CO NM 31151111in edhIllif No. 29.-VoL.
6enettal Mleanings.
SUBIA(.O, FRIDAY OCTOBER 6, 1876.
PRICE 6D.
the free-thinkers is veritably out of the so that here we have a sum of over EIGHTEEN HUNDRED YEARS AFTER debate. It is true they have intruded £83,000 to start with, and it is underDEATH. THE MURDER OF D'ARCY WGEE themselves hotly into the discussion, out stood that lie has other property. A correspondent of Appleton's Journal, CONFESSION OF A CONDEMNED MUR- of hatred to the Church ; but a hatred is writing of excavations at Pompeii, not an interest-in any event it is not DERER says : " Among the most interesting of It is currently reported that a man an avowable interest. In politics, he the objects found recently are two skeWASTED INTELLECTUAL WEALTH. named Trotter, now under sentence of who speaks of public, speaks of that letons, of a somewhat elderly man, the death for murder in New York, has which has a considerable moral, interest. A boy of eight years, named John other of a woman. They were fund in confessed to having shot and killed M. Waddington introduced, in the Cronin, who figured in a London police the Via Stable among the ashes of the Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee. From infor- exigency of his cause, a pretended public court on Saturday, was a favorable last eruption, evidently overtaken in mation received to -day from a resident opinion, while excluding the only mani- specimen at Ottawa, it appears that it was in festation of it which possesses any direct wasting in of the fine material now their flight and buried in the cinders. every city in the land. He According to the usual method emthis same Trotter's mother's house that interest in the matter. The office of found himself in custody for being a ployed to preserve the external appearM'Gee was lodging, and was about to the State is not to interfere, either vagrant and thus obtained an opportunity ance of objects, liquid plaster was poured enter at the time of his death. Trotter, directly or by delegation, in the exami- of making his mark. He has certainly into the cavity, which, serving as the nation of a student or the judgment of the confessed murderer, was at the received some education, and might mould, fac simile of the forms was ohtime a youth of sixteen, and was a page his aptitude. The role of the State is to possibly have been taken care of but tained ; and thus perfectly preserved sanction, by its diploma, the decisions of in the House of Commons. He was for the death of his own parents and the the statue -like bodies was placed it glass first to find the deceased lying on the competent judges ; and it has the right, succession of step-parents, who seem to cases in the Pompeii Museum. While footpath after he was shot, and to give in exceptional cases, to suspend the care nothing about him. When in appreciating all the horrors of such a the alarm. It is said the door of Mrs. diploma. What it has done is to claim custody he read the newspaper with death and the sufferings endured, as Trotter's house must have been fastened an undivided sovereignty, and to decapi- credit, and showed at least some know- shown by the position, I cannot but As to inside when M'Gee tried to open it, and tate a law of religious liberty. ledge of figures. In reply to Mr. imagine what would have been the asit was supposed this was done to detain the reason for this assumption of an evil Flowers, the magistrate, (who was taken tonishment of that man or woman had him until the assassin would carry his policy, it is useless to speculate. The with his precocity), he created some some prophet infimed them that diabolical purpose into effect. There State has the right of the strong, and are many other collateral circumstances can be justified by the barbarous maxim amusement by revealing that he could eighteen hundred years after their death draw, and fixing the subject of his draw- their forms, and even as much of their connected with the shooting which of "The Social Contract :" " Majorities ing as a jug of beer. It was probably garments as were not consumed in the strengthen the opinion that Trotier was have no need of reason." the thing which, frog' association, the eruption, would be placed in a the man who fired the fatal shot, and it public boy was most fardiliar within an artistic museum for inspection by a is hoped some steps will be taken, before multitude sense. Incidentally it transpired that of sightseers, some from lands the he treads the gallows, to inquire further PROPOSED INUNDATION OF THE DESERT exhe had been caught by one of those istence of which they never dreamed OF SAHARA. of. into the matter. Trotter was a witness missionary agencies so numerous in The poor woman was lying on at the trial against Whelan. her One of the latest engineering pro- London. Some lady had induced him fac , and even the Corm of her hair, put posals is to inundate the desert of Sahara to go to a Sunday school, and promised up behind, is seen. Onearm shields her and make of it au inlaud sea. The great him a mark, on attending three time forehead, and she is supported by the HOW TO TEACH PARROTS TO TALK. desert of Sahara is about two-thirds as and bringing a recruit with him. The other. Her stony limbs are well large as the United States. There is no recruit vanished after the first experi- formed, and traces of a garment are seen Parrots may best be taught to talk by natural drainage, and the surface, except ence, and Cronin did not receive the passing in folds around her. covering the cage at night, or rather in where the oases occur, is in many The man, parts mark, though he was punctual himself. although placed on his the evening, and then repeating to them, covered with salt, and back in the exresembles an From the name of this boy there can hibition, when found was turned on his slowly and distinctly, the words they ancient sea bottom. On the oases, or be no doubt. of his nationality, and we side. One arm rests on his hip, the are desired to learn. They should be green spots, are found lions, panthers, hardly think there can be any about his other is uplifted. The kept away from places where they gazelles, reptiles, etc. The face is somewhat greatest religion either. We can therefore under- distorted, but massive would be liable to bear disagreeable calamity in crossing the and smooth desert is stand the solicitude of the missionaries shaven. Even the form or the fastennoises, such as street cries, and the exhaustion of the supplies of water and to capture such a brand. The lesson of ings of the sandals around the ankle, whistling and shouts of boys at. play, or fifilure to find more. The bleached this episode is this-that there is a vast and of a long button, they will imitate them, and become too hones of animals and men higher up on the who have amount of intellect lying dormant in the leg to hold them, is clearly seen. The noisy to be tolerated. Par ruts may be perished from thirst now lie on the sands. purlieus of our towns which might ler limbs are partly drawn up. The skelefed upon soaked bread and biscuits, In 1803 a caravan of 2,000 persons rescued if pililatithrephy were more ton of a tolerable large dog, also recently mashed potatoes, and rape seed. They and 1,800 camels, crossing the desert, generally ex:,ibited. T11,, poverty of found, is in the Museum of are fond of nuts. Cayenne pepper, perished from thirst, Pompeii, not a living our people tends to place many of their his whole form preserved in plaster, in sprinkled upon a bone, and given to creature being left. at Children the mercy of the those whose same manner them occasionally, is said to be very as those just menchief aim in life is to win them from the tioned. He is laying beneficial. They shout' be kept very on his back, faith of their fathers. writhing in sufferings, biting his hind clean, and allowed a bath frequently. It THE WAY TO KILL A GOOSE. leg. The rings awl collar are plainly would be difficult to point out modes of seen. It is reported that Professor Tyndall, treatment of the diseases of parrots, but when they become affected it is best to when lecturing before a large audience, THE " VATICAN." keep them warm, change their food for aecidently touched the wire leading from This word is often used, but there a time, and give them lukewarm water fifteen charged Leyden jars, and received the whole discharge. The shock was are many who do not understand its EFFECT OF THE SEASONS ON THE to bathe in. not sufficiently powerful to cause death, import. The term refers to a collection BODY. but as the professor regained his senses of buildings on one of the hills of Rome, The curious fact has recently been he experienced the strange sensation of which cover a space of twelve hundred pointed out by Dr. R. W. Richardson A CRUSHING CRITICISM. all his members being separate and feet in length and eleven hundred in that the changes of the season have a In reference to the defence offered by gradually fastening themselves together. breadth. It is built on the spot once potent physical influence upon the body. occupied by the Life garden seemed of blotted out cruel for a Nero. Some sensible years ago, in a convict establishM. Waddington for adhering to his UniIt owes its origin to a Pope, who, in the ment in England, a number of men were versity Bill in defiance of Catholic interval, and his own experience conearly part of' the firmed the sixth theory century, that to a person erected confined amid surroundings (of clothing, opinion, the Univers (Paris) says :-To tut humble residence on its site. About food, struck by lightning the passage from &c.) practically the same for each render strict justice to the Minister of Public Instruction, he could not have life to death occurs without conscious- the year 1160, Pope Eugenics rebuilt individual. The medical superintendent it ou a ness magnificent being in the least degree affected. scale. The library of the gaol undertook more weakly defended the law of which investigations, It is au abrupt stoppage of sensation, of the Vatican was commenced fourteen extended over some nine he is the author. M. Waddington years, and hundred years ago. It contains forty during which over sounded, ill advance, the opinion of the unaccompanied by a single pang It 4,000 individuals public ; and found it very animated-he has been stated that the illustrious Dr. thousand manuscripts, among which are were weighed. It was found that durFranklin, when experimenting with some by Pliny, St. Thomas, St. Charles ing the months of winter assures us-on the question. the body The opinion must have made rather peculiar electricity taken from the clouds by Borromeo, and many Hebrew, Syriac, wastes, the loss of weight varying in Arabian, and means American of metallic Bibles. points The on a kite, increasing ratio; that during summer overtures to him. It must have said : " It is I who am public opinion, I will attempted to kill a turkey with electri- whole of the immense buildings com- the body gains, the gain varying in an posing the city. Vatican are In filled some with statues increasing ratio ; and that the way tie Doctor received rigorously support Free Universities, but changes I am anxious as to the right of the the charge, which deprived him of con- found beneath the ruins of ancient from gain to loss and from loss to gain Rome ; with paintings by the masters, are abrupt, and take State, and am hostile to a mixed jury." sciousness for a moment. When alluding place the first at and with curious medals and antiquities the Certainly, he must have been fiivored to the experiment on a subsequent occabeginning of September, and the with some revelation of this kind ; sion, the Doctor said he attempted to of almost every description. When it is second at the beginning ofApril. otherwise, how could he know with kill a turkey but came near killing a known that there have been exhumed more than seventy thousand statues such precision what is and what is not goose. from the ruined temples and palaces of THE SURSIARINE TUNNEL. the opinion of the public ? The argum en t Rome, the reader call form an idea of the is curious in any aspect. In his inquiry The preliminary works eonnected richness of the Vatican. It will ever be with the proposed VICTOR HUGO. as to outside opinion, the Minister tunnel between held in veneration by the student, the England and France dispensed with the formality of interrohave commenced Victor lingo musthave a fine fortune artist, and the scholar. Raphael and at Sanghatte, near Calais. The gating the Catholics. They have a by his writings. It is sink-. stated that he Michael Angelo are enthroned there, lug voice, apiarenily-they have a preponhas already reached a depth of 50 among other investment,, 800 and their throne will be as durable as yards, and the operations are derating voice ; they are principally, if shares in the National -being Bank of Belgium, the love of beauty and genius in the pushed on so vigorously that the men not solely, interested. The opinion of which are worth 2,850 francs per share ; hearts of their worshippers. arc kept busy night and day. It is
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