The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1870-04-10
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
INV oRLsANs. SUNDAY. APRIL 10. 1871.
EXCERPTS.

covered with whitewash, and cut to pieces to
make room for cumbrous monuments. Star
nins's paintings form two series from the lives
of St. Antony aud st. Nicholas respectively, |
and ware executed tefore he was compelled to |
leave Florence in consequence of his share in |
the rising Of Ciompi in 1873 The life OF st.
Antony is represented with conventional nGirete
in three compartments, into which tho height
of the wall is divided his conversion is at the
who are bearing the soul of Paul the Hermit
to Heaven. The frescoes from the life of ST.
Nicho1as fill three compartments on the wall
and three on the plaster, with representations
superior to the fret series in drawing and ex-
precision, but fall short of those attributed to
1asoiino, who ms may very well m have We been % pupil pupil
partments to the right of the window, and the
&hree to tho left of the entrance. The first
4eries represent scenes from the life of our
Lord and st. John the Baptist, which retain
the early simplicity almost unimpaired, while
Approaohing very near the later perfection OF
skill. The frescoes near the entrance have
suffered most from the alterations in the chapel.
They arc taken from the life of st. John the
Evangelist.
AmerScam Homes The homes of America,
says Timothy Titcomb, will not become what
they should be until true idea of life shall
become widely implanted. The worship of the
dollar does more to degrade American homes
than anything else. The chief end of life is to
gather gold, and that gold is counted loss which
hangs picture upon the wall, which purchases
flowers for the yard, which buys q toy or book
for the eager hands of childhood. Is this the
whole of human ,ifes Then it is a mean, mea;
gre aud most undesirable thing. child will
go forth from such q stall, glad to find free air
and q wider pasture. The influence of such
or nothing good. Thousands are rushing from
homes like these every year. They crowd into
villages. They swarm into all places where
life Is clothed with higher Significance, and
She old shell home is deserted by every bird
rs soon as it can fly. Ancestral homesteads
and patrimonial acres to such children have no
sacredness; and when the father and mother
die, the strangers presence obliterates assAeia-
tions that should he among the most sacred of
all things. I would have you strive to build
mp for yourselves and your children home
that will never be lightly parted with-a home
which viii be to those whose lives have been
associated with it the most interesting, pre-
cous spot on earth. l would have that home
the abode of dignity, beauty, grace, love- genial
friendship and happy associations. Out from
such q home would have good influences flow
into neighborhoods. In such home would
see ambition taking root and receiving gener-
GUS culture. And then would see you, young
husbands and young wives, happy. DO not
deprive yourselves of such influences as will
% come through an institution like this. No
money can pay you for such n deprivation. No
circumstances but those of utter poverty can
justify you in denying these influences to your
children.
Extraordinary Somnan,balism.-Th Archbish-
Op of Bordeaux thus describes q case of SOM
nambulism in q young priest: He was in the
habit of writing sermons when asleep, and
and the note book, he continued to write vigor-
ously. After he had written a page requiring
correction, piece of blank paper of the exact
size was substituted for his own manuscript
and on that he made the corrections in the
precise situation which they would have occu-
pied on the original page A very astonishing
music in his sleeping state which it is said he
did with perfect precision. He asked for GER
tain things, and saw and heard such things
but only such things as bore directly upon the
nn1 tnfh MA Ia ofa cd fhQ daCali
when water was given to him in the place o.
brandy which he asked for. Finally he knew
nothing of all that had transpired when h,
awoke, but in his next paroxysm he remem
bered oil accufately-nnd SO lived q sort o
double life, phenomenon which is said to b.
universal in AL the cases of exalted somnam
bulism.
Yeast.-A lady correspondent says that b.
using the following yeast she never has sou
bread: To make yeast chat will keep, put
into two quarts of boiling, water; while steer
potatoes; @ i take E out the hops, ~ put in the pots
add half-seacup salt, half-teacup white or ligh
brown sugar; let it cool, then add a teacup @
potato yeast, if you can get 1t, if not brewer
viii answer; let it rise until a mass of foam
then stir it down, put it in q large mouthed ju
and keep it corked tight. Observe, if you jn
it before it has ceased working, the cork wi
be thrown out. For large family perhaps
larger quantity than here indicated will /
necessary. I have used yeast made in. tn
manner for several years, and never lost an
from souring in the hottest weather. A tel
cnpful win raise two large loaves The speci;
point in this yeast is that there is no flour use
in it.
Carbolic Acid and Choltra.-A Paris journ;
contains a letter from o correspondent in Nic
ragua, detailing the effect of the use of carbol
acid as preventive of disease during tt
cholera epidemic in that country. The supe
intendent of an extensive plantation, emplo.
ing several hundred persons took the precat
tion to water the corridors and interior of th
buildings every day with solution of til
acid, and had the pleasure of finding, as tn
result, that not single member of his estal
lishment died of the disease, although man
fatal cases were constantly occurring in th
neighborhood. An additional advantage wa
the disappearance of intermittent fever, q
well as of feas, bugs and other vermin.
was also used with entire success in drivin
away ants, which are SO troublesome neigf
bors in tropical countries.
The Sancy Diamond is now for sale at jew
eler's In Calcutta 1t weighs 603 rutties, an
is stated to have been found on the body of til
Duke of Burgundy 1t was afterwards,
1879, bought by the King of Portugal. He sol
it to Nicholas de Barly, Baron de Sancy, fro
whom it derived its name Sancy sent it
the king present by the hand of o servan
who, being attacked by robbers, swallowed Il
stone, which was after his death found in h
body. 1t finally came into the hands of jam
II. of England, who sold it to Louis XIV. fl
$125 900. In the French Revolution it disa
peared-which was about the wisest thing
could do Some years later it turned I
again, and was bought by Prince Paul Dem
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