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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1888, 21 January 1875, Page 3

* A reporter of the I^ew Orleans Picayune lias evidently accoEplished a sensation. Near St. Bernard market, in that city, he discovered what appeared to be a spotted negro, but,who, upon investigation, proved to be a Nprwegian sailor strongly infused with Camhodian blood. While sick in Singapore many years ago, a physician, to prevent his dying of paralysis, infused into^his>vje|ns%he bldod of a Siamese boatman fromfCambbdiak It restored animation to his frame, renewed his lease of life, but entailed the fearful alteration to a! black instead of a white skin. Since then the man has steadily" grown blacky and two of his children, ;born—sftme" the"^medical~experiiacirtr-was made, are deeply tainted with the Cambodian blood,^presenting all the .characteristics of the half breeds of that race. If the reporter's diagnosis of the case is correct, it is possible that a transfusions of« blood may do for bur colored fellow-citi-zens what miscegenation has. failed to accomplish, The blacks ought to be able to turn white as well as whites black. In that case the time may not be distant when all of our Southern, statesmen of the colored classes will be radiant blondes.

. Our young readers have a big task before them, if this calculation of ; the amount of food eaten by a man in ia half century be correct, v but'they need ) not be discouraged, and, should take things leisurely. He weuld have to climb; a good sized hill to overlook the articles ; for; they comprise 30 oxen, 200' sheep, 100 calves, 200 lambs, 50 p^igs, 1,200 chickens, 3,000 turkeys, 19,3 pigeons, 140 pounds of salom, 150 pounds of other fish, 30,000 oysters, 5443 pounds of vegetables, 243f pounds of butter, 24,000 eggs,: 4| tons of bread, 3,000 • gallons of tea and besides tons- of fruit,; barrels of sweatmeats, and hogsheads of water. .