Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-10
4 Dfet of T.c.aher. Eren. Fels, sc.

A Diet Of I.casher. grsn, Felt, sc.
Some physiologist has been giving a
contemporary the results Of some in
vestigafiops and calculations i'm this
field OF diet. His statements ARE cu-
rious enough:
When we pour milk into a cup OF
tea or coffee, the albuinen OF the milk
and the tannin of the tea instantly
unite and form leather, or minute
flakes of the very same compound
which is produced in the texture of
the tanned hide. and which makes il
leather as sdistinguished from the orig
inal skim. In the course OF year,
tea-drinker Of average habits will have
imbibed leather enough to make a pair
of shoes, ii il could be put into the
proper shape for The purpose.
A great many things 20 into the
mouth. This is not an original remark.
We have seen il somewhere. But ii IL
an alarming fact. We drink, every
one of us, a pair of boots year..
We carry iron enough in onr blood
constantly TO make horseshoe. We
have clay enongh in our frames to
niake,if properly separated and baked,
dozen good-sized bricks. We eat at
least peck of dirt a monih-no, that
is not too large an estimate. The man
who earelessly tips glass of lager in
to his stomach little reflects that he
has begun the manufacture Of hats.
yet suchis the case. The malt Of the
beer assimiiates with the chyle and
forms sort Of felt--the very same
seen so often in hat factories. But not
being instantly utilized, il is lost. Still
further: it is estimated that the bones
in every adult person require TO be fed
with lime enough to make marble
mantel every eight months,
To sum up, we have the following as
founding aggregate ofarticles charged
to account of physiology, to keep eve-
ry poor shack on his feet for three
score years and ten:
Mems shoes, 20 years at
pair year ..... 20 pairs.
lIorse-shoes, 20 years, att
month, as our arterial
system renews its blood
every new moon, -. $40 shoes.
Bricks, at II peri years. LEO bricks.
Hats, not less than Ia o VI $50 hats.
Mantels, at LIZ year. los mant'ls.
Here we arc surprised to observe
that We eat as many shoes ~ we wear,
and q sufficient number Of hats to sup
| ply large family OF boys; that We
| float in our bl0od.vesscls horse-shoes
enough to keep o span OF grays shod
all the while; that we carry in our an
imated clay bricks enough to build a
modern Fireplace, and in our bones
marble enough to supply all our neigh.
bOrs with Mantcls. We have not fig
ured on tho soil, at the rate OF a peck
a month; but 1t is safe to say that the
real estate that q hearty eater mssti-
Gates and swallows in the course of a
long and eyentfOl career wonld amount
to something worth having, if sold
like the corner lots on State street at
$2,00Q front foot Psychological
Journal.
Mrs. Stiles, the wife ofa wealthy
banker at Frcdonia, New York. heard
a burglar In the room where the safe
was kept, last Sunday night, and oni-
city arising from bed, she took a re-
volyer and went down to interview
him. lie was was kneeling in front
of the safe, and seeing her coming, hc
raised his arm to throw a billet oi
| wood ut her, but bullet through
that arm spoiled ms aim. He then
tried to draw his own pistol. but. an.
other shot determined him upon
| flight, and he fed, the bullets from the
wOmans pistol pattcring merrily up-
i on his back. He hasn't been caught
yet, but the lady thinks they can tell
him BY the sunlight shining through,
him.
San Francisno killed aIl the oysters
i In the lsay by the cxpi0sjon az nitro.