The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-02-10

IN0cUlArios WIN rnE sENobi or RAfTLEsHAats
In the work called Life iu MEXICO, recently publish
ed the fair author gives the following extraordinary
account
1--WE have Just been hearing curious cre umstanoo
connected with poisonous reptiles, which have
heard for the first time. Here and all along the
coasts the pco, le in the habit OF inoculating
themselves with the poison Of the rattiesnake which
renders them safe from the bite Of all venomous
animals.
''The person 10 be inoculated is prioked with the
tooth Of the serpent the tongue IN both arms and
on various parts Of the body aud the venom intro
duced into the wounds. An eruption comes out,
which lasts a few days. Ever after, these persons
can handle The most venomous snakes with impunity;
can make them come by calling them, have great
pleasure In fondling them and the bite OF these per
sons is poisonous You will not believe this but We
have the testimony OF seven eight respectable
merchants to the fact gentleman who breakfast
ed here this morning. says that he has been vanly
deayoring 10 make up his mind to submit to the ope-
ration, he is very much exposed where he lives,
and is obliged TO travel great deal the coast
and when he goes these expeditions he is always
accompanied by his servant, an inocuated negro,
who has the power OF curing him, should he be bit,
by sucking the poison fiom the wound. lie also saw
this negro cure the bite given by an inoculaled In
dian boy to white boy, with whom he fighting
aud who was the stronger Of the two The stories
Of the eastern juggers, and their power these
reptiles, may perhaps be accounted for in this way
cannot say that should like to have so much snaky
nature transferred into my composition, to live
amongst people whose bite is venomOus."
CuRE BY LlGnrNING.--In the same work the fol-
lowing account Is given Of in which fash Of
lightning made to play the part Of what the doc
tors call therapeutic AGENT
'At the village where the stopped, we listened
with much amusement to the story Of fat comfort
able looking individual, who Was cured by lightning
in The following manner; HE was in the last stage OF
decline, when one hot July morning, he was knock
ed down by thunderbolt, ball Of fire, which enter
ed his side, all through his body, and out at
his arm.
"At tho place where the ball made its exit a large
ulcer formed and when it dispersed he found
himself in perfect health in which he has continued
ever since In such cases the "bottled lightning"
demanded by Mrs. Nicklebys admirer, might be q
valuable remedy"
Moral EFFEGr MysIc.-hlsjor Davezac, in
his Chapter on ardenng, in the last number Of the
Democratic Review, speculates thus on The effect
which the cultivation OF music has upon the German
character
Whoever has sojourned in Germany long enough
TO associate much with Germans must h I'VE remark
ed the singular mdness, the pleasing simplicity of
manners, the elegance of habits and the general ur
banity of department. forming the characteristics OF
people which, in order TO hold first rank among
the great powers of the EARTH need only 10 be united
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people so long oppressed by multitude of petty
princes, domineered over by numerous and heart
less aristocracy inhabitng too, country often de-
solaed by the invasion OF foreign armies, which for
centuries have made it their battle ground, should
have preserved nevertheless, the primitive kindness
and amen.ty Of their nature, is moral phenomenon
which, while visiting in that country both the palaces
Of the greatest and humblest abodes Of the peasanry
have been tempted to attribute to the love OF
music that obtains through all classes OF German
al. &C..
passions kndled during day of suffering and trial,
instead Of being exasperated by the angry repnings
OF the family circle, when the wOrkinYman returns
home are, on tie contrary, ued to rest by the har-
mony of song. The madness of Saul yielded to the
harp Of David. Poybius says that music softened
the ferocity of the Arcadians, who inhabited
gion where the climate was impure and damp while
the people Of Cynoshe, who held that science in
tempt, continued to be the most barbarous Of the
Greeks. In Germany, music creates for the care
worn laborer another and better world, middle re-
gon between this earth, where wealth and the enjoy
ments it procures allotted to the few while 10
the many assigned prvations, contumeles, ire.
mediable poverty, and that future world where equa-
hty that banished exile from EARTH has fixed its
only and last abode. II is to that ideal region that
the German peasants mind is gently waited on the
wings Of melody, by the soft voices Of his wife,
daughters and sons together with the strains of his
own flute or haut-boy. Ii is music, in fact which,
while Frenchmen, Russians and Englishmen lord 1t
over elrth ana seas, given ue
undisputed sway Of boundless imaginary space
THE FLOWER Markets OF HoLLAND.-In the
same article Major Davezac gives the following &C.
count Of the superb flower markets Of Holland
At Amsterdam, Utretcht, Rotterdam the Hague,
and above all, at Harlem, the floral city, crowds OF
individuals of all the classes Of society seen
sembled at the flower markets, held twice week in
each of these great cities The rich attends them to
make exclusively his own, by purchase the emeralds,
the rubes, the saPphres OF the vegetable kingdom,
in addition to those which he already possessed form
ed in depths Of the earth through the slow eabora-
tons of ages but in spite Of his covetous eagerness
10 obtain the monopoly Of these natures trca
surcs the INDECENT too has these d zzling gems
Of the spring he has inhaled their perfume and,
while the yariegated Cameia, the purple Lagestre-
mia, the gaudy nodorous Cactus, the more sweet
scented but still gorgeous Peony, and all the costly
exo'ics are borne away to spread greater luslre
over the abode of opueDce, the humble Violet, the
Rose, (now thought to be a vulgar flower, though
still blushing its oyeliness and exhaling the most eI
Quste Of fragrance,) are taken TO the home Of the
poor to light the gloom Of his lowly sbed-to give
sweetness to the little air he is ye, allowed to breathe
always attended these Aoral markets, and do not
remember, crowded they always are, ever to have
heard quarrel there. An elegance of manners, nay,
Of language seemed inspired by the grace and beauty
Of the ephemeral gardens; every one present acted
and spoke If be feared either to njure by brutal
acts or TO soil by the xpresson of indicate thoughts
these tender and fragile treasures Of the spring
All clustered around them, like bees and all, like
bees, appeared 10 gather from item nothing but
sweetmeats.
There is a tradition at the Hague, that Johannes
Secondus the Dutch poet no sang to Kisses (wbose
house. the flower markets in that city, l. still TO
be SEEM always wrote with a nosegay on his table.
After hearing Of this, as read his Basa again,
fanced in the poetry besides the charm inherent to
the subject the Of the flowers he loved. Here
may be allowed, without depressing much, to speak
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