Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1846-01-24

it would he the height Of folly to at
tempt to reduce Vesuvius by applying
a truss to the crater, although the truss
would soon be reduced to ashes.
The bladder is a round kind ofmem-
tbrane, made water-tight on purpose
Bladders are principally used for tying
over sweetmeat jars, and for holding
snuff. When filled with naccaboy,
they are very apt to make boy take
them for egg plants; in fact, even a
man is said to be up to snuff, if he can
tell the difference without pinch
Bladders are also used for holding ice,
to make people cold-headed, a Geld
stone, however, will sometimes answer
the same purpose; but stone in the
the bladder is not the philosophers
stone, although Franklin was phi
Ilosopher, and had calculus, which
gave him incalculable pain. Bladdcrs
when protected with covering of
leather. make excellent footballs; but
the ball Of your foot is not bladder,
though protected by leather shoe;nor
are horse shoer's bladders intended for
footballs, though they are covered
with leather aprons, and sometimes
get kicked to death. Some men learn
! to swim with bladders under their
arms; but 5uoys and bladder-fish swim
on their own hooks.
The stomach is good deal like the
bladder, only much larger, though,
strange to say, it will not hold SO much
snuff, or, indeed, tobacco of any Kind.
The stomach is the theatre in which
the gastric juice plays so important a
part in the drama of life; but you can
not see the gastric juice act, even
with pane in your stomach, unless
you are gifted with second sight, or
go into the pit, in which case little
champagne might answer, as that is
said to make US seedouble. StomachS
always have two coats, in which re-
spect they are better off than some
patrons Of the drama, who, even if
they own one, seldom have it on in
the pit. But the pit of the stomach is
nothing like the pit Of the Chatham
theatre, although Chatham's Pitt was
! said 10 have a theatrical manner. The
coat of females stomach is not a
frock coat, nor is the coat Of mans
/ stomach necessarily coat of mail,
, though it sometimes protects his vitals
against the sings and punches of out
rageous brandy, which are often taken
under the cloak of the stomachache. -
,, The stomach is said to be full when
the coat will not button. Stomach
, pumps are squirts with elastic hose
, that suck pisen things out Of us; but il
, does not follow that every squirt OF
sucker who wears elastic stockings is
stomach pump, even if he sucks pies
, an things out Of us. The digestive
f powers of persons stomach, howev-
er great, afford no certain proof Of his
! courage; for man may eat sword-fish
and torpedoes, and yet be afraid to
handle or face pike; but if he can
relish the official bulletins or bulletings
, of the French Marshall in Algicrs, OF
even digest code of martial law, he
may be said to have Stomach for q
) fight"
, The kidneys are much bigger thar
bees knees, and much the shape Of
kidney beans. When cut into slices
f kidneys make excellent wads for quill
, pop. guns. Schoolboys make mills to
| grind away the intermssion, by putting
kidney and horse-chesnut on opposite
J ends Of stick, to which string is at.
/ tached /; but stoppage of the kidneys
, is very apt to occur, if the master finds
, any mills going during school hours
Kidneys are used in large quantities to
make starch from, but the stiffness of a
r kidney bean pole is not supposed to be
owing TO the starch contained in the
kidney nor is the fact Of man car
rying stiff upper lip, any proof that
he has been eating kidneys. Kidneys
, are good to eat, and are preferred by
many people, to either MERGERS or
Carolinas in fact the kidney may be
/, called the Irish bread or staff of life,
, as the low-bred Irish, and people Of
, that kidney, are almost entirely sup
ported by it but kidney is not a
. swcet-bread, nor is sweet potato a
sugar cane, tho il may sometimes look
rather sticky.
The lungs are couple OF alright
vacancies under the vest. Like pair
! of bellows, the lungs enable US TO raise