The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-10-07


DR.. George Johnson has given ali 'n-
terestiug list Of articles of food and
drink which should be used and avoided I
by those who do not wish to grow fat.
Such persons may eat lean mutton and
beef, veal and lamb, thin soups, beef
tea. poultry, game, fish and eggs, bread
in moderation, greens, crosses, lettuce,
green peas, cabbage, canliflower, onions,
and fresh fruit without sugar; but should |
abstain from fat meat, bacon, ham, but
ter, cream, sugar, potatoes, carrots, pars-
nips, rice, sage, tapioca, macaron', Gus
tards, pastry, buildings and sweet cakes.
RA11EY's SALINE AFERIENT.-What 70 IT. It
y q chean. mild. effective and delightful laxa-
tive far superior to nauseating pills. while 1T IS
cooling and refreshing. For dyspepsia 1t IS
superior, andfor sick headache. ac1a stoHacn,
delicious fever drink, and acts finely upon the
skin.
The experiments III chemical horticnl-
ture of NJ. Dudony, of St. Owen, have
been very successful. He has tried
simultaneously three methods OF cultl-
waiting legumes, flowers and trees, W.:
with ordinary manures, with chemical
manures in garden soil, and with Q
special compound in pure sand. Ihis
special compound-which be calls Jsorat
contains nitrogen, phosphoric ACID,
potash, magnesia and sulphur, ms con-
centrated form as to require dilution
with 10000 times their volume OF water.
During a period of five years the artifi-
c;al soil prepared by treating sand with
floral has yielded plants strikingly bot
ter in every respect than those grown
by the other methods.
| When physicians have made use of prescrlE-
| ton for years in their private practice with
certain success, it is duty they owe to mankind
this e is done by copyright, such is the case
with DR.. Sherman's Prickly Ash Bitters, and
| they have proved to be a blessing to mankind.
Throughout the universe arc scattered
nyriads Of star-systems, each appearing
to the unaided eye as a single point-so
| great is the distance from us-bnt each
consisting of two or more great blazing
suns, widely separated, but revolving
about u common centre Of gravity, and
doubtless attended by planets traversing
| Overwhelmingly complicated orbits. Ut
the double stars many systems have
components of different colors, the col
ors being complementary. This peculiar
feature must produce a striking effect
upon the planetary attendants Of the col
ored suns. "What," says Mr.. W. Dob
erck il, . recent paper on double stars,
"mnst be the nature Of those worlds IL
Illuminated by two different suns, one
yellow and another purplef Now rises
| the one and all is clothed i'll yellow, now
the other, and Illuminated from compile
| mentary sources, every object appears in
natural color. Then sets the yellow
sun, and what must be the diversity OF
the effects as it approaches the horizon
And, behold, nature puts on purple
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the darkness of night, though there is
seldom night where there are two suns,
the starry heavens are seen there much
the same as here, except perhaps for
moons rejecting light from the different
" colored suns. But stars that seem
large to us are hardly visible there,
while onr sun is perceived i'll the tc,e-
scopes of the mysterious beings that in
habit those strange globes as only a
faint star, and metaphysicians there
prove from priori considerations that
no life could bask in the feeble glare of a
single sun-how all would famish but
for the opposite effects of the two suns.
And no doubt life there is heightened,
seeing how glorious is the creation OH
this poor orb that is kept alive by but
one SUM-"
For the immediate and permanent cure OF al
female complaints and Irregularities, such at
leuchorrheea whites, prolapsus uteri, greer
MYSTERIES, nervous DEBILITY ETC. nothing equal,
| English Female Blt,crS.
Of the Royal Society Of London Prof
Draper says: "Wo have only to TURF
over the pages of its transactions to dis
, Germ how much this society has done fo1
the progress of humanity. 1t was incor
, porated in 1862, and has Interested itsel
| in all the great scientific movements ant
, discoveries that have since bee,lS made
It published Newton's Principal" i
r promoted Halley's voyage, the first scien
, tiic expedition undertaken by any gov.
eminent; it made experiments on TIL
TRANSMISSION of blood, and accepted Har
vey's discovery Of the circulation. Thu
encouragement it gave to inoculatiol
led Queen Caroline to beg six con
. demned criminals for experiment, an,
, then to submit her own children to tina
operation. Through its encouragement
Bradley accomplished his great discov
E cry, the alteration Of the fixed stars
and that Of tho mutation of the EARTH
, axis; to these two discoveries, Delambr
says, we owe the exactness Of modern
astronomy. 1t promoted the improve
ment of the thermometer, the measure o
temperature, and in Harrison's watc1
the chronometer, tue measure Of time
Through it the Gregorian calendar was
introduced into England, in 1852, agains
, violent religious opposition. Some o
its members We're pursued through til
streets hv an IGNORANT and infuriate,