The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-06-26
CATHOLIC MESSENGER

!. THE NOR.
ing the dreaded vessel, an eccentric old
|Presby terian minister came pushinG
|r6air, which he jammed down close to low
water mark, the tide coming in, and COM
|menced q prayer for change Of wind.
Dinna send, o Lord he said, this vile
pirate to strip the puir folk o. Kirkcaldyd
for ye ken they are a. puir enough an haze
|naething to spare. The pnir women are
|maist frightened ont o. their wits, and the
here in jiffy, and wha kens what he'll dOY
He'll burn their houses, tax ava their buds
even to their very sarks, and wha kens but
the bluidy villain might tax their livesf u
Gamma tholl; Gamma tholl. haze been lang
IA faithful servant to ye, 0 Lord, but gin ye
|scoondrel out o. our gate, I'll nae star fut,
|but will joost sit here until the tide comes
lin and droons me! Sac TAX yer wull of it.,
Luckily for the worthy minister, the wind
changed, and Paul Jones disappeared from
the Fifeshire coast"
DR.. Milo, the celebrated surgeon of
Kiev, has recently been at st. Petersburg
Explaining q means he has invented of il
the body by means of the cleo
ling of the human machine may be observed
almost as if skin and flesh were transpa-
trent. The Mosc0U Gasette asserts that, to
demonstrate the feasibility Of his process,
&Dr. Milo placed bullet inside his mouth,
land then lighted up his face; upon. which
his cheek. DR.. Milo does not propose to
lay bare all the secrets of the flesh, to ex
plore the recesses of the heart, OF to per-
form any miracles, physical or metaphysi-
cal. But he claims to have discovered q
"a new and effective way Of dealing with
|gunslot wounds. First, by means Of cleo
Uric illumination he discovers the precise
situation of the bullet; next, by means Of
magnetism, he proposes to extract the bull
always the bullet contains
some portion of steel. Against leaden bull
lets his system is poweriess, and he there
fore intends to represent to the Interna-
|tional Commit which lately met at Gen.
|admixture of steel in the manufacture of
|all future bullets.
"No,p Squirm, Old Natur'"-A stingG
christian was listening to a charity sermon
He was nearly deaf, and was accustomed
Ito sit facing the congregation, right UNDER
the pulpit, with his ear-trumpet directly
upward toward the preacher. The sermon|
moved him considerably: AT one time bel
said to himself" I'll give ten dollars, Y
again he said, "I'll give ten dollars" again
he said, "rll give fifteen" At the close of
the appeal, he was very much moved, and
Thought he would give fifty dollars. Now,
the boxes were passed. AS they moved
along his charity began to ooze out. He|
came down from fifty to twenty, to ten, to|
not give nything. yet" he said, " this
won't do-f am in a bad fix. My hopes of
heaven may be in this question. This COW
etOusness will be my ruin" The boxes,
were getting nearer. The crisis was upon
him. What should he do9 The box was
now under his chin-all the congregation
we're looking. He had been holding hisI
in his hand during this solilo-
guy, which was half audible, though in his|
deafness he did not know that he wasI
heard. In the agony Of the final moment
he took his pocket-book and laid it in the|
box, saying to himself as he did it, {. Now
squirm, old natur'!' This was victory
over himself. Here is a key toI
the problem of csvetousness. Old natur|
must 90 under. 1t will take great giving
to put stinginess down. A few experiment.
of putting in the whole pocket book may j
by-and-by, get the heart into the charity
honor to the deaf old gentleman. He did
u magnificent thing for himself, and gave
Ian example worth Imitation, besides point
ing paragraph for the students of human
nature.
While Conrad I'LL, Emperor of Germany,
was besieging Guelph, Duke of Bavaria, in
the castle of Weinsburg, his commander
received message one morning from
IGuelph's wife, promising that the fort
should instantly capitulate, provided that
Ishe and other women in the place were al
3lowed to come out with as much as each of
them could carry, and go whittier they
pleased. Her request was granted; and
3great was the establishment of the emperor
when he saw the astute ladies marching
forth, not loaded with jewels and knick-
nacks, as he had expected, but each with
her husband ON her back. An accomoda-
ton with Guelph and his adherents was
the result, and there was no more sieges in
Bavaria during the reign of Conrad III.
Dianora Frescobaldi, an Italian lady of
the sixteenth century, was the mother of
affty-two children. The inscription on her
famous portrait by Bronzino in the San
Donate collection, says that she never had
less than three at a birth, and there is q
tradition in the Frescobaldi family that
4 she once had six ! Brand, in his z" History
of Newcastle" mentions, as a we'll attested
fact, that a weaver in Scotland had, by one
wife, sixty-two children, all of whom
#lived to be baptized; and in Aberconway
5Church may still be seen a monument to
the memory of Nicholas Hooker, who was
himself O fortytirst child, aud the father
of twenty seven children by one wife.
Ho,c to Preserve Ice.-Dr. Schwartz has
communicated the following simple me-
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