The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1878-01-13

xisaoers VS. adopted An Nevsnbsr. HE'S. ani
NJ several large ff1npeial fnsfikutisus In Sc
Lonie have come 20 grief since that dataL ths
sors win be affected by tie cPiaioa OF TIE
COaK4.
Americans are lsarnisg from the Msnnonites.
Professor Batter writes from Rsbrssks 60 tue
Chicago HA<s: "Of late have eaten din
furnaces In e6e hooss of Bishop Peters and
scores Of he h0ck- There has beOn no free xiug
in bis koass l45x26) during the swo ears since
is vac b1slt. Yes bis oaiy winter fsel ha:
beea STRAW, and bis farnace-the non UoTk Of
which coat e5-is heated osly three times o
day. What Nebraska had wasted nov waru1s
tboassDd kusooEites. Russian furnaces, i
kses Who see t5as If their feel shall be
heneefor1h costly or their dwellings cold the
fAui. will be all their own.
Good forgetfGlness Is considered by the
Se;s.fids Inssioan scarcely irss valas bic than
good memory. "AesSfs." it ssys, "sho are
obliged to stSdy new pazts frequently, and
commit long speeches 70 memory IN very short
periods of tiEe, apparently hare the power
blank and receptive to rev tssks. After tax
ing Fart n . performance which has been
repeated night after night for rOnths, the re-
production Of tie same play, sfter lapse of
year or 50. lads then almost ignorant of the
text, aud recessitates complete reAtody.7 Ar.
VsTdon, in . recent article in Mind. holds that
the Eenor5 Of every individual has the
capacity Oh kScpSIk IL HCcA tCCot4cCelVu =
certain ppnher of ibings, and that these, on
being displaced By others, grow din or entirely
fade away. He says that person may exPecd
all his energy of memory on things and
become "absent naipded," or may make 10 cover
. great number with less distinetnees.
MN. Fell and Frenzy, at . recent meeting Of
the Paris Academy of Seience, read paper
. new procesa for the manufacture
alton created By these vondelfal experiments
has been 60 general that the Association of
Jewellers have written 70 some OF tie papers
stating that il was impossible for humaa a<t
70 com pete with nature, who has n her dis
possi an indefinite nuDber Of Centuries, which
o not the case with any human worker. n
DAnhEee, the Director of the School Of Ainee,
mas expressed sbs wisa TO open, in the museum
u that establishnsns, q gallery for the exhi- |
3ition of minerals Prodsoed arG6eially. N
Fell has already prodEced in his glass foundry, |
md By the same process - rnbies, m imDepes
,anber Of stones, which can be compared with |
he most admirable crystalline predictions of |
lature. Some of them are SO Inexpensive |
hat they may te used for ordinary decorative |
purposes.
Senator Gordon was born in Upson County,
seog1ia, in 1852, and comes Of . fighting stock. |
lis grandfather enlisted at the age Of fourteen |
nd served through the Revolutionary war g
rothsr of that grandfather. at Kings Moan
ain, charged up TO the British lines, and, seiz-
og an English officer by his queue, hauled
i'm down the hill . prisoner. Gordon was
ret Colonel OF the Sixth Alabama, which ut
owen Plnt0 vent into patio Win OUV men ouQ
,rorges cot 2o4. All the other regfmentaI
ficers fell Gordon's horse was killed under
lin and he had three bullet holes in bis CLOTH
nK. Raised to the command of . brigade at
dalvern Hill. he left half Of his men on the
sld one ball carried awsy the butt Of his
,istol, o second pierced his csnteeu, third
ore bis coat. At Shsrpsburg his old regiment
vas nearly annihilated two companies we're
40 bullets in tbs leg. one in the arm, one in
he shoulder. and one in the right cheek, be-
ides getting . bEuise on the breast from
pent bali, while two Others pierced his cloth
ng. It was long before he recovered, bot he
lived to fight at FredeEieksburg and Gettys-
,urg and in the FINAL csmpaga under Lee.