Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16

WortlleS IN our own day.
THE ALBATRoss-A bird at sea is always an
object of peculiar interest to one who has been
for weeks upon the water A correspondent
Of the Neao YORK Courier 8 Eaqujrer thus elc-
quently describes the King of sea birds-tLe
Albatross:
''Ihe Albatross is the most poetic object on
the ocean. There is nothing in all nature
SO noble, free, ethereal, spirtual-nothing au-
innate that SO brings the sense Of infnlty and
mystery, and boundless space into the day
light. Ills home is in the southern oceans,
below twenty degrees south Of the line. Here
he ranges alone or in company, over wastes of
waters that it takes fast ships from forty five
to sixty days to sail across. His flight is not
high; it is in long low swings, mile or two
each way. Except in alighting and getting
under way again, he rarely moves his wings,
only sometimes giving few grand, strong
flaps; then sailing away, now on one side,
now on the other, now far astern, and again
across the ships's bows; lie may be watched
i'll any weather, going over a hundred miles Of
distance to the ships one. No gale sends him
to leeward, no calm lessons the swiftness with
which he 'shaves with level wing the Deep.
Sometimes there come hundreds Of his kind
at once, at others have watched solitary one
for days together. l never saw one alght ex-
cept to pick up something which had fallen or
was thrown from the ship. Their alighting
and rising is gooselike and ungraceful, but once
afoat, their motions have an almost supernat-
urally sublime beauty. tits possible they may
sleep at night on the waves, but we never fell
in with them as we did with Cape Pigeons,
in the dark. have thought l could perceive
when the latter were tired, after several days
of rough weather, but never the Albatross.
On a ships deck they are powerless, except
to bite with their strong hooked bills. So far
from being able to perch Oh mast or shroud,
they are web footed, and cannot fly from the
deck or even stand up except momentaTily.
Their plumage is white, spotted, often most
beautifully, with various shades Of brown and
black. Fifteen feet is low average for their
stretch of wing some that we caught, meas
ured more than this, and l heard of one be-
ing taken that reached twenty-five. The ex-
preston of their eyes as they look around
them helpless on the deck, is that which might
be ascribed the proud, noble woman, made
the mock of pirates. Nothing lot human ever
wore look so high, so imploring, yet SO
dauntless,
CURE OF CHoLERA.-As all that relates to
cures for the incpient stages of cholera is in
terestng we make the following extract from
the Charleston Merc,0y, of letter from DR..
]. Lartigue, who asserts that lime-water is an
excellent remedy. He says it was originally
suggested to him from reading "Youatt on the
Horse:"
''The first case in which triedi it." he says,
"was very interesting. The patient, man
about forty years of age, was taken with the
most copious excavations. lie said that ano-
Their would be his end. l thought SO too, as
the last, and several of the preceding, were
very violent. ! gave him half-pi of the
solution of quick-lime as strong as the UNI
Stacked lime would make it, but perfectly
clear of the sediment He had scarcely
swallowed it before lie began to sneeze vio.
lently, and said that he was frying his stoln-
aeh. lie never had another operation-no
fever, and was well in half an hour except as
to debility. ! have had occasion to try it
this summer, with similar success. In one
case it was checked too soon and produced
fever, but the patient soon recovered Of that
l am no advocate for quacl1 medicines nor
am l a believer in paneceas but believe this
remedy can be accounted for on chemical
principles"