The Portland daily press., 1871-02-24
popular taste has become 80 eager for 1t thai

popular taste has become so eager for 1t that
the supply is hardy equal to the demand
Nothinebut fat cows and yearlings are n asih1e
ed and killed. Buffalo bull Is an in Porness
tood-it is about as palatable as na LIZ,
trace. Arouarter of COW will average ABOUT
ninety no1Inds. yealling somewhere IN tne
.;ohh6rhood of two hundred. Inc null
asr,, hrl is sometimes killed weighing gross
; ono mounds. Only the hind quarters are
sent to market; the fore quarters being left
on the plains, sometimes sprinkled with
strycbnine as bait for the wolves, who are
very destructive Of the buffalo calves. Thee
is peculiar quality of the meat which even
transportation to our less pure atmosphere
does not destroy, and it is that it remains
fresh and sweet for almost an unlimited pc
llod. The buffalo meat reaching this market
IS usually nine days on its way, and may have
been Shot three weeks or a month ago; hut it
arrives in just as great perfection as if it had
been slaughtered the day before, whereas beef
kept the same length OF time would lose much
OF its taste and quality, if it did not become
decomposed. The meat is sold at lower
price than inferior beef and when we consld.
er the heavy freight paid on car load, 1904
tor twenty two thousand pounds. the price IL
retails for eighteen cents, seems quite reason
able.
The hump, the choicest portion of the but
falo. does not reach our market. ST. Louis
monopolizes that morsel, and her gOurmands,
no doubt, chuckle as they taste its delicious
succulence, and laugh at our ignorance. If
our best hotels and restaurants have not yet
given it their approval, we suppose it is from
ignorance OF its great merit, so let us hope
that the '.flet de Bison Z Apachee," or a
".fricasse de Buffalo la Kit Carson" will
shortly vary the stereotyped character of their
menus.
LABOR CONDUCIVE TO LONG LIFE.-In
view of the short duration of life entailed by
some occupations, it must be regarded as a
eonsolng yea, a sublime fact, that labor in
general does not tend to shorten life; but, on
the contrary, by strengthing health, lengthens
life; while, on the other hand, idleness and
luxury are productive of the same results as
the most unhealthy occupations. DR.. Guy, an
Englisbman, in calculating the average dura.
ton OF life OF the wealthy classes, arrived at
the very surprising result, with regard to
adults, that the higher their position in the
social scale, the more unlimited their means
| the less also the probability Of long life
We have been so long accustomed to consider
the possession Of riches as the best guarantee
| for physical welfare that many will be sur
prised to hear from Guy that 1.-THE probability
of the duration OF life lessons, with regard to
the adults in each class ofthe population, in
the samn deg ee as the beneficial impulse for
occupation IS lacking. 1t q person, who TOR
long time has lived an active lie, retires
from business, it may be taken for granted
with probability Of ten to one, that he has
seized the most effective means 10 shorten his
| life" We may smile at the soap-maker who
after having formally retired from business
went, nevertheless on each day OF soap boiling
to his workshop; but it must also be acknowl
edged that his instinct did not mislead him
OF all conditions OF life, idleness IS hardest To-
naure to combat; and this is especially true o
persons who have accustomed themselvs to 8
| Dusy lie.