Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1851-01-25

| Afterwards they poured the oil Of mile.
pertits npdh tie batdagss Until they were
well saturated. WheH the stirgeo arrived
which wns un hour after tlts accident he
axaiuined the fiBger attd tile dressing, and
remarked that he saw no necessity for
any ''ttflier treatment except TO continue
the application Of the oil. In to,r days,
The finger Wis perfectly, WE'LL az Ii it had
never been injured. except thHt IT wns Il
little crooked from The want Of skill In MI.
ting the parts. /" We leave it to those
| who know, to say whether the same result
| would not have occurred without the millea
! petruits.
The persinn1on wns in high rcplite for
Its sailative asttingent qualities. It was
| made into q cake or bread, which could he
| kept for Il yenr, atd. when Used IN small
quantities, there was fo complaint Of the
stomach thnt II would not promptly md
thoroughly cure. The bfeud wis made by
drying the pulp Of the fruit in long cakes
about ah inch thick by the fire or even iii
the a,ln. The tudians prepared it, and
sold 1t to the French
In an early number we gave nh aeconn:
from du Prntz Of the "ApaIcliliiea" This
shrub was found only in The neigllborhood
OF Biloxi Dnmoht says TINT in 1722, it
was IN high tepute in Franee, and consi.
dered far superior to the ea4plant Of China.
Il was the tavorite beverage Of the Court
and nobility
"To make u sire cttre Of The Coup dc
soleil or siili.struck, !" says Dunont, the
settlers nse the leaves Of plant which
bears little buttons having very fne, sharp
points that fasten themselvee to the etoek-
ings and clothes, in short everything that
they touch. They call these buttons 'appe.
maee, (enlgo. 'beggars lee.) They
apply the leaves to the forehead Of one
who has received sun-stroke, md the
effect is to arrest the inflammation and put
d stop to the pain in tho head. | cnn speak
positively as to this from my own expert
ence in 1896 These buttons enclose eael,
two little kernels Of which the parodusts
are quite fond. They arc Of MI nutritious
character, for the Baron dn Cfellet extraet.
cd from them at New Orleans an extremely
sweet aud excellent oil,
"The plant "A sef7ent-A.soa,,tktes, in
the language of the natives 'O0din.Coced.
logmtble,' which signifies remedy for the
bite OF the ratlesnake. has MI onion-sliuped
root similar 10 that of the tube rose, but
MS large again Its leaves also resemble
those Of the tube-rose III shape and color,
but are twice as long and wide, aud armed
on their edges at short distances with
thorns. The trunk or stem, rises about
three feet, and at its top five or six shoots
strike off in different directions, each Of
which bears pnrpish flower with FIVE
petuls at the thumb. When the leaves Of
the flower fall, they disclose nut like that
of the poppy. This nut Is divided into
four parts, aud in each part there are four
small black, flat grains. The nut. when
dry, upon being shaken, rattles like the
tail Of the snake, thus seeming to Indicate
the properties of the plant, for il IN n spe-
ci6c against the bite Of the rattlesnake.--
The person bitten chews sufficient qiian.
tity Of the root and applies it to the bite,
and i'll four or five hours it draws out all
the poison, and no bad consequences
follow"
Dn Pratz says that the Rice grown in
his time in the Province came from Caro-
lina. It was planted without irrigation
and found to succeed admirably. The rice
of Carolina came from Madagascar. In
1896, a brig stopped at Charleston on her
| way from Madagascar to London. The
captain presented the Governor, Lardgrave
Smith, with a bug Of rice, which he divid-
cd among his friends who planted il in
different soils From thence came all the
rice Of this country.