The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-07-17
Pleasant P0isons.
We mentioned three edible nightsha

We mentioned three edible nightshades
tho potato, the tomato and the Cape
gooseberry. The last, of which some idea
may be formed from the winter cherry col
our gardens, is a native of Peru, but has
been naturalized at the Cape and grows
well in India. The calyx withers, but is
persistent, and therefore the amber cherry
is contained in what may be fancifully
called a thin paper bag. An excessively
pleasant preserve is made from it, which
Is named Tiparce jam. and would, we
| think, make a more welcome preserve
| than the Guava cheese, which country
households always expect from Indian
cousins. The aubergine, or eggplant,
also belongs TO this family, but is better
known across the Channel than here. The
fruit is not allowed by Paris gardeners to
attain its full size, but is delivered partial
ly unr1pe to the cook, who fries it and
serves as a vegetable. 1t is violet or white !;
the former kind Is more esteemed, and
may be seen cultivated extensively in the
| environs Of Paris, but is still more SO in
the south of France. Under the name of
Brinjal it is familiar TO Anglo-Indian
hOusekecpers, but is welcomed chiefly as
filling up an awkward time in the hot
weather when vegetables are scarce. Ger
tain it is that in the Temple of the Sun in
Sagomozo the seeds of the Floripoudio OF
Datura sanguinea were used To produce
religious ecstasy. The secret was doubt
less known ages ago in Indian temples, and
may haye been carried by travelling mys-
tics TO Delphi, where the gestures and be-
havior of the priestess were such as a
practised and skillful use of datura might
produce without danger to life. The give
and take of these nightshades we have
particularly noticed. Belladonna both
lowers and restores the vital functions;
tobacco irritates and sooths; datura re-
licves the laborIng chest and frcnzies the
excited brain. Take one more rather sin.
gular instance of reparation by plant of
this family of mischief in which il has had
a helping hand. One of the features of
dissipated life is loss of appetite. The
slender meal, generally only an excuse for
more stimuiant, is with difficulty got
through. Still the vOtary of late hours
has midnight moment when he feels, or
thinks he feels, that grilled bones would |
be a restorative, or would at any late whip |
the energies sufficiently To make another |
bottle possible. For this reviving dish |
cayenne pepper is altogether a sine qua |
non. Grilled bones without cayenne |
would, we will not say, be Hamlet" with |
the Prince left out, but Hamlet" with only |
the ghost left i'm. 1t does not require |
prophet to predict the end of these things |
If associated with established habits, and |
the moralist may we'll stand aside and let |
preach their own sermon.
But doctors now declare that one of the |
most efficacious remedies in the painful |
disease dipsOmania is red pepper-thc |
capsIcum of uhtimely revels. 1t checks
the craving which, where the restraint is
used, drives the patient to the most subtle |
to obtain what is preying up
on his desires. Thus is this plant the |
of the viveur; it is present in
his hour of disastrous triumph, and il Wis
its him when nature lays upon him the
penalty of her broken laws London
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