account Of 3 lady
who went home With him, and was very reli-
That they should have two Sundaye and ut the
close of the first Sabbath he told her that the
next day would be Sabbath also. Sho could
net believe him, and whom he came on deck
next morning she was busily engaged upon a
niece of embroidery. He remarked how much
he was surprised that she should be SO Gun
ke v as Joking, until II o'clock, when, us usual,
they had divine service. She could not be
made to comprehend how there could be two
Sundays in one week, and, "a the captain. per-
sisted in keeping his Sabbath, so she persisted
in keeping her own but, as she WINS good
woman, and did not wish to hurt any ones
feelings, she refrained from all secular employ
ment on the captains Sabbath. They arrived
in the Downs on Thursday, according to tho
captains reckoning, and when the pilot came
on board the first question she asked him what
day il was Thursday, maam," he replied.
Stil she doabtsd--and next day, when she
landed at Gravesend, she asked the same ques-
ton of the boatman, who replied Friday -
and when she reached the shore she asked half
q dozen more before she would reluctantly ad-
init that she had been wrong and the captain
right. 1t is hardly necessary to explain that
revolving upon its axis once in twenty -four
hours. Greenwich 10 supposed to be the start
ing point, and from Green witch round the
earth TO exactly the opposite center, is a hun
bred and eighty degrees, which are called de-
grees of east longitude from that spot back
TO Greenwich, by tho other side of the earth, is
one hundred and eighty degrees, which are
called degrees of west longitude. The sun, of
course, is stationary, and the earth revolves
from west to east. Now, if, tho earth starts
from Greenwich at daylight on Sunday, and
takes twenty-fnu hours to revolve, the spot
which left Greenwich at daylight q Sunday
cannot return before daylight on Monday, SO
that if the day was not dropped ont of the cal
endar in travelling across, or added to it, you
would return and find yourself in different
day to the one you were keeping. After leav-
ing Greenwich to proceed to Australia, the
tude, and to proceed to America, the first de-
gree in straight line is one, west longitude.
For every degree of longitude east, the sun
rises four minutes earlier; and for every de-
Hence, we gain four minutes for each degree
we sail east, and lose four minutes for every
degree we sail west. Consequently, when we
reach Wellington from Greenwich, we have
gained one hundred and eighty times four min
utes, which is twelve hours. AS this is but
half way round, 1T is quite apparent that If we
gain twenty-four hours, or one day. There
fore, having gained % day in getting round the
world, we want to put it into the calendar at
sneh place as win prevent confusion The
one hundred and eightieth degree, MS il cuts
tilssagh tho Pacific ocean, in about the middle,
-, +tA most convenient for
has been chosen as 49, 49, Eneri-
thiB purpose, taking Greenwich rs =
dian. ANY other line would do just as well
from another starting point, but this has been
selected rs the best; and universal practice
has nov made it law binding upon M mari ar
day as they cross the one hundred and
eightieth degree. In going to California,
therefore, we gained o day, but In coming back
PETR1fAcTIoN OF DEAD BoDIEs.--The arti-
fetal petTifaction of dead bodies is the latest
remarkable invention that Italy gives to the
world. Many attempts to the same purpose
have been repeatedly made in different coun-
tries, but Professor Abate, of Naples, is the
first who has practically succeeded in convert
ing the human corpse, in all it's perfection of
form and feature, to q statue as beautiful, as
solid, and, so far as we can Judge, as durable
as marble. For all who die in early youth, or
without distortion, or the repulsive marks of
violence or disease, this method of perpetua-
tion in the sight and memory of their friends
may prove most acceptable The lovely wife,
the beautiful child, the venerat ed parent, need
= no longer vanish from Our sight, or be pre-
served to only by the doubtful performance
of the pallet and the chisel.
LuCifER MArcHEs.-The science of little
things amounts to some great calculations
after ALL The engineer Peligot computes that
the number of phosphorus matches used in
France is six per diem for each individual, on
the grand average This would give 1900,
OO0, 900 daily for all Europe. In England, the
- number per head is eight, and IN Belgium nine
The manufacture of matches uses up, ut o min
imnm, 100000 cubic yards of wood per anntitn
the number of workmen employed is $4,000
and the value of the product 250, 600 GOO francs
This total is the more surprising when we re
fleet that ths match business commenced only
in 1882 until which time steel and flint, oil
phosphorus, were used. The greatest improve
ment recently introduced in their manufacture
is the employment of .bioxyde, or acetate o
lead, instead of chlorate of potassium, which
involves n certain amount of danger. Germa
ny makes the best and cheapest chemica
matches in Europe. At Vienna, fifty packets
containing $500 matches, are sold for thirty
five kreutzers, which puts them at nearly 25t
for one of our cents. Marseilles is the grea
centre of the trade in France, and, cheaply a
they are made there aud everywhere, the pub
hcpays about twice what the manufacturing
sells tfIcm for, so great Is the Ramber Of hand
through which they have to pass before the,
reach the cOnsnmer.--N. 7. Mercantile Journal
A LIGHT TO SUPERsEDE CASA New Yorl
letter to the Boston 1FGreller says: We are il
. fair way of soon having light that win su