, 1864-05-20


OUR FooD.-We find the following cred
tied to work called "Medical Common
Sense" which may be appreciated by those
who like and feed on pork three times 8
day, three hundred and sixty-fve days il
the year:
One OF the most common causes of blood
impurities is the use of pork. 1t has been
said that all things were created for some
wise purpose. This is undoubtedly true
but hogs were never made to eat We read
that Christ used them to drown devils they
can never be appropriated to more benef
cent use. AS an article Of diet, pork exerts
a most perniciOus influence on the blood
overlooking it with carbonic acid gas, and
filling it with scrofula. The hog is not a
healthy animal From its birth it is an In
veterate gormandzer, and to satisfy its eter-
nal cravings for food, everything in field OF
gutter, however filthy, finds lodgment in
his capacious stomach. 1t eats filth, wal
lows in filth, and is itself but living mass
of filth. Now, when it is remembered that
all our limbs and organs have been picked
up from our plates-that our bodies are
made up Of the things we have eaten-what
pork-eater will felicitate himself with the
reflection that, according to physiological
teachings, he is physically part hog? We
have been served up at table many times
over. Every individual is literally a mass
Of vivifed viands, he is an epitome of innu-
merable meals; he has dined upon himself,
supped upon himself, and, in fact, paradox
cal as it may appear, has again and again
leaped down his own throat.
The humOral properties, and infammatory
effects which pork imparts to the blood, ac-
tually tend to generate vermin in the sys-
tenn. Grub in the liver, kidneys, lungs, and
other organs, not unfrequently have their
origin in the use of this filthy article of
food. The Gazette Medicale also asserts
that the tape worm only troubles those who
eat pork. 1t further remarks that the He
brews are never troubled with it, that pork
butchers are particularly liable to it, and
that dogs fed on pork are universally so af-
licted-in fact, it turns out that a small
parasite worm, called crysticerous-from
two signifying a small sack and tail-which
much affects pork, no sooner reaches the
stomach, than, from the change of diet and
position it is metamorphosed into the well
known tape-worm; and the experiments of
M. Kuchenmeister, Of Zittoria, made with
great professional care and minuteness of
detail, upon condemned criminal, have es-
tablished the fact beyond contradiction.
GLAss.-Pliny informs us that the art of
making glass was accidentlv disc9yorAd by
some merchants, who were travelling with
nitre, and stopped near river issuing from
Mt. Carmel. Notsfnding anything to rest
their kettles on, they used some pieces of
nitre for that purpose. The nitre gradually
dissolving by the heat, mixed with the sand,
and transparent matter flowed, which was,
in fact, glass 1t is certain that we are very
often more indebted to apparent chance,
than genius, for many of the most valuable
discoveries therefore every one should
keep his eyes and ears open, his thoughts
and feelings awake and active.
The radicals in Kentucky are shallow
enough to suppose that they can draw into
their political fold the gallant soldiers OF
the State. The supposition is an insult to
the intelligence as well as as to the princi-
Piles Of the soldiers of Kentucky, who, bred
in equal hostility to secessiOnism and aboli-
tionism as equal enemies of the constitution
and the twin authors of this rebellion, would
fight against the one as cheerfully as agsinst
the other, but will never vote for either
The radicals are wasting their tactics
The soldiers of Kentucky intend to vote in
November for the hero and patriot General
| George b. cClellan.-LouisUiIIe Journal
"
Never faint, halt or despair because you
cannot realize your ideal and do the thing
you would Only do the best you can, and
no authoritative judgment shall condemn you
Your will may be equal to your ideal, while
circumstances may raise an insuperable bar
for the time being, at least. How many
persons make wreck Of talent in signing fol
opportunities to do other and more than
their circumstances warrant They disdain
! the low rounds of the ladder which most
surely lead to the high. They have no
tion Of what is perfect accomplishment, and
are unwilling to take any halfway prelimi
nary steps. They have no faith in the prov
! erb "half loaf is better than no bread" Il
they would study the record they would soor
learn that the most famous winners Of the
whole loaves were at the start willing anc
ready to take any slice they could get Oul
true business in' life is to make the most Of
the means and opportunities we have-not
to neglest small advantages because we can
not have large ones. BY cultivating the
Titles, we make it easier to compress the
greatest.
During a recent performance of Romeo
and Juliet, at Marblehead, Massachusetts,
the fair Juliet's question in the sOliloquy be
fore taking the sleeping draught-"W hat il
this mixture do not work at all ?'' was an
swered by an urchin in the pit t:-"Ther
take dose of pills" The effect upon thC
audience can be better imagined than de
scribed.
Politeness is like cushion-there may
be nothing solid in it, but it eases the jolt
wonderfully.
One woman can now make as much lac,
I.in a day as hundred women could hun
dred years ago. One woman can also wea
as much as hundred used to.
We are very curious to know how man.
feet in female arithmetic go to mile, for W