The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-01-21

and his position may be affected. There died
not long ego gentleman, who, up to bis death
had been paying 1000 year for his house
and could leave nothing for his family. He took
it when times were flush and did MT give it up
In London, where rents are higher than any
where except New York, no one has paid such
q rent as this since Lord Paimerston, when
Prime Minister, paid the same Gum for Cam
bridge House in Piccadlly. He was cbildless.
eighty, had an income of eco 600 year in real
estate and salary, and his wife had upward of
EGO, 900 year more London men with f100,-
600 year in the most solid securities are con
tent with houses rented at 81 600 year. The
Londen rents Of the two ricbest men in Epgla
did not amount TO 81 600 Their property was
worth $50, 900 600.
The town of Gbeel in the province of Ant
werp, has been for Six centuries an abode of
madmen. There are IL 600 inhabitants in the
place, and they have charge of 800 lunatics
from abroad, who are among the families, and
are treated with great consideration. The
children from youth are familiarized with the
business, and all the people know how TO man
age those committed TO their charge. One OF
the greatest social punishments that can be in
fcted on family Is to de clare that it is unfit
to receive such bosIders. The lunatics are
disposed of among the inhabitants according
to their wealth or station, the better families
receiving the weather. patients. Tho cures
average. it is said, from 60 to as to the hun
dred. Gheel is divided into four districts, each
with it's overseer and physician. Large sums
of money are spent in the place by the pa
tiente, and families generally are desirous of
having one or more lunatics on their hands.
A belief in color. poisoning by means of
green dresses and green wall papers has already
been forced upon the public by some tolerably
conclusive evidence; bat it seems that the mis-
chievons propensities of this color are far from
being yet fully exposed A French savant, n.
Paul Bert, has just exhibited against it articles
of impeachment of the graves character, sup
ported by reports of o whole series of startling
experiments. If this theory is true, it is not
only the arsenic used in producing the color
which does the injury, but the actual color
itself; and q mere ray of green light is capable
of affecting the health of the person exposed to
it, apart from all aid afforded to it by the smell
or presence of arsenic. To demonstrate this
alleged fact, M. Bert has submitted several
specimens of the sensitive plant to rays of diff
ferent colors thrown upon them through stained
glass, and in every those which were
u ca ted to the most brilliant green light with
cred and died in the shortest time. In those
plants which were exposed to q red light Pc
culiar phenomenon was observed the tips
spikes of the leaves prolonged themselves and
grew forward in q lean and hungry fash on
horizontally with the branch from W bich they
sprang; while in blue light the contrary eft
feet was produced the spikes standing out
abru pity and perpendcularly from their stem.
On one of the plants being enclosed in o sort of
lantern, having red glass on one side and green
on the other, instead of shrinking away from
the poison on the right to the roseste antidote
on their left, the leaves, if by fatal fascina
ton, turned with one consent the other way
and literally looked death in the face.