The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-09-04

or three dogs. These CANNES are every
ones property they are acquainted with
everybody know their own regimental
uniform, and follow the colors. They keep
IN the rear during fight, but sometimes
charge with the men and run by their side.
In the evening they whine and howl
around the ambulances. Soldiers who are
long time stationed in barrack amuse
themselves training lizards. They carry
these reptiles to war in their harver- sacks.
once saw snake which in this way had
made the campaign of Italy On q corporal's
back. The First Zouaves own magnifi-
cent falcon, which travels on soldiers
shoulders. This bird belongs to the
trumpeter Verrier, who caught it in the
Dejebel-Amour. They made together the
last campaign in Morocco, under General
Mariner. Several times on the crests of
the mountains the hawk, launched in chase,
supplied, with great ability, the insufficient
cy of the larder. When the regiment re-
ceived orders to march, the trumpeter, not
outstanding his poignant regret, set his
faithful companion at liberty. After
three days march the bird was almost for
1T was seen to reappear in the air, and after
circling for few instants it alighted ma
Jestically on the back of it's old friend.
Montague relates that, after some men
had been condemned to death for murder,
the judges were informed, by the officers of
an inferior court, that certain persons in
their custody had confessed the crime, and
the judges would not revoke the sentence,
because they deemed it bad precedent to
show, by so doing, that the law could err.
A Roman altar has been discovered in a
wood near the little village of Eastgate,
Stanhope in Weardale, England. The
stone is finely wrought, is four feet in
height, twenty-five feet in breadth, and
twelve feet in depth, and bears the inscrip-
ton, s'Deo StLvano Aurelivs Guirinvs PREF"
Which signifies that the altar has been
dedicated to the deity Slvanus, the hea-
then god of the wood, or country, by Au-
relits, Prefect of the LIST Cohort of the
"Gordian Legion" M. Antonius Gordi-
anus Plus reigned A. D. 23S-244.
In communication to the Lombard In
stitute of Sciences at Milan, Professor
Mantegazza states, as q result of expert
tlves from malaria. He finds reason to be-
lleve that flowers exhale ozone in large
quantities, and of a quality superior to that
produced in other ways. The exhalation,
as might be anticipated, takes place mostly
during sunshine, and becomes very small
IN amount at night. If the professor is
right In his views, the cultivation of aro-
matte plants, and the use of vegetable
scents, should be particularly beneficial in
marshy districts, where the air is unwhole-
some. he recommends that laborers who
work in swamps and rice fields should car
ry about them small quantity of spirits
of turpentine, or some other powerful aro-
matte. In Holland and the marshy regions
OF the south of France, it is believed that
of sunfower will preserve
neighborhood from intermittent fever.
Many Of the original Anabaptists in Eu-
rope, in the sixteenth century, ran nearly
or quite naked through the streets, rolling
and tumbling, and affecting all the sports
Of children. because the Scripture saith
that the truth is revealed to babes.-Milnes.