The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-02 00:00:00

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BRINGING THE CASE HOME.—We read in the Gazette
de France:—" A few days ago a wag meeting a peasant,
who was on his way to Bordeaux on business, said to him,
' What are you doing here ? They are about to divide all
the land of the rich, and you had better go to the mayor
and put down your name for your share.' The peasant
set off at full gallop, and on arriving at the mayor's, said,
Monsieur le Maire, as there, is to be a division of the
land, I wish to have the meadow of M—, which joins
my garden. Put down my name at the head of the list.'
The mayor turned over some papers, and then said, You
are not the first. I have an applicant who demands the
meadow, and also your garden with it." My garden !
my garden !' said the peasant in a fury, I will go and get
my musket ;' and he set to watching his garden day and
night. There is a host of persons like this peasant;; they
wish to share the property of others and keep their own."
FATAL ACTION OF CHLOROFORM.—The action of
chloroform inhalation on the medulla oblongato has only
been unequivocally displayed in animals poisoned with it
by the rapidity and feebleness of the respirations, and by
its effects on the heart's actions. It is in this way that
death seems to be occasioned,—namely, by producing,
first, Coma ; secondly, asphyxia ; and, lastly, cessation of
the heart's movements, in the same manner as occurred in
the experiments of Le Gallois and Wilson Philip. In all
the animals examined, the right side of the heart was
gorged with venous blood—a fact quite in accordance with
this explanation. The action of chloroform inhalation on
the different portions of the nevous system, namely the
brain, spinal chord, anil medulla oblongata, is, in many
cases, subject to the control of the medical practitioner,
and may each, in its turn, be made available for useful or
injurious purposes. Some persons are much more easily
affected by it than others ; and hence its proper adminis-
tration can only be fully carried out by such as are ac-
quainted with its physiological action. Its use by the
public as a means of amusement, excitement, or stupefac-
faction, ought to be strictly prohibited.—Dr. H. Bennett's
Edinburgh Monthly Journal.
THE BUTCHERS SHOPS IN PARIS.—The butchers'
shops are respectable enough ' • but there is neither the
fatted ox, nor the well-fed wholesomely pastured sheep,
to produce the jolly sirloin of old England, or the elegant
saddle and venison-like haunch we can command in a
small post-town in our favoured country. I saw some
joints of mutton and veal very tidily displayed on clean
white cloths in the shops; but few hooks, and par conse-
auence, few hanging ribs or legs to tempt healthy appe-
tite, and constitute one plain substantial dish. The legs
of veal were invariably cut out with the tail depending
from them. As for the nobly proportioned fillet or rump,
aitch-bone, or brisket, conveying by turns the whole-
somest reminiscence of cold round and cauliflower pickles,
or hot marrow, dark gravy, and carrots, suet dumplings,
and other such trimmings to salted beef in its varied pre-
sentations, there was no spectacle of the kind. The meat
is disjointed uncomfortably, grotesque shaped, and de-
plorably lean. The butchers have no more idea of the
outline, even of a genuine steak, than they have of our
doomsday book. They cut a gibbous lump from any
inferior fleshy part, somewhat akin to our " clods and
stickings." give it a blow or two with the chopper, and
entitle it a " biftik." It contracts its bulk on being
placed in a frying-pan or gridiron, by many a shifting,
twisting movement, till its surface is indented, and full of
little cavities, into which the infatuated cook pours oil,
or butter melted into an oil, and a spoonful or two of
shredded parsley ; and this " horror" is served hot, selon
lei re'yles, tough as a pelican's leg, greasy as a tallow tub,
sans tat, sans gravy, or Harvey sauce, sans horseradish,
sans shalott or oysters, of any of those little relishing
adjuncts which on our tables requite the teeth for occa-
tionally extra labour and the outlay of tenpence on each
pound of beefsteak.—Musgrave's Parson, Pen, and Pen-
cil.