The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-11-17
OUR PECK OF DIRT.

"What fellow you are, Routitout, can't
sou let US enjoy our breakfast in peace -
good Lumoretly renarked handsome Fred.
as he balanced On the end Of bis fork the
bright purple end of polony a. a bachelor's .
breakfast table.
Now old Routitout wasn't bit of 4 cur
mudgeon, but when he took up any subject
nothing could induce him to let it 60, until.
like puppy with new rug, be had tugsed
i, to pieces. The report of the debate in the
House Of Commons, on the aduteration of
food, had, unluckily, Just caught hl. eve, and
accordingly he weat into the subject, with
which he was really well acquainted, with
us much gusto rs Tom Sayers, a week ago,
went in at the Benicia Boy.
sslt's all very well to say, dom care for
adulteration," ;" he authoritatively exclaimed,
shut you must this breakfast table is built
up Of authorizations take that polony YOU
think so spicy, what will you say to tind
your toes rotting of in month or two, like
an old post in the damp ground 20
''C9me, that won't do, old fellow: WHY
should we take in the dry rot with German
sausages 7"
any dear boy, tha. is precisely what you
must take your chance of, if you will eat
v,
in all probability that sausage is made from
pu.rid meat-you may always suspect bad
meat where there is high seasoning. and
there are hundreds of instances on record Of
people rottiug away their extremites, fr ON
eating these putrid German sausages.'
We all looked up; Bob Saunders in his
amazement split spoonful of yolk down
| his handsome whiskers, and there was a gen
eral pause. There is nothing like opening
| a conversation with startling fact and this
| old Routitout knew full well, and proceeded
| to take instant advantage Of the sensation
| he had created.
"Fact !" said he; "here is an accoun,
| {pulling an old German newspaper out OF
| his pocket) of three German students who
gradually rot,ed away from eating putrid
sausages at Heidleburg."
| swell, they may keep their polonies for
me, said Bob, ''Fll stick to eggs; what car
! you make of them, old fellow?''
"Why, in all probability, the one YOU are
eating ought to have been By this time a
/ andfather. Laid in some remote villages
! Of France this time last year, it has lain ever
since picked in lime water. The antiquity
Of your London eggs is marvellous. They
come over here by the million at time and
you don't suppose the continental hens hold
monster meetings to suit the time Of the
exporter
81 wish you would turn the conversation" !"
Bob replied. 81 taste the lime quite strong
and must wash it down with a cup of coffee
"Bean -four you mean," replied his tor
mentor, "and possibly something worse.
just turn it over in your mouth again, and
see If there is sawdust smack in it. The
fine dark Mocha you get in the New Cut for
instance. is adulterated with mahogany
sawdust.o
My friend Ned Allen, bit of heavy
swell. who affected now and then to admire
a plebiau thing, struck in here in his lisping
way:
swell, must declare, the finest cup of
coffee ever tasted was at four O'Clock in
the morning Mt an itinarant coffee stand,
after Lads Charlotte's ball--'twas really
isliciousi"
saw old Routitout's eye twinkle, as
mnch as to sav, now thou art delivered into
my hands. Fine body in it, eh! Such a
hesssy doggy man as you should have recog-
nIzed the flavor Of" &c.
"Whas do you mean! - exclaimed Ned.
"oh! nothing, nothing no doubt you felt
singing after the old skuhint's supper and
wanted some animal food"
"Auimal food in ceifee, prepos.wousi'
"4Ah my dear friend, don't like TO dis
turb your equanimity, but il is noted fact
that the strong coifees used by the itinerant
useiby the itinerant get their flavor from the
hackers yards. There are manufacturers
over in the borough, where they dry and
pulvsrizs horses blood for the sake of adul-
,esating cheap coffee and then the cream
in yaur coffee at penny cup why,
simple enough; they thicken it with calves
brains. II you don't believe me, read .Rugs
on London Mix aud see wha. be found IN
it with his microscope"
"Weli, I'm safe, thsn." iuserposed, ssas
l never touch anything bat the very best
grsen."
"Tnat's Just the mistake you reading men
always make" be replied. dare say you
inaoeently believe thai green tea is made oil
the young tender leaves Of the plant, bn:
the real truth is, il is black tea, painted
painted and bloomed like worn out old
bag.
Old RoasitoGs dipped his huge fst into tn.
eadiy and took ous a handful of Young Hy-
con and held it sideways TO the light on his
open hand: 'sDa you see that beautiful
pearly green color, that's called the glaze
mixture Of turmeric and Prussian blue,
Think, my dear fellow, Of the dose Of pei.