Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-01-05
Tough Beef.

sof-eO0klng NOW the man who
mas piece of tender beef draws the
Tarest q prizes IN the butchers lottery.
bee1 Is uniformly tough. 1t is even
strlnsy, assa rule and IS very fat, when
II mas any, sfhard and tasteless. What,
iet us inquire in q spirit of reverence for
uolh1 thinner and truth is the cause of
th1s greaeand irredeemable calamity
No' ZOE iance afiusion was made in
tnese eolumns to athe discovery of an
onie pniosopher concerning the change
OF the Inclination Of the earth's axis
Gnlo = goes pes not possess a monopoly of this
olscoyery, grieyous as the fact may seem
70 the patriotic citizens of that State.
Philosophers residing, without, her bor
ders have put forth the theory that the
earth either has changed her position in
reference to the plane of the eeliptic or
Is about To change it. There must be
some truth in an opinion so widely
shared by different scientific persons,
and It IS quite possible that Prof. WHITE,
OF Olympia University, has discovered
precisely in what consists the recent al
Lodged eccentricities of the earth's con-
duct He holds, that q change in the
inclination of the earth's axis has lately
taken place, but that the pole is still os.
clhating between its old position and its
new one Just as, a pendulum when set
IN motion will osciilate until it finally
becomes quiescent. This oscillation of
the earth has now been going on since
the year 1874 and will continue growing
less and II less by degrees for at least thirty
years longer t-0 aizi@ rhi e. =
II this theory be true, it explains the
toughness of recent beef. AS every one
Knows the muscles of every animal be-
come tough just in proportion as they
are exercised. sg In a recent number of
the Ftjt Gazette this matter is treated
somewhat at length in the course of an
able article on the price of butchers
meat. 1t is shown that while a black
smith is almost unstable in Fiji, in con-
sequence of his extreme toughness, and
a sailor brings but six kiyis per pound =.
the kyl being equivalent to one and
three-eighths of cent of our money!
pleasure tourist is worth seventeen kiyis
per pound, and a prime quality of mis-
slonary readily commands stwenty-eight
klyis. Furthermore, it appears that
while the price of missionary has risen
very little during the last five years, the
price of sailors and tourists has fallen,
although in neither case has there been
any marked increase in the supply. The
Gazette comes to the conclusion that
meat of all descriptions is growing stead
lily tougher, with the solitary exception
Of missionary, which has not sensibly
deteriorated in quality, and that this
growing teughness of sailors and tour
lists has made it necessary to lower the
market price from ten and twenty-five
kiyis, which latter prices were easily
obtained five years ago, to six and to
seventeen kyis.
It Is undoubtedly one and the same
cause which renders beef as well as
tourists tougher than they were in for
mer years. 1t is well established that
sailors legs, which he really uses very
little in comparison with his arms, are
the tougher of the two, and this is due
TO the fact that the unsteady motion of
vessel requires the sailor to constantly
brace himself in order to keep on his
feet, or. in other words. to constantly
keep his LEG muscles IL a state of ten
sion. The oscillation of the earth is
having the same effect upon cattle. 1t
is true that we do not perceive that the
earth Is oseillating any more than we
perceive the motion of the earth on its
axis, bat every living creature on the
earth's surface that walks by means of
legs, including both cattle and tourists,
Is compelled to brace itself precisely as
the sailor braces himself at sea while
standing or walking on a vessels deck.
Thus the legs of cattle become hard and
firm, and, to measurable extent, the
entire muscles of the body grow tough
en- This is the true explanation of the
pheno fneI1on sof the growing toughness
Of beef.NI 81 ssss-si7s s5fTz#-) - Fi3
s.. This theory is. confirmed by the fact
that tough beef is always found in coun-
tries thai are subject to earthquakes. In
South Italy, where slight earthquakes
occur almost every day, beef is so tough
as to be nearly UNBEATABLE, while in the
Proan Islands, where the earth shakes
ON an average once every twenty-four
minutes, the flesh of cattle is so impen-
etrabig tough that it is used by the ma
tiyes for.shields. and the distinguished
exploHH Sir John Wainwright, tells us
that s fife-shot fired from a distance of
twelvespaees failed to penetrate a por-
terhouse steak carried on the left arm of
a WARRIOR. IL is also affirmed that the
steward Oh. the Blaster-Sir Johns yes-
sef@attempted to cut up a Proan OK for
the mess, and after turning the edge of
ali the tools i'm his or the carpenters
possession, finally had recourse to gun
powder, with the help of which he blast
ed the OK into fragments, from one of
which saS serviceable grindstone was
made. "a Perhaps our, cattle will never
attain to this degree of toughness, but
If the oscillations of the earth continue,
for thirty years, as Prof. Whyte assures.
ms they will, roast beef will become as
inedible as boarding house chicken, and
as indigestible as plum pudding or as.
phalt sidewalk.-N. 7. Times.
-Four years ago MIR. s. Q. Osborn,
Of Stuart, Iowa, planted several acres OF
foress~areesx~-m mostly maple and black,
wslnoE aud he notes that though the
saeds Il the. lattAr. even when put in the
ornuhX Aesi1 ssometimes remain in the
Earth ei,o 0rltwo years without germi-
nating3 butwten they do gernlinate the
nlants soon catch up with those which
started promptly. Mr. Osborn's trees
in