In 1782, a lady named Taylor, died in Armagh, at the age of 140," having all her faculties and eye-sight perfect." She resided in the house occupied by King James on his visit to that city. She was wont to give interesting particulars as to the social habits of the king, and how "he frequently looked at a small crucifix and blessed himself." Mrs. Taylor was styled by the Williamites "the Queen of the Papists." They are, however, represented as having entertained much respect for her. In the county Meath, several of the "heroes of 1688" spanned out a more than ordinary long life. About 1784, Mr. Alexander Thornton died in Trim, at the age of 124. Thornton distinguished himself at the Boyne and other engagements. When Viscount Townshend visited Dangan Castle, the birthplace of Wellington, in 1768, Thornton was presented to him by the Countess of Mornington. It is related that he gave an accurate description of the Prince of Orange, the Duke of Schomberg, and other distinguished generals. He likewise described the persons of Lords Clarendon and Tyrconnell, the latter having imprisoned him for writing lampoons upon Archbishop Talbot and the Dublin priests. The Catholics of Meath styled Thornton "a priest catcher," a title in which many of the gentry of those times participated with him. THE FATE OF THE APOSTLES. ST. MATTHEW is supposed to have suffered martyrdom, or was slain in the city of Ethiopia. St. Mark was dragged through the streets of Alexandria, in Egypt, till he expired. St. John was put into a boiling caldron at Rome, but escaped death. He died a natural death, at Ephesus, in Asia. St. James the Great, was beheaded in Jerusalem. St. James the Less, was thrown from a pinnacle and beaten to death. St. Philip was beheaded. St. Bartholomew was skinned alive. St. Andrew was crucified and pounded while dying. St. Thomas was run through with a lance. St. Jude was shot to death with arrows. St. Peter was crucified. St. Matthias was stoned. St. Barnabus was also stoned to death. St. Paul was beheaded by the tyrant Nero, at Rome. POISONS AND ANTIDOTES. Ir not unfrequently happens that serious and distressing results are occasioned by the accidental employment of poisons; and it occurred to us that we might possibly do a service to some of our readers by presenting them with a brief and compendious list of the more common poisons, and the remedies for them most likely to be close at hand : Acids-These cause great heat and sensation of burning pain from the mouth down to the stomach. Remedies-Magnesia, soda, pearl-ash, or soap, dissolved in water; then use the stomach pump or emetics. Alkalies Best remedy is vinegar. Ammonia: Remedy-Lemon juice or vinegar; afterwards, milk and water, or flaxseed tea. Alcohol-First cleanse out the stomach by an emetic; then dash cold water on the head, and give ammonia (spirits of hartshorn.) Arsenic Remedies-In the first place evacuate the stomach; then give the white of eggs, limewater, or chalk and water, charcoal and the preparations of iron, particularly hydrate. Lead-White lead and sugar of lead. Remedies—Alum ; cathartics, such as castor oil and Epsom salts, especially. Charcoal-In case of poisoning by carbonic gas, remove the patient to the open air, dash cold water on the head and body, and stimulate the nostrils and lungs by hartshorn, at the same time rubbing the chest briskly. Corrosive Sublimate-Give white of eggs (raw) freshly mixed with water, or give wheat flour and water, or soap and water freely. Creosote-Give white of eggs and emetics. Belladonna or Night Henbane-Give emetics and then plenty of vinegar and water, or lemonade. Mushrooms, when poisonous-Give emetics and then plenty of vinegar and water, with a dose of ether, if handy. Nitrate of Silver (lunar caustic)-Give a strong solution of common salt, and then emetics. Opium-First give a strong emetic of mustard and water; then strong coffee and acid drinks; dash cold water on the head. Laudanum-Same as opium. Nux Vomica-First emetics; then brandy. Reme Oxalic Acid-Frequently mistaken for Epsom salts. dies-Chalk, magnesia, or soap and water freely; then emetics Nitrate of Potash-Give emetics; then copious draughts of flaxseed tea, milk and water, and other soothing drinks. Prussic Acid-When there is time, administer chlorine in the shape of soda or lime. Hot brandy and water, hartshorn and turpentine, are also useful. Snake Bites, etc.-Apply immediately strong hartshorn to the bite, and give it internally; also give sweet oil and stimulants freely; apply a ligature tight above the part bitten, and then apply a cupping glass. Tartar Emetic-Give large doses of tea made of galls, Peruvian bark, or white oak bark. Tobacco (nicotine)-First give an emetic, then astringent tea; then stimulants. Verdigris-Give plenty of white of eggs and water. THE Italian 100-ton gun is a good deal more than large enough to take a man in whole. To ascertain if it is damaged, a man lies down on a gigantic marrow-spoon, with a candle in his hand, and is pushed slowly down the bore, examining it as he goes along. The result of the trials of this monster cannon at Spezzia, have shaken our faith in armored ships. The French produced an armor plate, 12 feet long, 4 feet 6 inches wide, and 22 inches thick. The plate cost $10,000. It was the thickest and best yet made, thicker than any afloat. It was put on the side of a ship; a shot from the 100-ton gun struck it, and the plate disappeared; it went to pieces. A SIMPLE CURE FOR THE TOOTHACHE.-A gentleman says: After suffering excruciating pain from toothache, and having tried in vain to obtain relief, Betty told me a gentleman had been waiting some time in the parlor, who said he would not detain me one minute. He came--a friend I had not seen for years. He sympathized with me, while I briefly told how sadly I was afflicted. "My dear friend!" exclaimed he, "I can cure you in ten minutes." "How, how?" inquired I; "do it, in pity." "Instantly," said he. "Betty, have you any alum?" "Yes." "Bring it, and some common salt." They were produced; my friend pulverized them, mixed in equal quantities; then wet a small piece of cotton, causing the mixed powders to adhere, and placed it in my hollow tooth. "There," said he, "if that does not cure you, I will forfeit my head. You may tell this in Gath, and publish it in Askelon; the remedy is infallible." It was so. I experienced a sensation of coldness on applying it, which gradually subsided, and with it the torment of the toothache, MUCKROSS ABBEY. CHARLES WARREN STODDARD, in his notes on Killarney, thus speaks of Innisfallen and Muckross Abbey: "The monks have been at rest these hundred years; the roof has fallen to decay, and in the open nave the grass has spread like a carpet under foot, and the ferns hang like ragged tapestries from the chinks in the wall. I doubt if there is any ruin more charming than this; it is not extensive, it is simply complete and satisfying. The trees reach in through the unglazed windows, and shake boughs with the saplings that are sprouting within-very proper and very pretty saplings, that grow close to the high altar, and have reason to be spruce and fair to see. That dim cloister at Muckross, how it haunts me. There is a great yew tree growing out of the heart of it, and covering the whole with a green roof of leaves. The light that steals into this cloister is so soft and sentimental-shall I use the word ?--that one easily imagines the rooks to be the ghosts of the old monks, complaining at the sacrilegious trespass of mere sightseers, such as myself, for instance. The various tenantless, and now untenable chambers are pointed out by the custodian; but he hurries you from ruin to ruin, so that you get but a glimpse of the clustered crosses in the yard where the dead lie: and the rooks scold at you, with hoarse voices, for your worldly and careless intrusion. Muckross Abbey is like a petrified sigh! It is the sweetest and somberest, and the most heartrending ruin imaginable. It is like a torn volume of a sacred history, a broken statue of a saint; there is not enough to console you in the loss of that which is gone forever; there is too much of it remaining to permit you to forget the magnitude of your loss. The flutter and the fall of leaves in the gusts of the warm south wind; a cloister full of shadows; a chapel crowded with weeds breast high; a refectory haunted of bees and blossoms; a crumbling tower, with the ivy folded about it like a mantle, and a crowd of rooks clamoring overheadsuch is the abbey, as I remember it, after hours and hours of wholesome loafing that made me familiar with almost every stone in it. Innisfalien is a verdant island with a ruined monastery scattered over it; winding paths skirt the irregular shores. Every tree grows here, and every charm of nature seems reproduced in little somewhere within its wave-washed borders. There have been battles here, and monks massacred, but how long ago it seems. Now there cannot be found a more peaceful retreat; and, with the lap of its waves in my ears, and the pathos of its myriad fluttering leaves, and the rustle of the hoofs of the sheep that feed here, I think of the day, twelve hundred years ago, when St. Finian founded his abbey, and I wonder if he realized then that he was building for the moment, as it were. "Sweet Innisfallen fare thee well, May calm and sunshine long be thine, FRIDAY, AMERICA'S LUCKY DAY. THERE is a popular superstition against Friday as an unlucky day, and yet it is a somewhat noteworthy fact that, for Americans at least, it has been peculiarly fortunate. Americans. should be rather inclined to honor the day than otherwise. It was on Friday, the 3d of August, 1492, that Columbus sailed from the harbor of Palos for the new world. It was on Friday, the 12th of October, 1492, that he first saw the land, after sixty-five days of navigation. It was on Friday, the 4th day of January, 1493, that he started on his return to Spain to announce to their Catholic majesties the glorious result of the expedition; and on Friday, the 15th of March, 1493, that he disembarked in Andalusia. It was on Friday, the 13th of June, 1494, that he discovered the American continent. On Friday, March 5, 1497, Henry VII., of England, gave to John Cabot his despatch for the voyage which resulted in the discovery of the Continent of North America. On Friday, September 6, 1565, Mendez founded St. Augustine, the oldest town in the United States. On Friday, November 10, 1320, the "Mayflower" first disembarked a few emigrants on American soil at the place now called Provincetown; and on Friday, December 22, 1620, her passengers landed at Plymouth Rock. It was on Friday, Feb. 22, 1732, that Geo. Washington was born. It was on Friday, June 16, 1775, that the battle of Bunker Hill was fought, and on Friday, October 7, 1777, that the surrender of Saratoga took place, which event decided. France to give her aid to the Americans. The treason of Arnold was discovered on Friday. Yorktown surrendered on Friday, and on Friday, June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee read the laration of Independence" to the Continental Congress, Dec |