Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-03-15
GREEN GLASS.
Its Rays Found 90 be . Sure and Deadly Poison
A Companion Discovery for PIeasantun's
by Ere nchman.
Now York Times .

Now York Times.
1t ia a striking illustration of the
pergersity of human nature that no
sooner does some man invent some
thing for the benefit of mankind,
than some other person proceeds to
invent Contemplating evil Thus
the invention of iron armor for ves-
sells stimulated the invention OF mon
strous guns to smash it; and the dis
covery of the b. neficent lightning
rod was followed by the peculiar
atrocities practioed by lightning-rod
men There is no rose without q
certain amount of thorns, no home
without taxes, no useful invention
without its antidote. Gen. Pleason-
ton has just taught US that blue glass
is cure for every i'll, and while we
are yet facilitating ourselves upon
bis discovery perverse FrenohmaD
announces the discovery that green
glass is sure and deadly poison.
The good that may be secured by
the use of blue glass will be more
than counter-balanced by the evils
that will BIO inflicted through the
medium of green glass. Pleasonton
may save his scores, but the French
man will
AssAssINATE HIS HUNDREDS.
M. Bert, the Frenchman in ques-
ton, had no sooner learned that
light passing throught blue glass
Gains the mind and strengthens the
body than he began to experiment
with glass of other colors. He found
that plants submitted to the infu-
ence of green light soon wilted ard
died. The poison which slew them
seemed to exercise strange fascina.
ton over them. The simple cabbage,
the gentle asparagus and the stalwart
gooseberry were alike in this morbid
thirst for green light, and they drank
in it's deadly rays until they sank
forever in dishonored pots.
This discovery explains very clear
ly the injurious influence of green
wall paper. Hitherto chemists have
asserted that green paper contains
arsenic, and that the arsenic ia the
cause of the unpleasant symptoms
developed in those who reside in
green -papered rooms We now
know that the green color, and not
the arsenic, is at fault. The rays of
light striking upon the paper are
tinged with green before they have
time to rebound upon the occupants
of the room, and thus the latter con-
tinnally absorb the poisonous green
light until their health and spirits
give way. Similarly, we can now
understand why the typical villain of
romance and the stage is represented
las
WEARING GREEN GLASSES.
| For ages mankind has mistaken the
caus' for the effect. Men do not
wear green glasses because they are.
| depraved, but they become depraved
by wearing green glasses. 1t is fright
full to think of the number of inno-
cen, and well meaning men who,
having adopted green glasses from q
mistaken belief that they would
| thereby benefit their eyes, have
poisoned their bodies, perverted
their minds and warped their whole
moral natures. What green glasses
have done for men, green wells have
done for women. In former years
when green wells were fashionable,
our women were VIGOROUSLY delicate
ard sickly. Now that blue wells
have become popular, American
women are beginning to rival their
English sisters in vigor of constitu-
ZION and ability TO walk miles in
thick shoes Obviously the green
| light filtered through the green wells
was the real source of the physical
weakness formerly the reproach Of
American women, and the inventor
of the blue veil was an unconscious
but potent philantropist.R Who can
tell to what extent the evils of in.
temperance are due to the effect of
green glass bottles upon the wine and
ardent spirits which they inclose
How much of the treachery of feline
nature is due to the green eyes with
which cats are fitted, aud may not
the popular conception of jealousy
as "green-eyed monster" be an un-
con scious recognition of the fact that,
IN proportion as man sees things in
green light, he becomes prey to
jealousy and all other evil passions :?
THE GREEN FLAG
excitcs rage ana violence IN the aver
age Englishman, and green apples
develop the most unholy impulses of
the juvenile stomach. NJ. Berts dis
covery explsins the otherwise IN.
accountable facts, and finds in them
the consistent manifestations of an
memorable law of nature. In pub
fishing this discovery NJ. Bert has
placed dangerous weapon in the
hands of unprincipled men. The
wretch who does not appreciate his
wife's mother will present her with q
green silk dress and green parasol,
and convince her that her com plex-
ion will suffer unless she wears o
green veil. If she is an unusually
vigorous old lady, and her conslitu-
ton withstands the effect of the poi
son 10 moderate doses, he will put
green curtains in her room, and so
finish her at once. The wicked bus
band, instead of coarsely shooting
his wife, or sweetening her coffee
with arsenic, will wear large waist
coat buttons of polished green glass,
and by them reflect rays of poisoned
light upon
HIS UNIONS CIoUs VICTIM
as she sits at the other end of the
table. The assassin will safely smite
his enemy at MONDAY, concentrating
upon his nervous centers rays that
have passed through small green
hurnin O-ulaas and Tho coinrad ro+o.