The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-11-17

bune," that much has yet to be done
before final pronouncements can be
made upon the food value, if any, of
the flesh bases which. in most in
stances, form a chief portion of the
heterogeneous material in meat extracts;
the fact being that, as these bases GER
tainly differ among themselves in food
value, it is consequently true of the
various forms m which proteid mat
ter occurs in these preparations, viz. as
peptones, proteoses acids; albumens,
etc. DR.. McGill's experiments suggest
that part of the nitrogen in some
meat preparations exists as urea, the
latter certainly having no food value.
As to it's assumed value as stimulant,
DR.. McGill remarks that nature seems
to have provided for the prompt elimi-
nation of urea from the system, it be-
ing also we'll known that any failure to
get rid of it by way Of the kidneys re-
suits in serious disturbances of the
vital functions, and may end in death
by uraemia. From the fact that no
practical method has been discovered
by which a sharp analytical line can
be drawn between the nitrogen pres
ent as urea and that present as creatin.
creatinin and xamtlim, flesh bases can
not, of course. be called food stuff in
the proper sense of that term.
New Or1 ans Times-Democrat With
in the next fifty years. said a New
Orleans architect the people of this
and every other large Southern city
will do most of their sleeping by day
The Transformation will be effected by
cheap lights. Inside of the next half
century lighting will be SO inexpensive
SO excellent and so abundant that it
will wipe out tbs demarcations of day
and night. Darkness is one of the
forces of nature against which civil
ization wages war. 1t facilitates
crime, it impedes travel, it puts arbi-
trary limits on human exertion. The
time is coming when darkness will
be thoroughly conquered, and the great
cities flooded from end to end with an
effulgence that will make every voca
ton of life as easy and as practicable
at one hour as another In this lati-
tude night is undoubtedly the bsst time
to work-especially during our long
summers. The temperature from sun
is almost always a refreshing breeze,
and as soon as darkness is abolished
the people will gradually and naturally
reverse the hours of toll.
| venture the prediction that noon in
1850 will see the streets of New Or
leans deserted, except for few mid
day roisterers and policemen with sun
shades Respectable folks will be
abed and asleep, enjoying that delight
full repose which we now associate
with an afternoon siesta, something,
by the way, that should have long ago
given US a tip that day was the proper
time for rest. Then, when the wonder
full incandescents of the future blaze
forth at dusk, everybody will arise in
vigorated and alert, and get ready to
begin the nights work. 1t is a beau
tiful vision. Whenever I conjure it up
I could weep for vexation to think that
I was born a century too soon."
Literary Digest: A new theory of old
age and death has just been promul-
gated by the eminent Russian zoologist
and baceteriologist, Professor Mech.
nixoff, whose name is best known for
his theory that the resistance OF the
organism to disease depends on the
activity of the white blood .corpuscles
in attacking and destroying germs.
These same corpuscles, according to
this authority, play an important part
in the transition from youth and vigor