quelque prince pour marque d'estime et de bienveillance. Ce jour-la, la
station se fait a Sainte Croix de Jerusalem. Le Pape, accompagne des
cardinaux, vetus de couleur de rose, marche en cavalcade a l'eglise,
tenant la Rose d'Or a la main. Il la porte, allant a l'autel, charge de
baume et de mare. Il la quitte au 'Confiteor,' et la reprend apres
'l'Introite.' Il en fait la Benediction, et apres l'Evangile, il monte
en chaise et explique les proprietes de la rose. Apres la Messe il
retourne en cavalcade a son palais, ayant toujours la Rose en main et
la couronne sur la tete. On appelle ce Dimanche 'Pascha rosata,' ou
'Laetare.'

"Nous avons encore un sermon du Pape Innocent III., compose en cette
occasion, an commencement du treizieme siecle. Le Pape Nicholas IV., en
1290, dans le denombrement qu'il fait des eglises qui doivent des
redevances a l'eglise de Rome, met le monastere de Sainte Croix,
diocese de Basle, qui doit deux onces d'or pour la Rose d'Or, qui se
benit au Dimanche Laetere, Jerusalem."

P. P. P.

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NOTES ON SERPENTS.

(Vol. ii., p. 130.; Vol. vi., p. 177.--Vol. iii., p. 490.; Vol. vi., pp.
42. 147.)

Loskiel, in his account of the Moravian missions to the North American
Indians[5], tells us that,--

"The Indians are remarkably skilled in curing the bite of venomous
serpents, and have found a medicine peculiarly adapted to the bite of
each species. For example, the leaf of the Rattlesnake-root (_Polygala
senega_) is the most efficacious remedy against the bite of this
dreadful animal. God has mercifully granted it to grow in the greatest
plenty in all parts most infested by the rattlesnake. It is very
remarkable that this herb acquires its greatest perfection just at the
time when the bite of these serpents is the most dangerous....
Virginian Snake-root (_Aristolochia serpentaria_) chewed, makes also an
excellent poultice for wounds of this sort.... The fat of the serpent
itself, rubbed into the wound, is thought to be efficacious. The flesh
of the rattlesnake, dried and boiled to a broth, is said to be more
nourishing than that of the viper, and of service in consumptions.
Their gall is likewise used as medicine."--P. 146.

Pigs are excepted from the dreadful effects of their bite; they will even
attack and eat them. It is said that, _if a ra