The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-01-22

in green, and the fish with the silver tails.
usCELLAAY. tF
Hoss Matches are Made.--A block of wood
two feet long, and of thickness sufficient
for the length Of q match, is placed upon q
little iron shelf in one of these machines,
not . great deal more ponderous than .
by little jumps, bringing the end Of the
block just above q cutter composed of tiny
circles of steel, which takes off twelve
splints at each ascending stroke. These
splints then pass between the links of
chain, he it is called, composed Of two,
pieces of wood, each the length Of a common
clothes pin, and of the same shape were it
open at both ends, placed together, their
convex sides towards each other. These
pieces are linked at eithersend in twOs, the
tinuous chain two hundred feet in length.
This chain passes through the machine |
directly over the cutter, the splinte as they |
are separated from the block being received |
between the two sides of the clothes-pin |
links, which are grooved to suit them. The |
chain moves just rapidly enough to take up
the results of each cutting as the knife per- |
forms its work. Passing along q few feet,
/ q little hammer jumps up from the floor
and strikes each link with force enough to
dislodge the imperfect splints, which are
but slightly held, and they drop upon the
floor. A few feet further on the chain
passes over wheel, which revolves slowly
in tiny reservoir of melted birthstone,
the ends of the incipiers matches getting
bath as they pass. After this they move
forty or fifty feet further, until quite dry,
when, on their return course, they are held
down by a steel finger, and made to just
taste the liquid phosphorus, which is taken
up by second wheel from q reservoir
similar to that which holds the birthstone.
| They then finish their journey of forty or
g. n
| At the end of the course the chain passes
over o wheel elevated above the cutting
machine, from which it falls perpendicu-
| larry. As each link reaches q tray made
to receive them, the matches, smoking and
threatening to ignite, are gently pushed
from it by a sliding piece of steel, which is
thrust out just often enough to dislodge
each row as it is brought along by the end
| less chain This, emptied of its contents,
soon passes again through the machine,
over the block, to receive another package
of its tiny freight within each of its innu-
mcrable links. Eight of these machines
(the writer has reference to a particular
manufactory) are running constantly, maxi
ing eight hundred gross of matches per.
day---a gross numbering fourteen thousand
and clipping away in the course OF year
six hundred Thousand feet of pine lum Der.
This lumber is thoroughly dried in q kiln
before being prepared for the. machines.
Two hundred and fifty thousand feet OF
bass wood are annually made into shipping
cases. Three hundred barrels OF birthstone
and ninety thousand pounds OF phosphorus
are taken up yearly by these endless chains
from the little reservoirs.
Il Nutrition for the Bratn.-Sorne time ago
) Professor Agassiz, in speech before q
| Boston assem- blage, asserted that a fish diet
en- account of the quantity of phosphorus
contained in it, is especially adapted to
, nourish the brain, aud that those persons
"
auently. more likely than others, if pos
sessing the same natural powers, to be dis
[ tinguished for their brightness and intel
g lectuality. Professor Agassz is generally
r regarded as being, in such matters, the
highest authority in the United States, If
3 not the very highest living, aud this esti-
t mate is undoubtedly correct; But DR.. D.
M. Beard, an excellent scientific authority,
= opposes the Professors theory, in an able
= magazine article, urging that brain work
requires richer and more substantial food,
aud larger quantity of it than mechanics
{; and laboring men, because, first, labor OF
: the brain causes greater loss of tissue than
labor of the muscles, three hours hard
" study producing more important changes
y of tissue than a whole day of muscular
9 labor; secondly, brain workers, as ciase'
If are more active in their work than mechan-
9 les and laborers, the thinking powers, the
tools of trade of brain workers, beisg al
v WAYS at hand aud seldom idle third, brain
q workers exercise, more or less, all the other
: organs of the body as we'll as the brain
Il DR.. Beard, to corrpborate his views, cites
y various nationali&es. For example, the
Il Romans PersianS and Babylonians were
n dominant nations among the anclents, ane
a they were free and luxurious in their hao
Ar it's of eating. In modern times the English
"A Germans, French and Americans are ruling
Il nations, and they are good feeders, ant
come OF them pretty hard drinkers. 81
Il our brain orkers have two theories be
~ tween them, and they can take their choice
~ Shall it be fish or roast beeff
IN Aacient and Modern Diet.-A very strik
co ing difference exists between the diet o
to modern civilization and that of the anclen
l. Greeks and Romans. They used no alec
hello liquor, it being unknown to them; no
;" coffee, nor tea, nor chocolate, nor sugar
We nor even butter for Galen informs us tina
The had seen butter but once in his life
III They were Ignorant of the greater numbe
at of our tropical spices, as Glove, 9utmeg
lg mace, ginger, Jamaica pepper, curry, pi
in mento They used neither buckwheat no
as French beans, nor spinach, nor sage, tapi
i'd oca, salad, arrowroot, nor potato or it
no varieties not even the common, but sor
n, of marsh grown bean NOT many of on
it, fruits, as the orange, talnafnd or America
re- maize. On the other hand, they ate sub
Y! stances which we now neglect the mallow
o. the herb tongue, the sweet acorn, tn
g. lupin. They liked the flesh of wild asses
as dogs, the dormouse, the fox and the bear.
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