Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-10-25
SOME STRANGE SECRETS OF
THE STOMACH,

The following shocking DISCLOSURE,
is creating great excitement ut thi,
moment in all parts of the country
The chemical connection spoken 0
between tea and leather was, doubt
less discovered by the coolies o
North Adams:
"When we pour milk into q cup o
tea or coffee, the albumen Of The
milk and the tannin Of the tea in
stantly unite and form leather, OF
flakes of the very Same COMPOUND
which produced in the texture of the
tanned hide, and which makes il
leather as distinguished from the
original skin. In the course of one
year tea drinker of average habits
will have imbibed leather enough to
make pair of shoes, if it could be
put into the proper shape for the
purpose"
A great many things go into the
mouth. This is not an original re-
mark. We have seen it somewhere.
But it is an alarming fact. We drink
every one Of US, pair of boots q
year We carry iron enough in our
blood, constantly, to make q horse
shoe. We have clay enough in our
frames to make, if properly separat-
ed and baked, a dozen good sized
bricks. We eat, here in Chicago, at
least a peck of dirt in month-no,
that is not too large an estimate. The
man who carelessly tips a glass of
lager into his stomach, little reflects
that he has begun the manufacture
of hat, yet such is the case. The
malt Of the beer assimilates with the
chylc and forms a sort of felt--the
very same seen SO often in hat fac
tories. But not being instantly util-
lied, it is lost. Still further; it is
estimated that the bones in every
adult person require to be fed with
lime enough to make a marble man.
tel every eight months.
To sum up, we have the following
astounding aggregate of the articles
charged to account of physiology,
to keep every poor shack on his feet
for three score years and ten:
Mems Shoes 70 years, q pair a year,. 20 pairs.
| Horse shoes, 10 years az month, as our
arteral system renews It's blood every
new moon $40 shoes.
Bricks a. IL per 100 bricks.
Hats not less than IA year........... $50 hats.
Mantels, "a ~ 100 mantes
We are surprised to see that we eat
many shoes as we wear, and q sui
| ticient number OF hats to supply a
large family of boys that we float
in our blood vessels horse shoes
enough TO keep "a span of grays shod
all the while that we carry in our
animated clay bricks enough to build
a modern fire place, and in our bones
marble enough to supply all of our
neighbors with manteIs. We have
not figured on the soil, at the rate OF
peck month, but it is safe to say
that the real estate that a hearty
eater masticates and swallows in the
course of long and eventful career
would amount to something worth
having iif sold like the corner lot on
State street, at $4,000 front foot
Chicago EUening Post.
RG~J. Stuart Mill says: "The ad-
mission of women to the suffrage is
now practical question. What was,
not very long ago, a mere protest in
behalf of abstract right has grown
into definite political aim, seriously
pursued by many thousands Of active
adherents." The Revolution, on the
other hand, seems to have lost faith
in the suffrage question as a main
issue, as is shown by this extract
from that journal:
Now the reason why, to some per-
sons, the woman's movement seems
dead, is because to such persons it is
mere movement suffrage and nine
ty women out Of every hundred do
not care so much for political as for
personal freedom. Women know
their own wants and they know
that they do not want suffrage a
thousandth part as kcenly as they
want reform Of the marriage and
divorce laws, and general readjust-
ment of the family relations. Sensi-
bic women, when asked to enforce
their claims TO the elective franchise,
smile and say in words eyes this
is good F.; this is means to an end ;
this is the A of the alphabet; but our
ultimatum is far beyond all this shall
lowness it lies as deep as the pro-
foundest depths of human desire" 1t
is the woman question considered
only in its superficial aspects that is
dead. The first or superficial phase
is dying to give place to the second
or permanent. In other words, wom-
ans demand for mere political enfran-
chisement is giving place to her more
comprehensive demand for universal
emancipation. The old question is
beginning to die the new beginning
to live. Ring out the old Ring in
tho new"
The BIRTHPLACE OF THE ART OF
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