New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-09
Garts and efittions.

the discovery OF new dish does more for the hap
piness of the human race than the discovery OF a
star, and we readily believe it, we must place yatsf
above all astronomers, present. past and future.
Yatel was the Careme of his day, and steward
beyond approach. Els culinary genius gained him
such a reputation, that the most celebrated gas
Economists of the age of Louis XIV. disputed for
him. The Superintendent, Foaquet charged him
with the management Of the splendid fetes which
he gave to the court, at his estate at Yaux whore
ne expended eighteen millions.
Later, Vatel went into the service of the Prince
de CondG, In 1871, Cond6 being visited at Chan
tilIy by the King of France exhorted;h hs accom-
plished steward to distinguish himself he never
before had, and to prepare repast worthy of the
rank ofhis royal guest. Vatet omittsd ncshing to
show himself on the very pinnacle of his reputa-
ton; unfortunately the tide di not rise iD time,
and the effect on which he had calculated failed
him. Vatel, in despair, plunged his sword into his
heart. Madame de Ssyign6 has related this tragic
story in of her letters in very piqucalte style.
And, now, this is the style in which NJ. Dsbadie
destroys this romance Of the cuisine
Let US state, however, that the suicide CT WaSel
has been explained in another msnner. Some
chroncIers assure us that Vatel was distr&Utedyy
enamored of lady of the court. He declarsds his
passion to her the very day of the fate, and the
pain Of finding himself repalsed neryed his ar1E'to
self destruction
We always thought the ordinary anecdote about
Vatel rather fshy, and so, now, it would seem to
be-
CHANCE FoR ENTERPREsrSs DARKrBs.-7Os0.
algators, we are informed, have been pur-
chased in the neighborhood of the city for ship
ment to ireland by the British steamer. They are
of pretty good growth, and were bought4rom
contraband at the rate of g so per foot. Some
enterprising men might make this example the
basis of thriving trade. Algators' Skins fas and
oil, are already known to have marketable value
why may the animals not be bred and huntedfor
them?
1t seems rather odd, though, that these reptiles
should be sent to the land of st. Patrick,
especially if with any such view as that just
limited at. What hullabaloo it would kick up
were couple of these creatures to be found dis
porting themselves some fns megning in the
neighborhood of the lake of Killarney Och
weirasthru Wouldn't the world be coming to
an end
| The introduction of a few harmless snakes some
years ago nearly effected that result already, as
related in the following quotation from the Book
of Days:
''In 1881, Mr.. James Cleland, an Irish gentle
man, being curious to ascertain whether the eli
mate or soil of Ireland was naturally destructive
to the serpent tribe, purchased halls dozen of the
common, harmless English snake (aatrar torquatd)
in Covent Garden market in London. Bringing
them to Ireland, he turned them ont in his garden
at Rath gael, in the county of Dewn and in q weeH
afterwards one of them was killed at Milecross
about three miles distant. The persons int
whose hands this strange monster fell, had no
the slightest suspicion that it was q snake, but con
sidering it curious kind of eel, they tool
it to DR., J. L. Drummond, a celebrated lrst
naturalist, who at once pronounced the animal to
be reptile and not fish. The idea of rale
living sarpnt having been killed within a short
distance of the very burial place of ST. Patrick
caused an extraordinary sensation of alarm among
the country people. The most absurd rumors
were freely circulated and credited One far-see
ing clergyman preached a sermon, in which he
cited this unfortunate snake as token of the inn
mediate commencement of the millenniuna while
another saw in tia type of the approach of the
cholera morbus. Old prophecies were raked up,
and all parties and sects for once, united in be-
lieving that the snake foreshadoWed the begin
ming of the end though they widely differed
as to what that end was to be. Some more
practically minded persons, however, subscribed
a considerable sum of money, which they offered
in rewards for the destruction of any other snakes
that might be found in the district. And three
more of the snakes were notlong afterwards killed
within few miles of the garden where they were
liberated. The remaining two snakes were nevel
very clearly accounted for but no doubt they alst
fell victims to the reward. The writer, who resided
in that part of the country at the time, well re
members the wild rumors among the more Hitter
ate classes, on the appearance of those snakes
and the bitter feeling of angry indignation ex
pressed by educated persons against the-ver.
fortunately then unknown-person, who had dare
to bring them to Ireland"
= Now fancy what would be the effect of lettin
q loose few live aligators in similar neigh
= borhood
/, EARLY REFoRM.-A down east exchange has tn
a following interesting paragraph:
:, Moses Heard, of South Thomaston, is seventy
four years of age, has not drunk drop of liquO
since he was three years old, and has risen before
the sun every morning for forty years.
Surely the history of Moses ought to be incol
porateG among the little books published for tn
4 adfcation and moral improvement of the lttl
papooses of this continent and the darling pcaDiT
if MES of Abeokuta and the rest of Ethiopia. Wht
n, picture might not be drawn of little "Boze," q
I'd during the first three years of his life he wei
m through the various stages of getting brilliant
ot elevated, gloriously tight ToodIeishly tips.
drunk as a lord, sold to whisky, and disgustingl
in besotted and then Of his solemn and resolu
II determination on his third birthday to reform
e. Why, there would never be another, whiskt
c. bibber under three years old in the world; c
Il. pecially when it observed that his example
en- subsequent abstinence extended over long
h. term than that allotted as the life Ofman and til
-v thirty years of this experience sufiCed to make
y early riser of him. Will not some phanthropic p
ae take up the subject of Moses Heard
ng ,s-----
Is Messrs, j. B. Walton & Deslonde sell this day,
dy II o'clock NJ, at the Merchants and Auctionee
he Exchange, an attractive list of bank stocks a
re- notes, insurance scrip of the different insurar
companies of this city, stock in the Odd Fello'
I'd, Hall association, and unmproved property
of Greenyine, one square from the Carrollton r
Ter road.
ls' PRECoCIoUs DEBAUCHERY IN FRANCE, = I
the work from the pen of NJ. Jules Simon, EMIT
Via, " LIE Travail which has just appeared in Pa
glv appear the following statements Of the cOndi
- of the children of workingmen in some parts
az France:
led Even in France there are towns where Wor
his rival men in habits of intoXiCatiOn. At Lille,
,iob Ruuen, there are some so saturated with it
their infants refuse to take the breast OF a so
Dy woman. In the mountains of the Vosges inf
he'd drink eau-deyie, On Sunday, in the Churcl