The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-04-17
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and large farms-Ireland of large estates an,
small farms. In England the average estat
IS one OF l!67 acres; in Ireland it is one of 2l3
acres while in England the average farm il
SO acres of arabic land, in Ireland it Is only "a
One OF the grand points to which Mr.. Murphy
Lapplies himself is to refute the oft repeated
: statement that the agricultural calamities Of
Ireland are due to her small farms. Against
this theory Mr.. Murphy arrays an overwhelm.
| ing mass Of evidence. The average size of the
Irish farms, be it remembered, is "a acres. The
II small farming is a mistake, Belgium ought
to be five times as miserable as Kerry. And
yet what is the fact Why, that Bel GUM is
the the very garden Of Europe her peasantry being
generally of any in the world. Again, in
hhenish Prussia the average size of the farm
| is - acres; in saxony, IL acres. Both conn
tries are famous for the excellence of their
husbandry and the wealth of their cultivators.
But a still more conclusive fact remains to be
stated: 1t is that in Ireland itself Ulster is at
province of wealth. The true explanation of
the miserable condition of the Irish agricultn-
ralist is not to be found in the smallness of his
interest in. this holding and all security
that the result of his labor and outlay shall
return to himself.
Retributions Of History.-When Napoleon Bo-
naparte arrived at tho dignity of Emperor of
the French, considering himself the founder of
dynasty, it became matter of Importance
to decide how and by whom it was to be per-
Petnated. He had himself no offspring, and
therefore must choose a collateral heir. In
the first place the imperial crown was settled
on Napoleon Bonaparte and his direct Issue in
the male line, with the power of adoption
under certain restrictions secondly, on Joseph
Bonaparte, and the heirs male of his body,
and thirdly, on Lonis Bonaparte, and heirs
male of his body. Had this arrangement re-
NAMED andisturbed, the domestic happiness
uninjured, and the whole of his subsequent
career been totally different from what it was
But in an evil hour, listening to suggestions of
many of his aets-he resolved to divorce his
lovely and noble-minded consoft, the accom-
plished and fascinating Josephine, and this for
to the throne who shout he directly dsscsn Ie,
from himself The retribution for this act of
heartless injustice to Josephine was signal.
The alliance into which it led him with Aus
tria made him place dependence on that power
In an hour of great emergency, only to be be
trayed and ruined by it's desertion of his fallen
fortunes. The heir, SO fondly hoped for was
by an Austrian education, and
died in early life; and the wife for whom Jo-
sephine was deserted disgraced her imperial
marriage by the most disgracefnl licentious-
ness. But the most singular part of the whole |
affair, and that which seems to render the retri-
button as complete it is signal, is, that the |
original line of succession indicated by Napo- |
leon while under the influence of his we'll |
perited regard for Josephine, is now literally |
and exactly carried out. The present Emperor |
of the French is the son of Louis Bonaparte |
and Josephine's daughter Hortense-thns the
grandson of Josephine. 1t would seem that |
the will of Providence has punished the in |
Justice of Napoleon, by taking the succession
to the throne of France from the heir of the
proud and unjust Emperor, and giving it to |
the heir of the wronged and repudiated EN-
press.
Royal Geological Gardena-Six cub lions were
lately born in the Gardens of the Royal Zoolo-
born in these gardens during the last thirteen
years now amounts to seventy-six. This sue |
cess in breeding the largest feines has not been
eqnalled OF even rivaled in any other zoologi- |
cal collection or menagerie in Great Britain or |
on the Continent. Most of the principal Con- |
tinental gardens have been supplied with |
young lions from Dublin. These home-bred |
animals are even preferred to those directly |
imported from their native countries, being |
healthier and harder from administration,
while from the size of the dens they are kept
have lost none OF that hereditary spirit and |
courage, the absence of which is so conspicu-
ous in many of the cowed and craven speci-
mems of British lio'.s. The very great in
crease in late years in the number Of large car
niverous animals exhibited for the amusement
and instruction of the public, in the Dublin
Gardens, has led to the erection of new build
ng for their better accommodation, and two
houses, each eighty-one feet in length, are now
stocked with lions of every age,
While the tiger, puma, iaguar, lynx and leopard
heir respective species. The lion, in state
# nature, is becoming exterminated by the
Idvance OF civilization. This chief of the ex- |
sting carnivora is now confined to parts of
Africa and of the southwest of Asia, extending
's far eastward as GuZerat. 1t is rare in most
,arts of Asia, and has wholly disappeared
rom some regions of Africa, where it was once
o common that it is said there is not dialect
poken by the innumerable nations and tribes
II that continent in which there is not o word
OF lion. The lion has been almost entirely ex-
irpated from the more populous parts of Egypt
md the shores of the Mediterranean, and has |
'een driven far back into the interior from the
APE of Good Hope, and does not now occur in
he Gaboon or Niger districts. In India the
ion is at present almost confined totthe PENN
ula of Guzerat it is plentiful in some parts
# Persia, and not rare in Asia Minor. Within
he historic period ethe lion existed in Europe.
ARISTOTLE Ono doubt on the authority of Hero
lotus) states that the lions of Thessaly attack
ope, and mentions the circumstance as occur
ing between the rivers Achelcus and Vestus.
t is gratifying to reflect that while lions in q
tate of nature are inevitably doomed to
disappear before the advance of civilization as
re the emus and kangafoos of Australia, it is
evertheless likely that they will become more
numerous in our quarter of the globe, though |
n a semi-savage state, than they have been
lnce the great cave lion of former days roamed
yer pleiocene and postpleiocene Europe. The
rounds for this consoling thought are to be
ound in the steady increase in the numberI
nd beauty of lion htters whelped In the Dub :
erpetuated that, in similar establishments. on
he Continent, the keeper often draws the at
ention of the tourist to the fact that tho finest
on in their collection is from Dublin.-Irish
p0rtsSRdn and Farmer.
Nua If tho Noast Rophools IN kI,a x,o-ld =,