The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-12-19

Do You EAT PoRK?-Physician have JUS
| discovered that the tape worm only troubles
those who eat pork. The Gazette Medicale says
that the Hebrews are never troubled with it
that pork butchers are particularly liable to it.
and that dogs fed on pork arc universally so af
flicted, in fact, it turns out thata small parasite
worm, called crysticercus, (from two words
sirnifying small sack and tail, /, which much
affects pork, no sooner reaches the stomach thar
from the change of diet and position it is me-
tamorphosed into the well known tape worm
and the experiments of Mr.. Kuchenmeister, o
Zittora, upon condemned criminal have es
tablished the fact beyond all contradiction.
If you would avoid tape worms, therefore
avoid pork. Look a pig in the face with a calm
consciousness that you are one OF those who
never thirst after his blood. :Eschew sausages
unless you are confident that when you take
them you take, them as you do slippery elm fol
cough-with the bark. Let Cincinnati re-
joice in her name of Porkopois. We. have nc
envy for title Of such tape worm distinction
Her population evidently antedate their disso:
luton, and become "food for worms" even
while yet in the flesh. Theirs is living death,
and the pig that they devour to-day revenges
himself sand in turn devours them with an in
Suitability beyond all parallel. ... aa .ss1
Indeed, we begin to feel horror for a city
that has reputation for slaughter far surpass-
quaint author Of ''the Spoon once observed,
her merchandise is flesh. Her bulletins are oc-
cupied with its sales, and as the market price
rises and falls, so does the value of her real
estate. Her merchants are butchers. Her
stapIeis stearine. Her palaces are built with
the price of blood, and Illuminated at night with
the fat of her slain. Like Babylon, "seated on
many waters, and drunken with Blood" so re-
clines Cincinnati on larger stream than the
Euphrates, clothed in scarlet, and proudly call
ing herself queen of the west Yes, let her
beware Vengeance will not sleep forever.
And when pigs get their rights, she will meat
her deserts. 7.% IN. Y Sunday Times.
u Poor MrIK-The milk of cows kept stabbed
or where the posphate of lime us exhausted,
becomes putrid, and when examined through
a microscope, contains goblets Of corrupted
matter which is only eaten because generally
unknown to exist. The effect of it on infants
and children who useit daily for food, is weak
ness, sickness and premature death. A CHILD
might as we'll be put to nurse in the last stages
of consumption AS to be fed ON such milk. 1z
So great has this evil become that, in some
cities, where COWS are kept for life on slop,
without access to the ground, the sale Of their
milk has been prohibited BY law But how
great must have been the evil how many thou
sands of helpless infants must have been sent
to untimely graves, before the attention of leg
islators was called to the subject! And the
worst of all is that tits the helpless infant who
has neither knowledge nor power to choose,
that is the sufferer. a handful Of bone meal,
put into the food of each COW, two or three
times a week, would partially remedy the evil
Western Agriculturalist
An Irishman, at work on the line of the Mo
bile and Ohio railroad, in Haywood county,
was taken sick lately and applied to a phvsici-
an of that county for medicine. The physician
gave phial of some kind of solution, with di-
rections to take spoonful three times a
day--assuring him it would cure him in day
or two A short time afterwards the physici-
an saw him and asked him if he had taken the
medicine. ssFaith have t. said the Hiberni-
an; Il thought if a tea-spoonful would do me
good, the whole of it would cure me at once"
1t was too true and it was too late to rescue
the ignornt suicide. He died in an hour.
A friend Of ours, says the Mobile Advertis-
er, saysthat he never went to a horse race that
it did not rain, and thinks that if the legisla
ture will institute permanent races in different
parts of the State, pay his travelling expenses
and $4,000 a year to attend them, he can
guarantee good rivers the year round. He
n,1trbt Ia BE enrared for Red River