The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-23
FELIs OATES ON THE RECENT DIS
COvERIEs.

Mr.. Edaor-since the recent failure to strike
water, and the unparalleled success in striking
gas, trust people have been brought to q sense
Of the proximity of that place where Orpheus
was in the habit of passing his summers.
Invent in there myself the other day-not where
Orpheus went, but into the rear premises of Mr.
knights establishing nt, on Gravier street. Being
q chemical gent chemical agents are no strangers
to me, especially when dedacible from crucible.
(Is that excusabe y wanted notion of the
pacific gravity Of that combustible subterraneous
exhalaiion.
first applied my nasal organ TO the tube. The
odor which rose was not that of a tube rose by
any means. Now, Mr.. Editor. I've wandered by
the brooksde in war times, whea festooning eau
cusses Of defunct equines lined the path, diasing
tieir genieel sweetDess on the crcumjacent stmos-
pbere I've rambed occasionally out toward Gal
vez Canal in fly time, or to slaughierhouse Point
ct esrly dawn; all the classic free-stinks and
syllybubs OF this meatiropolis have frequented,
and even visited the saussgemakers in their lairs
C"Abs, have thee on string''-shakspeare
but all these txperierc-s fade into mellifaous
noihiDes in comparison with the fragrance which.
as the poick tays, came up through thar pipe from
the dark unfafhoned caves.
at once proceeded to make a mental analysis.
At fret IL occurred to me, recalling certain ride
on wet night in a Louisiana Avenue car, that the
sibillated extract of saturated shoe leather
entered largely into its composition, and this
opinion was strengthened by the suggestion of
bystander that the odor came from the foot Of the
pipe. But told him that the foet was bootless
one, and he told me that my investigations would
be ditto, and looked at him. and he said, "0h
NO Oates, old fellow, it's all right. / was only
gae-sipg.r There's too much of that sort of
thing going on around here" 1 replied curtly,
accepting a pressing invitation to adjourn to the
Caffy Imperial.
On my return to the diggi-gs, found man
who bad come all the way from Dissenson parish
to see the gas well. To see well, he wore double
convex lenses. He proposed. he said, to intro
duce this style OF gas into his parish and also into
DiscoIdia and Presumption. i made light of this.
He said that was exactly what he proposed doing
told him it wouldn't do to introduce the gas into
quired. (" Because" said 7. !" il escapes too
easiy." "Smok err ssidEthe Dssensionist ''No,
thank you,v / answered, " only occasionally in-
dulge In pipe at tx )nights. ~
Then. spurning further frivolity. and mindful of
my responsibilities TO the scientific world as pres
Animal Creations and for Geologistc Disembow-
e,ments, dropped line into the pipe; the line
was not in meter; the meter was close by, how
ever.
The result Of my investigations may in brief be
summed up as follows: o. 8. IA, II. A. 7. "a,
M. U. ID. 3, Fl. o.. 2. Pyroligneous decomposures
underlying the great snbsirata of social existence
Illuminated in the departed centuries Of the future
bave extructiied antedeluvian vegetation, evolv-
ing gas which, by reference TO NEUROLOGICAL
chemists. ibd to be Identical with that contained
10 the wind bags of fous. E,f
further test gives the following analysis:
Old thee. "a
Tobacco suiss
hro. 81
100
You're, in the cause of science,
NJ