New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-09-19


Of those eery English who, against the rights
Of nations, keep you prisoner now, Then, Sire,
England could not forsee day like this The
Fmneror sighed, and his face assumed that |
deeply melancholy expression which Gros i'm
mortalzed. you were thinking Of that, were
YOU said the Emperor seriously well, finish
cutting my hair and the operation was COM /
Melted without the exchange Of another word. |
When it.was over the Emperor made sign for /
all to retire; and they left him alone, looking |
sad and thoughtful. The scenes that lay be- |
tween the camp at Ambleteuse and the cabins |
of the Northumberland, we're Of a nature to |
make the sternest soul dreBm sadly
TIE CALIFORNIA SNAKE BIRD-Alexander s. |
TavIor. of Monterey, in his Familiar Sketches
Of The Natural History Of California, says that
in the coast counties Of Southern California |
there exists singular species of bird, generally
called, on account of his well known mortal
aversion to all members of the snake tribe, the |
snake bird 1t is not q bird of prey, but
lives entirely on grain, like the gallinacia.
When full grown it measures two feet from the
tin of its tail to the tip Of its beak The tail
has four or five long features tipped with white
Its feet are furnished with four toes, two in
| front and two behind, and all are guarded with
| sbarn needle-like claws. The color Of the bird
| is notified, yelowish gray, and it rarely at
| toins the weight of pound. Its beak is two
| and a half inches long, and hard and sharp.
| When the bird finds rattlesnake; and rattle
snakes are to be found in great numbers in
Southern California, wherever the ground is
covered BY the cactus plant-it Immediately
proceeds, with the greatest caution and dis
batch, to gather the fallen cactus fruit and dry
iobes, and corral him to the height of foot or
more--the spikes and spines of the plant, strong
lao ,,,.f
able barrier to the escape OF the snake. This
beingtaccomplishea, the bird gathers with his
feet and claws the young cones Of the pine which
are as hard and heavy as stones, and lowering
over its enemy, lets them fall, one by one, from
! heioht Of FIVE or six feet, upon the Infatuated
viper, who, surrounded by prickles and points
wherever he turns, is soon fully aroused to the
danger of his position. The bird, with malicious
screams continues to drop coneafter cone, until
his I foe Is exhausted, and then demolishing the
corral, picks the snake to death with his iron
beak
ACE OF FISHES. and carp, in artificial
ponds, have been repeatedly found with gold
rinos in their fins, and other kinds of labels, on
which were also found dates, that proved con-
J clusiyely that one hundred years had elapsed
l since the inscription was made Gesner speaks
of a nike that was known to be two hundred and
sixty seven years old. 1t is affirmed by some Of
the French writers, that several pike are in 9
pond which formerly belonged to the Duke Of
Orleans, father of Louis Philippe, so very aged
that their original complexion is completely
= lost; they have become OF dingy hue, ano
I actually give the spectator an idea of extreme
old age. Gartilaginous fishes have still create,
J prospect of living to an advanced period. In
< stead of bones, as previously remarked, theil
skeletons are elastic, having but small por
:, tion of earthly matter in them. As the vessel
secrete but little ossifc matter, they do not be
g come rigid, as in the land animal the heart i
4 in no dangerHof being converted into bone in
:. deed, we do not know why many of them nigh
IL not live and continue to grow for THOUSAND
years. 1t was at one time thought than tn
= circles discoverable on the ends of the vertebrs
u of the osseous tribes, indicated the age. as tn
rings on the extremity of log marked tn
s wears of the growth of the tree. These are, I'm
q Fortunately, no guides; and we, therefore, re
. greet that we know of no mode, at the presen
day; of solving problem Of the highest lnteres
u to the curious. Of the marine fishes, th
j. sharks Enthusiastically reach truly patri
IL archal age.
T. Exposed, as fishes must necessarily be, to th
voracious Jaws of millions Of belligerent, 8
,e we'll as hungry associates, it would seem hardl
ie possible that they should find safe opportt
u nifty for this kind of rest, however much the
might at any period require it. Again, bein
u without eyeids, they would be regarded at tlr
ag thought as organized to require no suspensie
e. of the powers Of volition Impossible as it is
speak with certainty on this point we are full
persuaded that they not only require sleep, bt
he that they also find safe and convenient times
= enjoy that sort of repose. Gold fishes, in vase
" repose regularly through the night, after tt
lights have been extinguished This is 1nferr'
N from their remaining precisely in one positit
7 l six or eight hours at a time.
ed 81 think you ought to be ashamed Of you
ire self, uncle Tim, to try to run down the Navy,
N you always do" said promising masters ma
NY to his venerable relative WINE the 1lu senvl
,ed man was feeding herd OF hungry ea1tle. g s
last war Why, what would we be without
navy? 1t is the bulwark of the country"
eyes soft is, replied uncle Tim; and cas-
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