The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-07-17

enterprise, designed to relieve the poo
from the extortiOn of the Jews. The pla1
was temporarily successful, and establish
ments were erected for the purpose of car
rying ont these benefcent designs. Th.
first of these, having been erected on q hill
was called Monte d Pieta, or Mount o.
Piety," and the name has chung to the
: pawnbroker's establishment ever since
those in France, Belgium and Switzerland
being called Monts de Piete.
The First Subject of Anesthesia.-Dr
Simpson, on first propounding the theory
of the application Of chloroforn to patients
requiring surgical aid, was stoutly opposed
by certain Calvinistic objectors, who held
that to check the sensation of pain in con.
nection with svisitations of Cod was to
contravene the DEGREES of An Aal-wise Gre
ator. What was his answerf That the
Creator, during the process of extracting
the rib from Adam, must necessarily have
adopted o somewhat corresponding artifice
for did not God throw Adam into q deer
eleep. The pietists were satisfied, and the
discoverer triumphed over ignoble and
ignorant prejudice.
Left Handedness. to Professor
Hyrtl, it happens in the proportion of about
two in hundred cases that the left sub
e!avian artery has it's origin before the
right, and in these cases sleft.handedness
exists, as it often actually does in the case
of complete transportation of the internal
organs, and it is found that the proportion
Of left-handed to right-handed persons is
also about 2 to 100. He thinks that ortii-
narily the blood is sent into the right SUBJ
clAvian under greater pressure than into
the left, on account of the relative position
OF these vessels, that In consequence of the
greater supply of blood the muscles are
therefore, the right extremity is more used.
DR.. johnson used to say that q habit of
looking at the bright side of every event is
tter than El000 year. Bishop Hall
1intly remarks, For every bad there
might be worse, and when man breaks
his leg, let him be thankful that it was not
his neck" When Fenelon's library was on
IRE, God be praised, he exclaimed, ssthat
it is hot the dwelling Of some poor man"
This is the true spirit of cheerfulness aud
submission, one Of the most beautiful traits
that cam possess the human heart. Resolve
to see the world ON the sunny side, and you
have almost won the battle of life at the
outset.
Even in the case of a bird SO lately natu-
rallied as the turkey, there is considerable
doubs as to its origin. It differs from the
nearly allied wild birds in having largely
developed dewlap extending from the base
of the under mandible down the forepart
Of the neck to its base. The wild turkey
h has lately been bred in park in England.
There are, besides the domesticated species,
three wild species: the very beautiful
Honduras turkey, the Mexican, found along
the Rocky Mountains, and our Eastern wild
species. It is supposed that the domesti-
Gated turkey was from the West Indies.
In Mfr. w. T. Pritchard's "Polynesian
Researches" he says that fusion of races
results In the dying out of the progeny in
the course of q generation or two. Major
F. Millingen; in a late paper on the stNegro
Slaves In Turkey" makes the same asser-
ton IN reference to cross descent between
Turks and negroes though he attributes
blood in Turkey-and, in fact, of negroes
OF the second generation-to the very un
favorable circumstances by which they are
surrounded. ~ =
,znstincs-A very remarkable anecdote of
inecsnct in an ass, an animal, as Mr. Kirby
remarks, not famed for its sagacity, was
related to him by friend, who personally
knew the facts. The ass had been shipped
at Gibraltar, on board the lister frigate,
tance from land, struck on sandbank off
the Pointe de Cat, and the ass was thrown |
overheard in o very high sea, to give him a |
chance of swimming to the shore. A few
days Afterwards he presented himself at
the stable which he had been accustomed
to occupy In Gibraltar, and it was supposed |
that, through some oversight, he had not |
been taken on board the frigate. The YES
sci having to return to Gibraltar and reft, |
the matter was cleared up, and it was |
found that the ass had not only got safe to |
Hand, but actually made its way distance |
of two hundred miles through q rugged |
country, intersected by streams, where he |
had never before been, and in as short a |
timer as the journey could be performed, |
which proved that he must have kept q |
straight course throughout, neither diverg |
ing to the right nor left.
Wash the Stin.-French scientific inves-
tigat1on has disclosed the unpleasant fact |
that skim dirt, composed of Precipitation,
oily mrtter and dust, contains myriads of
microscopic existences, both vegetable and
animal These cutaneous emanations are
dissipated in and affect the air; add to
these the pulmonary exhalations of con-
sumptive and scrofulous persons, and some
idea may be formed of the risk to health
by those whose days are spent in
an atmosphere so highly charged with
organic impurities. "The greater the ag-
gregation Of unwashed human masses, the
more horrible must be the resulting atno-
spherie impurity."
Root Fvndiag Baboons.-The proverb of
the Seats paw" is neatly turned by custom
upnn the monkeys. KafEirs retain few
balloons for the purpose of finding those