The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-07-03
NIsC1ILAuY.

seven antique wonders of the world oni,
one 10 stu extant. The Pharos % Alexan.
orla no longer sheds it's light over the water,
OF the MEDITERRANEAN Apollo Colossus has
long since gone to the melting NOT. ths
crys eiephantine Olympian Zeus Of Phidias
mas been turned into amulets and snnaroJ
INTO dice jackals cover the ground where
once stood the terraced gardens of Babylon
Inc paradise of Nebuchadnezzar. The
temple Of the Ephesian Artemis ia snnIs
for ever in the marshes of the Cavatar e1 tha
oesnroned monarch, Mausolus, has taken
refuge IN England, and from bis nedesta1
IN tne br1tlsh Museum placidiy looks down
upon che remains of his celebrated sunni
G Gn monument Of departed greatness.
But the Pyramid of Cheops attn stanJs
erect on the western bank Of the Nile TIE
STORMS OF forty or more centuries have bnt
cnaied It's surface, and though the palaces
VI CAIRO nave been partly built out of the
sSones OF It's revetenaent, yet it remains an
20 tha snS %n1nlursd and likely to remain
much to do with it's wonderful state Of nra re-
servat1on. Had it been built in a conntrv
Win cold and damp atmosphere. The
moisture would have penetrated between
TIE joints, and the fosts ana thews mn.
a nsao ana rlven its @enormonss ccurae Of
store - IN northern climes Shey rive the
BxanlSe mountains; but in Egypt, where
y ::seEaiiy there is no rain, NO damp, no frost. |
Time has not these slaves to help him in h;s |
work Observation-Disclosures
Hereditary fs.ul,orities. An of,car
whose IAsele finger had accidentally been
jug acr oss, and had in consequence become
y, ;;ooSa, transmitted the same defect to
lis onsprlng. Another officer, wounded
= the battle of Eylau, had his scar repro
I1 on the foreheads of his children.
hen the newborn infants of Euroneans
re compared with those of savage nations,
no : snap shape OF the toes in the former is found
! lave Deen modified by the fact that .
nelr parents were In the habit of wearing !
noes: 1t has often been observed thai ]
ne Harpsburg, or Austrian royal family. :
II some generations back, have had
lick upper lip, which first appeared after
ancestor OF theirs had intermarried with =
40 onsn family of Jagellon. A gentle =
ian communicates the inform alton that he 4
as himself witnessed q single white lock of
alI IN Two successive generations of a
miiy, which family moreover bore a sur
anne fhat may possibly have been first
!ggested by the phenomenon now des-
S!ea. observations analogous to those =
nich nave just been recorded have been p
ade In the case of the lower animals In
arolina, dog which'had accidently lost e
tau transmitted the defect to its descend. d
us Lor three or four generations. A sheen 81
Massacnusette, with long BODY and q
o a legs, IN l1eI became the progenftor of =;
apparently permanent breed possessin0 OF
same characteristics. This now occurs n
various parts of North America. lie called "a
. oetef sheep, and is priced by the far WI
,rs, az its short limbs prevent it's being la
70 70 leap over the fences.-Frons les. gu
" Education" for June. mi
White Mem Spurious Raoe.-Iook ov.u w w
globe OF ours, and you will and that w, ur
lnoia the native races are of all colors on
m yellow to black; in China they ore on
low In Arabia they are the same. and :
IN turkey. In Africa, all black. On sor
Sonnnent OF America, and in all the az az
LUIS OF sne world, opper-colored-thu s 1z;t
Eng the unwhites more than three WI wi.
tins OF the world, even now. Where S soi'
the whites come fromf Don't know Dei
y were great thieves-they stole ent;rc any
1ns ana made slaves Of them, stole =
pes land. In later days, they have M
ownin@ tSan, way AN OF leaving people free 1r
land and turning them off, thew Lee
l take 1T out in taxes-and instedfi of
ng and selling men, they give them -.
%, until they are worn out and then TIL
them to the poor house, and run that Is seu e.
!: more taxes. The black people in the Blind
ior of Africa always paint their DEVILS each
s.-UrbGna Union. price,
Of Busiaess.-A correspodent Geo Geo
10 Boston Journal, describing, the Geo.
tors in Wall street, thus alludes to CAI
ass: "
entleman left the drv-noo5s ,,ua;.. JACI
,me on the street iTa hro1,,.,'t 80 Nos. y
'me money. He became a very dar- Dealer
perator and was the terror of the o..
lie was said to be very successful 9oOe
as bold. His broker was one of the DEC
st houses in New York. One dag the I wo
partner of the house said to the omar Owners
Do Won know bop ,,,,aI, - vanizet
=, $500 ~, low much caSn we defy co
your creult1" The man reDlied All Of
rently, "You have few thousands, careful 1e5s