Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-11-14
yellow skin.

AS the ladies are interested IN Whatever
improves or Injuries the skin, we reproduce
the following speculations on the cause Of
~sallowness of complexion, from the Phlla-
delphia Ledger:
..lf our western friends can in any way
teach their wives. daughters or cooks to
keep The p%earlash out Of Their bread-all
:he yellow PROFESSIONALLY the yellow
children, who are supposed to be turned
yellow by the fever and ague, and bilious
@fevers, will soon be returned white. 1t is
a great mistake to suppose THAT the yellow
countenances Of the West come from bile,
when it is only the enormous quantities of
pearlash eaten in the bread that is reflect
ed through the skin. Bread is the staff or
life, it is said-and so it is-but it is the
staff of death, too, in this country. Bad
bread kills about as many people here as
bad rum. So many people eat poisonous
p%eariash for bread that they die by inches.
Dyspepsia-that great monster disease Of
our country, that deranges the liver, brings
on c~ostiveness, and thus finally kills the hui
UIflJ fiCt lid Ltiii tACt tiuC pSoi @SA
Here in the east-out of New England
we have nearly driven off the pearla,h-
ssleratus cooks, but not altogether. Pearl
ash lives here yet in bread, but 10 cities
and towns We have nearly whipped ont he
nurderets. In the distant western towns,
beyond the good hotels Of the lakes and
riyers-pearIash, under the name of sale
ratus, is king, It is p~earlash for break
fast, p~earlash for dinner, and pearlash for
supper. It is not any wonder, then, the
people Of the East turn yellow West, aud
sicken: not of fever and agae, bilious and
congestive @fevers, but Of pearlash three
times a day
Is CREME on THE INcREAsEeThe Lon
don Times has an article going 10 show
that Notwithstanding the popular opinion
to the contrary, crime is on the decrease
instead Of the increase. 1t concludes its
article as follows:
No doubt, there have been some terri
l,le crimes in the last two years; IL fact,
the relort shows this. Capital sentences
and executions have increased in number,
Though the former result is partly ascriba-
b e, perhaps, TO the disuse of ~transp9rta-
;ion. But in every age there are periods
iof this character, just as in every age there
were great criminals. What renders the
case more striking now is not the tlagraney,
but Tie extraordinary publicity by which
crimes are attended. The moral condi-
ton Of the resembles its sanitary con.
idition. We read with horror OF the eel
lars and lodging houses ia watch uur1an
lcreatires are crammed, and doaht whether
any age was like ouT own The truth is
not that such misery did not exist in past
time, but thati it was UNDECIDED. We now
d. days drag our own failings msllrinsingly
10 light-crimes and filth together, aud if
the conviction Of error is the first step to
truth, our own di$paragetnent of ourselves,
although untounded, may prove one Of the
%s'lrest roads to improvement.
BRAMIN CATrLE.-Among the novelties
on exhibition at the St. Louis Fair were a
: Bramin bull, COW aud calf, the first two
imported from Bramal, hv Mediation and
Eads, of st. Louis county. They sre thus
described:
"Thev arc of a light dun color, with
large tawny spots, and somewhat resemble
common deer in texture and color of skin
a single protaberance just above the shout
der, and long tapping ears, distinguish
them from common cattle; IN other re-
lspccts they are nearly similar. These ans
finals are used in India as beasts of draught
and burden, and also for the saddle. They
vii! travel with a soldier on their backs
fifteen or sixteen hours in the day, at the
rate Of six miles an hour. Their action is
tine, and they bring their hind legs under
them in as straight a line as the horse
! Such is their activity that they can clear a
five barred gate with ease. Their ordinary
gait is easy. Instead of a bit a small cord
is doubled through the g@rissle of the nose,
and to this is attached a stout cord In the
: fashion of a bride, which is kept up by the
hump the animal has on the forepart Of the
back, and which is wanting in our Oxen
The animal is saddled Ike a horse, and
when excited into action, it goes very
! quickly: some, indeed, gallop as well as a
good horse.
REpucrIoN OF WAGEs.-The hard
i. times which are everywhere SO disastrous
E IL affecting labor aud industrial pursuits
+ are not without influence in this vicinity
! The contractors Of the Iron Mountain Rail
{ road, bv the direction Of the Company, we
t are informed, have reduced the wages O
: laborers along the line of that road to sew
epty five cents per diem. Hitherto they
j have received one dollar and a quarter and
one dollar and a half. This movement is
considered to be better than the discharge
: of half the number of their workmen, and
the retention Of the balance Of full or near
! Nv full pay, q course which has been adopt
ed III many instances by employers of la
! borers here and elsewhere. Forsthose who
might haze been discharged,had q contrary
-%nolicy heen adopted by the contractors, the