The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-08 00:00:00

TRE I,IURPOOI STANDARD.

A FACT IN. BOTANY.—The eminent botanist, Will-
denow, remarks, that it is by the agency of insects alone
that the flowers of the aristolochia clematitis can be fer-
tilised, although they are bi-sexual. The throat of the
flower is fringed with a pile of delicate hairs, which have a
uniform direction downwards—they have been compared
to a well-known variety of the mousetrap—into this snare
the insect heedlessly plunges, and having satisfied its
appetite it makes the attempt to get out amain, but in
vain. It thus remains a close prisoner, and buzzes to and

;ma, anal tt

object intended by it

The flower then

ls to relent

the process
speedily re-

y again

-People's Journal,

It is not

general

hat the CM-
s by the

silk stocking

nerallv r

in Europe previous to

large quantity of cotton stockings

COMPARATIVE NUTRITIVE
BROWN BREAD AND WHITE

The solid parts of the human body consist, principally,
of three several portions : the fat, the muscle, and
the bone. The2e three substances are liable to constant
waste in the living body, and therefore must be con-
stantly renewed from the food that we eat. The vegetable
food we consume contains these three substances al-
most ready formed. The plant is the brickmaker. The
animal voluntarily introduces these bricks into its stomach,

ports them to
hem into thei

parts of t

3n of th

be body

mill throws into the hopper the u
with, by the involuntary movemc

caves in his several sa
middlings, the pollard
body, by a still more re;

and- deposited here, th

nea sepal
MUSCUI

)ony material in a third locality, v

stored up, but where its p

fluid parts of the I

ame substances in a liquid fOrm, on their way to or from

in them,

saved

soup, or Epsom sal
our doctors delialit to vex

n the pie

matter which

food must be the most nourishing which supplies all thes.
lients of the body most abundantly on the whole, o
t suited to the actual wants of the in

In proportions r
dividual animal to which it is giver
question, then, in regard to this point between the brown
bread and the
wheat ? T

white--the fine flour
grain of wheat con:
er is familiar—the in

ld the who.

which the mi:
that covers it.
the skin, whe

of two parts, witt

The in

grain and the skin
grain gives the pare wheat flour ;

ated, for

cannot entirely peel off

Drne of it is.unavoidably ground up with his fl

fting, I

.paratcs it more or less co

, owing their colou

the propor-

tion of brown I=ran that has passed through the sieve along
with the flour. The whole meal, as it is called, of which
the so-named household tread is made, consists of the en-
tire grain ground up together—used as it comes from the
mill-stones unsifted, and therefore containing all the bran.
The first white flour, therefore, may be said to contain no
, • 1 1 / • _ _ll ,1 A.-

1 contains all tha

he com

.h do th

body ? How muc
grain.-1

the several constituents of
la of each is contained also i

t: Of th

of the whol

28 lb, fin

So that the hi-an is much richer in fat I
part of the grain, and the whole grain
(whole meal) richer than the finer p

m of thes

n the whole

and together

't of flour in the

proportion of nearly one-half.--2. The muscular matter:
I have had no opportunity as yet of ascertaining the rela-
tive proportions of this ingredient in the bran and fine
flour of the same sample of grain. Numerous experiments,
however, have been made in my laboratory, to determine
these prop6rtions in tbefine flour and whole seed ofseveral va-
rieties of grain. The general result of these is, that the
whole grain uniformly contains a larger quantity, weight
for weight, than the fine flour extractd from it does. The

particular resu
were as follows

is in the case of v
:—A thousand

n than corn

pounds of the whole g

and of the fine flour contained of muscular matter respec
tively,— Whole grain. Fine flour
Wheat 156 lb 130 lb
Indian Corn