New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-08

nsle no further extracts. such random criticism as
this would never have zen admitted into the D5bats
were ii not that tina, journal perhaps more than any
other Is embarrassed for matter and ss 1t refuses 10
NEEDLE with politics, and advertisers seem to be DIM
dent its weekly consumption Of literary and occasional
articles has become so considerable that less dscmna
ton l. exercised in the choice Of productions.
paper was read at late session of the Academy OF
Sciences upon the use of steam of water in the
ouepching of fires. fact was cited, which would
seem TO settle the question fire broke out some
months ago in spinning factory at Douai room in
which there was large quantity Of dry fax was already
prev 10 the flames when some proposed to let into
il all the steam in the generator pipe traversed the
ROOM but as it had cock In the neighborhood 1t was
cut ssunder by blow from ak; the steam rushed
into the ROOM and enveoping the flames in its clammy
embrace, extingushed it in very few moments etici
entity.
Az the same session. NJ Isdore Saint Hilaire read
notice upon milk giving he goat" (boue hetyC thar
has lived several years at the Garden OF Plants de
has pendant teats full and productive which have yield
ed milk for the past five years He is the father oil sew
eral kids and on occasion sucked one OF his own
descendants Some doubts were entertained on the
perfect whole of such unnatural nourishmenI
but the kid thryed it. and has now young ones Oh n'
own.
Another paper was read upon "a project tending to
produce race of ajoucs without thorns and growing
from seed" The aouc is a sort OF furze or thistle
furnishing an excellent food for cattle, upon soil where
ueeru and clover do not thrive if is deprived OF It's
horns. The labor of doing this is very great and the
farmers generally content themselves with crushing the
thorns by sturdy blows with hatchets maots. Were
it possible to produce the plant from seed and without
horus it would be an untold benefit the rural popua-
tons of certain tracts of France. NM Vilmorai and
Naudn are in hopes they have discovered method OF
VARYING at will certain of the productions Of Nature and
nromse 10 communicate the results of their nvestga
tons to the Academy.
But another experimenter NJ Lecoq, Director OF the
Botanical Garden at Cermont has gone much further
in "a creative researches. While M Naudin hopes to
produce tornless thistle for the better nourshment OF
four footed beasts NJ Lecoq places thistle upon his own
table and eats It himself thorns and all He entities hs
letter read to the Academy, 1.-TWO hundred, i've hum
bred or even thousand new vegetables, dd aonam -
He had noticed the instinct of the ass invariably direct
ing him to the thistle bed and confident that thai SER
rated plant possessed some precious qualities tnat arc
not generally acknowledged, took few specmens Oh
the tribe under hts care, cultivated them carefully ana
finally turned out "a savory vegetable with norns OF
the most noensive and flexible SORT" CoItinuins his
experiments, he finally tanned every individual member
of the fierce family of thistles The Hercules thistles
the Crsiun. Eropkorum, the Herdcleu pondyta'" and
other redoubabe individuals. Encouraged oy mis- sue
cess he undertook the modification OF several tyranu
of the vegetable kin gdo, more ferocous sti posi-
ble and encountered serious resistance In all tn
NJ Lecoq claims discovery, and conceals no secret
His only mode of transformation Is to expose to the sun
plants that grow In obscury and conceal from the solar
Il. d. ar.If hffa
entirely alter their nature He simply employs upon
vegetable productions hitherto Misunderstood and neg
lected, the most common processes of the gardeners
art The acIid aromatic properties of cress, parsley
chevoi &C., are retained by allowing them to grow in
the sun the acrdty Of celery, the contrary is made
to disappear by tuying it in the sand the crudty OF
certain OF lettuce is removed by binding the leaves
tightly together and excluding the light and the air The
entire nature of the plant is thus Transformed and Is
by means as mpe these that NJ Lecoq has made the
thistle eatsbe and holds the hope of soon eat
ing dock and pgweed with much relish as asparagus
and green peas. He asserts, that by means OF over
turned fower.pots, he render amentarF all the
cruciferous all the umbeerous and all the syranthe
rous species and that certain Of the most despised and
DIT graded among Them will yet claim the place OF honor
at the festive board.
The workmen in the mandatory of Gobeln tapestry
the point of finishing the full length portrait OF
Louis Napoleon, designed by Horace vernet, and COM
menced in 1850. thought that had already seen NJ
Bonsparte in every imaginable FORM but this is plea
had not looked Onward to. We have him in oils
pastels, crayons and water colors In plaster, in
Bile, in biscuit; bas-reefs, canoes; medals,
on coins handkerchief on badges; on postofice
stsmps, and the crust of applepes. His features
have been made palpabe to the blind mans touch BY
Dr;.to boarA md al
to ooze upon the other sde thus giving the paper the
appearance of suffering from boodblister. The Hos.
ptal of the vingts is furnished with supply Of
these tangible miniatures for the use Of its sghtless In.
mates The Charirari has, in times gone by, given
buresques of the Imperial mug done upon stone and
have seen others chaked with piece of charcoal bo
hind kitchen door Sketches of this sort, however,
not to be relied on for fidelity Of imitation insight
~ distortions and unseemy dsfguremens being usual
ly considered indispensable accompaniment. And
the President lie to be done in carpet and to be i'm
mortalzsd in tapestry. never saw any remarkable
beauty in the best representation Of the human form
upon this fabric. Louis XIV. himself is little bit awk
ward, little bit i'll at ease-and suspect that Louis
Napoleon viii be Goblin indeed, very uncomfortable
Goblin
mentioned some time ago that earthquakes were
coming north. may say with equal propriety that
typhoons coming west A specimen visited the
gardens Of the Tuileries last Tuesday. quantity Of
sand and sticks were caught up in spiral form, and
wrgged about in front Of the palace for several min
ues the column bursting the force of the discharged
wind YVES such that dozen nurses and children wsre
blown over and number of chairs flung about
with considerable violence may add that this unusual
event took place on the Goth of April ls52-ths 44th
anniversary of the birth Of His Gracious Hghness the
Prince President of the Republic GRE.
EUROPE.
The Self-decepti0ns and Declarations Of tho
Reacfinn.