The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-10-01
sHiSreAMenns.
BRITISH ASSOCIATIONS.
SOME INTERESTING SUBJECTS
DISCUSSED DURING THE CLOS
TAro n1Vc OF THE MEETING.

DISCUSSED DURING THE CLOS
ING DAYS OF THE MEETING,
BELFAST, IRELAND, August 26-The
British Association for the Advancement
of Silence has been pushing steadily
through an immense amount OF work,
all the sections have been well attended,
and sharp, intelligent discussions have
followed the reading of the papers. On
the 2lst instant Professor Redfern, Pres
ident of the Department of Anatomy and
Physiology, read noteworthy paper on
"The Influence of Good Food and the
Method of Supplying it to Plants and
Animals"
On the latter part of the subject, he said
there were few problems OF more lmpor-
tance than how they should acquaint the
wives of laborers, artisans, and even the
wives and servants of the middle classes,
how they should expend fair share OF
their income on food to the greatest ad-
vantage, and how to procure it without
destroying its nutritious properties lie
condemned the practice OF mlnelng or
emitting up meat into small blocks and
then stewing it, the effect OF which was
that the albumen in the outer surface OF
each block became firmly set, and the
whole afforded about as indigestible
mass as could well be imagined. The
process of sailing fresh meat had the
effect. he said, of abstraCtiDg the juices
and hardening the fibre, so as to destroy
or greatly deteriOrate its digestlDlllty
To a change of diet-the substitution OF
what were called the finer kinds OF food
for the buttermilk, oatmeal poTldge,
and bacon and beans formerly in use
his friend DR.. Gordon attributed the fact
that the peasantry in the county OF
Down were not able tO do the same
amount of work, as formerly, and that
the athletic exercises in which they had
formerly INDUCED had fallen into dis
use.
In the AnthropOlogical Department,
Sir George Campbell raised a general
laugh in his address on "The Peoples be-
tween India and China" 'iN .
Among one Of the tribes, he said, the
wife was the head of the household.
She cohrted and proposed to the man,
and after marriage took the responsible
ty of providing for the family. She lived
in her own house and on her own estate,
and descent was on the female side.
At the session of the Geographical
Section on that day, an interesting series
of extracts from Lieutenant Cameron's
journal on the expedition for the explo-
ration of Eastern Asia was read, az also
paper by Dr. G. Schweinfurth on the
causes Of the Lybian Desert.
The author. after referring to thesmall
knowledge hitherto possessed OF the
Libyan Desert, and the recent additions
TO it by Nachtigall and ROhlfs, describes
his own exploration. He reached the
outer oasis in January, after five and 9
half DAYS. And the end of April he re
turned to the sources of the Nile viz
Girpeh, the result of his journey being |
triangnlatiOn on a measured basis Of thre'
and a half kilometres. The oasis is ~
kilometres in length, and so formed a
to resemble the bottom Of gigantic val
lev. the width of which appears ver-
much TO exceed the Nile at its brOadest
On the north and east it is bounded b,
mountains detached to the Lbyan pla
teaus, composed above of hard, brilliant
red nummulite chalk, and below Of chall
of dazzling whiteness. As whole, it !
not uninterruptedly verdant, being 9
the usual monotonous yellow, but wit
black and green spots. These little il
lands. az it were, are the arabic portioni
tEe springs surrounded by acacias, field
palm groves, brooks and ponds. The al
thor dwelt in animated language upo
the pleasure excited by the undulatin
plains. the watercourses, and terraces
vegetation Of these enchanting spot
The ten inhabited portions are stated
have 800 inhabitants dwelling in Y
stricted and fortified situations owing
their continual dread of surprise by II
politanian hordes. In Kharges itself th
houses are absolutely built over th
streets, being as it were on piles suppor
ed BY rough beams, through which tn
inhabitants group in STOPPING postur
Though using language differing b.
little from that Of the modern Egyptian
they betrav no facial characteristic Of I'll
later. being apparently the remains
nne of the numerous Ebyan races or ii
hisrogiyphical Berber nations Of moi
northern extraction. They are Of high
iIivid complexion, owing to prevalence
mater ft0m niiaema. They are laxi
-u6bsergaHce Of the rules Of the pfophe
AHA do not possess a single trace
Christian tradition. Vaccmationl b e.