Worth Knowing.

Clutha Leader, Volume XVIII, Issue 917, 12 February 1892, Page 7

Worth Knowing.

It has, we believe, from time immemorial been the custom, when broad is baked, to put the dough into an oven sedulously brought to a high degree of heat, with vai-ying result according to the skill of the practitioner. Mr Sugg of Charing Cross, brooding over the matter, came to the sonclusion that this was a mistake, since the intense heat, suddenly striking on the surface of the dough, killed the yeast influence, which should make the bread rise. He accordingly tried an experiment by having the dough put in the oven — in a gas stove — slightly warmed, and gradually increased the heat till it reached the degree at which bread bakes. The result was simply wonderful. Bread baked in this fashion rises to amazing size, and the loaf is of a spongy lightness unknown to our older philosophy. When it is remembered that the stomach of a horse is really small in proportion to the size of his body, it will be seen that it requires feeding often — even four times a day. Unlike human beings, horses should drink be- | fore eating, and drink as much as they like. Owing to a strange internal arrangement in a horse, the water does not remain in the stomach but passes through into the large intestine. If a j horse should be fed first, one can readily see that the water in flowing through would carry with it some of the food, and thus produce colic. A horse, if 'watered' four times a day, will never take much — not too much. He is fed, it must be remembered, upon dry food, and that, with the quantity of hard work done, will produce a feverishness which a proper amount of water will very much allay. Dr. Anders, an American physician, calls attention to the fact that the width of streets has some appareut connection with the local death-rates from phthisis, his conclusions being based on observations extending over a period of 15 years concerning the exact locale of upwards of 1500 fatal cases of consumption in a particular section of Philadelphia which he selected for special study of the subject. In this area of about one square mile Dr. Anders mapped out with precision the exact position of every such death, the greatest variety in the width of streets being persented by the area in question a,nd, as a result of a comparison of the frequency of death from pulmonary disease with the width of the streets, he is able to report as follows : — 'The number of deaths from phthisis on a very wide street is proportionately small as compared with those occurring upon almost any narrow street; and the same is true with refrence to the aggregates of several wide and narrow streets. The mortality was low in streets of medium width, but very high in cei'tain groups of small streets, and especially so in narrow streets closed at one end. Narrow streets when only a block in length show a remarkably large death-sate from phthisis.' Dr Anders concludes that it is the defective change in the air in narrow streets which is the chief cause of such high mortality,