Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-01
FOOD AND HEALTH.
SOME NOTES ABOUT WHAT WE DO EAT
AND SHOULD NOT EAT.
Practical Health and Sanitary Suggest
ions--Protection of the Public
Health-M Miscellaneous.

Grasshoppers feed on vegetable matter,
and SO may be classed as clean food.
The Pharmacist and Chemist says that a
paper is now made from the palmetto fibre
that resists soap, and may be washed and
wrung out like linen.
The wine crop at Bordeaux is reported
to be barely 25 per cent. of an average
year. The quality is quite superior. Prices
now paid there are from Is to 20 per cent.
higher than last year.
The Agricultural Department at Wash
ington has sent representative to Canada
to select the best variety of good winter
seed wheat. He has selected one which is
called the Findlay variety. 1t has hard
grain, yields heavily, and makes excellent
-four. He has secured for seed two hun
bred bushels, and is trying to get four or
five hundred more.
The man who desires to forget himself
is weak man, sensitive creature, who
does not dare to look the world in the face
as it is, and SO surrounds himself with
false appearances. An intoxicated person
is an irresponsible person, who cannot an
swer for his actions. Now, this desire of
intoxication can be moderated and be
gradually abolished by the use of such
beverages as nature has bestowed upon US
in her beuefcence.
Joseph Carpenter wants to introduce the
woodchuck for dinner, and Lieutenant ID.
A. Lyle, in paper read before a Spring
field science association, praises grasshop-
pers as food. He says when cooked they
become pleasant to smell and taste. Fried
in their own oil, they have nutty flavor.
Some residents of st. Louis have tried a
dinner of these, skillfully prepared, and it
is considered desirable addition to the
bill of fare by some.
M. Etienne, who has prepared the har-
vest reports of Europe and America, states
that in France wheat is below the average;
in England it is ten per cent. below the
average in Austria and Hungary the crops
are good in Turkey (the Danubian prov
inces) there is an average crop; in Russia
wheat is good, and barley excellent in
Germany the crops are below the average !;
and also in Italy, Spain, Belgium and
Switzerland.
In the kitchens of Memphis, Tenn, it is
said that much use is made of cotton seed
oil in making biscuits and pie crusts. 1t is
considered superior to lard. Also for fry
ing and for cooking generally, as well as a
salad oil, it is meeting with appreciation.
Italians are said to import large quantities
of this oil, which they mix with the olive
oil, and sell it at high prices. 1t is said
that experts cannot appreciate the differ
ence.
The crab belongs to that divis.on of the
shellfsh we call crustaceans, on account of
their hard shell. The class has many men,
bers unknown to us, but is everywhere re.
garded as furnishing luxurious food. To
it belong the lobster, crayhsh and crab.
The crab has less muscular material than
the lobster, is fuller Of flavor and easier
masticated. It is not very easy of diges-
ton, and requires an oil, an acid and such
condiments as pepper and mustard with it /;
but scientific men have agreed that the
crab is better food than lobster, if not SO
great luxury, on account OF the Holsters
rich, luscious meat.
Altruism, which may be briefly defined
as regard for the well being of others, has
not vet become universal. A woman hav-
ing charge of young child suffering with
the smallpox, has just travelled hence to
Boston, spreading contagion at the two
termini, and in the cars. Another woman,
a cigar dealer in Carmlne street, is charged
with having kept open her store while she
was i'll with the same dreadful disease, and
having infected with it man and a woman,
who will probably die. These are only
salient instances of lack of that great
principle of altruism which is to regenerate
society, if society is ever to be regenerated.
But, in fact, the millennium is go very far
off that only poets are justified in setting
forth pictures of it as having potential
existence When the struggle for ex-
istence is not quite SO sharp as it
is at present, when rich mems fortunes
are not made by the constant grinding
of the faces of the poor, when the recipients
of charity are not spoiled by the very act
of receiving it, when people who are
| anxious to be charitable, exercise the ne
cessary wisdom and discrimination, when
rivals cease to be anxious to benefit only
at the expense of one another, then perhaps
the first shadow of the millennium SO
| shining an era can cast shadows-will be
discernible 1 Evening Telegram.
Many people may have noticed the often
disgusting odor proceeding from the size
and paste of paper-hanging pervading an
apartment for some time after the paper
has been newly hung. Nj. Vallin, in the
Revue d. Hygiene, reports an interesting
case which has induced him to make some
| INQUIRIES in this matter. A lady, who
from time to time came to town to super
wise the decoration of her house, was three
times successfully seized with violent sick
ness and headache after sleeping in a
newly-papered room. M. Vallin was struck
with the putrefactive odor which pervaded
the atmosphere, and, after examining into
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