New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-01-22

Cehious rACIS.--In dlterence between the skull
OF the domestic hog and wild boar as great as that
between the European and negro skull. Domestcated
animals that have subsequently run wild in the for.
ests after few generations lose all traces Of their
domestlcatlon, and are physically, different from
Is not natural for COW, any more than for other
female animals, to give milk when she has no Young
TO nourlsh. The permanent production OF milk is a
modhed animal function, produced by an artificial
habit. for several generations. In Columbia, the
practice of milking COWS having been laid aside the
natural state Of the function has been restored The
secretion Of mlh continues only during the sucking
OF the CALI and is only an occasional phenomenon.
II the calf dies, the milk ceases to flow. T.. f.
The barking of dogs is an acquired hereditary in.
stnct supposed to have originated in an attempt to
initiate the human voice. Wild dogs, and domestic
breeds become Wild never bark but howl Cats
night caterwaul" in the wild state in South
America are quite silent.
The hair OF the negro is not wool, but curled and
twisted hair The distinction between hair and wool
is clearly revealed by the microscope.
The dark races have less nervous sensbil;ty than
the white They are not subject to nervous diseases
Ihey sleep sound in every disease nor does any men,
tai disturbance keep them awake. They bear churgi
cal operations much better than the white people,
A certain species OF fungas has been known to at
TAIN the size OF gourd in one night and 1t is calcu
lated that the cellues of which it is composed must
amount to forty-seven thousand millions. If it grew
n twelve hours, this would give four thousand mil
Animacules have been discovered SO small that
one million would not exceed grain of sand and five
hundred millions would sport In drop Of water
Yet each OF these must have blood.vesses nerves.
muscles, circulating fluids, ETC., like large animals
FEMALE SEDrTIoN.-The British press are very dis
tressed with forebodings Of the destruction of the
American Republic, owing to its corruption its furi-
Gus partisan spirit and its low morality, all evils Incl
dent tounversai suffrage. At the same time, we find
the British authorities in ireland moved to an extra
ordinary degree of vigilance and alarm by O secret
meeting OF twelve or fifteen lrishmen at tavern. A
meeting Of one hundred times fifteen Irishmen. in
secret or openly, would scarcely be noticed n this
country, aud certainly attract no attention Of the
government, because no apprehension of mischief is
felt where government rests upon popular suffrage
Ia Ireland and even in England it is very different,
and the slightest popular movement is guarded
against as an impending evil threatening to oyerturn
the government and the social institutions of the
country The most curious feature in this Irish fer.
ment, is, that young lady, described as extremely
delicate" has been committed to prison on charge
OF writing seditious letters. government that can
De endangered by the literary illusions of weak and
debllltated girl, certainly shows more symptoms of
weakness and decay than this young Republic where
men and women may speak, write and print as much
ABUSE OF the government as they choose, privilege
tney are by no means backward in exercising or we
SHOULD not nave 80 many lecturng Jeremahs travel.
ing around the country, amentng over the decadence
y. pannc patriotism, nor read so much lugubrious
twadoie IN the newspapers of the decline in public
morality and private yirtue These have been decIn
ing ever since senity and censoriousness found. in
nee press, ready vehicle through which TO make
their complaints [Phila Ledger. - 80 !
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