Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-05-13
l follow'd where they led,
ANIMAL SUGAR.

The French are an ingenious people; none are
more so. They are but little behind the rest of
mankind in anything, and greatly ahead of them
with respect to some things. They are the greatest
people IN the world at revolution making, and
rather the worst in the world, we think at govern
ment making. They can unmake a government
and send It adrift in day, an hour. The rcyo-
luton against Louis Philippe required but few
minutes to be complete. But after about sixty
hye years OF experiment, and after fifteen or twenty
trials, they have at last achieved nething but n
military despotism founded on universal suffrage
about the most anomalous government now in ex-
lstenee. But still the people seem TO be satisfied
with 1t, either because they think they might 20
further and fare worse, or because, being govern.
ment OF their own choice, so they saw they make
1t point Of honor to respect and obey it, All the
parties except the party in power-the Bonapart-
ists-seem to be completely paralyzed if not anni-
hilated. Legitmsts, Orleansts, Republicans. and
Socialists of all colors-all seem to have given up
the contest II not the ghost and in the presence of
Louis Napoleon's star to hide their diminished
heads. The fortunes Of the only party in which
we take any interest-the Republican-are at a
very low ebb. We give up republicanism in
France as lost cause for the next fifty years. But
yet the time will come-it comes slowly-that all
W mestern Europe will be republican, we think if
the Gear should not succeed in utterly DESTROYING
the germs of free inquiry and Of revolutionary
ideas. Even Spain Portugal and Naples, will
wake up some day, and fling off their oppressors.
Like Rip Van Winkle they sleep sound and sleep
long, nut the longest nap must be followed by a
waking up. We do not undertake to say when all
this is to be done. 1t will not be in our day, we
are sure; but It will be, probably within century,
whlch, In the life OF nation, is not q very great
period. But If Nicholas succeeds in Russianizing
all Europe it will all be indefinitely postponed.
This is our preface TO another matter, which is
the recent discovery in France of new method of
manufacturing sugar. Out of what, do you think
Some vegetable, or if not, some mineral substance
Mo- out OF certain very well known LIQUID
which is neither rare nor redoent, and which we
cannot name except by circumlocution, us doing so
would Ibe offensive to "ears polite" 1t is yery
strange, and very curious; but with a pretty cir
cumstantial account of the discovery now before
us in French journal, do not feel at liberty TO
doubt the main fact. Sugar, it seems, is pretty
literally diffused through the human system There
is good deal of it in the blood, which not being
all consumed in the capllaries- burned according
to the received theoryit passes through the liver
and kidneys, and finally out of the system, and
then falls into the hands of the chemist who pro-
duces from the unsavory residuum sugar as white
as snow, and as pure, which is no sham, no coun-
terfeit but genuine, yertable sacharine product,
as has been tested by the distinguished sdrant. M
Boussngault who both smelled and tasted it--a
true experimentalist tastes and smells everything
and pronounced it TO be unchallengcable DE
gttstibus non dispUtdHdum est
| This sacharine secretion when abundant is n
morbid one. Ii takes place ia a good many dis
eases-consumption, hysteria, epilepsy, pleursy,
asthma, bronchitis diabetes, &c. But diabetes is
the disease that furnishes by far the greatest
quantity OF sugar, In consequence Of the enormous
amount of the secretion. NJ. Thenard, the account
says, manufactured loaf of sugar of fifteen kilo-
grammes lneary thirty-one pounds) from the ex-
cretions OF one diabetc patient. IL is not stated
what length Of time it required to collect the liquid
or what was the proportion between it and the SUI
gar obtained.
This saeharne secretion seems to take place
under the influence Of certain nerves for, upon
dividing the two pneumogastric nerves Of rabbit
the sacharine matter disappeared from the liver In
Ia few hours. On the other hand it can be artific
ally produced Gd ibihtR, il seems according 10 NJ
Demands experience. lie SAYS that there is a
portion Of the spinal marrow which, if injured
causes the secretion. This portion lies between the
origin of the pneumogastric and OF the acoustic
nerves; aud by puneturing IL with sharp nstru-
ment before very long the whole system-the blood
and all the secretions-will he snrcharged with the
sugary principle. lie made the experiment on
dogs and rabbits but il would succeed MS well, we
suppose, with other animals. |
This is very curious il true; and, AZ the writer
of the article says, Il may set enterprsng persons
TO considering whether the discovery may not lead |
to the establishment Of new and profitable manu-
faeture, and whether the rabbit may not become /
the rival of the sugar cane and beet root. We be- /
gin to think about renouncing tea and coffee, and
everything else in the way Of eating and drinking
with which sugar Is used for though we are fond Of
il, the association Of IDEAS" as Uncle Toby said
about another matter TO which il leads, is very
potent dissuasiye.-- Wash Globe. 10