The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-02-26

Some ingenious scientist has discovered
that If you want TO live thousand years
all that you need to do is TO take into
your system plenty OF sodium phosphate.
Salt is a great and healthful commodity
in this world. and is capable OF entering
into many lines OF activity.
AS to its peculiar lIfe-g< ing properties.
suppose you take a drowned fly, appar-
emily as dead as any fly ever was, and
as all flies should be. Put him on a table
and pile over him enough salt to cover
him up. Walt a few minutes, and you
will see the fly begin 10 wiggle his wings.
stretch his legs. and get ready to resume
his fiendish activity
The experiment is capable of verifica-
tion, but one ny is enough to restore to
life, and 1t is we'll enough 10 take the one
example for the rest OF them.
All animals love salt, and without salt
all our human cooking would be stale,
used to cross the Alleghanies after salt
and bullets. those being the two great
staples OF frontier life. Salt has always
been used by man to make his food more
tasteful and to keep # from becoming
subject to the ravages OF time Without
salt no smokehouse would be complete.
IL is a curious thing that salt and ice
are both great preservatives. OF the
two, ice is probably the better, and ice
can be proved by the amateur scientist
TO be at least capable OF proonging life,
IL IL be not capable OF restoring IL, as
does salt in the case of the fly.
Any fisherman knows that you can take
n pail of mnnows, freeze them stiff, ship
them ten miles in moss, then thaw them
out and go toaishing with bait as clipper
and lively as 1t ever was.
FREEZING DIDN'T HURT HIM
A good proof OF this fact that YOU can
freeze fish TO death and then bring him
to life again was advanced recently by
r. f. Follett. In Chicago. MIR. Follett,
while acting as fish commissioner In an
Eastern state, was sent on journey 60
Lake Edward. 80 miles north of Quebec.
for the purpose OF obtaining some trout
for New York aquarium.
The journey was made in the middle OF
the winter. and Mr.. Follett and his guides
were obliged 60 walk % miles In a tenn
perature which that hight fell 10 80 de-
gress below zero. Eleven miles OF their
course lay across an open lake. and here
the cold wind froze the face OF every
man of the party as solid as a piece OF
marble
Mr.. FoIlett had never before been
frozen and was frightened. and so told
his guides. but they laughed at him.
when We got into the woods said
they, "your face will thaw out, and you
will have no trouble over Il. DO you not
see that your body is sweating now? IL
is only the cold wind on your face which
has hurt you"
70 his intense surprise Mr.. Follett
found that the statement OF the guides
was absolutely true. lie suffered no In
convenience from the freezing.
A REGULAR FISH STORY.
The party obtained their trout In Lake
Edward aud packed them in tho usual
shipping cans IN which they undertook
90 carry them 20 The railroad. OF course
in such weather the water I'm thu cans
froze almost solid.
I'm the center OF The vessels, the trout
10y their continual moving about, kept
little part Of the water uncongcaled
but it was only little part, and when
the cans were unosded IN New York.
the management laughed &c Mr.. Follett.
saying that no had gotten his fish from
cold storage.
Yet every ono OF these trout some OF
which were frozen IN the cans. lived and
enjoyed a green old aye IN water not
quite 50 rigorous. Yet stranger is the
statement that when the guides were
fshing FOR these trout through the ice
on Lake Edward. 10 svas the invsriablc
ease that The fish. taken out of its nat
i've element and thrown down for mo-