New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-10-08

1A' WV ooldFdu came INTO Town from the north
ga Rondrous collection they purpose 20 show fortb)
biss' elephants, monkeys bears, tigers, &c.
And Stephen arrived opportunely ween
For never had Stephen elephant seeM; t4=.
30 ne, with Old sorrel, fetched up by the fence,
70 gee, without paying the twenty five cents;
And soon came the creature, uncouthly and slow forth
WIN tusks, and with trunk blankets, ribbons, &c.
But scared at the sight, or the SCENT or the sound
sola soIfei y turned quickly and shortly around,
ana in turning so quickly and shortly about : .4
Ihe wagon turned over aud Stephen turned out
And into the gutter the berries did dow forth,
1oseshes with stepen, eggs, butter, &c, ST. -s5l
Quoth Stephen aloud, as he rose on his pegs ,.--
"A ng f0r the berries, &c, and eggs
But henceforth never can cay it, of course
mat I've not seen the elephsnt-nor can the horseu
ana Dack to the homestead Old sorreli did 60 on
Leaving wagon and Stephen, &c, and 30 on.
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IMPERIAL RIcE.--A correspondent of ths
State Department furnishes the following ex.
tract from Dir. Huc's journey through the Chi.
nese Empire, which was transmitted from that
department to the United States Patent Office
The correspondent suggests that this rice could
readily be obtained by government through its
representative in China, and would be a most
valuable acquisition, as it requires less irriga-
tion than the common article:
"The celebrated Emperor Khang- hi has thus
- @h HpoA tdut SlflCG " LIS country.
We ind in the curions memoirs written by that
prince, the following passage: 6 was walking,
says the Emperor Khang hi, on the first day d
the sixth moon in some fields where rice was
sown, which was not expected to yield its har-
vest till the ninth happened to notice rice
plant that had already come into ear; it rose
above all the rest, and was already ripe. Ihad
it gathered and brought to me; the grain was
very fine and full, and was induced to keep ii
for an experiment, and see whether it would on
the following year retain its precooity, and in
TACT 1t did All the plants that proceeded from
IL came into ear before the ordinary time, and
yielded their harvest in the sixth moon. Every
year has multiplied the produce Of the proceed
ing, and now for thirty years it has been the
rice served on my table. The grain is long and
OF reddish color, but of sweet perfume, and
very pleasant flavor. It has been named yami,
or imperial rice, because it was in my garden
that it ives first cultivated. 1t is the only kind
that can ripen north of the great wall, where
the cold begins very early and ends very late /;
but in the provinces Of the South, where the
climate is milder, and the soil more fertile, it is
easy to obtain tlco haruests q year from it, and
1t IS sweet consolation for me to have pro-
cured this advantage to my people,
The Emperor Kha1g hi did render, in fact,
an immense service to the population Of Mant-
churia. by encouraging the culture of this new
kind of rice, which thrives admirably in dry
countries, and has no need, like the common
sort, of perpetual irrigation. It would certainly
prosper in France, and it is not the fault of the
missionaries if it has not long since been aecli-
mated there. ,elI+ - assam
While we were at the mission in the envi-
rons of Pedia, we several times made it our bu-
siness to send some of it to the Minister of Agr-
culture and Commerce, but we have never
heard that any experiment was trie i with it."
.... .- Living Polyglot.
There are many remarkable examples Of
memory being carried to perfection almost
inconceivable. Thus Macaulay in an incredible
short space of time has been known to memor-
ize completely the multifarious and incongru-
GUS contents of number of the London Times
and the English Lawyer. John W. Smith, could
repeat fifteen hundred lines of poetry after one
perusal. y,-.*s=5- a5.-.
Perhaps the mightiest memory ever possessed
by any human being was that Of Cardinal Mez-
zofanti, the Librarian Of the Vatican at Rome.
The following description Of the accomplish
ments of this wonderful man is given by a Ger
man philologist who visited him:
The vastness Of the range of language which
he had mastered borders closely on the incredi-
BILE; and, what appears hardly less marvellous,
this enormous store has not only not produced
any Babel-like confusion in his head, but on the
contrary lies completely at his command, so
that, without the least effort, and without any
observable interval, he passes from one realm Of
language to another, as lightly as bird hops
from spray to spray. He is familiar with all
the European languages; and by this we un-
In al ii %ax...
and the first class modern ones; that is to say,
the Greek and Latin, the Italian, French, Span
ish, Portuguese, German, and English his
knowledge embraces also the languages of the
second class, viz: the Dutch, the Danish, and
Swedish, the whole Sclavoric family, the Rus
sian, Polish, Bohemian or Czechish and Servian,
the Hungarian, and Turkish and even those
of the third and fourth class, the Irish, Welsh,
Albanian, Wallachian, Bulgarian and Illyrian,
are equally at his command. On my happening
to mention that I had once dabbled little in
Basque, he at once proposed that we should set
about it together. Even the Romani of the
Alps, and the Lettish, are not unfamiliar to
him; nay, he has made himself acquainted
with Lappish, the language of the wretched
nomadic tribes Of Lapland; although he told
me he did not know whether it should be called
Lappish or Laplandish
"Passing along to Asia, it is true that he
does not claim acquaintance with all the dia-
lects Of this vast region, with its desolate
steppes, and its fallen, degenerate, and fast
decreasing population; but nevertheless, ever
here, there is hardly one of the more prominent
languages, especially those which fall within
the circle of European intercourse, that has
escaped his grasp. Thus he is master Of all the
languages which are classed under the Indo.
German family; the Sanscrit and Persian, the
Koordish, the Armenian, the Georgian; he is
familiar with all the members of the Semitic
family, the Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Samaritan
Chaldee, the Sabaic, and even the Chinese
which he not only reads but speaks. As regards
Africa, and its HamatiG races, the recent revi
val of intercourse with that country, and espe
cially with Egypt and Abysinia, have facilitated
the extension of his acquaintance with its Ian
guages He knows the Coptic, Ethiopic
Abyssinian, Amharic, and Angelese. canno
from my own knowledge say whether he ha
acquired any Of the native languages of Anne
rioa, except the Californian; but L have bee
told that even while he was in Bologna, h
learned some of these from an ex-Jesuit VIII
had sojourned as missionary on that con
tinent.''
AN ARTFuL DoDGE-When Senator Dougla
made his speech in st. Louis, he expressed him
self willing to answer any question which Nigh
be propounded. ssa zaS.z
"What do you think of the propriety Of in
Producing slavery into Kansas g asked one I
his audience.