The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-06-05

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Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
sEw oHI.EAHs. SUNDAY. JUNE $. 1870
HIsCELLAnY.
Cxriosities Of the Bottom Of the Ocean,
Mr.. Green, the famous diver, speaking of
the I" Silver Banks,n near Hayti, says
THE banks of the coral on which my
diviDgs were made are about forty miles in
length, and about ten or twenty in breadth.
On this bank of coral is presented to the
diver enc Of the most beautiful and sublime
scenes the eye ever beheld. The water
varies from 10 to 100 fathoms in depth, and
L. 20 clear that the diver can sec from 200
20 500 feet, when he is submerged. The
bottom of the ocean in many places is az
smooth az marble floor in others it is
studded with coral columns, from 10 to 100
1eet in height, and from 10 to 100 feet in
diameter. The tops of these lofty columns,
support myriad of pyrimidai pendants,
to tho imaginary abode Of some water
nymph. In other places the pendants form
arch after arch, and as the diver stands on
the bottom of theSecean and gazes through
these in the deep winding avenue, he finds
that they FILL him with as sacred an awe as
long been buried beneath soid oceans
water Here and there the coral extends
even to the surface of the water, as if
those loftier columns were towers belong
ing 10 those stately temples that are now in
ruins. There were countless varieties of
dimunitive trees, shrubs and plants, in
had deposited the least earth. They were
all Of . faint hue, owing to the pale light
they received, although Of every ehade and
t!iMerent from any plants am familiar with
that vegetate upon dry land. One in par
ticuiar attracted my attention. It resem-
ated cUlors, and the most bsilliant hue.
The fish which inhabited those 'silver
banks I found as different in kind as the
scenery was varied. They were of all
forms, colors and sizes, from the symmetri-
cal goby to the globe-like sun fish, from
those Of the dullest hue to the changeable
dolphin from the harmless minnow to the
vOracious shark"
What are Women made off In the
palmy days of childhood we were taught
IN nursery jingle, and we implicitly believ-
ed that little girls were made of "sugar
and spice and all that's NICE" But, grow
ing older, we learned to our disappointment
and when we asked why woman was made
OF that particular bone, we were told be-
cause II was the most crooked in Adams
body. :" Observe the result" preached
jean Raulin, in the beginning of the six
teenth century, "man, composed of CLAW.
is silent and ponderous; but woman gives
evidence of her osseous origin by the rattle
abe keeps up. Move q sack of earth and it
makes no noise, touch a bag of bones and
You are deafened with the clitter-clatter"
But the rabbis are equally unsparing. They
assert that when Eve had to be drawn from
the side of Adam, she was not extracted by
the head, lest she shauld be vain: not nv
the eyes, lest they should be wantou nor
by the mouth, lest she should be- gifted
with title tattie not by the ears. lest Abe
should be inquisitive; nor by the hands.
lest she should be meddlesome; nor by the
feet, lest she should be q gad-about: nor
by the heart, lest she should be Jealous
but she was drawn forth by the side. Yet.
Notwithstanding these precautions. she has
every fault specially guarded against. he
cause, being extracted sideways, she was
pervsrse. -GoulTs Cu,iosities Of Olden
1Hnes. =
Spider Silk.-We notice that the beauty
ana fdapsabl1ty OF the delicate fibre that
gistens from the Hanks OF that long de-
splsed ana naoed insect, the spider, are
aGah9 aGtractlng widespread attention.
ihe Enghsn' German, French and Italian
papers are giving much space to the dis
cussion, ana the special reason why the
snnJect mas revived, Is because silk produc
zion from the ola sources, and on the old
system; is pretty generally admitted to be
IN suHeTinS conultlon. AT least, so it is