The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-10-30


abroad ia o clear morning, they often mud i =
all the grass covered with drops Of wster, Y
and sometimes the water even drops irou | n
the trees, though the grond - dry, anu Il
there has evidently been no ram 10 a ono "
night, They soon learn to call these drops d
by the name of dew: but whence ana nov v
comes dew on the ground is q puzze. wen, 4
there is always more or less moisouIe ~ a
le air. If there is . cubic inch OIL wate. IN 4
a cubic yard Of air, then the air is said to
he Thoroughly impregnated aud filed with
water. In such case the smallest amount !.
of cold or absence of heat in anything VIII IL
cause little drops of dew to settle on inc
surface. By q cubic inch OF yard ID means
a SQUARE space measuring one inch or yard !
on every side. If you take u block one men
long. one in ch thick, and one inch high, 1t Will
be a cubic inch. Then if you take q box
of the same form and size, and can MI "
with water extracted from VessSi naeN
with air, and Of the same form as the oox,
| but measuring yards instead OF inches, you
would say that there had been CUBIC incn
| of water in a cubic yard OF air. Aimost any
substance will have more or less dew on IL
| when the air is in such a state, because rev
! substances are warm enough to prevent IL.
Then lust in proportion as there Is less
| water in the air must a body or substance
be cooled to produce dew. The biades o.
grass and the leaves of trees oeing 50 tnin
ARE quickly cooled by the air when the SUI
goes down. They radiate or throw OUT
the warmth that is in them, aud soon Pc
: come cooler than the air is, and then the
water that is in the air begins at once TO
settle ON them, and III the course y. a oi. CO.
night will collect there enough to form tue
, dewdrops." There is never any dew VI
the hare ground; because 1t never geus
cooler than the air, SO as to cause inc niEie
. ture to settle ON it; nor OF q CLOUDY hSn1,
: because the clouds radiate heat TO inc
u Ground. which prevents the leaves and
. Grass from cooling, as a cloudy nlgn5 10 III
Wwavs warmer than a clear one-woulu nave
. hasn from the same cause. The dew does not
:. fall on the leaves like rain, ont coNee1s
o fror, all directions, and 1t Is not seen Oh
the underside, because that side Is so por
;, ons as to absorb or drink it up, as sponge
:. does water.-Little Cleaner.
A Cure for Idieness.-The Bristol 1tmes
IF reDorts tue following remarkable cure "A
70 man who was on the sick list OF no less
e, than three benefit societles III olis.o., "s s
.e snspected by their respective manage Oh
a shamming. They, however, could ge1 no
o. nroofs of the fact, fer he simulated Illness
Is % we'll that they could not refuse him the
a. allowance to which, according to the rules,
~ he was entitled. One wag, however, VINO
I'D was on the management, suggested plan
of bv way of curing him. They got SWEEP
ed who was in the neighborhood to let one o.
he his Young imps quietly drop down tn
". chimney of the room in which the lnVaii'
NJ Law. The little ehon-face urchlp refsne'
ice the Job, slipped down quietly early IN tn
"a. morninr. aud bobbing his black visage GU
of The oDeniny, said, sFather is coming TO
. Won on Friday" The man started iron
aa his bed in terror, no doubt thnkihg Sn'
eu the parept of his my sterious visitor was
~ narspnage he should not at all desire t
':s meet: and being at the same tune uporalde
nv his own conscience for taking money
H., which he was not entitled, he Instantly *
en. returned to work, and since his sudden e
nm covery he appears TO DC III 1he epJo DAo'
;,.o of excellent health.
ion Glass.-The discovery of giass was
one donht. in the first instance, accidents
OILS, whether credit is given to the stateme
oily of Plipy in regard to it's origin or not, le
ools scarcely conceivable that In the mahuia
ong ture of pottery, and some other arts know
be- from the earliest periods, the ma1eIia I
col wl;ch glass is composed should not ha
hop, come together and have been fused so as
rom have become glass. His account Is I'll
not glass was discovered by mariners, WI
no compelled to seek the shore as q retu
.Ong from a severe tempest, discovered glass
SUI the ashes of fire with which they
the cooked their food. Whether this eve
over happened or not, it is quite cert'
that It might have happened, as the sa
of many beeches, with the ashes OF 80
's'ou kinds Of fuel would. when fused togeth
curt Inevitably form glass, as will be seen VI
II for n consideration of it's composition.
bers, H,,utino in Couples.-Many well-auth
at of ticated instances of sagacity are recofs
,,o. in which animals have spontaneously
"Aoo formed actions akin to human reason
nno- Sonuini mentions an elephant at Nap
next which was employed with others IN fet
ing water in copper vessel ana perez
>, inc that the water escaped from some II
eeRty tuTe. he took it of his own accort t.
uests smith for repair, in imitation of what
ana had seen done before by his master.
lack old sporting dog on the track OF woun
'oiSs, game refuses its accustomed ooedlenc'
ands, IFS master, knowing that it is render
'aoy him a greater service by following his
aoiy, course than by disseminating the pnrs
VINO At Bishops Stortford, in England, tl
'ct or were two dogs, which belonged to nooo
n n 'he and lived upon the quay of the RIVER
II we canal there. They took the greatest dei
SUI in rat hunting, and when the mn's
u one went about at night to see that all
i. AT safe these dogs Invariably followed I'll
Man Their mode of proceeding was very
most oenions AS soon as the door of the IL
VIC, House was unlocked, one rushed In
eiand coursed round the warehouse, not cha
whose any rat which may start but pursuing
elana way among the malt. The other sto"
ccess; the door and snapped at the rate as
e emu endeavored to escape. The one stah'
j inc at the door was known to Kill SIX RAYS
every f mh;cb had rushed to the door at
CT, as same time. The next room they cam
latoFe they would change posts; the one W
ast an hunted before now standing at the
Ill the and Selling the prey. BY this means
urnai: dogs killed in the malting-hOuses OF
this OF master alone upward of two thousand