New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-02-04

CHARACTERISTICS Or THE aapIssaE
John MITCHELL in his last letter from Paris to The
Irish News. Mrites

John MITCHELL in his last letter from Paris to the
Irish News. writes:
Swarms Of students of all nattans-not ii few
Americans among then1-people the g Latin Guar
ter, where the SorboEne and College de France
and the Museum of the Jafdin des PIantes, have
multfarious lectures every day upon all branches
of human knowledge and speculation. Some Of
lecturers are amongst the most celebrated names
in European science and literature, and to secure
good seat in of the large lectnring halls, If the
subject be popular one, and the lecturer also,
you must attend at least half an hour before the
appointed time. Inside the old quadrangle az the
sorbonne you enter great hall able to contain
an audience of at least twelve hundred. 1t ii filled
up to the doors with students and strangers of all
nations; but no lecturer yet appears; the crowd
being all in high health and spirits cannot alto
gether await his coming in solemn silence, like
Quaker meeting there IS need Of noise and move
ment, and above all, Il Jatas dr,lusea.
At first there Is very general stamping Of feel.
IN time and measure. Next lily around bon naots
and slang expressions in divers tongues, mingled
with limitations Of the cries Of various animals from
the growing OF q cock TO the believing Of q cow
all received with inexhaustible laughter, suddenly
arises cry of Ah--h-h! with information Of deep
and painful surprise and earnest deErecatl0n- IL Is
the entrance Of gentleman with 4 white hat; the
cry is repeated by thousand throats, in such
tone OF horror and dismay that IS evident a the
finer feelings Of the human heart are outraged by
the appearance of that white hat Then somebody
ventures to say hush instantly efsry tongue ii
brought close to the palate, and the whole house
resounds for q minute or two with hlsh-sh-sh!
making such universal hiss as Satan never heard
in the Halls Of Pandemonium when lie rose to adj
dress the chair. So that YOU perceive youngsters
in all lands behave about the sort Of way in
given circumstances but now 0 door opens; M.
St Marc Grardin enters with his papers; there j
one round of hearty applause, and dead silence;
and the eminent lecturer proceeds for an hour I'd
treat of French satrieal literature, amidst the deep
| est attention.
1t is evident that at least three-fourths Of The
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| Germans, English, Irish and American. OBJ
| served, also, one bright mulatto, and one utter
| negro, diligently taking notes"
COUNTED NasEs.-T Virginia penehant for see
ing bloeded horses in motion, is well illustrated By
an anecdofe told at Petersburg. Mr.. Boswell,
Sheriff of Hamilton county, seeing old Larkey
White, an ex-member of the Jockey Club, but now
a member OF the baptist Church. On The quarter
stretch during the recent races At Ashland, Va, lo-
cnseiy remarked to him
Why, Col. White, they'll turn Yeu ont Of church
for being here
If they do, said Earkin, they II turn out Tins.
ley, yonder, rom the Methodist Church. ~ so
and see him..
Accordingly, Tarkin went and stated the ease ia
his neighbor, who, BY the way. stanmers badly.
I Oh replied Tinsley. I've got fisseaa Sure
thing of 1T I've ca-ennnted nnoses ana there's q
ma ma majority OF the church on the track
. sTRYeHsIaE n ALeoHeIlc LIaueas.--nr. Henri
Ern in an article in the peniasnfar and Indeucn-
dent Medical Journal denies that yohnia ii ever
used for the adateration Of alcoholic Iaaorsfisst,
because itWoald be detected III IL intensely bitter
Taste, which i evident when dissolved il seven
hundred thousand parts OF water: second. BECAUSE
of It's high cost; third because il il d most dan
geraas peison, and one which, unlike most organic
olseas, can be readily detected hy chemical fests
WITH regard 70 malt liquors. Pr Erui states that
tbs faisen eahnot be introduced into them together
with hops, slnee the fannie atid. which these az
ways contain, preeipitates stfyeAni completely III
the form e N iIlsnlahle compound As sahsG
tnte for hops. il would be much iess likely ID be
employed thaa alees and many other bitter drugs,
on account Of is high price.