New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-02
ons were as follow:

Daily motion in ~ Z,
Magnitude "
The new planet is about degrees north, preceding
the planet lris. -.
last number urges ltsreaders to special veneration
10 Saint Joseph de Cupertin. The Ultramontane jour
nal defies the somnambusts 10 initiate this saint IN
some of his miracles ST. Cupertin cured the sick,
and read the human heart if he was engaged In con-
yersaton with Gbertine, he was conscious OF an
npendurnble odor which tobacco fumes could de-
stroyp But this is nothing TO the miracle which the
saint ALWAYS preferred to perform. His feet, says
the Tn,rers disiked to touch the ground, and the
slightest remembrance OF heaven ended inns unnatural
state by detnchng his spiritualised body from the
earth Many tunes was he seen elevated IN the air 10
n considerable height in the presence OF crowd mute
with ave- The sight of tabernacle, or crucih& OF
al image of the Blessed Virgin, the name Oh gesus ot
of Mary pronounced in his presence, was sufficient TO
bripg about this extraordinary phenomenon. One
could scarcely say whether he lived more on earn or
in heaven" By sending this saint upon earth, where
urcrs seems to have wished to protest against doubt
and rationalism, and the history of his life comes
OPPORTUNITY it adds, as reply to modern sceptcism'
Conc BLuSDERIsGs OF THE FREScH.-Ihatnewiy.
elected member Of the French Academy who, last
wear, uttered philippe against our myrad-mnded
dramatist. who described Shakespeare as an over
rated man, and seriously alluded to him as the great
Williams" eminently illustrated kind of comic
Numbering in which our Gallo neglbors singulary
excel. When in the late parliamentary discussion on
the budget Mr.. Gladstone spun mesh Of words
round the Chancellor Of the Exchequer, Paris jour
nal lie ConstdutioHndJ Informed It's readers mat
member subsequently rose TO defend the Lord Chan
cellor But biunders such these fall far short OF
one which recently appeared Ill series OF scientific
memoirs now publishing at Paris (Memorlats H,stor-
tone des Celebrates d des N0td6itdts/. The HE o.
Mr. B,oderip the naturalist forms the subject of the
particular biography to which we alude. His elation
at finding himself celebrated in Paris Is decatey sur
missed and faithful and scientific portrait promised
10 the reader How he was the of a medical prac
titioner is told his honorable alluded to, and
the intrepdty and zeal displayed by him during the
cholera epidemcs faithfully recorded But in men,
tonng the scientific works OF this accomplished natu
rat bis biographer relates that he contributed TO the
Onarterly Rerie,r an article lie Traae de Ia Con-
sfruction des Points du DR.. Buckidnd." We need
hardly mention that this essay the construction OF
bridges owes its existence TO the French authors mode
Of translatng DR.. Bucklands famous " Bridgerater
Treatise" The Lancet.
A New PoIsos.-M. de Luca has just communi-
Gated to the Academy of Sciences the discovery of the
poisonous principle Of the cyciamen EuropGum, or
common sowbread. This tuberculous plant has long
been used in medicine violent purgatlve and ex-
tenay as a resovent aud remedy for the ear-ache;
but il was not known that it contained powerful
poson, producing effects not unlike those OF the
curara, which the Indians OF the kio Negro use TO
poson their arrows with. NJ de Luca obtains it by
dgesng the root for A days III alcohol then pounding
the root digesting il again in fresh quantity OF
alcohol and repeating this process until the pulp had
lost its acrid taste. AL the tnctures thus OBJ
ton in cellar. At the end Of about forty
DAYS wbitish substance is deposited, which,
after being repeatedly washed IN boiling al
coho i, left to dry in the dark. The cyclamine, or
vegetable base Of the cycamen, thus produced is
white opaque and brittle and eHnts no particular
smell it absorbs the humidity of the air, becomes
TRANSPARENT ana gelatinous in water, and assumes q
dark color when exposed TO the action of light. 1t is
curious fact that, while pigs can eat any quantity OF
the root with mpuny, not only the active principle
itself but even the natural juice of the root, acts
poison on small fish, if mixed with the water in which
thew are in the proportion of to 5000 -Four grammes
of the Juice injected into the trachaa of rabbit caused
it to die in commissions in the course Of ten minutes
Bromne appears to be antdote to this poison or at
least to mitigate its effects considerably; has the
sane neutrulizng power over the curara poison.
A BLOODY REvoLUTros.-A South African journal
in speaking of recent revolution among the Zulus
says that the most careful calculations formed by
persons intimately acquainted with the Zulu country
and with current events represent the total loss Of
human life at not less than one hnsdred M0nsdHd IN
Gliding of course the women and the children, who
form large proportion Of the whole And this fses and
cbildrsn-,hoys in fightful coiors the demoniacsl
character Of this revolving and horrible butchery.