The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-05-14

A statement comes to No from Peru, from an
english engineer, that remark able discoveries
guano OF the Guanape Island. The guano ap-
pears to have preservativo properties. Besides
gold ornaments and other objects, quantity
Of cloth was found, said to have been paintings
OF animals and symbols, Of which the coloTs
were well preserved. Most of these rolls of
cloth were chopped up. We doubt about the
pa.ntin e. and the symbols, because we suspect
nesia, with which traces of intercourse have
been found In Guanape. An early remittau GO
OF or some OF the objects to London is expect. d.
WhaI 10 most remarkable is q stratum of
woollen rags five feet thick and reaching over
mile in extent.-Afhemeum.
A BULL THAT GOT THE WORST OF IT.
Missouri paper inserts letter from man
named Blood, an engine-drivero on the Hannib Il
and Joseph railroad. respecting an encounter
between his engine and o bull near Callao. He
says bis train was coming along the track, at
the rate OF about twenty miles an hour; when
years old. on the track. The calf stood there,
the plucky scion of noble sire, until tho
train had got within one hundred yards of him,
when he turned towards the engine and showed
fight, paving the earth, shaking his head and
seeming eager for the fray. Blood whistled
at him, bot the calf was . stranger to fear
and retained his threatening attitude until
the engine struck him, after which, with all his
courage. he "hadn't o word to say" Blood
said he admired his pluck, but darn his judg-
ment. The engine was not much hurt.
Mr. VIM. B. AstOr's dinner service is the
handsomest in this country. It was bought by
by his father, John JaeoD Astor, and used by
him during his residence in Paris and Switzer-
land; Al the dishes, the plates, the fruit
stands, the eper0ses, are Of solid silver. The
desert plates are of Sevres china, embellished
with portraits of the calculated beauties Of the
Court OF Louis XIV. By the will of Mr. Astor,
this dinner service descended to his oldest son,
and ct the death of its present owner it must
go to his son. John jacob, Jr., and then to the
Iatter's son, and SO on to the latest generation.
THE KRUPP GUN.-The largest breech-loader
which has yet been made by Krupp is the IA
Q exhibition. This huge weapon has fired Q
99Olb. projectile with the enormous charge of
1s7lb. of prismatic powder; the punching
powder of the shot being 81 foot tons per inch
and its els eira 700 per lb. of
powder charge.
An Ohio hog grower says that the following
treatment will make the biggest hog out of q
pig in twelve months. Take two parts of bar
Icy, two of corn, and one of oats. Grind them
both together; then cook and feed cold. He
says it is the cheapest food, and that any pig
of good improved breed can be made to gain a
pound day until year old.-Prairie Farmer.
There is q convict in Auburn Prison, named
John Five, who is fifty-fve years of age, He
has been convicted five times of felony, each
time receiving q sentence of five years. He
has been married five times, and is the father
of five children, stands five feet in his stock
ings, and has five months yet to serve His
cell is No. s, on the fifth gallery.
Isaiah Morton, of Clinton county, Kentucky, |
to cut his name the she'll but,
on cleaning the surface, great was his surprise
to find the name of his father and the date
1881, plainly carved there.