The North-Carolinian., 1854-09-16
{VoLUME XV-NO. sII.
The sueccssfi., Rarrisser


lest heiress in Paris, and connected with one of
the highest families. The young lady
Known to possess an undisguised weakness for
Il well-dressed man, and by loudly expressing
this opinion, had been of more service to the I
tailors of Paris within the last year than Count
dOrsay in double the space of time. The bar
rister had many rivals, but the most formidable
was gentleman acknowledged to be the most
approved dandy in Paris. The lady selected
these two to decide from, and invited them
both to her chateau. The Frenchman declared
to his friends that he meant to cut the matter
short At once by ostshii.in.s the Eng elisln.an bv
his dress, that the latter would retire FROM the
field crushed to atoms by the superior skill he
was determined to manifest, on the occasion.
The Englishman said nothing, made no
boast but accepted the invitation, and togeth-
er by the train the two rivals proceeded to the
seat of war. 1t so happened that the French
dandy had furnished himself with regular
trcusseam for the occasion at the great English
taor's in the Rue du Helder, and the English
tailor, out of sheer compatriotism, had told
Mr. Ii of what it composed. A
sudden idea flashed acress the brain of the bar
rister. His servant, one of the sanctiied hy
pocrtical Wallets for whom London al
ways famous, is something about the height and
size OF the French pretendu. Mr. il inn
mediately ordered for this ally the exact coun-
terpart Of every suit already ordered by the
Marquis de la D. The first day at din
"NA 'i'N l'ooA So"'o hhdtuuio VAS IHlHSI NiHloh-
certed, when upon entering the dining room his
glances aliGhtcd upon the very counterpart Of
himself standing stiff and selfccntcred behind
the Englishman's chair; and he looked angriIy
at his rival to if any insult was intended;
but the Englishnan was too intent upon max
ing himself agreeable to the lady to notice his
rnfcd temper. The second day the same scene
was enacted, although our hero had completely
changed even the style Of his whole tournnrc
and again Was the ill-humor displayed
during the whole dinner, while Mr. il
was prcfting by the silence Of his witty rival.
The third and fourth repetitions were too ridi-@.
culous. The young marquis, too clever, and
too much the man of the world not to feel the
absurdity of his position, prutlently withdrew.
Brain and Thought. g
Richmond mentions the case of Il woman
whose brain exposed in consequence of the
removal of a considerable portion of its bQny
covering 10y disease He says he repeatedly
made pressure Oh the brain, and each time sus-
pended ALI feelings and all intellect which were
instantly restored when the pressure was with
case, that of man who had been trcpannetl
and who perceived his intellectual faculties fail
ing and his existence drawing to close, every
time the effused blood collected upon the brain
so as to produce pressure.
Professor Chapman, of philadelphia, mentions,
in his lectures that he saw an individual with
was accustomed to submit himself to the same
experiment of pressure the above, and who
was exhibited by the late Professor Wcstar to
his class. His intellectual and moral faculties
disappeared on the application of pressure to
the brain; they were held under the thumb, as
it were, and restored at pleasure to their full
activity by dscontinuing the pressure. But
the most extraordinary case of this kind with
in my knowledge, and one peculiarly interesting
to the physoloyiSt and metaphyscian, is relat-
ed by Sir Ashley Cooper in his surgical lectures
A man by the name Of Jones received an in
jury on his head while on board a vessel i'll the
Mediterranean, which rendered hin inscnslblc.
The vessel soon after this made Gibraltar where
Jones was placed in the Hospital and remained
several months ia the same inscnsiblc state.
He was then carried on board the Dolphin
frigate to Dcptford and from thence sent
to St. Thomas Hospital, London. II lay
stanty upon his back, and breathed with diff
Guilty His pulse regular, and each time
it beat he moved his fingers. When hungry
or thirsty, he moved his lips and tongue. Mr.
Byne, the surgeon, found portion Of the skull
depressed, trepanncd him, and removed the de-
pressed portion. Immediately after this opera
ton the motion of the fingers ceased, and at
four o'clock in the afternoon, the operation hav-
ing bcenperformed ut one, he sat up in bed; sensa
ton and volition returncd and in four days he
got out of bed and conversed. The last thing
he remembered was the circumstance Of taking
Il Prize III Ilc NleuiLCIIdIlcdU TIOul TIC IuO-
ment Of the accident, thirteen months and n
few DAYS, oblivion had como over him, AID all
recollection ceased. He had for more than one
year, drank Of the cup Of Lcthe, and lived wholly
Of existence, yet upon removing
small portion of bone which pressed upon the
BRAIN he was restored to the full possession Of
the powers of his mind and body.--Dr. Brigham-
BuFFALoEs BY THE AcRE.-A member Of
Governor Stevens's northern route exploring
party, in a long communication to the st. Louis
Republican, written from the head of Yellow
Stone river, says of the incidents Of the party
thus far
"On Sunday after a march of some ten mics,
the buffaloes were reached. They were before
and on each side of the train. For miles a"cad
it seemed one vast drove yard. They were
estimated by some as high as 500, 0oo-2oo,ooo
is considered as a very low estimate Dra"lng
mn the train at our usual ha 1t al noon large hefd
were about half a mile ahead Inc hunters,
s;x :, nnmber were Immediately dispatched,
we1I mounted on spare horses reserved for that
osnocial pnrpose and the whole train had an
nnnortrnty to witness a buffalo hunt. The
hunters dashed in among the herd, picked out
the fattest of the crowd, and then separating
the selected ones from the herd, soon dispatched
them In an hour the wagons were sent but
small distance from the route to receive the
choicest pieces of the buffalo.
.In the next two days march the hunters
were kept some distance ahead, to keep off the
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