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

!. THE NOR
Ing the dreaded vessel, An eccshtris old
|tresbytorian minister came puShine
d6air, which he jammed down' close to low =.
water mark, the tide coming in, and com.
nenced prayer for = change Of wind;
Dinna send, o Lord he said. this vils
pirate TO strip the puir folk o. Kirkcaldy
tor ye ken they are q puir enough an haze
naething to spare. Tie pnir women are
maist frightened out o. their wits, and the
BARNS are shrieking after them. He'll be
mere IN jiffy, and wha kens what he'll dol
He'll burn their houses, tax ava their duds
even to their very sarks, and wha kens but
the bluidy villain might tax their livesf
Gamma tholl IL Gamma tholl. I haze been lang
faithful servant to ye, o Lord, but gin ye
scoondrel out o. our gate, I'll nae star fut,
but will jOost sit here until the tide comes
in 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 means he has invented of il
Eliminating the body by means of the cleo
trio light to such an extent that the work
ing of the human machine may be observed
almost as if skin and flesh were transpa-
rent. The MOscO,o GaSette asserts that, to
demonstrate the feasibility of his process,
DR.. Milo placed bullet inside his mouth,
and then lighted up his face, upon which
the bullet became distinctly visible through
his cheek. DR.. Milo does not propose to-
lay bare all the secrets of the flesh, to ex
plOre the recesses of the heart, or to per-
form any miracles, physical or metaphysi-
cal. But he claims to have discovered a
e new and effective way Of dealing with
|tric 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 !
let's his system is powerless, and he there
fore intends to represent to the Interna-
tional Committee, which lately met at Gen
eva, the desirability of recommending AM
admixture of steel in the manufacture OIL
all future bullets.
"Noao Squirm, Old Natur'"-A sting6
Christian was listening to a charity sermon
He was nearly deaf, and was accustomed
to sit facing the congregation, right unde,
the pulpit, with his ear-trumpet directly
upward toward the preacher. The sermon
said to himself" I'll give ten dollars"
again he said, I'll give ten dollars" again
he said, I" I'll 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
Ave, to zero. He concluded that he would
not give anything. YET" he said, tsthis
won't do am in bad fix. Ny hopes of
heaven may be in this question. This COW
stousness will be my ruin" The boxesS
were getting nearer. The crisis was upon|
him. What should he do9 The box was
we're looking. He had been holding his
pocket book in his hand during this solilo-
luy, which was half audible, though in his
leafness he did not know. that he was
heard. In the agony of the final moment
he took his pocket-book and laid. it in the
Iquirm, old natur'!" This was a victory
beyond any that Alexander ever w6n-a&
,ictory over himself. Here is q kew to
he problem of cevetousness. Old naturl
must go under. 1t will take great giving
o put stinginess down. A few experiDentsl
# putting in the whole pocket book may
y -and-by,. get the heart iDto)t charity =
'ox, and then the cure is reached. All
onor to the deaf old gentleman. He did :
magnificent thing for himself, and gave
n example worth imitation, besides point
ng a paragraph for the students of human
ature.
While Conrad I'LL, Emperor of Germany,
vas besieging Guelph, Duke of Bavaria, in
he castle of Weinsburg, his commander
eceived message one morning from
5uelph's wife, promising that the fort
hould instantly capitulate, provided that
he and other women in the place were al
owed to come out with as much as each OH
hem could carry, and 60 whittier thew
pleased. Her request was granted andl3
,reat was the astOnishment of the emperor
when he saw the astute ladies marching
orth, not loaded with jewels and knick-
hacks, as he had expected, but each with
Ter husband ON her back. An accomoda.
ion with Guelph and his adherents wasH
he result, and there was no more sieges in
Bavaria during the reign of Conrad III.
Dianora Frescobaldi, an Italian lady of
he sixteenth century, was the mother of
children. The inscription on her
amous portrait by Bronzino in the San
tomato collection, says that she never had
ess than three at a birth, and there is a
tradition in the Frescobaldi family that
he once had six! Brand, in his History
# Newcastle" mentions, as we'll attestedI
act, that weaver in Scotland had, by one
wife, sixty-two' children, all of whom i
wed to be baptized; and in Abercon way
,hurch may still be seen a monument to-
he memory of Nicholas Hooker, who wasE
imself a forty-frst child, aud the father%
t twenty seven children by one wife.
Ho,c to Preserve Ice.-Dr. Schwartz has
communicated the following simple me-
bod of preserving small quantities of ice,
7hlch lie has practiced with success. Puti