Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 26, 1898, Page 4

1 | Grand ayes TerateARevien By E. C. KILEY. : TWO VOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE ix Months........81.00 | Three Months..........500° Entered at the Postofice at Grand Rapids Minn., us second-class matter. DRINKING IN *AN¥ AGES. An Interesting Lecture on the History of Alcohol. At the Natural History Museum Charles E, Pellew, of Columbia’ Uni- versity, delivered the first of an inter- esting series of popular lectures upon alcohol last night. His subject was “The History of Alcohol,” and began by explaining the universal prevalence ef stimulating or narcotic drugs as showing the universal craving of man- kind for something to hide the trials and troubles of life. He spoke briefly about the early beverages of the an- cient Hindoos and Chinese, and then illustrated the drinking habits of the ancient’ Egyptians with a curious col- lection of lantern slides, The habits and customs of ancient Greece came next, and the worship of the great god Dionysus, or Bacchus, was illustrated by some splendid photographs of vases, statues and bas-reliefs. Their wine was drunk diluted, never stronger than half water, and frequently with two, four or even fifteen parts of the milder fluid. Mention was made of the curious nature of their wines, the ad- mixture of honey and spices, or rosin and turpentine, even of salt water, and the question ef fermented and unfer+ mented wines among them and the an- eient Hebrews. The use of wine among the more hardy and less civilized Mace- donians was less refined, and the ex- ploits of Philip and his son Alexander rivalled the tales told by the most ar dent prohibitionist. At the feast gives by Alexander at the tomb of Cyrus, # prize was offered for the boldest drinker, and the victor, Promachus, credited with fourteen quarts of wine, died in three days’ time from the effects of his debauch, along with some fifty of his competitors. Early Rome was de- scribed as painfully temperate, espe- cially for the fair sex, who were sen- tenced to death for touching wine. It was sad to hear that kissing on the mouth was invented by the Romar husband to test. his wife’s abstinence from the wine :ask. Later, however, after Greece and the East were con- quered, wine flowed freely, and the later republicans vied with the sub- jects of the early emperors in gross and unbridled drunkenness. The capacity of the Roman must have been considerable, for a citizen was knighted by the Emperor Claudius under the title of Tricongius, or “three- gallon man,” such having been a sin- gle draugh: of his. New-England came in for a touch from the lecturer. It was somewhat surprising to heart that, in the ‘first call for suppiies sent home by the Plymouth Bay eslonists, the famous appeal headel by “ministers,” there were, along witr requests for barley, rye and wheat, fr seed, and stores of fruit trees, a petition for “vyne utes” and for “hop-rootes.” The vister, Mr. Higginson, was duly sent 8, and his ship was furnished ° 45 tuns beere, 2 tuns canarie, 20 ®./lons aqua vitae” and only 6 tuns of 1628, b lecture closed with a short de- ecription of the last century, ‘charac- t zed by the growth and development he temperance movement, Some e illustrations were given from Cruikshank’s powerful plates of “The Jottle,” and a comparison of the drink- ug habits of both the educated and un- sducated classes of the present day as compared with those of a hundred or even fifty years ago showed the great edyance of the present civilization. He Didn’t Mind, Andrew Lang, in the illustrated Lon- n News, gives an anecdote of Dean y's amiable simplicity. The dean ited out to dinner, and was When he arrived his collar tened, and the ends vibratea like tie white wings about the head of a cherub. People could not but look at him with curiosity during the din- ner, and at length, with due -precau- his. hostess. ventured''to ask him knew that his collar had’ broken t. Oh, yes!” said the dean, “Do you Not at all,” said the lady. Phen I don’t mind either,” answer- “The button dropped off s dressing,” and he contin- i his conversation. It was not,” says Mr. Lang, “‘ab- e of mind, but unrivalled presence mind that Stanley displayed’ on this occasion. Any other human being than he would have been at the point ot changing his shirt.” Easily Gauged. “Johnny,” said the farmer, “go down in the cellar and draw a pitcher of that aweet cider. Take a candle with you.” “Don’t need no candle,” said Johnny. “Ah, my little man,” said the min- ister. who was staying over night, “you must have quite an accurate judgment. to have filled that pitcher in the dark without running™it over.” “Aw,” said Johnny, “itain’t no trick at all. When it got up to the first joint of my thumb I stopped.”—Cin- einnati Enquirer. - Pacts | EXPOSING POISONERS. ‘Woenderfal Work of the Chemie | Analyst. Fs ‘Though the dream of the ancient al chemist cf transmuting base metals into nobler ones has never been real- ized, the chemist of this era can ac complish marvels that almost surpas» belief. The skilled toxicologist, reveais the presence of poisons, ofren when enly faint traces exist, by removing them from their surromndings, with solvents, muiring hours, days and scumtitea Wt eks for the separation; exciting them to form combinations with other elements, he causes them to appear in solid liquid or gaseous con- ditions. Many of them he arrays in varied colors, or in crystallino shapes, seen distinctly by the achromatic or apochromatic tenses of the. microscope. Others he volatilizes in flame, and he views their incandescent vapors through the prisms of the spectroscope. Brilliantly tinted and sharply defined lines iv Tocalities accurately noted, re- veal the existence of metals so trifling fn quantity that they elude measure- ment by. the balance, with all its miod- ern refinements, and so small that the human braia can scarce imprison thy thought of their minuteness. Te take one example:' Suppose the finger is wetted with a drop of saliva and touched to a salt of lithium, and the adherent white powder is placed on the tongue and then swallowed. After the lapse of a few minutes, on drawing a clean platinum wire over the forehead or any part of the skin, then placing it with ifs traces of moist- ure in a Brunsen flame in front of the narrow slit of the spectroscope, an ob- server, looking through the little tele scope of the instrunient, will see for a fraction of a second the bright-col- ored red and yellow lines character istic of lithium. The soluble salt has passed through the entire circulatory system of the body, and its presence is announced in the perspiration!—R, Ogden Doremus in the Forum. Electric Illumina: tion. ‘The truth about the effect of the eleo tric illumination upon vegetation is gradually being disentangled from the records of a large number of experi- mentalists. It appears to have been conclusively demonstrated that electric illumination exercises a favorable influ ence on the germination of seeds, and promotes the lengthening of leaves and stems in herbaceous plants. Under glass the light greatly accelerates from your happy ccuntenance that you plants to assume.a more intensely green tint. The structure is at first strongly differentiated, but prolonged ¢xposure acts deleteriously in this direction. It would scem that it has been the .cus- tom to use the light much too lavishly for gardening purposes; ard, just as a too free use of liquid manure anc chemical stimulants will do more harm than good to the growth of plants. .too much electric umination nas an effect upon vegetatior similar to darkness; it tends to retard healthy development Hence it is that if electricity is to find any useful applicaticn in gardening, ray, in forcing plants for the early warkets, it must be use] cauticusly The plants wust aot be siraply “drench ee” with light, any more than they should be drenched with water continu: ally; but used under intelligent guid ance and in moderation, the effect of the highly stimulatiug rays of the cleo tric light will probably prove distinctly advantageous. Vegetation and A Sun Furnace. Sir Henry Gessemer, the well knows inventor of the steel process whict bears his name, tells how be tried t* ecustruet a “sun furnace” end failed Dis invention was iutended to revolu uonize not only the science of metal lurgy, but the whole world’ Jt was to attuin a temperature of nearly 60,0UC deg: and therefore fuse anything and everything, and Sir Henry puts the blame of its failure to. fulfill these expectations on the stupidliy of a coun- try lens maker. ‘The “sun furnace” consisted of a wocden building 25 feet high and about 12 feet square. a few feet from the greund was fixed a large inclinable mirror for catchivg the rays of the sun; from this mirror the rays were to be reflected cn a namber of powertul superimpesed Jenses above. which by a simple arrangemeut were ‘to throw the enormensly concentrated tays upon whatever object might be in the crucible below. Such was the mighty plan, but the manufacturer of the upper glasses brought it mise-ably to naught, for instead of turring vhem out uniform he made them all different, and thus spoiled the focus. Sir Henry was sc disgusted and disheartened that he refused to go over the ground again, and so the pretentious scheme lapsed, but the peculiar. furnace remains to this day a remarkable monument ef what might have been. How Miners Live in Chill. The truth of the old adage, “What's one man’s meat is. another roan's pois- on,” is most conclusively ‘proven iu the varied testimony which from time to time crops up from all cuarters’ oi the earth as to the adaptability of the hu- man race to the most contradictory ané inconsistent dietetic conditions. Flesh eating people think that vegetarians ar. fools, and the latter regard the fermey very often as very little better thas criminals. The discussion on this, sub ject is perennial, and still people live and thrive on both diets. Another wai - of evidence on the vegetarian side hae found its way from Chili, where the 9,000 or 10,000 worknienjin the coppe. mines live upon wheaten bread, harf cots, dried figs and buckwhest cakes Meat, eating is.exceptional, and is loos ed. upon as a very inferler and unwise proceeding. The miners nre stroag, anaemia is tuknown among them, and it is stated that they would be among the finest speciniens of humanity. were it not that they give themselves up tu alcoholic excesses three or four times week, and cousequently are subject. te fevers and liver diseases. The exper ment of giving-them meat in place vf a purely vegetable dict has been tried with the resuit that they did less work; many of them were considerably debil- ttated, and from choice went ‘back te their grains, fruit and Slack bread. OF ee “SLONIONU TZ Ss i] BreGeLormoPant tio tkttaloenStSl eererey ~ Sues ey BofE Ean SanSreolSSenlsecane beg eSu8hn Saba cthBESSPS8to.SRE iL s 3. 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